Sources: KNTV
The number of people who have become ill in an "E. coli" outbreak linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers in the United States increases to 75. 2024-10-25
McDonald's announces that it has begun the process of selling all of its restaurants in Russia citing the "humanitarian crisis caused by the war in Ukraine", as the reason for ending operations in the country after 32 years. It is later announced that these restaurants will reopen under a new brand in mid-June, and that their menus will be retained. 2022-05-16
American fast food company McDonald's is sued by 50 black owners for racial discrimination. According to the lawsuit, McDonald's steered black franchisees to stores which had lower revenue and higher security expenses than stores in more affluent areas. 2020-09-1
Eight people are shot, one fatally, following a dispute outside a McDonald's in downtown Seattle, Washington. 2020-01-22
Workers at two British McDonald's restaurants overwhelmingly vote to authorize a strike over working conditions and the use of zero-hour contracts, which would be the first such labor action against the fast-food chain in the U.K. 2017-08-18
Longtime FIFA corporate sponsors -- Coca-Cola Co., McDonald's, Visa Inc., and Budweiser owner Anheuser-Busch InBev -- demand FIFA President Sepp Blatter step down immediately following last week's announcement of his criminal investigation by the Swiss attorney general. Blatter refused. 2015-10-2
McDonald's announces that it will open its first outlet in Vietnam early next year, which will be in Ho Chi Minh City, and will be operated by Henry Nguyen, a Vietnamese businessman and the son-in-law of Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng. 2013-07-16
McDonald's plans to open two fully vegetarian fast food restaurants at the pilgrimage sites of Vaishno Devi and Amritsar, north India. 2012-09-4
McDonald's attempted to pressure the U.S. government to stall the implementation of the Dominican Republic – Central America Free Trade Agreement until El Salvador appointed "neutral judges" in a $24million lawsuit against the company in 2006. 2010-12-22
San Francisco passes a law banning McDonald's from giving free children's toys with unhealthy food. 2010-11-3