Category Archives: Mcdonalds

McDonald’s: black executives sue over ‘systematic’ racial discrimination

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Two high-ranking African Americans allege that discrimination at fast-food company worsened under former CEO Steve Easterbrook

McDonald’s is being sued by two African American executives who allege they suffered “systematic but covert” racial discrimination at the fast-food giant.

Vicki Guster-Hines and Domineca Neal, senior directors working for McDonald’s in Dallas, allege that discrimination at the company worsened under the former chief executive Steve Easterbrook, who took over the company in 2015.

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Every McDonald’s in Peru closes amid protests at death of two workers

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Chain to close all its restaurants for two days of mourning after deaths lead to protests over workplace safety

The death by electrocution of two young employees at a McDonald’s restaurant in Lima has spurred protests and stoked anger over working conditions in the wider economy, which are viewed as exploitative and sometimes dangerous.

Peru’s public prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into the deaths of Alexandra Porras, 19, and her former boyfriend Gabriel Campos, 18, who were reported to have died in the early hours of Sunday while cleaning the kitchen at the fast-food outlet.

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McDonald’s chief executive out over relationship with employee

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  • Consensual relationships barred under company policy
  • Briton Steve Easterbrook replaced by Chris Kempczinski

McDonald’s chief executive officer, Steve Easterbrook, has left the fast food giant after violating company policy by engaging in a consensual relationship with an employee, the corporation said on Sunday.

Related: Profile: McDonald’s chief executive Steve Easterbrook

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McDonald’s Portugal apologises for ‘Sundae Bloody Sundae’ ads

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Halloween promotion was not intended to be ‘insensitive reference’ to historical events

McDonald’s in Portugal has apologised for using the slogan “Sundae Bloody Sundae” in a Halloween campaign for its ice-cream puddings.

It appears the chain decided to celebrate the spooky season with a two-for-one offer on the strawberry dessert and a nod to the early U2 song Sunday Bloody Sunday.

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McDonald’s get their scampi in a bunch over burger joint’s Effing Filet O’ Fish

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When the fast-food giant’s lawyers swooped on a small Canadian restaurant over its fish burger, the response was pithy

When Canadian chef Paul Shufelt decided to market a new burger at his Edmonton restaurant, he wanted to pay homage to the fast-food greats that have come before him – not find himself embroiled in a legal battle with a multinational corporation.

After creating a cod burger with coleslaw and red onions, Woodshed Burgers named their newest item the Effing Filet O’ Fish, a reference to both local company Effing Seafood, which provided the seafood, and the famous McDonald’s sandwich.

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McDonald’s to debut new plant-based burger

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Small-market test rolls out months after rival Burger King began testing the plant-based Impossible Foods burger

McDonald’s is finally taking a nibble of the plant-based burger.

McDonald’s said Thursday that will sell the PLT, or the plant, lettuce and tomato burger for 12 weeks in 28 restaurants in south-western Ontario by the end of the month.

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US fast-food workers demand better pay amid growing violence

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A bill making its way through the Senate would set the hourly wage at $15 nationwide, to be enacted over six years

Maria Torres followed eight sprinting co-workers into the kitchen’s walk-in fridge, screaming “Gun!” They locked the door against an armed intruder.

“He was threatening everyone with a gun,” the 58-year-old McDonald’s cook said, recalling that morning last December in the Princeton Park section of Chicago. “He came in very erratic. We couldn’t understand what he was saying.”

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McDonald’s investigated over racism and harassment claims in Brazil

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Federal prosecutors say complaint presents ‘worrying evidence’ of sexual harassment and discrimination

It was a busy day at a McDonald’s branch in São Paulo. Marcelo says he was struggling to keep up with demand while manning the chips and white meat stations when the shift boss called him a “damned stupid blackie”.

Marcelo protested and said he would pursue legal action for racism. The store manager fired him the next day, according to his statement in court documents seen by the Guardian.

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‘Like a Big Mac But Juicier’: Burger King renames sandwiches to troll McDonald’s

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Burger King’s Swedish operation revamps its menus to feature sandwiches categorized as ‘Not Big Mac’s’, with such names as ‘Anything but a Big Mac’ and ‘Burger Big Mac Wished It Was’

After McDonald’s lost its Big Mac trademark in the EU earlier this month, competitor Burger King wasted no time taking a big, juicy bite out of the world’s biggest burger chain.

Burger King’s Swedish operation recently revamped its menus to poke fun at McDonald’s loss. Under the header Not Big Mac’s (sic), the sign listed meal options like “Burger Big Mac Wished It Was,” “Like a Big Mac, But Actually Big” and “Big Mac-ish But Flame-Grilled of Course”.

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McDonald’s loses Big Mac trademark after legal battle with Irish chain

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Supermac strips US food giant of trademark across Europe after landmark EU ruling

Pat McDonagh earned the nickname Supermac as an Irish teenager after a barnstorming performance in a Gaelic football match in the late 1960s.

The centre half-back guided his school, Carmelite college of Moate, County Westmeath, to victory over St Gerald’s, a more fancied team.

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Movie Review: The Founder

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As Ray Kroc, the not-exactly founder of the McDonald's hamburger empire, Michael Keaton gives off some of the mad-hustler sizzle of his old Beetlejuice character. We first meet Kroc in 1954, delivering staunch motivational clichA s directly into the camera as he prepares to begin another day as a traveling salesman slogging around the Midwest peddling commercial milkshake machines that nobody seems to want to buy.

McDonald’s Moves Tax Base to U.K. Amid EU Attack on Burger Giant

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McDonald's Corp. moved its non-U.S. tax base to the U.K., ditching Luxembourg where its tax arrangements are under attack from European Union regulators and critics of corporate tax avoidance. In an apparent vote of confidence in the U.K., which decided in June to leave the EU, the hamburger giant is creating a new international holding company based in the country.

Review: “Suicide Squad”

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Veterans return from first all-women Honor Flight

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