LeBron James has endorsement contracts with Nike, Inc. | Nike, Sprite ( soft drink ) | Sprite, Glacéau, Bubblicious, Upper Deck Company | Upper Deck, McDonald's and State Farm.

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The third McDonald's restaurant in Downey, California, which opened in 1953, is the Oldest McDonald's restaurant | oldest existing McDonald's.

ECOPEACE participating in an anti-war protest outside the American Consul ( representative )# Consulates and embassies | consulate in Durban on 16 October 2002, the United Nations Food Security Day and global Anti – McDonald's Day

A March 83G-Chevy driven by David Cowart and Kenper Miller takes part in a 1983 IMSA GT Championship | Camel GT race at Infineon Raceway | Sears Point. In 1981 March made a half-hearted and ill-financed effort to return to F1, building cars that were little more than heavy and insufficiently stiff copies of the Williams FW07 for Mick Ralph and John McDonald's RAM Racing.

Furthermore, although the decision awarded £ 60, 000 to the company, McDonald's legal costs were much greater, and the defendants lacked the funds to pay it.

At the same time, Kroc also insisted on cutting food costs as much as possible, eventually using the McDonald's Corporation's size to force suppliers to conform to this ethos.

For example, a hamburger sandwich costs only in France, and in Belgium, but overall, McDonald's restaurants are cheaper in Belgium.

Ronald McDonald's Houses provide over 7, 200 bedrooms to families around the world each night, with an estimated value of $ 257 million in lieu of hotel costs.

At the end of 2010, Subway was the largest fast food chain on Earth, with 33, 749 restaurants worldwide, 1, 012 more than McDonald's.

Yet, despite the successes of the new owners, the effects of the financial crisis of 2007 – 2010 weakened the company's financial outlooks while those of its immediate competitor McDonald's grew.

On March 30, 2010, McDonald's opened a Hamburger University location in Shanghai, China.

* In 2009 and 2010, members of the Harlem Globetrotters appeared on the nationally-televised McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade in Chicago, IL.

* Don Thompson ( Business executive ), McDonald's since 2010

* Janice Fields, McDonald's USA Executive Vice-President and COO ( 2006 – 2010 ) then President ( 2010 – Present )

From 2009 to 2010, McDonald's introduced new packaging worldwide.

In 2010, a new KFC and public house (' The Shire Horse ') was constructed next to McDonald's in the grounds of Killingworth Centre.

The Wall Street Journal, in an editorial on December 10, 2010, said that " A & P was as well known as McDonald's or Google is today " and that A & P was " Wal-Mart before Wal-Mart.

During his first few seasons at Kansas, he has persuaded several McDonald's All-Americans to become Jayhawks, including Mario Chalmers, Julian Wright, Micah Downs ( who later transferred to Gonzaga ), Sherron Collins, Darrell Arthur, Cole Aldrich, Xavier Henry, the # 1 recruit in the 2010 freshman class, Josh Selby, and Perry Ellis.

Since February 2010, McDonald's Germany, its fourth-biggest global market, is serving veggie burgers in all its restaurants.

The PCRM advertising campaign " I'm not lovin ' it " is a spoof of the McDonald's advertising slogan " I'm lovin ' it " used in an advertising campaign launched in September 2010 that encourages consumers to adopt a vegetarian diet in order to avoid the increased health risks of hypertension, heart attacks, strokes and obesity associated with the consumption of the high levels of dietary fat, cholesterol and sodium in McDonald's menu offerings

Pollo Campero, a Latin chicken quick service restaurant, opened on October 23, 2010, replacing McDonald's.

On November 2, 2010, McDonald's began six weeks of nationwide McRib availability at the Legends of the McRib event in New York City, honoring three superfans: Joey Erwin, aka Mr. McRib ; Alan Klein, founder of the McRib Locator website ; and Adam Winer.

In 2010, the CTMB participated in Norfolk State University's Homecoming and won first place in the McDonald's Battle of the Bands.

His ambitions, however, did not recede with age as he predicted that there would be 10, 000 McDonald's in Japan by 2010.

In 2010, the Burger Ranch chain included 107 restaurants with over 1500 employees, competing primarily with McDonald's Israel.

In 2010 the government of Traian Basescu, through the Health Minister Attila Cseke, citing that as a result of a diet rich in junk food, obesity affects more than 20 % the Romanian population, decided to impose a tax on junk food, known popularly as Mctaxa ( referring to McDonald's food ) on fast food, such as McDonald's, KFC and Pizza Hut and other junk food, such as snacks, deserts and sodas.

Frances writes that Ronald McDonald should be retired and McDonald's should halt advertising to kids, March 2010

In 2002, the McDonald's Corporation agreed to donate $ 10 million to Hindu and other groups to settle lawsuits filed against the chain for mislabeling French fries and hash browns as vegetarian, because their French fries and hash browns were found to contain beef extract added during production.

She was quoted in a 60 Minutes segment as saying she made $ 40, 000 on her McDonald's commercial alone.

In 2004, the Army in the United States received a $ 1. 6 billion donation in the will of Joan B. Kroc, third wife of former McDonald's CEO Ray Kroc.

McDonald's initially was ordered to pay $ 50, 000.

The case was later remanded as to damages, and McDonald's was ordered to pay the Kroffts more than $ 1, 000, 000 when the case was finally settled in 1977.

In the early 2000s, Yoshinoya triggered a price war in Japan along with other chains such as McDonald's, by introducing a regular beef bowl dish for 280 yen, or around US $ 3.

Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants, also known as the McDonald's coffee case and the hot coffee lawsuit, is a 1994 product liability lawsuit that became a flashpoint in the debate in the U. S. over tort reform after a jury awarded $ 160, 000 to cover medical expenses and compensatory damages ( in addition to $ 2. 7 million in punitive damages ) to Stella Liebeck who suffered 3rd degree burns in her pelvic region when she spilled hot coffee purchased from fast food restaurant McDonald's.

Moreover, McDonald's had refused several prior opportunities to settle for less than the $ 640, 000 ultimately awarded.

Supporters of “ tort reform " claim that the popular perception of the case was materially accurate, claim that the vast majority of judges who consider similar cases dismiss them before they get to a jury, and argue that McDonald's refusal to offer more than an $ 800 settlement for the $ 10, 500 in medical bills reflects the meritless nature of the suit based on the fact that Liebeck spilled the coffee on herself rather than any wrongdoing on the company's part.

Liebeck sought to settle with McDonald's for $ 20, 000 to cover her actual and anticipated expenses.

McDonald's refused Morgan's offer to settle for $ 90, 000.

Morgan offered to settle for $ 300, 000, and a mediator suggested $ 225, 000 just before trial, but McDonald's refused these final pre-trial attempts to settle.

Other documents obtained from McDonald's showed that from 1982 to 1992 the company had received more than 700 reports of people burned by McDonald's coffee to varying degrees of severity, and had settled claims arising from scalding injuries for more than $ 500, 000.

The jurors apparently arrived at this figure from Morgan's suggestion to penalize McDonald's for one or two days ' worth of coffee revenues, which were about $ 1. 35 million per day.

The decision was appealed by both McDonald's and Liebeck in December 1994, but the parties settled out of court for an undisclosed amount less than $ 600, 000.