Friday, February 06, 2004
Whole Lotta Fat People
Total sales at McDonald's restaurants jumped 19 percent last month, or 11 percent factoring out favorable currency effects. Sales at restaurants open more than a year, a key figure of industry health, climbed 10 percent worldwide and 13.4 percent in the United States. -Yahoo
What great news, now they can pay us all back.
McDonald's, which in 1996 earned a profit of $2.6 billion dollars (59 percent from foreign operations), accepted $1.6 million dollars from the federal government to promote its products in Europe. - Free Market.net
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