Wendy's On The Move

Wendy's vaults Burger King, Taco Bell as sales grow - Columbus Dispatch
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McDonald's Dates Disney (Again)

Let's hope the relationship is different this time. In previous alliances Disney lead McDonald's executives and McDonald's Operators around on a very tight leash.
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Why Subway Isn't Failing, According to Subway

Subway built a system that's marginally profitable for franchisees and are paying the price

Bad News For All Franchised Brand's Stakeholders

President Trump should immediately replace this conflicted director so this issue can
be reconsidered. Then, Congress should address joint employment.

U.S. labor agency overturns major ruling, citing Trump appointee's conflict
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Taco Bell Unseats BK as No. 4 U.S. Restaurant Chain

Reporting by - CMO Strategy - AdAge
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IF Delivery is Successful UberEats Will Have To Go Away

"IF" delivery becomes a big part of the business the UberEats arrangement will not be sustainable. McDonald's Corp will fight to keep it alive because of their cut of the 15%.
But die it must.

Domino's won't let anyone else deliver its pizza
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Wisconsin Governor Returns to Work at McDonald's

Governor works for a day at New London McDonald's
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Another Slide Show From Restaurant Business - On Chipotle

Remembering the highs and lows of Steve Ells’ reign
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Delivery Slide Show From Restaurant Business

Having served McDonald's food for 30 years I can't imagine giving my customer's food to a strange, unsupervised, 
"middle-man" who's then in charge of the food.

A quote from a Technomic person:

"The industry has been lucky that we haven't had a disturbed individual that has tampered with the food. It's a real danger, and that will come back on the brand."

How is delivery disrupting business as we know it?
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Carl’s Jr. Breaks Up With Hardee’s

Carl’s Jr. are fresh and well run, Hardee’s stores are old and QSC is mediocre
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And These People Are Responsible For Food Safety?

Uber Eats Driver Allegedly Shoots And Kills Customer In Atlanta - NPR
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Worst TV Commercial in the History of QSRs

This fellow is an opinion writer so take what you want - but watch the video.

Subway Wants You To Believe It's More Exciting Than McDonald's
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McDonald’s And Uber Eats

McDonald's corporate person: "Delivery is the next drive-thru"

What would happen if McDonald's Operators had to give up 20% of their drive-thru sales?

McDonald’s And Uber Eats Need Each Other Now More Than Ever
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Advertising McDelivery

Why would stores advertise McDelivery in house? That's like saying, "Please don't come in here anymore. Stay home and order on your phone. Then we can lose money on your order".

Delivery: Will It Drive Sales Or Gobble Up Profits?

Why Would a Restaurant Franchisee Give Delivery Attention Equal to Other Customers?
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Poultry In Motion

Bloomberg on McDonald’s and Chick-fil-A
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Burger King Fends Off Resurgent McDonald’s

Surging Burger King lifts Restaurant Brands International
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Is McDonald's Hurting Starbucks and Dunkin'?

Maze On The Coffee Biz
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PyeongChang McDonald's Looks Like a Value Meal

Profitable Delivery? What A Concept!

YUM CFO: “We did a thorough process understanding the economics to franchisees and to us,” CFO David Gibbs said. “It was a really important process to us, to make sure franchisees had good economics.

“We think we have a deal our franchisees will absolutely embrace.”

Yum Brands to invest $200M in Grubhub
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Exit Goals for the New Year: From Concannon Miller

Business Owners: How to Best Set Exit Goals for the New Year
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McDonald's Guys at Dunkin Understand Simple Menus

Why Dunkin' Donuts is Still Winning Breakfast Customers - QSR mag
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Warren Buffett’s New Man at Dairy Queen

This full article is behind the WSJ paywall but this quote is interesting:

"Dairy Queen says its relationship with franchisees has strongly improved in recent years. 
Mr. Bader, who was the company’s chief operating officer in the U.S. and Canada before succeeding John Gainor  as CEO, has worked closely with many of the franchisees. “I can 
call him in the middle of the night and he answers,” said Riz Momin, a Georgia-based franchisee who owns about 15 stores. In disagreements, he said, “Troy doesn’t like to use 
his power. He just goes in and convinces people.”

How Warren Buffett’s New Man at Dairy Queen Plans to Keep a Classic Brand Fresh - WSJ

If the article comes out from behind the paywall we'll post a new link.
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Wall Street Curse: Build More Stores, Hey! ... What's Wrong With Same Store Sales?

Wall Street says Starbucks has too many stores, prices too high
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Chicago Tribune on Wendy's Super Bowl Ad

Wendy's Super Bowl ad a sassy, disjointed and desperate attempt to take on McDonald's
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Jonathan Maze on McDonald's Lack of Growth

McDonald's quiet shrinkage
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Chicago Tribune on McDonald's History

From hand-cut fries to workplace romance, employees of 'McDonald's No. 1' have fond memories

Price Collusion Suits Against Tyson - Others

Price collusion suits mount against Tyson Foods and other poultry companies
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Talking Operations - With Zero Operations Knowledge

Someone named Lucy Brady is suddenly an expert on McDonald's food quality and thinks
30-minute old fries are a good thing. She'll be shocked to learn about the short holding 
time for fries at the fry station, and that's under heat lamps.

But then, Brady has only been with McDonald's for 16 months.

McDonald’s Says It’s Solved the Industry’s Delivery Problem of Keeping Fries Hot - Bloomberg

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