“Nothing is more important to us than the safety of our customers,” McDonald’s spokeswoman Terri Hickey said in a statement. “They’ve added apples in the Happy Meals, they’ve added milk instead of soda,” said Nicole Ferry, a partner and executive director of strategy for branding firm Sullivan. Its second quarter revenue, reported in July, totaled $6.26 billion, a 4% drop from the same period a year earlier. Net income was $1.09 billion, down from $1.2 billion last year. And though the company marked its fourth consecutive quarter of positive comparable store sales, the 1.8% increase in the U.S. came in below analysts’ expectations.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 17, 2016 22:48 UTC