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McDonald’s will extend its $5 meal deal and looks to boost ‘affordability plans’ for rest of year, internal memo says

By Daniela Sirtori-Cortina and Bloomberg

Burger King

Burger King, riding high on earnings beat after giving every customer a cardboard crown, to invest another $300 million in restaurant revamp

By Daniela Sirtori-Cortina and Bloomberg

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McDonald’s sees revenue weakness on Middle East boycott ‘as long as the war continues,’ banks on Bacon Cajun Ranch McCrispy for comeback

By Daniela Sirtori-Cortina and Bloomberg

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Unusual exemption to California minimum wage law massively benefits long-time Gavin Newsom donor, Panera billionaire

By Daniela Sirtori-Cortina, Eliyahu Kamisher, and others

LOS ANGELES, CA-MARCH 24, 2023: Clockwise from top left-Former Starbucks employee Emily Wheeler, and current Starbucks employees Veronica Gonzalez, Jesse De La Cruz, Kat Ramos and Leila Trejo, stand together for a photograph in front of a Starbucks Coffee located on Central Ave. in downtown Los Angeles, at conclusion of a press conference they attended to announce SB 627-the Displaced Workers Transfer Rights Act, that will hold corporate chain employers accountable for using store closures in a discriminatory or retaliatory manner and give the workers preferential transfer options to other store locations. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Starbucks and union agree to restart contract talks as new CEO Laxman Narasimhan pivots away from tough stance of founder Howard Schultz

By Daniela Sirtori-Cortina, Josh Eidelson, and others

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 29: Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 29, 2023 in Washington, DC. The Committee will be discussing the formation of unions at Starbucks stores across the country and hear from witnesses who have been fired for their efforts to organize unions. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Starbucks founder Howard Schultz cuts his last official ties to the company and takes the honorary role of ‘chairman emeritus’

By Daniela Sirtori-Cortina and Bloomberg

BARCELONA, CATALONIA, SPAIN – AUGUST 07: A McDonald’s franchise restaurant in Barcelona, on August 7, 2023, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. McDonald’s is an American fast food restaurant franchise based in Chicago, Illinois.1? Its main products are hamburgers, french fries, breakfast menus and soft drinks. (Photo By David Zorrakino/Europa Press via Getty Images)

McDonald’s is removing ‘ESG’ from parts of its website amid a conservative backlash against ‘woke capitalism’

By Daniela Sirtori-Cortina and Bloomberg

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – JUNE 24: People picket in front of a Starbucks store in the Greektown neighborhood on June 24, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. The event, organized by the Starbucks union, was one of many pickets held nationwide after the coffee giant and the union clashed over claims that the company was not allowing Pride month decorations in Starbucks coffee shops. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Starbucks says it will issue ‘clearer’ decoration guidelines for in-store Pride displays amid union clash

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 15: People walk by the Mediterranean restaurant chain Cava is displayed as the company goes public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on June 15, 2023 in New York City. Cava priced its IPO at $22 per share, valuing the company at $2.5 billion. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Shares in restaurant chain Cava soar as much as 113% after IPO, marking a rare bright spot for new stock listings this year

By Bailey Lipschultz, Michael Hytha, and others

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Business lunches are coming back as workers return to the office and embrace their old corporate habits

By Daniela Sirtori-Cortina and Bloomberg

PETALUMA, CALIFORNIA – AUGUST 10: A sign is posted in front of a Wendy’s restaurant on August 10, 2022 in Petaluma, California. Wendy’s reported weaker-than-expected second quarter earnings with net income of $48.2 million compared to $65.7 million one year ago. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Your next Wendy’s drive-thru order may be taken by an A.I. chatbot that understands a ‘milkshake’ is actually a ‘frosty’ in the chain’s lingo

By Daniela Sirtori-Cortina and Bloomberg

An employee prepares a lunch order at a Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant at Madison Square Park in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014. Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. is expected to release earnings figures on Jan. 30. Photographer: Craig Warga/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Chipotle says working class customers are coming back and boosting their sales

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Beyond Meat COO suspended for biting man’s nose after college football game

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Can’t find pasta or cat food? One supermarket chain CEO says empty shelves are here to stay

By Brendan Case, Daniela Sirtori-Cortina, and others

ORLANDO, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES – 2021/07/02: Travelers wait in line for TSA security screening at Orlando International Airport as the July 4th holiday weekend begins. Americans are expected to travel in record numbers over the Independence Day holiday. (Photo by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Americans opt to stick closer to home as the pandemic disrupts holiday travel plans

By Daniela Sirtori-Cortina and Bloomberg