Fast Food and Corona Virus: McDonald's shifts to take-out only mode over coronavirus

McDonald's Corp. said late Monday it was turning its U.S. company-owned restaurants into take-out only in the wake of the COVID-19 coronavirus beginning...

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The Netherlands: McDonald’s Netherlands gets hip with “McTrax” interactive placemats

The placemats are printed with conductive ink and connect to your smartphone via Bluetooth. Once diners sync the placemat to their smartphone, they just have to hit the paper keys on the place-mat to begin creating beats.

Just try not to get any ketchup on it.

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Corporate Tax Evasion: Activists look to take bite out of McDonalds for EU tax avoidance - by Obert Hackwill

America’s fast food giant McDonalds is being accused of setting up an elaborate tax avoidance scheme.

Labour unions backed by the War on Want charity have asked the European Commission to expand an existing investigation into Fiat and Amazon to include the burger chain, and look into where more than a billion euros of unclaimed tax went between 2009 and 2013. They say revenues were routed through low-tax Luxembourg, making royalty payments to a subsidiary.

“More and more companies do it, it’s becoming almost impossible to supervise the companies, while millions of citizens have to pay their taxes everywhere,” says the European Union Public Services’ Federation’s Pablo Sanchez.

McDonalds insists its actions have respected existing legislation and that it has done nothing wrong. The fast-food firm adds its tax bill last year in France alone was over a billion euros.

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The Netherlands: McDonald's Small Wrap Kills Dutch Teenager Following Allergic Reaction

McDonald's announced it has stopped the sale of a 'Small Wrap Saté' in the Netherlands following the death of a 17-year-old teenager after he got a severe allergic reaction in a McDonald franchise in Amsterdam  from eating the wrap.

The saté wrap, selling for €2 in the Netherlands, consists of  "fried chicken and onions in a spicy peanut sauce", kown in the Netherlands as.Saté sauce. Saté sauce, which has its origins in Indonesia, became a very popular sauce in the Netherlands and is even eaten there on french fries.

A spokesperson  for McDonald's confirmed the product has been withdrawn but declined to give any further information as to questions about warning labels on McDonald's products which contain peanut products or have been prepared in the vicinity of peanut products.

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