FILE - McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook is interviewed at the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, July 26, 2017. The former CEO has paid back more than $105 million in equity awards and cash to the burger giant after it learned that he had lied about the extent of his misconduct while he was its top executive. Easterbrook apologized Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, saying that he had “failed at times to uphold McDonald’s values.” (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)