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“We are in the throes of a deep depression, and nothing is changing,” one franchisee wrote in response to the survey, according to Business Insider. “Probably 30 percent of operators are insolvent.” Franchisees said the brand could be facing “its final days.” They expressed frustration with the CEOs’s new initiatives, which seem to keep failing. According to Business Insider, the company started “toasting its hamburger buns longer, making its beef patties slightly larger, and changing how the patties are seared.” "The CEO is sowing the seeds of our demise,” another wrote. “We are a quick-serve fast-food restaurant, not a fast casual like Five Guys or Chipotle. The system may be facing its final days." McDonalds profits declined 13 percent, or $1.2 billion. Just go back to the dollar menu already. 99 cent 5 piece chicken nuggets were the best. Now you need to make it a combo meal or some bullshit. Hell, I can get 5 piece popeyes strips for like 3.99, and they don't skimp. Fuckers are like 4 inches long, and you get a large fries with the meal. lol mcdonalds gonna be out of business in my lifetime.
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 16:31 |
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good
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 00:44 |
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i hope they all die
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 00:44 |
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gently caress em I'm glad of it
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 00:45 |
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If the market no longer supports the business model
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 00:48 |
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so theyre making better food and charging more thats like the opposite of the mcdonalds forfathers ideals
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 00:49 |
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Too tasty to fail
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 00:50 |
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i hope they get a nice big government bailout because thats how the free market works
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 00:50 |
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I for one welcome our new five overlords.
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 00:51 |
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Hope they go down and we get a Wendy's in my bumfuck town
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 00:53 |
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everything in mcd sucks now the portions are smaller yet somehow more expensive ill be glad to do my part in buying a medium black coffee, using their wifi, and watch their stock plummet
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 00:54 |
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i want the option for a runny yolk on my egg mcmuffin, gently caress the franshisees. runny yolk
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 00:56 |
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Nooo the black race will starve (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 00:57 |
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I'm insolvent, depressed, leaderless
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 00:57 |
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Hooded Reptile posted:Just go back to the dollar menu already. These only really work as gimmicks to get people in and get them to spend money on other poo poo like $3 milkshakes, if the majority of your customers (or users, as McDonalds calls them) are so fuckin poor that they can only afford to buy off the dollar menu then you can't afford to operate. All is well this is just an expected market correction!
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 00:58 |
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TEAH SYAG posted:Nooo the black race will starve nah burger king still doing fine (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 00:58 |
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Chinatown posted:i hope they all die Blue Train posted:gently caress em I'm glad of it
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:12 |
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Maybe have both higher quality items and dollar menu and attract something, thing,
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:12 |
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they supported obamacare & deserve to go out of business. also the food is poo poo
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:14 |
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they stopped offering bagels around here a while ago, gently caress em
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:16 |
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Daedra posted:they stopped offering bagels around here a while ago, gently caress em this is what you get when you anger the jewish lobby
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:19 |
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Their mistake was trying to upscale their menu, they need to just do whatever they can to corner that dollar-menu market Make a f*ckin grilled cheese sandwich afaiac just make it $1
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:22 |
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City of Tampa posted:i want the option for a runny yolk on my egg mcmuffin, gently caress the franshisees. they dont because they likely don't even use a whole "egg", and it would be huge liability to serve runny yolks because it's probably the bottom of the ecoli barrel. i think they just use canister of egg and toss it on a pan till its solid as a rock for safety.
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:23 |
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who the gently caress eats at mcdonalds? nasty poo poo there
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:24 |
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McDonalds was my first job and I have fond memories of it, so I'll be a little sad if they go. That being said, their food is just garbage anymore. They bowed down to vegetarians and took the tallow out of their fry grease and now their world-famous fries are flavorless. When I worked there, they always drove home the point that they make barely any profit off of their food, and like 90% of their profit from fountain drinks. If the food isn't enough to bring people in any more, then it's only inevitable that they would go the way of the dodo. How does franchising work? I know the majority of the locations are franchised locations, and when I worked there the franchise license was $1 million. Now, do the franchisees have to give McDonalds corporate a percentage of their profits, or is it a one-time fee for the name? If that's the case, I can see how they would go under.
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:24 |
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Remember when these guys used to make everybody go there in the morning for breakfast
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:26 |
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As someone who worked in the cellphone industry which is franchised and outsourced, corporate is constantly pushing just-impossible margins on front-line staff constantly. If your outlet does well for a couple of months, lets say due to seasonal changes in spending habits, then surely that must be your stores standard operating rate. Working these sorts of gigs is profoundly unpleasant and stressful and the achievement targets by corporate are more or less impossible without a staff of violent bloodthirsty motherfuckers constantly looking to prey on the old and mentally weak. If you have any sort of moral backbone you can't work sales.
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:27 |
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criscodisco posted:They bowed down to vegetarians and took the tallow out of their fry grease and now their world-famous fries are flavorless. So much this. What is the minimum age one would be to remember when their fries tasted good? 25?
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:27 |
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Odd thing #1: Every McDonalds I ever see is loving packed. Are they dying elsewhere? Also 24 hours breakfast was the first good thing they've done in a while. And yeah OP the 99 cent menu was stupid to ditch but all the companies did. Seriously though, McDonalds is not going out of loving business. If anything they'll scale back so they don't own the ridiculous number of locations they do. They outnumber everybody else by huge amounts in the same category.
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:28 |
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Flesh Forge posted:These only really work as gimmicks to get people in and get them to spend money on other poo poo like $3 milkshakes, if the majority of your customers (or users, as McDonalds calls them) are so fuckin poor that they can only afford to buy off the dollar menu then you can't afford to operate. All is well this is just an expected market correction! I had recently seen an article stating that franchisees have had a similar problem with the recent "breakfast all day" thing. Some of them reported losing significant revenue to people ordering relatively low-priced breakfast things instead of Big Macs.
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:28 |
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Blazing Ownager posted:Odd thing #1: Every McDonalds I ever see is loving packed. Are they dying elsewhere? Also 24 hours breakfast was the first good thing they've done in a while. And yeah OP the 99 cent menu was stupid to ditch but all the companies did. They don't own very many locations dickweasel. e: 18%
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:30 |
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criscodisco posted:McDonalds was my first job and I have fond memories of it, so I'll be a little sad if they go. chinatown was right including you in the people who should die
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:30 |
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Hooded Reptile posted:“We are in the throes of a deep depression, and nothing is changing,” one franchisee wrote in response to the survey, according to Business Insider. “Probably 30 percent of operators are insolvent.” That's a fuckin' lie, a 5 strip dinner is like 8 dollars without a drink. The 5 Dollar Big Box is a 3 piece strip and it's only around now and then.
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:31 |
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GORDON posted:So much this. burger king was still better
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:31 |
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macdonalds lick my arse
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:32 |
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Justin Tyme posted:That's a fuckin' lie, a 5 strip dinner is like 8 dollars without a drink. The 5 Dollar Big Box is a 3 piece strip and it's only around now and then. They have a promo here for it, there is a coupon in the sunday paper, but who reads newspapers anymore.
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:32 |
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Is it kind of lame that I've never had a McJob and I sort of want one? Like I know it's not real cooking in any way shape or form and all you're really doing is line-assembling heated garbage and packaging it but for some reason I think I'd really enjoy it.
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:33 |
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I went to a McDonald's when Ronald McD himself was there having a meet & greet. He and Grimace went airtight on me out back by the grease dumpster. I still go every morning, lookin, hoping, and waiting for the lunch menu.
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:33 |
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Maybe if minimum wage were higher people would be willing to buy more poo poo burgers?
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# ? Oct 20, 2015 01:33 |
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Xaris posted:they dont because they likely don't even use a whole "egg", and it would be huge liability to serve runny yolks because it's probably the bottom of the ecoli barrel. i think they just use canister of egg and toss it on a pan till its solid as a rock for safety. no i'm pretty sure that the egg mcmuffin is a legit egg, not some fake egg concoction . they could safely make it with a runny yolk as long as the whites are cooked through
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