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One of the flashiest executive perks has roared back since the onset of the pandemic: free personal travel on the company jet.Companies in the S&P 500 spent $65 million for executives to use corporate jets for personal travel in 2022, up about 50% from prepandemic levels three years earlier, a Wall Street Journal analysis found. Early signs suggest the trend continued last year. Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 One of the flashiest executive perks…

TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is further scaling back its ambitions in the gaming industry and is in talks to sell game titles to several prospective buyers.Chinese media LatePost reported Monday that ByteDance’s gaming unit Nuverse is negotiating to sell games to Tencent. A Bytedance spokesperson told The Wall Street Journal Tuesday that negotiations with multiple potential buyers are ongoing and Nuverse hasn’t finalized any transaction with Tencent.Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

Bloomin’ Brands has appointed two new members of its board as part of an agreement with activist investor Starboard Value.The Outback Steakhouse owner also said it would form an operating committee on its board to identify potential points of improvement.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Bloomin’ Brandshas appointed two new members of its board as part of an agreement with activist investor Starboard Value.The Outback Steakhouse owner also said it would…

By Heather Haddon | Photography by Lucy Hewett for The Wall Street Journal BOLINGBROOK, Ill.—CosMc’s has landed, but visiting now may take a few eons.McDonald’s new restaurant concept is drawing long lines of curiosity seekers since it opened in this Chicago suburb last weekend. The space-themed brand is the fast-food giant’s first new U.S. restaurant concept in its more than 60-year history, designed to deliver a beverage-heavy menu through takeout-focused locations built with multiple drive-throughs.Copyright ©2023Dow…

PARIS—A McDonald’s on a buzzy boulevard here offers a glimpse of what the future of serving fast food could look like. The burger giant doesn’t like what it sees.For those dining in, french fries are served in durable red containers, soda is dispensed into clear washable glasses and chicken nuggets come in hard plastic white bowls. When customers are finished eating, they are asked to drop the containers into a bin to be washed, dried and reused.Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

HERE I AM on Main Street in the Magic Kingdom—again. Neither I nor my wife long for this place. During our first family trip to Disney World in 2018, she had to swallow vats of Dramamine to stomach the rides. And I resented getting taken on the proverbial ones—being forced to pay $5 for a stale churro offends me. But when my in-laws decided to go this fall, we felt obliged to take our daughter with the rest of her cousins.Rob Daniel, 47, is well aware that parents need help braving Disneytrips. For Ear Scouts, the…

Thousands of unionized Starbucks workers went on strike Thursday on a busy sales day for the coffee chain in a bid to bring the company back to the negotiating table.Baristas walked out on the company’s annual ‘Red Cup Day’ promotion for the second straight year, according to the union representing them. During the promotion, Starbucks gives customers a free reusable cup when they order a holiday drink.Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Thousands of…

Steve Ells returns to the restaurant industry with a new concept light on meat and long on automation. Steve Ells returns to the restaurant industry with a new concept light on meat and long on automation. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the…

Unions representing Las Vegas Strip workers struck a tentative deal with Caesars Entertainment, one of three casino companies working to avert a strike that could start on Friday if more agreements aren’t reached.The Culinary and Bartenders unions said Wednesday that after 20 consecutive hours of negotiations, Caesars tentatively agreed to a new five-year contract covering about 10,000 workers at nine Las Vegas properties.Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8…

The former casino magnate has agreed to an effective ban from Nevada’s gambling industry in a settlement over his alleged sexual misconduct against former employees.  The former casino magnate has agreed to an effective ban from Nevada’s gambling industry in a settlement over his alleged sexual misconduct against former employees.  FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to…