It’s becoming more and more rare for customers to walk into a fast food restaurant and order individual meal components off the menu. Why do that when you can just order a #4 and get the sandwich, fries and drink together? It makes sense, but a new study says our penchant for buying bundled meals is causing us to eat more than we should. [More]
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McDonald's E-Mail List Hacked
By 12.13.10
In a story not unlike last week’s hacking of the Walgreens promotional e-mail list, readers have been writing in to tell us about a notice they’ve received from the folks at McDonald’s. [More]
Man Orders McMuffin, Shoots Self, Doesn't Realize It
By 12.10.10
Here’s what you might call an unlikely sequence of events. A man enters a McDonald’s in the Florida Keys. The man orders breakfast. The man shoots himself in the leg. The manager asks the man to leave the restaurant, then calls police. Police pull the man over and only then does he realize he shot himself. [More]
Wisconsin Town Rejects Happy Meal Ban
By 12.8.10
While politicians in San Francisco go back and forth about whether or not to effectively ban the sale of kid’s meals that include toys, the city council of Superior, WI, has roundly dismissed a similar proposal. [More]
Students Served Dog Biscuits With McDonald's Fries, Then Banned From Restaurant For Complaining
By 11.24.10
Some students at Westfield State University in Massachusetts are barking mad after they claim they received a serving of dog biscuits with their fries during a visit to their local McDonald’s. And to make matters worse, they were told to scram and never return when they complained to employees about it. [More]
Thanks But No Thanks For The Raw McRib
By 11.22.10
You probably never wanted to see what the insides of a raw McDonald’s McRib sandwich looked like. Neither did Consumerist reader Russell, but he didn’t really have a say in the matter. [More]
How To Turn A McRib Into A Hawaiian Thanksgiving
By 11.18.10
With only a couple weeks to go before the McRib disappears into obscurity again, true fans of the pork-ish McDonald’s sandwich are trying to get their fill. And now, thanks to Erik Trinidad, the mad genius behind Fancy Fast Food, they can even enjoy their favorite treat on Thanksgiving. [More]
UK Asks McDonald's, Pepsi, KFC To Help Write Health Policy
By 11.16.10
In a move that seems as sensible as asking your creepy uncle who just got out of jail to babysit for the weekend, the UK is looking to such luminaries in the health food industry as McDonald’s, KFC and Pepsi for assistance in writing government policy on obesity and other health problems. [More]
San Francisco Mayor Vetoes Happy Meal 'Ban'
By 11.15.10
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has made good on his earlier promises that he would veto the recently passed kids meal ban (which isn’t actually a ban, but new regulations that would effectively ban most kids meals from being sold in the city as they are currently configured). [More]
Know What Else Doesn't Rot? A Homemade Burger.
By 11.15.10
There’s a bunch of different iterations of people photographing how their McDonald’s burger left out for a long time doesn’t get moldy, and they’ve gotten lots of internet attention. But they all forgot to do something very simple: make a homemade burger and document it alongside. [More]
Should A Kid's Meal Have 973 Calories?
By 11.10.10
McDonald’s may be the fast food chain most are associating with the recently approved kid’s meal regulations in San Francisco, but when it comes to calories in meals targeted to youngsters, the Golden Arches is nowhere near the worst. [More]
McDonald's Runs Out Of McRib Buns, Slaps A Big Mac Bun On Instead
By 11.9.10
Consumerist reader Dan decided to McRib it for lunch today, so he drove through the drive-thru at a Chicago McDonald’s to pick one up. Unfortunately, what he got was a half-covered sandwich on a bun he can’t eat. [More]
84% Of Parents Fed Their Kids Fast Food In The Past Week
By 11.8.10
Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity says that 84% of parents surveyed for their epic new study of fast food nutrition and marketing said they’d fed their kids fast food at least once in the past week. 66% of parents surveyed took their kids specifically to McDonald’s. [More]
The McRib Is Back, Along With "Legendary" Contest
By 11.3.10
McDonald’s promised to bring back the McRib on November 2nd, and, sure enough, the “legendary” pork sandwich has returned (for just six weeks), along with a new marketing campaign and contest built around the “mysterious” origins of the meal. Legendary? We always assumed it was cooked up in some test kitchen in the early 80s, after the Boneless Pig Farmers of America lobbied McD to pick up their product. [More]
San Francisco Officially Takes The Happy Out Of Happy Meals
By 11.3.10
After months of talking about the topic, San Francisco’s board of supervisors has gone and done it, approving a measure that would effectively end the sale of most McDonald’s Happy Meals — and most other fast food kids’ meals — within city limits. [More]
McDonald's Boss Tells Employees To Vote For His Candidates Or Risk Losing Pay Raises & Benefits
By 11.1.10
The owner of a McDonald’s restaurant in Canton, OH, may have gone a little too far in attempting to get out the vote for the candidates he supports in tomorrow’s election when he placed notes in his employees’ pay envelopes saying their pay and benefits were at risk if certain nominees didn’t win. [More]
McDonald's Ordered To Pay $17,500 To Employee Who Got Fat On The Job
By 10.29.10
A former manager at a McDonald’s in Brazil won a lawsuit against the fast food giant, in which he claimed the company was the cause of the 65 pounds he packed on during his 12 years on the job. [More]
McDonald's To Raise Prices, Still Sell Crappy Burgers, In 2011
By 10.26.10
While McDonald’s may make the worst fast food burger on the market, the company still thinks it isn’t charging enough for them. [More]
