Franchise Equity Group

November 9, 2025

Future Headlines

Just got back from a trip in our Fast Forward Machine to the year 2028. The most interesting headline in that year will be:

"McDonald's to Close Hundreds of U.S. Stores in Latest Turnaround Effort"

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Chris K will bail out just before that with a multi multi million dollar golden parachute and claiming "success".

Richard Adams said...

That's the way it usually works, but PJB has forced the BOD to make him CEO and Board Chair. That makes him a kind of "Super CEO" (not in performance, but it gives him invincibility). To accomplish this, he has appointed to the BOD people who know even less about McDonald's than he does.
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Anonymous said...

Real question is why the Owner/Operators allow PJB to disregard the Franchise Agreement? Where are the lawyers for NOA and NFLA? This is so out of control.

Anonymous said...

Forget about the NFLA. They are a bunch of self serving lemmings.

Im not sure whats going on at NOA, they have been strangely silent lately, not even weekly Sunday messages.

Anonymous said...

NOA is silent probably because David Bear has sold his restaurants and retired from McDonald's, the corporation played hard ball with him on re-builds etc. The next director / president of NOA should probably not be a current Franchisee as McDonald's will probably force them out too.

Anonymous said...

PJB Again takes talent out of the system. Some Kiss Butt Owner/Operators will grow again and run them into the ground. This while they cheat systems, report false service times and KPI's so this PJB can tell Wall Street he is so great. McDonald Land is in real trouble. False reporting hopefully will become PJB failure as a horrible Executive. McKensey will help him spin more lies.