Oooooh, someone’s in trouuuuble! Chastisements can come in tiny packages, as one nine-year-old girl proved at today’s annual McDonald’s shareholders meeting. She took to the mic with a pretty clear message for Mickey D’s CEO Don Thompson: ”It would be nice if you stopped trying to trick kids into wanting to eat your food all the time.” Oh, snap. [More]
9-Year-Old Girl Tells McDonald’s CEO: Stop Trying To Trick Kids Into Eating Your Food
By May 23, 2013
McDonald’s Outdoes Itself With Highest-Calorie Menu Item Ever: The Mega Potato
By May 23, 2013
Yes, the people in Japan want fries with that — lots and lots and lots of fries, apparently, as McDonald’s is serving up its (reportedly) highest-calorie count item ever: A 1,142 calorie container of fries double the size of a regular large fries, dubbed The Mega Potato. What, not the McMega Potato or Mega McPotato? [More]
Gospel Singer Suing McDonald’s Because Broken Glass Isn’t Easy On The Throat
By May 20, 2013
If it’s not the hot coffee lawsuit of a lifetime, it’s still a major claim that McDonald’s mucked up pretty fierce: A gospel singer living in Brooklyn alleges in a new lawsuit that McDonald’s is responsible for ruining her voice, after she claims she bit into a piece of glass while eating a chicken sandwich. [More]
McDonald’s Looking To Slim Down Its Bloated Menu
By May 17, 2013
The Angus burger has mooed its last moo, and Chicken Selects clucked off months ago, but it looks like McDonald’s isn’t done ditching menu items, as the company seeks to streamline its business by paring down the available offerings. [More]
Police Have Better Things To Do Than Rescue Adult Men Wedged In McDonald’s High Chairs
By May 17, 2013
Take a look at yourself. Are you older than five? You’re reading this post, so it’s likely that you are no longer part of the toddler set. As such, we’d like to take this opportunity to remind adults that they are too old, and really, too darn big, to be sitting in high chairs meant for toddlers at McDonald’s. One man in Ireland learned that in the way that turns out to be the most hilarious to the rest of us. [More]
McDonald’s Drive-Thru Worker Spots Own Stolen Car Pulling Up To Window
By May 16, 2013
A McDonald’s employee may have left her car unlocked outside of her apartment complex overnight–she doesn’t remember. That didn’t mean that she deserved to have it stolen, though. She woke up to discover that her car was missing, then spotted the culprit…in the drive-thru lane at her workplace. [More]
Should You Have To Pay For Extra Ketchup At Fast Food Joints?
By May 15, 2013
For years, some McDonald’s have been charging extra for additional McNugget dipping sauces or other non-ketchup condiments. But charging for extra ketchup is rare, except in Manhattan, where more than a dozen Golden Arches are tacking on a fee for the red stuff. [More]
Burger King: Hey Guys, McDonald’s Isn’t The Only One Who Can Do A Rib-Shaped Sandwich
By May 15, 2013
Thus far in its life, the McRib has had a solitary existence, with nary another rib-shaped piece of meat out there to keep it company. So rejoice, McDonald’s! Your boneless hunk of rib-ish meat will have new friend soon, when Burger King unveils its summer 2013 menu, including its limited-time BK Rib Sandwich. [More]
Memo Seems To Confirm The End Of McDonald’s Angus Burgers
By May 10, 2013
Yesterday, we mentioned an unconfirmed report that McDonald’s was ending its experiment with the Angus Third Pounder burger after nearly four years, now a Consumerist reader has provided us with what appears to be solid proof that the Angus burgers will be disappearing in the coming weeks. [More]
Is It Time To Say Goodbye To McDonald’s Angus Third Pounder?
By May 9, 2013
Nearly four years ago, McDonald’s added the Angus Third Pounder to the menu, making it the company’s first new burger offering in eight years, and leading to the inevitable rash of “anus burger” signs. But now comes a report that the sandwich is set to vanish forever. [More]
Most American Company On Earth Has No Idea How To Portray Americans To UK Audience
By May 8, 2013
Though McDonald’s is a global company, serving up variations of its fast food to people of just about every nation, it’s still considered by many to be one of the companies, if not the company, most identified with Americans. Which is why we’re perplexed by the bizarre images shown in McDonald’s UK ads for its America-themed menu items. [More]
Healthy Offerings Or No, Study Says Teens Will Pile On The Fast Food Calories Anyway
By May 8, 2013
For all that Subway markets its lower-calorie, healthy options, it appears adolescents and teens are going to load up with enough food to rival the calorie counts at places like McDonald’s, according to a new study. Researchers studying teens in Los Angeles say it doesn’t matter what’s on the menu, kids are going to buy meals with a whole lot of calories. [More]
McDonald’s Shows How To Capitalize On Recent Cleveland News In A Totally Tacky Way
By May 8, 2013
When three women who had been missing for 10 years were rescued from a house in Cleveland this week where they’d been kept captive, all eyes turned to the neighbor who first noticed one of the women, Amanda Berry, yelling for help. Charles Ramsey seemed as surprised as the rest of us, noting in the 911 call and to local TV news that he’d been just out on his porch, “eating his McDonald’s” when he saw her. At that, McDonald’s ears perked right up. [More]
Mummified McDonald’s Burger Found In Closet, Still Looks Edible
By May 2, 2013
What happens if you forget about a fast-food meal for a decade and a half? Visually, not a whole heck of a lot. A Utah man set out to show his friends that a burger would remain unchanged if it sat around for a few weeks. The onions and pickle shriveled a little bit, but that was all. Six years later, the family moved and found the burger stuffed in a coat pocket. It looked pretty much the same. Now, seven years after that, it pretty much looks the same. Does that tell us anything about fast food, though? Not really. [More]
Study: Nearly Half Of U.S. Consumers Went To McDonald’s In March
By May 2, 2013
A new study attempts to determine the businesses that American consumers visit most often. Not surprisingly, the list is dominated by places that sell food; and that McDonald’s was by far the most-visited business in the U.S. [More]
Forget The Mc10:35, CEO Says Breakfast All Day May Come To McDonald’s
By April 29, 2013
McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson (not to be confused with Ron Johnson) appeared on CNBC last week to talk about the company and be seen making an Egg McMuffin on camera. More importantly, he discussed the possibility that they could expand the breakfast menu to all day long. [More]
Which International McDonald’s Menu Items Deserve A Try Stateside?
By April 22, 2013
Ever since Vincent Vega first told America about the Royale with Cheese at McDonald’s restaurants in Amsterdam, we’ve been fascinated with the variations, name-changes and bizarre menu offerings available at overseas Golden Arches. But, in the spirit of the international community something something blah blah, is it time to open our borders up enough to allow a few of these fast food finds to squeak through? [More]
fast floodIn addition to the many people driven out of their homes or stranded by flood waters in Illinois, recent storms have wreaked havoc on a piece of fast-food history, with the site of the first McDonald’s opened by Ray Kroc now underwater. [More]
