[E. Pluribus Unum]

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[msrngtp2002]

Isn’t this like buyer beware? Also why on earth would anyone buy any franchise in a place with higher insurance and security costs?

[SauronOfMordor]

McDonalds probably had difficulty finding non blacks willing to run a place in a black neighborhood.

[PeterPrinciple]

All of that advertising is toward blacks......................

[mass55th]

All you had to do was say “no” as to where they wanted you to go.

[1malumprohibitum]

This is how it all gets torn down. Many many more class actions like this are in the pipe.

[odawg]

And, MacDonald could add, we allowed a black CEO to almost ruin the company to prove how woke and diverse we are.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I stopped in a MacDonalds in Pine Bluff Arkansas maybe thirty years ago. If you know anything about the town you will understand this.

The MacDonalds was having a contest and the winner got a FREE TRIP TO THE “MOTHER COUNTRY” of Africa! Two weeks all expenses paid!
I realized real quick I was not invited, but till bought a burger.

[Trumpet 1]

The weird yet truthful fact is that low income black neighborhoods are not economically successful. Higher income white neighborhoods are much more economically successful. Therefore, it does not make sense for a person(white or black) to try to own just one McDonalds in a low income black neighborhood.

[Shark24]

Are they sure they were working for McDonald’s and not McDowell’s?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w70RQLtdVeU

[ealgeone]

....and African-American franchisees have long spoken out about higher costs associated with security and insurance....

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Now maybe folks might understand why lower income neighborhoods receive higher interest rates and more rejections for loans.

Maybe lebrainless and the nba could come into these neighborhoods and try and lift them up....or maybe blm could help in some way.

[CrappieLuck]

how is that black365.com working out for them?

[frank ballenger]

Whoa. Ronald McDonald hisself got that ‘fro goin’ on.
It be red but so was Redd Fox and we all were down wid him.
Chill.

[Rebelbase]

Enterprising entrepreneurs find ways around franchise roadblocks.

"Look... me and the McDonald's people got this little misunderstanding. See, they're McDonald's... I'm McDowell's. They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs. They got the Big Mac, I got the Big Mick. We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but their buns have sesame seeds. My buns have no seeds."