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FiDi 24-Hour Fitness and McDonald’s Both Announce Closures Amidst Record Office Vacancy

Two Financial District chain retail businesses less than 500 feet from one another — both of which opened in 1994 — have announced their closures: a McDonald's and a 24-Hour Fitness, both shutting down due to the district’s offices being emptied out.

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Elderly SF Woman Suing McDonald's Over Scalding Coffee In Similar Lawsuit to One From Early 90s

McDonald's still apparently serves their drive-thru coffee exceedingly hot, and a San Francisco woman is claiming that a poorly affixed lid on a coffee cup, served to her at the Fillmore McDonald's, led to her getting serious burns, and she's now suing.

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California Fast-Food Workers Will Be Paid $20/Hour Next Year, Under New Deal

A super-size pay raise is coming to fast food workers in California next year, as labor groups just pressured fast food franchises into a deal that would establish a $20 hourly minimum wage for crew at fast food restaurants.

Affordable Housing Complex at Blighted Former Haight Street McDonald’s Site Finally Breaks Ground

It’s a new beginning for what was once, arguably, the sketchiest McDonald’s in San Francisco, as they just broke ground on what will be a gorgeous 160-unit affordable housing complex on that long-vacant site.

Now They’ve Put Barricades Around the McDonald's at 24th Street BART Because of Illegal Vending Scene

A new wrinkle in the ongoing cat-and-mouse game between SFPD and illegal Mission Street vendors, as “event fencing” now surrounds the perimeter of the McDonald’s next to the 24th Street BART station.

Day Around the Bay: We Have New Renderings Of The Housing Going Into the Former Haight Street McDonald’s

The Warriors brought back fan favorite Gary Payton II, some 100,000 San Franciscans are about to get their CalFresh food benefits slashed, and a new batch of renderings of the affordable housing project coming to the Haight Street McDonald’s site have been revealed.

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Smart-Alecky ‘Vegan McDonald’s’ Knock-Off Opens in Union Square, Right Across From Real McDonald’s

Saturday saw the San Francisco opening of the up-an-coming plant-based fast-food chain Mr. Charlie’s, whose menu items and promotions clown on Ronald McDonald and the broader McDonald’s franchise.

Notoriously Sketchy Haight Street McDonald's Fully Demolished

The infamous McDonald's at Haight and Stanyan is now completely gone, as the building was razed and the site is now almost fully cleared to make way for an affordable housing development.

Redwood City McDonald's Worker Charged With Trying To Flush Newborn Baby Down Toilet

A worker at a Redwood City McDonald's who claims she didn't know she was pregnant was allegedly seen by a coworker trying to flush her newborn infant down the toilet, and she's now

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Druggy Haight & Stanyan McDonald's To Be Purchased By City, Redeveloped As Housing

The McDonald's at the end of Haight Street at Stanyan is not long for this world as the city has just about inked a deal to purchase the problematic property for redevelopment as

City Mulls Buying Troubled Haight McDonald's, Flipping It For Affordable Housing

A McFlurry of crime and sketchiness has always surrounded the Haight and Stanyan McDonald's location, even before a daytime shooting there last Thursday afternoon. The unhealthy scene has long been a one-stop shop

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McDonald's Is Testing Out A Crab Sandwich In San Jose

Much like they did last year with those Gilroy garlic fries, McDonald's is using the South Bay as a testing ground for a new crab sandwich. But there's no real local angle with

Folsom Street Fair Tourists Allegedly Gay-Bashed Outside Fillmore McDonald's

The San Francisco Police Department is investigating an alleged anti-gay hate crime today, following an attack on two tourists outside Fillmore District fast food restaurant. San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Sergeant Michael Andraychak

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Jack In The Box Jumps On Garlic Fry Bandwagon, Takes Them Nationwide

In a bid to compete with McDonald's and head off any possibility that they may be taking their Gilroy Garlic Fries national sometime soon, Jack in the Box has just introduced their own

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Gilroy Garlic Fries Roll Out At McDonald's Throughout The Bay Area Next Week

Yes. They're here.Gilroy. Garlic. Fries.#garlicfries #mcdonalds #garlic #createyourtastesf pic.twitter.com/aKaYcmoJGh— McDonald's (@McD_SF) July 21, 2016 Previously available only at a couple locations down in the South Bay, those

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McDonald's Quickly Sells Out, Brings Back 'Gilroy Garlic Fries'

After a surprisingly successful test run selling "Gilroy Garlic Fries" earlier this month, global conglomerate McDonald's has brought back their version of the garlic-chunk covered fries to four locations. The fries were originally

Video: 'I Haven't Got All Day!' Snaps Bandit As He Robs Mission Street McDonald's

Nearly two months after a man smashed into a Mission Street McDonald's, menaced staffers, and plundered the safe, the San Francisco Police Department has yet to track him down. Now they're seeking the

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Mission & 16th McDonald's Closes

With the Van Ness McDonald's already gone and the Third and Townsend McDonald's highly likely to to disappear soon, Egg McMuffin and Big Mac aficionados are going to be even sadder about the

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McDonald's At Haight And Stanyan In Big Trouble Over Drug Activity

The city attorney is threatening to sue McDonald's over the constant and apparently unchecked drug activity that occurs on the premises and around the restaurant's location at Haight and Stanyan. Per a letter

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McDonald's Wants You To Know The McRib Is Not Made With Gross Mystery Meat

Still shilling for McDonald's, former Mythbusters host Grant Imahara is back this week helping the fast-food chain prove to us that their food is not disgusting. They find a guy, Wes Bellamy, who

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Former Mythbuster Grant Imahara Sells Out To McDonald's In Beef PR Video

This odd video appeared today on McDonald's YouTube channel, framed like an episode of Mythbusters and featuring its former host Grant Imahara, in which Imahara takes a trip inside the Cargill beef processing

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SoMa's Hottest Real Estate Is A McDonald's

In SoMa, ground zero for hot office leases, the next big property sale could be a tiny corner lot with an Extra Value menu. According to the San Francisco Business Journal, which often

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Photos: Oakland Fast Food Workers Go Full Ronald, Strike For Better Wages

Earlier today, as part of a nationwide fast food workers' strike, employees from several East Bay fast food chains walked off the job. The strike convened on a McDonald's location on Jackson Street

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McDonald's Manager Arrested After Robbing Own Store

In some ways, this seems like it could've been the perfect crime. Who would suspect a fast food manager of robbing his very own store at gunpoint? But that's just what happened when

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The Digital Divide Is Driving Kids To McDonald's

As schools around the country have been moving towards online and digital tools for completing assignments, Internet access for low income families hasn't kept pace with the country's metro centers where Wi-Fi signals