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McDonalds
Chickenomics and the offshoring of your nuggets
Sep 5, 2013
The economics behind shipping chicken carcasses to China for processing: it keeps open the China market for chicken feet.
The $5 menu? Doesn't have the same ring to it
Sep 5, 2013
McDonald's is exploring tweaking their Dollar Menu to include items priced at $1, $2 and even $5.
Fast food strike: Of walk outs and drive-throughs
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Krissy Clark
Aug 29, 2013
Fast food workers across the country are walking off the job today. Workers are demanding $15 an hour.
Protests over fast-food wages spread to retail workers
Jul 29, 2013
Retail workers find common cause with fast-food employees demanding more hours and higher wages.
McDonald's earnings: So goes the cheeseburger, so goes the economy?
Jul 22, 2013
McDonald's has released its latest business results, and the numbers are a few Happy Meals short of expectations.
McDonald's tries to help employees budget
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Katie Long
Jul 16, 2013
McDonald's teamed up with Visa to create an online budget guide assisting employees with money management.
A whole new place to eat McDonald's: Vietnam
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Queena Kim
Jul 16, 2013
International expansion is part of the fast-food chain’s business strategy. In fact, Vietnam will be the 38th Asian country McDonald’s is entering.
For public good, not for profit.
Freakonomics: Can the McDouble save humanity?
Jul 3, 2013
An argument for why the McDonald's burger is the "cheapest, most nutritious, and bountiful food that has ever existed in human history."
Are you afraid of the potato cartel?
Jun 17, 2013
A giant grocery wholesaler is accusing a giant potato growers association of fixing prices.
Nine-year-old gives McDonald's CEO a talking to
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Kai Ryssdal
May 24, 2013
Hannah Robertson showed up at the McDonald's shareholder meeting with her mother yesterday, and lined up at the mic during Q&A time.