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The sad, sad reality...
I can buy 1/3 lb angus patties, never frozen, at $2 (or slightly less.) I can get a nice brioche bun for about $0.40 (IIRC). Add on the toppings from the local Wal-Mart and I end up with a better burger than McDonalds can ever make. If I charge $7 for it, pay my workers 20% to put it together and serve it -- I walk away with about 50% margin to put against fixed costs and hopefully profit.
And I can literally call up my neighbor and get an entire cow at around $6/lb butchered and frozen. That's ALL the meat, including the tenderloin and prime rib roast and everything else. Half of it will go to hamburger, and that hamburger is even better than what I can buy commercially. I don't know any local bakers but I'm sure I could find one that would make me a top-quality bun for a similar price as what I get it commercially. I can probably find people with greenhouses growing all of the veggies all-year long and pay slightly higher than WalMart for them too. Literally the best burger you can possibly imagine. Again, I could probably sell that burger for $8 or $10 and walk away with $5 of margin on it.
McDonalds should not exist anymore. We should all be running our own burger restaurants that sells better food for cheaper. Hiring white kids to run the grill and such.
If there is McDonalds, then the franchise should be owned by the people who work there.
There was an experiment in real time during the Spanish Civil War in Catalonia. Orwell talks about this in a book about his experience there. The elites were gone and everything had to run without them. It did.
I can buy 1/3 lb angus patties, never frozen, at $2 (or slightly less.) I can get a nice brioche bun for about $0.40 (IIRC). Add on the toppings from the local Wal-Mart and I end up with a better burger than McDonalds can ever make. If I charge $7 for it, pay my workers 20% to put it together and serve it -- I walk away with about 50% margin to put against fixed costs and hopefully profit.
And I can literally call up my neighbor and get an entire cow at around $6/lb butchered and frozen. That's ALL the meat, including the tenderloin and prime rib roast and everything else. Half of it will go to hamburger, and that hamburger is even better than what I can buy commercially. I don't know any local bakers but I'm sure I could find one that would make me a top-quality bun for a similar price as what I get it commercially. I can probably find people with greenhouses growing all of the veggies all-year long and pay slightly higher than WalMart for them too. Literally the best burger you can possibly imagine. Again, I could probably sell that burger for $8 or $10 and walk away with $5 of margin on it.
McDonalds should not exist anymore. We should all be running our own burger restaurants that sells better food for cheaper. Hiring white kids to run the grill and such.
There was an experiment in real time during the Spanish Civil War in Catalonia. Orwell talks about this in a book about his experience there. The elites were gone and everything had to run without them. It did.
The McSystem should not exist. We can do better.