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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What I have heard is that larger footprint stores have the capacity to serve all day limited breakfast item. In fact, depending on store size, the all day breakfast menu can vary. What a disaster.
Part of my job is to follow McDonald's to monitor food industry risk. McDonald's management is clueless on how to fix its issues. Increasing ground beef costs are driving consumer to gourmet burgers, management is clueless. Specialty resturantes are bitting at McD's "All things to all people strategy". Their social media and APP efforts are dismal and slow.
None of the BKs in this area have breakfast after 10:30 but all the MCDs do.
I get breakfast at JITB at 10PM all the time. No complaints. Where do you people live with all these gripes? What kind of demographics work in the restaurants?
“Our local McD’s has police cars with flashing lights in the parking lot an awful lot.”
Like I was saying, it’s all in the demographics.
We've already had to wait for food at our McDonald's, even though it wasn't special order. We have two McDonald's here. One they tore down and rebuilt last year. This year they're doing the other one. Don't know when it will be back in service. They haven't even started building the frame yet, and winter will be setting in here soon.
I haven't been able to have any McDonald's or any burgers since the end of August because of gall bladder attacks. They've cancelled my surgery twice, and I have no idea if or when it will be done. In the meantime, I have to stick to a low fat/no fat diet, so that means no breakfast out, and no beef at all.
It seems that when these companies decide to do something different like McDonald's has done, they don't prepare the site to handle the change. I realize they want to do more without having to put in any extra money or equipment, or make additions to the building, but they can't expect things to work out well without it. They look at quantity, and say the hell with quality.
I remember back when AOL went from charging you per hour/minute, to unlimited. They had an influx of new customers, but never bothered to add any additional lines to connect to. It was a nightmare trying to connect. That was back with modems too, and it took forever to get online, then you'd get kicked off regularly too. It was crazy.
Around here (Maine) an Egg McMuffin is $3.29 plus fast food tax of 7.5% or thereabouts.
However, I have coupons where I can buy one Egg McMuffin and get one free.
Geez, I could have told them that the prep area of a typical McDonalds franchise simply isn’t big enough to simultaneously juggle breakfast-food and burger orders.
Yeah, we got the coupons also.
Regarding the prices, getting the McMuffin in a meal is a much better deal. Here it comes to around $4.32 including tax.
“And they just can’t compete with places like Sauce or 5 Guys or Freddies or Rubios”
All those places undoubtedly would be over my $5 total meal cost limit so no deal.
When I was a Mac and Don’s Supper Club employee I could triple the revenue at lunch in the same time that I could make a turn of EggMacs.
Didn’t McD also buy Chipotle or a large chunk of it?
“So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.”
“That is so corny.” - Abraham Washington, 1492
Duh! Two egg mcmuffins for $3.65 around here.
It’s hard to eat at McD’s for under $5 anymore. And if you spend $2 more at one of the other places you’ll eat a lot better.
Yeah the breakfast food cooks slow. And you can’t layer it, getting the next set of muffins in the toaster while the eggs are going doesn’t help. Breakfast just sucks.
2 burgers in the past What a Burger and Hardee were the favored here. McD’s never cared to eat there. Terrible food IMHO Fries were the only outstanding menu item but they fell prey when changes were made. Forget eating there. Just stop and play on their playground equipment.
McDonalds’ regular sized patties are the same 1/10 of a pound as they have been for over 40 years. They actually recently increased the sized of the Quarter Pounder patty - it now starts out a little more than 1/4 of a pound, but because of the fat content, it cooks down to about 3 ounces.
With that in mind, no, the Big Mac has not shrunk over the years. It uses the same two 1/10 pound patties. It does LOOK smaller in comparison to many other burgers on the market today, but in reality, it hasn’t changed at all.
I'll detail later a proposal to drastically simplify McDonald's menu that could save them billions of dollars and make them profitable again.
Breakfast sausage biscuits are the only McD’s food I can stand. The smell of their fries makes me want to puke.
I believe you are correct. McDonalds decided to go “downmarket” and cater to mostly a lower class hoodlum crowd.
My cash strapped kids wouldn’t be caught dead in one. They prefer Chipotle, 5 Guys, etc., as they are more upscale and feature clientele with smartphones and tablets as opposed to hoodie shirts and “I Hate the World” scowls.
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