My daughter last week.
HA!
Posted on 06/09/2016 9:45:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When many lower-income Americans feel isolated and empty, they yearn for physical social networks. All across US, this happens organically at McDonald’s
On the morning of their wedding, Omar and Betty shared a breakfast of egg McMuffins at a small McDonald’s table, dressed in their finest clothes. Before driving to a Houston courthouse to be married, they walked into the attached child’s play area and joked about one day bringing their kids there.
Few understand celebrating at a McDonald’s, but for Omar and Betty it made sense. They don’t have a lot of money, and McDonald’s is part of their life. It is that way in many poor and middle-income neighborhoods, where McDonald’s have become de-facto community centers and reflections of the surrounding neighborhood.
When many lower-income Americans are feeling isolated by the deadening uniformity of things, by the emptiness of many jobs, by the media, they still yearn for physical social networks. They are not doing this by going to government-run community service centers. They are not always doing this by utilizing the endless array of well-intentioned not-for-profit outreach programs. They are doing this on their own, organically across the country, in McDonald’s....
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LOL! God help us all, if it’s McDonald’s that is the glue holding us together...
That’s not glue, that’s Mac sauce.
In the UK the “Pub,” in Germany the “Gasthaus.”
Why not mickeys?
I can relate. I like the local McD
The announcement of the arrival of a McDonald’s to a small town is seen as a sign the town is beginning to grow and prosper. Cityfolk just don’t get things like this.
... well, as various parts of the city gentrify and become economically viable they get a Starbucks or two. It is a marker, on a path.
Hate the food, love the coffee. Everyone knows that McDonald’s Coffee is the hottest and most flavorful - except the folks paying 3x more for Starbucks’ over roasted shellac.
They have Free WiFi at McDonalds.
That must have done the trick.
All I care about is Monday is Big Mac Monday, only $2.19 each. One of the thrills of my boring Life. LOL
When I’m traveling and want a drink or coffee it’s always the McDonalds drive thru I hit. They have great coffee.
I always order a Senior Coffee at McDonalds, $.79 cents.
Same price as their Senior Soft Drink.
Screw Starbucks. Only time I go there is when somebody gives me a Gift Card.
I was in a McDonald’s today. Hadn’t been for a long while but I needed something quick. I was amazed how McNasty all the cold food they served me tasted. It was garbage that was slopped together. How hard is it to stack a burger without half the patty sticking out the side and then stuck to half the bun? I ate half the burger and about one or two of the horrid fries then threw it all away. Yuch!
Mickey Ds sucks balls and I don’t know why I didn’t remember that. People who eat their a lot must have iron clad stomachs and no taste buds on their tongues.
A world of infinite wealth would therefore be nothing but Starbucks, one after another after another.
HA!
No, not too many.
But it it is a fact that property values increase if one has a Starbucks on the corner or a Whole Foods in the neighborhood.
It only reflects the values of buyers of real estate.
Mmmmmmmmm.
Meat glue.
:)
If you think about it, in many places across the States, the communities are so far-spread that there are very few community places to meet and see one's fellow citizens.
Nice of McDonald's
I was puzzling over the economic viability of “super-size me” — can anyone explain it to me? How does McDonald’s earn more by super-sizing?
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