McDonalds - I'm Lovin' It

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AnOminous said:
Reviewbrah review of the McDonaldland meal.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0EJR10row68
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When he started talking about how he figures mcdonaldland runs on some kind of feudal system with the mcdonalds characters as shot callers it had me picturing grimace whipping the shit out of some kids ronald lured to mcdonaldland with the promise of free happy meals, while the kids slaved away in the mcnugget mines in some kind of rura penthe dilithium mine style living hell

That booking photo looking horror show that was included could be his booking photo from grimaces child sex crimes trial

That said, the few times i've had mcdonalds in the last year have convinced me to just go to the local fish and chips restaurant instead. At least there the fries are really good and you get alot of fish. If anybody hasn't had haddock in fish and chips I highly recommend it
 
WonderWino said:
That said, the few times i've had mcdonalds in the last year have convinced me to just go to the local fish and chips restaurant instead. At least there the fries are really good and you get alot of fish. If anybody hasn't had haddock in fish and chips I highly recommend it
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I bet monkfish in fish and chips would be extraordinary.
 
WonderWino said:
When he started talking about how he figures mcdonaldland runs on some kind of feudal system with the mcdonalds characters as shot callers it had me picturing grimace whipping the shit out of some kids ronald lured to mcdonaldland with the promise of free happy meals, while the kids slaved away in the mcnugget mines in some kind of rura penthe dilithium mine style living hell
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Jason Wynn said:
I have. It’s okay, reminds me a bit of Chick-Fil-a’s sauce, but not as good.
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CFA sauce tastes similar to Carolina Gold barbecue sauce (where I live, you can't find Carolina Gold—I got mine at a grocery store in the East Coast), which is a mix of apple cider vinegar, molasses, tomato paste, ketchup, a bit of honey, and mustard. I assume the sauce at McDonald's is similar. I'm surprised they aren't offering it as a dipping sauce.
 
The goyslop poison at least used to be cheap, now it's not even that. Complete nigger cattle lunacy to consume it.
 
The McDonalds prices are beyond out of control. The app literally has no good deals ever (last good one was buy 1 get 1 free quarter pounder almost a year ago) and they trot out these bullshit “value meals” like anyone wants to pay an extra $2 for their shitty fries and drink.

Honestly, it’s all fast food places by McDonald’s I notice the biggest tomfoolery because of how massively jacked up their prices are.

The problem is that at this point it’s NEVER justifiable to eat there. The speed isn’t even worth it because most of the time you order on the app and then you’re standing around for 15 minutes until some niglet throws your food at you.
 
Blissed said:
The McDonalds prices are beyond out of control. The app literally has no good deals ever (last good one was buy 1 get 1 free quarter pounder almost a year ago) and they trot out these bullshit “value meals” like anyone wants to pay an extra $2 for their shitty fries and drink.

Honestly, it’s all fast food places by McDonald’s I notice the biggest tomfoolery because of how massively jacked up their prices are.

The problem is that at this point it’s NEVER justifiable to eat there. The speed isn’t even worth it because most of the time you order on the app and then you’re standing around for 15 minutes until some niglet throws your food at you.
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the prices were approaching complete retardation prior to covid, and then Covid happened, and Doordash TOOK OFF, and so the prices skyrocketed.

there's a local mexican chain restaurant, its got like 3 locations total, and its pretty good, its literally cheaper to walk in and order two whole meals for me and the wife, with cheese dip, than it is to just get two meals from Mcdonalds without any extras.

and I'm talking fully loaded steak Fajitas and for her a California Super Burrito, comes out to about 22 bucks, Mcdonalds will price you well over 28 to 30 for just two basic meals, its complete insanity, but because its fuckin Mcdonalds, they get to do this sort of gouging.
 
Zenos Yae Viator said:
the prices were approaching complete retardation prior to covid, and then Covid happened, and Doordash TOOK OFF, and so the prices skyrocketed.

there's a local mexican chain restaurant, its got like 3 locations total, and its pretty good, its literally cheaper to walk in and order two whole meals for me and the wife, with cheese dip, than it is to just get two meals from Mcdonalds without any extras.

and I'm talking fully loaded steak Fajitas and for her a California Super Burrito, comes out to about 22 bucks, Mcdonalds will price you well over 28 to 30 for just two basic meals, its complete insanity, but because its fuckin Mcdonalds, they get to do this sort of gouging.
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I don't know what McDonald's problem is. Is it the app which creates more pricing problems than it solves? Is the delivery inherently more expensive? Have the "remodels" cost the chain to the point where they need to have higher prices?

They seem to want to build new stores but at this point a lot of their market is maxed out and can't really go anywhere, all they'll do is just take away business from existing stores.

If I was in charge of the United States operations I would probably scrap almost everything they did in the last 20-30 years and start rebuilding from there. McCafe? Gone. LED menu screens? Gone. "i'm lovin' it". Gone. Drink machines and ketchup dispensers? Back. The mansard roof? Back (in some form). American flags and plants in front? BACK.
 
Xarpho's Return said:
If I was in charge of the United States operations I would probably scrap almost everything they did in the last 20-30 years and start rebuilding from there. McCafe? Gone. LED menu screens? Gone. "i'm lovin' it". Gone. Drink machines and ketchup dispensers? Back. The mansard roof? Back (in some form). American flags and plants in front? BACK.
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The problem is twofold

1, they followed everyone else into the App Deliver Boom of the last 5 years, which meant they could, at the time, up prices, rapidly, anyone who ordered out at the start of Covid remembers the prices being better for everything, and in a year and a half, the prices on everything you could find on any apps was insane, they are essentially the same prices you'd get at the store, if not slightly higher at various locations.
and in true American Business fashion, there is one mantra, never lower prices in any meaningful way, everything that involves prices being lowered on anything are dead cat bounces into the prices going even higher after the dip, everyone knows and sees this, everything is always "up" and also being shrinkflated.

2, Mcdonalds has too much fuckin shit, this is a problem with ALL fast food now, too many menu items, too many limited time only retarded gimmicks.. just TOO MUCH FUCKIN SHIT, this drives prices on everything in the store up to offset the cost of all these items.
this is another one that just they refuse to go back on, Mcdonalds especially... its as you said, they should revert to simpler times, but they just cannot.

the only thing at Mcdonalds should be.
1, the Nuggets
2, the regular value meal small burger
2, the quarter pounder
3, the Big Mac
4, the McChicken
5, various size of Fries.
6, the Shakes

that's it, that's all they need, all menus for all fast food restaurants should be cut down to such a menu, everyone knows it.
 
Blissed said:
The goyslop poison at least used to be cheap, now it's not even that.
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In rural Oklahoma (which obviously isn't a particular cash flush region of the US - Indian casinos and oil fields aside), sooo many Mcdonalds locations have closed since the prices began to rise post pandemic. People (myself included) are like "fuck this, Braums, Raising Cain's, and Chick Fil A are better anyway!"

The owner of the one that closed in Stroud, Oklahoma this past July, even said in a local news piece that it was due to lack of customers.

Zenos Yae Viator said:
2, Mcdonalds has too much fuckin shit, this is a problem with ALL fast food now, too many menu items, too many limited time only retarded gimmicks.. just TOO MUCH FUCKIN SHIT, this drives prices on everything in the store up to offset the cost of all these items.
this is another one that just they refuse to go back on, Mcdonalds especially... its as you said, they should revert to simpler times, but they just cannot.
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Like I said previously on this thread, it shouldn't take 15-20 minutes for me to pick up my nieces & nephews chicken nuggets happy meals (which is generally how long I've had to wait for them the last time I went through the drive through!). As a kid in the 2000's, my folks would be handed a filled happy meal box the moment they paid - what the heck happened to Mcdonald's fast service? & don't get me started on their sudden inability to cook a Big Mac (it's always raw/red/frozen in the middle).
 
Eventide said:
"fuck this, Braums, Raising Cain's, and Chick Fil A are better anyway!"
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as an ex-employee of Cane's, I can attest to its quality.

Everything is made in store, except obviously the Bread isn't baked there, but it is delivered by any local bread delivery man instead of some sort of in-company affiliate, and when I say everything else, they have us show up an hour and 30 before the store startes every day to make the batter with jugs of milk and eggs, another fucker is on the Juicer Machine for 30 minutes annoyingly (and sometimes painfully fuck that juicer) making the lemonades.
the Butter for the toast is just garlic powder and butter heated up on a pan on the griddle, literally nothing else.
the Chicken is even marinaded by putting it in a salt bath overnight in store.
the coleslaw is made fresh in store, the Cane's Sauce is literally just ketchup, Mayo, Whorst, and Pepper that we then mixer drill-bit in a big plastic container each day
and that's it, that's all there is, the Tea is also brewed every 2 hours in store.

simple fastfood, just 3 items that are cooked, bread, fries and chicken, sadly the prices have gone up like everything else in this fucking world but it is what it is, its a place that all the workers would feel fine eating at because they keep everything so clean and all the items are "what they say they are on the tin" and nothing else.
 
MCDONALDS THE FRONT DOOR IS TOO STIFF AND NEEDS TO BE OILED TO AID IN CUSTOMERS ENTERING AND LEAVING THE PREMISES
 
Zenos Yae Viator said:
The problem is twofold

1, they followed everyone else into the App Deliver Boom of the last 5 years, which meant they could, at the time, up prices, rapidly, anyone who ordered out at the start of Covid remembers the prices being better for everything, and in a year and a half, the prices on everything you could find on any apps was insane, they are essentially the same prices you'd get at the store, if not slightly higher at various locations.
and in true American Business fashion, there is one mantra, never lower prices in any meaningful way, everything that involves prices being lowered on anything are dead cat bounces into the prices going even higher after the dip, everyone knows and sees this, everything is always "up" and also being shrinkflated.

2, Mcdonalds has too much fuckin shit, this is a problem with ALL fast food now, too many menu items, too many limited time only retarded gimmicks.. just TOO MUCH FUCKIN SHIT, this drives prices on everything in the store up to offset the cost of all these items.
this is another one that just they refuse to go back on, Mcdonalds especially... its as you said, they should revert to simpler times, but they just cannot.

the only thing at Mcdonalds should be.
1, the Nuggets
2, the regular value meal small burger
2, the quarter pounder
3, the Big Mac
4, the McChicken
5, various size of Fries.
6, the Shakes

that's it, that's all they need, all menus for all fast food restaurants should be cut down to such a menu, everyone knows it.
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I don't think the size of the menu is the problem. Menu size is only a problem when it comes to prep and how it is to prepare. One of the reasons the snack wrap was discontinued in the first place was it basically required its own thing for the tortilla be wrapped up and warmed a certain way. COVID already gutted the menu (a lot of other places also got sliced) and some of those things had been on there for years (the parfait being the oldest one, but a lot of stuff introduced around the mid-2000s like the fruit and walnut salad, the oatmeal) and not to mention salads which they had in some or fashion since 1980s, got scrapped as well as newer stuff like all-day breakfast.

In contrast, I don't think I've seen a single new item since COVID, except for the bagels (returning), the new chicken strips (which they hyped up but I'm sure are already on their way out), and the bastardized new snack wrap.

Do you remember when they had the chocolate-dipped cone, much like what Dairy Queen offers? That was apparently a bitch to operate since the chocolate block had to be melted and if the soft-serve fell into the chocolate then everything had to be basically redone.

A lot of what made McDonald's great to begin with was the creativity of the franchisees to begin with (most of the pre-1990 innovations were from them, everything post-1990 was corporate-mandated and usually failures).

Last year there was some article here on KF referring to a "McDonald's Executive Chef" but while there was some chuckling in the thread, the problem is not that they have one but it's a sign of an overbloated organization because the whole R&D department has been basically a complete failure for the last 40 years. The department, under a more talented director, did make Chicken McNuggets decades ago but everything else never stuck. The Arch Deluxe in the 1990s, the "premium angus" burgers in the 2000s, the "TasteCrafted" or whatever it was called burgers of the 2010s, every salad relaunch, none of that stuck around. The only thing that did stick was the McFlurry, and that was from a franchisee in Canada.

Eventide said:
In rural Oklahoma (which obviously isn't a particular cash flush region of the US - Indian casinos and oil fields aside), sooo many Mcdonalds locations have closed since the prices began to rise post pandemic. People (myself included) are like "fuck this, Braums, Raising Cain's, and Chick Fil A are better anyway!"

The owner of the one that closed in Stroud, Oklahoma this past July, even said in a local news piece that it was due to lack of customers.


Like I said previously on this thread, it shouldn't take 15-20 minutes for me to pick up my nieces & nephews chicken nuggets happy meals (which is generally how long I've had to wait for them the last time I went through the drive through!). As a kid in the 2000's, my folks would be handed a filled happy meal box the moment they paid - what the heck happened to Mcdonald's fast service? & don't get me started on their sudden inability to cook a Big Mac (it's always raw/red/frozen in the middle).
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If you read the article it says it's highway construction and will reopen later this year. But yeah, the service is terrible at many locations. (A well-managed location will put the most competent people at the drive-through).
 
Xarpho's Return said:
In contrast, I don't think I've seen a single new item since COVID, except for the bagels (returning), the new chicken strips (which they hyped up but I'm sure are already on their way out), and the bastardized new snack wrap.

Do you remember when they had the chocolate-dipped cone, much like what Dairy Queen offers? That was apparently a bitch to operate since the chocolate block had to be melted and if the soft-serve fell into the chocolate then everything had to be basically redone.

A lot of what made McDonald's great to begin with was the creativity of the franchisees to begin with (most of the pre-1990 innovations were from them, everything post-1990 was corporate-mandated and usually failures).

Last year there was some article here on KF referring to a "McDonald's Executive Chef" but while there was some chuckling in the thread, the problem is not that they have one but it's a sign of an overbloated organization because the whole R&D department has been basically a complete failure for the last 40 years. The department, under a more talented director, did make Chicken McNuggets decades ago but everything else never stuck. The Arch Deluxe in the 1990s, the "premium angus" burgers in the 2000s, the "TasteCrafted" or whatever it was called burgers of the 2010s, every salad relaunch, none of that stuck around. The only thing that did stick was the McFlurry, and that was from a franchisee in Canada.
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Yea the Steak Egg and Cheese Bagel is the sole menu item they have, breakfast or lunch, that I actually "enjoy" in any capacity, its delicious, and you can tell just how bad this thing is for you while eating it, in a good way, everything else, especially the hashbrowns are a letdown, mainly on those, because of the price, absurd price for such an item, the Ore-Ida frozen hashbrowns are sold in containers of 8 for like 4.50, pop it in the airfryer for 12 minutes and bam, its the exact same as the now 3 dollar hashbrown from Mcdonalds, if not slightly larger.

and yea, on Corpo-Bloat, it hit them hard, it hits all companies hard now, Management bloat is so bad.. as a professional Meat Cutter I got to watch, in real time, my previous company bloat and bloat, buyout by a bigger company and then they get bought out too, then five billion ideas from all the new managers filter down to us, and then wouldn't you know it, all the locations in 2 states get sold off to another company who fire everyone.

All jobs big enough to have a Corporate center eventually just become nepotism locii.
 
Zenos Yae Viator said:
as an ex-employee of Cane's, I can attest to its quality.

Everything is made in store, except obviously the Bread isn't baked there, but it is delivered by any local bread delivery man instead of some sort of in-company affiliate, and when I say everything else, they have us show up an hour and 30 before the store startes every day to make the batter with jugs of milk and eggs, another fucker is on the Juicer Machine for 30 minutes annoyingly (and sometimes painfully fuck that juicer) making the lemonades.
the Butter for the toast is just garlic powder and butter heated up on a pan on the griddle, literally nothing else.
the Chicken is even marinaded by putting it in a salt bath overnight in store.
the coleslaw is made fresh in store, the Cane's Sauce is literally just ketchup, Mayo, Whorst, and Pepper that we then mixer drill-bit in a big plastic container each day
and that's it, that's all there is, the Tea is also brewed every 2 hours in store.

simple fastfood, just 3 items that are cooked, bread, fries and chicken, sadly the prices have gone up like everything else in this fucking world but it is what it is, its a place that all the workers would feel fine eating at because they keep everything so clean and all the items are "what they say they are on the tin" and nothing else.
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One of the reasons that I've always loved Raising Cane's is that it still tastes like real food. Like, its chicken tender strips taste like actual real chicken that was breaded and cooked. McDonalds chicken (nuggets, the new select strips, sandwiches) just tastes like it's pink chicken-based goop shaped to resemble a chicken nugget or strip in a factory.

By astronomically raising its prices, Mcdonalds really screwed itself 'cause folks now have more justification to go to higher pricepoint (& better quality) fast food restaurants, like Raising Cane's, Chick-Fil-a, Sonic, heck even Wendy's.

the coleslaw is made fresh in store, the Cane's Sauce is literally just ketchup, Mayo, Whorst, and Pepper that we then mixer drill-bit in a big plastic container each day
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Thanks for the info! I've occasionally tried to make my own version of Cane's sauce (using a few recipes I found online) but none of the dupes ever mentioned pepper/they always tasted off. Can't wait to try with pepper.
 
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