The slow death of McDonald's in North America?

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yeeeeh. You like have Sbarro. And you will like it.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/galleries/2009/fortune/0904/gallery.f500_boards.fortune/images/bbaker_mcdonalds.jpg

From left: Susan Arnold, former global president, P&G; James Skinner, CEO, McDonald's; Sheila Penrose, non-executive chairman, Jones Lang LaSalle; Enrique Hernandez Jr., CEO, Inter-Con Security Systems; John Rogers Jr., CEO, Ariel Investments; Robert Eckert, CEO, Mattel; Roger Stone, CEO, KapStone Paper and Packaging; Cary McMillan, CEO, True Partners Consulting; Ralph Alvarez, president and COO, McDonald's; Jeanne Jackson, president, direct to consumer, Nike; Andrew McKenna, non-executive chairman, McDonald's; Richard Lenny, former CEO, Hershey; Walter Massey, president emeritus, Morehouse College

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/fortune/0904/gallery.f500_boards.fortune/index.html

Is McDonald's dying in the US? I assume "Severe Recession" = "Big Profits" for Big Macs.

look at them all pretending to enjoy it

Every time I click 'next' on that page, it gives a funnier group of board members trying to look wacky.

See also:

(Red)

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/galleries/2009/fortune/0904/gallery.f500_boards.fortune/images/bbaker_red.jpg

Costco

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/galleries/2009/fortune/0904/gallery.f500_boards.fortune/images/bbaker_costco.jpg

The one for Twitter also, natch.

Haha. My wife worked as a CPA in the Tax Dep't of BKC, which is based in South Florida. During orientation, they wheeled out a tray full of Burger King products. My wife got lots of odd, awkward stares after asking "We have to eat this stuff?" and "What's that" (to the Big King fish sandwich, or whatever you call it).

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I assume "Severe Recession" = "Big Profits" for Big Macs.

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, April 26, 2009 7:22 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yes, mcdonald's is insanely profitable right now (have to write two-three stories about this for work every week)

This thread is tempting me to go to the 24/hr McDonald's around the corner, but I don't think I can face the poor employees. Graveyard shift at McDonalds, how depressing.

If McDonalds plays the McCafe thing right, they can really cut into Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks. I got a McCafe cappuccino once but either the dude or the machine screwed it up. I could tell it would have tasted pretty good if the proportion of coffee to milk hadn't been way out of whack.

the mccafe thing is already cutting into dunkin' donuts and starbucks, mainly because it's significantly cheaper. mcdonald's is adding mccafes at all of its u.s. outlets.

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/apr2009/db20090422_083186.htm?campaign_id=yhoo

The McDonald's coffee I've had is terrible. Weak and tasteless (Not that Starbuck's is so great, mind you, but it errs in the opposite direction). Is McCafe's coffee different?

That McDonald's photo reminds me of Krusty's comment on the ribwich, "I don't mind the taste!"

Good to see all those women in high places. Looks there's one and...er...another one.

Except EDF naturally - bloomin' hippies.

the mcdonald's in my town is ass, I won't go in there. but when I walk by it I still want to buy their fries.

when I was a kid going to mcdonald's was really exciting and fun! I can't imagine it would be for my son these days, unless there are nicer mcdonald's somewhere.

The regular McDonald's coffee is pretty bad - drip coffee that's been kept on the heater pad for god knows how long, til the water evaporates off and all that is left is bitter and acrid mud.

McCafe's coffee however is pretty decent, at least here in Hong Kong - it's a better cup than Starbucks. They used a lighter roast, so your coffee doesn't taste all burnt. Coffee is brewed to order - if you get drip coffee then they use some industrial sized single-serve machine. The quality of lattes, macchiatos etc. still depends on how skilled the barista secondary school kid working at minimum wage is at frothing the milk. I think if their beans were of better quality they really could be pretty good - the equipment is definitely up to par.

I had a McCafe cappuccino and it was surprisingly OK; I expected grossly sweet and got something with a bit of (the correct kind of) bitterness to it.

McDonald's coffee has so much caffeine it's like a cattle prod shoved up my ass. I drink it every morning.

Actually quite cute, and I like the recyclable aspect:
http://fashionista.com/2012/06/mcdonald-draper-mcdonalds-new-uniforms-are-inspired-by-mad-men/

Sorry, but if you're not wearing a brown polo shirt i'm sure as hell not going to trust you with my McNuggets.

Admittedly the mod thing kinda makes sense, though. Not too difficult to imagine Grimace tooling around on a Vespa

http://cdn.gunaxin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/grimace-valentine.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/vmQqk.jpg

not gonna lie, i'm totally interested in what the arancine might taste like

http://e.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imagecache/1280/poster/2014/06/3031843-poster-mcdonalds.jpg

je suis en train de l'aimer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93KTpF9JDWo

http://i.imgur.com/yHPO2Rm.jpg

I just had a McDonald's shake. Don't do that. Never do that.

I mean honestly it wasn't *that* bad but it was sooooo fucking sweet, just crammed down with syrup. I did at least take the whipped cream off.

Person sitting next to me on the bus this evening had just been to McDonald's, because there was that warm cardboard smell.

The frozen yogurt's actually not bad tho for $1

http://blog.wallstreetsurvivor.com/2015/10/08/mcdonalds-beyond-the-burger/

Today McDonald’s makes its money on real estate through two methods. Its real estate subsidiary will buy and sell hot properties while also collecting rents on each of its franchised locations. McDonald’s restaurants are in over 100 countries and have probably served over 100 billion hamburgers. There are over 36,000 locations worldwide, of which only 15% are owned and operated by the McDonald’s corporation directly. The rest are franchisee-operated.

I predict the slow death of McDonald's in North America is going to be a very slow, long, drawn out, exceptionally tedious event.