Your thoughts on McDonalds?

[tokyodrift]

I used to work there for about four years and I really don't mind it really. I mean I used to eat there because well I worked in the building, but these days I just don't eat it at all. If it's the only option at the time, I'll get something small. To be quite honest, I don't think Corporate really cares about how the animals are treated, coming from experience and other issue that I've had while working there. Though that's more of a managerial issue.

 

[Sun]

It's definitely not healthy. The food doesn't taste that good, I try to avoid fast food when I can. :)

 

[Gligar]

I havent eaten there for like 4 years and I dont mind keeping that going. My little 6 year old bruh doesn't even like eating there.

 

[Saintscrew7]

Mc does have a attracting way... But I prefer homestyle meals ANY DAY, (btw: yes I'm human), I've grown with this particular food. But seeing my 6yr cousin gobble 2 whole Big Mc... That was the quit-KO I had to stop eating FF. Now I somedays spent ours on BK wifi without eating. But those arguments (that each one posted) are valid.
Onve in a while: ok.
Every day: No.

 

[Palkia]

I have a few friends who work in my local drive-in as a part time job and they have a blast there. Being unemployed is worse than flipping burgers for your job.

They're not my favourie chain, I find that they taste cheaper than Burger King and nothing beats the chicken you can get at KFC.

 

[gimmepie]

Once again guys, this should be a more in-depth discussion about the company not a quick chat about "I like McDonalds" or "I don't like McDonalds" based on the menu etc.

 

[KetsuekiR]

While it's undeniable that McDonalds is an extremely unhealthy choice to dine at, I personally believe that life is too short to never eat there. It tastes good and I like to eat it and so I will. That being said, it truly is an extremely unhealthy lifestyle to go by. The solution that I use myself is to eat McDonalds once every three months, on the last day of a school term as a sort of ritual with a bunch of my schoolmates, for the fun of it! Now, would I recommend McDonalds to anybody? Yes but in a limited sense. Go there, eat there, but do so only once in a while (and only if you like it ;D) because life's too short to ignore everything that makes you happy to live five years longer so that you can ignore everything that makes you happy ^.^

 

[brantman19]

I have seen McDonalds from two different views. I have friends who work there and I know someone who owns 4 in my town.
Workers: The workers tend to be treated really bad by Corporate. There are some things that the owners/operators can do to help but that isn't really much because Corporate pretty much holds them in place. McDonalds knows how to run a restaurant effectively and tells the owners to just do it this way to make the most money for both parties. The workers used to have all sorts of underhanded things being done to them like pay garnishment and long hours. 95% of the workers problems come from Corporate. The $15/hour movement is actually bad for both the owners and the workers. Both groups have told me this. It only promotes the button pressing kiosks in the store and it lays off lots of employees. The workers that I know there also know that they are under 20 and that McDonalds is meant for younger people who have not gone to college yet or are in between jobs. It is not meant to pay you and you get rich. It is an uninformed bunch protesting for higher pay that will screw up the economy in the end. That is their opinion at least.
Owner/Operator: The owner has his hands tied a lot. He is really more of a head manager. He makes sure the shipments are ordered and arrived, he makes sure customers are happy, and he passes along information from Corporate to the workers. He invested several million in each store so that he could have what we call in the business world a "turn-key startup" which means a start-up business that you just follow what they tell you and success comes by opening the door. He makes a lot of money if he does what Corporate tells him. But he is the one who would have to fork out the $15/hour wage increase. All wages come out of his operating budget. If the store sells 100 burgers for $1, he gets only around 96% of that to pay for the building costs, wages for workers, inspections, and other supplies. McDonalds has high royalty fees for advertising and for the brand as well so that gets deducted. Overall, if he does how Corporate tells him, he makes anywhere from $75k to $300k a store per year depending on the year he had. He owns 4 so he is always rolling over $500k a year but you figure out how much he had to pay out to get there. $2 million a store is $8 million overall. It will take him 16 years to pay that off.
Not making him out to not be well off here because he is doing great for himself and his family. But Corporate is the real bad guys in the situation. They just have to spend money on advertising and making sure they have ways for their stores to get the supplies to keep running. Supply Chain Management over 60 years isn't hard.

 

[Kanzler]

It's food and i like getting 20 nuggets for $5

Only in America. It's $12 for 20 in Canada. McDonalds really benefits from cheap American food prices. I don't feel that it's got the same bargain feel in other countries. In fact in India and China the business model is significantly more upscale.

 

[shadowmoon522]

i used to enjoy the shamrock shakes til they changed them a few years ago.
i also used to take up the only electric outset & tapped of their wifi a good bit back when i lived where i lived before where i live now. i started to drag a power strip with me in the same bag as my labtop so people could charge their phones & stuff. you would be surprised at how many people will give you a dollar as thx for letting them do that.
honestly, the place i was at was a mess. flies, crumbs & trash everywhere. the employs never came out from behind the corner except when customers pestered them to do so. the flies sometimes got so bad that i killed 5 of e'm with the back of my hand. it's a wonder they never got into the tea during those times when they forgot to put the lid on it...
i left a few dead flies on the window where everyone can see them & eventually arranged them to say "look its a mess to clean".
while many of their restaurants are relatively clean, there are quite a few scattered around that are not taken care of all that well.
next onto the topic of nutrition.
if your in the us, everything your eating has some kind of perseverative or chemical of some kind or another mixed in at some point the the existence of the meat or plant.
the only way to be free of that stuff is to grow the plants yourself, raise your own chickens & cows, and kill the thing you wish to eat yourself.
the only real difference between killing & eating a rabbit & eating a carrot is the rabbit is a lot more messier. whether your consuming the life of a plant or the life of an animal you still consuming the life of another living being to sustain your own. life begets life.
regardless, mc donalds can be a good way to trim your weight down in 6 months if done right, but it's not that great of thing to keep going for your entire life. one of the most healthiest things anyone can do is completely abstain from sugar like my grandma did. she was around for almost a century before the reaper took her away. though that didn't happened without one hell of a fight. death had been trying to claim her for about as long as i lived. in her 80s she was able to push a stove off of herself and just get up like it was nothing after her house broke apart around us.
regardless, your better off cooking your own food at home then eating fast food...

 

[T The Manager]

McDonald's makes me sick most of the time. Not like illness sick but their food just doesn't settle right. There's far better fast foods than McDonald's. I don't even understand why people consistently eat there. No, just no.

 

[gimmepie]

I'm just going to close this thread I think. There's nothing wrong with discussing whether or not you like or dislike the food served at McDonalds, but that sort of thing isn't what this thread was originally about and isn't really the way topics in the Round Table should be directed.

If you'd like to talk about how much you like or dislike the franchise's food, please use the Treehouse.