If your college savings fund is looking a little thin, you can feed it with these fast food scholarships. Corporations such as Coca-Cola, Burger King, Dr. Pepper and Taco Bell and others offer a variety of scholarships to high school and college students. These companies want to help cover the cost of tuition, room and board, books, and fees. Your scholarship cup could be running over with lots of money for college! Get matched with the perfect scholarship by filling out our Scholarship Match Quiz! Check out our list of fast food and beverage awards below.
List of Fast Food Scholarships
Food and Beverage Company-Sponsored Scholarships 2024 List
Through the Burger King? Scholars Program, we have awarded nearly $60 million to over 45,000 students across North America since 2000. Our goal is to grant one scholarship for every BK restaurant in North America –that translates to more than $7 million each year!
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Created in memory of Burger King Co-Founder James “Jim” W. McLamore, the Burger King? Scholars program provides scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $60,000 to high school students and BK employees and their families. Scholarships are intended to offset the cost of attending college or post-secondary vocational/technical school. Recipients are selected through an application process that takes into consideration their grade point average (GPA), work experience, extracurricular activities, and community service. In 2022 alone, the Foundation awarded over $4.6 million in scholarships to nearly 4,000 students.
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This scholarship is available for high school seniors and current undergraduate students who are majoring in or planning to major in culinary arts or hospitality. Applicants must submit a short essay describing his/her interest in the field.
Coca-Cola Scholars are well-rounded, passionate, service-oriented, and demonstrate a sustained commitment to bettering their communities. U.S. High school seniors are eligible to apply. Children or grandchildren of employees, officers or owners of Coca-Cola bottling companies or subsidiaries are ineligible.
We’re honored to invest in our community by awarding twenty-five $5,000 scholarships to college students at HACU-member institutions to help further their education.
This year, Café Bustelo asked applicants to share how their heritage, family, and community have impacted their desire and motivation to obtain a college degree; how they plan to give back to their community; and what they intend to accomplish with their degree in an essay in English or Spanish (800 words or less).
Since the scholarship began in 2014, $800,000 in college funds have been awarded to 160 Latino students nationwide through the partnership.
The TMCF McDonald’s Black and Positively Golden Scholarship is an incredible opportunity for exceptional students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). With up to 63 (sixty-three) $15,000 scholarships available for the upcoming academic year, this scholarship can help cover verifiable costs associated with tuition and fees for motivated students. To be eligible, applicants must be enrolled full-time as an undergraduate freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior at an HBCU. The application process includes submitting a two-minute video answering the question, “How will your continued education empower you to achieve Black Excellence?” Don’t miss out on this chance to take your education to the next level!
We are thrilled to announce our first-ever Stromberg’s Chicken scholarship for students who strive for excellence and outstanding performance. We are excited to support the next generation of leaders and innovators, and we hope that this scholarship will inspire and motivate students to continue pursuing their passions and achieving their goals.
The Stromberg’s Chicken scholarship provides a one-time reward of $1000 to pay for tuition, books, computers, accommodation, or any education-related expense. There’s no GPA requirement and no application forms.
This scholarship will be open to both undergrad and graduate students attending any accredited college university within the United States, as well as high school seniors who will be attending classes in the Spring of 2024.
Danone North America, is awarding two graduate students a grant of $25,000 each. The successful candidates should excel in science and have an interest in studying the gut microbiome, probiotics and yogurt in human health and wellness (the “Field”). Applicants are encouraged to submit a proposal for a study that explores measures of human health and wellness. Danone strives not to rely on animal testing in its development and research activities, therefore, ONLY research proposals that utilize in vitro and ethical human clinical studies are welcome.
The grant is not designed for the investigation of disease treatment or clinical management and should focus on health and wellness, long-term health and longevity, growth and development, or performance. Such topics may include the role that probiotics or yogurt play on brain function, growth and development, digestive health, weight management or heart health; and factors, such as foods or nutrients, that influence the gut microbiome.
Please note that research cannot employ commercial probiotic strains. This includes strains that are isolated from a commercial product, provided by a commercial culture supplier (such as DuPont, Chr. Hansens or Lallemand) or are subject of or protected by patent. Publicly available, non-commercial strains are acceptable.
Danone is committed to the highest scientific and ethical standards in its innovation and scientific research activities to obtain scientific knowledge on the impact of food, nutrition and health and to ensure effective and safe medical and health solutions.
Danone strives not to rely on animal testing in its development and research activities, therefore, ONLY research proposals that utilize in vitro and ethical human clinical studies are welcome.
The Independent Hardee’s Franchisee Association (IHFA) has established a scholarship program to assist employees who plan to continue their education in college or vocational school programs. Scholarships are offered each year for full-time study at an accredited institution of the student’s choice.
This scholarship program is administered by Scholarship America®, the nation’s largest designer and manager of scholarships and other education support programs for corporations, foundations, associations, and individuals. Eligibility for individual programs is determined at the sole discretion of the sponsor, and eligible applications are reviewed by Scholarship America’s evaluation team. Awards are granted without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sexual orientation, gender, disability, or national origin.
Since 2008, Dr Pepper has awarded over $10,000,000 in tuition to help students reach their biggest goals. The Dr Pepper AFS Tuition Giveaway is open only to legal residents of the U.S. and District Columbia who are 17 years of age or older. Grand Prize Winner will receive one $2,500 Tuition Award and each First Prize Winner will receive one $1,000 Tuition Award. The Total ARV of the Prizes is $4,500.
The Pizza Hut scholarship is offered through its parent company Yum! Brands, also known as Yum!. The Yum! Andy Pearson Scholarship Program is administered by Scholarship America and is available to U.S.-based employees of Yum! or its other brands such as Pizza Hut, KFC, and Taco Bell. Legal dependents of these employees are also eligible.
