Last year, the world’s oldest Taco Bell, located in Downey, CA, was facing the wrecking ball. While that eatery was eventually saved and relocated, another long-standing establishment in the city is now facing its own big change. The country’s oldest McDonald’s is about to get a 21st century facelift: a drive-thru. [More]
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McGriddles Coming To More McDonald’s All-Day Breakfast Menus
By 3.25.16
McDonald’s customers in Oklahoma must have been big fans of the McGriddle during lunch and dinner: the Golden Arches will expand its test of adding the syrup-flavored breakfast item to the all-day breakfast menu to another 1,000 restaurants across the country. [More]
International Fast Food Roundup: Fish-Shaped Fish Sticks And A Creme Egg McFlurry
By 3.1.16
For American fast-food chains, their international subsidiaries serve as a research lab where they can inflict strange food combinations on the unsuspecting public. Combine that impulse with food tastes that are simply different from Americans’, and you end up with glorious and fascinating combinations that you kind of want to see imported, and kind of don’t. [More]
McDonald’s Partners With Chobani To Test Greek Yogurt Smoothies, Parfaits In Southern California
By 2.24.16
McDonald’s ongoing effort to simultaneously appear to offer healthier food and attract hungry customers has resulted in a tentative partnership with yogurt maker Chobani. [More]
McDonald’s Makes “McPick 2 for $5” Official… For A Limited Time
By 2.23.16
UPDATE: The “McPick 2 for $5” menu is real and it’s coming to McDonald’s restaurants across the country starting Feb. 29. [More]
McDonald’s Testing Mashup Between McGriddle And McChicken In Ohio
By 2.18.16
Last month, McDonald’s began testing the addition of the McGriddle to its all-day breakfast menu in Oklahoma. A group of operators for the fast food restaurant in Ohio have taken that idea and made it their own by piloting a union between the syrup-flavored breakfast item and the McChicken — a Chicken McGriddle. [More]
Guy Eats At All 46 London McDonald’s Locations In One Day, Lives To Tell The Tale
By 2.11.16
Though perhaps you have the distinction of having frequented 46 McDonald’s restaurants in your lifetime, one brave soul decided he’d add 46 locations to his list in one day. The plan? To hit all of London’s McDonald’s locations in 24 hours — and chronicle his journey for YouTube, of course. [More]
McDonald’s Customer Files Lawsuit Accusing Chain Of Not Using Real Cheese In Mozzarella Sticks
By 2.3.16
As the saying goes, “McDonald’s has 99 problems, and mozzarella sticks that don’t contain cheese make up at least two of them.*” After customers raked the chain over the coals for selling breaded shells filled with fried air instead of mozzarella, another customer in California has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against McDonald’s, claiming its version of mozzarella is not, by definition, actual cheese. [More]
McDonald’s Apologizes For Giving People Fried Air Instead Of Mozzarella Sticks
By 1.28.16
Facing the righteous indignation of customers demanding mozzarella sticks that actually contain cheese, McDonald’s is doing a dairy apology dance, saying that cheese must have somehow escaped its breaded casing. [More]
McDonald’s Testing Addition Of McGriddle To All-Day Breakfast Menus In Oklahoma
By 1.28.16
While McDonald’s pats itself on the back for the success of its all-day breakfast menu — after years of customers asking for it — it’s not content to rest on its eggy laurels. Instead, the chain is testing a new option for the all-day breakfast menu, adding the McGriddle and biscuit sandwiches to the board at 72 restaurants in the Tulsa, OK area starting Feb. 1. [More]
McDonald’s Hopes Its New Packaging Design Makes You Feel Better About Going To McDonald’s
By 1.7.16
While McDonald’s can’t control how your actual insides feel after frequenting one of its locations, the company says it’s hoping that its newly-redesigned packaging will help put your mind at ease about choosing to eat at the restaurant. [More]
Burger King Introduces 5-Item Value Meal For $4
By 1.4.16
In an effort to attract new customers and bring old ones back, fast-food restaurants are bringing back value menus. Don’t call them dollar menus, though, even when the items do cost a dollar each. Or, in the case of a new value meal deal from Burger King, 80¢ each. [More]
The World’s Largest, Most French Fry-Box-Shaped McDonald’s Is Now Closed
By 12.31.15
McDonald’s lost its biggest restaurant in the world last night. Which sounds like a sad thing, to folks who value size and fried potato shapes, probably, but don’t fret — an even larger location is in the works. [More]
For Reasons Good And Bad, 2015 Was A Big Year For McDonald’s
By 12.31.15
By now you’ve probably heard that McDonald’s may have managed to turn years of slumping sales around by offering customers the ability to munch on an Egg McMuffin (or biscuit, if you live in the right place) after 10:30 a.m. But before the company ultimately went the all-day breakfast route, it tried a lot (we mean a lot) of other ideas in 2015 in an attempt to claw its way back to the top of the fast food restaurant pyramid. [More]
Competitors Looked To Their Wallets To Prepare For McDonald’s All-Day Breakfast
By 12.22.15
Competitors were happy to brush off the idea that they should worry about McDonalds’ new all-day breakfast, but the amount they spent on their own advertising tells a different story. [More]
FIFA Chief Sepp Blatter Banned Over $2M Payment To Fellow Soccer Exec
By 12.21.15
More than six months after he announced he would eventually be ending his nearly two-decade reign atop the world’s largest soccer organization, FIFA president Sepp Blatter has been banned from the sport for eight years. [More]
McDonald’s All-Day Breakfast Is Bringing Back Customers, But Don’t Expect Full Menu Anytime Soon
By 12.9.15
It’s been two months since McDonald’s began offering an all-day breakfast menu — which includes most popular early morning items, but not everything — nationwide. A new report indicates that the idea has been successful in luring back some lost McD’s customers, but not so successful that we’ll all be able to get McGriddles on our way home from work. [More]
