"WE MAY BE DOOMED "
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.
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.
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.
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.
Good riddance !
(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.
Regarding rent and remodeling costs, from what I have heard, McDonald’s corporate owns the land and building for almost all locations, and rents those locations to the franchise. So if there is a squeeze on rent and building costs, the squeeze is being applied from their own corporation.
And it seems franchising has ups and downs. These business owners benefit from a universally known brand, but find themselves compelled to do things such as all day breakfast that they wouldn’t do if they were in complete control of their business.
The new lemonade and the lobster sandwich are excellent.
I used to go to MacDonalds and order the only thing on their menu that I really liked - their most expensive hamburger, plus a regular fries and a small drink.
One day I walked into a local MacDonalds and was advised that the “Expensive Hamburger” was no longer on the menu.
No idea why. Management decision. All stores.
Bye-bye MacDonalds.
Better news, Chick-fil-A is opening a new restaurant just down the road from me. I know where I’m going.
The quality of their food doesn’t seem to be in the forefront.
Small coffee and sausage muffin without the “egg” is all I ever get.
Sausage burrito has been my favorite breakfast ever since it came out. When I’m in a rush, $1.39 double cheeseburger is hard to beat. Any of there other places you are looking at $4-7 for a burger.