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THE Fast Food Thread (merged)

What's on your mind?
General interest discussions, not necessarily related to depletion.

Did Charlie Bell died from junk food ?

Poll ended at Wed 16 Feb 2005, 12:14:09

Yes.
17
89%
No.
2
11%
 
Total votes : 19

Re: McDonalds to open inside the Louvre, French outraged

Unread postby mos6507 » Sun 04 Oct 2009, 16:26:27

People vote with their wallets. It wouldn't be there if it didn't make any money.
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Re: McDonalds to open inside the Louvre, French outraged

Unread postby eXpat » Sun 04 Oct 2009, 18:27:48

mos6507 wrote:People vote with their wallets. It wouldn't be there if it didn't make any money.

+1, don´t like it, don´t buy it (let´s be honest, considering the taste of anything out of MC Donalds not very difficult either), after a few weeks without selling anything they will go away.
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Re: McDonalds to open inside the Louvre, French outraged

Unread postby Ferretlover » Sun 04 Oct 2009, 18:31:01

I'm not French, and I'm shocked. What are they thinking? All that grease floating in the air landing on paintings and statues...
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Re: McDonalds to open inside the Louvre, French outraged

Unread postby Sixstrings » Sun 04 Oct 2009, 18:44:20

Ferretlover wrote:I'm not French, and I'm shocked. What are they thinking? All that grease floating in the air landing on paintings and statues...


Well, it's going to be in a visitors' center underground. You walk in through that big glass pyramid outside and there's a complex beneath the Louvre itself.

I guess it's no big deal if the whole world wants to love McDonald's.. I just like more locality, more originality whether it's in the States or abroad. We've already turned America into a giant strip mall.. must the rest of the Earth follow in our footsteps?
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How does KFC run out of chicken?

Unread postby AdamB » Mon 26 Feb 2018, 22:01:21


How on earth does a fast food restaurant that specializes in chicken run out of ... chicken? This week KFC temporarily closed up to 800 stores in the UK and Ireland after a failure in its supply chain for chicken. KFC had recently switched delivery and logistics suppliers from Bidvest Logistics to DHL (DPW). It was a massive win for DHL: Britain is KFC's largest market in Europe, and one of its top five globally. For its part, DHL promised to set "a new benchmark for delivering fresh products to KFC." A new benchmark was achieved — just not the one either company anticipated. It all fell apart. (The service, not the chicken.) There's a simplicity to this story that makes it fascinating. No doubt dozens of people were involved in this massive transfer of contract. And no doubt there is a sophisticated explanation for the "operational


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