McDonaldâs France defends charging âŹ1.75 for âfilteredâ tap water The chain claims it reduces use of bottle water and thus plastic but critics question the legality of charging. We look at Franceâs bottled water use and how tap water costs compare within Europe
McDonald's to grade its burgers in France with health A-E Nutri-Score Fast-food giant will use French Nutri-Score system for its products online and on its app and later in order terminals in restaurants
French climate change activists blockade McDonaldâs Young climate change activists have blockaded a McDonaldâs restaurant in the city of Bordeaux (Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine), with a banner asking: âWhy eat now, what will kill us tomorrow?â.
news McDonaldâs âBig Macâ trademark cancelled in EU McDonaldâs has had its famous âBig Macâ trademark cancelled across the European Union, after a successful challenge from small Irish burger chain, Supermac.
McDonaldâs offers to keep troubled Marseille branch Fast food giant McDonaldâs has offered to keep a Marseille restaurant open in its current format, in the wake of a public outcry and legal challenge that claimed its closure would threaten many localsâ jobs.
North Marseille fights to keep key McDonalds open Residents and employees of north Marseille are fighting to keep a McDonaldâs restaurant open after it was announced it would be sold and replaced.
I am fighting plans for the 71st McDo in Paris Burger giant McDonaldâs is being challenged by the Green mayor of the Paris second arrondissement over plans for a diner near a school. Jacques Boutault says it will spoil the fashionable MarchĂ© MontÂorgueil and attract children from the school which makes a point of healthy meals. Since âMcDoâ arrived in France in 1979 it has grown to now have 1,400 diners, employing 74,000. Its turnover last year was âŹ4.7billion. However, several mayors have, like Mr Boutault, opposed plans for new sites. In Paris, work has started on the diner, at Rue des Petits Carreaux and Rue RĂ©amur and Mr Boutault has asked Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo to intervene. He told Connexion why.
World heritage town demands removal of McDonaldâs ads The mayor of a SaĂŽne-et-Loire town hoping for Unesco World Heritage status has demanded that McDonaldâs advertising be removed, calling it âvisually aggressiveâ.
Tuck into a burger with cutlery While the rest of the world copes with their burgers single or double-handed, McDonaldâs in France is offering diners plastic cutlery to keep their hands clean.
