McDonald’s Withdraws from Iceland

When we write about customer disputes at fast food joints, it usually involves the cops showing up to put an end to things. But here’s a tale of an impatient police officer who has been accused of pulling his gun on the car in front of him at the McDonald’s drive-thru.

NEW YORK — Cheap eats and new menu items helped McDonald’s boost a key sales figure in May, bouncing back from a decline the previous month. The world’s biggest hamburger chain said Monday that global sales rose 2.6% at restaurants open at least a year, helped by an extra Friday in the month. In the U.S., the figure rose 2.4%, as the Dollar Menu and its new chicken wraps and egg white breakfast sandwiches lifted results.

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NEW YORK — McDonald’s says it is offering its first new Happy Meal entree in a decade: Fish McBites. The world’s biggest hamburger chain said the Fish McBites will be widely available at U.S. restaurants starting this week through March, to coincide with Lent. The Happy Meals will come with seven pieces of Fish McBites, French fries, apple slices and a drink. The company had already announced last month that the Fish McBites would be sold on the standard menu in three sizes — snack (10 pieces), regular (15 pieces) and shareable (30 pieces).

NEW YORK — McDonald’s says it is offering its first new Happy Meal entree in a decade: Fish McBites. The world’s biggest hamburger chain said the Fish McBites will be widely available at U.S. restaurants starting this week through March, to coincide with Lent. The Happy Meals will come with seven pieces of Fish McBites, French fries, apple slices and a drink. The company had already announced last month that the Fish McBites would be sold on the standard menu in three sizes — snack (10 pieces), regular (15 pieces) and shareable (30 pieces).

YCHARTS.com submits: Drive down just about any commercial strip in the country, and you’re treated to a blur of garish signs – burgers, wings, pizza, tacos — each trying to lure you into the drive-through. With 311,483 outlets classified as limited service eateries by the market research firm Technomic, as of the end of 2009, if anything the country would seem to be over-supplied with it's fast food. And American waistlines certainly back that up.