McDonald's

McDonald’s asks fans to craft love tweets to its burgers

By Heather Lalley on Feb. 07, 2018

The burger chain will award a $10,000 Bling Mac ring to the most creative ode.

More transparency please

By Sam Smith on May 01, 2013

When McDonald’s starts doing something new, you can bet it’s already part of a mainstream trend. Big Mac doesn’t like to take chances.

Turnaround report: Bob Evans regroups by ‘performance bands’; McDonald’s further adventures with kale; Subway’s pretzel logic

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 09, 2015

A different way of setting store-level benchmarks helped Bob Evans Farms cut its manpower requirements last quarter by 125,000 labor hours and $600,000.

McDonald's reveals a limit to all-you-can-eat fries

By Restaurant Business Staff on Apr. 22, 2016

Customers can have their fill, but with time limits.

What will be the breakout concept of 2017?

By Lauren Hallow and Peter Romeo on Dec. 05, 2016

From Eatsa to McDonald's, here's a look at 13 quick-service and fast-casual brands with the potential to be next year's breakout restaurant concept.

Consumer Trends

The 5 cleanest fast-food bathrooms—and 5 missing the mark

By Jill Failla on Mar. 06, 2017

Customers rate the best and worst quick-service restaurant chains for bathroom cleanliness in a recent Technomic survey.

Operations

Top restaurant insults of the month

By Peter Romeo on May 24, 2017

The normally well-behaved restaurant industry sank deeply into snark in recent weeks, bashing one another in hopes of drawing favorable notice.

Food

McDonald’s brings back its McRib

By Restaurant Business Staff on Nov. 03, 2017

Guests will be able to use the chain’s McRib Finder app to locate the closest location offering the iconic menu item.

Operations

6 surprises from Dunkin’ Donuts

By Peter Romeo on Feb. 12, 2018

The chain is aiming to shake up the market with changes in the ways it sells food, uses employees and touts value. Here are some of the operational and marketing shifts it revealed to investors last week.

ID NEWS: McDonald's adopts global policy to reduce antibiotic use by protein suppliers

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jun. 19, 2003

McDonald's, Oak Brook, IL, one of the largest meat purchasers in the U.S. quick-serve industry, has adopted a global policy to help reduce use of antibiotics...

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