It the media onslaught of a successful company and the liberals especially that believe it. I think it is criminal what these creeps say about McDonald’s, Walmart and Amazon too, since I am on my soapbox.
Their food sucks.
Word is getting around.
I think it was a wash actually.
Slightly decreased volume, slightly increased price.
Just saying. I don’t think is was bullish, but I believe it also wasn’t bearish.
Great time to go with that $15 minimum wage...
People don’t have any money. I bet they are skipping breakfast and lunch a lot more or certainly skipping going out to eat those two meals.
What a coincidence - so does their service.
You used to be able to get a “meal” for $4 or under; but since they tore down all the yellow arch stores and put up those crappy faux fieldstone buildings with a nearly invisible tiny yellow swash on the top, you can’t get away with less than $7, incuding tax. Meanwhile, I can order two pint boxes of stir fry from the local Chinese for $10 and eat three meals from that.
And because they keep playing around with the menu, staff can’t keep up, and wait times at the drive-thru have increased to 10-15 minutes. That’s a non-starter right there.
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Could be that Burger King, Wendy’s and others also offer a dollar menu with much better food. I eat the “Jr. Cheeseburger” at .99 at Wendy’s all the time. It’s a great snack and when I remove the top bun it works for my low carb diet.
Will go to a Wendy’s or a local restraunt before I head to a McD’s.
Well, when the salt sprinkled on their burger patties starts to rival the meat in weight, I’m sure it can’t be the quality of the food affecting sales...
Every time I have visited the inside of a McDonalds in recent years... I have felt in fear of my life practically. They all seem to be full of aggressive ... Obama voters. I’ll just take my business to chick-fil-a thank you very much.
(plus the fries aren’t as good as they used to be before they caved to the left over transfats)
Who wants to go to a restaurant where the help spits in the food because they aren’t getting paid $15 / hour. Time for some burger flipping robots. Dress the bots like clowns. The kids will love it.
have you seen their dollar menu? last time I was in a store it was 2 or 3 items.
I find much better value for my money at other establishments.
It’s not their price increases, or their substandard food. It’s their nasty attitude.
Actually its the dollar and more menu now.... (prices anywhere from $1 to $2 now.)
McDonald’s was never high quality, but its quality has gone to the crapper even more in the last decade or two.
There is nothing worse to my mind than putting together an sandwhich with a patty that was cooked 10 minutes ago... If you get a fresh off the grill burger from McD’s its amazing how much better (not calling it great, but so much better) than the manner they make them today. It takes 44 seconds to cook a burger, and something like 1:45 to cook a quarter pounder... I really don’t know what they were thinking when they left the fully prepared and assembled burgers, to the model they now use.
There is no excuse to get a cheeseburger, where the cheese isn’t even melted.
I think McDonald’s biggest mistake has been in ignoring what their customers want, in favor of not being criticized by those who want to determine what their customers should be allowed to have. You know, *those* people. Who themselves would never dream of eating at a place like McDonald’s.
At least they should listen to one of their competitors:
“My opinion is that the media is the main
supporter of healthy eating. We’re certainly
not hearing it from our customers.”
— Andrew Puzder, CEO of Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr.
Were I in charge of McDonald’s, the first thing I would do would be to compare a Big Mac, which more and more has shrunk to the size of a White Castle slider, with a Whataburger.
The Whataburger chain, in the southland, is very proud that its hamburgers are unchanged in size or character since the late 1950s. Their burgers are still wrapped in paper, not put in a (small) box.
If you had a Big Mac the width of a Whataburger, but otherwise a Big Mac in assembly, you would have a real meal of a burger. Sell the current Big Mac as the “Big Mac, Jr.”
At least put it as an option on your menu. My guess is that it would quickly become McDonald’s number one selling burger, even if it was $5 a burger.
Because *that* is what the customers want! And that is a key to running a successful business.
It’s not worth the money ,we can make much better at home