McDonalds struggling

[TinFoilHat]

Hard agree. It’s fucking awful.

Back to the main point of the thread, I’m not mourning for McDs and can’t remember the last time I ate it. Probably have it once a year, usually on some kind of road trip where’s there’s simply nothing else available. All the big burger chains have gone to shit and have lost out to smaller, more regional players who can point to not being big, factory-scale, monoliths, even if their food is often not that much better.

Nothing beats the old Wimpy on Market Street ;)

I miss Wimpy

My nearest one is in fucking Rotherham.

 

[Phil1]

I miss Wimpy

My nearest one is in fucking Rotherham.

Which makes sense seeing as they are still in the 80s.
Bet they’ve still got a Radio Rentals as well.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

a modern tragedy
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This one, designed by architect Sam Scorer is now a Starbucks.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Both McD's I passed on my way to work (usually peak breakfast) time had the sum total of 3 cars on the drivethrough line.

 

[Blue Maverick]

I can now 100% relate to this character. 100%.

Yep in fact if we had guns I may well have done this!

 

[blue44]

My lad is just setting out now for his first proper shift with them after he did some training on tuesday.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

My lad is just setting out now for his first proper shift with them after he did some training on tuesday.

Fair play. Hopefully he'll learn some valuable life skills.

 

[Wayneclarkemunchescarrots]

Fair play. Hopefully he'll learn some valuable life skills.

Such as if a twat mouths off at you wipe your arse on his bread roll

 

[City Hobgoblin]

Stories of faecal bacteria on the ordering screens probably don't help.

In fact the last time I went in one was probably for a "McShit" .

 

[idahoblues]

Both McD's I passed on my way to work (usually peak breakfast) time had the sum total of 3 cars on the drivethrough line.

I drove by one the other day ( breakfast time ) it was packed, two lanes of cars filtering into one

 

[Sk@mcfc]

There was a story years ago where someone had accidentally dropped a McDonald's burger behind the fridge and couldn't be arsed to get it. Years later the thing was retrieved and it looked no different from the day it was made. The moral from the story is don't eat their shit food it isn't good for you.

Or always keep a McDonalds burger for emergencies

 

[hilts]

Big mac and sausage & egg mcmuffin are more than acceptable.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

I drove by one the other day ( breakfast time ) it was packed, two lanes of cars filtering into one

Was it the only one around for miles?

There are 12 around these parts, all within a 35-mile radius, plus a whole load of other places. Fast food saturation.

 

[.db.]

At one time the choice for a burger was the local Charcoal Pit, Wimpy or Maccies. Charcoal Pit being acceptable but all still shite.

Now you can go and get a proper big dirty cheesy oniony spicy real quality beef burger with top class brioche buns and interesting burger sauces that actually fill you up, at an array of different specialist burger places.

Whether it’s Almost Famous, Honest Burger, Burgerism… they make Maccies redundant in my world, don’t know why anyone goes there anymore, the meat in the burgers is dry, crumbly and pretty much pathetic.

 

[hilts]

At one time the choice for a burger was the local Charcoal Pit, Wimpy or Maccies. Charcoal Pit being acceptable but all still shite.

Now you can go and get a proper big dirty cheesy oniony spicy real quality beef burger with top class brioche buns and interesting burger sauces that actually fill you up, at an array of different specialist burger places.

Whether it’s Almost Famous, Honest Burger, Burgerism… they make Maccies redundant in my world, don’t know why anyone goes there anymore, the meat in the burgers is dry, crumbly and pretty much pathetic.

Price wise not a very fair comparison tbf.

 

[mackenzie]

You haven't lived until you heard those great words from one room to another "Check that chip pan" :)

There wasn't even time for that, the whole thing just bloody exploded lol

 

[I'm With Stupid]

There was a story years ago where someone had accidentally dropped a McDonald's burger behind the fridge and couldn't be arsed to get it. Years later the thing was retrieved and it looked no different from the day it was made. The moral from the story is don't eat their shit food it isn't good for you.

There was also the "last burger in Iceland' where a bloke bought one on the day they closed down their last restaurant, intending to make a museum display showing it rotting over time. To his surprise, 10 years later, it barely looked any different. It's what Michael Pollan called an 'edible food-like substance.'

 

[dronefromsector7G]

McLying cunts should be done under the trade descriptions act

 

[idahoblues]

Was it the only one around for miles?

There are 12 around these parts, all within a 35-mile radius, plus a whole load of other places. Fast food saturation.

Not at all, the town has probably six McD’s plus countless other fast food places….. countless.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

There was also the "last burger in Iceland' where a bloke bought one on the day they closed down their last restaurant, intending to make a museum display showing it rotting over time. To his surprise, 10 years later, it barely looked any different. It's what Michael Pollan called an 'edible food-like substance.'

It's probably actually where the myth comes from. Mcdonald's are full of artificial ingredients but the reason for the lack of decomposition was environmental conditions. E.g he stuck it in a vacuum within a glass box.

There's enough fat and grease in Mcdonald's burgers that it simply isn't plausible that they don't decompose in an open environment.