Biz News

We cover important business news from last week that you need to know. 

This week Mcdonald’s announced that they will be coming out with a meatless burger called the McPlant and Pizza Hut became the first pizza chain to use Beyond Meat for their plant-based meat pizza. The reason behind the plant-based foods is due to Burger King and White Castle gaining a competitive advantage against other food chains and both McDonald’s and Pizza Hut want to jump on that. Our story comes from NBC News. 

PayPal announced that it is dropping the waitlist for cryptocurrency in the U.S. What this means is that customers in the U.S. will be able to buy cryptocurrency from their PayPal accounts. PayPal also said by next year users can make PayPal purchases with cryptocurrency. This new feature was the result of the demand of cryptocurrency. Our story comes from TechCrunch.

Since the pandemic has hit, there has been one industry that has been drastically hit. Exotic dancers. A club in Portland, Oregon has figured out a way to make some money which is to have dancers deliver food topless while wearing surgical masks. Yes, you read that correctly. For a fee of $30, customers can order food to their homes and two dancers will show up with their security guard. Our story comes from Rolling Stone.

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