I think all so called fast food companies are in trouble.
This is because there are much better options that were not around when places like McDs were at their height.
The other issue is that most people have realized the food at these type of restaurants is just not good for you. There are better options for about the same amount of money.
There is a place right down the street from my office that actually took over what was a drive through McDonalds. It is called Pressed Cafe. The quality of their food is great. They have a huge menu of sandwiches, smoothies, burritos, wraps and other more healthy choices. They are doing great.
Right across the street is Chick Fillet. Ever since they opened a few years ago they have been mobbed. At lunch there is a line two cars wide wrapped around the building. Yet, the line moves incredibly fast. That is because their restaurants are better managed and their food is better quality.
There is a Burger King down the street that will also be going out of business soon. Whenever I pass it, there are almost no cars in the drive through. That is a huge change from the 1980s and 90s when it would always be busy.
The only fast food place that still seems to do well around here is Wendy’s. I sometimes pick up dinner for my wife and I on the way home. Apple pecan Salad, Taco Salad, large Chocolate Frosty(now $20.20). It was 17.80 not too long ago.
Everyone who works there is probably an illegal based on their Spanish/English accent at the drive through.
“The only fast food place that still seems to do well around here is Wendy’s”
we take-out the Family Size bucket of chili and then use it as a topping for various ingredients ...
that and an AWESOME take-out sashimi platter at a local oriental restaurant are the only restaurant foods we eat ...
“people have realized the food at these type of restaurants is just not good for you”
I certainly agree with that.
Although I accept ultimate responsibility because it was my choice to eat the food, I primarily attribute eating McDs breakfast sandwiches to my 90% blocked LAD artery resulting in a heart cath, angioplasty and stent in 2016.
Since that experience I haven’t patronized a McDonald’s since.