In A While McCrocodile

Twelve-foot dinosaur shuts down McDonald's drive-thru

Poultry in Motion

Wendy's tendys makes its debut in the chicken tenders game - USA Today

Tendys?

 

Wendy's Tendys makes its debut in the chicken tenders game - USA Today

PJB's CosMcs Alredy Putting the Hurt on Starbucks?

 Starbucks - significant store closures and layoffs

Subway Rebellion

Subway Franchisees Push Back on Reinvestment - RestBusOnline  

R.I.P Michael Quinlan - Former MCD CEO

ChiTrib article - 9/26/2025

Obituary - Sullivan Funeral Home

PJB Desperately Seeking More McKinsey

Emily Reasor joins McDonald's Star Chamber.

 “One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, naturally. There is no secret society shaping every major decision and determining the direction of human history. There is, however, McKinsey & Company.”

― Walt Bogdanich, "When McKinsey Comes to Town"

PJB nad His Strange Bedfellows

Jonathan Maze goes in-depth on why PJB has taken on the tip wage issue at this time. The answer? PJB is always looking for an opportunity to leverage the McDonald's brand to play politics and get his name on an issue.

Let's hope he doesn't waste system resources or distract Owner/Operators from important issues.

But then we can always expect a democrat to side with organized labor

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Mize Merges

Business advisory and accounting firm, Aprio, today announced it has entered into agreements to acquire Mize CPAs Inc. (“Mize”), Midwest-based accounting and advisory firm for entrepreneurs and McDonald’s Owner/Operators

Coffee Prices

U.S. Coffee prices soar at the supermarket - Dailycoffee

McDonald’s Commits $200m to Regenerative Agriculture Initiative

"Contributions to the initiative come from various McDonald's USA suppliers. These include Cargill, Golden State Foods, Lopez Foods, OSI, and The Coca-Cola Company, which will provide funds to the NFWF and McDonald's US."

All will pass on the cost of this initiative to their franchisee customers.

McDonald's USA has announced its largest investment in regenerative agriculture - Global Data

The Rise and Fall of America's Biggest Restaurant Chain

What went wrong? - The Daily Meal

Supply and Demand - Part Deux

Answer to everything? ... Build more stores!

"The industry’s constant push for unit growth, however, can also be its undoing, because it’s putting a growing amount of pressure on individual locations. Industry profitability remains down, on average, since the pandemic. Franchisee profitability is down, too. And all this has been during a period of generally strong economic growth." - Jonathan Maze

The average restaurant gets a lot fewer customers than it did in 2019 - RBonline

Simple Supply and Demand

September was dominated by hand-wringing over same-store sales at QSRs. Yet no one in the industry or the press wants to discuss the real problem:

There are just too many quick-service restaurants.

Franchisees, investors, Wall Street analysts and corporate suits all delude themselves that the marketplace is infinite. It's not, it's full. And yet private equity firms buy up small chains with plans for rapid expansion, and McDonald's plans to open hundreds of new stores in the USA.

McDonald's franchisee profitability has taken a hit - Maze

McDonald's Corp Exits National Restaurant Association

McDonald's sides with organized labor - Restaurant Dive

PJB "As He Slashes Prices on Value Meals"

Told CNBC anchors that the move toward more value was "almost unanimous" among franchisees

Is This Old News?

I don't pay attention to "the app," so hopefully this is old news to McDonald's Owners and the issues have been resolved. 

He hacked McDonald's and found flaws.

The Cyber Express August 2025