In response to the fallout from the Israel-Hamas conflict, McDonald’s Corporation has announced plans to repurchase all its Israeli restaurants, marking a significant shift in its Middle Eastern operations. The decision follows criticism directed at the fast-food giant after its franchisee, Alonyal, initiated a controversial campaign of providing free meals to Israeli soldiers. As tensions…
McDonald’s faced a widespread IT outage on Friday, disrupting operations and online orders across several countries, including the United States, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom. According to Brian Rice, McDonald’s global chief information officer, the system failure occurred around 1 a.m. ET but was swiftly identified and rectified. Rice clarified that the…
Fast-food giant McDonald’s has reported that its business is being affected by the escalating tensions in the Middle East. While announcing overall growth in sales and earnings for the fourth quarter, the company highlighted that the regional turmoil has put pressure on its sales in the Middle East, prompting McDonald’s to closely monitor the evolving…
The Department of Labor was not afraid to enforce the law by fining three franchises of the famous McDonald’s fast food chain $212,544 due to various irregularities regarding child labor, including the cases of two 10 year old children. The aforementioned three franchises operated a grand total of 62 locations of the famous hamburger company…
McDonald’s (MCD) had a juicy first quarter, but fat sales and profits aren’t guaranteed this year as consumers begin to push back on higher prices for things like Big Macs and fries. “We are seeing in some places resistance to pricing, more resistance than we saw at the outset,” McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski warned on…
When Burger King launched a new marketing campaign late last year with a little jingle to support the Whopper, Tom Curtis was initially skeptical. “You just can’t say ‘Whopper’ four times,” Curtis, Burger’s King’s president in the US and Canada, told CNN, recounting a conversation with the brand’s creative and marketing teams. “There’s got to…
McDonald’s is closing its U.S. offices and telling U.S. and some international staff to work remotely between Monday and Wednesday as the fast food giant prepares for layoffs. As reported on Fortune, the company made the request in an internal email last week, reports the Wall Street Journal. It also asked employees to cancel all…
Just like the McRib, straws might be a thing of the past at McDonald’s. The chain has begun testing strawless lids in some US cities as part of a multi-year effort to make its packaging more environmentally friendly. “These lids help optimize our packaging and eliminate the use of small plastics, just one example of…
In a tragic tur of event, a 20-year old man who shot a 23-year-old McDonald’s employee in the face for allegedly arguing with him over the temperature of fries have been arrested by the police. The incident happened at around 19:00 local time. As reported by the Daily News, the customer ordered some fries and,…
