The slow death of McDonald's in North America?

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That group was at least half asian, IIRC. Their ads are creepy!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I just think they're 'hip & urban' ads are pathetic. McDonalds is, and always has been, a children's restaurant. Bring back Mayor McCheese and the Hamburglar and just be cool with who you are, Mc.

― andy --, Monday, 24 April 2006 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Though not even 1/10 as creepy as that Heinekin Premium Light ad with the Pussycat Dolls and the egg chair.

xpost andy OTM, strangely a talking cheeseburger and an unknown purple blob are a lot less creepy than the refreshing, uplifting, hip McD's ads.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link

all of this just makes me want a bacon egg & cheese macmuffin.

Get a Dunkin' Donuts one instead; it's bigger, it tastes just as good and it won't give you torrential shits.

(xpost: One man's "sad" is another man's "bold vision"! TOMBOT FOR PRESIDENT)

― Dan (TMI?) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link

This thread is very revealing about relationship dynamics! So cute!

― JW (ex machina), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link

I think Taco Bell does deliver? Well, they did in Arlington, VA, at least.

jon how was yr dream date with Ned?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I tried to record RAGGETT-HEADBANG.AVI but it was too dark!!!1111!1

― JW (ex machina), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I think they've hit the point of diminishing returns with the taking your kids to MacDonald's is an easy way to feel like a good parent angle. Now that those kids have grown up (18-35) and feel vaguely stupid/gauche about going there, they have to convince us that actually, no getting your breakfast or lunch at MacDonald's is a really inexpensive and perfectly acceptable way to indulge yourself and you can see basically that the people in the ads are supposed to be basically normal folks, not trying hard to be slick or awesome.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link

all of this just makes me want a bacon egg & cheese macmuffin.

I wish there was a McDonald's near my office. Instead I'm forced to have the breakfast sandwiches from Wawa (a convenience store) - which are not even as appealing (though still edible, and a nice alternative to donuts).

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link

SBARRO IS GOOD. EAT AT SBARRO. SBARRO. EAT THERE. HAVED SOME FOOD. SPADGETTY. BIG BOWLS. SBARRO. FORK. KNIFE. MILKSHAKE DRINK. TASTES GOOD. NABKIN DISPENDER. HOT AIR BLOWER. COST MORE MDONILLDS. BETTER THEN MDONILLDS. COST MORE BURGER KING. BETTER THEN BURGER KING. SBARRO COST MORE DOLLARS AND BETTER THEN THOSED ONES. HAVED SPADGETTY. SBARRO. BIG BOWLS. SIT AT BOOTHS. WAIT FOR SPADGETTY. FORK AND KNIFE. HOT AIR BLOWER. THEY COST MORE. THEY ACT NICE. SBARRO PAY THEM. YOU PAY THEM. JUST USE MONEY. DISPENDER. HOT AIR BLOWER. GARLICK BRED. FORK AND KNIFE. BIG BOWL OF SPADGETTYS. TO GIVED THEM MONEY. EATING BOOTH. JUST PAY WITH MONEY. THEY DO THE REST. PARMAZING CHEEZE DISPENDER. TASTES GOOD. BETTER THAN MDONILIDS. HOT AIR BLOWER. GARLIC BRED ROLL. TASTES GOOD. WAIT FOR SPADGETTY. CHAIR FOR BABIES. USE DISPENDER. USE FORK. USE KNIFE. USE BOOTH. USE SBARRO. THEY DO THE REST.

― #1 tim@kfc.edu fan (ex machina), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Confession: I don't think I've been to a McDonald's more than 5x in my life. That includes getting dragged there a couple years ago by two ILXors and not eating anything, just taking photos of them waiting on fries, and one time purchasing fries as a birthday gift for someone else (don't ask), and again, not eating there. I actually have no idea what their food tastes like besides I don't like the way their fries smell at all, it makes me sick. I don't understand the good parent thing people keep bringing up, actually.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Places that have double cheeseburgers on dollar menu = WIN
Places that have cheeseburger on dollar menu = MEH
Places that don't have dollar menu = DESTROY

― JW (ex machina), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link

it's the marketing idea behind the happy meal and the clowns and burgermen and fryguys and all that, Schlosser makes note of it in his book and unlike several other things he discusses this one appears to be backed up by documentation

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

i was in a car service on the way home from hanging out w/ chris, vicky, robster & nyc ilxors and it was midnite and nothing was open - EXCEPT the 24 hour mcdonalds by my house. so i asked the driver to take me into the drive-thru so i had a quarter pounder w/ cheese and some fries and now i can go to sleep happy.
thank you ray kroc.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link

? how did that happen.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link

They really need to bring back Mayor McCheese, Hamburglar, Fry Guys and Grimace. I didn't much care for the nugget characters.

― Solution, Monday, 24 April 2006 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Here's the part of the thread where I let slip that Eric Schlosser's dad used to be the Prez of NBC. Do you really have to have rich media parents (see also anyone Theroux) to whistleblow and write about it?

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link

99% of the time I know exactly what I'm going to get when I order a Big Mac.

Well, 99% of the time if I go somewhere I like that does good food, I am also going to get what I expect. I'm not saying this isn't a powerful (mainly subconscious?) reason for going to McD's, but in this day and age I don't think many places of repute have shonkily unreliable quality standards.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 24 April 2006 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link

"shonkily"!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Anyway, correct but most places of repute don't sell sandwiches for $1 either.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link

IS A HAMBURGER A SANDWICH?
IS A PIZZA PIE?

― JW (ex machina), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link

i thought they were like loss leaders hoping you would buy a $1 coke too.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link

but in this day and age I don't think many places of repute have shonkily unreliable quality standards

You would be surprised. This is not a defense of McDonald's, but there are many "places of repute" where the food quality can be very inconsistent.

― The Mercury Krueger (Ex Leon), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link

franchise standards in falling apart when you demand that all employees be paid as little as possible in order to meet absurd and somewhat frightening price points shockagon

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link

http://community.livejournal.com/mcdonalds_talk/158400.html

― JW (ex machina), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know about places of repute. But restaurants that are supposed to be on the same level as McDonald's aren't as reliable. If I go to Burger King and order a Whopper Jr. there's no telling what I'm going to get. Sometimes it's more like Whopper soup. Sometimes it's cold Whopper soup. Sometimes there's an onion ring under the bun.

― Rebekkah (burntbrat), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link

McDonald's is fucking nasty and you couldn't pay me to eat there, but I don't see any waning of their predominance in the US.

their Indian franchise menus are hilarious (and also look thoroughly inedible. McD's "vegetable shabzi"? = NOTHANKYOU)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link

IT INVOLVES 2 PIECES OF BREAD = IT IS A SANDWICH TO ME

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

it is sandwiched, I agree

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link

JW which one of those people on the McD's livejournal page is you

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link

well it seems more like a proper sandwich than an ice cream sandwich does.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link

anything that uses two or more completely separated pieces of bread, with stuff inbetween, I think

crosspost

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link

what is yr opinion though of "open face" sandwiches?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:33 (eighteen years ago) link

They're great -- it's a very Scandinavian thing.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I have never seen a McDonald's ad in Germany, Switzerland, or Austria that featured Turkish customers.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm not sure what I'd rather call and "open face sandwich"

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link

what is the point of an open-faced sandwich?

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link

its so you can get salmon and mayonnaise and onion bits all over your face

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Good parenting:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004T5D2.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link

http://ask.yahoo.com/20050405.html

― JW (ex machina), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link

that site has no credibility by actually linking to an article called "HOW DID YOGI BEAR GET HIS NAME". WTF. Grimace, that's one thing. Yogi Bear???? How far our country has sank. Sad head shakes here.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link

The full title of the article is "How did "Yogi Bear" get his name if he never practiced yoga?"

― JW (ex machina), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I COULDN'T BRING MYSELF TO TYPE THAT

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link

McDonald's has bathroom soap that smells like napalm.

― DOQQUN (donut), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Mayor McCheese also claps like a homosexual.

― DOQQUN (donut), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link

To eat a McDonald's fry, it is comparable to Holocaust clean-up duty.

― Washable School Paste (sexyDancer), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link

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

― DOQQUN (donut), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link

lol @ Mayor McCheese claps like a homosexual

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

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

― James Mitchell, Sunday, 26 April 2009 12:19 (fifteen years ago) link

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