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Posted on 10/15/2015 9:48:12 AM PDT by C19fan
McDonald's franchisees say the company's all-day breakfast launch has been a nightmare. The new menu is slowing down service, reducing average ticket costs, and causing chaos in the kitchens, franchisees told Nomura analyst Mark Kalinowski in a new survey.
"In small stores, the problems are vast with people falling over each other and equipment jammed in everywhere," one franchisee wrote in response to the survey.
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Just remind them that the robots did it just fine in the trial runs...
I am more of a Wendy’s person.
Having served time in big difference is that JITB does very little staging, no pre-cooked sausages and stuff like that. So for them the breakfast and lunch menus are really the same processes on the same equipment with different ingredients. With all the pre-staging McD does to maximize speed breakfast and lunch run two completely different processes with completely different equipment. And even the shared equipment goes through changes, grill temperatures for sausage and burgers are different.
Sounds like a nightmare.
Same here. I had sausage and egg mcmuff. If not available I would have not stopped.
I miss that guy
you know what is killer is a big mack made with a sausage patty instead of one of the beef pattys
They don’t serve the entire breakfast menu. At least not the stores I went to.
They even had test markets for it
LOL
On my way to an appt and wanted a quick bite. Hit McDonalds and was delighted to see 24 hour breakfast. At 1pm it was great. Hope it stays.
I can eat anywhere but when I get anything from McDonalds I get an upset stomach.
The wage pressure is killing MCD and WMT. Add that to the fact that the consumer is out of cash, and there you are - the sucking sound at the bottom of the tank.
MCD and WMT are the two best operationally excellent companies in the world. Strip out the expense, deliver an adequate product for money, and watch your margins like a hawk.
When THESE types of companies begin to falter, then you are looking into the abyss on a broader economic scale.
They say Obama’s a failure. I doubt he sees himself that way. If this is what he set out to do, and it looks like he did, then by those standards he’ll be looked at as one of the most effective presidents in US history.
I’m not kidding.
I adore the sausage biscuit.
I haven’t had a hamburger or their dreadful fries in years.
I remember when the fries were the best thing ever.Gone!
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Funny that late 20th and early 21st century Americans worry about food killing them rather than lack of food killing them.
McD’s isn’t faltering from wage pressure, they’re faltering from quality pressure. American eat better food now, even in the quick service section of the world. And they just can’t compete with places like Sauce or 5 Guys or Freddies or Rubios. They used to be near the top in quality among the quick service, now they’re at the bottom without having actually changed their own products. And every time they try to fix the menu they come up with new items that aren’t actually better. They need to etch-a-sketch the operation, blow up the whole menu and all the operating methods, borrow the Dominoes “we realized we kind of suck” ad campaign. They failed to evolve in a changing market, analysts have been seeing this coming for them for 20 years, the rise of Subway was the handwriting on the wall.
Thanks for the details — I missed the pre-staging impact as the difference in their operations.
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