McDonald’s Focus on Value Bolsters U.S. Sales

The fast-food giant’s earnings results did not reflect the potential fallout from an E. coli outbreak that the company has moved quickly to contain. Thanks to $5 meal deals, McDonald’s managed to keep consumers coming into its restaurants in the latest quarter. Although global same-store sales slipped 1.5 percent in the quarter ending Sept. 30 […]

No E. Coli Found in Samples of McDonald’s Beef Patties, Officials Say

The company said it would put Quarter Pounders back on the menu, without the raw onions that were considered the likely source of the bacteria. McDonald’s announced on Sunday that tests in Colorado had ruled out its Quarter Pounder beef patties as the source of a deadly E. coli outbreak, and said that the popular […]