Posted on 01/23/2014 6:59:04 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
NEW YORK (AP) -- McDonald's reported disappointing sales for its fourth quarter Thursday, as the world's largest hamburger chain saw fewer customers visit its restaurants.
The Oak Brook, Ill.-based company says global sales slipped 0.1 percent at established locations. In the U.S., where it recently revamped its Dollar Menu to include items that cost a little more, the figure fell 1.4 percent.
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Looks like a LEGO set.
For burgers, I actually like Wendy's. I wish Chick-Fil-A was closer...
I don't eat McD's too much but when I do, I want a cheeseburger. The same cheeseburger I had when I was 7.
They need to expand there menu…there fries suck…they used to have good ones…Prices are to high in this economy..Checkers is way better…I wish we had a Taco Cabana where I live…Fives guys has the best fries???
The feel to the Obama’s by taking half the fries out and putting in apples no one wanted.
Nope, the hamburgers were 10 cents and the cheeseburgers were 15 cents. Not sure what the fries cost.
As a kid and we lived in a very nice area and at the time going to McDonald’s was a big treat! Also at that time there was no indoor seating, only a few outdoor round metal tables, and you could only order at an outdoor window.
You couldn’t pay me to eat McDonald’s garbage..
If most people knew how many illegals that places hires, they’d never step foot in one again.
Yeppir. We used to go to Austin or Kerrville just to eat there. The one in San Antonio isn’t as good, but it’s close enough.
For the pancake lovers- Ever had Pan Kits? (Morrison Milling in Denton, Tx) I’ve never had a pancake that can touch them. They’re soooo good.
yes the cost of eating at McD’s is way too high for the product you get.
didn’t used to be that way, it used to be a reasonable priced place
even their dollar menu is now largely composed of more expensive items!
this Obama economy is continuing to spiral down and down, and so many people cannot afford to eat at McD’s anymore! McD needs to at least offer a few affordable items for awhile!
The ones I remember cost 19 cents!
Good Catch!
It does have that blocky, slightly out of proportion, LEGO look, doesn't it?
Their food is not the greatest but they have enough variety that you could stand to eat there once a week or so. The problem is a lot of sit down place rival their prices.
A fresh made egg McMuffin is pretty good.
But once they sit for a few minutes they metamorphose into a lukewarm, soggy lump and lose their appeal for me.
However, as another poster commented about the hamburgers. once McD's started making their sandwiches from food cooked/stored in those little plastic drawers the quality, texture and flavor suffered. IMHO that goes for the breakfast sandwiches too.
or when the Dollar menu is now $1.19 and smaller items to boot
“I think the first McDonald’s hamburger I had cost 15¢ and fries cost 10¢ - and no sales tax either!”
Same with me. And cheeseburgers were .17, milk shakes a quarter and when big mac came out it was .45 .
Yes they shrunk them in the 80s which lead to the Wendy’s where’s the beef campaign.. McD’s paddy went to 1/10th a lb from 1/8 a lb I believe. May have shrunk again for all I know.
That's why I state that as people begin to catch on, some do change their eating habits. Knowledge of food is improving, and as a result of demand it's actually getting easier to find pure foods.
Oooh, salt, sugar and fat! Well, I don’t have a sweet tooth but love salt & fat. Unfortunately, I think this book has a puritanical bend to it so I shall not be reading it. Am currently rereading the brilliant “Alice B. Toklas Cookbook,” with its luscious concentration of fat, fat and more fat - with some salt and booze thrown in for good measure. Miss Toklas lived to a healthy old age.
has always been crappy and has become too expensive.
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