US restaurant chains see profits collapse as Israel boycott bites
US restaurant chains see profits collapse as Israel boycott bites
The parent company of US food outlets KFC and Pizza Hut saw an almost 50-percent fall in profits this quarter
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22063286
News Desk
NOV 1, 2024
[good news! - PL]
Reasons to boycott:
Supporting genocide in Gaza; Supporting starvation wages; Slave labor in supply chains; Animal cruelty; Decimation of local businesses; Unhealthy processed food; And so on ...
Their site seems to be down at the moment, and that page hasn’t been cached by the archive sites yet :/Never mind, it’s back.How much of this is about boycotting and how much is it about Israelis suffering financial straits in this multi-front genocide & war?
How does Israel's economy come into play here? This is about Middle Eastern people boycotting a bunch of American franchises and other stuff in (sometimes misguided) solidarity with Gaza.
Oh my mistake. I took the article’s title to mean that this is about US restaurants in Israel itself. The website was down when I wrote it, so I couldn’t read the article and didn’t know any better.