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[–] BeansPurkeypile 72 points 1 year ago (2 children)

10,000 new McFlurry machines that are out of order

[–] fluxion 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Buying stock in ice cream machine repair see y'all on the moon

[–] Joelk111 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The company is called Taylor. Not sure if they're public. IFixIt has a video dissecting why the machines are always broken.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (8 children)

McDonald's used to be a decent fast food choice in France. But nowadays it's gotten super expensive and the portions are tiny, like the big Mac almost fits the palm of my hand. I'd rather go to any other fast food chain or small kebab joint when I need to scratch that itch before I'd go to McDonald's again.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's how it's been in the US for a long time. It's just simply not worth the money for what you get.

[–] xpinchx 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I got down voted last time I mentioned this, but the app usually has pretty good deals if you just need a quick bite. Two spicy chickens for $3 is my go-to.

[–] TheDarkKnight 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Don’t you have to waive your right to sue McDonalds if you use their app or was that just an internet rumor? I don’t eat there or ise the app so don’t know but thought I read something like that.

[–] xpinchx 7 points 1 year ago

I just looked it up you're right lol. I imagine it's intended for pricing compliance and maybe data security, those are common lawsuits. If you get food poisoning and they find food safety violations... or if the golden arches falls on your car, or really any other negligence they're still on the hook.

Compliance is a really big deal in corporations and pricing is a big one. Again not a lawyer tho.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah I hadn't had their food in a while and we ended up going to one in Lisbon earlier this year. I was really surprised at how small the servings had gotten for what they're charging. I don't really understand why anybody would go there at this point. There's a lot of decent food out there for less money.

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[–] Auduras 41 points 1 year ago (11 children)

McDonalds is primarily a Real Estate company. Their food service is secondary.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're a logistics company.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Where?

This chain is like an infestation of poison mushrooms. Where is it not present yet that could merit opening another of choke-n-puke?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It plans to open 900 new stores in the U.S. and 1,900 in some of its bigger international markets like Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and Australia. The company said it plans another 7,000 stores in other international markets; more than half of those would be in China.

[–] WhatAmLemmy 10 points 1 year ago

Ahh, so ~40% are in China.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I get what you mean, but that is probably a bad analogy. Let me explain.

Just because a mushroom is poisonous doesn't mean its mycelium living underground isn't essential for all the plants and trees in the area. Depending on the species, mycelium can carry warning signals between different plants, boost the health of the plant, increase fruiting yields and even fend off other damaging fungi and bacteria. There is even a type that will make little hyphae lassos to trap and consume nematodes that can destroy some root systems.

McDonald's does none of those things for humans, even in an off-handed analogy kind of way, unfortunately. It anything, a poisonous outcrop of mushrooms gives back more to its local ecosystem than a Big Mac ever has.

Fungi are so misunderstood... ;)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here in Korea there are some but not very many. I guess you could squish quite many in here. The question is only who will go there to buy something? I haven't been to McDonalds for years. It's good at night when nothing else is open but if I can choose then I'll probable choose something else.

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[–] LackingC10H12N2O 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

/doubt

Yeah maybe they're opening 10,000 new stores, but when a Quarter pounder meal costs $17+tax (CAD) who's going to eat there anymore??

Oh, you want a single order of large fries? Sure, that'll be $5.79+tax. Nearly $7 for literally one potato worth of fries. Get fucked.

[–] Earthwormjim91 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Terminally online people say this, but their annual profit has increased year over year except for 2020 when everything was shut down.

They had a 9.6% increase yoy from 2022. Which was itself a 5% increase from 2021.

And even with Covid they rebounded to exactly where they were as soon as the shutdowns hit.

They went down 12.7% from 2019 to 2020, but went back up 29% for 2020-2021 and has increased ever since.

So the question of who is gonna eat there is answered. It’s everyone except you apparently. Everyone else keeps buying and pushing their revenue and profit higher year over year.

They have had 2 bad years in the last 15. They probably know a wee bit more than the average Lemming.

[–] _danny 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I personally think it's that people lack the time, motivation, and/or knowledge to cook themselves. I can make a cheeseburger and fries at home for about $3-5 in about thirty minutes, including cleanup. Compared to a $15 meal, it's roughly the equivalent of saving $20/h.

Another issue could be home size is way down. If you live alone, you can't buy one hamburger bun, you have to buy 8. You can't buy a quarter pound of ground beef, minimum package size is usually 1 lb. If you buy the material to cook one meal, you're committing to cook three to seven more within the next 10 days. So you've signed up for leftovers or up to four hours of cooking.

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[–] Squizzy 6 points 1 year ago

Just for the record, I appreciate what you are saying is true but this would also relate to them cost cutting which they have done a lot of over the last few years to near fully automated. So less people may be going but their costs are lower and margins higher so growth continues.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Factory meat from a factory restaurant from a factory country

[–] RGB3x3 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nuggets come from a can, they were put there by a man, in a factory downtown!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Millions of nuggets, nuggets for me

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

No clue how people are so fond of McDonalds, there are literally so many other fast food choices that are superior in every way

[–] dylanTheDeveloper 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Because in alot of areas it's the ONLY fast food restaurant

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[–] JK_Flip_Flop 16 points 1 year ago

My local McDonald's burnt down when the ice machine caught fire

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

As an American: I’m sorry we’ve unleashed this upon you, rest of the world :(

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hooray! What the world really needs right now is more cattle farming for burgers and more people driving to go and get their burgers.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After raising prices and doing away with all the good deals in their app (and adding an arbitration clause to it's tos)... I certainly don't eat there as much anymore. I'd be surprised if this expansion is sustainable.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What I don't get is McDonald's, really? Of all of the fast food chains McDonald's is the worst: quality, taste, appearance, everything. They're the worst burger fast food chain out there, how are we not seeing this growth with the better options? I'm just a bit confused lol

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[–] jordanlund 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But wait, I thought "pEoPlE dOn'T wAnT tO woRk!"

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[–] Lauchs 6 points 1 year ago

It plans to open 900 new stores in the U.S. and 1,900 in some of its bigger international markets like Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and Australia. The company said it plans another 7,000 stores in other international markets; more than half of those would be in China.

Somewhat ironically, this actually seems like a result of increased living conditions in developing countries.

I also wonder how much of the first world growth is because previously spots without enough foot traffic are now viable with the rise of mcdelivery...

[–] MonsterMonster 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe McDonald's should be putting more effort into confronting the abusive staff?

McDonald's problem.

[–] bigFab 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yet their biggest abuse is on the environment. It would be so much easier to add environment pollution tax on burgers than building five hundred million wind energy generators.

[–] _danny 10 points 1 year ago

A start could be reducing the crazy subsidies cattle farming gets. We could reduce carbon emissions and have money to fund green projects.

[–] nucleative 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's 7 new locations per day for 4 years straight. Mind boggling... I wonder what the internal org chart for building this out looks like

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