US restaurant chains see profits collapse as Israel boycott bites
thecradle.co
The parent company of US food outlets KFC and Pizza Hut saw an almost 50-percent fall in profits this quarter
  • apocalypticat@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 days ago

    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 …

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    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?

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
      3·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        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.