McDonalds looks to get rid of burger flippers?

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Originally posted by: Thegonagle

Originally posted by: Vaerilis
Btw, cutting jobs won't help them too much. Aren't they successful?

No, cutting a couple $7/h jobs won't help much, and no, at the moment, they're not doing too well (overall they're successful, but they've become careless, IMO). They need to work on increasing sales, not cutting jobs (a philosophy that works extremely well up to a point), but unfortunately, they've reached a level of market saturation, and their agressive growth (increasing the number of locations) in the 90s has backfired on them. It's left them with a number of stores with large fixed expenses, but thin sales due to the sheer number of locations. The way I see it, they've "diluted" their market too much with too many locations in many areas.

If they would start producing burgers that tasted worth a damn it would help more. The only thing it had going for it was the fry's and the milk shakes. Since they have changed the recipes on the fry's to cater to the PC crowd they are struggling. i use to alternate Wendy's and Mickey D's. Now I pretty much always shop the 99 cent menu at Wendy's...


I mean come on a bacon cheeseburger and some pretty good fries for 2.12? What does Mickey D's have to compete? A nasty chicken sandwich or double cheeseburgers with twice as much terrible tasting meat-by-products, and then some fries that albeit still fairly good are a mere shadow of their former selves.

Dayum, how I miss In-N-Out