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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McLibs. As awful as McRibs.
The breakfast menu in Bangladesh offers Eggs McNuthin.
It’s Paul Newman’s coffee.
yes the great recession is a problem for business
but it is still better, i think, to retain your customers than to lose them
so if mcD sells you two little sandwiches for a two dollar bill.. and even if they only make five or ten cents off your visit, that is still a little bit of profit AND you are still their loyal customer, you are keeping in the Habit of patronize McD’s.....
that’s worth quite a bit to a corporation, long-term, to have lots and lots of customers in the habit of patronizing their stores.
you will I am sure trade up to some of their higher priced food when the economy recovers and you have more money to spend. we all tend to do this, as there are always more expensive items we really would prefer
I don’t think ANYBODY orders the McDonald’s oatmeal. It is inedible but I think they put it on their menu as a concession to the health food liberals who never eat there in the first place.
ok THANKS I will go look at McD’s again
the last I heard , a couple months ago, they were revising their Dollar menu by cutting back on number of the dollar items.....raising some of their prices up over a dollar, and adding more Higher priced items to it, over a dollar...... and rebranding it as something like their “dollar and other good deals” menu
what you describe sounds like it would be worth my going back and looking again, THANKS!
Pizzaranch.com
Its not really spicy but I like it and I love their mission.
I don't worry about that now that I go almost exclusively to Chik-Fil-A. The help there is down right friendly and decent and the food is much better. You can also understand them when they talk.
I just don’t see how they hang on when people have nothing left; as the economy recovers (whenever that may be) people will have to address their record debt. Back when Bush II had that tax rebate (in the vain hope that people would go out and spend it), people instead spent it paying down debt. Americans will be scarred for some time because of the last dozen years; they’ll sock away their money for the rainy day that they’ve seen others experience before them. To me, the best indication of that is the steep drop in the American birth rate; it is frightening.
Compare McD employees with those at Chik-fil-a. Who do you want fixing your food?
I would institute a top quality training and hiring program. I’d copy Chik-Fil-A in every way possible.
Michelle Obama: McDonald’s Happy Meal Changes Are Positive Step
07/26/11
WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama says McDonald’s decision to add apples to its Happy Meals is a positive step toward solving childhood obesity.
The first lady is heading a nationwide effort to reverse childhood obesity rates. She recently joined major retailers, including Wal-Mart, to announce plans to open or expand more than 1,500 stores over the next five years in areas without easy access to fresh produce.
McDonald’s said Tuesday that it will make apples a standard item in its kids’ meals. The company is also pledging to reduce sugars, saturated fats, sodium and calories in its menu items by 2020. Company officials said the changes are in response to consumer demand.
Mrs. Obama also lauded the world’s largest burger chain for continuing to change its menu.
McDonald’s going healthy? Really?
Pressures on advocates to applaud food companies’ efforts may explain the furor last week over McDonald’s latest promises to go healthy. In a deal brokered with the Clinton Foundation’s Alliance for a Healthier Generation, McDonald’s announced its new initiatives in full-page newspaper advertisements (read the text here):
Among other promises, McDonald’s said it would:
Promote and market only water, milk, and juice as the beverage in Happy Meals on menu boards and in-store and external advertising.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), for example, issued a press release: “Removing Soda from kids’ meals among McDonald’s improvements.”
http://www.foodpolitics.com/2013/09/mcdonalds-going-healthy-really/
OK, so McDonalds only did $7.09 billion in revenue instead of the expected $7.10 billion (99.986% of plan). That's still a lot of hamburgers.
They also plan to add 1,500 to 1,600 new stores in 2014 to add on to the existing 34,000 stores.
Doesn't sound like a struggling enterprise to me.
That doesn't have the ring of truth. How was it determined that 10 of the sandwiches were missing? The co-worker simply dumped the bag in the breakroom and walked away. How do we know some other co-workers didn't snag the sandwiches without owning up to taking them?
Also, the co-worker would certainly notice the bag being a bit light if HALF the sandwiches were missing. How gullible do you think we are? The store is right in denying the refund and I hope the owner does not buckle under on this.
It really is wrong to think that McDonalds would take an order for 20 Egg McMuffins and only deliver ten. That just doesn't happen. I think your co-worker is telling tall tales.
They need to pay their employees $15 an hour. That would solve everything!
He said sarcastically.
Why would you be forced to eat at McDonald's? Are you somebody's slave?
If others In party vote that we eat at mcDs. ( yes I know , get better class of friends? ).
My local Jack in the Box recently jettisoned its illegal alien crew (hooray!) and replaced it with American staff.
Not long after the change, I ordered a Sourdough Jack. That burger was freshly cooked and HOT off the grill. It was delicious. I showed the manager (gave him my compliments) that I needed four or five napkins to eat it. Ripe tomato and everything. Fast food can be really good if done right.
Last night I was too tired to think of cooking, or anything else for that matter. Sent relatively health conscious son out to McD’s and he returned with wraps. Inedible!
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