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The End of the Big Mac?

Should McDonald's Phase out the Big Mac?

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If you like to lunch on two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun, you’d better act fast: McDonald’s has announced plans to phase out the Big Mac. Okay, not really. But social media ate up the news of its axing, published by the satirical site Daily Buzz Live at the end of last year. As with the best fake news, it was grounded in truth. McDonald’s had announced that it had been testing menu cuts after finding that sales in November were down 4.6 percent compared to the previous year. And more revealing than the Big Mac’s hypothetical retirement after almost 50 years on the iconic fast food chain’s menu was people's willingness—our eagerness, even—to believe that its demise might be possible.

With the rise of “fast casual” chains like Chipotle and Shake Shack, fast food is on the rocks, at least among the middle classes who can afford a $10 lunch instead of a $5 one. Chipotle enjoyed a 16.8 percent increase in sales at stores open more than a year in 2014, and shares of Shake Shack—a self-styled “anti-McDonald’s”—doubled on the day of its January IPO, despite the fact that Danny Meyer's burger business only operates at 63 locations.

Even if this market shift hasn’t yet sent the Big Mac out to pasture, change is definitely coming. Among the menu items McDonald’s really is considering cutting is the Quarter Pounder with Cheese, a sandwich perhaps no less iconic than the Big Mac. Franchise consultant Richard Adams told USA Today that items sometimes remain on the menu long after having ceased to sell well for what he called “politically correct reasons.” It’s a mixed metaphor, since the progressivism of PC would seem to imply a desire to cut high-calorie, high-fat, high-carbon-footprint items in favor of more physically and globally sustainable ones, as some of McDonald’s successful “fast casual” competitors have done.....snip~

The End of the Big Mac

There goes the Quarter Pounder with Cheese....should McDonald's phase out the Big Mac?
 
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Then what am I suppose to get when I go to McDonald's?
 
the big mac and quarter pounder won't be dropped from the menu. they are too iconic.
 
MMC said:
Naturally.....a Salad. :2razz:
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Who the hell wants a salad at McDonald's? If I wanted something healthy I wouldn't go to McDonald's.
 
Carjosse said:
Who the hell wants a salad at McDonald's? If I wanted something healthy I wouldn't go to McDonald's.
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I do, because if I go to a McDonald's, someone else was making that decision, and I want choices besides burgers and fries.
 
No, they should not phase it out. It brings back too many fond memories back to my youth, so if they phase it out, they have to wait 'til I die. :lol:
 
Carjosse said:
Who the hell wants a salad at McDonald's? If I wanted something healthy I wouldn't go to McDonald's.
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People like me who can't eat wheat but have to make long drives, I guess. Or whose friends net them into going to McDonalds.
 
Haven't had a big mac or whopper in over 30 years.

Don't miss it a bit.
 
I try to stay away from McDonald's whenever possible. The only fast food places I'll tolerate now are Chipotle and Chic Fil A.
 
The last time I had a Big Mac was 1980 something and I wouldn't miss it if it was gone.

McD's needs to stick to hamburger/cheeseburger in both sizes, lose the middle bread on the Big Mac so they can save buying one special bun for one sandwich and offer a double cheeseburger "Big Mac Style". They can keep the Filet-O-Fish because they store easy and use the same buns as the burgers. They probably should keep McNuggets too for kids and stoners. McD's is at their best when they keep it simple, cheap and fast. Let other chains mess with fresh ingredients and giant menus. When you go to McD's you want a cheap burger fast and you want it to taste the same in NY as the one you had in CA.
 
The trend at fast food chain places is to expand their menu - not to limit it more. McDonald's still gets away with making 10 "regular" beef patties per pound while everyone else seems to make them no smaller than 2 ounces (8 patties per pound). Does KFC still manage to get 9 pieces out of a single chicken?
 
Carjosse said:
Then what am I suppose to get when I go to McDonald's?
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Most McDonalds out here will understand what you ask for if you order a 'mini-mac'. For less than half the price of a big mac you get the doublecheeseburger, hold the ketchup and mustard, add lettuce and mac sauce. All you are missing is the flavorless sesame seed 3 piece bun.
 
Lutherf said:
The last time I had a Big Mac was 1980 something and I wouldn't miss it if it was gone.

McD's needs to stick to hamburger/cheeseburger in both sizes, lose the middle bread on the Big Mac so they can save buying one special bun for one sandwich and offer a double cheeseburger "Big Mac Style". They can keep the Filet-O-Fish because they store easy and use the same buns as the burgers. They probably should keep McNuggets too for kids and stoners. McD's is at their best when they keep it simple, cheap and fast. Let other chains mess with fresh ingredients and giant menus. When you go to McD's you want a cheap burger fast and you want it to taste the same in NY as the one you had in CA.
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Lutherf said:
The last time I had a Big Mac was 1980 something and I wouldn't miss it if it was gone.

McD's needs to stick to hamburger/cheeseburger in both sizes, lose the middle bread on the Big Mac so they can save buying one special bun for one sandwich and offer a double cheeseburger "Big Mac Style". They can keep the Filet-O-Fish because they store easy and use the same buns as the burgers. They probably should keep McNuggets too for kids and stoners. McD's is at their best when they keep it simple, cheap and fast. Let other chains mess with fresh ingredients and giant menus. When you go to McD's you want a cheap burger fast and you want it to taste the same in NY as the one you had in CA.
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See #13. We've been ordering the off the menu mini-mac for decades.
 
I usually do the dollar menu if I go to McD's. Otherwise I go somewhere else. I go there for cheap carbs on the run. Parfait and a buffalo ranch McChicken. That is it.
 
VanceMack said:
See #13. We've been ordering the off the menu mini-mac for decades.
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I just go with the Double Cheeseburgers. 2 for 2 bucks, large Fries. I usually already have my own coffee.

In and out of the drive in no time.....I don't do or ask anything that will cause them to make me sit there any longer. Heres the money give me the food.....C-ya!
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MMC said:
I just go with the Double Cheeseburgers. 2 for 2 bucks, large Fries. I usually already have my own coffee.

In and out of the drive in no time.....I don't do or ask anything that will cause them to make me sit there any longer. Heres the money give me the food.....C-ya!
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I dont like ketchup or mustard on my burgers AND I dont want anything that has to sit in a bin for any length of time. Ive worked fast food back in my much younger days...I know the drill. I also am EXTRAORDINARILY nice to the workers.
 
MMC said:
If you like to lunch on two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun, you’d better act fast: McDonald’s has announced plans to phase out the Big Mac. Okay, not really. But social media ate up the news of its axing, published by the satirical site Daily Buzz Live at the end of last year. As with the best fake news, it was grounded in truth. McDonald’s had announced that it had been testing menu cuts after finding that sales in November were down 4.6 percent compared to the previous year. And more revealing than the Big Mac’s hypothetical retirement after almost 50 years on the iconic fast food chain’s menu was people's willingness—our eagerness, even—to believe that its demise might be possible.

With the rise of “fast casual” chains like Chipotle and Shake Shack, fast food is on the rocks, at least among the middle classes who can afford a $10 lunch instead of a $5 one. Chipotle enjoyed a 16.8 percent increase in sales at stores open more than a year in 2014, and shares of Shake Shack—a self-styled “anti-McDonald’s”—doubled on the day of its January IPO, despite the fact that Danny Meyer's burger business only operates at 63 locations.

Even if this market shift hasn’t yet sent the Big Mac out to pasture, change is definitely coming. Among the menu items McDonald’s really is considering cutting is the Quarter Pounder with Cheese, a sandwich perhaps no less iconic than the Big Mac. Franchise consultant Richard Adams told USA Today that items sometimes remain on the menu long after having ceased to sell well for what he called “politically correct reasons.” It’s a mixed metaphor, since the progressivism of PC would seem to imply a desire to cut high-calorie, high-fat, high-carbon-footprint items in favor of more physically and globally sustainable ones, as some of McDonald’s successful “fast casual” competitors have done.....snip~

The End of the Big Mac

There goes the Quarter Pounder with Cheese....should McDonald's phase out the Big Mac?
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I will out myself as a Whopper man. But it would be sad, when I cannot find a Burger King, I couldn't have a Big Mac.
 
joG said:
I will out myself as a Whopper man. But it would be sad, when I cannot find a Burger King, I couldn't have a Big Mac.
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Heya Jog. :2wave: I go with Burger king if I want some Onion Rings.....Micky D's Fries are better tho and you get more for ya money. At least around here, that is.

For some reason after the kids moved out and the OL and I started working opposite schedules and living separate lives.....I've picked up more on eating out. Although I will go to a restaurant at times.

I figure why dirty up the kitchen, cook and then have to clean it up. So I save on time and the OL is happy the kitchen is clean.
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I liked the McD's pizza - apparently, I was the only one. The breakfast steak sandwich was very good, but alas it left the building too.

And all along, the bloody God awful Filet of Fish sandwich, like a bad relative, remains to haunt.

Go figure.
 
CanadaJohn said:
I liked the McD's pizza - apparently, I was the only one. The breakfast steak sandwich was very good, but alas it left the building too.

And all along, the bloody God awful Fillet of Fish sandwich, like a bad relative, remains to haunt.

Go figure.
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Silver linings are in funny places. A diabetes diagnosis was mine. Caught early by our system [I am bragging] I need no medication....and need no McDonald's.

I used to need a QP with cheese every few days, now after five years the place smells so bad I couldn't even go in, the taste would make me heave
 
Fearandloathing said:
Silver linings are in funny places. A diabetes diagnosis was mine. Caught early by our system [I am bragging] I need no medication....and need no McDonald's.

I used to need a QP with cheese every few days, now after five years the place smells so bad I couldn't even go in, the taste would make me heave
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Seven mornings a week, without fail, since I retired 5 years ago, I head to my local McDonalds and have a large coffee while I pick up a free paper which pretty much pays for the coffee. Only missed two days in that time, one day during last years icestorm and one day this year prior to a colonoscopy when I was banned from having coffee. Prefer McD's coffee over Tim Hortons any time.

The smell neither bothers me nor tempts me, but I'm a creature of habit and go every day.
 
CanadaJohn said:
Seven mornings a week, without fail, since I retired 5 years ago, I head to my local McDonalds and have a large coffee while I pick up a free paper which pretty much pays for the coffee. Only missed two days in that time, one day during last years icestorm and one day this year prior to a colonoscopy when I was banned from having coffee. Prefer McD's coffee over Tim Hortons any time.

The smell neither bothers me nor tempts me, but I'm a creature of habit and go every day.
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i like their coffee, too. i like the food as well, even though it is a ubiquitous chain. used to go there before almost every show my band played, read USA Today, and get a meal. helped me to relax and get ready. i'll always like McDonalds because of that.
 
Fearandloathing said:
Silver linings are in funny places. A diabetes diagnosis was mine. Caught early by our system [I am bragging] I need no medication....and need no McDonald's.

I used to need a QP with cheese every few days, now after five years the place smells so bad I couldn't even go in, the taste would make me heave
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Interesting. I no longer need Egg McMuffins for pretty much the same reason.
 
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