American multi-national
fast food company McDonald's Corporation will partner with franchisees to cut greenhouse gas emissions to McDonald's restaurants and offices by 36 % by 2030 from a 2015 base year.
Not exact matches
McDonald's and the National Labor Relations Board will finally go head - to - head in court on Monday as the
fast -
food company faces long - standing allegations that it violated employee rights under the National Labor Relations Act.
Then there's the tainted meat scandal in China, where several
fast food companies — led by
McDonald's — had to all but shut down their menus because of contaminated product from suppliers.
McDonald's position as the reigning king of
fast -
food was challenged, and the
company realized it was time to up its game.
As
McDonald's moves to boost pay for its
company - owned U.S. restaurants — about 90,000 workers or roughly 10 percent of its locations nationwide — the question now is whether pressure will mount for the
fast food chain's franchises to follow suit.
The spinoff of Lamb Weston, which provides french fries to
fast -
food chains including
McDonald's and KFC, is expected to be tax - free to shareholders, the
company said Wednesday.
Despite the momentum in Bojangle's business last year, the
company now finds itself in a battle with
fast food heavyweight
McDonald's (MCD), which launched its all - day breakfast platform in the fall to good responses from consumers.
They should establish more of their
fast food companies in every corner where there is a
McDonald's or otherwise.
That means PepsiCo owns more
fast food outlets than any other
company including
McDonald's.
Fast -
food behemoth
McDonald's temporarily flipped its iconic logo and switched its packaging in some US locations — a move meant to celebrate International Women's Day, the
company said.
The Miami - based
fast food chain, which re-launched as a public
company in June, has been putting real pressure on
McDonald's for the first time in years, in part by adding versions of products already available at the Golden Arches.
In other school districts, such as Maine Township District 207 and Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, administrators have brought in major
food service
companies such as Marriott Corp., which can give children a taste of
fast food even if it lacks designer labels from
McDonald's or Wendy's.
In a related story, both declining birth rates and kids» drop in
fast food consumption are hitting
McDonald's hard, which is bad news for a
company already struggling against increasingly popular «
fast casual» chains like Chipotle.
Critics hammered
McDonald's executives not only for offering unhealthful menu items but also for marketing
fast food to kids with its Ronald
McDonald character and Happy Meal toys, all while the
company boasts of eight straight years of sales growth despite a deep economic recession.
Citizen Action's Karen Scharff: «We're out here today with workers striking
McDonald's and other
fast food companies because it's time we get fifteen dollars an hour and a union for
fast food workers.»
You can ask which oil a restaurant fries in, but some
fast food companies (like
McDonald's) forbid their employees from revealing whether trans fats are used.
The most popular stocks in these two sectors among the advisers tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest who have beaten the stock market over the past 15 years are cable
company Comcast CMCSA, +0.96 %; entertainment giant Walt Disney DIS, -0.39 %;
fast -
food chain
McDonald's MCD, -0.20 %; PepsiCo PEP, -0.42 % the beverage
company; and two consumer - products
companies, Kimberly - Clark KMB, -1.14 % and Procter & Gamble PG, -0.69 %
Simplot, one of the nation's largest privately held
companies with annual sales of about $ 4.5 billion, wields considerable clout in its home state, where its products range from turf grass seed to frozen French fries for
fast -
food chains like
McDonald's.
McDonald's UK general counsel and
company secretary Della Burnside has left the
fast food giant to join private client law firm The Burnside Partnership.
Spence received a $ 52,000,000 verdict against
McDonald's Corporation, the
fast -
food chain, on behalf of a small, bankrupt, family - owned ice cream
company for
McDonald's breach of an oral contract based on a handshake.