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In our day to day lives mostly everyone will enjoy McDonald’s every once in a while, even though you might not be a fan of fast food. McDonald 's Corporation is a multimillion dollar global business. Though the meals they serve may be cheap, the negative effects they carry could greatly outweigh the positive effects so much more than one might think. In this report the pros and cons of McDonalds will be discussed and then the casting of the judgement of if it’s a good or bad global citizen will…

Some fast food chains have had profitable years financially; some chains have had some major economic downturn in recent years. Americans as a whole turn to fast food all too often. Lately, though, the country is beginning to see a slight change. People are becoming more aware about what they put in their bodies, and fast food does not have the quality society is looking for. Because of this, some fast food chains, especially McDonald’s, have been seeing quarter after quarter of declines in…

The main argument of this article is the minimum-wage increase “bungle” in New York. There has been recent talk across the nation about raising the minimum-wage in quick-service restaurants to fifteen dollars. The article specifically talks about New York and how small business owners own and operate all of New York’s Burger King and McDonalds restaurants. This means that they pay a percent of their profits back the company no matter the franchisees makings. The article also covers the topic of…

Failure of McDonalds McLobster Sandwich McDonalds Corporation is renowned for a proven background of successful business that is based on an effective business model. Throughout the years, McDonalds has built a profitable and highly successful business that is characterized by increased profitability and expansion into new markets across the globe. The corporation has achieved a significant competitive advantage over its main rivals through effective business strategies. These strategies…

Today in America, obesity is becoming a popular issue and big concern in our society because in the film, ‘Super-Size Me’, the U.S. is the fattest country in the world, and the medical costs have doubled in past five years. In this film, Morgan Spurlock had an experience on his body that he eats McDonald’s foods for 30 days to show how fast foods affect a person’s health. Also, in the America, one in four Americans visits a fast-food restaurant which makes McDonald’s serves 46 million foods…

In “Why McDonald’s Fries Taste So Good” Schlosser explains the trend from fresh on-site prepared food, to the use of natural and artificial flavoring that the food industry is using today. The trend of food be prepared fresh on-site exhibited many challenges for the industry and also had high costs associated with it. The time and labor required in itself, put cost restraints on the industry and limited profits. Schlosser explains in great detail how the company McDonalds went from using…

Burger King, Wendy’s, or McDonalds? I usually go with McDonalds, I don’t know what it is, but something about McDonalds attracts me to them more than the other two mentioned. Don’t get me wrong, I love all three of those fast food chains, but McDonald’s has a competitive advantage over the other two whether it be their food, customer service, or etc. In addition, their business strategy, alignment with its business, human resource, and staffing strategies also help create this competitive…

In Thomas L. Friedman’s, The World Is Flat, he discusses a chapter called “The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention”, which explains why out of all the reasons countries prevent from going to war with one another, the main reason is because of supply chains. Supply chains are otherwise known as trading or having the same international businesses in those countries. The majority of countries all around the world contain the same international businesses, such as McDonald’s. This allows for these…

A) McDonalds is seen as one of the main, if not the main, retailer in the fast food industry. Their adaptability and willingness to change has helped them greatly in expanding their business into the international markets. McDonalds first restaurant was opened in Des Plaines, Illinois in 1955 after Ray Kroc visited Dick and Mac McDonalds restaurant and immediately wanted to franchise it. By 1959, McDonalds had opened 100 restaurants and sold over 100 million hamburgers and by 1963 the number of…

Macdonald's 1. Introduction Macdonald's is one of the leading, if not, the top fast food franchises available globally in over a hundred countries, branching out to more than 35,000 branches, and employs an astounding 1.9 million people to keep the franchise operational to this day. The company Macdonald's was first founded by Dick and Maurice Macdonald in 1948, which was then purchased by genius franchise agent, Ray Kroc (Dick McDonald, 2014). The nature of its business is primarily…