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Order Veggies With Your Big Mac—in 3 to 7 Years

McDonald's to offer salad, fruit, veggies as sides, by 2020

(Newser) - Burger King now serves lower-calories fries ; McDonald's is hoping you'll want something a little greener with your burger. The fast-food powerhouse yesterday announced it will let its customers sub a side salad, fruit, or veggies for fries in its value meals—in three to seven years. The menu...

McDonald's Manager Robs Own Store: Cops

It went so well, he hit another one, say police

(Newser) - This is about as "inside job" as it gets: Police in Pleasanton, California, say a 42-year-old manager of a local McDonald's robbed his own store at gunpoint, reports the San Francisco Chronicle . Felix Gonzalez-Becerra allegedly donned a mask, climbed in through the drive-thru window on the late shift,...

Fast-Food Strikes Hit 58 Cities Today

As Walmart, warehouse, and car wash employees join in

(Newser) - You might want to pack a lunch today. This summer's series of fast-food walkouts continues in a big way, as workers in at least 58 cities across the country go on strike. Organizers are calling it the largest such strike to date. The workers plan to picket the likes...

McDonald's to Start Hawking Chicken Wings

Which could actually disrupt the market

(Newser) - McDonald's is about to make a revolutionary change to its menu: It's going to offer a chicken product that is actually identifiable as a part of a chicken. In short, the fast food giant is introducing chicken wings, Bloomberg reports. The "Mighty Wing" will start showing up...

How Aussie McDonald's Pays $15 an Hour

And what we can learn from it: Jordan Weissmann

(Newser) - Stateside McDonald's workers want their pay hiked to $15 an hour —which should sound pretty familiar to Australians working at the same restaurant. The Aussie minimum wage is $14.50, and plenty of McDonald's staffers make more than that. On top of that, they've just scored...

If McDonald's Doubled Wages, Big Macs Would Rise ... 68 Cents

Researcher calculates bump to $15 an hour

(Newser) - Fast-food workers want to make a "living wage" of $15 an hour . Chains say they'd have to jack up prices if that ever happened. But just how high? Turns out, not as high as you might think, at least according to a University of Kansas researcher. He found...

McDonald's Has Served Me on Horse Before, Says Rider

In fact, her pony just loves McFlurries

(Newser) - The woman who directed her pony into McDonald's —where it pooped on the floor—says she's surprised at the media reaction. "I think over the last couple of years, we've been to that McDonald's at least half a dozen times on the horses,"...

Woman Hits McDonald's Drive-Thru —on a Horse

...and then things get really weird

(Newser) - If you're on horseback and desperate for a Quarter Pounder, you are out of luck. A UK woman found this out the hard way over the weekend, when she tried to ride a horse through the drive-thru at a Manchester McDonald's. The restaurant said it couldn't serve...

McDonald&#39;s Advice to Its Workers: Get Second Job
McDonald's Advice to Its Workers: Get
a Second Job
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Jul 21, 2013 7:00 PM CDT

McDonald's Advice to Its Workers: Get a Second Job

And heating is a luxury in sample budget

(Newser) - McDonald's has a new budgeting tool for its employees, but the advice on " Practical Money Skills for Life " is pretty laughable, critics are pointing out. The site, a partnership with Visa, is supposed to help these low-wage workers learn how to manage their money, ThinkProgress reports, but...

McDonald's Worker Sues: Payment Method 'Unfair'

Forced to use fee-laden debit card

(Newser) - A Pennsylvania woman who says a McDonald's franchise told her she could only be paid via a fee-laden debit card has launched a class-action suit. Single mother Natalie Gunshannon says she went to a lawyer after the restaurant refused to pay her by check or direct deposit, insisting that...

McDonald's CEO Eats There 'Every Single Day'

But Don Thompson says he has shed 20 pounds by getting active

(Newser) - The McDiet? McDonald's CEO Don Thompson revealed at an analyst conference this week that he shed about 20 pounds in the past year by getting his "butt up" and "working out again." But he said he hasn't changed his habit of eating at McDonald's...

This Girl, 9, Scolded McDonald&#39;s CEO
 This Girl, 9, Scolded 
 McDonald's CEO 
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May 26, 2013 10:19 AM CDT

This Girl, 9, Scolded McDonald's CEO

'Don't you want kids to be healthy so they can live a long and healthy life?'

(Newser) - Nine-year-old Hannah Robertson knows it's important to eat her fruits and veggies (more so than most; this is her mom ), but she thought Don Thompson ought to know, too. Thompson just so happens to be the CEO of McDonald's, and Robertson addressed him at the fast-food giant'...

Cleveland Hero Scores Burgers for Life

Charles Ramsey can enjoy free burgers at more than a dozen Ohio restaurants

(Newser) - Charles Ramsey—the neighbor who famously put down his McDonald's to go free the Cleveland kidnap victims —is getting burgers for life, but not from the source you might expect. More than a dozen Ohio eateries have offered up their burgers to Ramsey any time his stomach rumbles,...

McDonald&rsquo;s McRib Gets a Rival
 McDonald’s McRib Gets a Rival 
May 15, 2013 9:14 AM CDT

McDonald’s McRib Gets a Rival

Burger King rolling out its own boneless rib sandwich

(Newser) - The only problem with the insanely popular McDonald's McRib sandwich is that fans have to wait until October, or sometimes even later , to get one each year. Well, we have good news for you. On May 21, Burger King is releasing its own boneless rib menu item, the BBQ-sauce-slathered...

McDonald's: We Want to Talk to Cleveland Hero Neighbor

But is company exploiting the kidnapping?

(Newser) - Charles Ramsey has given quite a few interviews since he rescued Amanda Berry from the Ohio house where she, her daughter, and two other women were being held captive—and in quite a few of those interviews, as well as his initial 911 call, he mentioned that he was...

McDonald's Is Most Visited Business in America

Nearly half of US consumers visited at least once last month, says study

(Newser) - Just how popular are the golden arches? So popular that nearly half of US consumers visited them last month, according to a new study spotted by the Consumerist . The study, from the new Placed Insights service, sought to determine which businesses Americans visit most. Fast food dominates the list, but...

McDonald's to Franchisees: 'Service Is Broken'

Fast food giant attributes its woes to less-than-cheerful employees

(Newser) - McDonald's is attributing its recent struggles to the less-than-sunny dispositions of the teenagers taking your order. "Service is broken," declared a slide in a webcast for franchise owners last month. Customer complaints have been rising, executives told the franchisees, with "rude or unprofessional employees" topping the...

McDonald's: Our Cashiers Don't Need College Degree

Job post raised eyebrows

(Newser) - If you were outraged to read, as the Washington Examiner reported, that a Massachusetts McDonald's was requiring potential cashiers to have a bachelor's degree, we have good news for you: It's not. A posting on JobDiagnosis initially listed both the degree and one to two years of...

McDonald's New McMuffin Is Yolk-Less

And it's coming in 8 days...

(Newser) - April 22, 2013: It's not just Earth Day, people. It's also the date that will go down in history as the moment McDonald's offered a yolk-free Egg McMuffin nationwide. The Daily Meal reports that the egg-white version, dubbed the Egg White Delight, shaves 50 calories off the...

@BurgerKing Proclaims Chain Sold to McDonald&#39;s
@BurgerKing Proclaims Chain Sold to McDonald's
today's big hack
Feb 18, 2013 1:25 PM CST

@BurgerKing Proclaims Chain Sold to McDonald's

Twitter page gets McDonald's logo, Fish McBites image, in hack

(Newser) - Twitter has suspended Burger King's account ... at Burger King's request, after an apparent hack today, reports the AP . Things got wacky just after noon Eastern time: The fast-food company's Twitter picture was changed to a McDonald's logo, the background picture changed to McDonald's new Fish...

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