Tag: mcdonald’s
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#GoodNewsNextWeek: McDonald’s Is Closing Hundreds Of Stores This Year
from fortune.com: The restaurant company closed 350 stores in early 2015, on top of the 350 it had already said it would shutter, as the burger purveyor seeks to stanch sales declines. McDonald’s shuttered 350 poorly performing stores in Japan, the United States, and China the first three months of 2015 as part of its…
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#GoodNewsNextWeek: McDonald’s Japan Sees Profits Fall Into The Red
from enterjapan.me: On the 6th November, McDonald’s Holdings Co. (Japan) reported a substantial, ¥9.4 billion ($82 million) net loss for the July-September period – a stark contrast to the ¥1.8 billion net profit from the same period last year. Still reeling from the scandal of “Mc-Nugget Gate” , the company has revised its annual projections…
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McDonald’s New ‘Happy’ Mascot Dubbed McScary
from reuters.com: McDonald’s restaurant chain says its new “Happy” mascot will bring “fun and excitement” to its children’s meals, but social media contend the toothy, red box-shaped character will have the opposite effect. Twitter responses to McDonald’s mascot announcement on Monday complain that the animated red Happy Meal box, with its cavernous dark mouth and…
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Koi Fusion PDX Drops Planned Promotion Of McMuffin Exchange
from blazersedge.com: The popular food cart Koi Fusion has decided to stop promoting a planned exchange that would have allowed Portland Trail Blazers fans to trade their McDonald’s Sausage Egg McMuffin coupon for a free taco.
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McDonald’s Sues Protesters for Rejecting the Fast Food Junk
from trueactivist.com: “We’re doing this for your own protection.” Protesters with the Australian group BurgerOff are hearing a similar phrase from McDonald’s. The fast food giant is suing protestors who object to the birth of a new McDonald’s restaurant near an elementary school. What’s more, Mickey D’s (slang for McDonald’s) is saying that the lawsuit…
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The Latest McFib: “Our Food Is Healthy”
from civileats.com: Last week, in what is yet another example of Big Food’s symbiotic relationship with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), McDonald’s Director of Nutrition, Registered Dietitian Cindy Goody, spoke to her fellow colleagues at the Utah Dietetic Association meeting about the chain’s new “healthy initiatives.” McDonald’s is such a good friend of…
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Is It All About The Monas?
Bob Schlenker examines monas hieroglyphica, alchemical glyph of John Dee, Elizabethan Magus and Court Astrologer to Queen Elisabeth I, in recent entry, “Monas – Hidden Meaning of McDonald’s Golden Arches, and the Great Seal of the United States.” Schlenker inquires whether “…American institutions of McDonalds and the Federal Reserve all about the monas?” Monas Hieroglyphica…
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McDonald’s Force Olympics To Only Serve Chips With Fish
from dailymail.co.uk: Hundreds of food outlets at Olympic venues have been forced to take chips off the menu, because of a demand from sponsor McDonald’s. Olympic chiefs have banned all 800 food retailers at the 40 Games venues across Britain from dishing up chips because of ‘sponsorship obligations.’ The only loophole in the agreement, announced…
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#BingeAndPurge: Nano, Polio, POM, Peru and More
White House Blocking EPA Efforts to Issue Rules on Nanomaterials // Cases of ‘Non-Polio’ Paralysis Rise After Polio Vaccination Drives // Federal Judge Rules General Mills Is Allowed to Mislead Consumers about “Fruit” Products // FTC Judge Rules Pomegranate Juice Maker Used Deceptive Ads // ‘The Voice’ judge Will.i.am goes to Oxford University climate change…
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#FoodWorldOrder: Episode007 – Stupor Bowl Binge
On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week covers the stupor bowl, bees, pink slime and more…
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2/2 Binge & Purge: Super Bees, Count Fudgula & More
Monsanto killed the bees to make way for its ‘Super-Bee’? // Pink slime removed from McDonald’s burgers! // Proposed Bill May Ban Eating in NY Subways // Sugar Tariffs Cost Americans $3.86B in 2011 // Like Count Fudgula on The Simpsons?: Bloodthirsty Undead Ghoul Advocates Chocolate Cereal Consumption
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DNA McSpray to Foil Thieves: McDonald’s to Use New Anti-Theft Spray
McDonald’s restaurants are fighting back against thieves by blasting suspected robbers with an invisible DNA spray as they attempt to flee. The spray, which remains on the suspect’s skin for two weeks and on clothes for up to six months, has been introduced in some of the chain’s busiest NSW stores.
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12/29 binge & purge: check, please!
gastro roundup: best food of 2011* top ten food & farm stories of 2011* the bad food news of 2011* the biotech industry is growing bioweapons* bugs may be resistant to genetically modified corn* food bill doesn’t promote security* discover the doomsday seed vault’s secrets* mexico rehab clinic food poisoning kills five* hunger warning for…
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fast-food outlet stirs concerns in a mecca of healthy living
from nytimes: In this small city, home to a large Seventh-day Adventist community, the average lifespan goes well past 80, and it has one of the highest rates of longevity in the world according to some estimates. When researchers descended on this affluent city east of Los Angeles several years ago to determine why, the…