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McDonald’s CEO outlines changes as sales slide
Associated Press ^
| Oct 21, 2014 6:11 PM EDT
| Candice Choi
Posted on 10/21/2014 6:55:17 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
They have overpriced themselves now. Used to be the best deal in town for the poor.
To: VeniVidiVici
Their problems began when they started kowtowing to the liberal mantra that fast food sucks and isnt healthy. They took away everything that made their food taste good and substituted healthy alternatives.
I shall make this admission in the anonymity of the interwebs. I haven't eaten a burger at McDonald's since the late '80s. But, once in a blue moon when I have to travel for work, I'd always pass the same McDonald's. I would crave some McNuggets, so I would get some of those and a coffee and eat them while driving down the looooong dull drive down the highway. It became a ritual once or twice a year.
But a few years back the taste changed and I no longer care to stop. They are bland and boring. I'm sure they are healthier, but keep 'em. If I'm going to stop for junk food, it had better taste good.
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posted on
10/21/2014 7:13:22 PM PDT
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: Olog-hai
They could start by cooking the hamburgers to order instead of reheating in a nuker!
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posted on
10/21/2014 7:13:53 PM PDT
by
Wilum
(Never loaded a nuke I didn't like)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
I hate onions. When ever I ordered no onions from MCcrap years ago I usually got extra onions. I have worked with people that had worked at mccrap in high school and they said that special orders usually got some spit where they worked. I have not ordered from mcdonalds for over 30 years. I refuse. FUMD!!!!!
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posted on
10/21/2014 7:15:30 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(Take a look at my FR home page for Colorado outdoor photos!)
To: Olog-hai
I don't eat out much at all now, but if I'm going to have fast food, it's Chick-Fil-A. Reasonably good food for a fast food joint plus kind and friendly employees.
To: LostInBayport
not just the nuggets - the burgers changed so much they’re like cardboard now. Ingredients went to hell at the same time they started offering the “healthier” options. Now it’s all crap.
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posted on
10/21/2014 7:16:18 PM PDT
by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
To: Olog-hai
“The program is currently being offered in Southern California”
Does this mean McDonalds is going to start serving tacos?
To: VeniVidiVici
“McDonalds is so stupid. Their problems began when they started kowtowing to the liberal mantra that fast food sucks and isnt healthy.”
Remember when McD’s used to advertise how juicy their burgers were?
Today, it’s barely edible cardboard.
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posted on
10/21/2014 7:16:50 PM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
To: Olog-hai
is it just me, but the burgers they sell look much smaller than I remember it
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posted on
10/21/2014 7:17:12 PM PDT
by
4rcane
To: Olog-hai
McDonalds is losing share to chains like “5Guys” and “In-N-Out”. Both of those chains use higher quality hamburger patties, and better toppings. Why would I buy a hamburger from McDonalds when I could get a better burger from somewhere else?
I can order online from 5Guys, set the time for pickup, walk in, pick up burger, walk out. No bleeping brainer.
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posted on
10/21/2014 7:18:11 PM PDT
by
Tailback
To: bonfire
All my burps taste the same no matter what I’ve eaten. I suspect it’s dill.
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posted on
10/21/2014 7:19:50 PM PDT
by
Oratam
To: Olog-hai
they gonna make better food?
mcd’s is dead to me.
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posted on
10/21/2014 7:19:55 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Olog-hai
I'll tell you the whole problem with McD's sales, too much crappuccino added to the menu since Ray died! Used to be a nice tight menu, easy to fix fast and efficiently, but they got sucked into the 99 cent wars, turned their backs on the concept and never looked back. The Corp. doesn't care, they force the Operators to buy more and more equipment from approved vendors, teardown and rebuild into those hideous boxes and then suck their cut off the top, regardless of profit.
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posted on
10/21/2014 7:22:40 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Olog-hai
I can’t stand Cr’Apple Bees but, found myself eating at one last near the border.
Touch screen ordering and I got exactly what I wanted.
No freakin dressing or cheese or damned croutons on my salad
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posted on
10/21/2014 7:23:46 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: MtnClimber
“I hate onions.”
I embrace you as my brother. ;)
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posted on
10/21/2014 7:23:54 PM PDT
by
Norm Lenhart
("Refusing to vote against unprincipled people made Obama President. " - agere_contra)
To: Olog-hai
McDonalds is in big trouble. Their brand is becoming associated with lower class, unsophisticated people. Their mass-produced "food product" is disgusting to the palates of most Americans, palates which are far more developed than they were back in the 1960s and 1970s - a time when our diets were so bland that tacos were considered exotic "ethnic food."
The upscale fast food joints like Chipotles and Panera Bread are eating McDonalds' lunch - literally.
Used to be a time when you saw clean-cut families sitting at McDonalds restaurants. Businessmen in suits and ties as well. Now the restaurants are full of shabbily dressed slobs who smell and don't speak English very well.
The restaurants themselves are mostly pigsties. Ray Kroc would have a heart attack if he walked into any one of the stores today. The bathrooms are nasty. The parking lots are full of rubbish. The floors and tables inside are slimy as they are wiped down with filthy mops and dirty dishrags.
Not sure if this ship can be turned around. McDonalds has 35,000 restaurants out there so they are going to be around for a while. But they are definitely in decline.
To: OKSooner
Sell something other than McDonalds food? You could always go to Jack in the _______ and buy kibbles and mystery meat tacos. : )
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posted on
10/21/2014 7:24:55 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: VeniVidiVici
McDs needs to tell the liberals to FU-off. Start a Classic menu that reintroduces food as it was made in the past to include fries cooked in beef tallow. Right on, right on.
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posted on
10/21/2014 7:25:58 PM PDT
by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
To: Tijeras_Slim
I miss real Mexican food! I once drove 400 moles to get a green chile cheeseburger from the Owl Bar in San Antonio, and I still dream of the Coyote Moon Cafe in Socorro.
I would never get Chipotle in Albuquerque, but, for the rest of us, real Mexican is hard to find. Chipotle has decent mexican fast food and at least their hot salsa has a little bite. once had Mexican in Minnesota and they served cajun hot sauce—almost spit it on the table!
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posted on
10/21/2014 7:27:35 PM PDT
by
antidisestablishment
(When the passion of your convictions surpass those of your leader, it's past time for a change.)
To: VeniVidiVici
bringing back the old fries would be HUGE
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posted on
10/21/2014 7:27:55 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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