http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/mcdonalds/ en-us Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:37:13 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414238/posts PORT RICHEY — Deputy Matthew Kadel was taking a man to jail the morning of July 19 when he decided to grab some food. It was 9 a.m. and he'd been working since 5. He was hungry and thirsty and had at least a 20-minute drive ahead of him. As Kadel, 45, pulled into the McDonald's drive-through and placed his order, the man in the back seat — Richard Zukoski, 21, arrested on auto burglary and theft charges — used his own handcuff key to free himself. He took off through the parking lot off U.S. 19, just south of... St. Pete Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414238/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:37:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2409146/posts Starting in January 2010, US McDonald's restaurants will no longer charge for Wi-Fi: The quick-service chain has service in 11,000 of its 14,000 locations in the US, and previously charge $2.95 for two hours access. The network is operated by AT&T, originally contracted by Wayport which was acquired by the phone giant last year. Most AT&T subscribers get free access at McDonald's, Starbucks, and a few thousand other locations... Wi-Fi Net News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2409146/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:06:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404587/posts <p>McDonald's Corp. will start offering breakfast for a buck with the launch of a national dollar menu in January.</p> <p>The breakfast dollar menu will be backed with advertising across the U.S., and will feature five items: two sausage sandwiches, a sausage burrito, a 12-ounce coffee and a hash brown. The menu may feature some variations based on markets.</p> Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404587/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:19:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403495/posts McDonald's Sales Take Hit From US Joblessness McDonald's US sales decline deepens as joblessness, competition catch up to burger chain By Ashley M. Heher, AP Retail Writer December 8, 2009 CHICAGO (AP) -- The supersized recession that was a boon for business last year caught up further with McDonald's Corp. in November, as high unemployment ate into sales. While the world's largest burger chain is still faring better than its competitors, who've increasingly been pushing value menus and discounts of their own, the restaurant's fortunes likely won't improve unless the U.S. economy does. "I think ultimately, we'll need job growth... AP Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403495/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 05:08:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403410/posts Zikerria Bellamy, 17, said two managers at an Orlando restaurant wouldn't give her an interview on two separate occasions in July. ... A spokeswoman for the local restaurant, Allison Garrett, said in a statement the employee who left the voice mail "acted outside the scope of his authority and was not responsible for hiring." He no longer works at the restaurant. ... Bellamy is a male who has been living as a female for about the past six years. She said she completed a job application online, then was called to the store for an interview. When one manager refused... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403410/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 02:48:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396050/posts McDonald's logo is going green to promote a more eco-friendly image in Europe. It is swapping its traditional red backdrop for a deep green. The company says about 100 German McDonald's will make the change by the end of the year. Some franchises in Great Britain and France already have started using the new color scheme. And our last word in business today: emerald arches. NPR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396050/posts#comment Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:04:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391474/posts Disabled Iraq veteran, Luis Montalvan, says that he was repeatedly discriminated against at a Brooklyn McDonald's. According to Montalvan, these conflicts culminated in an assault that sent him to the emergency room. Now, Montalvan is suing McDonald's for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act, discrimination, and assault and battery. CNN International http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391474/posts#comment Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:43:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2389747/posts A man described as mentally ill and accused of lying to the police in an emergency call this summer, which sent a bomb squad to the McDonald's on Loudon Road, was arraigned on felony-level charges yesterday. William Fenick, 53, cried and held his head in his hands when a judge said he was being charged with creating a false public alarm, a felony, during a video arraignment at Concord District Court. The Center Barnstead resident called 911 just before 7 a.m. Aug. 7 to report two black men in the Concord McDonald's parking lot throwing gasoline on a U-Haul truck,... Concord Monitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2389747/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:03:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384541/posts Out of work and willing to relocate? McDonald's is advertising for an assistant manager for its sole franchise in Cuba — serving up burgers and fries that sometimes feed detainees at the prison camps at Guantanamo Bay. The help wanted ad popped up recently at the McVirginia.com careers Web site featuring the Golden Arches, a headline "Find a Career @ McDonald's" and this enticement: "Enjoy the perks." It didn't specify salary but said, "Candidates must have restaurant management experience, possess a valid United States passport and be willing to relocate to Cuba." Other incentives include half your rent paid and,... McClatchy Newspapers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384541/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:57:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384488/posts High unemployment, which stands at 10.2%, hits breakfast sales particularly hard as fewer workers commute and stop in for breakfast. Some of the fast-food industry's most frequent visitors -- teenagers and men between the ages of 18 and 35 -- have an even higher rate of joblessness. That has hurt McDonald's sales, and the chain on Monday is expected to report flat to slightly negative same-store-sales for October in the U.S., a slowdown from recent months. World-wide results should be positive overall, helped by stronger sales in other regions. McDonald's Corp. is setting a course to add a dollar menu... wsj http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384488/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:16:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2376055/posts REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Thousands of Icelanders lined up at McDonald's restaurants to order their last Big Macs before the U.S. fast-food chain abandons the crisis-hit island at midnight Saturday due to soaring costs. The world's largest fast-food company said earlier this week that all three of its restaurants in Iceland, operated by franchisee Jon Ogmundsson, would shut down October 31. The outlets have been packed since the announcement, with lines at one restaurant on the east side of the city backing up out the door and onto the street. At lunchtime Friday the outlet's parking lot was full and staff... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2376055/posts#comment Sun, 1 Nov 2009 20:53:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2375565/posts SALT LAKE CITY — A rap by four teenagers at a McDonald's has gotten them a bad rap in one Utah city. The teens were cited by American Fork police earlier this week for disorderly conduct after they rapped their order at a McDonald's drive-through. AP via Newsvine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2375565/posts#comment Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:15:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371561/posts REYKJAVIK (Reuters) – McDonald's Corp (MCD.N) will shutter its business in Iceland because it is too expensive for the franchise to operate after the country's financial crisis. The world's largest fast-food company said on Monday that all three of its restaurants in Iceland, operated by franchisee Jon Ogmundsson, would stop operating at midnight on October 31. Ogmundsson has run the McDonald's restaurants since 2004. He told Reuters that the decision to close the restaurants was mainly due to the severe depreciation of the Icelandic krona and high taxes on imported food. Instead, he Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371561/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:26:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368300/posts McDonald's posted a stronger-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday, helped by cost controls and rising sales in all regions, and expects same-store sales to remain positive in October even though people eat out less often. Shares of the world's largest hamburger chain rose 2 percent in premarket trading. McDonald's [MCD 58.33 --- UNCH ] and some other fast-food chains have been outperforming other restaurant companies due to their lower-priced fare, but rising unemployment is erasing that advantage. McDonald's third-quarter net income rose to $1.26 billion, or $1.15 a share, from $1.19 billion, or $1.05 a share, a year earlier. Analysts on... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368300/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:04:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361824/posts Check this website out...what if they had put up a 365 WHITE WEBSITE? http://www.365black.com/365black/index.jsp Mcdonalds Website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361824/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:54:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356328/posts Commerce: Is it just us, or does McDonald's opening at the Louvre sound ... just wrong? Nothing against the fast food giant. But in the land of cordon bleu, where are the French entrepreneurs to sell there instead? Food snobs, of course, will exclaim "quelle horreur!" at the thought of the odor of fries wafting through the high temple of French culture, one of the world's greatest art museums. The thought of a Mona Lisa Extra Value Meal, as one satirical Web site put it, would make anyone shudder. Fortunately, it won't be like that. McDonald's will open its 1,142nd... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356328/posts#comment Tue, 6 Oct 2009 23:53:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2349592/posts A Chicago man has filed a lawsuit against McDonald's Corporation after he says he swallowed a gold earring in his sandwich. The man purchased the sandwich on Aug. 11 from the McDonald's at Chicago's Navy Pier, according to the suit filed on Wednesday in the circuit court of Cook County, Ill. The plaintiff, Boguslaw Nedza, claims after he ate the sandwich "the earring became lodged in his throat and stomach and efforts to remove it by emergency personnel were unsuccessful." Nedza is now suing McDonald's for the injuries he sustained from ingesting the jewelry. slashfood.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2349592/posts#comment Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:15:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2346941/posts The map above is a visualization of the contiguous United States, colored by distance to the nearest McDonald’s, courtesy of Stephen Von Worley (via Felix Salmon): For maximum McSparseness, we look westward, towards the deepest, darkest holes in our map: the barren deserts of central Nevada, the arid hills of southeastern Oregon, the rugged wilderness of Idaho’s Salmon River Mountains, and the conspicuous well of blackness on the high plains of northwestern South Dakota. There, in a patch of rolling grassland, loosely hemmed in by Bismarck, Dickinson, Pierre, and the greater Rapid City-Spearfish-Sturgis metropolitan area, we find our answer.... Carpe Diem http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2346941/posts#comment Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:18:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2344487/posts FAST food giant McDonald's has been named as Britain's most-hated brand in a new survey by marketing experts. The American burger chain – unpopular with 46 per cent of consumers – topped a list of the least-liked brands which featured some of the country's biggest names. Tesco was second most hated in the poll for Marketing magazine, followed by Coca-Cola and the discount fashion chain Primark. However, the research showed some of the most well-known brands also attracted consumers in equal measure. Tesco and Coca-Cola were also voted Britain's sixth and seventh most loved brands respectively. Both were more loved... The Scotsman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2344487/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:15:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2340233/posts Continuing this weekend's unintentional theme of "toddlers and food service," today we bring you the sad tale of a Quincy, Mass. 23-month-old whose parents are suing Dunkin' Donuts after he was burned by a hash brown. A hash brown that fell out of his mouth and onto his neck. "It took only seconds for the extremely high temperature of the interior portion of the food item to severely burn and blister (Cullen's) skin," attorney Joseph K. Curran Jr. wrote in a complaint filed in Norfolk Superior Court. Before handing the hash brown to her son to eat, the boy's mother,... The Consumerist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2340233/posts#comment Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:55:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2337308/posts (McDonald’s buys millions of pounds of hoki each year for Filet-O-Fish sandwiches. Now, conservationists say the New Zealand fish is being depleted.) Ever wonder what kind of fish end up in a Filet-O-Fish sandwich? The answer is usually hoki, a bug-eyed sea creature found deep in the Pacific waters of New Zealand. But it turns out that exporting millions of pounds of the fish each year -- McDonald’s alone at one time used 15 million pounds annually -- is depleting the hoki supply and pitting conservationists against commercial interests. “We have major concerns,” said Peter Trott, the fisheries program manager... Mother Nature Network http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2337308/posts#comment Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:15:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2333215/posts At McDonald's®, we believe that African-American culture and achievement should be celebrated 365 days a year — not just during Black History Month. That's the idea behind 365Black.com. Like the unique African Baobab tree, which nourishes its community with its leaves and fruit, McDonald's has branched out to the African-American community nourishing it with valuable programs and opportunities 365Black http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2333215/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2009 05:29:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2323087/posts Here is video of a High School Science teacher who went to McDonald's for breakfast and wound up with a baby scorpion in his bag along with a sandwich! Arizona teacher Jeff Tallman said he ordered an Egg McMuffin and when we went to get a napkin out of his bag he saw a scorpion inside! It's a good thing he didn't just stick his hand in the bag. The video shows the scorpion inside the bag. Lesson: Always look inside the bag! . . . .(Watch Video) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2323087/posts#comment Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:51:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2320151/posts WHAT IS 365BLACK? At McDonald's®, we believe that African-American culture and achievement should be celebrated 365 days a year — not just during Black History Month. That's the idea behind 365Black.com. It's a place where you can learn more about education, employment, career advancement and entrepreneurship opportunities, and meet real people whose lives have been touched by McDonald's. Plus, you can also have a chance to win exciting once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. So make sure you visit often — you just might get inspired. McDonald's http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2320151/posts#comment Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:47:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319301/posts This is the text taken directly from the homepage of a new McDonald's website. You can judge the content for yourself. WHAT IS 365BLACK? At McDonald's®, we believe that African-American culture and achievement should be celebrated 365 days a year — not just during Black History Month. That's the idea behind 365Black.com. It's a place where you can learn more about education, employment, career advancement and entrepreneurship opportunities, and meet real people whose lives have been touched by McDonald's. Plus, you can also have a chance to win exciting once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. So make sure you visit often — you just... McDonald's 365 Black website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319301/posts#comment Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:55:38 GMT