Posted on 04/22/2015 7:33:17 PM PDT by Hugin
For instance, earlier in April the company announced it is testing out a larger, pricier, third-of-a-pound burger for $5, two years after dropping the similar Angus burger line because they were too pricey for McDonald’s diners. Despite that earlier failure, new CEO Steve Easterbrook expressed confidence his customers would go for premium burgers.
“I often describe McDonald’s as possibly the most democratic -- with a small ‘d’ -- brand in the world,” he said. “And what customers love the world over, and none more so than here in the U.S., is how they can buy into aspirational quality products, but at a McDonald’s price.”
But he faces an uphill battle in winning over the millions of burger-eaters in the U.S. that have a dim view of McDonald’s offerings: Nation’s Restaurant News published a survey this month rating 111 limited-service chains on 10 attributes including food quality, and McDonald’s was ranked No. 110, ahead only of Chuck E. Cheese. In-N-Out Burger topped the list.
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I found a local restaurant near where I work. I usually get bread, butter, crackers, chicken dumpling soup, a salad, 2 giant walleye fillets (real walleye not Pollock), carrots and broccoli with snow peas, my choice of "potatoe" (in this case spaghetti with meat sauce is my preferred choice), and a desert (usually I choose strawberry shortcake or warm rice pudding with cream), and I get all of that for $10.50.
It takes less time than at a fast food place, no time to wait if I call ahead to take it to go.
The employees at my local aren't jerks.
So at my local restaurant I get 5 times the quality of food and far more of it for much less cost in less time from people who don't aggravate me.
There is just no reason to buy fast food.
Somewhere around '98 I noticed a change in fried foods from McD. It all tasted to me like there was some sort of cleaning solvent in the grease. Over the next few years, one by one, chain by chain, ALL the fast food places started using that same cleaning solvent flavored grease.
I think they should go all the way back to frying in lard. If youre eating things that aren't good for you then they should at least taste good.
Hmmm....30 years ago or so I heard that only one or two had ever closed. Now it’s 100+ in a year?
I used to stop at a McD’s in a crummy neighborhood in Baltimore. The furniture was all attached to the floor. There were no “paintings” on the walls. The only “free” condiments were salt and pepper. I think even the napkins were given out by the clerk. Of course, in nice neighborhoods, there are movable chairs, and the salt, pepper, ketchup, and sometimes other condiments are free for the taking or pumping.
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They used to fry them in beef tallow. Then they switched to vegetable shortening.
Now that the government has said “never mind” to all their crap about animal fat, maybe McD’s will go back to beef tallow—in forty years.
Sombody should take the time travel sequence from “The Time Machine” (1960, Rod Taylor), and put an unchanging McD’s cheeseburger in the foreground.
Drinks are not a loss leader the burgers are. Drinks cost McDs 8 cents for a drink and charge 79 cents.
Fatburger for me.
Wendy’s is always the best for burgers.
I have found that the local eats do a much better job.
I agree. When I lived in So Cal everybody said you gotta try InO. The fries were burnt almost beyond recogniton, The burgers were average at best and I went to several different ones thinking maybe I went to a bad one....they were ALL bad.
Their “food” is actually awful and it is not at all cheap.
> LOL
You’re either brilliant or retarded.
Either way, great post!
My wife would go with retarded but I often make points by being a little sarcastic...lol
> Time to bring back the hamburglar.
They should make him black to be PC. He’s always been white years past...: )
> Damn it. I have a ton of stock in McDonalds. I blame Mrs. Obama for this negativity that McDonald’s gets. And when I see FREEPERS applauding this it really pisses me off. (Not that you were...just generalizing).
Maybe if they really marketed to their base and renamed the place, GhettoBurger, things would turn around.../s
it’s all about purity and self esteem
not eating at Mc Donalds is perceived as a badge of honor and purity of some esoteric principle
> not eating at Mc Donalds is perceived as a badge of honor and purity of some esoteric principle
That is an excellent point and very true. People don’t eat there because they know that eating fast food is a faster track to the grave and they are the standard for what people refer to as fast food...
They used to fry them in beef tallow. In the 90s they switched to vegetable oils with chemical additives.
“The best places are the mom and pop shops. “
In Kermit Texas they have a place called the Kermit Drive Inn, or used to it’s been a while. Back when I was chasing oil all over West Texas it was the place to go if you were working in the area. The bun was 10 inches across and meat edge to edge, they’d make it anyway ya liked it. Served it with about a half pound of french fries and a large soda of your choice. Finish that sucker off and you went looking for a shady tree to park under and take a nap.
That market niche has pretty much been left empty, it's crying our for someone to fill it.
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