{"id":135712,"date":"2019-11-16T22:38:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T22:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7693455\/Sacked-McDonalds-CEO-Steve-Easterbrook-drowns-sorrows-American-bar.html?ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ito=1490&amp;ns_campaign=1490"},"modified":"2019-11-16T22:38:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T22:38:21","slug":"sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacked McDonald&#8217;s CEO Steve Easterbrook drowns his sorrows in an all-American bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Supping on a craft beer, former McDonald\u2019s boss Steve Easterbrook is snapped drowning his sorrows a fortnight after being fired from his \u00a312 million- a-year job for having a relationship with a colleague.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">However, the British executive needn\u2019t be too downcast, as he received a reported \u00a358 million payoff from the fast-food giant he ran for four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Our exclusive picture shows Mr Easterbrook nursing his beer at the Sweetwater Tavern and Grille just a few minutes\u2019 walk from his \u00a32 million apartment in Chicago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-fbc0b96edaf55910\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar-1.jpg\" height=\"449\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Supping on a craft beer, former McDonald\u2019s boss Steve Easterbrook is snapped drowning his sorrows a fortnight after being fired from his \u00a312 million-a-year job\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-fbc0b96edaf55910\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar-1.jpg\" height=\"449\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Supping on a craft beer, former McDonald\u2019s boss Steve Easterbrook is snapped drowning his sorrows a fortnight after being fired from his \u00a312 million-a-year job\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Supping on a craft beer, former McDonald\u2019s boss Steve Easterbrook is snapped drowning his sorrows a fortnight after being fired from his \u00a312 million-a-year job<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mol-img-group floatRHS\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-d230fff35511d760\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar-2.jpg\" height=\"416\" width=\"306\" alt=\"Mr&nbsp;Easterbrook&nbsp;received a reported \u00a358 million payoff from the fast-food giant he ran for four years\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-d230fff35511d760\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar-2.jpg\" height=\"416\" width=\"306\" alt=\"Mr&nbsp;Easterbrook&nbsp;received a reported \u00a358 million payoff from the fast-food giant he ran for four years\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Mr&nbsp;Easterbrook&nbsp;received a reported \u00a358 million payoff from the fast-food giant he ran for four years<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He and a friend attended the bar \u2013 which boasts a menu of \u2018modern American classics with a twist\u2019 \u2013 amid continuing fallout from his shock exit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Divorced Mr Easterbrook was forced to quit as chief executive because his consensual relationship with an unnamed woman breached McDonald\u2019s strict rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But the company has been accused of hypocrisy for ignoring at least 50 claims that workers had been sexually harassed by senior colleagues in McDonald\u2019s across America in the past three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Last week, one former female worker launched a \u00a34 million class action lawsuit against the chain, claiming she was repeatedly sexually assaulted at work and blaming the corporation for \u2018a toxic work culture from the very top\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Mr Easterbrook, from Watford, Hertfordshire, joined McDonald\u2019s in 1993 as a UK store manager. He rose up the ranks to become global CEO in 2015, overseeing an \u00a318 billion-a-year turnover.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-d368cb06eaa8e4a7\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar-3.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Mr Easterbrook, from Watford, Hertfordshire, joined McDonald\u2019s in 1993 as a UK store manager\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-d368cb06eaa8e4a7\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar-3.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Mr Easterbrook, from Watford, Hertfordshire, joined McDonald\u2019s in 1993 as a UK store manager\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Mr Easterbrook, from Watford, Hertfordshire, joined McDonald\u2019s in 1993 as a UK store manager<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supping on a craft beer, former McDonald\u2019s boss Steve Easterbrook is snapped drowning his sorrows a fortnight after being fired from his \u00a312 million- a-year job for having a relationship with a colleague. However, the British executive needn\u2019t be too downcast, as he received a reported \u00a358 million payoff from the fast-food giant he ran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sacked McDonald&#039;s CEO Steve Easterbrook drowns his sorrows in an all-American bar - Wardoon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sacked McDonald&#039;s CEO Steve Easterbrook drowns his sorrows in an all-American bar - Wardoon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Supping on a craft beer, former McDonald\u2019s boss Steve Easterbrook is snapped drowning his sorrows a fortnight after being fired from his \u00a312 million- a-year job for having a relationship with a colleague. However, the British executive needn\u2019t be too downcast, as he received a reported \u00a358 million payoff from the fast-food giant he ran [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Wardoon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-11-16T22:38:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"154\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"115\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar\/\",\"name\":\"Sacked McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook drowns his sorrows in an all-American bar - Wardoon\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-16T22:38:21+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/#\/schema\/person\/f8b1d5296096e3c329f5b915ba044a28\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar.jpg\",\"width\":154,\"height\":115},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Sacked McDonald&#8217;s CEO Steve Easterbrook drowns his sorrows in an all-American bar\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/\",\"name\":\"Wardoon\",\"description\":\"News Media\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/#\/schema\/person\/f8b1d5296096e3c329f5b915ba044a28\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/23bb9e404592c76192c930b0cfbf0010?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/23bb9e404592c76192c930b0cfbf0010?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"url\":\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Sacked McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook drowns his sorrows in an all-American bar - Wardoon","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Sacked McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook drowns his sorrows in an all-American bar - Wardoon","og_description":"Supping on a craft beer, former McDonald\u2019s boss Steve Easterbrook is snapped drowning his sorrows a fortnight after being fired from his \u00a312 million- a-year job for having a relationship with a colleague. However, the British executive needn\u2019t be too downcast, as he received a reported \u00a358 million payoff from the fast-food giant he ran [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar\/","og_site_name":"Wardoon","article_published_time":"2019-11-16T22:38:21+00:00","og_image":[{"width":154,"height":115,"url":"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar\/","url":"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar\/","name":"Sacked McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook drowns his sorrows in an all-American bar - Wardoon","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar.jpg","datePublished":"2019-11-16T22:38:21+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/#\/schema\/person\/f8b1d5296096e3c329f5b915ba044a28"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar.jpg","width":154,"height":115},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/sacked-mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook-drowns-his-sorrows-in-an-all-american-bar\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sacked McDonald&#8217;s CEO Steve Easterbrook drowns his sorrows in an all-American bar"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/#website","url":"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/","name":"Wardoon","description":"News Media","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/#\/schema\/person\/f8b1d5296096e3c329f5b915ba044a28","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"http:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/23bb9e404592c76192c930b0cfbf0010?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"http:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/23bb9e404592c76192c930b0cfbf0010?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"url":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135712"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}