Sunday, December 22

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California’s Fast-Food Casualties – WSJ
28Dec By adminNo Comments
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California’s Fast-Food Casualties – WSJ

California’s $20 an hour minimum wage for fast-food workers doesn’t take effect until April, but the casualties are already piling up. Pizza Hut franchises this week told more than 1,200 delivery drivers that they’ll lose their jobs before the higher wage kicks in. Gov. Gavin Newsom no doubt sends condolences, though what he should send is an apology. Democrats in Sacramento this autumn enacted the $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers in a deal between restaurants and labor unions. When you’ve got a gun pointed at your head, you’ll hand over your wallet, keys and bank account pin number.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Entain CEO Jette Nygaard-Andersen Steps Down
13Dec By adminNo Comments
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Entain CEO Jette Nygaard-Andersen Steps Down

Entain said Wednesday that Chief Executive Officer Jette Nygaard-Andersen will step down from the group with immediate effect and be replaced by nonexecutive Director Stella David on an interim basis.The FTSE 100 betting-and-gambling group said David will remain in the role until a full-time replacement has been found.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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A Trip to CosMc’s, McDonald’s New Space-Themed Takeout Chain
12Dec By adminNo Comments
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A Trip to CosMc’s, McDonald’s New Space-Themed Takeout Chain

By Heather Haddon | Photography by Lucy Hewett for The Wall Street Journal BOLINGBROOK, Ill.—CosMc’s has landed, but visiting now may take a few eons.McDonald’s new restaurant concept is drawing long lines of curiosity seekers since it opened in this Chicago suburb last weekend. The space-themed brand is the fast-food giant’s first new U.S. restaurant concept in its more than 60-year history, designed to deliver a beverage-heavy menu through takeout-focused locations built with multiple drive-throughs.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Choice Hotels Launches Hostile Bid for Wyndham
12Dec By adminNo Comments
Money

Choice Hotels Launches Hostile Bid for Wyndham

Updated Dec. 12, 2023 7:05 am ETChoice Hotels is launching a hostile takeover offer for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, after repeatedly being rebuffed in its effort to strike a friendly deal.Choice on Tuesday unveiled what is called an exchange offer for Wyndham stock, appealing directly to its rival’s shareholders.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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A Disney World Survival Kit: 7 Gadgets to Make Your Trip Cheaper and More Comfortable
10Dec By adminNo Comments
Technology

A Disney World Survival Kit: 7 Gadgets to Make Your Trip Cheaper and More Comfortable

HERE I AM on Main Street in the Magic Kingdom—again. Neither I nor my wife long for this place. During our first family trip to Disney World in 2018, she had to swallow vats of Dramamine to stomach the rides. And I resented getting taken on the proverbial ones—being forced to pay $5 for a stale churro offends me. But when my in-laws decided to go this fall, we felt obliged to take our daughter with the rest of her cousins.Rob Daniel, 47, is well aware that parents need help braving Disney trips. For Ear Scouts, the YouTube channel he co-owns, the Celebration, Fla.-based web developer documents his weekly visits to the theme parks, reviews new attractions and compiles guides on how to get the most out of a visit. Armed with his advice and my own hard-won knowledge, I packed quite different...
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Chicken Nuggets in Reusable Bowls? McDonald’s Isn’t Lovin’ It
9Dec By adminNo Comments
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Chicken Nuggets in Reusable Bowls? McDonald’s Isn’t Lovin’ It

PARIS—A McDonald’s on a buzzy boulevard here offers a glimpse of what the future of serving fast food could look like. The burger giant doesn’t like what it sees.For those dining in, french fries are served in durable red containers, soda is dispensed into clear washable glasses and chicken nuggets come in hard plastic white bowls. When customers are finished eating, they are asked to drop the containers into a bin to be washed, dried and reused.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Searching for CosMc’s: Investors, Consumers Look for Details on New McDonald’s Brand
6Dec By adminNo Comments
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Searching for CosMc’s: Investors, Consumers Look for Details on New McDonald’s Brand

Investors and diners are on the lookout for an orange, fast-food-loving alien, and what he may mean for the future of McDonald’s. CosMc is the name of the character, who has featured in past McDonald’s ads, and it is also the name of a new restaurant concept that McDonald’s executives have teased in recent months. In July, the company described it as a smaller-scale restaurant, with locations soon to open in a handful of areas. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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TUI AG Shares Jump on Swing to Profit, Record Revenue
6Dec By adminNo Comments
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TUI AG Shares Jump on Swing to Profit, Record Revenue

Updated Dec. 6, 2023 3:53 am ETTUI AG shares jumped as much as 7.6% in early trade after the company reported a swing to net profit for fiscal 2023 on record revenue and said that it expects revenue for the year ahead to grow at least 10%.Shares at 0806 GMT were up 32.0 pence, or 6.25%, at 544.0 pence, having peaked at 551.54 pence shortly after market open.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Airbnb Appoints Ellie Mertz as New Chief Financial Officer
5Dec By adminNo Comments
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Airbnb Appoints Ellie Mertz as New Chief Financial Officer

Airbnb on Tuesday appointed Ellie Mertz, an 11-year veteran of the short-term rental company, as its new chief financial officer.Mertz succeeds Dave Stephenson, Airbnb’s CFO since 2019, who was promoted to become the company’s chief business officer, a newly created role.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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