Talk:McDonald's

Global Impact

As a global enterprise, McDonald’s has edited its menus to appeal to different markets abroad. As a result, there are multiple menu items only available in particular countries or specific regions. For instance, the BLT bagel is exclusive to Canadian McDonald’s, while the McArabia is only available in Pakistan and Arab countries.[1]

The corporation’s sensitivity to foreign markets is perhaps the most apparent in France, where McDonald’s has adapted their franchises to the French culture. Meals are a prominent part of French society, as the French spend hours a day sitting at the dinner table. McCafes feature chairs and sofas in a decorated environment, encouraging people to take their time while eating. They have even adapted their menu to include French-inspired food, such as the recently introduced McBaguette. As a result of this approach, France is McDonald’s second largest market.[2]

China used to be a top consumer of McDonald’s as well, however a recent scandal has led to a decline in the corporation’s popularity. A Shanghai reporter secretly filmed inside a food plant of a major Shanghai processing plant that supplied food to multiple popular fast food companies. The footage showed workers processing and repackaging expired meats and even meats found on the floor. Since this scandal broke, Chinese McDonald’s consumption has dropped, but products were scheduled to return after August 3.[3]

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Dlallen916 (talk • contribs) 18:39, 8 October 2014

Semi-protected edit request on 18 January 2015

Request to add additional citations on factual-driven statements, with the source housed on https://uk-franchise.co.uk

Cjshort (talk) 20:23, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. Additionally, at a glance, that does not appear to be a WP:reliable source, as it is user generated content. Grayfell (talk) 20:35, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Alleged assault of Steve Mann and lack of accountability.

On July 16, 2012, after numerous unsuccessful attempts to contact McDonalds, Mann published a first-person account of a July 1st 2012 incident from when he and his family were eating dinner at BFI Champs Elysées, a McDonald's restaurant in Paris, France, as follows (excerpt):

"I wear a computer vision system, and carry a letter from my family physician, as well as documentation on this system when I travel. I have worn a computer vision system of some kind for 34 years, and am the inventor of the technology that I wear and use in my day-to-day life. ...

On the evening of 2012 July 1st, my wife and children and I went to McDonalds at 140, Avenue Champs Elysees, Paris, France, ... McDonalds employee ... physically assaulted me, ... He angrily grabbed my eyeglass, and tried to pull it off my head. ... I showed him the letter from my doctor and the documentation I had brought with me. He [...] then brought me to two other persons. ... After all three of them reviewed this material, ... [he] angrily crumpled and ripped up the letter from my doctor. ... pushed me out the door, onto the street." (alternate link)

Within a day, this incident was posted on reddit under the title "Steve Mann, father of wearable computing, physically assaulted by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass," quickly becoming the top post on the site. The subsequent media coverage resulted in Mann being successful in contacting McDonald's Head of Customer Service, but only to receive a denial, not an apology. Mann requested a review of the video surveillance recordings from the many surveillance cameras in this McDonald's establishment, but received no further replies from McDonald's. (alternate link)

Subsequently Mann sent a much shorter letter, in French, to McDonald's Head of Customer Service, but also received no reply. (alternate link)

As a result of this incident, rather than bringing legal action against McDonald's, Mann teamed up with the IEEE (world's largest technical society), the ACLU, and some industry leaders such as the Pete Wassell, CEO of Augmate Corporation, to propose the Mann-Wassell law for presentation to the New York legislature (alternate link), as well an IEEE conference on the topic of Veillance. The goal of this work is to create a legal, policy, and social climate to counteract the actions of companies like McDonald's, that are likely to have a chilling effect on the research and use of Augmediated Reality technologies in everyday life. In this context, Mann also formalized the concept of McVeillance as placing people under surveillance while simultaneously forbidding them from using their own cameras. More precisely, McVeillance was defined as the ratio (linearly) or difference (logarithmically) of surveillance to sousveillance. (alternate link) McVeillance is one of the topics of the IEEE conference.

162.217.74.99 (talk) 18:11, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. Amortias (T)(C) 19:00, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 12 May 2015

It appears to have been vandalized, but I can't fix it. Brvhelios (talk) 23:54, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Done @Brvhelios: Thank you for pointing it out. It's been fixed. —C.Fred (talk) 00:14, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 May 2015

The oldest operating McDonald's restaurant was the fourth one built, opening in 1953. It is located at 10207 Lakewood Blvd. at Florence Ave. in Downey, California (at 33.9471°N 118.1182°W).

The fourth is wrong, it should be the third as it is correctly reported in the wiki page of the oldest McDonald's restaurant.

LarsDalsbø (talk) 22:15, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. I don't like the idea of relying on another Wikipedia page to "correct" the one here. We shouldn't depend on our own articles being accurate; that's the job of using outside sources–and in this case I searched and couldn't find anything to prove whether that particular restaurant was the third or fourth built. Perhaps if you have more experience navigating the NHRP website than I do, you can dig something up and reactivate this request. Altamel (talk) 03:56, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

McDonald's Corporation is owned by Viacom Media Networks

McDonald's Corporation is owned by Viacom Media Networks for Paramount Pictures Corporation.