Mcdonalds

Most people who pass through a McDonald's drive-through are content to get their Happy Meal and get back on the road. But then there's Rebecca Leigh Crimmins. The 27-year-old aspiring Australian model showed up at the Golden Arches in the suburb of Noosaville, located in the Australian province of Queensland, ...

You may remember our features earlier this year -- employees planking on the job and being fired, plus fast food workers being pranked by an Australian man who defined "coning" to the world. ...

Burger King recently fired its 56-year-old mascot. In one of his most recent commercial beats, the King took the form of a grown man in a costume monarch outfit and smiley mask, waking up in a stranger's bed, and urging him to try a Double Croissan'Wich in a Freddy Kruger drawl. Some thought it was hip. ...

A hapless employee at the Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin was tricked into handing over all the money in her cash register to an unarmed man. Either the scam was so complicated she believed it, or she was extremely gullible. The perpetrator had tried the ploy at several other stores in the mall before he ...

I had a friend who was Ronald McDonald. No, really. THE Ronald McDonald. His name was Aye Jaye, a diminutive of Alexi Jankowski. He came from a circus family, had been a wandering clown, and was asked to audition for a clown character at McDonald's corporate headquarters in Chicago. A couple of other guys had ...

McDonald's owner Paul Siegfried handed employees more than their paychecks. It was some political McPressure in the battleground state of Ohio. Included with the paychecks from the Canton, Ohio, McDonald's were handbills stating that if the GOP didn't win the midterms, employee pay and benefits would suffer. The ...

Jobs can make you fat. That's what a judge ruled. The job a man worked at a McDonald's in Brazil made him gain 65 pounds over 12 years. He saw himself as required to sample the food for quality every day. That's what he told the judge, reports Gawker. ...

Burgers are more than holding their own in this downturn. They may be thriving because this food concept has taken the place of steak. Steak had an eight-year run, explains Danny Meyer to New York Magazine reporter Beth Landman. Meyer owns burger-dominant Shake Shack, which has grown to six Manhattan locations at ...