Posted on 06/03/2013 1:18:40 PM PDT by SMGFan
When people accuse McDonald’s of serving food that isn’t nutritionally ideal, they can always point to their salad offerings. See, salads are healthy, and McDonald’s serves salads: therefore, you can eat healthy at McDonald’s, but if consumers choose to eat something else, that’s cool, too. Only the company admitted to investors this weekend that they don’t actually sell a lot of those salads: vegetable-based offerings account for maybe 2-3% of McDonald’s sales in the United States.
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Actually, the salad and coffee are the only things I buy at McD’s. I do ask and I’m always told they rarely sell the salads and mostly throw them away. Remember when they were essentially forced to offer them and they said there wasn’t a market? Well, I guess they do know how to run their business and the government doesn’t.
You go to a hamburger joint for a hamburger.
Back when I worked at McHell we would sell about 50 salads a day... and about 200 BigMac between noon and 1PM. People don’t go to McDonalds for salads.
I wouldn’t buy anything from McDonald’s even if there was nothing else to choose from.
Get the salad from Wendy’s. Made with fresh fruit.
Are they made primarily with iceberg lettuce?
The Salads are great....add a tin of sardines and a big dose of Balsamic vinegar ...and a meal fit for kings.
That's what I'm talkin' about. That's exactly the way I feel about it. If I want a salad, I'll go to a place with a decent salad bar.
My granddaughter loves the salads. When I get her Happy Meals she nearly always substitutes the salad for the burger.
It is hard to eat salad if you are driving, however (me not her).
Me too
I only get a Double Cheese Quarter Pounder super size the fries and Drink. Eat in 10 minutes YUMMMY stuff
I eat their salads a couple times a week...not bad at all..
The other crap they sell....won’t touch it...
They were then, but it was the 80s, America only know about iceberg. Got no idea what’s in them anymore, we have sources for awesome salad in Tucson.
LOL!
I buy the salad too, but always have to get a large fries with it!
They should sell electric cars too.
I went to Burger King the other day for my normal Double Whopper w/ 4 slices of cheese without the tomato and the cashier asked me if I wanted to look at the “new healthy menu”.
I told her, “If I wanted healthy I’d have gone to Subway”
Yes, and iceberg lettuce is completely useless. I’m picky about the greens in my salads. If Mickey D.’s wants to sell more salads they need to upgrade the ingredients!
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