McDonald’s says it has shut down an employee resources website that contained posts advising its own workers to avoid eating too much fast food.
The McResource Line website now tells visitors that it is down for maintenance and upgrades are being made.
“A combination of factors has led us to re-evaluate, and we've directed the vendor to take down the website,” Lisa McComb, a spokeswoman for McDonalds USA, said in a statement. “Between links to irrelevant or outdated information, along with outside groups taking elements out of context, this created unwarranted scrutiny and inappropriate commentary.”
McDonald’s received widespread media attention earlier in the week for posts on McResource Line that bashed fast food.
“While convenient and economical for a busy lifestyle, fast foods are typically high in calories, fat, saturated fat, sugar, and salt and may put people at risk for becoming overweight,” one post read. They appeared to be designed by a third-party vendor.
Another post showed a meal of a burger, fries and soda – McDonald’s staples – and labeled it as an “unhealthy choice.”
“Eat at places that offer a variety of salads, soups and vegetables to maintain your best health,” the site advised, next a picture of a sub sandwich and salad that looked similar to fare offered at rival Subway. "Although not impossible it is more of a challenge to eat healthy when going to a fast food place. In general, avoiding items that are deep fried are your best bet."
The fast food posts were not the first time McDonalds has been questioned about the content on the site.
Past posts have told employees to shed holiday debt by returning unopened purchases and a budget guide allotted $20 a month for health care, and none for heat, according to CNBC.





 McDonalds removes help web site after it tells employees not to eat their food


By now, many people have probably heard that McDonald’s employee web site tripped up again. After getting caught telling its employees not to eat the kind of food they sell to the public, the world’s most-successful fast food outfit has just decided to stop helping its employees via a web site. Public relations-wise, McDonald's keeps tripping up in its attempt to help their low-wage earners, according to a Huffington Post article on Wednesday.
Reportedly, the McResource page of McDonald’s web site designed to assist its workers in living a better and healthier life by suggested that they not eat what the business serves. The web site encourages people to not eat fast foods. That would be like Pizza Hut telling its employees not to eat pizza or Levis telling people not to wear jeans.
Created by a third-party vendor, the latest debacle for McDonald’s involved a post which told its employees the negative results of eating fast food – even specifying that the bad, unhealthy foods to eat include cheeseburgers and French fries which, of course, is what McDonald’s makes lots of money off of selling to the public.
Though McDonald’s employees will still get help from the firm via phone, the web site bashing the likes of McDonald’s has been removed from the Internet.
The site now has a message to its employees which says:

We’ll Be Back Soon! We are temporarily performing some maintenance in order to provide you with the best experience possible. Please excuse us while these upgrades are being made.
If and when it returns, odds are it will not have anything to do with the current third vendor who has provided the helpful tips to the McDonald's employees.
Just last month, the hamburger-selling firm was criticized – and laughed at – for advising its low-wage earners on how to tip for services one would think that persons in such economic situations wouldn’t be able to afford, such as how much to tip personal trainers and au pairs and swimming pool cleaners. Much like this latest post regarding what McDonald’s-types of foods not to eat, that post was removed very quickly as well.

Fast-food workers strike, push for $15 per hour

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Demonstrators in support of fast food workers protested in July outside a McDonald's in New York and demanded higher wages and the right to form a union without retaliation. They are demanding a minimum wage increase and calling for better benefits. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)


The Associated Press By The Associated Press
on December 05, 2013 at 6:44 AM, updated December 05, 2013 at 1:39 PM













Fast-food workers and labor organizers are set to turn out in support of higher wages in cities across the country Thursday. Organizers say walkouts are planned in 100 cities, with rallies set for another 100 cities, including New Orleans.
But it's not clear what the actual turnout will be and whether they'll shut down or even disrupt restaurant operations.
A similar day of protests this summer had mixed results, with just a few protesters in some locations. A group of about 50 people rallied outside McDonald's in Gretna, including striking workers and supporters from Stand with Dignity, a project of the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice.
The actions are part of push by labor unions, worker advocacy groups and Democrats to raise the federal minimum wage of $7.25. President Obama says he would back a minimum wage of $10.10 an hour, and on Wednesday addressed income equality in a speech.
The speech coincided with growing national and international attention to economic disparities.
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune reporter Katherine Sayre contributed to this story.


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