McDonalds - I'm Lovin' It

[Chongqing]

Their signature burger that uses the same tiny meat patties as the hamburgers & cheeseburgers in the children's Happy Meals.

Those parties are one tenth of a pound in precooked weight. So a BigMac has only two tenths of a pound in precooked beef. The quarter pounder has 2.5 tenths of a pound. That meat isn't frozen and is cooked to order, unlike the BigMac's.

Something I found to be strange was two or more years ago, they decided that they needed to make the BigMac better. The way they decided to do that was by adding more sauce. It now comes with a whole ounce of sauce. It seems like a common complaint against it is that it's sloppy.

I really don't understand their thinking.

 

[Eventide]

Their signature burger that uses the same tiny meat patties as the hamburgers & cheeseburgers in the children's Happy Meals.

Oh, wow - for real? I never ate Mcdonalds/had many Happy Meals as a kid (Oklahoma has waaaay better burger choices than Mcdonalds - for example, Braums).

Something I found to be strange was two or more years ago, they decided that they needed to make the BigMac better. The way they decided to do that was by adding more sauce. It now comes with a whole ounce of sauce. It seems like a common complaint against it is that it's sloppy.

I really don't understand their thinking

Did this correlate with the time they required the inside of all Mcdonalds locations be redesigned/updated to resemble 1970's Doctor/Dentist offices? Like, 2021-ish?

Spoiler: image taken from Reddit

Tin foil hat theory: maybe the executives are trying to tank the company's stock price by making intentionally shitty executive decisions?

 

[Travis Touchdown (REAL)]

I had a Big Mac in grorious nippon and it only costed $4

 

[Chickenpolar]

Something I found to be strange was two or more years ago, they decided that they needed to make the BigMac better. The way they decided to do that was by adding more sauce. It now comes with a whole ounce of sauce. It seems like a common complaint against it is that it's sloppy

I was just going to say Big Macs have too much sauce for the size of the burgers & buns and they'd be better if they had half the sauce. They are sloppy as hell and I think too much sauce is why they slide around so much.

 

[Chongqing]

Did this correlate with the time they required the inside of all Mcdonalds locations be redesigned/updated to resemble 1970's Doctor/Dentist offices? Like, 2021-ish?

Yes!

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

The quarter pounder has 2.5 tenths of a pound. That meat isn't frozen and is cooked to order, unlike the BigMac's.

The Quarter Pounder patties were frozen & weren't cooked to order when I worked the grill as a teen (given that was some time ago).

They were simply slightly larger & thicker frozen pucks that I got out of a different box from the walk-in freezer.

I used to precook the frozen QP patties and shove them in the warming drawer just like the Big Mac ones.

Though only during busy periods because the timer on the warming drawers were short (less than 15 mins), so it resulted in a lot of waste to save only a minute or two per order.

 

[Eventide]

Yes!

Curious-er & curious-er

I've seen theories on TikTok that Mcdonalds redesigned their locations to be as bland as possible, 'cause they realized Ozempic/GLP-1 injections (which suppress appetite) will soon become widespread and decrease sales substantially/lead to closed stores/leave them with real estate they'll need to unload. Another theory suggested they made the decor as shitty/uninviting as possible, to prevent loitering/crackheads hanging out all day/bumfights that keep making the news/giving them bad publicity. Weirdly, the last theory I find the most likely, considering the amount of crazy Mcdonalds-related drug addict bum crimes I've heard about on the news recently.

 

[PlapPlapPlapPlapPlap]

Another theory suggested they made the decor as shitty/uninviting as possible, to prevent loitering/crackheads hanging out all day/bumfights that keep making the news/giving them bad publicity. Weirdly, the last theory I find the most likely, considering the amount of crazy Mcdonalds-related drug addict bum crimes I've heard about on the news recently.

I don't think crackheads care about earthtones slop as long as they're indoors.

God they can't even make the thirst trap photos for the new tenders look appealing. Fortunately they haven't fucked with my McChickens... yet.

 

[Chongqing]

Curious-er & curious-er

I've seen theories on TikTok that Mcdonalds redesigned their locations to be as bland as possible, 'cause they realized Ozempic/GLP-1 injections (which suppress appetite) will soon become widespread and decrease sales substantially/lead to closed stores/leave them with real estate they'll need to unload. Another theory suggested they made the decor as shitty/uninviting as possible, to prevent loitering/crackheads hanging out all day/bumfights that keep making the news/giving them bad publicity. Weirdly, the last theory I find the most likely, considering the amount of crazy Mcdonalds-related drug addict bum crimes I've heard about on the news recently.

My theory on the remodeling was that they made the new designs for the restaurants as ugly as possible, because it takes away attention from the fact that they're the first fast food restaurant in America to remove soda-dispensers. Yes, you can still get as many refills as you want, but you have to ask a busy employee to get it for you. Choosing the exact amount of ice and different KingCoba-style drink combos is gone for now.

No one would have really noticed Apple being the first smartphone manufacturer to remove the headphone jack if they had simultaneously made the iPhone as ugly as hell. I think McDonald's removed soda-dispensers expecting every other fast food place to do it, and they didn't want to get blamed for pushing over the first domino.

Luckily, other places haven't followed in their footsteps (for now). Who knows what will happen in the future. They barely have a person to take your order in the store. I bet the lack of personnel will lead to them adding the dispensers back in the future. From their perspective, the more of their work they can make the customer do, the better, in my opinion.

 

[Paranoia Machine]

Grew up poor as fuck to teenage parents whose family all cycled through working at McDonalds at one point or another. Lots of free food and Happy Meals from 1-10.

I don't make a habit of eating there now that I'm 20+ years out of that situation, however, once in a blue moon, you could give me a quality burger or authentic Japanese cuisine but sometimes it boils down to; you can take a man out of poverty but you can't take the poverty out of a man. So you find yourself craving a McDonald's frankenburger or some good-old-fashioned instant ramen and nothing else will slake that craving

 

[AnOminous]

God they can't even make the thirst trap photos for the new tenders look appealing. Fortunately they haven't fucked with my McChickens... yet.

The basic McChicken is about the only classic dish they haven't completely fucked up yet.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Did this correlate with the time they required the inside of all Mcdonalds locations be redesigned/updated to resemble 1970's Doctor/Dentist offices? Like, 2021-ish?

The demolition/remodeling of the old "mansard" roofs were well underway at the time. The brown boxes replaced the "eyebrow" locations they had used for the last decade and they weren't much better.

 

[Eventide]

The demolition/remodeling of the old "mansard" roofs were well underway at the time. The brown boxes replaced the "eyebrow" locations they had used for the last decade and they weren't much better.

I was more talking about the inside of the locations, they look bland and 70's doctor office-y:

Spoiler: photo also taken from Reddit

Spoiler: from an article

Look at how hideous, sterile, and visually unappealing they now look. It's like what you'd expect in a High School cafeteria from a poor Soviet bloc country in the 70's. Why would they do this? Who approved this?

I don't have much Mcdonalds nostalgia (I never really liked their food, and as a lil kid I preferred Sonic's toys 'cause they gave out stickers & crazy straws). I just care 'cause the mandatory hideous redesign is just an interesting light mystery. Like, surely there was a reason they made their entire business model look ugly on purpose?

 

[Adamska]

I get the idea that the terrible redesign was an attempt to just try and make themselves no longer the "fast food slop joint". It's their attempt to become a clean corporate restaurant if I had to guess.

However this is just as retarded as the management from Rax coming up with all those food items and Mr. Delicious. You put the burgers in the bag and let me drive off pal; I buy this shit for being cheap and greasy; if I want something good, I'd go to the other options I have. I think it's just stupid penny pinching from industry oafs who have no experience in food.

You're a retard if you set your prices higher than restaurants DESPITE having larger margins. Growth mindset via stock horseshit was a mistake.

 

[millais]

I get the idea that the terrible redesign was an attempt to just try and make themselves no longer the "fast food slop joint". It's their attempt to become a clean corporate restaurant if I had to guess.

However this is just as retarded as the management from Rax coming up with all those food items and Mr. Delicious. You put the burgers in the bag and let me drive off pal; I buy this shit for being cheap and greasy; if I want something good, I'd go to the other options I have. I think it's just stupid penny pinching from industry oafs who have no experience in food.

You're a retard if you set your prices higher than restaurants DESPITE having larger margins. Growth mindset via stock horseshit was a mistake.

Yes, I would have guessed that they were trying to emulate something like Starbucks, aesthetically slick and inoffensive and modern.

 

[<3 norafawn]

So this is how americans eat mcdonalds huh

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

I see so much people getting fries out of the box immediately, it is baffling.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

McDonald's is closing the CosMc's chain.

With the exception of the Chicagoland prototype all of them were in Texas (eight in the Dallas area, four in San Antonio, nothing in Houston or Austin, and they've already closed more than half). Basically, it was a way to compete with Swig/Dutch Bros., which were/are expanding rapidly in the state.

 

[NoBueno]

No mention of the original Ronald McDonald?

 

[cybertoaster]

Tin foil hat theory: maybe the executives are trying to tank the company's stock price by making intentionally shitty executive decisions?

There's no conspiracy, even since starbucks and then chipotle showed there is a market of people willing to pay for "premium" fast food mcdonalds, bk and others have wanted to get on that, the profit margins on those are way higher.

Problem is only ghetto kids can brag about going to mcdicks...