NBC News is reporting that McDonald’s is now telling its workers not to eat fast food like cheeseburgers and fries. The good news for McDonald’s employees is they are paid so little they can’t afford anything sold at McDonald’s. Turns out paying an unlivable wage keeps workers living.
Another post labels a meal with a cheeseburger and fries as the “unhealthy choice” and one with a submarine sandwich and salad as the “healthier choice,” noting that it’s more of a challenge to eat healthy when visiting a fast-food place.
McDonald’s accuses NBC of taking the advice entirely out of context adding that they go out of their way to provide customers with healthy alternatives like being closed after eleven p.m. so people have to go someplace better like Subway. NBC goes on to report…
Last month, the company detailed tipping advice for workers, many of whom make around minimum wage. It listed pricey suggestions for tipping au pairs, personal fitness trainers and pool cleaners from etiquette maven Emily Post — advice it removed after a CNBC inquiry. McDonald’s told CNBC the post was third-party material and said it would “continue to review the resource and will ask the vendor to make changes as needed.”