Sure, many Japanese people used to expect lifelong employment . . . at office jobs or corporate jobs. The people working the counter at KFC or making your burger at McD’s do not.

I have a similar theory about the food at casual-dining places like Chili’s, TGIFridays, Outback, etc sucking more in big cities because anyone who wants to work a kitchen can find more rewarding and hopefully better paying work at an upscale restaurant.

Look at what it takes to become a McDonalds franchise owner.  And they provide management training.  It’s really hard to fuck it up, although it is possible

I live in one too. And the two McDonalds in the area are owned by a family that actually spends time in their stores.

If I recall, the data doesn’t support that but rather protected groups (people with disabilities) and retired people who are unable to survive off whatever they saved for retirement/social security. Their average worker age skews shockingly high for a job we are taught to think belongs to “high schoolers”.

Why would the owners be on site more often i. A rural area. I live in a rural area. Our McDonald'ses are all owned by the same franchise group that owns 80% of the franchises in the 3 states surrounding us. 

I watched a documentary maybe 20 or more years ago about the expansion of KFC into Japan. This was 20 years ago, so conditions may not be the same, but one of the key points of the documentary was that in Japan, at that time, most people expected to work for the same employer for their entire career, and because of…

Yeah, the ice cream machine is never “broken” in my rural hometown.

This kind of shit happens ALL over, there’s been a massive generational failure in terms of protecting athletes from coaches, medical staff, each other... Penn State wasn’t an anomaly, it was the norm. Nasser wasn’t an anomaly, he was the norm. This incident isn’t an anomaly, it’s the norm.  

“The coaches, administrators and assistants all need to be fired.”

The difference is McDonalds (and most other fast food joints) have worked very hard at making their prep processes nearly fool-proof, so there’s very little skill required to produce a consistent product. Coffee drinks require some actual finesse, which is why I’ve never gotten a decent latte at Dunkin. Also, high scho…

All airport food is bad. They know you don’t have time to stand around and complain, and it’s not like you have a lot of options.

The basic rules of working for a cheap boss are:
- Working harder will not get you paid any more
- If you do something once, it becomes part of your job description forever
- If you work too hard, they’ll fire someone else and give you their responsibilities too, without increasing your pay.

Making an effort is a sucker’s…

It’s barely ice cream, it’s quintessential “dairy dessert,” basically a splash of cream mixed with cellulose.

I have a friend who is a firm advocate of your theory. He calls it the “Country Whopper Effect” and will bore you to tears with his subpoints and supporting arguments.

Hah...always wondered why the Jamocha machine at my local Arby’s was always “broken.” Kinda figured that.

No, it’s the most mediocre of bland, mediocre soft-serve.

Is McDonalds ice cream even good? Never had it and if I am in the mood for ice cream I can think of five different places to go first. 

How much do we have to bring up minimum wage for people to stop saying “I’m not getting paid enough to do the requirements of my job”?

Unlike other products on McDonald’s menu, McFlurry demand is highly correlated to weather patterns. It’s a known fact that McFlurry demand increases proportionally to local temperatures. McDonald’s tracks their McFlurry orders from their 37,000+ global locations (think of them like ground level satellites) and sells…