While McDonald’s customers will soon be getting the option to build their own burgers, the fast food chain’s menu is going to be shrinking a bit despite that new feature. Eight items will be hacked from the menu starting in January, and the extra value meal menu will be narrowed down from the 16 current options to 11 combinations.
Mickey D’s is looking to speed things up in the service line, the company said at its investor meeting today, according to CNBC.com.
It’s not like you’re going to miss [fill in your favorite item here, which may or may not be getting cut], McDonald’s says, as four out of five of its sales come from a small set of items on the menu.
“It helps operationally yes, but it simplifies the menu as well,” said CEO Don Thompson on the call.
As for which items are going bye-bye, it seems no one knows that information yet (and it could vary by franchise) — Consumerist reached out to McDonald’s to see if the company was willing to share who’s on the execution list, and we’ll let you know when we hear back.
McDonald’s to cut down menu items to boost speed [CNBC.com]
by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist
ReplyDeleteALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO: Whoever the franchise dealers are that own the McDonald's on Coors/Hanover; Coors/Quail Rd.; 98th St. have deliberately blocked and taken out all electrical outlets in the whole store so you cannot plug in your computer and use WIFI. Just before that they had put the server/router on a timer to shut on and off to disrupt you when you were on line, many times making you have to re-write your emails when they failed to send as they shut off the WIFI. World wide McDonald's advertises FREE WIFI in criminal fraud bait and switch to get you to come in and then have no electrical plugins so you buy your food and then have to leave for WIFI elsewhere. I have called, emailed, and written McDonald's corporate about these problems with their owners of these three restaurants (maybe this is a trend nation wide) and when the managers at the 98th st. Albuquerque McDonald's realized that it was me that had complained to corporate, they did criminal harassment against me and I had to file a criminal harassment complaint with the Albuquerque Police Department of their rude and vicious behavior. These managers are still at the McDonald's in Albuquerque on 98th St and Volcano, and the owners are abusing their contracts with McDonald's Corporate. BOYCOTT THESE McDONALD'S AND DO NOT GO THERE. If all McDonald's are taking out all electricity stop eating at McDonald's with their ccriminal "bait and switch" of offering free WIFI and them making it unaccessible. I would hope that as the bad management decisions to drop menu items, that all McDonald's have a severe drop in business and with their high prices, people need to go "ELSEWHERE".