Can McDonald's Survive?

That burger gave me a boner!

don't forget hardee's.

McDonalds has responded to rising health concerns in the last 2 decades by lurching around, changing products, changing menus, changing marketing campaigns, stopped aggressively marketing to kids etc etc etc.

Most importantly, what used to be a treat is now something that for the most part, you'd be ridiculed for, had you admitted to eating there. It is has been a growing symbol of obesity and shame in America. Not the hamburger... but McDonalds itself. Thats nearly impossible to undo.

From a business standpoint, they have became increasingly unfocused over the years and continue to be even more unfocused going forward. They've pretty much destroyed their identity in the last 2 decades. Like any public company, the pressure of meeting stockholder expectations with short term fixes has not kept pace with a couple decades of a changing culture. I don't see them having much of a future and I am not surprised that each new quarter is showing more and more signs of struggling. Successful businesses do exactly what they've done. They remain fanatically focused, execute flawlessly over and over and over again.. then once they've reached a certain saturation point, growth slows and stagnates and then they start lurching around trying to leverage the "power of the brand" to try new things and this always comes at the direct cost of the thing that got them there. They remind me of dunkin donuts.... now with breakfast, lunch, sandwiches, coffee etc etc etc... and have left behind the very thing that got them where they are to begin with and total failure is imminent. In the business world, it tends to take time, but their impending failure, without refocusing on their core business, is certain.

Poor people can't afford shake shack and Five Guys. It'll always have its place as affordable calories. You can fill your guts for three dollars there.

WRONG, dont ever assume

and can I say FITTY Shit burgers

Wouldnt bother me if every food place with a drivethru window went out of business.

The only thing i will eat there is the breakfast and only when it is super convenient.
just recently i almost went to a McDonalds for lunch but i noticed a grocery store across from it. We only had thirty minutes. So we bought two nice rolls some jambon ham from spain some nice cheese and some fruit juice.


Cost...about the same. Time about the same. Feeling after? Way better

The county welfare office is busy too -- that doesn't mean it is good for you ...
We need more falafel stands *(kiosks) in the USA

https://www.fatsecret.com/calories-n...lafel-sandwich
https://www.fatsecret.com/calories-n...onalds/big-mac

look at the saturated fat and cholesterol counts ^^^
Micky-D's makes cardiologists rich.

nice site

No, White Castle is totally healthy dude.

Don't take away me White Castles!!

I'm going to miss my weekly McGriddle sandwich.

The wife and I drive past McDees and go to A&W just up the road. Much better burgers and fries...the root beer is great...and they get our order right every time.

Here in Australia there profits are going down every year. They have changed there menu to more quality but they still are not making money like the 90's peoples taste have changed for better healthier foods and unless they spend mega bucks( which they can do ) everyone will still see them as unhealthy and uncool. They will survive in poor areas but they have already closing down in wealthy places.