McDonald's Applie Pies Contain Chayotes (Australia)

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/money/money-matters/are-there-chokos-in-mcdonalds-apple-pies/story-fn300aev-1225807413552

The Daily Telegraph [Australia]
6 December 2009

Are there chokos in McDonald's Apple Pies?

John Rolfe, Daily Telegraph

THE MYTH: McDonald's secretly uses chokos in its hot apple pies to cut costs. [...]

McDonald's Staff Have Swine Flu (Bahrain)

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=253324

Gulf Daily News [Bahrain]
16 June 2009

Restaurant rumours rapped

HEALTH Ministry officials yesterday urged people to ignore rumours that staff at the popular fast food chain McDonald's had tested positive for swine flu. [...]

McDonald's Boycott Urged

http://www.chicoer.com/ci_9630352?source=most_viewed

Chico Enterprise Record [CA]
19 June 2008

Blistering e-mail deluge about Mcdonald's 'demoralizing'

By LAURA URSENY - Staff Writer

PARADISE - Mark Burington just doesn't know how a possible overheard conversation could balloon into the nastiest rumor he's ever encountered.

Burington is the owner of the area McDonald's restaurants. He's been battling a vicious e-mail firestorm that suggests a boycott of McDonald's. It erupted after a man soliciting food donations for firefighters was turned away from the Paradise restaurant. [...]

http://www.chicoer.com/news/ci_9627878

Chico Enterprise Record [CA]
19 June 2008

Read the McDonald's rumor e-mail and response

http://www.paradisepost.com/ci_9632410

Paradise Post [CA]
19 June 2008

McDonald's owner answers claims

By Jennifer Barker

The chain e-mail sent to Ridge residents Friday bashing the local McDonald's proved to be false said the restaurant owner.

Friday, a Post employee received the e-mail allegedly sent by Laura Ornoski which asked residents to boycott the local McDonalds in Paradise, Chico and Gridley. Ornoski's e-mail accused local McDonalds' owner Mark Burington of refusing to donate food to firefighters battling the Humboldt blaze. It also stated that he wouldn't donate to Red Cross and told his employees that they had to be at work, even if their families evacuated. [...]

Razor Blades in McDonald's Playland Tunnel

http://stuff.co.nz/4408429a11.html

Stuff [New Zealand]
20 February 2008

McShock: Blade cuts girl in kiddies' play tunnel

By LYN HUMPHREYS - Taranaki Daily News

Security has been increased at McDonald's in New Plymouth after a staff member's stomach was sliced open by a blade left in a the play tunnel. Lisa Daurua received a 7cm gash below her navel and required eight stitches. [...]

[Daurua believes the blade had been deliberately planted in the tunnel.]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dailynews/4408944a6002.html

Taranaki Daily News [New Zealand]
21 February 2008

Police, Labour Dept investigate McDonald's incident

By LYN HUMPHREYS

Police and the Department of Labour are investigating an incident at McDonald's in New Plymouth after a young worker's stomach was sliced open while cleaning the playground.

But McDonald's head office says it is confident that the blades found were not left as a malicious act and that increased security in all their restaurants will avoid copy-cat incidents. [...]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/4417885a6479.html

Stuff [New Zealand]
27 February 2008

Fast food worker cut by pen, not razor

NZPA

A broken pen and not a razor blade is being blamed for cutting a teenage staff member in a McDonald's restaurant Playland tunnel. [...]

"No external party has been found to be involved in the incident, and no crime has taken place," said McDonald's managing director Mark Hawthorne.

"The incident... has been found to be an accident caused by a broken pen belonging to the crew person."