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Hungry Denver Cop Pulls Gun on McDonald’s Worker

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You wonder what goes through the mind of a police officer — sworn to uphold the law — who points his weapon at a McDonald’s cashier through the drive-thru window because he’s tired of waiting for his order. How does an irrational, mentally imbalanced psychopath get sworn in as a police officer to [...]

McDonald’s New Angus Burger Debuts Today

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McDonald’s begins selling its premium Angus Burger nationwide today. There are three versions of the new $3.99 Angus burger — deluxe with pickles and tomatoes; bacon and cheddar; and mushroom and swiss. McDonald’s began developing the Angus burger about two years ago.
“Using a Quarter Pounder with Cheese as our control [...]

McDonald’s Custer Toy Infuriates North American Indians

For the North American Indians, it’s bad enough that Andrew Jackson — who betrayed them every chance he got — is printed on every twenty dollar bill. Now Custer rides again atop a plastic motorcycle in a McDonald’s Happy Meal box. (See Photo)
Rapid City Journal reports McDonald’s has included characters from the movie “Night at [...]

Free Food for Seat Belt Wearers

In an effort to boost the state’s seat belt usage rate, the Kentucky State Police are partnering with McDonald’s to give away coupons for free food.  On May 18, patrons who use the drive-thru window at McDonald’s restaurants in central and eastern Kentucky will be rewarded with coupons for free food items, but only if [...]

French Thinner Yet Dine Twice as Long as Americans

“For more than 40 years,” claims the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development on their website, “OECD has been one of the world’s largest and most reliable sources of comparable statistics and economic and social data. As well as collecting data, OECD monitors trends, analyzes and forecasts economic developments and researches social changes or evolving [...]

McCurry wins McWar against McDonald’s

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A small Malaysian mom-and-pop restaurant is once again able to display the name “McCurry” after its unlikely and unexpected victory in an eight-year lawsuit with the fast food burger chain McDonald’s.  The long-fought legal action is truly a modern-day miracle, a la David and Goliath.
The troubles began in 2001, two years after P. [...]

McDonald’s Expands Online Offerings in China

McDonald’s launched an Internet shopping portal on Alibaba’s Taobao, China’s top online auction site, to promote its Super Value Meal. The fast food giant isn’t selling burgers, though. Instead, it is selling popular and fashionable products such as mobile phones, digital cameras and cosmetics in its virtual store, along with gift cards. Many items are marked with discounted [...]

Shareholders Force McDonald’s Towards “Pesticide Free” French Fries

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Two large shareholder groups withdrew a proposal that would have required McDonald’s to publish a report on options for cutting pesticide use in its supply chain. But McDonald’s, the largest buyer of potatoes in the U.S., agreed to “survey its U.S. potato suppliers, compile a list of best practices in pesticide [...]

Consumers Don’t Read Nutrition Labels

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So tell us something we don’t already know.
Researchers at Yale University revealed that after observing more than 4,300 customers at fast food restaurants, only .1% of them bothered to read any of the nutritional and caloric information on display. That’s one tenth of one percent – a paltry six consumers!
The study was conducted [...]