McDonald's Franchisees Flock to Second Organized Meeting
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December 13, 2018
From Twitter
1,300 people attending the second meeting of the McDonalds franchise association in Dallas this week. Major turnout. That’s three quarters of the franchisee base.
Major moment in the company’s history.
December 12, 2018
Comment From Dallas NOA Meeting
Hey McDonalds, I am sitting in a room with my Fellow Owners 1,300 strong.
I am looking around and see Men & Women that have lead this business to
great success in previous years.
I thought you said this is just a small fringe group of Disgruntled Operators.
We ave found our voice, the train is coming.
Make McDonald’s Great Again (MMGA)
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I am looking around and see Men & Women that have lead this business to
great success in previous years.
I thought you said this is just a small fringe group of Disgruntled Operators.
We ave found our voice, the train is coming.
Make McDonald’s Great Again (MMGA)
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December 11, 2018
December 10, 2018
December 9, 2018
How is McDelivery Like McCafe?
So OPNAD is to vote on advertising McDelivery - this is McCafe all over again.
In the spring of 2009 OPNAD began national advertising of McCafe when only about two-thirds of the stores had the product. A lot of customers were disappointed.
On the October call with analysts, management claimed that by the end of the year 9,000
U.S. stores would have McDelivery. Again, that's about two-thirds of the 14,000 stores.
Deja vu all over again.
This a particularly dicey problem since some stores will never have McDelivery.
And when OPNAD wastes money like this national sales suffer. The year 2009 was going
along pretty well with positive same-store sales until McCafe and then sales flattened out. That's bound to happen when advertising a product millions of customers can't access.
Operators will be able to tell a lot about their OPNAD reps when this vote is taken.
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In the spring of 2009 OPNAD began national advertising of McCafe when only about two-thirds of the stores had the product. A lot of customers were disappointed.
On the October call with analysts, management claimed that by the end of the year 9,000
U.S. stores would have McDelivery. Again, that's about two-thirds of the 14,000 stores.
Deja vu all over again.
This a particularly dicey problem since some stores will never have McDelivery.
And when OPNAD wastes money like this national sales suffer. The year 2009 was going
along pretty well with positive same-store sales until McCafe and then sales flattened out. That's bound to happen when advertising a product millions of customers can't access.
Operators will be able to tell a lot about their OPNAD reps when this vote is taken.
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December 6, 2018
Fraidy-Cat Operators
It's disappointing to hear that there are still McDonald's Operators who are afraid to attend Operator-Only meetings.
I submit that those Operators who are still afraid are kind of stuck in the past. They've been busy running their stores and haven't stopped to realize that they are afraid of a company
that no longer exists.
Let's take a look at McDonald's USA's current ability to retaliate:
* The McDonald's USA management team is incompetent, the gang that can't shoot straight. They don't understand the business, franchising, or franchisees.
* McDonald's USA appears to be understaffed and no longer has the army of corporate goons with which to bully Operators. They've downsized themselves into impotency.
* McDonald's USA has a serious shortage of McDonald's Operators. This goes back to the incompetence of the management team. Their plan to reduce the number of USA Operators
is strangling their own efforts in many other areas. If they were to try to force an Operator
out, who buys the stores? If they deny a rewrite, who takes the store? This is especially important now that there are so few McOpCos.
* The USA management team will spend 2019 distracted by the problems with BBV2020.
* I can see how, if a McDonald's Operator attends a worldwide convention along with thousands of other people, they might come away feeling like a tiny cog in a huge machine. Well, they're not a tiny cog. If there are really only 1,700 McDonald's Operators left in McDonald's USA the individual Operator is part of a very select group.
* And there's safety in numbers. These Operator-Only meetings aren't a dozen nervous people secretly meeting in the back booth of a Denny's. The first meeting involved 25% of USA Operators. The next meeting looks like it will involve more than half of USA Operators.
How does McDonald's corporate put that many Operators on their enemies list?
If an Operator is afraid to attend such meetings they might be reacting to years of conditioning that no longer applies.
Keep this in mind - The corporate side of McDonald's USA has been pushing hard on BBV2020 yet it's unlikely that the people doing the pushing will still be with the company when the 2020 Worldwide rolls around.
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I submit that those Operators who are still afraid are kind of stuck in the past. They've been busy running their stores and haven't stopped to realize that they are afraid of a company
that no longer exists.
Let's take a look at McDonald's USA's current ability to retaliate:
* The McDonald's USA management team is incompetent, the gang that can't shoot straight. They don't understand the business, franchising, or franchisees.
* McDonald's USA appears to be understaffed and no longer has the army of corporate goons with which to bully Operators. They've downsized themselves into impotency.
* McDonald's USA has a serious shortage of McDonald's Operators. This goes back to the incompetence of the management team. Their plan to reduce the number of USA Operators
is strangling their own efforts in many other areas. If they were to try to force an Operator
out, who buys the stores? If they deny a rewrite, who takes the store? This is especially important now that there are so few McOpCos.
* The USA management team will spend 2019 distracted by the problems with BBV2020.
* I can see how, if a McDonald's Operator attends a worldwide convention along with thousands of other people, they might come away feeling like a tiny cog in a huge machine. Well, they're not a tiny cog. If there are really only 1,700 McDonald's Operators left in McDonald's USA the individual Operator is part of a very select group.
* And there's safety in numbers. These Operator-Only meetings aren't a dozen nervous people secretly meeting in the back booth of a Denny's. The first meeting involved 25% of USA Operators. The next meeting looks like it will involve more than half of USA Operators.
How does McDonald's corporate put that many Operators on their enemies list?
If an Operator is afraid to attend such meetings they might be reacting to years of conditioning that no longer applies.
Keep this in mind - The corporate side of McDonald's USA has been pushing hard on BBV2020 yet it's unlikely that the people doing the pushing will still be with the company when the 2020 Worldwide rolls around.
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