A Hurricane Helene Donation Opportunity

Samaritan's Purse, lead by Franklin Graham

MCD Shares Break Records

Back in June, we discussed, with some alarm, that McDonald's share price had drifted down to the mid-$200 range.

Is anyone watching the MCD stock price? - 6/18/24

We should now recognize that the MCD share price has finally topped $300 over the past week, driven by market momentum and an announced increase in the MCD dividend.

However, in the longer term, the increase comes from investors' confidence that McDonald's Owner/Operators will continue to follow corporate discounting plans.

Congratulations to MCD shareholders.

MCD Insider Sales (Nobody's Buying?)

NYSE: MCD stock report - Yahoo Finance

Give Franchisees a Break on Remodels

Want franchisees to get on board with remodels? Opinion by Maze

Don't Miss This Comment...

Anonymous says:

"When the pandemic hit, CK and the entire company sheltered in place while *we* worked in our restaurants and kept the business running alone"

The original post is at:

When the pandemic hit...fegroupblog

Are We Done With McHarris?

This is one last post about the Kamala Harris and McDonald's issue. It seems to have run its course, and I'm told she isn't going to use McDonald's in her commercials anymore. That doesn't mean Trump/Vance won't still mention it, but probably with less frequency. It is disappointing that news reporters in their 20s and 30s expect businesses to produce employment records from forty years ago. Of course, if Kamala hadn't ever worked at McDonald's, there would be nothing to reveal.

Harris touts her time working at McDonald's. Will it help? - LA Times

McDonald's & Dunkin' Most Popular QSRs

87% of households visited McDonald's at least once in the last 12 months

Study of McDonald's $5.00 meal deal by same research firm (name and e-mail required)

Multiple Issues at Subway

Meat slicers, store remodels, discounting, etc. - Franchise Times

As Expected, $5 Meal is Forever

“Together with our franchisees, we’re committed to keeping our prices as affordable as possible,” Joe Erlinger

First McDonald's Paycheck

https://x.com/i/status/1833592944869388675

Subway Franchisees Send in Zarco

In change from Coke to Pepsi some balk at signing agreements - Maze

Breakfast Optional at Taco Bell

Franchisees have the option to serve or not to serve breakfast

Former McDonald's VP Makes Good

It doesn't happen that often that a former McDonald's exec goes on to a successful position elsewhere. Debbie Stroud appears to be the exception.

Whataburger CEO retiring - Stroud takes post - Rest Business

https://www.linkedin.com/in/debbie-stroud-88149540/details/experience/

Life is Political - Like it or Not

Kamala Harris' claim that she once worked for McDonald's continues to attract considerable attention. So far, McDonald's Corp. has responded with "no comment." While this is dangerous ground because no corporate favor can be shown to any candidate, isn't this a chance to reinforce the fallacy of the Joint Employer concept? 

Shouldn't one of the pajama boys be able to put together a statement that says, "These people don't work for us, and we know nothing about them?" And/or "We don't keep records of franhiceee's employees?"

A proper nonpartisan statement would be better than leaving the questions hanging, which only allows the media to speculate that McDonald's Corp. is hiding something.

McDonald's is getting a lot of attention on the campaign trail - Yahoo

High End Burger Chains Struggling

"Burgers are great and people still love them. But there are a lot of brands that sell them, so if you’re going to get into the business you’d better be on your game" - Jonathan Maze

And McDonald's management is focused on testing a larger, more expensive hamburger?

Big Arch - massive and satisfying - review