The McDonald's Thread: All things McDonald's

[batmagadanleadoff]

McDonald's to take on the crispy chicken market.

McDonald's wants a bite of crispy chicken market with new sandwiches

Excerpt:

NEW YORK, Jan 4 (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp is hoping 2021 is the year it cracks the crispy chicken sandwich by rolling out three different versions in the United States, as it takes on chains such as Restaurant Brands International's Popeyes for a share of the growing market.

The world's biggest burger chain confirmed to Reuters it plans to launch its crispy chicken sandwich in "classic", "deluxe" and "spicy" versions on Feb. 24. All will contain a new crispy white meat chicken fillet served with crinkle-cut pickles on a toasted, buttered potato roll.

https://www.aol.com/finance/focus-mcdon ... 41449.html

[kcmets]

They lost me at buttered potato roll.

Wendy's used to have a pretty good chicken sandwich, but I haven't had one
in probably a decade or so.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I work with a guy who's probably the foremost McDonald's journalist in the world. You should read him if you're interested in McDonald's as a biz: https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.co ... dwich-wars

[Fman99]

I'll just stay home and eat a paper towel soaked in oil and then vomit all over my loved ones, thanks though. <retch x100>

[kcmets]

Make sure it's unsaturated fat so you can stick around to enjoy your grandkids.

[Frayed Knot]

McDonald's to take on the crispy chicken market

Chick-fil-M ?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Covid casualty. McDonald's iconic Times Square location (never ate there) is closed for good.






https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/business ... index.html

[batmagadanleadoff]

This retired baseball player built the largest Black-owned McDonald’s franchise operation. Now he’s suing the fast-food chain for its ‘racist’ policies.
Herb Washington’s lawsuit comes amid an exodus of Black owners from the world’s largest franchisor

Excerpt:

Herb Washington, a former Oakland Athletics player who built the country’s largest Black-owned McDonald’s franchise operation, filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing the fast-food giant of systemic racial discrimination for its pattern of steering Black owners into restaurants in impoverished neighborhoods that yielded less profit, targeting them with unequal assessments that made it harder to renew their contracts, then pressuring them to sell to White owners.

Washington, 69, owned 27 McDonald’s restaurants in New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania during his four decades as a franchisee but alleged that the company began a campaign to drive him out in 2017 in retaliation for speaking out against the “predatory, racially biased steering practices” against Black franchisees. Today he owns 14 McDonald’s restaurants.

“While McDonald’s has joined the chorus of brands releasing hollow solidarity statements in support of Black Lives Matter and has launched a marketing campaign to profit from that movement, it has done nothing to change its own internal policies that perpetuate systemic racism by disadvantaging and squeezing out its Black franchise owners,” said the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Ohio.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business ... op-stories

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I used to conflate Herb with his bother U.L. I am also in receipt of the press release announcing his lawsuit.

McD's is orchstrating hype on that chicken sandwich intro, selling "early access" like a new app.

[Lefty Specialist]

Covid casualty. McDonald's iconic Times Square location (never ate there) is closed for good.

I'd eaten there in The Before Times. You ordered on the first floor and ate on the second. Bit of a party atmosphere to it, loud music and lots of tourists wondering where the hookers went.

[kcmets]

With Virgil's just around the corner, it would never occur to me to pop into
a Mickey Dee's for a Big Mac in that neck of the woods.

KB and her friend met John Boy Walton walking about two doors up years ago.

[G-Fafif]

NYT article on the chicken sandwich included this WHO KNEW? McNugget:

Its Big Mac is recognized all around the globe.

[LWFS]

They lost me at buttered potato roll.

Wendy's used to have a pretty good chicken sandwich, but I haven't had one
in probably a decade or so.

Buttered potato roll (Chick Fil-A) or brioche (Popeye's) is like, the new broiled-or-fried. (BTW, if you HAVE to have a big-chain chix Sammy... Popeye's all day, every day. Thighs and thick pickles.)

Worth noting with all these Spicy Nugget/crispy sandwich talkings: the guy who's pitching it. Move over, Ving Rhames-- Logan Roy'll give you some f#cking ba da da da da!

[MFS62]

I'd eaten there in The Before Times. You ordered on the first floor and ate on the second. Bit of a party atmosphere to it, loud music and lots of tourists wondering where the hookers went.

I ate there a few times. The best thing about it was it was, if you really had to pee, the only public rest room in the area.

One of my grandkids gave me a McDonald's gift card over a year ago. I used to get coffee there on my way to work, but since I've been working at home I still haven't used it.

Later

[kcmets]

Just had two Deluxe Quarter Pounders with Cheese and some fries. Never had the deluxe;
add lettuce, tomatoes and something resembling mayonnaise. Not bad.

If I don't post tomorrow, send help.

[MFS62]

Just had two Deluxe Quarter Pounders with Cheese and some fries. Never had the deluxe;
add lettuce, tomatoes and something resembling mayonnaise. Not bad.

If I don't post tomorrow, send help.

Haven't noticed any posts from you today.
Did you survive?

Later

[kcmets]

I survived! In hindsight, the lettuce-tomato-mayo thing was sacrilege and I'll
never make that mistake again.

[Edgy MD]

[batmagadanleadoff]

I'm still not ready to eat in a restaurant, even though I've been vaccinated long enough ago that my vaccine should have kicked in by now.

So I went to a McDonald's about a week ago, against my better instincts. It was the only time I ate in a restaurant since just before NYC shut down in March of 2020.

I had a large sized Big Mac meal. Holy Moley! It was close to $12.00! Wow did prices go up. I'm pretty sure that this meal went for between eight and nine bucks pre-pandemic.

Also, I had to return my large fries. The fries container was only about 60% filled. I asked the employee: "This is large fries?" She no commented me but filled my container to over the top without issue, like it's supposed to be filled.

[Edgy MD]

No word on any progress in Herb Washington's suit since it came up in this thread.

I did find a story published upon the death of Mike Marshall noting that he pitched in every game of the 1974 World Series, and picked Washington off in Game Two.

[whippoorwill]

Mom and I both got chicken tenders at Ruby Tuesday last week and they were awesome

[batmagadanleadoff]

Did Ruby Tuesday's and McDonald's merge?

[whippoorwill]

Nah I just figured it had morphed into a chicken thread :)

[batmagadanleadoff]

Did Ruby Tuesday's prices go up a lot since before the pandemic?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Probably. Food costs are on the way up, labor inflation, need profits to make up for the last year, consumers have stimulus $$.