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Posted: 30-01-2008 07:37 Post subject:

Neither can I! But just copy this whole line, then past it in the address box - that works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_McDonald's_franchises

Posted: 05-02-2008 23:24 Post subject:

McDonalds is my least favorite place to eat. It's really not because of the food. It's because it takes forever to get it. I don't know how it is in your area but around here it takes about 10 minutes (I go through the drive-through) to get my food when it's not busy. When it is busy I give them 20 minutes and then get out of line and go to Hardee's. This all started when they went to making everything fresh and got rid of the heatlamps. It was always my understanding that you sacrificed flavor and quality for speed and effeciency but McDonald's has sacrificed all four.

P.S. Hardee's is my favorite fast food restaraunt. Their prices are a little steep but it's fresh, quick and so damn good (though more on the heart killing side than most)

Posted: 23-11-2008 08:41 Post subject:

McDonald's sued over nude photos

A US couple is suing McDonald's for $3m (£2m) after nude photos of the woman, which were on her husband's mobile phone, ended up on the internet.

Phillip Sherman says he accidentally left his phone, with the photos, at a McDonald's in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

He says staff promised to secure the phone until he could retrieve it.

The Shermans claim they had to move to a new home after the womans's name, address, and phone number appeared online along with the photos.

Tina Sherman says she began receiving offensive calls and text messages about the pictures from her husband's mobile phone after he left it at the McDonald's on 5 July.

The couple then discovered that the nude pictures she had sent to her husband's phone had been posted online.

The Shermans are suing McDonald's Corporation, the owner of the franchise involved and the restaurant's manager, saying they have suffered emotional distress, embarrassment and damage to their reputations.

They also allege loss of earnings and want to recover the cost of moving to a new home.

McDonald's Corp, the franchise owner and the manager have so far refused to comment on the case.

The nude pictures have been removed from the website that had posted them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7744345.stm

Posted: 23-11-2008 09:26 Post subject:

This sort of story gives Americans a bad name.

To us Brits, it looks as if Americans believe they can always get a lawyer to offload responsibility for their own stupidity onto someone else. Laughing

Posted: 08-09-2009 09:02 Post subject:

Not that McD are afraid to use lawyers themselves:

McCurry wins row with McDonald's

The American fast-food giant McDonald's has lost an eight-year legal battle to prevent a Malaysian restaurant calling itself McCurry.

McDonald's argued that the use of the "Mc" prefix infringed its trademark.

But the Federal Court in Kuala Lumpur ruled that there was no evidence to show McCurry was trying to pass itself off as part of the McDonald's empire.

The owner of McCurry insists its "Mc" prefix is an abbreviation for Malaysian Chicken Curry. Wink

McDonald's, which has more than 180 outlets in Malaysia, first sued the McCurry restaurant in 2001.

A High Court ruled in favour of the international chain in 2006, but then McCurry took the case to the Court of Appeal, which overturned the ruling.

McDonald's then went down its final legal avenue, taking the case to the Federal Court.

But chief judge Arifin Zakaria said on Tuesday that the three-member panel had unanimously dismissed the application.

"We feel great that this eight-year legal battle is finally over," McCurry owner P Suppiah told reporters.

"We can now go ahead with whatever we plan to do such as opening new branches," he said.

McCurry opened for business in Kuala Lumpur in 1999, and serves Indian dishes, including fish head curry and breads including tandoori naan.

Lawyers for McDonald's told the Associated Press news agency that the company accepted the judgement.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8243270.stm

Posted: 08-09-2009 12:17 Post subject:

Thank goodness for common sense. After all, in Scotland, there must be thousands of businesses whose names begin with "Mc" or "Mac", many of them selling food. I have particularly fond memories of enjoying fish and chips at McTavish's Kitchen in Oban on a grey, overcast day. Mmm...

Posted: 08-09-2009 16:59 Post subject:

I've seen chippies in Scotland called McDonald's....I'm guessing McDonald's have seen movies like Braveheart and decided it's not worth the risk of trying to shut them down... Wink

Posted: 08-09-2009 17:51 Post subject:

Its no good shouting that you don't like Maccy Dees, a lot of people do like them and they make a lot of money from that fact. To be honest they are no worse than any other fast food place and in some respects they are a lot better than most.
Educating people about food will not help the situation either, you can preach to a jobless mother of 5 until you are blue in the face about nutrition she will still feed her kids on burgers and chips.

Posted: 27-10-2009 10:26 Post subject:

McDonald's pulls out of Iceland

McDonald's is to close its business in Iceland because the country's financial crisis has made it too expensive to operate its franchise.

The fast food giant said its three outlets in the country would shut - and that it had no plans to return.

Besides the economy, McDonald's blamed the "unique operational complexity" of doing business in an isolated nation with a population of just 300,000.

Iceland's first McDonald's restaurant opened in 1993.

The franchises are run by a firm called Lyst, with owner Jon Gardar Ogmundsson saying the decision was "not taken lightly".

He said that the restaurants imported the goods from Germany, but that costs had almost doubled, with the falling krona making imports prohibitively expensive.

Mr Ogmundsson said the restaurants had "never been this busy before... but at the same time profits have never been lower".

"It just makes no sense. For a kilo of onion, imported from Germany, I'm paying the equivalent of a bottle of good whisky," he added. Shocked

He now plans to run the restaurants under another name so that he is able to buy cheaper Icelandic products. Cool

Iceland's banks collapsed at the height of the global credit crisis - wrecking the country's economy and forcing it to rely on an $10bn (£6.1bn) international aid package.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8327185.stm

Posted: 15-09-2010 09:46 Post subject:

McDonald's targeted in US health ad
Unhappy meals: American doctors' TV ad features a corpse holding a hamburger and the line 'I was lovin' it'. McDonald's, which has thrived in the recession, isn't laughing
Andrew Clark in New York guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 14 September 2010 17.33 BST
[Video: McDonald's fast food is graphically linked to health problems in this ad from a doctors' group urging viewers: 'Tonight, make it vegetarian ']

It is an image to sap the flabbiest of appetites. An overweight, middle-aged man lies dead on a mortuary trolley, with a woman weeping over his body. The corpse's cold hand still clutches a half-eaten McDonald's hamburger. Shocked

A hard-hitting US television commercial bankrolled by a Washington-based medical group has infuriated McDonald's by taking an unusually direct shot at the world's biggest fast-food chain this week, using a scene filmed in a mortuary followed by a shot of the brand's golden arches logo and a strapline declaring: "I was lovin' it."

The line is a provocative twist on McDonald's long-standing advertising slogan, "I'm lovin' it" and a voiceover intones: "High cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart attacks. Tonight, make it vegetarian."

The commercial, bankrolled by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), goes further than most non-profit advertising and has drawn an angry reaction from both the Chicago-based hamburger multinational and the broader restaurant industry.

The National Restaurant Association criticised it as "irresponsible" and said it was an attempt to scare the public with a "limited" view of nutrition. A McDonald's spokesman said: "This commercial is outrageous, misleading and unfair to all consumers. McDonald's trusts our customers to put such outlandish propaganda in perspective, and to make food and lifestyle choices that are right for them."

The commercial, to be aired initially in the Washington area but potentially in further US cities, comes amid an increasingly lively debate in the US about healthy eating. The first lady, Michelle Obama, has made nutrition a signature issue and is leading a campaign to encourage physical fitness and improved diets – particularly among American children, a third of whom are overweight.

The recession has hardly helped the healthy eating cause. McDonald's has enjoyed a relatively prosperous financial crisis as diners opt for its affordable offerings in place of more expensive high-street restaurants. Its global profits for the six months to June were up 12% to $2.3bn, powered by sales rises both in the United States and Britain.

The PCRM's director of nutrition education, Susan Levin, made no apologies for singling out the golden arches: "McDonald's is one of the biggest fast-food chains in the world. Its name and its golden arches are instantly recognisable. We feel we're making a point about all fast food when we talk about McDonald's."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/sep/14/us-health-ad-targets-mcdonalds

Posted: 21-06-2013 15:55 Post subject:

Turns out the famous Mclibel leaflet was co-written by undercover cop, Bob Lambert

wtf

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