{"id":8532,"date":"2013-04-13T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8532"},"modified":"2013-04-13T13:43:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T17:43:18","slug":"whatever-happened-to-mcdonalds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/whatever-happened-to-mcdonalds\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever Happened To McDonald\u2019s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/041313_0739_WhateverHap1.png\" width=\"639\" height=\"530\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just under a year ago McDonald&#8217;s was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-secrets-of-mcdonalds\/\">darling<\/a> of business analysts. Yet it&#8217;s now facing tough times writes Julie Jargon. What happened?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>McDonald&#8217;s outlets are gaining an increasing repetition for rudeness and slow service.<\/li>\n<li>According to one study, McDonald&#8217;s is among the least friendly of the major fast food chains \u2013 only Burger King is worse.<\/li>\n<li>To deal with these issues McDonald&#8217;s is trying out a &#8216;dual point&#8217; ordering system where customers order on one end, grab a ticket, watch for their number to flash on a screen, and then head over to pick up their order. The person who gives them their order is meant to thank them and ask to see them again.<\/li>\n<li>The fast food chain is also trying out software that will help its many independent stores understand the optimal number of staff required on hand at any given time.<\/li>\n<li>Instead of having cashiers and cooks do all the work, the company is also looking into creating specialized runners who do nothing but fetch the components of a meal and put it together for customers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about McDonald&#8217;s woes, its financials, and what executives have to say over <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324010704578414901710175648\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324010704578414901710175648\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just under a year ago McDonald&#8217;s was a darling of business analysts. Yet it&#8217;s now facing tough times writes Julie Jargon. What happened? McDonald&#8217;s outlets are gaining an increasing repetition for rudeness and slow service. According to one study, McDonald&#8217;s is among the least friendly of the major fast food chains \u2013 only Burger King [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-8532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","tag-foodonomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/041313_0739_WhateverHap1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8537,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532\/revisions\/8537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}