Talk:McDonald's/Archive 1

message: Somebody please figure out when mc cafe was actually introduced... It says 1993 in melbourne on this page but on this page:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s_menu_items (around half-way) it says Sydney in 1991...
LightningEdge 07:36, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mc-cafe

message: Why is the useless picture of the Utah McDonalds there? Is there any reason why, is that McDonalds special or a landmark or something? There are enough pictures in this article as it is, could someone please remove it? 65.30.45.235 06:58, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Useless Utah picture should be removed

message: There was a picture of a fluffy rodent (not sure what it was) and a caption "One of the commonly used meats in the sandwiches". I removed it. Since there seems to be so much vandalism of this page, maybe it should be locked.Crimson Shadow 19:50, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Rodent removed

message: In the section describing Spurlock's month of eating only McDonalds, the editor wrote that other people did this without any bad effects via frequently exercising. This is not believable... I'd think the constant barrage of fat and starch would be very poor fuel for working out and would most likely tire a person to where exercise would be very uncomfortable. Where is the source for this statement? -Usernamefortonyd
:No, you misread. They ate at McDonald's but simply chose their food more wisely (), such as eating more muffins, salads, etc, rather than the constant diet of Supersize meals with sugared soft drinks that Spurlock eats in the film.  ProhibitOnions 12:13, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: They also exersised more off camera.   Spurlock did no exersise and tried to limit himself to 5,000 steps a day.--michael180 17:59, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The "Supersize Me" copycats

message: Removed "MacDonald's" spelling from intro.  Is this a non-english spelling, or a typo? Dachshund 12:48 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)
I see it occasionally on various websites, don't know why. Pizza Puzzle
:This spelling is common in Asian countries (not officially, of course) to aid in pronunciation. --ʀ6ʍɑʏ89 21:14, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: MacDonald's is the wrong spelling

message: "Tastes like shit"??? Is this really necessary? I vote to rewrite this line more professionally. - user:Pacific1982
:I've decided to be bold and revert that anonymous edit. Anthony DiPierro 01:20, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: This is a bad statement

message: Actually Subway (sandwich) has the most fast food sites in the United States. Goodralph 08:31, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not sure which part of text you think is wrong. We only ever says it's the world's largest fast food chain (which is true, I believe) and do not restrict attention to just the US. Pcb21| Pete 10:04, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leading Fast Food Franchise? 

message: I'm afraid I'm not convinced about the coffee scandal in the article. Yes, the situation was misrepresented (both as far as the cause and the damages). And yes, it was a thoroughly unfortunate situation. But despite a pretty slanted writeup, I still get the basic message: McDonalds was somehow wrong for serving coffee which was too hot to spill on one's crotch. Yes, maybe it was too hot for one's mouth, but the bottom line is that this nice old lady poured hot coffee on herself and then blamed the vendor. This is the moral equivalent of hitting one's thumb with a hammer and suing the hammer company because the hammer wasn't properly designed for hitting thumbs with. I think the reason there was such outrage about the case is because it forced Americans to realize that there's no such thing as personal responsibility anymore. Yes, McDonalds may make $1.3 million from coffee per day (though I expect that's gross, not net, which would be a nice little misrepresentation in itself), but that doesn't mean that everyone else is somehow entitled to that money. So, I remain unconvinced that this was somehow a triumph of justice, and not a gross miscarriage (is there any other kind?) -b
:Not wanting to start a big argument over this (and this isn't the place, anyway), I'll just say there's a world of difference between a bit of pain from hot coffee, and third-degree burns from scalding coffee. sjorford (?!) 14:28, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: How about a million dollars for everyone who has ever gotten sick from smoking?  The idea is inherent risk, not just with this but anything.  And how is hot coffee the equivalent of a maliciously poisoned hammer?  --Ccosta 06:10, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The point is that it would make it more dangerous than one would reasonably expect a hammer to be, and more dangerous than competators' rival products, making it impossible to accurately assess the danger level it presents and thus to take responsibility for knowingly exposing oneself to it.  I'm not inclined to support cases against the tobacco industry but if a particular cigarette manufacturer's products were more dangerous than that of their competators and they knew this but failed to inform their customers, I believe that that would provide good (legal and moral) ground for a suit. People ought to be responsible for the risks they expose themselves to, but only if they are equipped with the  information necessary to accurately gauge those risk. FrFintonStack 01:29, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Coffee scandal

message: Does anyone know about the personal pizzas Mc Donald's used to serve?
barely anyone online (wich leads me to belive it might have just been a canadian thing) knows about them, I used to love them before they stopped serving...
They still sell them in Ohio by the Port Columbus Airport.
24.95.67.193
I wish someone had more information on the McPizza - googling on it didn't bring me anything more than vague references and urban legends.
I do know that the McPizza was not brought out in all North American or American restaurants, as the current entry claims.  From what I remember, it was just brought out in certain test markets.  I remember (and I could be wrong) seeing the McPizza at the rock-and-roll McDonald's in Chicago, right by the Hard Rock Cafe, and at the restaurant in Anaheim, right across the street from Disneyland.
I don't think the failure of the McPizza had to do with competition, as the current entry states, although I could be wrong.  I always heard that the main problem was something to do with the prep time being too long, the holding time being too short, or both, or some other preparation problem that basically made the McPizza unmarketable within the constraints of the McDonald's system.
I'd really like to hear from someone with first-hand experience in this, though.
--Jkonrath 14:52, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mc Pizzas 

message: Is it just me, because I don't seem to see the number of employees in the infobox. The code "num_employees" is there but why doesnt it show up in the article?
I didnt see it mentioned either. (64.12.117.10 04:08, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dont see number of employees 

message: The first McDonald's restaurant in Italy were opened in Bolzano-Bozen and not in the Spanish Steps district of Rome (it was the second one). It's really that now the Bolzano McDonald's is closed (I hope it will be soon re-opened), but it was the first in Italy...
On 8th november of 2005 a new Big McDonalds opend in Bolzano, it is the biggest and newest Restaurant of all Italy.
:Sorry, but the Rome McDonald's has a plaque in it that says unequivocally that it is the first in Italy. I can upload a picture of this if need be. I have changed the text to indicate this. ProhibitOnions 22:16, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Since the text has once again been changed to claim that Bolzano was first, would any potential reverter please take a look at the image of the plaque I mentioned, mounted on the wall of the Rome McDonald's. It reads: "The First McDonald's Restaurant in ITALY - Opened 20 March 1986 in Rome - McDonald's System of Europe." I hope this settles the issue. ProhibitOnions 23:23, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Please provide a link to this text. I have not found anything on the McDonald's Italia site to support the claim that Bolzano was the first. ProhibitOnions 09:59, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The first McDonald's in Italy