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Shareholder group demands board shake-up at McDonald's
Fortune ^ | February 13, 2015 | Phil Wahba

Posted on 02/13/2015 7:54:45 PM PST by rickmichaels

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1 posted on 02/13/2015 7:54:45 PM PST by rickmichaels
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Eight of the 12 board members have a tenure of 10 years or more. A CEO failure, which McDonalds just had, is also a board failure given the board hires and oversees the CEO. New blood and new thinking is probably needed.


2 posted on 02/13/2015 8:00:32 PM PST by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: rickmichaels

A lot of Americans prefer Mexican food. Go figure.


3 posted on 02/13/2015 8:03:06 PM PST by Lisbon1940
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Will they serve breakfast until lunchtime now? Will they actually get good burgers?


4 posted on 02/13/2015 8:06:01 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Lisbon1940
I prefer Mexican food to McDonalds. Let's start with a basket of tortilla chips and a Patron Silver Margarita with a floating slice of lime and salt on the rim.


5 posted on 02/13/2015 8:06:54 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Lisbon1940

I think it is worse than that.

The only time I am tempted to go into a McDonald’s is when I am in China or some other 3rd world place. They import cleanliness standards or seem to as well as the menu items.

When it comes to burgers, they are on the bottom of my list just below skipping a meal


6 posted on 02/13/2015 8:07:15 PM PST by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: rickmichaels

I haven’t eaten at a fast food burger joint in years, or decades. Yuk!


7 posted on 02/13/2015 8:08:36 PM PST by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: rickmichaels

Affirmative action burgers aint lovin it?


8 posted on 02/13/2015 8:09:58 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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McDonalds hamburgers and cheeseburgers are the easiest thing going to eat one handed while driving. I stop and get a couple in the drive through when I am traveling but that is the only time I eat there.


9 posted on 02/13/2015 8:14:23 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: rickmichaels

Maybe if they’d stop killing babies, they get a lot of customers back.


10 posted on 02/13/2015 8:15:55 PM PST by kitkat (STORM HEAVEN WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY)
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To: rickmichaels

Their coffee is surprisingly good.


11 posted on 02/13/2015 8:17:05 PM PST by Cloverfarm (Every knee shall bow, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord ...)
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Now you are talking, but if McD go ahold of that, God help us all....................


12 posted on 02/13/2015 8:19:54 PM PST by doorgunner69
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Will they serve breakfast until lunchtime now? Will they actually get good burgers?

No, because there is not enough grill space when you consider the temperature differentials and cross contamination issues. And with all due respect, I venture that no matter what McD's did you would never consider their burgers good burgers. If they want to be profitable again they need to dump half the menu, and get back to Kroc's basics instead of trying to compete with everybody in every market.

13 posted on 02/13/2015 8:20:07 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: rickmichaels

McDonald’s is not our go to place... we like 5 Guys or Square 1 or even Dairy Queen for burgers...


14 posted on 02/13/2015 8:21:26 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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I agree with that. And beef tallow for frying fries. People actually like that stuff — so it might sell.


15 posted on 02/13/2015 8:21:46 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (The dog days are over /The dog days are done/Can you hear the horses? /'Cause here they come)
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To: rickmichaels

1. Make your burgers like you used to.

2. Make your fries like you used to.

3. Forget the trendy new items.

4. Quit putting those nasty unripe apple slices in Kids Meals

5. Hire help that speaks some form of English and doesn’t look like they’d spit in my food


16 posted on 02/13/2015 8:24:04 PM PST by digger48
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After years of growth, McDonald’s has hit a rough patch: 2014 was the first year with a decline in same-store sales in more than a decade.

(psssst!), (Mickey D's), (I got one word for you), (EBT cards). (Well, that's actually two words but you get my drift).

17 posted on 02/13/2015 8:24:15 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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When sizes go down and prices go up ... changing leadership will do nothing.


18 posted on 02/13/2015 8:24:59 PM PST by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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To: Lisbon1940
A lot of Americans prefer Mexican food.

As do I.

I never eat "fast food". Have not since I had to when stuck in Barstow and had to be out at Ft Irwin at 0800.

That said, even when i do cook burgers at home, they are far from McD type fare, with jalapeno peppers and whatever else the spirit tells me to throw in there. Never to they have tomato, lettuce, buns, etc.

19 posted on 02/13/2015 8:25:11 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
Will they serve breakfast until lunchtime now?

Not a bad idea considering a goodly portion of their most loyal clientele don't get up till the crack of noon.

20 posted on 02/13/2015 8:26:05 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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