McDonald's settles flap over coffee costs by offering to pay expenses

Monday, December 10, 2007

OAK BROOK, Ill. -- McDonald's Corp. has agreed to pay its franchisees 40 percent of the expense of outfitting U.S. restaurants to serve specialty coffees after the restaurant owners resisted the hefty new costs.

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