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McDonald’s to Charles Ramsey, Amanda Berry’s rescuer: ‘We’ll be in touch’
Via Twitter, McDonald’s has reached out to Ramsey, who helped Amanda Berry escape the house where she and two other women… …
McDonald’s restaurants to open on Christmas with no overtime pay
McDonald’s Corporation is encouraging its franchises to be open on Christmas without offering any additional overtime pay to workers. “[O]ur restaurants will be open to serve our customers when and how they need over the holidays,” McDonald’s spokesperson Heather Oldani told Ad Age in a report published on Monday, adding…
What the wage gap really means to people
It means, as this great Bloomberg article by Leslie Patton notes, that a 20-year McDonald’s veteran makes $8.25 an hour and can’t put together 40 hours a week even working at two different McDonald’s restaurants, while the CEO of McDonald’s made $8.75 million last year. It means the CEO of…
McDonald’s opens Asian-inspired ‘McNoodles’ in Austria
Fast food chain McDonald’s is branching out: after salads and wraps, the burger restaurant is entering the noodle business. From September 20, the chain will add Asian noodle boxes — “McNoodles” — to its menu, but only in Austria and only for a two- or three-month trial period. “They could…
McDonald’s to post calories for its menu
WASHINGTON — First they began offering salad, then they added fruit. On Wednesday, McDonald’s announced it would put something else on its menu to help customers watching their waistlines: calorie counts. The fast food giant said that starting next week, it will begin listing calorie information at its more than…
McDonald’s to open first vegetarian restaurant in India
US fast food giant McDonald’s, famed for its beef-based Big Mac burgers, on Tuesday said it will open its first ever vegetarian-only restaurant in the world in India next year. The world’s second-biggest restaurant chain after Subway already tailors its menus to suit local tastes — which in India means no beef…
Boy convicted of religiously harassing pagan McDonald’s employee
In what appears to be the first case of its kind, a teenager in the United Kingdom has been convicted of religiously harassing a female pagan who worked at McDonalds, according to the Telegraph. The unnamed 16-year-old boy from Lawford, north east Essex pleaded guilty to religiously aggravated harassment. Pagan…
McDonalds becomes fifth major sponsor to cut ties with ALEC
McDonalds said Tuesday that it would not renew its membership with the American Legislative Exchange Council, making it the fifth major sponsor to drop its support this month. “While [we] were a member of ALEC in 2011, we evaluate all professional memberships annually and made the business decision not to…
McDonald’s names first African-American CEO
Jim Skinner, the McDonald’s chief executive who started at the firm as a management trainee in 1971 and went on to become one of its most successful leaders, has announced his retirement. Skinner, 67, has led the fast-food company for eight years. He will step down on 30 June, McDonald’s…
Seventh-Day Adventists battle to keep McDonald’s out of town
The residents of Loma Linda, California are overwhelmingly Seventh-Day Adventists, which means they are also healthy eaters with a strong learning towards vegetarianism. But the city council approved an application to set up a McDonald’s franchise last month, and now many residents are up in arms. According to ABC News,…
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