Truemors
is reporting from
Member
NP Rank:
NP Rank:
New menu fuels McDonald's profit
Share:
by Babel-Fish | October 22, 2009 at 08:45 am
88 views | 2 Recommendations | 2 comments
Photos
It said when people get sad the eat like hell to get happy (well thats my quote actually, (tongue in cheek)). Seemingly eating at Mcdonnald's helps America to get out of the resession. However it also make people very fat.
Well I am supporting america by eating fruit pies and drinking their coffee. every day I spend time talking to those that have excaped to live here in paridise. I can confirm Dumaguete City Negros branch is over flowing with fat ex-pats mainly from the US.
Selling more expensive burgers has helped McDonald's third-quarter profit climb 6%.
The fast-food restaurant chain's global net income for the June to September period rose to $1.3bn (£760.7bn), from $1.2bn a year earlier.
McDonald's said new more costly products, such as the Angus Third-Pounder burger, were popular with US diners.
Shares in the company were up 2% in early Thursday trading.
The firm's quarterly sales rose 2.5% at US stores, 5.8% in Europe and 2.2% in Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
The norm here is "A Burger and Rice please" such menu's of course are not the order of the day in the good old US of A.
What is NowPublic?
NowPublic lets people work together to cover news events around the world.
Crowd Power
Ewart Tearle
United Kingdomminimalg9
United Stateskusakabemisao
Malaysia
Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (2)
at 08:53 on October 22nd, 2009
Interesting perspective. Speaking of the product that McDonald's sells, I posted a story yesterday on the heroin-like addiction to junk food in rats.
at 11:30 on October 22nd, 2009
"McDonald's said new more costly products, such as the Angus Third-Pounder burger, were popular with US diners."
I must say I am guilty as all "get out" in this debacle. I live alone and more times than not I eat what is filling. No, I'm not overweight at all. My cholesteral is around 130 total and I'm not diabetic. For $5.97 I can get the Angus Third-Pounder burger with mushrooms and swiss, a medium french fry, and a *ahem* diet coke. For the most part I eat in. Usually canned spag's or canned ravioli...which is just as bad but a few pennies cheaper. I don't have the luxury of having home cooked meals and I'm on a fixed income. Sooo...what to do...I have salads during the week in place of my gluttoness food-fare...I don't eat breakfast...and a late supper snack is usually a full flavored rice cake. Yes, McDonalds is making a profit off of the "heroin-like addiction to junk food in rats" but it's the best I can do to servive in the US broken economy. What galls me is the FAT-CATS on Wall Steet getting $34 million dollar bonuses compared to the menial pennies I put into the flaggering US economy and they whine all the way to those upscale $100.00 dinners that are at least as bad as any Big Mac will ever be...Now...it think I'll go have my rice cake:)