[Cagey]

Okay....Melt the cheese.

[TomServo]

11). Speak English.

[cmsgop]

And Bring Back Those McDonaldland COOKIES !!!!!

I Love Those !

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

I miss Burger Chef!

[Vinnie_Vidi_Vici]

Taste is SO subjective. Personally I enjoy scarfing down a sack of "White Castles" You just can't beat a "slider" fresh off the grill!

[js1138]

11) Buy Rally's/Checkers, dump the MacMenu and use theirs.
12) Go back to your original fiies recipe.

[gridlock]

I don't go to McDonalds because they market directly to my kid. I will not go someplace that markets to a four-year-old. If they want my four-year-old's business, they have to talk to me.

Sure, the four-year-old wants to go to McDonalds, but she can't drive the car. And I'm offended by attempts to upset the family power structure by having toddlers calling the shots.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

McDonald's will always sustain declining growth because consumer's tastes has changed over a generation.

McDonald's just isn't the same McDonald's. When I was a kid, the neighborhood kids were envious when my family came home with a sack full of Mickey D's and used to beg for some of my fries.

[riri]

I disagree with this. I think the beauty of McDonalds is just that it is the same as it was when I was 7. I do agree the quality of the food has suffered a bit but for cripes sake it's MCDONALDS. When I want a $10.00 grilled chicken sandwich, I go to Chilli's (I avoid Appleby's) but when I want downhome, bad for me, let me get out off for 5 bucks food-I opt for Mickey Dees.

[mg39]

I don't eat the garbage that passes for food in fast food restaurants, but I'm not above using their restroooms when there's no other choice. This year I used two differnt McDonalds restrooms, and I was absolutely disgusted at how filthy they, and the rest of the "restaurant," were. Having worked in a real restaurant, I can tell you all this golden rule: if the bathroom is dirty, everything else is too, including the servers' and food preparers' hands.

[jra]

1. You're a burgers and fries joint...forget the grilled chicken flatbread sandwich, for gosh sakes.

2. Quit naming EVERY product McSomething for cring out McLoud.

3. Clean up the place, and hire people who can be polite.

[DWSUWF]

"..."It seems as if all of their breakfast items are either fattening or sugary," Perry says. "They need to clean up their act and offer some healthy alternatives." ... McDonald's should find a way to make sure that even adults "feel good" about eating there, he says..."

Yeah... That's the ticket... Even more heath-food nazi garbage...

That'll have 'em using battering rams to get in every morning!

1) The food tastes like crap.

2) It takes forever to get it.

3) When you do finally get your order, it's f*cked up... Every Time.

4) It gives you the running shits half the time you eat it.

McDonalds can't be all things to all people. It'll go broke if it tries.

Pick a path, get on it and stay on it. (My vote would be for a Retro McDonalds, with food so loaded with fat it could stop a bull T-Rex's heart in mid beat...)

[ServesURight]

Problem #1 with McDonald's is that they've never had objective management or a President hired from outside the company hierarchy.

Problem #2 is that they oversaturated the market and dissed the franchisees.

Problem #3 is that they're unable to shake their employment stereotype ("Ewww, you work at McDonald's?")

Last but definetly not least their food sucks to the point that you could build a house with their cardboard-like hamburgers. Bring back the heat lamps and styrofoam Big Mac containers!!

[zarf]

My tiny tits used to get large overnight from downing 8 cheeseburgers at one sitting.

Thanks for the mammories.

[machman]

13) Hire a work force with an IQ above room temperature.

[MotleyGirl70]

My dad refers to McDonald's and Burger King hamburgers as "Choke and Pukes".

I haven't had a McDonald's hamburger in years. BARF!

[MattAMiller]

They could also try making food that doesn't make you feel like you're trying to digest a load of wet socks.

The public's tastes have outgrown McDonald's. And they've done virtually nothing to keep up. And I think a lot of people are offended by their marketing. As if cloying sentimentality about a friggin burger joint wasn't enough they also have to, as has already been pointed out, advertise in a manner that subverts parental authority. It brings the kiddies in, but turns everyone else off.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I've stopped going there and Burger King because of the cross-over advertising with movies.

It's bad enough that I'm eating crap food but I have to watch ads with a crappy character from a crappy movie telling me how good this crappy food is?

Give it a freakin' rest already.

[mitchbert]

There was a time, oh perhaps a couple of decades ago, when a well run McDonald's was a retail operation truly to behold. An "A" or even "B" grade store ran like a watch. Once Kroc moved out of the picture things really started going down hill. The old priorities of fast turnaraound, clean stores and friendly staff working as a tight team stood them head and shoulders above any competition. I still see the odd good one in the Canadian operation, usually ones owned by the same franchisee for a long time, but they've become few and far between.

The biggest mistake they made IMO was to go away from the make-in-advance system in favour of the make-to-order model. The idea may have been to cut down on waste, but frankly this strikes me as a failure to properly analyze traffic patterns, a measure that should be fairly predictable in their business, and staff and cook accordingly. You rarely had to wait for your food and the counter and kitchen were properly staffed. Now customers are waiting three and four deep after paying, the old rules about nearest person to the fryer jumps when the buzzer goes and immediately reloads the fryer seem to have been forgetten. Seating areas are a mess, not only at busy times, and the staff discipline is almost non-existant. Real basic stuff that crushes a business when ignored.

It stuns me that no one in their organization seems to notice the obvious. Their success was their operations formula which was rigid when their competitors were all over the place. They forgot what made them successful and are reaping the results. Too bad.

[notdownwidems]

Here in Colorado we have a lovely burger-joint establishment called Good Times Burgers and Frozen Custard; I just ate lunch there today, matter of fact. The food is real good, served quickly and by friendly employees, the place is clean, and they don't pander to the under 10 crowd. If you are ever in my neck of the woods, I recommend it. I wouldn't go anywhere else, not even Wendy's, which I now consider a distant second to Good Times. Any other freepers fans?

[HairOfTheDog]

McDonalds has the best fries by far! And I think they are almost always hot!

I have to admit to liking the Big Mac because it never changes... it is the one constant in life we can always depends on no matter where we are!