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I would prefer it if they just friggin went away, their food is awful ! I give them another chance every few years, I always say to my self "it's not that bad, it actually tastes pretty good". Then about an hour later I get that sick feeling from eating a grease bomb.
I can't remember the last time I set foot in a Mickey D's...it's been at least two decades I'd guess. So really, I don't care what they sell, I ain't a-buyin' it.
Since Wedy's went downhill I visited our local MCd's and I have to say I am really impress in the way this company is turning around. A little more upscale and modern in their decor and decent staff most of the time. I think whoever plans the way things are laid out from napkin holders, registers, drink machines is doing a great job to reduce waste. When you go to drive thru watch the drink dispenser it does it for them and knows what size of cup they will be using. The napkin holders are facing so you have to life up instead of down so a customer cannot get a huge wad at one time and wast the napkins. I like how they are using a real person to take your drive thru order it helps those who have habit of staring at menu board to long and speaker issues.
I use to hate Hardees except for breakfast and now with merge with Carl JR they actually have tasty burgers and fries.
Burger King well the food is creepy as the Burger King guy in commercials.
McDonald's (MCD) this year will begin to roll out one of its biggest and most expensive new product concepts ever in a bid to put the heat on Starbucks in the battle for upscale coffee drinkers.
The long-anticipated move comes as Starbucks announced Monday that CEO Jim Donald is out and that founder and Chairman Howard Schultz would retake the reins as CEO.
This really belongs in the Business forum more than food and drink. I'll bet that this ends up as a case study in the Business School at Harvard. It's got all the great stuff business cases are made of.
First of all, it is a major departure from McD's product rollout strategy by not limiting the introduction locations. Second, it has the great price (McD)versus "perceived quality and snob appeal" (SB) question thrown in. Then you have the question on whether the upscale coffee drinker will want to work on a laptop next to the screaming kid scenario. And how will the increased capital equipment issue affect McD's distributor prices? It seems that distributors are being asked to fund more and more things at their store locations. For a business junkie, this is like heavenly stuff.
Here is my prediction: McD's will do great in smaller markets where price and value for the money are higher up on the list of the consumer. The strategy will fail in the New York/Chicago/San Francisco type markets where people buy SB brand "because I can".
From a coffee standpoint, I meet with a bunch of guys who, like me, are all over fifty, on many mornings. We get an endless supply of coffee for the senior price of 52 cents, so I think McD's coffee quality and pricing is wonderful while we solve the pressing issues of the day.
Ugh! This is a disaster waiting to happen!!! Not that I frequent McDonalds or any other fast food establishment, for that matter, but how on Earth are McDonalds employees supposed to get an order for some exotic coffee drink correct if they can't even get the food orders right half the time???
.... I meet with a bunch of guys who, like me, are all over fifty, on many mornings. We get an endless supply of coffee for the senior price of 52 cents, so I think McD's coffee quality and pricing is wonderful while we solve the pressing issues of the day.
We had a group like that back in Baltimore, retired railroaders, met at a diner each A.M. Called themselves the Liars Club.
Coffee at McD's will always suck. Their emphasis is on profit and squeezing out cost, like Wal-Mart, so you get what you pay for, which isn't much. The experience is also lacking. Massively lacking. Customers are viewed like mis-behaving teens. Seating is third rate, like being on a dirty noisy bus. There is NO atmosphere whatsoever, I'd rather eat in the cafeteria of my local public school. Their restrooms are a foul crude disgrace. The hired help is minimal.
Coffee at Starbucks will always be great. Both the coffee AND the experience. Their emphasis is on the coffee and the experience. They love the stuff, and they love their customers. Their face to face customer attention is the best in the business. Your treated like an adult and a friend. Their restrooms are marvelous and clean. Their profits follow naturally by having a better mousetrap, not better cost accounting and bludgeoning suppliers.
If McD's ever gets it's head out of its rigid rulebook maybe they'll make the egg sandwiches available into early afternoon. Since they don't, we go to Sonic for egg sandwiches as a lunch item and shun McD's and the grease bomb they call hashbrowns. Until McD's figures out who is the customer (ME! dammit), they'll get NONE of our business. Like Wal-Mart, McD's can't stand to see someone else making a buck on something, so they try to steal that business too.
In spite of people claiming MacDonald's has decent, even good, coffee, I can't imagine it. And to go for a latte? Excuse me, but I also want some ambience with my coffee, and I have yet to find that in a Mickey D's -- even their so-called MacCafe's.
I like coffee drinks any where BUT MacDonald's -- even in bookstores near me, like Borders or Barnes & Noble.
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Just ain't no comparison between the two.
