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McRevolt: The Frustrating Life of the McDonald's Franchisee (2015)

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Re: McRevolt: The Frustrating Life of the McDonald's Franchisee (2015)

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Post by thesagan »

abemishler wrote: post #47
johansch wrote: post #5

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I always wondered what kind of reasoning was behind that 10 am cutoff-point. Who the heck wants to eat a burger before, say, 11 am?

I for one would. They are leaving money on the table by not serving burgers anytime anybody wants a burger.

Same for me. I really don't like breakfast foods, and it's very difficult to grab a burger in the morning. Every place seems to serve the same boring morning breakfast until 10:30am. (And McD's breakfast seems overpriced for what they deliver.)

Re: McRevolt: The Frustrating Life of the McDonald's Franchisee (2015)

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Post by gozur88 »

noonespecial wrote: post #28

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…

I actually like the food. But I never go to McDonalds, because I can eat a full day's worth of calories in one meal and still be hungry. I don't know how they do it.

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Post by btgeekboy »

jumpkickhit wrote: post #33

Mcdonalds could really benefit from having robot delivery drivers. 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.

They recently announced a partnership with Uber for delivery.[0]. Granted, I don't use Uber for various reasons that the HN community is well aware of, but delivered McD's is coming.

[0] https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/mcdelivery.html

Re: McRevolt: The Frustrating Life of the McDonald's Franchisee (2015)

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Post by choward »

gozur88 wrote: post #72
noonespecial wrote: post #28

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…

I actually like the food. But I never go to McDonalds, because I can eat a full day's worth of calories in one meal and still be hungry. I don't know how they do it.

As much as I hate McDonald's and know that their food is unhealthy garbage, your statement is completely false.

Re: McRevolt: The Frustrating Life of the McDonald's Franchisee (2015)

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Post by tptacek »

jmull wrote: post #32
icebraining wrote: post #19

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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.

There's a large and thriving open market of franchise opportunities. McDonalds isn't somehow forcing potential franchisees to buy McDonalds franchises or preventing them from choosing a better opportunity should they find one.

Sure, but those other franchises do not tend to make people millionaires.

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Post by rangibaby »

chipperyman573 wrote: post #64
hueving wrote: post #15

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People had trouble pronouncing "the aristocrat"?!

McDonald's​ used to have a third pounder burger, but it didn't end up selling well because people thought it was lighter than a quarter pounder.

The 1/3 pounder was an A&W and thing not McDonald's. I know because A&W is huge in Okinawa.

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Post by irrational »

johansch wrote: post #11
swang wrote: post #10

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i believe it was 1030 for mcdonalds and the reasoning was they needed to start prepping for the 11am/lunch shift and there was only so much grill space for burgers/buns vs mcmuffins/toast/pancakes. i don't know what changes mcdonalds enforced to keep it going past 1030 now (just mandate now?)

In Sweden the cut-off/switch time is 10:00. It has been this time for a very, very long time.

I feel like only America eats crappy food like McDonalds and everywhere else they eat fresh wholesome food every day. Hearing that they have McDonalds in other countries just makes me sad.

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Post by tr1ck5t3r »

resf wrote: post #53
lr4444lr wrote: post #35

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You're being charitable. It's downright bad, even compared with various other franchises on an item by item basis. The last time I ate in one back in 2008 because nothing else was open that early, I had a breakfast that consisted of scrambled eggs, hash browns, pancakes, and sausage. Everything tasted almost identical - an oily salty mound - with only different chew textures. (Okay, maybe the sausage had a little ext…

No doubt, the food in McDonalds is bad. But it's very distinctive . You can buy a burger and fries at any number of joints, but you can only buy a McDonalds Big Mac and McDonalds fries at McDonalds. You could call it Hershey Syndrome. Hershey's chocolate is not very good. In fact, it tastes like vomit. Yet the entire US has grown up eating Hershey bars. Hershey don't compete on quality, they compete on "Hersheyness".…

The vomit taste is the butyric acid also found in human vomit which is used to make hersheys using cheaper milk products.

Surprising what people will eat.

Re: McRevolt: The Frustrating Life of the McDonald's Franchisee (2015)

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Post by [deleted] »

irrational wrote: post #77
johansch wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Sweden the cut-off/switch time is 10:00. It has been this time for a very, very long time.

I feel like only America eats crappy food like McDonalds and everywhere else they eat fresh wholesome food every day. Hearing that they have McDonalds in other countries just makes me sad.

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Re: McRevolt: The Frustrating Life of the McDonald's Franchisee (2015)

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Post by DanBC »

choward wrote: post #74
gozur88 wrote: post #72

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I actually like the food. But I never go to McDonalds, because I can eat a full day's worth of calories in one meal and still be hungry. I don't know how they do it.

As much as I hate McDonald's and know that their food is unhealthy garbage, your statement is completely false.

Big mac: 500 calories

Large Fries: 440 calories

Blueberry muffin: 400 calories

Medium coke: 170 calories

Total 1500 calories.

That's close to recommended daily calorie values (2000 for women, 2200 for men).

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