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[Hemlock]

I saw an interview on tv years ago where the owner of a bunch of McD's franchises in Japan was asked if there was milk or cream was in a milkshake.
He said no. "No dairy in milkshake."

 

[AshWilliams]

I saw an interview on tv years ago where the owner of a bunch of McD's franchises in Japan was asked if there was milk or cream was in a milkshake.
He said no. "No dairy in milkshake."

The McDs in Japan had outstanding customer service and the food itself was meticulously put together. It was a way different experience than the restaurants state-side.

 

[Flopsweat]

The ice cream machine manufacturer (Taylor) gave a ton of money to McDs cooperate, cooperate took that money and passed the operating costs for the machines off to franchise owners.

You have to remember that McD's cooperation is not a fast food company, they are a real-estate empire that moonlights as a franchiser and resturant supply business. They sell a franchise to a franchisee, lease them the building and rake in pure profit as the sucker franchisee pays all the operational costs. But! the way the franchise is structured you must buy all your product and equipment from their distributors so that all McD's food is relatively consistent worldwide. Cooperate also does a decently good job making sure they own land in the best locations (they actually have a very sophisticated team whose sole job is to buy such land), which is why they are still considered valuable by franchisees; as long as you follow the model set forth by cooperate you are nearly guaranteed at least a little bit of profit from every location you manage to "own," and the actual effort needed to run a location (from an upper management/owner perspective) is pretty minimal. They are effectively a turn-key business with very low risk and a return that, for the most part, outpaces the risk structure of the investment.

There are a few franchises that were in place before this restrictive paradigm was in place, mostly in California, and some of these locations are famous for kinda doing their own thing since they do not have most of these restrictive covenants in their contracts. One of these locations was the inventor of the Fish Fillet, which Cooperate was vehemently against until they saw how successful it was and pushed it out to every location everywhere (and even leased their own factory fishing ship up in the north pacific to catch all the fish used by every McDs worldwide). Now they have stopped trying to shutter these special franchises (which they were largely unsuccessful at in the first place on account of the very favorable early contracts to the franchisees) and mostly use them as think-tank incubator locations.

But back to the point McDs Cooperate makes most of their money in real-estate (leases mostly), less than 40% in franchise contracts and restaurant supply, and only owns outright a handful of restaurants worldwide (and they try to dump these to new franchisees as fast as they can). They could care less how problematic the machines are as long as the manufacturers keep paying them a small kickback for the monopoly on supply, hence the lawsuit against both parties for unethical business practices against the franchise owners (see, you all thought this was one huge rambling non-sequitur, but it really all tied back to the main point! Ain't I just a fount of random knowledge?).

You're mostly right. You actually don't have to buy all of your products from corporate. Or didn't. Not even all food products have to come from the big D, although noticeable things like patties and cheese do.

 

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[Flopsweat]

Let's go!

 

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My set would include a cast iron skillet and a ribeye steak. Oh, I guess a knife and fork would be good, too.

 

[sobo]

My set would include a cast iron skillet and a ribeye steak. Oh, I guess a knife and fork would be good, too.

Then you're cutting back on the beer count... You're down to 20 beers now...

 

[WEE]

Then you're cutting back on the beer count, then... You're down to 20 beers now...

Well, just down to 20.

 

[sobo]

Well, just down to 20.

Don't test it any further...

 

[Flopsweat]

Then you're cutting back on the beer count... You're down to 20 beers now...

No, you just have a 30-piece camping set now.

 

[lucusloc]

Can I order up something stronger? Beer really doesn't cut it for me. . .

 

[Flopsweat]

Can I order up something stronger? Beer really doesn't cut it for me. . .

You want the 7-piece camping set. Fire, chair and 5 shots of JD. 8-piece if you like cigars.

 

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