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If anyone should have known better it is a realistate company for gods sake
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I'm a huge fan of McDonald's, just not a big fan of their food. > McDonald's exemplifies the role of small businesses in Americans' upward mobility. The company is largely a confederation of small businesses: 85 percent of its U.S. restaurants -- average annual sales, $2.2 million -- are owned by franchisees. McDonald's has made more millionaires, and especially black and Hispanic millionaires, than any other economi…
Maybe if McDonald's didn't exist, there would be a more competitive franchise market and those small businesses would have made even more money. I have no idea if that's likely or not, but without that analysis, it's no different than saying that Lamy make the book American Gods possible, just because Gaiman used one of their pens.
If I could order a burger combo and have it dropped off at work or home, and be cheaper than an entire pizza plus tip, i'd order from it way more often than I should.
If they wanted to think, they should have kicked a different business.
And it’s not like people are tired of burgers. Smashburger, In-N-Out Burger, BurgerFi, and Five Guys Burgers & Fries are all expanding. So is Shake Shack... McDonalds problem is the same problem they've always had. The food just isn't very good. It never was. No amount of spiffing up the storefront or juggling menu items can help them when competition the likes of the above moves in. All they're doing is driving thei…
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I'm a huge fan of McDonald's, just not a big fan of their food. > McDonald's exemplifies the role of small businesses in Americans' upward mobility. The company is largely a confederation of small businesses: 85 percent of its U.S. restaurants -- average annual sales, $2.2 million -- are owned by franchisees. McDonald's has made more millionaires, and especially black and Hispanic millionaires, than any other economi…
Maybe if McDonald's didn't exist, there would be a more competitive franchise market and those small businesses would have made even more money. I have no idea if that's likely or not, but without that analysis, it's no different than saying that Lamy make the book American Gods possible, just because Gaiman used one of their pens.
I'll never be able to find the original reference, but apparently, chain stores can have a "market making" effect that mitigates the harm they do to consumer choice at the local level.
Starbucks used to take a lot of criticism for displacing indy coffeeshops, for example. Then, someone pointed out that a huge proportion of indy coffeeshops never existed in the first place until Starbucks normalized the idea of selling coffee and related beverages at extremely large markups.
So arguably McDonalds has opened the way for other burger restaurants and chains to enter the market, rather than blocking it.
Oh yeah, I remember that era. 1981, just after Carter's re-election.
I'd love to know where the new products in this article come from.
The all-day breakfast brought them more of my business. I really like the Egg McMuffin. But, the burgers are nothing to write home about - they're thin and not that juicy, and seem to be mostly bun. Their competition (Wendy's, Burger King) aren't really making good burgers either. I'm lucky that Austin has a wide choice in burgers from various independent restaurateurs.
Hardee's/Carl's Junior has ridiculously good burgers for a fast food joint. I gotta say though, since we got a Five Guys I don't even bother with them anymore if I want a quick burger.
Their burgers are much better though.
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Maybe if McDonald's didn't exist, there would be a more competitive franchise market and those small businesses would have made even more money. I have no idea if that's likely or not, but without that analysis, it's no different than saying that Lamy make the book American Gods possible, just because Gaiman used one of their pens.
Are you saying we shouldn't be happy about McDonald's making more minority millionaires than any other entity, because maybe if McDonald's was never founded, some other entity would exist that would make even more minority millionaires? How about we all just be happy that McDonald's did a good thing
Win!