This week on Nation’s Restaurant News, the battle between McDonald’s Corp. and its former chief executive, Steve Easterbrook, continued with the chain calling the fired CEO a liar and ‘morally bankrupt’ for denying wrongdoing in what the chain is calling a deceitful coverup of sexual relationships with other employees.
“When McDonald’s investigated, its CEO lied,” the company said in a legal response filed Monday, Aug. 31, in the Delaware Court of Chancery. “Steve Easterbrook conceded having an intimate relationship with one employee, entirely by phone, but said he never had a sexual relationship with any other employee. That was untrue, multiple times over.”
Also in McDonald’s news, more than 50 Former Black-franchisees file discrimination lawsuit against McDonald's Corp., alleging the burger giant misled them about economic opportunities of being an operator when in reality the company placed them in “crime-ridden” neighborhoods with underperforming sales.
Krispy Kreme has finally opened its NYC flagship location after a three-month delay due to the pandemic. The 24-hour, 4,500-square foot Krispy Kreme — part “doughnut theater,” part doughnut factory, and part merchandise shop — will “serve more Krispy Kreme customers” than any of their 1,400 shops worldwide starting Sept. 15.
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