Burger King

BURGER KING :

1. Burger King’s parent has an all-male board, and investors just helped ensure it stays that way. in Canada, where prime minister Justin Trudeau famously explained last November that half his cabinet would be composed of women “because it’s 2015,” a 100% male board seems especially out of place.  http://qz.com/703403/burger-kings-parent-has-an-all-male-board-and-investors-just-helped-ensure-it-stays-that-way/ 
2. A fire at a Burger King that was reported by a passer-by Thursday night could have been much worse has closed the Holton Road restaurant for a few days, according to the fire chief. "Things turned out a lot better than they could have," he said.  http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2016/06/fire_damages_burger_king_damag.html 
3.  proposal to create a formal diversity policy at the parent company  Burger King aimed at increasing the number of women on its all-male board of directors has been rejected. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-09/burger-king-s-shareholders-reject-pledge-to-add-women-to-board 
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was the winner of a Silver Award under the "Best Feature Article – Professional" category for the "A Whopper of a Deal"  a burger king  deal article written by Anthony Davis in the September 2015 issue.   

1. Burger King is learning firsthand that putting your company entirely in the hands of men is not the Canadian way of running a business. A large group of shareholders in Restaurant Brands International, the parent company created by the chain's 2014.    http://www.grubstreet.com/2016/06/burger-king-told-to-diversify-all-male-board.html 
2. Keep The Glass Ceiling: Investors In Burger King  Reject Gender-Diversity Proposal At 2016 Annual Meeting   http://www.ibtimes.com/keep-glass-ceiling-investors-burger-king-tim-hortons-reject-gender-diversity-proposal-2380373 

MCDONALDS:

1. A former McDonald’s chief executive has warned that raising the minimum wage will spur unemployment as companies will instead employ robots that work for less.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/05/25/ex-mcdonalds-ceo-says-raising-the-minimum-wage-will-help-robots-take-jobs/ 

2. Pusha T has flooded timelines with hard-core street raps (see: his latest offering "Drug Dealers Anonymous" featuring Jay Z), but the G.O.O.D. Music president also apparently lent his pen to McDonald's catchy 2003 jingle "I'm Lovin' It."

"Our first big thing was launching 'I'm Lovin' It' for McDonald's in 2004," revealed Translation ad agency CEO Steve Stoute in an interview with Hot 97 alongside The Stashed founder/editor-in-chief Kaz, who marveled: "That's crazy that Pusha T wrote the song for McDonald's.