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McDonald's may do breakfast till noon, since millennials can't make it by 10:30

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by LongTimeListener, Feb 24, 2014.

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  1. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    The sausage and chicken biscuits are the only breakfast food at Mickey D's I can stomach.
     
  2. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Eating at Mickey D's is like masturbating: Not everybody wants to admit it but pretty much everybody goes there.
     
  3. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I retract the comment about millennials and Chipotle. But not about foodies and Chipotle. I've heard them make fun of it, and I have heard it independently verified from others, with other foodies.

    At this point, though, we're just engaging in dueling anecdotes about an amorphous term, "foodies." Which is as useful an exercise in reaching an answer as it sounds.
     
  4. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    Late sleepers deserve the same opportunity to slowly kill themselves as everyone else has.
     
  5. mustangj17

    mustangj17 Active Member

    In college, the McDonald's down the street served lunch until 3 a.m. Once, I got there at 3 a.m. and I was told I could not order a hamburger because the grill was off. I asked how they cooked the sausage and they said "different grill."

    I bet they have separate breakfast and lunch toasters as well.
     
  6. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    I didn't know McDs was kosher
     
  7. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-03/chipotle-the-one-that-got-away-from-mcdonalds

    Funny, but in a way they were eating at a McDonalds.
     
  8. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Grills require daily maintenance and can't be cleaned while they are on. And while the same grills can cook hamburgers and sausage, they require a lot of different settings to be changed. It's not trivial.

    And when I last worked there, there was only one meat freezer in the primary kitchen area. During breakfast, you didn't keep hamburger meet in it or vice-versa. The hamburger meat would have been downstairs in a freezer.

    So yeah, it's theoretically possible to cook a hamburger when the kitchen is set up for breakfast, it's a bit beyond the effort that is implied when you are ordering from a fast food place.
     
  9. mustangj17

    mustangj17 Active Member

    If McDonald's can figure out the logistics for how to cook a burger and a sausage at the same time then they are the problem, not millenials.
     
  10. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    It's not a matter of "can." It's a matter of "is it worth their trouble."

    Newspapers could figure out how to run a full box score for every junior varsity basketball game in the coverage area. Doesn't mean they feel the need to, even if a few customers want it.
     
  11. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Although you wind up with hands that feel like you've changed the oil in the family car, I like the McDonald's sausage biscuits and hash browns better than any of their non-breakfast items.
     
  12. mustangj17

    mustangj17 Active Member

    I work for a fast food company. It is not hard. We manage to separate the utensils, different ovens for different products and so on. I don't even work in the store and I understand how easy this is.
     
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