[SkyPilot]

I guess we're not "Lovin it!"

Good grief. What was this "Payin Wit Lovin!" promotion they just had?

Having customers perform "tricks" to get "free" food?

I have not gone to a McDonalds in years. Not only is the food and service horrible, but the company has been "ghettoized."

From promotions and advertising to the crowds of loiterers they attract, to the wonderful "advertising" of employees and patrons getting violent with "beat downs", I avoid the place like the plague.

The media won't tell you that though. They will blame it on "America's changing palate."

Yeah, right.

[Veggie Todd]

We don’t go to any chain restaurants at all. When we eat out, we go to local places where we know the owners.

[Proud2BeRight]

They used to be good when they were McDonalds. Now they bow to the food police and want try to also be Chick-fil-a, Taco Bell, Dairy Queen, Orange Julius, Denny’s, and Starbucks.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Now what are we going to do with those millions of “unaccompanied” toddlers with tattoos that the Kenyan invited in?

[Fester Chugabrew]

I’ve been a McDonald’s customer dang near from their inception. Either my taste or their food has morphed for the worse. A Big Mac, if fresh and hot , used to be fantastic. Now it’s hard to get anything out of that place that either fresh or hot.

[catnipman]

Hey, I have an idea: The Throwback Menu! Make the fries and burgers EXACTLY like you did 30 years ago. Exact ingredients. Exact size and portions. Exact quality.

[dead]

Twice a day, I go into the McDonald's on 8th Ave outside of Penn Station. I always get a large black coffee for a buck. That's all I ever get. I wouldn't take their food for free, but the coffee is very good and cheap.

This particular McDonalds is next to a methadone clinic. It's a freak show of messed up people, who have their own little drama going on all day - in-fighting amongst the strung out, with alliances shifting daily. A normal coffee order, other than mine, is a medium 12&12 coffee - that's a coffee with 12 creams and 12 sugars.

Good cheap coffee and a free freak show - I'm lovin' it.

[uncitizen]

It’s not the cheapest fastest place to eat anymore. And people can’t afford it as often as they used to.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

When I go through the drivethru at Chik-Fil-A I am greeted by someone who speaks clear English, is polite and thanks me for my business. When I go to Mickey D I am greeted by grunts and growls (if at all) and I have to pointedly thank them (not that it seems to matter). I like McDonalds’ breakfast mcmuffins but little else there, whereas everything at Chik-Fil-A is tasty. Conclusion: on the rare occasions I buy fast food my business tends toward Chik-Fil-A.

[steve86]

Not only is the food and service horrible, but the company has been "ghettoized."

Once again, you post derogatory comments about McD applicable to your neighborhood, not mine.

[SaraJohnson]

They advertised to make it into a black restaurant. They’ve been doing it for years now.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Consumer needs and preferences have changed,” said the company in a statement. “McDonald’s current performance reflects the urgent need to evolve with today’s consumers, reset strategic priorities and restore business momentum.” Last week, McDonald’s announced it would start to phase out the use of chickens that are raised with human antibiotics.

Yeaahhh that's why people don't go to mcdonalds. Idiots

[Mr Rogers]

I’d go if they stopped ghetto-izing things. Maybe if they would speak the King’s English and drop the hip-hop music, they’d attract a better paying, more loyal and higher-profit clientele.

Me? I wish they made good burgers, fries with real grease, shakes that looked like shakes and got the order right the first time. But then, they wouldn’t attract the all night long crowd or foo-foo faddies.

[aomagrat]

I took my grandson to McDonalds yesterday to get him a shamrock shake (disgusting!). I noticed the menu had meals that came with a salad instead of fries. That’s why they are failing. No one goes to a burger joint to get a salad. People go to burger joints to get big greasy burgers and fries.

[livius]

I eat at McDonalds (usually just drive through) when I’m traveling and don’t want to get off the highway. The only other time I get their stuff is during Lent, because their filet of fish sandwich is better than that of the other fast food joints.

That said, I think when they started to get downwardly mobile and direct their ads and their image to the “Mickey D” crowd and white college student wimps looking for loose change under their sofa cushions, they drove away a lot of people who had previously just thought of it as a nice safe no-hassle place to eat in a hurry.

[Varsity Flight]

Shares.... “are up 5% over the last 12 months.”

What isn’t, in the Tower of B-Appleon?

[QT3.14]

First McD's San Bernardino, CA

First Ronald 1963

[GOPJ]

Last week, McDonald’s announced it would start to phase out the use of chickens that are raised with human antibiotics.

No antibiotics... one more appeal to intellectual liberal elites who would not be caught dead in a McDonalds.

Parents have enough problems getting kids to eat healthy at home - they don't need to take them out for that 'special surprise' only to have the same problem. McDonald food should be good, the place should be fun, the employees clean cut, and nothing EVER should feel scary.

Here's my suggestion. Bring back good tasting french fries... also sell the 'healthy' ones. Let customers choose which ones they want.

Kind of like they did with 'new coke' and 'coke classic' which strangely morphed back into 'coke'.

Tell liberal elite know-it-alls to go to their up-scale restaurants and tell their chefs to make their food taste like cardboard... and to leave YOUR food alone.

Remember the McSeeweed - McLean - sandwich? NO ONE WANTED IT EXCEPT THE PEOPLE WHO WOULD NEVER EVER WALK INTO A MCDONALS. STOP listening to those people..

[riri]

Times have changed. Kids don't watch TV. They watch youtube. They try to emulate the personalities they admire on youtube.

The youtube stars shop at Whole Foods. They are well versed on what a hydrogenated fat, carrageenan or TBHQ is--this generation is lost to McDonalds and the chemical food industry.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Completely unexpected?

Nope!

[Jack Hydrazine]

Weird McDonalds commercials from Japan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syIGu0C9RVg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11quU3nqkVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epAXIdQrd5E

McDonalds commercial from Israel starring Kim Jong Un.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS7g1Mpl12o