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Undersize Me? McDonald's Franchise Owners Admit Fast Food Giant "Facing Its Final Days"
Having seen the writing on the $15 minimum wage wall...
h/t @TopherCarlton
And given the new 'lack of transparency' following McDonalds' managements' decision to stop reporting sales numbers monthly...
It appears McDonalds' franchie owners are voicing their concerns... rather ominously... as TheAntiMedia.org's Nick Bernabe reports,
Embattled fast food giant McDonald’s is making headlines yet again. The company has just launched its much advertised all-day breakfast program, but as that campaign rolls out, franchise owners are voicing their concerns over what may be the company’s dying days.
As we covered at Anti-Media in June, the McDonald’s franchise has been shrinking for the first time in the company’s over 40 year history:
“McDonald’s announced in April that it would be closing 700 ‘underperforming’ locations, but because of the company’s sheer size — it has 14,300 locations in the United States alone — this was not necessarily a reduction in the size of the company, especially because it continues to open locations around the world. It still has more than double the locations of Burger King, its closest competitor.”
However, for the franchisees, the picture looks much worse than simply 700 stores closing down.
“We are in the throes of a deep depression, and nothing is changing,” a franchise owner wrote in response to a financial survey by Nomura Group. “Probably 30% of operators are insolvent.” One owner went as far as to speculate that McDonald’s is literally “facing its final days.”
Franchisees have also been complaining about the erratic nature of McDonald’s corporate decision-making process. As Business Insider reports,
“The lack of consistent leadership from Oak Brook is frightening, we continue to jump from one failed initiative to another.”
They are likely referring to the company’s many marketing schemes that have been implemented recently to slow the bleeding of younger customers as they choose healthier, more local options en masse. As Anti-Media also reported in June,
“Though the chain has dominated the fast food market for decades, recent competition and health consciousness has challenged the popularity of its product. The growth of chains like Chipotle, which recently stopped using genetically modified ingredients, has reportedly diverted customers away from McDonald’s. Additionally, the company is losing a share of its young patrons while the rise of boutique burger chains such as Five Guys has put a dent in profits.
[…] The increased closures denote a growing shift in dietary preferences among Americans. This is consistent with recent moves by fast food chains to remove toxic chemicals from their ingredients, as well as with the exponential growth of organic, healthy alternatives.”
Are we seeing McDonald’s final days? If the trend towards healthier alternatives to McDonald’s continues, it’s a very real possibility.
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I find it appalling that 'Salt and Pepper' are no longer considered a basic for shitty food.
Let me put it this way:
I worked at McD's for TWO WEEKS when I was 16, quit because I was that revolted - and I have never eaten there again since.
They might want to get back to their roots... Ya know, Ray Kroc and all that silliness of serving real food.
McD is so large there is not much they can do.
If you thought Chipotle had a hard time finding a substitute provider of pork for the Carnitas, imagine if McD ONLY wanted grass fed beef - not even organic - just grass fed. There is not enough in the world to supply McD, not to mention no one is going to pay $10.00 for a BigMac.
Organic anything is simply impossible at the scale McD is at.
They give their customer what most of them want, cheap, salty, fat food like stuff
. Being healthy is not even a concern for the fatties that eat there...
McDs was so mismanaged by their last CEO it ain't funny. I dumped my shares long ago when I saw the thugs they were hiring at the counters. Horrible attitude and service. They ignored all the complaints and their BOD simply took their checks and di not really replace or correct that CEO.
Compare the incredibly successful What-A-Burger or Chick Filet; they hire good looking, clean yutes with a positive and friendly attitude ...plus their menu and food are 100x better then McDs. Except for the slums, maybe, people do not want to go to a FF place to be insulted by some low IQ threatening thug.
I am not sure McDs can pull out of this tailspin. Even BK has turned around into a super popular FF place and even higher priced Sonic is always packed. But they also hire much better counter people without that chip-on-the-shoulder attitude.
+1 about chick fil a. I don't eat fast food much, but thats usually where I go if I do. There is a mcds across the street from a CFA about 5 miles from my house in a pretty nice area. The people in chick fil a are young, nice looking, polite as hell, always get your order right, etc. The McDs, rude ass hood rats that can barely speak passable english. And there really aren't that many dindus around the area either, its like they bus them in just to work at mcdonalds or something...
McDonald's is so big and such an icon that if they do not hire the "hood rats" in large enough numbers, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the half-black, Obama himself will be on their cases with lawsuits and fines.
Also, you forget that those hood rats are worth no less than $15/hr, much more than they are paid now. You are just insenstive, racist, selfsih, greedy bastards. You should go buy some burgers now and pay double. Do not go in with a CC, either, even if it looks dangerous.
pulled off I-95 in Florence SC to get a bite.
Wife goes inside. I notice we are in a BAAADDD neighborhood. Like, da chillrens on the balcony of the section 8 motel next door screeching at each other. I don't see any white people anywhere around.
She comes out. Said she ordered quarter pounder with cheese meal, hoodrat behind the counter says "what number is that".
I was happy to get out of there alive. Stopped again for real food later.
Went to WalMart today to get a dust mop.
Exited after spending $250 on shit wife wanted.
McD's was across the way (We seldom go to McD's due to the shitty service, fucked up order, cold shit and the sheer lethargy in the shifts we've observed), Wife was 'starving' (we ate lunch three hours before) I normally eat once a day.
Get to the drive through, wife wants 3 hamburgers with extra onions (she thinks this will get her fresh food).
I'm semi-hungry so I order a 1/4 pounder with cheese and a cheeseburger.
Beyound lack of salt and pepper, I don't know what to recommend to McD to overcome the mass of paste in my mouth. It was so bad my dentures misplaced and I inadvertantly bit a slice through my tongue. McD's was a favorite back in the early sixties but we haven't boought one of their burgers for years. I don't know hat they define 'meat' as, nor can I explain a mouthful of paste. Whatever they're producing these days is a far cry from what it was in the 60's. AND what used to cost $5 cost damn near $20.
Order came to $18.92, Gave the girl $23.92, spent an additional fifteen minutes while she counted change twice, before keying it in, refusing her handing me back the three dollars and waiting for her to hand me back a five and a ten. Don't know what was going on in the vehicle ahead of us other than they handed their order back multiple times.
The whole marketing stragegy of the change to "Mickie D's" was the beginning of the downfall. Why appeal to such a low percentage of the target population?
Chase & Wells shared their EBT card growth projections with Mc D's. They fell for it.
McDs 'diversified' themselves out of business. I love the You Tube videos of people being beaten almost to death in those McDs sometimes by the employees themselves but usually it's between the McThug customers.
I don't remember exactly when, but McDs started running ads with 90% dindus in them quite a while back, apparently wanting hood rats as customers....
You dumped your shares in the face of a steadily rising share price and ever increasing dividends. Further proof that the average ZHer should stay far far away from the market.
Are you sucking Janet Yellen's cock?
I looked at one of those chick fil a burgers at a bar and had to ask the guy what it was, he offered it to me and I had to refuse.
Pretty much spot-on assessment there, there actually is more to a fast food joint than the food they serve.
I haven't been to a Wendy's in roughly 8 years. Why? Their food went downhill and the last time I went to one the people behind the counter didn't speak English. Really, I could not communicate with them. The Spanish speaking customers had no problem. Anyway, they fucked up my order and the food was rancid. I call into to Wendy's HQ to complain, but their response was to send me coupons for free food at their "restaurants". I threw them away.
Going back to McDonald's, there's no reason to go there now. Their food sucks, the last time I ate there I felt like I'd been poisoned. Also, their food is not very cheap when you compare it to other places, so why not pay just a little bit more and get something that won't make you sick. Chick-fil-A, In & Out, and the latest entry into the fray that I really like is The Habit (they just went public and eyeing the stock carefully).
Hell, Dairy Queen nearby seems to be always packed, and for good reason. The food is OK, but they have a 5 dollar lunch special everyday that is a good value and their staff is good. Last time I was there a very nice young lady took my order and she did it with a smile on her face. Unbelievable, but then I had to remind myself I wasn't at McDonald's or Wendys.
It's not like I eat at FF joints often, in fact I make most of my food at home, but when I do I tend to take notice what's going on at the place I'm eating at and the quality of the food. It sure helps in your investing, and it helped me make a lot of money on Chipotle. McDonald's really fucked up when they divested themselves of Chipotle, in fact it could end up being the biggest mistake in the history of the company.
They tried tinkering with Chipotle and get them to do stuff they didn't want to rather than just sit back and let the $$. That's what you do with a cash cow, you ring the bell and collect the $$, you DON'T try to feed the cow chocolate and hope it starts giving chocolate milk. Idiots.
I can't agree about the good looking part (im a fat ugly fuck so it doesnt matter to me) but whataburger does produce a good burger all over Texas and in Roswell, NM. They also normally get my order right and don't argue when correcting it.
true, I pay about 8/lb for 90/10 grass fed, free range organic ground beef. No telling what would happen if someone big like Mcds started buying it all up. Although if more and more people started demanding it, the price may come down. People are able to get away with farming like that because most people don't give a shit. If more people cared, those big-agra feed lots would go out of business.
McDs has turned into the "Walmart of FF industry."
Kinda dirty, creepy rough clientele and bad service.
I don't go there anymore.
Always been a mystery wtf McD do with all that beef they buy, because you sure as fuck can't taste it in their burgers.
At least a BK actually tastes of beef.
Centrifuge...it's not just beef.
Didn't you know PP was in the meat biz?
Good Observation!
People of Walmart site. POW
People of McDonalds Site POM
There IS a POW for McDs!!!!
www.mcserved.com
If we keep eating beef and other "meats" at current consumption levels, the planet will be uninhabitable in 60 years.
Grass fed, penned, caged, it does not matter.
http://www.cowspiracy.com/
There, there Dr. Erlich.
Grassland farming is still the best way to produce highly dense calory food with very little inputs, labour, chemicals or fossil fuels. Mankind is here today because some brave soul tried to domesticate a ruminant.
Uhhh, the brave soul you mention....did he have seven billion neighbors? You do.
I suggest you dive deeper into the topic. Agriculture + petro based fertilizer is a kludge that has allowed us to have a larger population than the planet can support sustainably.
Land has a best use, and grassland is better used to pasture raise herds than to rip up for row crops. The water and fertilizer input for the row crops isn't negligible and over time the land is stripped of minerals and salts build up.
the beef mostly comes from dairy cows. they don't live that long, with the corn feed, hormones, and antibiotics.
That's just sad.
Shit, he just listed the kind of okay stuff. They feed cows stale expired candy bars, and even chicken dropings and feathers. Those poor animals need to be rescued by the humane society.
The down vote ratio has set the time frame. Prepare accordingly.
If Mcdonalds started buying grassfed beef, it would become profitable to start a grassfed beef farm and america could have farmers again that are not owned by corporations.
Also in the long run the higher quaility food would come down in price.
The big industrial Farm Corps would loose profits and balance would shift to the little guy again.
Why in heaven's name would you assume that the large agri corporations wouldn't simply buy them up?
Chipolte's shit "ain't no prize either. The chicken is rather fake. Most of the other slop, except veggies, is not that great either.
MCD is pathetic. Seems like ZH has some oldesters who like their coffee and breakfast. Some old people like their breakfasts. It is all crap at MCD.
Duc888,
How far back in time does McD need to go? I don't recall them EVER serving good real food. I do distinctly remember trying to eat my first and last burger from there 44 years ago as a child. It was so bad I cried.
45 years then.
And the service was great.
They're not getting any of my money!
Now, back to canning beef stew and chili for the pockyclypse.
I don't do beef, but I'm stocked up for the porkalips,,,my Spam stash is 4' high...
;-D
I just find that wrong on so many levels...
As a kid in Hawaii in 1960, I had so eat so much Spam that I know have an advertion to the thought even smellingit, let alone eat it. It's the most disgusting pseudofood known to man.
It's not fer eatin', it's fer tradin',,,
;-D
Its child abuse to feed Mcdonalds to your kids.
Last time I got a McDonalds hamburger the meat looked more like it was formed from a poolie not actual ground beef. I am not sure when this changed but it has to be in the last couple years. McDonalds food from 5 years ago is quite different than it is now, maybe that is the problem.
Everybody is focused on McD. Most all of them are the same in quality and effect now. But yes, McD's of today is simply uneatable, McD's of 7 yrs ago was better, but then McD's of 7 yrs ago was many grades lower than the food they served 20 plus yrs ago.
Tried to eat their food once in the last 5 yrs and simply had to throw it away. Before that would stop for a quick breakfast sometimes. And before that would eat there (20 yrs ago or more) for lunch twice a week. Progressive decline. But basicly the same for Burger K, in my opinion.
Pink slime baby. Wonder what garbage filler they use now.
McD's food took a huge turn for the worse in the late 90s/early 2000s, when they completely changed their food cooking procedures. Before, say, 1999, they would cook patties and build burgers continuously based on a daypart demand forecast, and then put them under heat lamps. This worked ok, and ensured that you generally got a freshly cooked burger, especially during high traffic day parts like lunch and dinnertime. But it meant that every day some food had to be discarded because it could only sit so long under the heatlamps.
After 1999, they switched processes. Now they precook the patties in the morning and store them, and microwave them on demand in order to build the sandwich to order. There is nothing nastier than microwaved meat, which of course means that their product quality has sucked balls for almost two decades.
That is disgusting.
My parents owned a couple of hamburger/barbeque places when I was a kid. Almost everything from the kitchen was from scratch except the cheese. Early on, we even had spiral cut french fries from potatoes we washed and peeled. The first hire was a retired butcher. The meat companies brought in sides of beef. All of the meat had to pass the butcher's standards. The barbeque pit was fired using hickory from our land.
My father personally built the first place before the microwave came into common use. There was already a microwave in the kitchen when he bought the second one. It was used only occasionally to thaw ingredients, not for final preparation of an order.
Fresh or forget it.
They also used to use real ground beef with a decent amount of fat content. And what did they use to fry the fries? Was it Lard?
If MCD went back to the way they used to cook, the place would be packed.
Fucking Food Police!
Between that and what the other posters mentioned about the beef itself it is now clearer. Wondered why I had such a clear negative reaction years ago. Attribute it to mgmt decisions that focused on increasing profits with no concern about maintaining long term profits.
As others say they have experienced. It became a choice of going to the "mexican" staffed McD where they were apathetic and I could not communicate. (The mgmt even put up hand written signs at the cash registers says they valued diversity and to not harass the staff) or to the black staffed McD where made it clear they did not like you but were just doing their job by serving you.
Just look at their workers and you should know not to eat there...
McDonald's is a real estate company; GMC is a finance company.
spot on. They make most of the profits from leases and fees from franchisees.
The issue is those franchisees have to stay afloat and make a profit otherwise the whole house of cards comes down.
A typical McD costs 1m - 2m to open, then about 8% of sales ongoing.
Indeed. Making actual products, and serving actual customers, and managing an actual workforce-- can you imagine anything so annoying??
Anywhere in the Bible belt or fairly conservative area - they get destroyed by Chick Fil A. Places like Charlotte and other locales. Chick Fil A destroys MCD. Chick's chicken is not that great either but much better than other chains.
At least it is actually chicken.
Fuck McDonalds and its gmo plastic ! It can die, it's not even food they sell, god only knows what that sheite is.
GMO / MonSatain poison Vs. The Food Babe Army & Critical Thinking. Tic Toc MotherFuckers!!!
Bring back the Hamburgler. It will remind us of the Banksters robbing us.
Mayor McCheese was just a puppet for TPTB.
The problem with Mcdonalds serving real food is that the masses (obama voters) art too stupid to understand the conection with eating healthy and being healthy.
Check your spelling before you start calling people stupid.
One problem with ZH is that the type is so small on the screen, and there is no spell check showing red type-os. I often save the message and cannoy even see my comment.
Besides...methinketh aubiekong meant ...art too stupid. Maybe he is a Shakespearean actor.
Use "ctrl +" to increase font size.
Americans don't give a shit, they will eat anything if it tastes good. McD's and Walmart are in trouble because people are broke, period.
bingobarry, even the bottomless EBT cards are beginning to lose their punch. When the unwashed rise up, the smell is going to be horrendous...
;-D
I never go to Mcdonalds by choice. I had not been in one for years. My teenage granddaughter wanted to go there a few weeks ago. The bill for the two of us was a little over $17.00. There is no combination of food items that they sell that is worth $17.00 to me for 2 people. The food quality is not as good as there competitors sell for less money. Goodby and good riddance to Mcdonalds.
Some father you are. Try teaching your kids some logical thinking, instead of just giving them what ever shit they whine for. Who's in charge here?
I don't understand why people say they hate McNigg, but go there when they need a fast meal. Isn't there a grocery store on every corner? I get a couple of pieces of fruit, and a yogurt or cottage cheese cup for the protein. There's no excuse to eat the chemicals. You are just a lazy imbecile.
Final days? I doubt it. Google Finance shows the company running at a very high profit margin. The margins are about twice as high as Chiptle and Yum! Brands. Yum! Brands is the company running KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell.
Perhaps. But that doesn't help the insolvent Franchisees too much.
Is Mc Donald's the staples of American food culture? I can't believe that americans are rallying against Mc Donalds. America has defined capitalism, mass consumption and eating any thing that moves at an extra ordinary levels. Is n't that weird that in the most advanced country Bio tech Industry is booming? I have no symapathy for americans. The sad part of this is that America exports these ideas to the East. That is what I have issues with. Get back to the basics like food, health, housing and family. The rest will take care of itself. We don't have the basics right but we have Instagrams and FB's Lol. I am not sure what the number is most of the people who work in front of the computers don't need to look like Lebron James. Heck Even Lebron doesn't need to look like lebron. We just can't be happy with our own self eating veggies. We have to kill those animals and we have to kill them faster. Hmm What if animals have the capability to curse humans? When can they take revenge on us? Will americans be in the frontline when that happens? I wish it was just more than apes that could kill humans.
Yeah...um...ok.
...exporting these ideas to the east...
Funny you mention that; I read how obesity is becoming a problem now in China due to FF places. These wafer-thin Asian parents now have chubby rolly-polly children who are addicted to pink slime and Col Sanders "secret recipe."
We don't need to fire a shot to conquer China; just moar FF places at a cheap price.
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQdrM8QqZgIw51-E-9t...
As Obesity Rises, Chinese Kids Are Almost as Fat as Americanshttp://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/05/29/as-obesity-rises-chinese-k...
The key word there is "almost".... Merica's still #1!
Mericans are yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge!
I find it incredulous that there are seven other posters here named Brooklinite who don't know how to spell Brooklyn either....
Some one took the correctly spelled name, So I am stuck with the incorrectly spelled brooklyn. Thank you for trolling and wasting my time to respond for your unproductive ignorant query.
Some one took the correctly spelled name, So I am stuck with the incorrectly spelled brooklyn. Thank you for trolling and wasting my time to respond for your unproductive ignorant query.
"I wish it was just more than apes that could kill humans."
You do realize that was just a movie, right?
Sometimes it's hard to tell between morons and satirists.
When I pass a mcdonalds and see somebody eating there I think "idiot". If I see kids being fed mcdonalds by their parent I think "poor kid"...
Wait, what? They MUST be a great company because the stock is at an all time high.
I haven't eaten that shit for more than 10 years.
They need to diversify their workforce maybe....it seems like an over representation of kneegrows and illegal aliens working there.
I thought Diversity was supposed to make things better? The SEVEN JEWS who control 95% of the US media keep telling us so.....
this is because the DJIA and housing are at all time fucking higs so people think the economy has recovered, and now feel like they dont need to save money on food. just wait for the system to go bust again and mother fuckers will be lining up for mcdonalds $1 menu like it cool
This is what happens when you serve two all pink slimes, reinforced with wood chips, cheese, lettuce, pickle, all on a sesame, cellulose bun...would you like fries with that? Perhaps a cellulose shake...?
I joined ZeroHedge 5 years ago. I stopped going to McDonald 5 years ago. It's not just about Gold here.
Your money or your life sounds better to me, cause it all evens out in the end.
When I am traveling abroad I sometimes go to a McDonald store to get a free WI-fi signal, nothing to eat!
They just need to lobby FedGov to allow them to accept EBT/SNAP because...food deserts.
they do in my area
french fries, yum
Hate away but I actually like their food and eat there 3-4 times a week by choice. And I'm healthy.
So said the fat lady...
Besides their product is not food, their employees are fat and thug like. Their first move should be to only hire employees that you see that are no more than 10lbs overweight. The should also ensure you cant see into the kitchen area when you order their product because the people who are handling your food dont very often look like they would care if they washed their hands or not and their kitchens dont look clean. Look at chik Fil A and you will see skinny little white kids working the counter with an occasion black "white-black" thrown in for diversity. And their kitchen is closed off from view...
McDonald's has been a dying brand for 5 years. They just have an incredible war chest to struggle against the inevitable. The only problem for McD's is America has woken up to the American Dream nightmare and is slowly but inexorably moving towards a world with McD's in it.
War chest? According to Yahoo! Fianance, they have 4 billion in cash and 18 billion in debt.
If they're liquid, they're alive.
The food or the business?
maybe it's time for them to merge with k-mart, and sears.
How shitty is it when the Fed is able to run McDonald's into the ground? What a bunch of ultramaroons.
if 30% are insolvent, shouldnt they be closing around 5 thousand stores instead of 700? Unfortunately, in my city, I see lines of cars a half block long at mcdonalds...I just dont understand. I live in oregon capitol so mostly government jobs or contractors who work for government contracts, or services to make the government employees happy... I was driving thru town about mid morning, and I saw maybe 15 teenangers waiting outside the tattoo parlor..Their parents are working the government jobs, and their kids are getting tattoos...then they all go home and the parents watch CNN and the kids play video games or facebook...I have to share this: I had a close loved one, 17 year old beautiful girl kill heself. I went thru her computer and there is actually a website helping and pushing to learn how to commit suicide...I cant remember the name of the website...Why doesnt the government close that website down?
I went totally off topic...sorry
How about the gov't stop creating the incentive to not wanting to be alive due to all the sociopaths running the place? How about the gov't stop forcing kids to be tortured and traumatized at 'school' and turned into broken neurotic fuck-ups who can't make heads or tails out of anything (but are SUPER easy to manipulate through advertising and TV programming).
I personally think that part of what makes our world so awful is that our elites not only make it so unlivable (THE FUCKING PRESSURE!), and yet at the same time we are programmed with all this BS according to which it is a huge crime to commit suicide if you are vastly unhappy.
Only an uncaring person would want unhappy people to continue to live deeply unhappy lives. I wish there were easier ways out for unhappy people (if indeed the elites are aiming for 90% population reduction), and I certainly wish we didn't live in an evil, perverse, depressing satanic society - since there actually are ways to truly heal and be happy, but no gov't 'doctor' is proving them, of course.
The fact remains: a satanic society will cause a lot of suffering in everything and everyone around. ON PURPOSE.
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But that being said, what motivated your friend to bring a life into such a world? Is she really surprised that her daughter would rather die than continue to suffer with us as we travel ever deeper into man-made hell?
you and I could be very good friends Chris...my friend was my wife
Thanks buddy - I bet we could be good friends too. It is very hard to find good truthers in real life, so it seems like most of my connections are online in forums like these.
In any case, I am honestly sorry for your loss. So much wasted potential, but at least she is at peace now :)
I saw maybe 15 teenangers waiting outside the tattoo parlor..Their parents are working the government jobs, and their kids are getting tattoos...then they all go home and the parents watch CNN and the kids play video games or facebook.
Oregon capitol is also home to a lot of inmate families who like to stay close to the prisoned family member.
A person would be better off eating natural cow pies from the field from a health stand point.
That toxic chemical "shit" they call food is bad fucking news!
McShit
McDonalds . . . . the Walmart of the fast food industry.
Nothing last forever, except maybe those burger patties.
What is their half life?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDXya2rcuSU
First of all, McD is poison and should just vanish.
Second, I would never want to own a business selling dollar items. The profit just isn't there.
It's been 2 years since I last went to McDonalds, and the last time I went, it was also very long ago and I hated that food. No taste and you feel it isn't real food.
It won't be a bad thing when McDonalds goes the quick way.
Yeah, quick like a camper without a knap sack.
The last time I stopped at McDonalds was when traveling to use the restroom, I ordered an ice tea (wont eat their crap, but I thought a tea would be safe) they had the door open to the soft serve ice cream machine and you could see inside the machine with the hoses and inner workings of the unit and it was disgusting, looked like mold, dust, spilled mix, like it was never ever cleaned. They should have been shut down by the health department immediately. I threw away my tea as I left and I have never been back.
I ate McDevil once upon a time, it was 6 years ago, after the food I felt nauseous, I thought it was just me, on another try a few weeks later, the same thing happened. I never touched that crap again, and this was one of the new shops in our place, they had just opened in the country. Soon after that I started learning about foods, GMOs and all this shit that the USSA terrorists like to send around the world to kill off their people. USSA-Exporting death as usual.
Since then, I have learnt to cook better, as I now pick and prepare my own food, I feel healthier. I never go to restaurants or get take out, If I cannot make it, I don't eat it.
Eat at McDonalds - you get the McGurgles!
I ate three Big Macs with extra secret sauce yesterday. Today I am blind in one eye.
only one eye?
He only has one eye.
I hear the secret sauce is made with propolene glycol. After eating that much he should pee into his car radiator. Shame to waste all the anti freeze.
Even when I didn't care about my health, I knew that Taco Bell had tacos for $0.60, whereas McDonalds cheapest item (the reprehensible Quarter Pounder) was closer to $3. The Quarter Pounder was vile, whereas the Taco Bell taco was good enough to keep me fed through college back in the '90s.
All that to say, even when I ate junk food, I couldn't figure out how McDonalds stayed in business. They charged a lot for nasty food and plowed all the money back into marketing. It's not a recipe for long term success.
It seems to be my lot in life to have these realizations about 20 years before everyone else in the world. I scratch my head trying to figure out everyone's complete obliviousness for 20 years. Then suddenly, it's like the 100th monkey syndrome sets in.
A McD's ho gets sent home for being rude, decides to attack the ho customer she was rude to and then gets pepper sprayed. The ensuing chimp dance is hilarious!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIohXGcURXk
Oh, Liberia!
remember as a teen being taken to McD for an occasional "treat" in the mid 90s....Fast Food Nation & other books i guess opened up a lot of people's eyes as to the horror show going on behind the Happy Meal facade.
McDonald's food-as-poison aside for a moment, let us consider something for the current, and quite possible, immediate future:
"...that have been implemented recently to slow the bleeding of younger customers as they choose healthier, more local options en masse."
And what of the prices for those 'healthier, more local options', anyone...?
The point being, the younger set has disposable income, government handouts, and a healthy dose of consumerism vs. 'save today, spend later' mentality - i.e., for the time being, many of these kids can $afford to eat at the trendy 'healthier' establishments.
What happens when these younger customers can no longer afford a $10 burger...?
You got it.
McDs is about the lowest priced of the large chains. Many people commenting here point to "better" food at other stores, but they neglect to mention that they are all much more expensive.
Sort of like people saying how great a Tesla is and comparing them to other cars. But they never compare them to other $100k+ cars.
McD does a great job for their market niche.
The only thing I eat from McD is a couple of their breakfast items. Still "real" food.
All depends on what you purchase. Not big on fast food here...mostly gave it up after my early 20s.
Locally owned burger shop: freshly made real beef burger w/grilled onion and all the fixings $5.35 w/tax
Chipotle: 2 tacos will cost you about $5. They pre-sell it as 3 tacos, but you can just order 1 or 2
Chic-fil-a: actual chicken chunks...just get the nuggets or strips; don't need fries and I'm fine with water $5ish
Local mediterranean place: lunch plate special, chicken schwarma or shish tawook (marinated grilled chicken) with rice pilaf and a nice salad dressed with a garlicy oil and vinegar and free pita $8, so a little more, but I can make two meals off of this
Pho: Vietnamese noodle soup, most places a big bowl is around $7ish...I can't finish it. Add hoisin, sriacha, thai basil, cilantro, black pepper...yum.
Chinese takeout: lunch specials all over, just have to find a place you like, usually $6 - $7
Taqueria: have to find a good one and figure out what you like, but easy to get fed plenty of real food for a good price...may need to use google translate if you don't know the lingo and want to avoid things like tripe.
Mostly we cook and eat at home, but if you try at all and go for lunch it isn't hard to find a much better value than McD's.
I think McD has priced themselves out of the market. Their food used to be cheap but it is not any longer. When you compare what you are getting to what you are paying at McD the equation doesn't work out IMHO.
Sure these other places cost a bit more. But the food is a LOT better. People can make the judgment, and they do.
Also, McD screwed themselves with foam-rubber buns and over-preserved food that simply isn't tasty. They deserve what is happening to them, any one could read the tea leaves and see that the current consumer wants less of that, not more. And they certainly aren't going to pay "good food" prices for crap.
The 'younger set' need to realise that you can eat well, with a little effort, for less than eating crap fast food.
It's the 'effort' bit they seem to have a problem with, but then all the TV selling convenience over sense has taken its toll on most.
It seems that most humans will give away anything and everything, so long as it's 'convenient'.
I'll admit that I spent about 11 minutes there this year.
My heart feels like it's going to explode after a 1/4 pounder and fries so I stopped eating there a long time ago as well. What the food lacks for in quality McDonald's makes up for it in sodium and greese.
I remember going there as a kid not too long after they started up. What a treat and their food was good.
Demographic trends do not look good for companies who market their goods to families with children.
Amen to that.
All them taco trucks are very hard to compete with. No property fees. As a family operation wage laws can be avoided for the most part. No AC bills. Lets not forget the trucks are mobile and go to wherever the people are.
I would guess them trucks are going to wipe out the fast food industry as its known today.
In and Out burgers is packed because they get this serve real food thats get this, Good. Ill take a double double cheese with grilled onions, fries and a real shake. Oh and they have workers that care about the food they serve. One more thing at In and out. They will not serve anything that hit the floor. Quality you can taste is their motto and they are not joking about it either. They always get the order right too. Honest I dont remember them ever messing up my order in thirty + years.
They are so good they actually sell T shirts.
That said. Going for the EBT crowd was a big blunder on micky Ds part. Who wants to dine with hood rats?
Probably because they actually pay reasonably well, much better than other fast food.
You betcha, Stick with them and they will put you in your own new store. They do take care of hard workers well.
I predicted the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of McDonalds Corp. more than a year ago. If McDonalds Corp. is ready to hire an appropriate Chief Executive Officer due to the fact that they don't have a clue what they are doing, I would gladly take the job for one dollar more than the present CEO is getting. Clearly, the present imbecile leadership does not know how to mothball the corporation, or how to sell off all the useless franchises. McDonalds is finished just like the United States of America, but they are collectively clinging to 'hope & change' which is not where America is going down the road of bankruptcy & ruin.
Take a page from Lehman Bros, CAT, and Baltic Dry Index, as well as BurgerSerf, BuckO.
McDonalds is as "American" as Chevrolet, Chase, Citi and AIG so, no worries Micky-D, I'm sure Big Brother will make sure you stick around to enhance their eugenics policies. Hell, maybe Yellen will even spin a bailout their way too! GMO fucktards!
They jumped the shark with the all day breakfast. The problem with corporate America right now is that it is not enough for them to be the best in there particular field of expertice, because of greed they will continue to want the whole pie instead of being happy with a profitable slice. Dunkin D is headed down the same path.
I'm a big fan of 'all day breakfast' spots but I usually go with the mom & pop kind.
Can't beat a full-on English breakfast to set you up for a day of biking and/or hiking.
Fat's OK so long as you burn ALL of it.
Fun fact - even at current wage levels, the average Mickie D's employee annually earns more than 1.5 times the per capita GDP of Russia. With the $15 minimum, it will be an even 2X.
And that's a GDP comparison - if compare actual income, the average McD employee earns about 4 times the annual income in Russia.
Congratualtions Mr. Pooty Poot - you have your people up to earning a quarter of what the average American burger-flipping serf earns. You must be so proud!!
Fun fact, $15 wage is just another form of entitlement that will put many viable companies out of business.
Revaluation and the backing of the Ruble with gold will reverse that ratio, at least.
Laugh while you can, the barbarians are approaching the gates, and they stand wide open, unmanned.
It will be interesting to see bus ridership numbers after fast food joints ditch humans for kiosks and more food assembly automation. Shuttling those skillless humans from the inner city to the county to work will be over.
The burger in their hamburgers is a horrible combination of pink slim taken off of animal carcuses after all decent meat is cut away. The bones with connective tissue and the like are spray washed with high power water jets in front of a screen designed to capture everything coming off of the bones. This pink slime has been around for days sitting in bone piles and is so loaded with bacteria that a soak in chemicals and bleech is needed, then the slime is soaked in clean water to leech away the chemical bath. The slime is then added to the trimmings from the meat conveyer where all decent cuts are removed and trimmed, the boxes of cut away fat, gristle and such is frozen into huge blocks to be sent to the hamburger maker machines. They mix pink slime and trimmings to form patties of so called hamburger product. This is then given a chemical formula that simulates meat taste.
Enjoy! Mmmmm good!
STOP IT
It's called 'mechanically recovered meat'
Sounds appetizing to me! ;-)
Sounds delicious !
Wow! What will they think of next in this Hi-Tek world of wonders we live in??
The last time I had a fast food burger, my cat would not touch a piece of the meat. Stupid me, I coaxed him to try it and he barfed immediately. This was a healthy, young animal that could not hold down a tiny bite of so-called beef. I knew something was wrong and have never eaten that again.
Years later I learned about pink slime, and how the ingredients are so spoiled and smell so foul, they have to sterilize it in ammonia. After rinsing, the trace amounts of ammonia and stink aren't detectable by humans. However, it is noticeable to cats, and they have the sense to know food isn't supposed to smell that way.
Anyone can argue that the food is pure poison (as noted above), but we surely all will agree that it is the friendly faces and caring personalities behind the counter that keep us coming back. Amirite?
I present to you Bon Qui Qui at King Burger....
https://youtu.be/N8by8vccaDg
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay. My, oh my, what a wonderful day. Plenty of sunshine headin' my way. Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bWyhj7siEY
I also like the Big Mac index
http://www.economist.com/content/big-mac-index/
July 2015
Mc Shittles needs to build loading docks with ramps in front of all their stores so their clientele can [off load] their fat bloated Hoveround carcasses into the troughordering area.
Sales are slumping because the cattle can't reach the feeding area.