An interesting report of how a restaurant is closed and why.
McDonald franchises are closed.
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I was able to read the article just fine.....
MacD was my first real job, $1.27 / hr.
MacD was my first real job, $1.27 / hr.
Must subscribe here too. Two browsers same result. Meh, whatever. Losing a McDs is probably a good thing.
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maybe I got in under the 'free anything goes foreign exchange program' ? you other guys are all USA based ????
haven't been to ANY fast food place since before the Chinese invasion. don't miss forking out good cash for 'choke and puke'
haven't been to ANY fast food place since before the Chinese invasion. don't miss forking out good cash for 'choke and puke'
Amen. I can cook better than 90% of any restaurant within 100 miles of me (DC included). Also don't use 0.001% of the salt they do. Definitely don't want fast puke for a meal.
Same. I've done the cooking for our family for 35 years. If my wife and I go into a restaurant, they're GD lucky.
Yet when I was out on one of my cross country rides I could always count on them for good coffee and clean restrooms.
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Exactly. What you buy with a franchise, particularly McDonald’s isn’t quality, is predictability. If you’re in some backwater podunk place you’ve never been and are never going back to voluntarily, working disaster cleanup after a hurricane or major tornado 1,000 miles from anywhere you’ve ever been, when you see the Golden Arches lit back up you may not be excited about the gourmet experience but you know you can get a dose of exactly the same cleanliness, decent coffee, and mediocre food you get back home. After a week or two living off the canned soup, Pop-Tarts, and bottled water you brought with you to hold you over until businesses re-open and then eating some crap at a local place or two that tastes like whatever spoiled in the freezer while the power was out but the 18 year old drunk cook figured it would be OK; about then McDonald’s or Chik-Fil-A looks damn good.
Still rather survive on Lance crackers and Mountain Dew than eat at a Hardee’s, though.
When touring the N American continent on the R1200, I rather enjoyed trying every place EXCEPT the chain places. Some were great, some were meh, some made me dig a cat hole to crap in. But it was an awesome experience, and I had some of the best food and conversation ever.
The part of the story I thought was interesting is the reasoning/process corporate decided to close 3 stores. By their reasoning it would seem many more are on the horizon.
Ahh there we agree 100%. I always made it a point to try and find local places to eat, especially if I was staying more than overnight. I've found most local breakfast places are frequented by pretty friendly people. After most get over giving me the side eye in all my gear they are pretty welcoming. Found a lot of interesting things to photograph and roads to ride that never show up in a AAA tour guide.
That said at some odd hour that I had no intention of eating those golden arches always looked like a good place to rest for 15 minutes.
"Biscuit Love" in Franklin Tenn....two thumbs up !!!! Biscuits and gravy.
As far as McDonald's. Omg. The dollar menu is now $5. Bucks. And the meal deal is $10. A head..crazy.
No one is missing anything skipping McDonald's.
As far as McDonald's. Omg. The dollar menu is now $5. Bucks. And the meal deal is $10. A head..crazy.
No one is missing anything skipping McDonald's.
I guess the only thing I can think of quickly is my wages...as my boss is a mean p#$%k.. my wages haven't gone up.
yup i cook for us too, cheaper and MUCH better food.
Sometimes the neighbor lady comes over and brings her two girls, we have us a good old fashioned MEAL. They usually try to pay for it but I don't generally take money for cooking. Or anything else for that matter, for you folks that have your minds in the gutter.
GF and I smoked some chicken thighs the other day. That, corn on the cob and some texas toast was $9 for the entire meal, and there's enough left over for 2 lunches.
I think I've been to a restaurant twice in the last 4 years and two of those occasions were when my mom bought my dinner for my birthday. the other two times were when we were at the beach, we ate out twice in a week's time. The rest of the time I made meals at "home" (condo). Fresh blue crab was pretty good if I must say so myself.
I'm not a franchise owner so I can't speak on the business end of that type business. BUT....I've been doing dealership work for over 3 decades and one of the "constraints" that dealers have to deal with is the manufacturer's "rules". One of those rules is that (in the case of the manufacturer that I/we represent) is that there is a minimum radius that each dealer can be from each other, in our case 35 miles. This eliminates the possibility of one dealer taking customers from another one across town (unless "town" is huge, like DFW, LA, etc). Then they look at the demographics and a bunch of other stuff and SOMETIMES they'll make exceptions. McDonalds should do the same. In the lil town I work at, there are 4 McDonalds restaurants, town of 70,000. May be another one in the works. Two of them are 2 miles apart. Kind of redundant if you ask me, and I think one of them may go away at some point. Where I live there is one, but it's a town of less than 5000.
Sometimes the neighbor lady comes over and brings her two girls, we have us a good old fashioned MEAL. They usually try to pay for it but I don't generally take money for cooking. Or anything else for that matter, for you folks that have your minds in the gutter.
GF and I smoked some chicken thighs the other day. That, corn on the cob and some texas toast was $9 for the entire meal, and there's enough left over for 2 lunches.
I think I've been to a restaurant twice in the last 4 years and two of those occasions were when my mom bought my dinner for my birthday. the other two times were when we were at the beach, we ate out twice in a week's time. The rest of the time I made meals at "home" (condo). Fresh blue crab was pretty good if I must say so myself.
I'm not a franchise owner so I can't speak on the business end of that type business. BUT....I've been doing dealership work for over 3 decades and one of the "constraints" that dealers have to deal with is the manufacturer's "rules". One of those rules is that (in the case of the manufacturer that I/we represent) is that there is a minimum radius that each dealer can be from each other, in our case 35 miles. This eliminates the possibility of one dealer taking customers from another one across town (unless "town" is huge, like DFW, LA, etc). Then they look at the demographics and a bunch of other stuff and SOMETIMES they'll make exceptions. McDonalds should do the same. In the lil town I work at, there are 4 McDonalds restaurants, town of 70,000. May be another one in the works. Two of them are 2 miles apart. Kind of redundant if you ask me, and I think one of them may go away at some point. Where I live there is one, but it's a town of less than 5000.
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