Business & Tech 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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
SF News 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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink McMuffin-Eating Protest Planned Saturday at Pleasant Hill BART Station In a continuing public response to last week's story about a black guy who was handcuffed and cited by a BART cop for eating a breakfast sandwich, a protest is being organized this weekend involving many more breakfast sandwiches at the BART station where all this went down.
SF News Troubled Haight McDonald's Site Of Afternoon Shooting A Haight Street fast-food restaurant that narrowly avoided a lawsuit regarding drug sales on its premises was the site of a shooting Thursday afternoon, raising questions over management's promises that illegal activity would
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink McDonald's Sells 'Gilroy Garlic Fries' In Bid For Bay Area Relevance Perhaps in an attempt to ride that locally sourced bandwagon, McDonald's this week announced it will begin selling "Gilroy Garlic Fries" in select Bay Area franchise locations. The chain confirmed the news to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink McDonald's, Jazz, And Guns: Philippine President's Whirlwind SF Trip Like other heads of state who converged upon the United States this week, Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, president of the Philippines, came for a conference on climate change. He stayed, of course, for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Help Rename Little Mac, Win Lifetime Supply of Mac and Cheese East Bay cheese and pasta pushers Little Mac (founded by Allison Arevalo, Local Lemons blogger) might or might not get sued by high fructose corn syrup pushers McDonald's over the former's name, or
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burger King/Jesus Miracle Bun? While we let you figure out why anyone would visit the McDonald's at the Wharf -- especially since the city's only In-N-Out is a block away -- customer (or a marketing team) Jake
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Billboard Liberation Front Strikes Again SFist drove by this billboard near the Cala in Nob Hill on Saturday and mused about how the original phrase, "use them all," could so easily be riffed on by flocks of sarcastic
SF News Bill O'Reilly Compares Gay People to al Qaeda Terrorists It's unusual that, while Barack Obama had a "Kill Obama" Facebook page, we have yet to see a "Kill Bill O'Reilly" Facebook page. Because, you know, he sure does love to hate a
SF News Ronald McDonald Gets Surprise Pie In The Face By PETA Activist Wow. OK. At an appearance onstage at South San Francisco Day in Orange Memorial Park on Saturday, a PETA member got up on stage and smacked a guy dressed as Ronald McDonald in
SF News See Semi-Nude "Chicks" Bathed In Blood On Van Ness at Noon Today Want to see slinky, kinda nude women bathing in a tank of blood-colored water on Van Ness at noon? Of course you do. According to , PETA campaigner Jena Hunt "organized a protest scheduled
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tomato Scare Prompts McDonald's to Get Even Less Healthful Ever since a few cry babies got the sniffles over a few bad tomatoes last week -- fine, it was salmonella food poisoning, but tomatoes are the most awesome thing to eat in
SF News SFPD/McDonald's Bystander/Discharge SNAFU This morning a little before 1:30 a.m., the fuzz tried to take down a couple of robbery suspects at an Ingleside McDonald's (mmm -- sorry, we had a couple of beers
