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McDonald's to Its Workers: Beware of Fast Food

Burger, fries an unhealthy choice, guide warns

(Newser) - It's hard to have a healthy diet when you often eat at fast food joints, according to sensible dietary advice posted in an unlikely place: McDonald's own employee resources website. "Fast foods are typically high in calories, fat, saturated fat, sugar, and salt and may put people...

Chipotle&#39;s Next Frontier: Pizza
 Chipotle's Next Frontier: Pizza 
Dec 19, 2013 6:25 AM CST

Chipotle's Next Frontier: Pizza

Launched Pizzeria Locale in Denver, looking to open 2 new spots

(Newser) - Chipotle has quietly made the move from Mexican to Italian: The fast food brand has been dishing out premium pizzas in Denver under the name Pizzeria Locale since May, after it spent 18 months revamping the joint, NBC News reports. Like the brand's burrito method, the pizza concept is...

McDonald&#39;s to Workers: Don&#39;t Forget to Tip Pool Boy
McDonald's to Workers:
Don't Forget to Tip Pool Boy
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Dec 8, 2013 6:30 PM CST

McDonald's to Workers: Don't Forget to Tip Pool Boy

As workers rally, tipping etiquette puts McDonald's in the fryer

(Newser) - Bad move, McDonald's? As fast food workers walked off the job in 100 cities this week amid demands for higher pay, the fast food giant thought it was a good idea to dish out some holiday tip suggestions to its employees—like how much to tip your massage therapist...

Fast Food Strikes Return as Wage Debate Looms

Obama speaks up in favor of minimum wage hike

(Newser) - Fast food workers in 100 cities will walk off the job today, and protesters will show up in 100 more to call for drastically higher wages for the nation's lowest-paid workers. The movement started with a small strike in New York City last year, and has ballooned since, with...

Biggest Fast-Food Strikes Yet Coming Thursday

One-day strikes, protests planned in 200 cities

(Newser) - Want a Big Mac ? Don't plan to buy it on Thursday: The fast - food strikes are coming back. Organizers who want to see workers paid $15 per hour are planning strikes in 100 cities across the US Thursday, plus protests in 100 other cities. The latest move...

Sorry McRib Fans: Sandwich Won't Go National

McDonald's cites higher national priorities, like Mighty Wings

(Newser) - The McRib is going... regional. McDonald's, which has been struggling to keep up with a raft of new menu items, says the McRib won't be available nationally this year. The fast-food chain says it's leaving it up to local franchise groups to decide whether to offer the...

McDonald's to Workers: Need Cash? Sell Your Stuff

Spend less on food by breaking it 'into pieces'

(Newser) - More handy financial advice from McDonald's, which recently suggested its workers might want to get second jobs : The chain's McResource tip website says readers can make money in a pinch by selling "unwanted possessions on eBay or Craigslist." The advice comes in a section on "...

McDonald&#39;s Is Reinventing Its Drive-Thru
 McDonald's 
 Is Reinventing 
 Its Drive-Thru 
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Nov 17, 2013 12:08 PM CST

McDonald's Is Reinventing Its Drive-Thru

With 3rd window...

(Newser) - You may soon have to visit not one, not two, but three drive-thru windows to get your Big Mac. McDonald's on Thursday announced "Fast Forward Drive-Thru," a refresh that will see the fast food giant add a third window to its new and remodeled locations. The goal,...

McDonald's to Sell Bags of Its Coffee

It's already been on the market in Canada

(Newser) - Do you love the taste of McDonald's coffee so much that you simply must brew it in your own home? All three people who said yes to that are in luck, because the golden arches will test selling bags of its coffee, both in ground and whole-bean form, in...

Climate Change Victim: McDonald's Dollar Menu?

Drought leads to rising beef prices

(Newser) - McDonald's iconic Dollar Menu will next month become the Dollar Menu & More, meaning some of the items on it will cost $2 or even $5. What can you blame for the increase? Quartz says climate change. Rising temperatures have led to droughts, which have forced ranchers to pay...

'Gourmet' Grub Slowing Down Drive-Thrus

You want a 12-ingredient menu item, you'll have to wait for that

(Newser) - As fast food menu items get increasingly "gourmet"—or at least complex—drive-thru windows are getting slower, according to a report from a fast-food industry trade publication. The QSR Magazine annual study also found that McDonald's had its worst year yet, with customers waiting an average of...

Burger King Tries to Woo You With Low-Cal Fries

'Satisfries' to be rolled out today

(Newser) - Burger King is hoping to lure back hungry-but-calorie-conscious customers with a new menu item: low-fat fries. The chain says the "Satisfries" being introduced across the country today have 20% fewer calories than its regular fries—and 30% fewer than McDonald's fries, reports the Wall Street Journal . The new...

McDonald's to Start Hawking Chicken Wings

Which could actually disrupt the market

(Newser) - McDonald's is about to make a revolutionary change to its menu: It's going to offer a chicken product that is actually identifiable as a part of a chicken. In short, the fast food giant is introducing chicken wings, Bloomberg reports. The "Mighty Wing" will start showing up...

How Aussie McDonald's Pays $15 an Hour

And what we can learn from it: Jordan Weissmann

(Newser) - Stateside McDonald's workers want their pay hiked to $15 an hour —which should sound pretty familiar to Australians working at the same restaurant. The Aussie minimum wage is $14.50, and plenty of McDonald's staffers make more than that. On top of that, they've just scored...

Fast-Food Workers Strike for 2nd Time in Week

The one-day walkouts continue today

(Newser) - The one-day fast-food strikes that hit McDonald's, Burger King, and the like on Monday are showing no signs of stopping. With more underway today in Milwaukee, the New York Times is comparing the national campaign—aimed at mobilizing workers from hundreds of restaurants—to Occupy Wall Street. Some strikers...

If McDonald's Doubled Wages, Big Macs Would Rise ... 68 Cents

Researcher calculates bump to $15 an hour

(Newser) - Fast-food workers want to make a "living wage" of $15 an hour . Chains say they'd have to jack up prices if that ever happened. But just how high? Turns out, not as high as you might think, at least according to a University of Kansas researcher. He found...

Fast-Food Workers to Strike for One Day: Today

Workers clamoring for living wage

(Newser) - You could have a tough time getting a Whopper or Big Mac today—assuming you live in Detroit; New York; Milwaukee; Chicago; St. Louis; Flint, Mich.; or Kansas City, Mo. Fast-food workers in those cities are planning to walk today, in a single-day strike that has worker pay in its...

Taco Bell Ditching Kids&#39; Meals
 Taco Bell Ditching Kids' Meals 
Jul 24, 2013 2:56 AM CDT

Taco Bell Ditching Kids' Meals

It's a national fast-food first

(Newser) - Taco Bell is making a run from the kids' meals side of the fast-food business, and by next year will be the first national chain to ditch the food-and-toy offerings. The impact on sales will be "insignificant," says CEO Greg Creed, and USA Today puts the figure at...

Coming to Louisville: Fancy KFC

'KFC eleven' will ditch Colonel Sanders, chicken on the bone

(Newser) - In an effort to appeal to the 20- and 30-somethings who prefer Chipotle and Panera to McDonald's and Burger King, KFC is tossing out the bones and the quaint image of founder Col. Harland Sanders as it gets ready to test a slightly more upmarket restaurant. The fried chicken...

Where to Get &#39;America&#39;s Worst Meal&#39;
 Where to Get 
 'America's 
 Worst Meal' 
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Jul 6, 2013 1:32 PM CDT

Where to Get 'America's Worst Meal'

Long John Silver's dinner packed with trans fat

(Newser) - Looking to get all your trans fat for the next two weeks—in one meal? Then head to Long John Silver's, where the Big Catch provides 33 grams of the stuff, or 16 times the American Heart Association's recommended daily maximum. The meal, which consists of fried haddock,...

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