According to The Statistic Portal “McDonald’s has grown into a global giant with increasing restaurant numbers years-on-years – in 2014, McDonald’s had 36,258 restaurants worldwide.” In 2015, number of franchises in the United States are 12,836, Canada are 1,181, and international are 15,527; the company personally owned 6,714 restaurants. The numbers of people who visit McDonald’s has increasing from 108.52 million in 2009 to 113.82 million in 2013 (The Statistic Portal). McDonald’s serves 1% of the population every day. People can easily find a McDonald’s restaurant around them; it is everywhere: in the malls, air ports, and even in hospitals. People have been eating McDonald’s since the company opened in 1948. Nowadays, it is often being …show more content…
McDonald’s food is poisonous. McDonald’s not only promoting unhealthy food to the adult, but also to the little kids. They spend over $1.8 billion every year on advertising. Also, they trying to show an image of being a caring company and a fun place to eat. McDonald’s works appeal to kids with a numbers of tricks. For example, McDonald’s playground, some communities don’t have playground for kids. So, McDonald’s playground is the only place parents can take their kids to play. Furthermore, there are Happy Meal appeal to the kids and birthday parties children can have at McDonald’s. Behind the scene McDonald’s is only interest in making money. They aim to open more and more restaurants across the globe. According to the article “5 Reasons to Never Let Your Kids Eat McDonald’s” Beth Buczynski said, “McDonald’s isn’t real food. The chicken nugget isn’t a part of the chicken’s anatomy, real ribs have bones, and most importantly, real food riots.” The interviewee, Jennifer Van, she said “people should not eat McDonald’s because you don’t know what it is made of. There have been videos and experiments done where the burger from McDonald’s takes much longer to rot than a normal burger, which means it cannot be normal. It probably has a lot of chemicals.” “If McDonald’s is so healthy for kids, why …show more content…
High flavoring means they either use chemicals or a lot of salt and sugar. Even normal people know it is unhealthy to consume too much salt and sugar. In the article “McDonald’s Transparency Campaign Reveals Toxic Ingredients” wrote by Alek Hidell, he states that “Americans awareness to health and diet issues prompted McDonald’s to put forth a campaign of transparency. What was found will disgust you beyond belief. If is no secret, fast food restaurants cut costs by taking short cuts.” The short cuts that leads to the use of preservatives, flavor enhancers and a slew of other chemicals. Aluminum sulfate is a chemical used in bread production. It activates yeast, so it helps to expand the bread size. This chemical is also used commonly as an artificial fertilizer for alkaline soils and pesticide. Ammonium chloride, it is an ingredient used in fireworks and other explosives products. This explosives chemical are using in the food human are consuming and McDonald’s did not aware to somewhat consider for the costumers the chemical might be harmful to the health. Also, silicone oil is a chemical used to make contact lenses and now McDonald’s using it in chicken nuggets production. People understand McDonald’s food is unhealthy and not clean, but they did not know in order for McDonald’s to produce those foods, they require to use chemicals which are used in explosives, contact lenses and who knows what other
Knowledge is power, the more the consumer knows about the food they are eating the healthier choices they’ll make. For instance, in McDonald’s Grilled Honey Mustard Snack Wrap and a small French fry, from McDonald’s is around $6.00 and contains 420 calories 24g of fat (6.0g saturated).If you were to compare that to a Big Mac meals that comes with medium size fries and coke soda would be about 980 calories the Snack Wrap would be a healthier alternative and it would be about the same price $6.00. When fast food chains put labels on their food like McDonald’s consumers can’t
When researching McDonald’s through online sources, it is clear that nutrition is a major concern of the public visiting the fast-food chain. Secondary research conducted shows that there are several case studies and other secondary source searches around the same topic. McDonald’s has often been the center of nutritional attention within the fast-food industry. Secondary research shows that the restaurant has recently made changes to the American Happy Meal to reduce the amount of French fries offered and replace the portion with fruit (Strom, 2011). In a study conducted by McDonald’s a secondary source reports the meal cuts calories by 20% for the children’s meal (Strom, 2011). This is a critical move by the organization on children’s obesity is currently a hot topic within food chains and attention is driven by the Obama administration. Secondary research also shows that although the public has major health concerns with the food chain, profits are increasing during a high point of an economic recession (Dahan & Gittens, 2008). Acco...
People often blame McDonald’s food for the obesity rates in America but rather than it being the company’s fault, it’s actually the individual’s own fault. While yes, a majority of the food served at McDonald’s is rather unhealthy, people aren’t forced to eat there. Everyone has the ability to make their own choices such as whether they eat at McDonald’s or not which means that is in fact, not McDonald’s fault that we have so many fat people nowadays.
McDonald’s, one of America’s fastest growing fast food restaurants, has made more than its share of money within the last twenty years, serving more than 46 million people daily. They have twice as many restaurants as Burger King and more restaurants than KFC, Wendy’s, and Taco Bell combined. Often children have the dream of eating fast food for every meal of every day. Well, Morgan Spurlock took the challenge to see how dangerous it would be to eat McDonalds for every meal. He also took the challenge in response to a lawsuit against McDonalds by a family whose children became obese by the contents of its meals.
mcdonalds is not exactly a quality food source, is a convenient and cheep source of food. but cheap food comes at a greater cost...inhumane!!
According to Royle (1999) McDonald’s is a very large multinational enterprise (MNE) and the largest food service operation in the world. Currently the company has 1.5 million workers with 23,500 stores in over 110 countries with the United Kingdom and Germany amongst the corporation’s six biggest markets, and over 12,000 restaurants in the United States. In 1974 the United Kingdom corporation was established and in 1971 the Germany corporation was established, currently the combined corporation has over 900 restaurants and close to 50,000 employees in each of these countries (Royle, 1999).
McDonald’s has the largest fast food market share in the world. As mentioned, it serves 68 million customers every day in 119 countries, allowing it to be the second largest outlet operator with more than 34,000 outlets.
McDonald’s should be blame for making kids fat because they are affordable for anyone. Before 1994 diabetes in children were rare. Only five percent were because children were overweight. Now 30 percent of children have type 2 diabetes. Since 1969 health care has cost over $100 billion per year. Is impossible for teenagers not to eat McDonald’s since they have over 13,00 in the country. If you drive on a block you won’t be able to even find a store to buy a grapefruit. Since McDonalds is affordable and everywhere they are not too many alternatives to eating healthy. McDonald’s products have no calorie charts information on their fast-food. They also get people to buy their fast-food through their commercials since they don’t have warning labels.
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However, despite knowing that the food is terrible for a human body and health, or the reveal that some of the food they make is unnatural, people still continue to consume high amounts of the restaurant's food. McDonalds today serves and feeds about 68 million people every day. That is more than the entire population in the U.K. It is not just popular in North America but in almost every region of the world where McDonalds has grown a strong international image. It can be found in 118 countries and operates 35, 000 restaurants worldwide. Fast food in general has become more and more common in the twenty-first century. It would not be unnatural today to see someone hold a McDonald’s restaurant drink during lunch time in the bus or on the street in any region in the world. It has become a part of people’s morning routines, waking up and heading to work with a McDonald’s breakfast or coffee in their possession. However, one cannot deny that McDonalds continues to play a part of America’s cultural and a national identity. As one McDonald’s executive explained, “McDonalds…is really a part of
In today’s market, McDonalds faces numerous challenges such as fierce competition, a more health conscious customer, and the continual need for improved customer satisfaction and menu. McDonalds needs to go through some changes in order to remain ahead in the fast-food industry.
McDonald’s serves more than 70 million people around the world in more than 120 countries. “You will see McDonald’s, everywhere you go”. You can see McDonald’s in airports, malls, cities, highways and parks.
Their first restaurant opened in San Bernardino, California, in 1945. The decision to franchise with their Golden Arch sign was put on a map. It was known everywhere and many people began opening a McDonald’s restaurant in their city. By 1960, there were 100 franchises operating across the country Along with other pioneers in the fast-food businesses, including Burger King, and Wendy’s, and numerous others came to the scene, and by 1990 fast food had taken over the American landscape with 11,800 McDonald’s, 6,298 Burger Kings and 3,721 Wendy’s. Today there are over 14 thousand McDonald’s restaurants in America and over 22 thousand in the world. Fast food is constantly expanding each year and will always get
Fast food chicken nuggets are horrible for the human health. They have been many lawsuits and debates on whether it is real meat, processed, or whatever else might be in the world to create the delicious food most Americans desire. Chicken nuggets from fast food restaurants contain 57% of fat in each chicken nugget. Yes, I know what you are thinking, I had to think of how many chicken nuggets I have eaten too. Let’s begin with one of the famous restaurants, Mcdonalds. Mcdonalds is one of the worst place to get chicken nuggets from, as statistics shows. There chicken nuggets aren’t even chicken. Their chicken nuggets are processed and bioengineered. “and it's hard to determine exactly how much is added to McNuggets – this chemical can be toxic.”
The company has also expanded the McDonald's menu in recent decades to include alternative meal options, such as salads and snack wraps, in order to capitalize on growing consumer interest in health and wellness. A McDonald's restaurant is operated by a franchisee, an affiliate, or the corporation itself. The corporation's revenues come from the rent, royalties and fees paid by the franchisees, as well as sales in company-operated restaurants. McDonald's revenues grew 27% over the three years ending in 2007 to $22.8 billion, and 9% growth in operating income to $3.9 billion. McDonald’s primarily sell a ham burger, cheese burger, chicken products, French fries, breakfast items, soft drinks and desserts. In response to obesity trends in western nations and in the face of criticism over the healthiness of its products, the company has modified its menu to include healthier alternatives such as salads, wraps