I don't want any of their garbage anymore.

Now they are pretty flavorless and more than not limp like they haven't been cooked.

Around this time.



Things change.

My friend Greg said that they will likely have to close that McDonald's now since everyone there saw a giant, orange cockroach in the food.

Is there truth to that? It sounds unlikely to me.

They were just closed til 4pm that day.

was cited recently for health code violations (gee, rather like that roach/bedbug hovel by Palm Beach).

From the article excerpt:

"In its message, McDonald’s said local franchisee Derek Giacomantonio got a request from law enforcement about Trump’s “desire to visit a Pennsylvania restaurant.”

Why are the police setting up restaurant shoots for Trump?

The restaurant may have been closed because it failed their last health department inspection. The empoyees weren't washing their hands, weren't wearing hair restraints and were keeping the food at the wrong temperatures. Not sure if that's enough to close the store but it's enough for me to never visit a McDs again.

McDs Corporate did approve of the political stunt. Figures. Of course they took a political stance in support of Trump. It's pretty obvious they want to support the convicted felon.

It may already be covered in small print they signed and, in this case, ignored.

I really wonder how this guy was able to keep this hidden from them.

I’ve known that he was going to A McDonalds for at least a week. No regional manager thought to figure out which one he was going to?

BTW his not wearing gloves or even a MAGA hat is consistent with this location. Repeated health inspection failings from what I’ve read. Employees not washing hands between glove changes etc.

But really... fuck Trump.

Please go fuck yourself.

Is taking a side. They obviously let him do it.

I would bet money the franchisee did this stunt without clearing it with corporate.

Doesn't matter, I'm never getting McD's again. Going back to my lapsed determination to only get food from local shops or food trucks. Taco Tote, here I come!

Not only is it poison; it’s expensive; and now this.

I’m willing to bet this franchise owner is in hot water with corporate.

The company operates on a franchise model, which means the vast majority of its locations are independently owned and operated. Although franchise owners have to abide by certain guidelines in their agreements with the parent company, they are free to invite political candidates to serve fries without McDonald’s buy-in.

https://cnn.com/cnn/2024/10/21/business/mcdonalds-trump-visit-statement

hearing a fascinating program on one of Canada's radio stations (may have been CBC), where they discussed the whole franchising model for McDonald's.

For example, they mentioned that a franchisee might buy an existing store for "x" amount (I think back then they mentioned something like $600K on average for an existing building) or can actually pay more and build one from the ground up (I think over $1 million). They are all required to buy the ingredients (e.g., frozen patties, frozen fries, rolls, etc) from the corporate-specified/designated suppliers in order to ensure finished product consistency from restaurant to restaurant, etc. It was truly illuminating to hear what goes on behind the scenes.

My spouse use to manage a McDs. The unwritten rule was that if your store was going to be in a nation wide news story, you had better clear it through corporate.

My spouse got reprimanded by the store owner for not contacting corporate....the owner wasn't available to call....before cell phones.

The store was photographed in an animal abuse story about the meat and fat McDs was using back then. A photographer just drove by the store and took background footage for the story. No interviews, no blame on that store. Corporate wasn't happy.

In this case, I'll bet dollars to doughnuts corporate knew this was going down and allowed it.

Not taking sides in this election is probably thought as a good business move but in reality not speaking out against the orange hitler bent on destroying this country for money shows that Mc D doesn't care about the country that gave them their start.

Because I’ve seen that at several different locations.

I could be wrong. They might not endorse Trump this go-round, but their past is typical business conservative.

It's part of "lobbying"
Big corps do this all the time.

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Of course most major corporations hedge their bets by giving to both parties, but McDonalds does have a history of giving more to Republicans (even if the margin is a bit smaller this year).

They lost me once they started over cooking the burgers.
Hamburgers cooked to 160F (or whatever the new guideline is) is suitable for roofing shingles and not much else.

Fake it. Tell them you will no longer patronize them because they are endorsing Trump.

It has nothing to do with their food.

Not want!

Fast food fries generally aren't cooked right - just thrown frozen into too hot oil and taken out once they attain some color.
Let it cool and it goes limp, and the inside has a definite not cooked appearance and taste.

There are ways to do fries right, and that isn't it!

Trump’s publicity stunt was a big middle finger to McDonald’s workers and American workers everywhere. He didn’t wear gloves and perhaps by design, selected a location that has failed health inspections.

Of course, what can be expected from a scab?

Like it or not, McDonald's is an American institution. And Kamala Harris is so far in his head he has to do this utterly ridiculous stunt because she is living rent-free in his stupid head.

I read they actually rehearsed driving cars through the drive-through. Rehearsed! This is nothing more than a pathetic stunt by an insecure, weak, little man who is absolutely obsessed that 40 years ago, Kamala Harris worked her way through school at a fucking fast food restaurant.

How pathetic is that?

It's like Ryan's "stunt-washing" already clean posts at a charity's soup kitchen!!

When will people learn.

You can never assume that Trump will ever act in good faith.

He will take any situation and try to make it always about him.

The malignant narcissist.

We have so many enablers of that "most notable coward, an infinite
and endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner
of no one good quality."

--Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well 3.6.9-11

McDonald’s Corp. agreed to host former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania store over the weekend but said it isn’t endorsing a candidate in the U.S. presidential race.

Trump staffed the fry station at a McDonald’s in suburban Philadelphia on Sunday before answering questions through the drive-thru window. The restaurant was closed to the public for the Republican nominee’s visit.

In a message to employees obtained Monday by The Associated Press, McDonald’s said the owner-operator of the location, Derek Giacomantonio, reached out after he learned of Trump’s desire to visit a Pennsylvania restaurant. McDonald’s agreed to the event.

“Upon learning of the former president’s request, we approached it through the lens of one of our core values: we open our doors to everyone,” the company said. “McDonald’s does not endorse candidates for elected office and that remains true in this race for the next president. We are not red or blue – we are golden.”

?????

From the Bloomberg article near the bottom (and sorry for not putting a gift link there because Bloomberg only gives me 5 per month and due to copyright/TOS I obviously can't copy/paste the entire article into a LBN OP)

That line was buried at the end of the article. Meanwhile, the Chicago Tribune article mentioned corporate's knowledge in the headline of the article.

That is why a LINK is provided for readers to click on to read the WHOLE article if they choose to.

It is a copyright violation to post the entire article.

Yeah, I know you can't post a complete article. The link posted required you enter a credit card to view the entire article - most people are not going to do that.

As for the fact that the Chicago Tribune is a right wing paper - so what? They were willing to tell the public that McDonald's corporate approved the Trump stunt (without even reading the article).

other than claiming the Bloomberg article didn't mention anything about the McDonald's position. I.e., you wrote this -

The point should have been obvious (and I think it was to most people). The original post included a link to the Bloomberg article but left open the question of whether McDonald's corporate knew and approved of the stunt. Numerous people responded speculating whether corporate knew or not. Multiple people assumed they did not. So I posted the article to make it clear that they knew and that would answer those persons' questions. I just made the reference to the Bloomberg article because the portion that could be read by the vast majority of people did not contain any reference to corporate knowledge. I thought it was obvious that what I was saying is that the Bloomberg article didn't mention it in such a way that many people would see it. The fact that they did mention it at the very end of the article may have made me technically wrong but anybody seeing just this post would never know that. If somebody else had made my same exact post, I wouldn't care that the reference to Bloomberg was technically incorrect. I would have appreciated that somebody posted a link to a different article which made the full story clear right up front.

I never imagined somebody could ever get so angry about something so petty.

they said Trump "worked the drive-thru". That is categorically false. First of all the restaurant was closed so there were no real drive thru customers. Second of all, he didn't take orders (an essential part of "working the drive thru&quot . All he did was hand bags with random food items he chose to place in them to fake customers through the drive thru window (he didn't have to make sure the specific items ordered were placed in the bag - another essential part of "working the drive thru&quot . That is not "working the drive thru". Funny how you didn't get bent out of shape over that. (Of course, I am sure you will have a perfectly "valid" reason why I am wrong yet again)

Link to tweet

"Reporting" does not equal "Commentary" nor does "reporting what was known at that time" (yesterday) = "reporting what is known" or discovered later, including the next day.

But you knew that yet choose to keep at the foolishness.

published. Bloomberg chose to include them without including a fact check anyway. You think that's perfectly fine. Good for you.

not what they guessed about.

It's like someone, say in Ukraine, who "reports that" it snowed yesterday, so YESTERDAY a news outlet publishes that "report". But then the following day, more info comes out to say that it "wasn't 'snow' but 'sleet'".

Yet you would argue that the report was intentionally wrong yesterday despite it being from yesterday. The date and publication time is listed.

It's what happens when you have no argument at all. One goes on with obfuscating with a bunch of nonsense.

Bloomberg published statements from the Trump campaign that they knew were lies when they published them. It was intentionally wrong yesterday. You seem to think that the facts only came to light today. That is nonsense, the facts were already known on Sunday. They intentionally chose to allow false statements from the Trump campaign to go unchallenged. Just because they attributed it to the campaign, doesn't change the fact that they knew they were lies and printed them anyway. Do you work for Bloomberg? I don't know why you insist on defending the indefensible. It's not just Bloomberg, it's the entire mainstream media that does this shit. Report everything Trump says or the campaign says but never point out when those statements are false (which is 90% of the time).

Congratulations. You're added to the ignore list.

they closed the restaurant, this became nothing more than a set with trump as the lead actor. They even rehearsed the actors (extras) driving through the drive through lol. Just another fraud…..this time, sponsored by The Golden Arches, MagaDonalds.

Trump Sells 'MAGADonald's' Shirts After Drive-Thru Stunt: 'I HAVE a McGift FOR YOU!'

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143326198

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-sells-magadonalds-shirts-after-drive-thru-stunt-i-have-a-mcgift-for-you/