McDonalds struggling

[Tuearts right boot]

I find anything with 'celebrities' a load of bollocks. In part, because I don't know who three-quarters of the 'celebrities' are. But I have to admit, a lot of people are into 'celebrities'. There's even magazines about them. I picked one up in a waiting room once and found nothing of substance in it.

But there's no denying there's a market for it, just as there's a market for soaps like Ennerdale.

That's the state of the world we live in unfortunately

 

[Stelea]

Since Trump rocked up there last week

 

[Really_here]

I find anything with 'celebrities' a load of bollocks. In part, because I don't know who three-quarters of the 'celebrities' are. But I have to admit, a lot of people are into 'celebrities'. There's even magazines about them. I picked one up in a waiting room once and found nothing of substance in it.

But there's no denying there's a market for it, just as there's a market for soaps like Ennerdale.

The market is huge sadly. Look at the crap that pops up when you go on MEN site for` example.

 

[Platt Lane 59]

You know lads, part of the issue is that money is worth fuck all these days and real wages are no higher than they were 15 years ago.

I speak as one who can remember getting 4 pints of Holt's bitter for a quid. You just look at the price of anything. A tube of glue can be £5 or more. Minimum £50 ish to get into City. And so on.

I know things are tough mate and times are hard.
But stay off the glue and save a fiver ?

 

[Really_here]

The market is huge sadly. Look at the crap that pops up when you go on MEN site for` example.

see the crap below that popped up on the footie stream

 

[levets]

I like the sausage McMuffin with egg breakfast with fresh orange and coffee, not the most healthiest so can only have one on rare occasions.

Yes, that’s the ONLY thing I have from McDonalds… the sausage & egg McMuffin. Their burgers are shite.

 

[SebastianBlue]

This E. Coli outbreak linked to their stores (which suspiciously coincides with Trump cosplaying a fast food worker at one of their franchises) isn’t going to help them.

E. coli cases linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounders rise to 75 across 13 states: CDC

The number of cases in a deadly E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders has risen to 75, the CDC said on Friday.

abcnews.go.com

(And before anyone calls me a “conspiracy theorist”, the Trump reference was a joke.)

 

[Grassland Blue]

and proud..........Sir manc **** to you.


Plus it's a muffin ......You free posh pie and mash Jellied eel eating ****

You missed out bubble n squeak....

 

[Grassland Blue]

No one appears to have mentioned the Mcwraps which you can get for £1:99 on certain days.
They're ok.

 

[Cassandra]

35+ years ago, I did some advisory work with McDonalds. At that time they were pretty fanatical on quality and consistency. They had traceability on their raw materials that was on a par with M&S and quite precise and comprehensive operating procedures. Indeed I later used some of their HACCP schemes (anonymised ) to produce templates when teaching students. In those days I think they had a lower proportion of franchised outlets and I would say that there was then more variablity in quality between the McDonalds’ franchised outlets than the McDonalds owned outlets.

One of the problems they had was a conflict that they had with cooking times, they wanted an American concept of ‘doneness’ which left the centre of their burgers slightly pink. The problem was with the emerging cold tolerant pathogens with relatively low infectious dose levels ( e.g. Listeria moncytogenes and E. coli 0157). These had become an issue as improving the food chill chain stopped spoilage bacteria from making the food obviously ‘off’ whilst allowing harmful bacteria to continue to grow unnoticed. This was a problem for much of the food industry in the 1980’s and by and large the bigger companies with their more extensive technical support were quicker to respond than small companies.

Their preferred cooking regime for quality was OK if the initial load of pathogens was low but could give problems if there was a higher initial load of pathogens, or if the grill surface dropped a bit low, as could happen at very busy times.

I visited their East Finchley HQ which housed their UK “Burger University” to do some checks for them and also to their Crawley outlet. Checking temperatures in a busy outlet over lunchtime didn’t make me too popular with the manager - fortunately I was backed up with a UK director. In the end I think they increased their cooking times slightly.

I haven’t had a Big Mac for a while but a year or so ago I had a bacon roll when the restaurant where we were staying overnight was closed by a fire and McDonalds was just across the road. It was ok but nothing to write home about. Didn’t like the impersonal ordering system much.