Monday, April 23, 2007
By Janet Adamy
The Wall Street Journal Europe
23 Apr 2007
McDonald’s Corp.’s agreement to sell most of its locations in Latin America to a licensee shows how restaurant chains are increasingly heeding investors’ advice to own fewer of their locations. The world’s largest restaurant chain said it is selling... read more...
Thursday, April 19, 2007
The Wall Street Journal Europe
19 Apr 2007
Turkey’s presidential election next month is one of the biggest political tests for theMuslim world in 2007. At stake: Whether Kemal Atatürk’s 84-year-old secular republic matures into a stable democracy, or reverts to authoritarianism, in military or... read more...
Thursday, April 05, 2007
TACO SALAD breaks out of its shell
By JILL WENDHOLT SILVA
The Houston Chronicle
04 Apr 2007
WHO invented the taco salad? Credit appears to go to Mr. Giant Salad Inventor. He’s the hapless dude on the Anheuser-Busch “Real Men” commercials who parodies the now ubiquitous Tex-Mex innovation — essentially the high-calorie contents of a taco... read more...
China wants fast-food giants to pay up for part-timers
Bangkok Post
05 Apr 2007
Beijing — China’s state-run trade union ‘‘wants McDonald’s and other fast-food chains to make up wages for part-time staff who it claimed were underpaid,’’ state media said yesterday. The All-China Federation of Trade Unions made the call as an... read more...
