I stopped eating there because they always messed up my order and the food tasted like it was developed in a laboratory.
Easy.
Michelle Obama praises McDonald’s
Obama’s statement:
“McDonald’s is making continued progress today by providing more fruit and reducing the calories in its Happy Meals.
I’ve always said that everyone has a role to play in making America healthier, and these are positive steps toward the goal of solving the problem of childhood obesity.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/07/michelle-obama-praises-mcdonalds/1#.ViWtvKRumUc
and
Fight at McDonalds over breakfast menu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb9LcRP4BSU
1 mil views and if you go to this link many more.
The food isn’t that great.
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There’s always a long line when I drive by one at lunch time
When it stopped being about 15c burgers, real milk shakes and great fries— and became about real estate (which is ALL it is now— location valuation, customer number impact etc)— that’s what’s done it, coupled with the unceasing attacks from nit picking little californication veggie burger eaters who force their stupid views on them, driving up prices and the cost of doing business.
Meat is good. Milk is good. Cream is good, and french fries in mixed beef tallow/vegetable oil frying- and salt, are GREAT! Affordable fast food at the time, which regular people in a hurry could eat and depend on without sitting around and counting the arugula leaves on their 1/2 ounce seared ahi tuna and some kind of fruity sauce glace’ for 22.00.
the food taste shit now, that’s why. They changed the recipe to cater to health nuts
I’d better use the Coupons they just sent me in the Mail before they go under.
Two for One Big Macs and Egg McMuffins here I come.
I may even have Breakfast for Dinner.
Should McDonald’s go out of business, I certainly won’t miss them.
There’s a hot dog/burger chain in Houston called “James’ Coney Island”. They’ve been around and had that name since the 1920s.
Now they call themselves JCI Grill, tossing out a bit of Americana to sell it as ‘healthier’ and upscale the meals from fast food to fare maybe suited to a Chili’s.
Good way to kill a nearly 100 year old business, toss out the identity, the menu, and the old customers.
McDonald’s recently had a nationwide overhaul of the look of the restaurants (that couldn’t have been cheap for the franchises). And it downsized the size of those arches you could see down the street. Now, I could understand for new franchises maybe things would be different but they did this to the old restaurants too.
McDonald’s headquarters caused the most damage. I ate at McD’s mostly on road trips and was turned off when the emphasis on cleanliness went out the window.
McD’s also tried to compete with Starbucks with the Cafe thing. Huge waste of money and failure.
The quality of the food has gone downhill considerably.
If McDonald’s is really in serious trouble there is no doubt it is caused by the federal government.
Over regulation, new fees and taxes, and the crushing weight of Obamacare kill businesses every day.
It is not only the effect of government overreach on the retail business itself.
It drives up the costs every ancillary service and product and every aspect of doing business.
From producing farm tractors, fuel to run farm machinery, the seed to plant, harvesting, aninmal feed, processing, packaging and transporting products right on up to trash removal.
Over the years my appreciation for McDonald’s as changed with inverse proportion to the size of their menu. I think their service varied in the same manner.
But what is really killing McDonalds is that they have been upstaged by competitors who present a more upscale experience and attract an upwardly mobile clientele. Starbucks, Chipotle, P.F. Changs, Panera Bread, to name a few.
For some reason, McDonalds appears to attract mostly people from the lower classes and many feel uncomfortable when they go in there, especially in urban areas. I remember when McDonalds was full of families with kids. Most stores had a children's playground or even "ball pits" inside the stores. Now those play areas are empty and a McDonalds is likely to be frequented by threatening local toughs with hoodie sweaters, ball caps and "I hate the world" expressions on their face.
Contrast that to the young people you see at a Chipotles or Shake Shack. They are a clearly non-threatening crowd in preppie clothing and they are likely to be glued to mobile phones and tablets as they make their way through the line to order and receive their food. And they typically have more money to spend than the McDonalds crowd.
Many young people would never consider going to a McDonalds because it is considered "downmarket."
Until McDonald's finds a way to gentrify it's image and attract more upscale clientele like Chipotle, it is doomed in the long term. Also, they need to lose that clown mascot. Creepy as heck.
Why would I go to McDonald’s when I can go to Whataburger and get a real hamburger? The only time we ever set foot in a McDonald’s is so that my kiddos can take a potty break.
I think the problem is they oversold franchises, there quality went down and there 10 times more choices of places to eat. when I was a kid going to a place like mc Donald’s happened only when we were traveling or a special occasion. I am sure that is the case with most of my generation. people eat out a lot more now and because of that they are more likely to choose something else besides mc donalds. years ago when I was a kid there was not that much choice of burger joints.
I can’t say the food was ever particularly stellar in all those fast-food joints, several decades back, when the franchises still seemed fairly new. But the places always seemed clean. And the teen employees often wore their ‘company’ uniforms and hats and such. It just looked neat and professional, the whole presentation.
Nowadays, these places just seem nasty. Dirty floors, smudges all over the doors, trashy-looking employees and equally trashy-looking customers. Self-serve drink machines, which make a mess everywhere. I went to a local Taco Bell about six months ago, and the young guy taking my order had a tattoo of a spider on a spiderweb running up and down his throat. Gross. There’s just a scuzzy third-world ambiance to everything now. It’s an immediate appetite-killer.
It’s made me totally disinclined to ever stop at fast-food places these days, and indeed I rarely ever do anymore. Usually just when I’m on a road-trip and particularly pressed for time. Maybe two or three times a year.
This is an interesting take.
Think about the popular, up and coming, burger joints.
In N Out, Five Guys, Shake Shack.
Do they have Happy Meals with yogurt and apple juice? Do they have Veggie Burgers? Do they have Salads and Yogurt Parfaits?
I don’t think so. Burgers, Fries, Sodas, Shakes, right?
And they are doing well.
No one is chasing them with a rolling pin.