Just scrolling through the headlines and seeing this thing about McDonalds pushing to get rid of tipped wages and calling for a higher federal minimum wage. It's an interesting position to take for a global conglomerate like McDonalds. Thought they would bee 100% on board with late stage capitalism.
The CEO went so far as to call out the restaurant industry for using tipped wages to essentially get customers to pay for their labor. And he has a point. The system lets companies pay as little as $2.13, with customers making up the difference in tips. Now that Trump is making tips tax-free, it would give a competitive advantage to these already abusive restaurants. Paying your employees a fair minimum wage literally puts them at an economic disadvantage.
What a crazy place this country has come to.
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McDonald's operates as the world's leading global foodservice retailer primarily through a highly franchised model, generating significant revenue from royalties and rental income on its vast real estate holdings, in addition to sales from company operated restaurants, by serving a broad menu of fast food items to millions of customers daily.
| type | open | high | low |
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| stock | $305.14 | $305.71 | $300.51 | $217.93B | 3.58M |
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| +$3.15 | 25.96 | 0.00 | 47.23% | 32.92% | 2.34% |
Pour one out for the McDonald + Krispy Kreme partnership.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/24/mcdonalds-a...
Apparently the deal wasn't nearly profitable enough for the donut chain, which kind of makes sense considering donuts aren't really a McDonalds kind of menu item.
Pour one out for CosMc's, we hardly knew ye. Apparently targeting Gen Z consumers is a losing strategy. Which makes sense, considering they tend to be rather short on cash.
source https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/24/food/mcdonal...