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Taco Bell attacks rapper 50 Cent in response to suit
November 19, 2008
New York Daily News: Lawyers for Taco Bell have filed a scathing response to rapper 50 Cent's $4 million federal lawsuit filed in July when Taco Bell used his…
read nowJudge orders McDonalds to pay legal fees in hoax case
November 16, 2008
WHAS11: A judge has ordered McDonald's Corp. to pay $2.4 million in attorney fees to a former employee forced to strip after someone called a Mount Washington…
read nowSonic workers find camera in bathroom
November 9, 2008
KOCO.com (Oklahoma City): The manager of an Oklahoma City Sonic restaurant has been arrested after a female employee discovered a hidden camera in the…
read nowBurger King franchisees late-night hours suit dismissed
November 3, 2008
Miami Herald: Miami-Dade Circuit Court has ruled that Burger King has the right to require franchisees to comply with extended late-night and early-morning…
read nowVictims of 2006 Arby's salmonella outbreak file suit
September 10, 2008
VALDOSTA, Ga. — Five separate lawsuits were filed in the State Court of Georgia, DeKalb County, on behalf of individuals who became seriously ill with…
read nowDisabled man files class action suit against Burger King
September 10, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle: A wheelchair-bound man has filed a federal class-action lawsuit against Burger King in San Francisco, accusing the quick-service chain…
read nowEx-McDonald's employee files discrimination suit
September 7, 2008
Chicago Tribune: A former employee of a Dryersville, Iowa, McDonald's has filed a complaint with the Iowa Civil Rights Commission alleging he was unlawfully…
read nowDunkin' responds to franchise group ad fund request
September 4, 2008
CANTON, Mass. — Dunkin' Brands Inc.'s chief global communications and public affairs officer Stephen J. Caldeira has issued a statement regarding DD…
read nowFormer Dunkin' Brands employee charged with fraud
September 2, 2008
The Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.): Carolyn Kravetz, a former communications director for Dunkin' Brands, was indicted last week on charges of mail fraud and…
read nowDunkin' franchisees worried about image
August 28, 2008
BELLINGHAM, Mass. — The DD Independent Franchise Owners, which represents the largest association of Dunkin' Donuts franchise owners in the United States, is…
read nowCalif. McDonald's class action denied
August 28, 2008
Los Angeles Times: McDonald's Corp. workers in California can't sue as a group over claims that they were denied pay for work they performed during the time…
read nowMan arrested for stealing Burger King grease bin
August 27, 2008
Naples (Fla.) Daily News: Collier County, Fla., Sheriff's deputies arrested a 46-year-old man after he allegedly stole a large metal container used for…
read nowDunkin' responds to article on spying tactics
August 25, 2008
Blue MauMau: Dunkin' Donuts headquarters has submitted its response to an Aug. 25 Blue MauMau article, "Dunkin' stalking scheme plagues franchisees in court.…
read nowTaco Bell manager charged with theft
August 18, 2008
eNews Park Forest (Ill.): A Park Forest, Ill., Taco Bell shift manager has been arrested and charged with felony theft for stealing over $11,000 from the…
read nowBurger King loses Wendy's marketing dispute
August 17, 2008
Brandweek: The National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus has settled a dispute involving Burger King's allegations that rival…
read nowSentences upheld for 14 McDonald's game scammers
August 6, 2008
CNN Money: An appeals court has upheld guilty pleas of 14 people in a multimillion-dollar scheme to cash in on embezzled winning game pieces in McDonald's…
read nowMan arrested in Dunkin' Donuts gift-card scam
August 6, 2008
The Boston Globe: Police charged Kevin Nguyen, 24, of Dorchester, Mass., with larceny over $250 as a suspect in a $100,000-plus scheme using stolen…
read nowBurger King worker gets misdemeanor for poisoning fries
August 3, 2008
The Daily Times (Farmington, N.M.): A former Burger King employee, who faced felony charges after putting powdered bleach on french fries served to customers…
read nowBurger King employee charged with $18K theft
August 3, 2008
Northwest Herald (McHenry County, Ill.): A former employee of Burger King in Algonquin, Ill., has been charged with theft over $10,000 and forgery for…
read nowFormer McDonald's worker claims discrimination
July 31, 2008
The Daily Californian: A former Berkeley, Calif., McDonald's employee who has Asberger's syndrome and was let go along with two other disabled employees, has…
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