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.
We have about six mcds i n our town. All have been rebuilt and are beautiful and very clean. Depends on the operator and the city. I would never stop at a mcds kn detroit or other big cities but in hi tech upscale places they are quite feasible and profitable.
I dunno—In and Out Burger packs them in. The menu? Burgers, fries, sodas and shakes.
“Now the restaurants are full of shabbily dressed slobs who smell and don’t speak English very well.”
And that is just the kids behind the counter!
I wish they’d get English speaking workers and get rid of the kiddy jungle gyms.
Funny, as MacDonald’s has become a massive success in Europe, especially in France where there were riots over it.
Their MD’s are decorated to look like a place an adult would eat with civilized lighting..
The French MD’s serve baguettes made especially for them, the macarones are made by Lauduree no less! Laururee has been making world class macarones since the 1800s for the most discerning customers.
Fine cheeses are sold. Give me a French MacD’s!!!
Here MacD’,s says openly that it covets Chipotle’s business model.
BTW, Asian style Chipotle’s have opened here in LA with great success. We’ll see if MacDonalds can pull them out of this slump.