McCrappy

Couple of McDonald's pieces of news:

New Uniform RumorsApparently the McPolo and McVisor aren't good enough for today's high school buger flippers. Talks are on for something more fashionable to go with the "I'm Lovin' It" gagphrase.

No more supersize. In order to keep up with the cutbacks on the 'unhealthy' part of fast food, corporate has decided to phase out the supersize, leaving only small, medium, and large. The company cites the reason is that most of the time, the supersize fries don't get eaten - so why waste the money on the product?

Outsource your drive thru?

The world's largest fast-food chain said on Thursday it is looking into using remote call centers to take customer orders in an effort to improve service at its drive-thrus. "If you're in L.A.... and you hear a person with a North Dakota accent taking your order, you'll know what we're up to." - McDonald's Chief Executive Jim Skinner

Now if they made their employees happier with the new uniforms, I'd think this woudln't be neccessary. Color me crazy, but I think this means a couple less buger flipping jobs for the teens. I don't think that would make them happy.

Hi tech Access

"...[McDonalds]Unveiled a new high-tech look to its 'flagship restaurant' in Chicago. The firm kitted the 'restaurant' out with wifi action and factored in a couple of PCs with music-downloading, CD-burning and photo-printing capabilities.

McDonalds is NOT your Walgreens. Do NOT get your photos and milkshakes together.

Overall, McDonalds is struggling to break free of the chains that the past twenty years have dragged down on the franchise's image. They were better off when they were retro and more service oriented to start with. Me personally, I haven't had McDonalds in at least two years... ever since I found out their farms stopped vaccinating their livestock. O_o That much chicken and moo-moo being processed and someone thinks this is a good idea, and not making sure that the livestock is getting grass instead of rendered feed? Count me out.

On Fast Food -cancel that order waiter because is the franchise you visit the most up to par?

10: TACO BELL
The 100 Taco Bells we sampled had the fewest total critical violations, 91, making it the best performer in our survey.

1. BURGER KING
The 100 Burger Kings we sampled rang up a whopping 241 total critical violations. Health inspectors cited a Virginia Burger King for 14 separate critical violations: employees not washing their hands, uncovered food in the fridge, grime and debris found on this ice chute, and on the drink machine at the drive-thru widow. We observed one employee scooping ice into a cup with his bare hands, an apparent critical violation.

Hungry yet?