Fast food

McDonald?s France was forced to apologize on Aug. 12 following the emergence of an internal note reportedly ordering staff not to hand out food to ?tramps? at a restaurant on the swish Cote d?Azur.

The note was revealed on Twitter by consumer group ?60 Million Consumers.?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has kept up with tradition and enjoyed Turkish döner as the eurozone grappled with the deepening Greece crisis

Hot bodies and hamburgers are an unusual combination… Tantalizing for the tastebuds and titillating too!

Enjoy!

Photographer/videographer George Makkas captured the changing cityscape of recession-plagued Athens. The award-winning photographer, a victim of the recession forced to relocate to London, showed how a thriving city changed. Shops run by generations of families shut down, making way to bars and fast food restaurants – or, worst still, remaining empty.

On Mother?s Day, the Mövenpick Hotel Istanbul is offering something for everyone, with a sumptuous brunch, live music and a fun cake decoration class for the kids.

Who says the gyro market is cooling down in the States, if anything the craze seems to be developing into a permanent fixture on US diners’ plates.
Illinois-based Grecian Delight Foods has emerged as one of the fastest growing Greek ethnic food producers in the United States, now holding some 40% of the share of the gyros market in the major market.

A Bulgarian fast food chain, Aladin Foods, is setting foot in Romania, according to its owner, Khaled Kharfan.

In Kharfan's words, as cited by the Bulgarian Economy magazine, the expansion program starts in Bucharest, with three other towns to follow, including the border town of Giurgiu.

The Lancet and Lancet Global Health on obesity detailed the worsening food-consumption habits in 187 countries around the world. Strangely enough, it was found that people in some poor and middle-income countries have better diets than those in rich countries where major Western snack and soft drink makers are targeting children.

Just 2 percent of the Romanians dine out on a daily basis, whereas most of them, specifically some 20 percent, eat ready meals once to three times a week, found a recent GfK Romania survey on the out of home eating habits.

Photo credit: (c) CRISTIAN NISTOR / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

A Syrian refugee child has been beaten by a Burger King manager in Istanbul after eating a customer?s leftover fries, daily Cumhuriyet has reported.