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McDonald's franchisees are terrified for the future
Business Insider ^ | 07/16/2015 | Hayley Peterson

Posted on 07/16/2015 9:42:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 07/16/2015 9:42:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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"WE MAY BE DOOMED "


2 posted on 07/16/2015 9:43:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Hell if I owned McD’s franchise, I’d be installing automated order-takers and other machinery as fast as I could and looking forward to record profits.


3 posted on 07/16/2015 9:46:07 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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There are three McDonald's in my area here in SW Pennsylvania. All are going balls to the wall. The one in Bentleyville had to install a second drive through window for ordering. What am I missing?
4 posted on 07/16/2015 9:46:31 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (So America died not with a bang but a whimper.)
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Bring back the old beef tallow french fries and they will recover within a few months. and also make the 1/4 pounder with cheese taste like it did about 15 years ago.


5 posted on 07/16/2015 9:47:10 AM PDT by BRK
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McDonald's franchisees are terrified for the future of the company
Then sell your franchise and go get another job. "Terrified" my arse.
6 posted on 07/16/2015 9:50:41 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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Three thoughts on this:

MCD never should have gone PC with their menu.

Too many stories of violence in the restaurant, shootings at the drive through window.

The prices make it not worth the trouble.


7 posted on 07/16/2015 9:50:54 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christianity is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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Don’t eat it often but last time I did, the burger was so salty..couldn’t even eat it. The fries were cold and soggy.
Nothing tasted the same..


8 posted on 07/16/2015 9:52:12 AM PDT by rainee (Her)
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Yep. All they have to do is do what they did 30 years ago. Liberal PC and pandering to the health Nazis is killing them.


9 posted on 07/16/2015 9:52:40 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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McDonald’s is too expensive.
I’m not poor and I love a Big Mac from time to time...
But it’s just a lousy value proposition.
Wanna save your restaurant? Make it affordable.


10 posted on 07/16/2015 9:52:55 AM PDT by golux
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Selling your franchise isn’t easy in McD land. Most of the people you can sell to are already franchise holders, who are in the same boat, probably with the same interpretation, probably hoping you were going to buy theirs.


11 posted on 07/16/2015 9:53:40 AM PDT by discostu (In fact funk's as old as dirt)
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Way too many McDonalds restaurants dilute their own market.
Way too many food items dilutes what they used to do very well.
They eliminate the old famous good taste with “healthy” ingredients.
The unions and government regulations drive up costs/prices.
Employees with poor skills turns off customers.


12 posted on 07/16/2015 9:55:23 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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“Bring back the old beef tallow french fries and they will recover within a few months.”

The fries would be ever so much more tasty if they were to use coconut oil (naturally refined, w/o the taste or smell of coconut)! Healthiest oil on the planet! And it makes everything taste better...


13 posted on 07/16/2015 9:58:06 AM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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I use coconut oil for popcorn.. Very delicious.


14 posted on 07/16/2015 9:59:25 AM PDT by BRK
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RE: Then sell your franchise and go get another job

Ahh, but who’s gonna buy when they know your reason for selling is because you’re terrified?


15 posted on 07/16/2015 9:59:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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overpaid morons with an attitude, dangerous customers, crappy tasteless food now that they took all the fat out of everything, plus they pander to the left.

Good riddance !

16 posted on 07/16/2015 9:59:46 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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Dear McDonalds:

(1) - People don't come to you because they forgot to dress appropriately for Morton's or Ruth's Chris. They come to you because they want to get some food into the screaming rugrats in the back seat and get some change from a twenty.

(2) - Your company made Ray Kroc and a lot of franchise holders very wealthy with a menu consisting of less than ten items, all prepared fresh.

17 posted on 07/16/2015 10:00:02 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon (Life's a bitch. Don't elect one.)
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Plus the fact that for just about every menu item the competition is better. Compare a McDonalds burger to Wendy’s, Steak-n-Shake, Five Guys, Hardee’s or anywhere else.


18 posted on 07/16/2015 10:01:27 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The 1st amendment is the voice and the 2nd is the teeth of freedom. Obama wants to knock out both.)
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RE: overpaid morons with an attitude

And now in some cities, it will be $15/hour with NO experience.


19 posted on 07/16/2015 10:01:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: bigbob; SeekAndFind; 4yearlurker; BRK; oh8eleven; Paulie; rainee; Extremely Extreme Extremist; ...

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20 posted on 07/16/2015 10:03:09 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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