News about en-us DailyFinance.com: McDonald's (MCD) may have let its menu prices inch too high. The world's largest restaurant chain delivered bad news to investors on Thursday. For the first time since 2003 the burger-flipping giant suffered a monthly decline in comparable-store ... Read more]]> DailyFinance.com: The franchisor-franchisee relationship can be a heated one, especially when corporate asks the operators to spend more money for one of their initiatives. At McDonald's (MCD), remodeling investments, marketing campaigns and discounting are touchy ... Read more]]> DailyFinance.com: If imitation is the sincerest form of culinary flattery, Burger King Worldwide (BKW) is praising McDonald's (MCD) playbook. Burger King rolled out new menu items last week. One of the additions is popcorn chicken. The bite-sized pieces of breaded ... Read more]]> DailyFinance.com: McDonald's (MCD) new ad campaign highlighting its "Favorites Under 400 Calories" isn't just an attempt by the company to highlight its healthier items during the Olympics; it's probably a preview of what's to come from restaurants around the ... Read more]]> DailyFinance.com: By Kim Bhasin McDonald's new CEO Don Thompson has some important decisions to make as he takes the reins of the world's biggest fast food chain, and chicken is going to play a major role, reports Leslie Patton at Bloomberg Businessweek. He's going ... Read more]]> DailyFinance.com: Children in California will still be able to get toys with their Happy Meals. A San Francisco judge has dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit that sought to stop McDonald's Corp. (MCD) from using toys to market its meals to children in the ... Read more]]> DailyFinance.com: Did you hear that Burger King hired away Hamburglar from McDonald's (MCD)? It must have. How else could one explain how the new BK menu looks suspiciously similar to what the folks manning the fryers under the golden arches are serving up? Yes, the ... Read more]]> DailyFinance.com: A champion of McDonald's (MCD) expanded menu offerings, spruced-up restaurants and global expansion will soon take the top spot at the country's biggest burger chain. Don Thompson, president and COO of the 33,000-unit fast-food giant, has been named ... Read more]]> DailyFinance.com: OAK BROOK, Ill. (AP) - McDonald's Corp. (MCD) said Wednesday that a key revenue figure climbed 6.7 percent in January as U.S. customers spent more on breakfast items, beverages and its new Chicken McBites. The world's biggest hamburger chain's ... Read more]]> DailyFinance.com: You'd think that fast-food restaurants -- with their emphasis on value -- would appeal primarily to those at the lower end of the income scale. But according to a new national study, dining at McDonald's (MCD) and its quick-serving competitors ... Read more]]> DailyFinance.com: On a 60-degree October morning at a McDonald's in Manhattan, I wolfed down my Sausage McMuffin to the strains of Brenda Lee's Rockin' Round the Christmas Tree. My ears didn't deceive me. This particular McDonald's (MCD) has been been pumping out ... Read more]]> DailyFinance.com: Fast food giant McDonald's (MCD) is taking the phrase "super size" to a new level. For the 2012 Olympics, the hamburger chain is planning on rolling out its biggest store yet. Learn more in the video below. ... Read more]]>