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Workforce

Regulators consider a way to ease restaurants' unionization

 By Restaurant Business Staff on Apr. 18, 2022

Working Lunch: All that's needed would be a majority of employees signing a document, a process known as card check.

Marketing

Burger King is sued over alleged health risks in its packaging

 By Peter Romeo on Apr. 14, 2022

The action focuses on the potential dangers of PFAS, a large class of chemicals commonly found in food wraps and containers.

Financing

McDonald’s and Subway close units and increase sales

By Jonathan Maze on Apr. 08, 2022

The Bottom Line: Two of the three biggest chains combined closed more than 1,400 restaurants last year. But their individual locations make more money.

Financing

McDonald’s will face a shareholder vote on civil rights

By Jonathan Maze on Apr. 08, 2022

The SEC denied the company’s apparent request to not put the matter up to a vote. Shareholders at other companies have approved such votes.

Financing

Mastercard closes on its purchase of Dynamic Yield from McDonald’s

By Jonathan Maze on Apr. 04, 2022

The sale comes just three years after the burger giant bought the technology, which provides suggestive selling software for menu boards and kiosks.

Topics

This highlight reel of restaurant fights would make Mike Tyson wince

By Peter Romeo on Mar. 29, 2022

Restaurant Rewind: Carl Icahn's battle with McDonald's brings to mind these all-time classic bouts between investors and restaurant companies.

Financing

McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski got a big raise last year

By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 28, 2022

The chief executive’s pay nearly doubled last year to $20 million. That was the highest pay package for the position since 2017.

Workforce

McDonald’s says it is making progress on its DEI goals

By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 24, 2022

The burger giant has increased the percentages of women and people of color in leadership roles and noted that it has reached equal pay in its biggest markets.

Marketing

Marketing Bites: Arby’s has a beef with McDonald’s over a fish sandwich

By Heather Lalley on Mar. 23, 2022

The chain enlisted rapper Pusha T to create a video to promote its new Spicy Fish Sandwich, while panning the Filet-O-Fish, plus more marketing news of the week.

Food

McDonald’s McPlant is apparently not selling as well as expected

By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 23, 2022

An analyst with BTIG suggested the Beyond Meat plant-based burger isn’t meeting expectations, but it is selling particularly poorly in rural areas.

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