Regarding the New, Allegedly Green, ‘Healthier’ McDonald’s in Berkeley
It's more like a parodic art project than a reality.
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Burger King Will Go Humane ... In Half a Decade
Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan should be pretty proud of themselves.
McDonald’s Mega Millions ‘Winner’ Possibly Nuts, Can’t Find Ticket
She was totally silent at a press conference yesterday, and coworkers say they wouldn't be surprised if she just made the whole thing up.
Divisadero the New Mission?; U.K. Happy Meals Have Book Vouchers Instead of Toys?
• The Journal gets hip to the gentrification of the Divisadero corridor, where rents are on the rise, lots of new food options are popping up, and people are using the term "Mission 2.0." [WSJ] • Mission Beach Café is...
S.F. Burger Kings Will Also Charge for Kids' Meal Toys
Just as that McDonald's operator hatched a plan to comply with San Francisco's new Happy Meal toy ordinance while still selling Happy Meals with toys in them (they're just charging an extra ten cents for the toy), Burger King announced...
McDonald’s Seeks New, Less Disgustingly Cruel Egg Supplier for Its McMuffins
An animal-rights group exposes the fifth largest egg producer in the country, Sparboe, for having some inhuman and totally unsanitary facilities.
Judge Dismisses Yelp Extortion Suit for Good; Which Small Towns Have Lots of Michelin Stars?
• Yelp says they can put the extortion claims behind them now, because a federal judge has thrown out the class-action suit against them, for good. However there still may be another one brewing in Texas. [SF Biz Times, Earlier]...
McDonald’s Sues Another Mac-and-Cheese Restaurant
Apparently no one is allowed to abbreviate macaroni anymore, says McDonald's.
Teen Sues San Jose McDonald’s Because He Was Stabbed There; The Twenty Most Michelin-Starred Cities
• A San Jose teenager and his mother are suing the owners of a McDonald's where the teen was stabbed multiple times after a nearby weekly music event, claiming the restaurant failed to have adequate security and that their parking...
Germ-Obsessed Mother Goes on Pathogen-Swabbing Campaign at Fast-Food Play Spaces
Erin Carr-Jordan has been swabbing Playlands all over the place, and sending the horrifying results to the CDC.
Mission Chinese Food Gets Some NYT Love; McDonald’s Tries to Go ‘Upscale’
• Eric Selby and the NYT's T Magazine do a little audio-visual bit on Mission Chinese Food, and their "whimsical Chinese food," as Danny Bowien calls it. [NYT] • There's a place in the Outer Sunset now called 37 Degrees...
Stabbing at a Vallejo McDonald's; Chazz Palminteri to Open a Bronx Restaurant... In Baltimore
• Vallejo's not been the gentlest place of late, and now a McDonald's employee there was stabbed multiple times after asking two men, who had walked in and gone straight into a restroom, to leave. [Vallejo Times-Herald] • Bargain Bite...
No More Squid for You!; Apparently There’s an Oatmeal Craze Happening
• Because it's a La Niña year, squids are super plentiful, and California fishermen have already reached their legal limit on squid fishing. [Tribune] • On the eve of Pauline's Pizza's 25th anniversary, Kauffman interviews owner Sidney Weinstein, and she...
Teen Arrested In Spinach Attack; ‘Kung Pao Kitten’ Joke Fails to Amuse
• A 17-year-old from Nevada County turned himself in to Roseville police for that "fire in the hole" incident involving scalding creamed spinach that left a Boston Market drive-through attendant severely burned. [SacBee, Earlier] • The food safety bill, which...
Mother Lashes Out at San Francisco About the Happy Meal Toy Ban
"And the toys you claim are so tempting? Usually they end up in the recycling bin after sitting in my car for two weeks. Really, they suck."
McDonald’s, Jamba Juice Among Businesses Solicited for Dolores Park Concessions; Oil Working Its Way Up Gulf Food Chain
• The NIMBYs and Mission activists went nuts about Blue Bottle and their coffee trailer? Imagine if it had been McDonald's. [Uptown Almanac] • The government is contemplating defining what "estate" means when it comes to American wine making. [Gray...
No More Happy Meal Toys For You!
Bevan Dufty was the swing vote giving the Happy Meal toy ban a veto-proof majority, and on election day he sided with the liberals on the Board of Supervisors who don't want kids getting fat just for a plastic figurine....
Gang Member Shot at Gravity Room; Joel Robuchon Joins the iPad Wine List Club
• An alleged gang member was shot and killed at the Gravity Room in the Marina last night, just before midnight, during post-World Series celebrations. [Chron] • It's election day. Let's see how Bevan Dufty decides to swing on the...
How Does Dufty Really Feel About Happy Meal Toys?
As the Snitch reports today, Bevan Dufty will be the deciding eighth vote in tomorrow's Board of Supervisors' meeting to make the Happy Meal toy ban immune from Gavin's veto. Multiple news orgs, food franchise people, and activists have appealed...
