Some McDonald's history:
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How Ray Kroc saved the San Diego Padres
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August 29, 2014
August 28, 2014
Hands-Off Franchising
Burger King corporate visits each restaurant once a quarter - maybe.
Burger King, Tim Hortons: Growth Through Hands-Off Franchising - WSJ
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August 27, 2014
August 26, 2014
Buffett to Help Finance BK's Takeover of Tim Hortons
Even after BK and Tim's combine McDonald's market cap will still be more than four
times their value.
Warren Buffett to Help Finance Burger King's Takeover of Tim Hortons - WSJ
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times their value.
Warren Buffett to Help Finance Burger King's Takeover of Tim Hortons - WSJ
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August 25, 2014
Burger King Courting Tim Hortons
The owners of Burger King Worldwide have absolutely stripped the Burger King
brand to the bone and sold off all of the company operated stores in order to
impress shareholders and to be able to claim that they've turned things around.
It's all short term and the long term results will not be good for Burger King.
If they do the same thing to Tim Horton's it could be good news for McDonald's in
both the USA and in Canada.
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Move BKW headquarters to Canada?
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brand to the bone and sold off all of the company operated stores in order to
impress shareholders and to be able to claim that they've turned things around.
It's all short term and the long term results will not be good for Burger King.
If they do the same thing to Tim Horton's it could be good news for McDonald's in
both the USA and in Canada.
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Move BKW headquarters to Canada?
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August 22, 2014
McDonald's Taps Former Executive to Turn Around U.S.
McDonald's management used to boast about a "deep bench". How deep can the "bench"
be if they have to scrounge around looking for former employees to rehire?
Was at Logan's Roadhouse for two years - WSJ
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be if they have to scrounge around looking for former employees to rehire?
Was at Logan's Roadhouse for two years - WSJ
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August 21, 2014
August 20, 2014
August 18, 2014
Taco Bell to Launch Dollar Cravings Menu
but these $1 menu items look like
very low food cost products,
(tortillas, chips, beans).
Taco Bell says, "craveable and quality value items” are important for Taco Bell because Millennials drive nearly half of the chain’s transactions."
Yeah, well, millennials don't want to feel cheated either.
Taco Bell to launch Dollar Cravings menu - NRN
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Cheeseburgers Won't Melt the Polar Ice Caps - WSJ
"Each to his own, you might say. But these ideas are working their way into government policy proposals."
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Jayson Lusk: Cheeseburgers Won't Melt the Polar Ice Caps - WSJ
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Jayson Lusk: Cheeseburgers Won't Melt the Polar Ice Caps - WSJ
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August 17, 2014
Are Franchisors Inching Toward a Cliff?
Attorney Howard Bundy makes an interesting case for less control over
franchisees.
The problem is: As a franchise company evolves the “control freaks” take over. Who
else
would work for a big franchisor? Would a person who believes in free enterprise
and entrepreneurship work
for a large, multi-national franchisor?
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If they are not control freaks they just don’t move up the
corporate ladder.
Are Franchisors Inching Toward a Cliff? How Much Control Is Enough? - BlueMauMau
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August 16, 2014
330 Burger Kings For Sale
This is why Burger King will always be a troubled brand. The companychanges
hands every few years, sometimes it's a public company, sometimes private. Stores
change ownership by the hundreds, and along the way disinterested financial
engineers suck millions out of the Burger King system.
Say what you want about McDonald's but at least there's stability in ownership.
Blackstone aims to sell Burger King operator - Crain's
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August 15, 2014
August 13, 2014
McDonald's Seeding Fruit Options
While McDonald's Operators, Wall Street analysts, journalists, and anyone who's ever
run a restaurant is screaming at McDonald's to simplify the menu...
We get McOranges
McDonald's should close down any facility or department with the word "Innovation"
in it's name and develop a department titled "Menu Optimization" staffed by people
who have successfully operated real McDonald's restaurants within the past twenty
years. Chefs and marketing people need not apply.
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run a restaurant is screaming at McDonald's to simplify the menu...
We get McOranges
McDonald's should close down any facility or department with the word "Innovation"
in it's name and develop a department titled "Menu Optimization" staffed by people
who have successfully operated real McDonald's restaurants within the past twenty
years. Chefs and marketing people need not apply.
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August 12, 2014
August 11, 2014
Geezers in Motion
Retirees frequent fast-food places 63% of the time; 37% of the time they go to places
with waiters and waitresses.
Retirees get creative to eat cheap at restaurants
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with waiters and waitresses.
Retirees get creative to eat cheap at restaurants
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August 9, 2014
August 7, 2014
August 5, 2014
McDonald's Under Fire From Parent Group for 'Dating Naked'
While the PTC can be overly bossy they certainly have a good point on this one.
How can this kind of thing happen?
Are McDonald's Operators no longer involved in advertising and marketing decisions?
How can the home of the Happy Meal be involved in such programming?
Operators have been complaining that Oak Brook is is in complete and arbitrary control
of OPNAD. Add to that the many deviants who work at the various ad agencies and it
seems McDonald's Operators are paying for programming that would not be allowed into
their own homes.
For over thirty years McDonald's Operators have been the moral compass of the system.
Looks it's time to reengage.
Parents Television Council press release
Some of the "viral" coverage
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How can this kind of thing happen?
Are McDonald's Operators no longer involved in advertising and marketing decisions?
How can the home of the Happy Meal be involved in such programming?
Operators have been complaining that Oak Brook is is in complete and arbitrary control
of OPNAD. Add to that the many deviants who work at the various ad agencies and it
seems McDonald's Operators are paying for programming that would not be allowed into
their own homes.
For over thirty years McDonald's Operators have been the moral compass of the system.
Looks it's time to reengage.
Parents Television Council press release
Some of the "viral" coverage
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August 2, 2014
Political Contributions
I don’t edit the comments made on this website, they either get approved
for posting
or deleted when inappropriate.
A few anonymous posters have stated McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson
contributed
$60,000 to Barrack Obama’s presidential campaign(s). I don’t think that’s correct
and
don’t want to be guilty of spreading internet mythology.
After visiting numerous political disclosure websites and press articles I can
only find a contribution from Thompson to Obama of $28,500 in mid-2008. If someone has different
information I’d be glad to post a correction here.
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Why Do the Feds Want to Dismantle the Golden Arches?
All of the reporting on the NLRB actions has been lacking because there are
no reporters who understand the complexity of the franchise relationship.
Andy Puzder is one smartest restaurant CEOs around and certainly the most
outspoken. In his WSJ editorial he describes the lunacy of the NLRB.
"If the NLRB's new interpretation of the rules—which McDonald's has vowed
to contest—becomes the law of the land, it will be tantamount to rewriting an
existing contractual relationship by government fiat in ways the parties never
contemplated and to their mutual detriment."
Carl's Jr/Hardee's CEO - Opinion
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no reporters who understand the complexity of the franchise relationship.
Andy Puzder is one smartest restaurant CEOs around and certainly the most
outspoken. In his WSJ editorial he describes the lunacy of the NLRB.
"If the NLRB's new interpretation of the rules—which McDonald's has vowed
to contest—becomes the law of the land, it will be tantamount to rewriting an
existing contractual relationship by government fiat in ways the parties never
contemplated and to their mutual detriment."
Carl's Jr/Hardee's CEO - Opinion
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