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In addition to its healthy meal offerings, Everytable is known for its variable pricing the chain’s prices are tied to the median income of the neighborhood around each location, with meal prices ranging from $4 in low-income neighborhoods to $9.75 in wealthier ones. Right now, as the social equity franchising program director at Everytable, Bryce Fluellen is focusing on building a pipeline of candidates for those new franchise ownership positions.
The program has one candidate already in training Dorcia Whitebrake, currently a general manager at an Everytable location. Fluellen expects to recruit more candidates from within Everytable’s existing ranks. He’s also forming partnerships with community-based organizations around Los Angeles that already have entrepreneurship training or assistance programs, including one group he says is tied into local community colleges.
Herbert Washington says the fast food giant shows more favorable treatment to white owners.
Published February 19th
Written by Paul Meara
A Black owner of 14 McDonald’s franchises is claiming the fast food giant shows more favorable treatment to white owners and denied him the opportunity to buy restaurants in more affluent communities.
Herbert Washington filed a civil rights lawsuit on Tuesday (February 18) in federal court in Youngstown, Ohio. The former Michigan State University track star, who played for parts of two seasons with the Oakland Athletics during the mid-1970s, said the company’s discriminatory practices have led to a $700,000 sales gap between Black-owned franchises and those owned by white people.
Slapped with a series of scathing racial discrimination lawsuits, McDonald’s said it is setting new diversity goals aimed at bringing more women and minorities into management roles.
The world’s biggest restaurant chain on Thursday said it will increase the number of women in leadership roles at the company to 45 percent from 37 percent by 2025. The company also aims to boost “historically underrepresented groups” in leadership positions to 35 percent from 29 percent over the same time frame, the company said on Thursday.
McDonald s announced it will increase the number of women in leadership roles at the company to 45 percent from 37 percent by 2025. (iStock)