The advent of smartphones has revolutionized cultures across the world, but is that really a good thing? In just the last decade, the pocket-sized devices have changed the way humans interact with each other, and in some cases, even the way we live our lives. It’s no secret that many individuals spend more time on […]

Slavery officially ended in 1865 and became a relic of the past, thanks to the enactment of the 13th amendment — or did it? Despite what many people have been led to believe about disenfranchised Americans being freed from the shackles of having to work for someone else for free (or for pittance) at the […]

Is McDonald’s at the end of its reign as the fast food overlord? Studies have shown that less than 1 in 5 millennials have tried the iconic Big Mac from the double arches, opting instead for the healthier options of other, not-so-fast-food, chains. As more restaurants such as Shake Shack and SmashBurger become available, with […]

Due to mounting pressure from informed and (understandably) outraged consumers, retail giant Costco decided to phase out selling chickens that have been treated with shared-use antibiotics. This move comes on the heels of a similar announcement from McDonald’s, which resolved to stop purchasing chickens raised with shared-use antibiotics within two years. Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs Antibiotics, initially, […]

On July 19, Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom tweeted that it is “easier to get a gun than a happy meal in California.” He based this statement on an earlier claim that there are twice as many gun dealers as McDonald’s restaurants in California. However, he overlooked that McDonald’s restaurants are not required to observe a […]

When you are telling your own employees not to eat the food, you know there is a problem! McDonald’s recently created a resource website for its employees and gently suggested that they stop eating the food at work. It was reported that the “McResource Line,” as it was called in jest, contained educational imagery instructing […]

In an effort to boost profits, there is a nugget of gold lurking among McDonald’s chicken nuggets in Japan. In April, the fast food chain unleashed a big mac loaded with three times the amount of meat. Currently, the industry has organized a Willy Wonka themed competition in Japan, offering customers the chance to win […]

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has made the decree: We’re in the midst of a fourth industrial revolution. All those fast food folks fighting for $15 per hour wages are causalities. Here’s how the WEF describes it: “The Fourth Industrial Revolution, which includes developments in previously disjointed fields such as artificial intelligence and machine-learning, robotics, nanotechnology, 3-D printing, and […]

Former McDonald’s CEO Ed Rensi believes that a $15 minimum wage will push companies to set up self-service kiosks to save money In 2011, McDonald’s ordered over 7,000 kiosks to replace employees in European countries where costs are higher Rensi said he believes the labor organizers behind the McDonald’s campaign are more interested in their individual […]

Fast food giant McDonald’s is on the brink of collapse, if the claims of its own franchisees are any indication of what’s about to happen in the near future. “We are in the throes of a deep depression, and nothing is changing,” one franchisee wrote in response to a recently conducted survey on the fast food chain. […]

An angry mother has accused McDonald’s for ‘fat shaming’ her teenage daughter, saying the staff mocked and laughed at the girl after she ordered six cheeseburgers. Sixteen year old Corrina was sent to the nearest McDonald’s by her mother to purchase six cheeseburgers and four portions of fries for her and her siblings, Ashley-Jade, fourteen, […]

It must be tough living in Thomasville, Georgia and working at one of the local McDonalds. Hmm, is it the fluoridated water, Prozac or those special flavors inside the mystery meat that caused two blue uniformed women to take it to the parking lot? These ladies had some girth, so it wasn’t easy to pry them […]

Do you really want to know what’s in your McDonald’s french fries? Grant Imahara of Myth Busters decided to find out. Imahara went directly to the McDonald’s processing plant, where he thankfully learned that the the fast food chain’s much loved fries indeed contained spuds. The other ingredients, however, are quite worrisome, to say the least. Included in the […]