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Here's what McDonald's plans to do to win back 500 million lost customers
CNBC ^ | March 1, 2017 | Sarah Whitten

Posted on 03/01/2017 11:24:42 AM PST by C19fan

McDonald's has a traffic problem and its executives know it. Now they have a plan they think will turn it around.

The company lost more than 500 million customers to close competitors since 2012, Chris Kempczinski, McDonald's USA President told investors gathered in Chicago Wednesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: fastfood; food; mcdonalds
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Offer McRib all year round.
1 posted on 03/01/2017 11:24:42 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Serve actual meat?

Clean their restrooms every once in a while?


2 posted on 03/01/2017 11:25:26 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: C19fan

Robotics.

You can make a whole store that processes the hamburgers with only one person inside to keep an eye on things


3 posted on 03/01/2017 11:25:54 AM PST by Mr. K
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

That would be my suggestion . . . people are tired of soylent green even if it is made from blonds.


4 posted on 03/01/2017 11:27:38 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: C19fan

Stop tailoring the menu to vegans and hipsters that never even set foot in your stores!


5 posted on 03/01/2017 11:28:17 AM PST by bigtoona (Make America Great Again! America First! Th)
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To: C19fan

Direct your marketing at more than 13.5 % of the country.


6 posted on 03/01/2017 11:28:23 AM PST by Tadhg
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To: Mr. K

Yep. The restaurant in Back to the Future II comes to mind.


7 posted on 03/01/2017 11:28:49 AM PST by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Make food that doesn’t taste like cardboard. BLAH. Only thing is that it is fast. That is all it has going for it.


8 posted on 03/01/2017 11:29:25 AM PST by rstrahan
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To: Opinionated Blowhard; C19fan

Removing the chip that’s on the shoulder of 99% of their minority employees would be a great start.


9 posted on 03/01/2017 11:29:54 AM PST by V_TWIN
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Hire people that will actually greet you and treat you half-way decent! That would be a big plus. Somehow Chick-fil-a manages it! I haven’t been there recently as I’m boycotting them, but I’ve had drive-thru people not even look at me as they shove the food out the window. I know the people don’t make very much, but c’mon. The rudeness at McD’s is the worst out of any of them. It’s really ghetto.


10 posted on 03/01/2017 11:30:34 AM PST by beaversmom
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fire all their current employees and replace them with nice polite people ?


11 posted on 03/01/2017 11:31:14 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Make America Great Again !)
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To: V_TWIN

See my post one after yours. Same.


12 posted on 03/01/2017 11:31:15 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: V_TWIN

See my post one after yours. Same.


13 posted on 03/01/2017 11:31:15 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: C19fan

Make sure they get your orders right?


14 posted on 03/01/2017 11:31:18 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: C19fan

Genderless bathrooms and soy burgers.


15 posted on 03/01/2017 11:31:46 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: rstrahan

They are also going to somehow prove to people what is actually in Chicken McNuggets. They can’t even sell them at 10 cents a piece!

My granddaughter ate there a couple of years ago and was sick for a week . . . she refused to return - kid’s meal or not!


16 posted on 03/01/2017 11:31:49 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: C19fan

Bring back beef tallow to for the french fries.


17 posted on 03/01/2017 11:32:10 AM PST by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

I would never step inside a fast food bathroom but you are right...cleanliness should be mandatory throughout the entire facility.


18 posted on 03/01/2017 11:32:20 AM PST by hsmomx3
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To: Mr. K

In the 60s it was “plastics”. ;)


19 posted on 03/01/2017 11:32:31 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: rstrahan
"Make food that doesn’t taste like cardboard."

Amen. Go back to making their fries the way they used to.

20 posted on 03/01/2017 11:32:56 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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