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Spunky · 10-17-2015, 10:31 PM

What am I going to eat at 2 am?

OldJeff · 10-18-2015, 04:51 AM

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Originally Posted by arock10

What people from previous generations fail to understand is those quality blue collar jobs no longer exist. Sure it's possible to work 80 hours a week to better yourself but even the above average person is unlikely to do this

It's ok blame the individuals not the underlying problems, we can just keep kicking this can down the road until they rise up and murder us all.

They don't ? Just saw an ad 3 day's ago hiring truck drivers, starting salary $74k a year.

What is not there and never has been are positions for people that clearly have no interest in actually working.

Want to fix unemployment, simple, make it better for business owners to keep production, customer service, any part of their business in the US, move all the offshore jobs back home. massive tarrifs on goods made outside the US, add social security taxes for offshore labor.

Sure people in the US would need to accept that they can't have a new IPhone every 6 months, but more people would go back to working.

Corporations have a sole purpose of earning profit, it is why people invest in them, create them, etc.

No one is born with the right to have money, have enough of anything, simple law of nature. Some win some lose, always has been, always will be

mineistaken · 10-18-2015, 05:42 AM

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Originally Posted by arock10

Ok so when we have automated driving cars and automated fast food restaurants and automated everything else and 35%+ unemployment in the western world do you still plan on blaming them for having no job or a barely subsistence job?

Where was I talking about blaming?
I was asking why should "they" kill "us"? Why would they blame employed people for their failures?

EliteWebmaster · 10-18-2015, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Spunky

What am I going to eat at 2 am?

In your neck of the woods, there is A&W 24hour drive thru and their stuff taste 10x better than McCrapper

VicD · 10-18-2015, 09:00 AM

Hopefully the reason is that people realize how fucked up McD*****s food is..

Jel · 10-18-2015, 04:38 PM

mcD's is a landowner first and foremost, not a food outfit.

candyflip · 10-18-2015, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by suesheboy

I can not believe how many KFCs have gone under.

They just shut down a bunch here and rebuilt brand news ones. At least 5 of them.

femdomdestiny · 10-18-2015, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by mineistaken

Once I entered a mcd early in the day (11 am or 12 am) to get a big mac or something like that. Turned out they ONLY served breakfast sandwiches.
I, obviously, voted with my feet and bought a whopper at BK.

That breakfast seems like most stupid thing ever. Same happened to me many times and yes, it is irritating.

Sometimes I even go to drive and order something even if I know that they are serving breakfast. I feel good when I say that I don't want to order any of that breakfast shit and I drive away.

Rochard · 10-18-2015, 09:20 PM

I don't eat much fast food (very rarely) but it seems to me like McDonald's is old and boring - just no excitement there. Why go to McDonald's and have the same exact burger you've been eating there for the past thirty years? There is so much more competition these days when it comes to fast food. In the past your choices were McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, or a a handful of others.

Now it seems to me there is so much new competition. And McDonald's is just the same old shit it's been since the beginning of time.

Their french fries are great however.

CarlosTheGaucho · 10-19-2015, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by mineistaken

Prices of MCD burgers in Eastern Europe are usually even higher than in US. And average wages of people are maybe 3 times lower than in US.
MCD is not a cheap eat there, if you can eat daily, you are considered well off.
And there is no culture of eating there daily, maybe once in a while.

That's what I'm talking about - from the franchise owner's perspective, you pay your burger flipper $ 2.50 per hour yet you sell more pricey sandwiches at about $4 - $5 a piece or a menu for $ 7.

So you get an idea about the profit margins, it's no surprise many prime locations in the city centers are rented by McDonald's franchise owners.

Now the paradox is that this is pretty much an equivalent of price that you would pay in a real restaurant or bistro for real food (that's really cheap), yet that obviously doesn't prevent locals from spending money on overpriced junk food.

Rochard · 10-19-2015, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by CarlosTheGaucho

That's what I'm talking about - from the franchise owner's perspective, you pay your burger flipper $ 2.50 per hour yet you sell more pricey sandwiches at about $4 - $5 a piece or a menu for $ 7.

So you get an idea about the profit margins, it's no surprise many prime locations in the city centers are usually rented by McDonald's franchise owners.

Now the paradox is that this is pretty much an equivalent of price that you would you pay in a real restaurant or bistro for real food (that's really cheap), yet it obviously doesn't prevent locals from spending money on overpriced junk food.

I think the burger flippers are paid a little bit more than $2.50 an hour....

When I worked in fast food they had everything broken down by price and profit. It was amazing really. The broke down the price of every ingredient, cost of the amount of time to prepare the item, and then factored in costs of power for the grill, bun toaster, etc.

The most profitable item was soda. It cost them nothing to produce and serve, and was pretty much pure profit.

lezinterracial · 10-19-2015, 01:23 PM

I wonder if this is a marketing tactic. Their name in the news gets people talking about them and thinking about Big Macs.

Corporate seems to be doing okay.
Financial Statements for McDonald's Corporation - Google Finance

Looks like 1.2 billion in net income last quarter.

pornstarlet-net · 10-19-2015, 02:05 PM

Their prices are insane for the quality of burger. Its like Big Mac or Fresh Burger from the local Diner? People are going to real places to eat.

baddog · 10-19-2015, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Jel

mcD's is a landowner first and foremost, not a food outfit.

Very astute observation. If you are out in the middle of nowhere and you see a sign stating "Future Home of McDonald's" buy as much surrounding land as you can afford. They know exactly what they are doing.

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