GenevaLunch » McDonald’s http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 09:11:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no McDonald’s baton-swinging worker not indictedhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/05/mcdonalds-baton-swinging-worker-not-indicted/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/05/mcdonalds-baton-swinging-worker-not-indicted/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:23:37 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64437 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A grand jury in the US has not indicted a McDonald’s cook who was famously accused of assaulting two customers, with the incident caught on a surveillance camera inside the restaurant in Greenwich Village in New York. He had been indicted on assault charges for swinging a metal object at them several [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/05/mcdonalds-baton-swinging-worker-not-indicted/feed/ 0 McDonald’s employees shot in Biel/Bienne Monday morninghttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/28/mcdonalds-employees-shot-in-bielbienne-monday-morning/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/28/mcdonalds-employees-shot-in-bielbienne-monday-morning/#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:57:46 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64184 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A major manhunt is on for the person who walked into a McDonald’s in Biel/Bienne and opened fire shortly after 08:00 Monday morning 28 November. Two employees were injured, one of them critically. Police say it is not yet clear if robbery was involved or if any money was taken. A third [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/28/mcdonalds-employees-shot-in-bielbienne-monday-morning/feed/ 0 An apple a day keeps the Happy Meal on the trayhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/28/an-apple-a-day-keeps-the-happy-meal-on-the-tray/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/28/an-apple-a-day-keeps-the-happy-meal-on-the-tray/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:50:28 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=60236 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Health-minded parents have won: McDonalds in the US will be putting fewer french fries in children’s Happy Meals and adding an apple plus low-fat milk and chocolate milk as drink options. The company will introduce the new meals in September as part of a nutrition drive that includes providing calorie and nutrition [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/28/an-apple-a-day-keeps-the-happy-meal-on-the-tray/feed/ 0 McDonalds closes down in Reykjavikhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/27/mcdonalds-closes-down-in-reykjavik/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/27/mcdonalds-closes-down-in-reykjavik/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:21:18 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=30429 GenevaLunch.com McDonalds has announced it will close the three McDonalds restaurants it has in Reykjavik, Iceland because the collapse of the Icelandic krona has made imports too expensive. It will close at the end of October, the compnay announced 26 October. Margins have been falling and prices rising since Iceland’s economy imploded with the world financial [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/27/mcdonalds-closes-down-in-reykjavik/feed/ 0 CEO of McDonald’s Switzerland dies in accidenthttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/24/ceo-of-mcdonalds-switzerland-dies-in-accident/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/24/ceo-of-mcdonalds-switzerland-dies-in-accident/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:45:55 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=25801 GenevaLunch.com Crissier, Vaud, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Martin Knoll, 51, CEO of McDonald’s Switzerland since 2003, died Friday 21 August in an accident while riding his mountain bike near Engstlenalp, canton Bern, the Crissier, canton Vaud-based company announced. An Austrian,  Knoll joined the company as marketing director for McDonald’s in Austria in 1993. He was was named [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/24/ceo-of-mcdonalds-switzerland-dies-in-accident/feed/ 0 McDonald’s moves European head office to Genevahttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/12/mcdonalds-moves-european-head-office-to-geneva/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/12/mcdonalds-moves-european-head-office-to-geneva/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:08:15 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=21908 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The latest company to leave the UK and move to Switzerland is fast food giant McDonald’s, which will shift its European head office to Geneva later in 2009, the Tribune de Geneve reported late Friday. European president Denis Hennequin and a small team of possibly a dozen people will make the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/12/mcdonalds-moves-european-head-office-to-geneva/feed/ 2 Happy meal or a quickie for lunch?http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/05/05/happy-meal-or-a-quickie-for-lunch/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/05/05/happy-meal-or-a-quickie-for-lunch/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 13:44:21 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=16550 GenevaLunch.com Fribourg, Switzerland (20 Minutes) – A mother in Grange-Paccot, canton Fribourg, was shocked when her seven-year-old daughter fished an unused condom in its original packaging out of the French fries she had just bought at a nearby McDonalds, reports 20 Minutes. The police have opened an investigation to determine how it arrived there. McDonalds spokesperson [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/02/05/mcdonalds-prices-cut-by-third-for-china-market/feed/ 0 McDonald’s and Wal-Mart look set to ride out financial stormhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2008/11/13/mcdonalds-and-wal-mart-look-set-to-ride-out-financial-storm/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2008/11/13/mcdonalds-and-wal-mart-look-set-to-ride-out-financial-storm/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:20:31 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=7738 GenevaLunch.com Latest reports in from McDonald’s, and forecasts from Wal-Mart, show profits for both companies despite the impact on consumers of the global financial crisis.

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