The slow death of McDonald's in North America?

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.

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

I dunno, it's been a pretty exciting slow death thus far!

for a huge fast food chain ya

p nuts

theyre determined to not die

Mayor McCheese would have won

Crooked HamBurgler

I remember liking their fries before I became a dietary vegan, though I thought their burgers were the worst (blandest/sweetest/most catering to childhood tastes) of the main franchises. Their core market is harried parents, and rural folk who don't know any better, I think.

Now I have no desire to eat anything they have to offer.

Fast food for me is only sampled on road trips, and I'll drive another 10 miles to the next Subway or Taco Bell, which at least have options (too few). I've heard McD overseas have a more interesting menu. I could live with McD India fare.

rural folk who don't know any better

lmao

Well, or have no other choices. The only places I've seen long lines at a McD are off the interstate and at airports.

http://i.imgur.com/VRYBGUu.png
RIP

looks like all day breakfast was a good idea

I ate McDonalds yesterday AMA.

did anyone see that movie The Founder a few months ago? Michael Keaton played Ray Kroc. p good i thought. didn't know their main source of income was real estate.

looks like all day breakfast was a good idea

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, April 21, 2017 12:56 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Their decision to go after Starbucks also helped their bottom line imo

what about the grand mac has anyone fucked with that yet

you mean is there a video of somebody fucking a grand mac?

McDonalds hamburgers taste so strange to me. Sanpakyu otm up there

Still like McChickens though. Even though they too, taste nothing like actual chicken.

I figure the grand mac is just a stunt to give them something new to talk about in ads, because their franchisers aren't interested in doing anything new that requires substantial investments rn.

you mean is there a video of somebody fucking a grand mac?

c'mon you and i both know there have to be multiple videos out there of somebody fucking not just the grand mac but the entire macdonald's menu, doubtless with particular focus on happy meals

hell yeah hit me with some links

/r/fuckdonalds iirc

There's an infamous but LOLworthy-as-hell video of someone who at least wants to fuck a McDonald's burger - well if not quite a video at least an animated GIF - and the amazing thing is it's not from some internet rando who posted it online, but rather an actual paid McDonald's banner ad!

http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/id_hit_it_-_mcdonalds_banner.gif

It appeared on espn.com in 2005 before some horrified McD exec managed to reach ESPN and get it pulled within an hour, but not before several bloggers captured it for all eternity. Exhibit A for why advertisers (and ppl in general) shouldn't try to be hip by using slang catchphrases until they're sure they know what they mean....

Here in Joliet our local McD's is busy nearly all the time. It's particularly mystifying as there are excellent Mexican restaurants all around it, plus a BK and a Checkers. There is so much traffic in and out of there that it's a frequent car accident zone. And I must admit that I'm guilty of hitting it once a month or so, meself.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2017/04/22/mcdonalds-new-uniform-hot-or-existentially-depressing/?utm_term=.a4f7a84bcdb5&tid=sm_tw

mcd's jumping on the health goth bandwagon two years too late