Franchises are a key part of McDonald’s business, with roughly 95% of all McDonald’s locations operated by franchise operators. Operators pay a royalty rate to use McDonald’s brand and ...

Kroc has just discovered that this man’s McDonald’s franchise has drifted away from Kroc’s vision of McDonald’s as “the new American church” and has instead fallen into a derelict hangout for greasers ...

The average McDonald's location does make about $2.7 million each year in sales, which sounds great, until you tally up those costs. That's how those owners eager to take part in this chain's ...

McDonald’s franchise owners are in full revolt after the company sent out a recent email announcing new charges each U.S. franchise would have to pay in 2021. Taken together, the changes will ...

McDonald's workers say they feel unsafe on the job 01:16 "Depending on the outcome of next year's election, it could be another three-to-five years before this case has any resolution," said Lunt.

Dissatisfaction amongst McDonald's franchise owners is reportedly at an all-time high, so they clearly feel they're under fire. But then you have to ask: Under fire compared to whom?

Franchise owners of many of America’s biggest chains took advantage of the Paycheck Protection Program. Among fast-food chains, 4,278 Subways, 2,445 Dunkin’s and 2,217 McDonald’s received funds.

By comparison, the average sales for U.S. McDonald’s franchises was $2.7 million annually between 2011 and 2016 and $2.9 million in 2019, the lawsuit says.

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Ray Kroc cut the ribbon on the first McDonald's franchise, opened in Des Plaines, Ill., back in 1955 — and the rest is fast food history. But the McDonald's story begins years before that ...

McDonald’s is buying the franchise that sparked global boycotts by offering free meals to Israeli forces shortly after the start of the Israel-Gaza war, taking ownership of its 225 stores.