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NOS2Go4Me,May 15 2006, 10:49 AM Wrote:

ANTHONYD,May 15 2006, 09:11 AM Wrote:Do I blame McDonald's? No, I blame myself... What I do get annoyed at is, the cost of a "healthy" choice at Mc'Donald's is sometime MORE exspensive than a burger. :blink: If they truely wanted to be a place that offered healthy choices and regain faith in society...sell the salds for $1.00[right][snapback]187468[/snapback][/right]

You're absolutely right... but if you did the math on all fast-food restaurants, every single one of them that doesn't have a healthy menu as their daily stance will ALWAYS charge more for healthy food. It doesn't move, therefore they charge more for having to keep the stuff on hand.

Would an ad campaign that scaled back on the burgers and endorsed healthy food be good? Would shifting their offerings in the other direction (maybe 1-2 burgers, the rest healthy food) be an even better step? Yes. Will they do it? No, because profit margins are too appealing when you're selling 50c burgers for $4.99 in a combo that costs you like $1.00 to supply, tops.

The shareholders would flip out if they actually did something health-conscious, and that's why all the lazy and indifferent people are doomed to a life of obesity and bad health. They eat what's put in front of them at the most attractive price point. That price point always has been, and will likely continue to be, dominated by burgers and other quick-to-prepare fatty fast foods.
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I think you forget that they're in business.

How many raw vegetable vegan franchises do you see? so why would McDonald's switch over it's thousands of stores to that kind of menu when it would bankrupt them?

I don't blame them for making money.

Ford should stop making all but 1 gas powered car because it's the right thing to do. But will they be in business next year charging you twice as much for the same 4 wheels other people are getting around in for half the price? Not bloody likely.

It's like people getting all up and antsy that manufacturing jobs are being lost in North America, yet they're the same ones buying $3 5 gallon buckets of pickles because they think they're saving money.

It's not Walmart's fault people are too cheap to buy american goods.

The same is with McDonald's .. you can't expect them to just throw money away because people don't want healthier food. That's not a choice they made. They've introduced healthier food to coincide with market trends, and as ZTWSquared mention, they're putting forward goodwill that is maintained by the profits they make as well.

If people adopted a healthy diet, McDonald's would profit from it.... you could keep the margins high, yet lower your overhead if people just ate more of that food, thus increasing profits.

But there's no market demand.