McDonald's is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast
food restaurants, serving around 68 million customers daily in 119
countries. McDonald’s is America’s
favorite underdog franchises story going from one single store in a small
county to thousands and thousands of stores all over the globe. Because McDonalds is such a well-known
franchise for fast food there are many challenges that they face such as
promoting obesity. With obesity being
such a huge issue in America and other countries many people and critics are
saying that McDonald’s food is not helping the problem. After getting
complaints they added healthier food like fresh salads, apples, snack wraps and
low calorie meals to their menu.
The McDonald’s C.E.O’s said that it is not their fault, they
say McDonalds should be a treat and not an everyday type of meal. They also say
that the people that come into McDonald's need to their own healthy choices and
it is not their fault for what they chose to eat. I agree with that fact; everyone
in the world knows that the burgers and fries are not good for you, so it is
your own fault if you go and eat there multiple times a week; you cannot blame
it on the company for the mistake that you made.
McDonald’s goal is to be able to put into the customers wants
and needs first so that they have a choice when they come into the restaurant.
The customer does not have to buy the supersized Big Mac and fries with a large
coke; instead buy a salad with a smoothie and be a lot healthier. Being such a well-known
company you are going to receive criticism just because people always want to
see improvements and make it seem like there is always something better.
To be a successful
business it is up to the person to decide what they are going to do with the
criticism. You cannot listen to it or you can use it productively and change
what you are doing and use it as advice to make your business better. McDonalds
has listened to that and is now one of the biggest fast food chains of all
time.
Hey Caitlyn,
ReplyDeleteI was reading your post, and it seems like we agreed on a lot of stuff. Also, you had some great opinion in your post. We did find some of the same information, but you added in some stuff that I didn't include that I find very interesting. Obesity, as I saw, was brought up in almost if not everyone's post, and they all wrote along the same lines. I know you wrote almost the same thing I did about the customers being able to make the decision on whether or not they want to eat at McDonald's and the company is just plainly providing for the people. I like your last paragraph that you wrote. I think the way you analyzed the way a business can run itself is very true, they can either listen or ignore.