For more crisp and insightful business and economic news, subscribe to The Daily Upside newsletter. It's completely free and we guarantee you'll learn something new every day.

This isn't exactly the type of super-sizing that McDonald's franchisees are used to.

McDonald's corporate headquarters announced over the weekend that it plans to hike the service fee -- which it now insists on calling a "royalty fee" -- on its franchise owners, to 5% from 4%. When was the last time they raised franchise fees? You have to go back to around the time a little-known Jason Alexander was singing about how the McDLT keeps the hot stuff hot and the cool stuff cool.

Continue reading

Source Fool.com