THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Bebpo on March 19, 2015, 01:48:55 PM
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Like how Nintendo's been doing shitty financially since the Wii U dropped, so much that they had to resort to peer pressure and finally go mobile to please investors, McDonald's (another billion dollar corporate that's been losing money for the last year due to Asia market competition) needs to do what is right for the world: Breakfast all day.
Just like Nintendo's secret trump card was mobile, this has been McDs trump for decades to play. They know their Breakfast is the best thing they do and the demand is there, but like Nintendo they're stubborn and that's the one area they won't go into. But with profits falling, I think it's time. Some people just like choice. Sometimes you want to order breakfast for dinner just to prove to the universe that you're an adult that can make your own choices in life. Some people aren't morning people and getting up and ready and out to a McDonald's before 10:30 AM just isn't happening. I know whenever I do get McD breakfast on a weekend I'm always that guy there at 10:25 hoping fingers crossed there won't be a big line. I've been there when you're finally at the ordering window and it's 10:31 and they're like "breakfast has all vanished sir"; it's a defeating feel.
So do it McDonalds, play your trump card for the betterment of the world and to make your company see that extreme profit growth that you've been wishing for lately.
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one dollar sausage burritos all day every day
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I like breakfast for dinner and I like McDonald's breakfast but the thought of McDonald's breakfast for dinner just feels viscerally wrong, like going to Denny's between 6 am and 11:30 pm. Sorry.
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McDonalds' problem isn't that they don't serve breakfast all day, it's that they're caught in an aims/demographic battle.
They've been slowly switching to 'high end' menu options, probably because they've noticed that fast food sales are meh right now and 'fast casual' is thing that a lot of consumers right now. Only problem is no one's going to mcdonald's for a 5 dollar burger. Their ingredients aren't good enough, and it doesn't gel logically. They've had a decent run by trying to freshen up their image ever since Super Size Me but the facts of the matter are, nobody's going to mcdonald's for premium food or anything resembling healthy eating. You might nab a couple soccer moms that are busy here and there but are disgusted by the squalor of burger king and the taco belliness of taco bell with that shit but that's it.
People know McDonalds is shit. Just go back to serving cheap shit food.
Them niccas should have never divested from Chipotle.
http://www.chipotlefan.com/index.php?id=chipotlemcdonalds
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I thought oh yeah then you can add egg to burgers like at jack in the box, then I realized McDonald's has shit burgers.
Breakfast sandwiches and coffee, that's all they're good for to me. (And the occasional strawberry creme pie)
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At 24 hour Mickey Deez you can order breakfast starting at midnight; I imagine this is a trial run for something more.
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McDonalds is like Twinkies, Hersheys, Coca-Cola. They are a victim of their own past success. The majority of the public's taste has evolved, but they are still a slave to what people have traditionally expected their food to taste like.
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I too like to play internet CEO with billion dollar companies. You would not believe how much money I have made Microsoft in my fantasies.
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I too like to play internet CEO with billion dollar companies. You would not believe how much money I have made Microsoft in my fantasies.
To be fair I would challenge that you would get above internet mid level manager. You just don't have then relentless stanning ability required to achieve above that level.
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My internet fantasies, my rules dude.
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My internet fantasies, my rules dude.
You're internet fired from microsoft. Collect your internet things and we'll escort you off the internet property.
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Can you make me wait in a glass windowed room visible to my ex-coworkers while I cry for a bit?
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Can you make me wait in a glass windowed room visible to my ex-coworkers while I cry for a bit?
LOL! You got an out loud laugh out of that one.
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I'm kind of surprised there's not a fast-food joint that's all breakfast food. I mean, you do have Waffle House and IHOP but those aren't 'fast food' in the same sense.
Does Dunkin Donuts offer their breakfast stuff all day?
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TIL I learned that Chipotle fan sites exist. Shouldn't be too surprised, as Taco Bell fansites (http://www.thebore.com) do exist as well.
On topic, if I'm in the mood for fast food breakfast, Jack in the Box fills that need just fine.
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It's time for McD's to just put a fucking McMuffin with bacon on the breakfast menu so I don't have to ask for it specially and get it fucked up ALL THE TIME.
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Most of McD's capitalization comes from real estate and less from food.
They've made some bad missteps in getting in at overpriced areas and are losing on both fronts.
I suspect we'll see smaller, less fancy McD's coming up.
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TIL I learned that Chipotle fan sites exist. Shouldn't be too surprised, as Taco Bell fansites (http://www.thebore.com) do exist as well.
:dead
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You'd better start believing in Taco Bell fansites Arby. You're in one!
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You'd better start believing in Taco Bell fansites Arby. You're in one!
Are there Arby's fansites, too?
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McD's is too pricey in comparison with the growing Fast Casual Market--Chipotle, Panera, Five Guys. For a few more bucks at these places, you get superior food.
McD's went too High End--New Quarter Pounders, McCafe, redesigned restaurants, and no one cares. Latte sipping liberals aren't gonna stop eating Chipotle for your shitty dressed up Quarter Pounders and leather stools.
And then you have Little Ceasars and Taco Bell corner the poors.
You're gonna get squeezed out.
McD's still is profitable, it's just there are more competent competitors and they haven't done anything meaningful to compete.
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I too like to play internet CEO with billion dollar companies. You would not believe how much money I have made Microsoft in my fantasies.
i have a ton of Microsoft corporate strategy fanfic in my onenote notebooks but i haven't quite managed to bring myself to post any of it online. maybe someday.
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I worked at a McDonald's for about 3 months when I was younger. Unless things have changed drastically, their kitchens just aren't set up to do breakfast all day. You have to wash and switch over the griddles from the sausage/eggs/bacon setup to cook burgers for lunch, and the whole rig changes. The pancake station changes over to something else, as well. It's very modular. They'd have to install double grills and remodel the entire kitchen in the restaurants.
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I can tell y'all don't eat poor. McDonald's still has dollar to calorie bargains, it just doesn't market them.
That and their dipshit franchisees think American cheese is some kind of prized commodity. :piss2
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You'd better start believing in Taco Bell fansites Arby. You're in one!
Are there Arby's fansites, too?
Not sure, but there *IS* the best twitter feed ever.
https://twitter.com/nihilist_arbys
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I can tell y'all don't eat poor. McDonald's still has dollar to calorie bargains, it just doesn't market them.
That and their dipshit franchisees think American cheese is some kind of prized commodity. :piss2
You mean the dollar menu? I used to love McDoubles, but after having better burgers, it's hard to go back, even at a dollar.
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I can tell y'all don't eat poor. McDonald's still has dollar to calorie bargains, it just doesn't market them.
That and their dipshit franchisees think American cheese is some kind of prized commodity. :piss2
For sure. Sometimes when I'm in a hurry I'll grab a burger, small fries & coke for dinner and it'll be like $3.67 for the whole meal. It's still pretty cheap food.
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I can tell y'all don't eat poor. McDonald's still has dollar to calorie bargains, it just doesn't market them.
That and their dipshit franchisees think American cheese is some kind of prized commodity. :piss2
You mean the dollar menu? I used to love McDoubles, but after having better burgers, it's hard to go back, even at a dollar.
Dollar Menu & More is the correct nomenclature now. :ufup
The McDouble hasn't been a dollar forever too :ufup, and it's a bullshit item corporate invented to placate whiny franchisees who swore a dollar double cheeseburger was bankrupting them. No legit dollar diver would order one on principle. :ufup
Now if you'll excuse me, it's time to go cry after realizing fast food value food has been this omnipresent in my life for this long. :bolo
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A triple cheeseburger at $2 is where it's at. 33 grams of brotein and I don't think there's much fiber in there but it definitely keeps things moving.
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McD's "High End" menu. :lol Can't fool me into buying your pink slime. :bolo
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McD's "High End" menu. :lol Can't fool me into buying your pink slime. :bolo
No kidding. If I'm going to play 5 bucks for a burger why the fuck wouldn't I just go to Five Guys then?
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Real poors go to Taco Bell, Kara. And use the app so they can get a free Doritos taco
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Not sure, but there *IS* the best twitter feed ever.
https://twitter.com/nihilist_arbys
You've done some horrible, unspeakable things. Arbys doesn't care. Nothing matters. Enjoy horsey sauce. Arbys: put the lotion in the basket
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I mainly like their fries but i've sworn off that stuff for a while so
:yeshrug
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I mainly like their fries but i've sworn off that stuff for a while so
:yeshrug
No beef tallow no sale :ufup
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Real poors go to Taco Bell, Kara. And use the app so they can get a free Doritos taco
OK now you said nothing about free tacos, just that I had to interact with human beings outside the safety of tons of shaped steel. I am on dis shit ASAP.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2015/03/30/mcdonalds-all-day-breakfast/70695754/
Fuck yea, I called it!
:rock
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Please predict free Taco Bell delivery next Bebpo
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Hey bebpo, how's about being a patriot and predicting taco bell breakfast all day next?
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Please predict bigger international expansion of Taco Bell
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Could have serious impact on egg production :ohhh
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Who said competition wasn't a good thing.
I like this. Granted if I want breakfast at 11PM I'll probably go to Denny's BUT I like the fact that I now have a choice.
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/mcdonalds-set-to-offer-all-day-breakfast-1441134058
Starting October 6th, my birthday. I called it and it starts on my birthday, this my true internet accomplishment for 2015.
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I read this as "Donald Trump endorses Nintendo, McDonald's"
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:bow Bebpostradamus :bow2
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Too bad you didn't wish for something good.
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This is pretty cool since breakfast is the only thing I really like from them but I usually have to leave early(7 am-ish) while the traffic isn't too bad during the morning or wait till 10 am-ish before they stop serving it. Now I can go anytime :rejoice
On another McDonalds related note, I went the other day and with my order I asked for an apple pie(they're only 69 cent) but they told me they were out and if I would like a peach pie instead. Now I've never heard of a peach pie from McDonalds before but lemme tell you, I won't be ordering an apple pie anytime soon. Shit was fucking amaze.
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All day breakfast>Obamacare
guess I'm voting for Trump :rejoice
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:rejoice
:bow based bebpo :bow2
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McD's "High End" menu. :lol Can't fool me into buying your pink slime. :bolo
No kidding. If I'm going to play 5 bucks for a burger why the fuck wouldn't I just go to Five Guys then?
Because it costs like $10 for a $5 burger at Five Guys. If I'm gonna spend Five Guys prices on food I might as well go to the Counter and get something that isn't 90% grease.
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Five Guys is basically In-n-Out at twice the price. Their burgers are solid fast food burgers, but they're like richey rich burger. In-n-Out still has the best under $4 burger on the planet. Hell, they're cheaper than Hardies/Carls Jr. and the quality is just worlds apart.
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Yeah, I like Five Guys a heap, but they are not twice as good as In-N-Out, but they are twice the price.
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Five Guys definitely has good burgers but the price ensures I only go two times a year. I love how they don't really give you a specific amount of fries like other places - they just throw a shit ton into your bag and call it a day.
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icon bebpo
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When will Bebpo be investigated for insider posting.