All-day breakfast starts comebackNEW YORK — McDonald’s says offering breakfast around the clock helped jolt its sales.Sales at the world’s biggest hamburger chain rose 5.7 percent in the U.S. for the final three months of 2015, boosted by unseasonably warm weather and the launch of an all-day breakfast menu in October.That marked the second straight quarter of domestic growth as McDonald’s fights to win back customers, and the best showing since early 2012. Globally, sales rose 5 percent at established locations.McDonald’s is working to turnaround its business under CEO Steve Easterbrook, who will mark one year on the job in March. The Oak Brook, Ill., company has conceded it failed to keep up with changing tastes.Despite the encouraging finish to the year, McDonald’s has a long way to go. For all of 2015, U.S. customer visits fell 3 percent at established McDonald’s locations. That followed a 4.1 percent drop the previous year. Guest counts declined globally as well during the period.

Olive Garden will cater, deliverORLANDO, Fla. — The breadsticks are on their way.Orlando-based Olive Garden restaurants launched catering with delivery at their 800 locations nationwide, the company announced Monday.It also comes with the launch of four new menu items including a create your own Tour of Italy and pianadas, a kind of flatbread with grilled chicken and vegetables.The company is pushing its growing to-go business further by offering catered delivery on orders of $125 or more, plus a 15 percent delivery fee. Orders over $500 will have a 5 percent fee.Olive Garden’s to go orders make up 10 percent of the restaurant’s business, CEO Gene Lee said, and the company is exploring how to do delivery using third-party services.The deliveries will be made by Olive Garden employees.

Officials: Sprint cuts at least 2,500 jobsKANSAS CITY, Mo. — Layoffs and cutbacks at Sprint have claimed at least 2,500 jobs and struck six customer care centers, company officials confirmed.The job cuts are coming mostly in customer care but also include 574 other positions eliminated at the Kansas City-area headquarters campus. The total does not include any jobs that may have been eliminated at other Sprint employment centers.This wave of layoffs is part of a months-long effort to slash $2.5 billion in spending across all parts of Sprint’s operations. It also marks the third round of cutbacks at Sprint in the last two years.Sprint shed 1,700 jobs in the fall of 2014 and announced plans to cut 2,000 more. The 2,500 come on top of those totals, bringing the announced job cut total to more than 6,000.An e-mail notified all employees last week of the six call center closings that will idle about 2,000 employees.