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As I said, here in route 66 country, namely Kingman AZ, you can stop at 50s era places where you can get an actual malt/shake, with a darn good burger and fries. And the portions are not skimped on either. The fast food places are really taking a hit. My wife, who was a McDonalds nut, will not go there anymore.
Damn it. I have a ton of stock in McDonalds. I blame Mrs. Obama for this negativity that McDonald’s gets. And when I see FREEPERS applauding this it really pisses me off. (Not that you were...just generalizing).
Haven’t been inside one of these for almost a decade.
I’m acquainted with the franchise owner and store managers here and they all kid me about my tight wallet — $3.89 McChicken meal is my limit.
McDonalds would be OK if their burgers and buns werent so dry. I guess they are fine if you just like meat, bun, crappy chopped up onion bits, and some red stuff sauce.
Their coffee is great! I love it!
new CEO Steve Easterbrook:
“I often describe McDonald’s as possibly the most democratic — with a small ‘d’ — brand in the world,” he said. “And what customers love the world over, and none more so than here in the U.S., is how they can buy into aspirational quality products, but at a McDonald’s price.”
“aspirational quality products”
WTF does that mean? Crappola products that just WISH they were quality products?
You know a company’s in serious trouble when the new CEO can only communicate with random strings of the latest CorporateSpeak buzzwords. (I’d REALLY hate to have to listen to this guy’s PowerPoints. And even worse, I’d hate to have to decipher them and attempt to implement whatever the guesses were as to what they meant (assuming they were even meaningful in the first place.)
I wouldn’t call eating at MacDonalds “dining”.
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not smart- with the drop in gasoline prices, more families will be venturing out for fast food in the summer months to spend the money they are ‘saving’ on gasoline, and kids always want McDonalds food- Bad timing on the part of McDee’s the time to close is when gasoline prices skyrocket again because once they do it is very unlikely they will ever drop to where they are now again
The government’s EBT card in the US created a demographic that had to be accommodated with the Dollar Menu’s and Happy Meals. Once the EBT Crowd brought community standards into the establishments other segments of the population felt alienated. McDonald’s catered to and employed folks who are poorly educated, and judging from constantly wrong orders people taking drugs, and the crime that followed this crowd to eat just made McDonald’s unsafe and undependable.
Oh noes, where will the ghetto blacks go to engage in fights? In some areas, the local Mickey D’s should have an arena, equipped with ropes.
Wendy’s kicks the crap out of McD’s burgers.
Best thing they ever had was the steak and mushroom wrap.....
It started going down hill quickly when they installed those giant rodent tubes out front. Then the anti bloating agents and on and on.
Remember around four ‘recovery summers’ ago, when McDonalds had a big ‘hiring day’ that supposedly proved how well the economy was doing.
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While it’s true that McDonalds reported profits of only $811 million on revenue of $5.958 billion in the 1st quarter of 2015, they’re still a retail business in a depression economy.
It’s the fries, stupid! Bring back the “unhealthy” fries!
