Ronnie McDonald

McDonald’s lettuce growing billboard

Green lettuce was planted on a specially designed billboard to form the words “fresh salads.” The ad first appeared in Chicago 2007 as part of a McDonlads promotion for their fresh salads.

Most reports say the salad sign held up well since bird and other potential pests didn't have a place to perch to bother
most of the plants.

Salads at McDonalds are always weird, weirder if they have chicken in them. Newmans Own dressings still getting top billing for the salads, too. Wondering if this salad craze will last through the value meal wars.

Quarter Pounder Restaurants

Stand alone "Quarter Pounder" Restaurants are popping up in Japan--probably to promote the QP, a distinctly American burger, that does not regularly appear on Japanese McDonald's menus!

Used to love DQP w cheese. Now it's Big Macs every time!

But wait! it's a big secret! Shhhh!
http://www.quarter-pounder.net/campaign/index.html


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Bring Back Super Size!

I'll need 200 hundred ketchup packets please!

HUGE MAC!

Dollar Menu - Will the Double Cheeseburger Cost more than a buck?

Personally, I have eaten a mountain of these burgers. Not so healthy you say? I'm not eating them to improve my health--I'm just in the cross hairs for the double cheeseburger demographic--poor & hungry! $5 gets you 3 double cheeseburgers & a large drink. Easily 2x the food of most fast food combos for about a buck less. you do the math.



As recently as April 2006, the New York Times was crowing about how the Dollar Menu helped steer McDonald's out of a long slide downward, especially after the release of this hack's pseudo-documentary 'Supersize Me'.

"The enormous success of the Dollar Menu, where all items cost $1, has helped stimulate 36 consecutive months of sales growth at stores open at least a year. In three years, revenue has increased by 33 percent and its shares have rocketed 170 percent, a remarkable turnaround for a company that only four years ago seemed to be going nowhere."

So... now the Golden Arches are trying to find cost cutting methods. Like only using one slice of cheese or replacing it with double hamburgers (no cheese).

Would you rather pay $1 for a Double burger with cheese or wd you cough up another 29¢ ? Some McDonalds dont even participate in teh Dollar Menu, and some regional restaurants are already making the burgers $1.09, $1.19 or $1.29...

McDoanlds Southern Style Chicken Muffin sandwich

That was really annoying, and it looked like they filmed it at Pierce College in the cafeteria.

Definitely competing with Chik-Fil-A here, this is basicaly the original Chik-Fil-A sandwich for breakfast, minus the pickles.

They have a lunch version with a whole bunch of pickles on a buttered sesame seed bun, but the breakfast sandwich comes on a biscuit with butter only. It's been described as dry but good.

Want a Coupon for a free one May 15 with purchase of a large or medium drink?

Would You Like Fries With That?

How may I help you? Would you like French Fries with that?


Familiar phrases when you go to a fast food restaurant--or a "quick service" chain as they like to be called nowadays...
And for the most part, we all go there. We have to stop in and we take full advantage of all that fast food places have to offer, from convenient location to dollar menus to huge sodas.
I am not going to rail against fast food--Morgan Spermlock can kiss my ass. I LOVED super sizing my Big Mac meal... thanks for ruining a good thing in the name of filmmaking.
So i guess there will be some rants, mostly against the Super Size Me type of backlash against McDonald's et al.
Maybe some good eats, some handy tips and tricks for ordering and eating fast food.
Bon apetit!

~Chef Jef