date:Nov 16, 2012
When a company hits a bump, heads often roll. And McDonald's isreplacing its head of US operations after the world's biggesthamburger chain reported its first monthly sales decline innearly a decade -- but isnt laying any blame.
The company, based in Oak Brook, Illinois, said its global chiefrestaurant officer, Jeff Stratton, will succeed Jan Fields aspresident of McDonald's USA effective Dec. 1. But Heidi Barker, aMcDonald's spokeswoman, said that a number of business factorsplayed a role in t