Insights and Stories on Fast Food

McDonald’s posts biggest US sales decline in nearly five years

Feb. 10, 2025 at 1:55 pm CST

McDonald's posted a steeper-than-expected drop in quarterly U.S. comparable sales on Monday, as demand took a hit from a brief E.coli outbreak while diners remained watchful of their spending.

Yum Brands reports surprise fall in global sales amid KFC’s struggles in US

Nov. 5, 2024 at 10:52 am CST

By Reuters

McDonald’s global sales fall on muted demand; E. coli outbreak fallout looms

Oct. 29, 2024 at 10:12 am CDT

By Reuters Savyata Mishra

McDonald’s to make its own ‘McPlant’ items

Nov. 9, 2020 at 3:19 pm CST

By Reuters

Restaurant Brands to boost outlets by 54 per cent within 10 years

May. 15, 2019 at 4:10 pm CDT

By Shradha Singh

Consumers want sustainable beef, but defining that may be murky

Oct. 13, 2015 at 6:34 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– McDonald’s plans on using sustainable beef by 2016, and intends on sourcing at least part of it from Canadian producers. The fast food giant’s latest step toward sustainability is to define what exactly that means. Defining sustainability is important, according to a beef brand officer, because in […]

By Jade Markus

‘Better Beef’ campaign turns out just fine for A&W

Oct. 9, 2015 at 9:50 am CDT

Two years after introducing its controversial ‘Better Beef’ program, A&W seems to have few regrets about how the shift to antibiotic- and steroid-free beef played out. “We were the first national chain in North America to do it, and the response has been tremendous,” said Trish Sahlstrom, vice-president of purchasing […]

By Jennifer Blair

McDonald’s says rough ride to continue into 2015

Jan. 23, 2015 at 3:06 pm CST

Reuters — McDonald’s Corp. warned Friday that business will be weak in the first half of 2015 and it is cutting its annual construction budget to the lowest in more than five years as it opens fewer restaurants in struggling markets. The world’s largest fast-food chain, with more than 36,000 […]

By Lisa Baertlein Yashaswini Swamynathan