Mcdonalds and real estate

[wd9]

Seems there were some (westside) seemingly denial posts about
who mcdonalds is and their primary business:

http://money.howstuffworks.com/mcdonalds2.htm

http://bookaddict-readersparadise.blogspot.ca/2009/03/mcdonalds-
dont-sell-hamburgers-they.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Sonneborn

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-
business/mcdonalds-looks-to-buy-more-property/article619342/

So ya, convince me it isn't about real estate!

[SASKFARMER3]

McDonalds is Def about the location!

[westsider]

yes you are 100% right.

its not that mcdonald targets busy intersections or ideal heavy trafic areas to be "in sight - in mind" to sell burgers

i am sure they look at areas where land is going to appreciate in value. all their new restaurants are going to be
built 2 miles out of city limits so in 5 or 10 years their land value will increase

lots of mcdonalds are franchised so work that into your equation.
CASH IS KING to them and most smart business people

i cant believe i am even responding to this. you talk like a conspiracy theory is around every corner.

[wd9]

Well, no, i don't. I see farming a lot
the same way as Mcdonalds. Pass the time
away working 8 weeks a year while land
appreciates making easy money.

[SASKFARMER3]

WD 8 weeks what the hell planet do you live on.
March clean seed
April start getting drills and tractors ready, fix clean replace change oil etc.
May seed and into june in most years.
June spray and haul grain.
July haul grain and spray
August spray haul grain and harvest peas.
Sept combine
Oct Combine
November Cat and haul grain
Dec Haul grain and put stuff away.
Jan down month and Feb.
That's 40 weeks on a farm.
Oh right your in your basement.

[ado089]

I am also suspect of this 8 week year.
The whole realestate being the core
business of McDonalds is old school
business. We've shifted from a cost plus
economy to pricing to what the market
will bare, alot higher margins in that.
Secondly with boomer phasing out of
their spending period of life and dying
off it will be struggle to maintain gdp
levels where they are at, and contrary
to popular belief there is pile of land
can be developed on this planet yet.
Mind you the Chinese own alot of that
already too.

[Burbert]

Fk Comedian framers are stupid. "Take care
of the customer and the business will take
care of itself!" Who the F said that,
anybody, out there know. Hint,
Rayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy K, Mickey Ds
founder. Knot fn, location, location and
location. Its not the least bit like
framing, Fkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!

[wd9]

Ado, old school is definitely not the dumb school.

Sf3, why work so hard? No armored truck
following the hearse ya know! Each to their own I
suppose.

[SASKFARMER3]

Work hard play harder! Off to the Caymans next
week till Mid March.

[ado089]

Wd9, it was a fantastic plan over the
last 50 years and may continue to be but
the only thing constant in life is
change and we are on the precipus of
one. I'm sure that the new economy thar
shakes out of this will look nothing
like what we have now. There is too much
government and personal debt for the
status quo to hold. I will speculate a
brief stint of hyperinflation followed
by a massive systematic rite off of debt
resulting a hard reset of the global
economy and currencies.

[ado089]

Wd9, it was a fantastic plan over the
last 50 years and may continue to be but
the only thing constant in life is
change and we are on the precipus of
one. I'm sure that the new economy thar
shakes out of this will look nothing
like what we have now. There is too much
government and personal debt for the
status quo to hold. I will speculate a
brief stint of hyperinflation followed
by a massive systematic rite off of debt
resulting a hard reset of the global
economy and currencies.

[Choice2U]

I hate debt write-offs. Those that got into a debt they couldn't carry should pay for their sins because the likes of me that have managed my debt levels will get no debt write-off. I could have borrowed more than I did but I am concerned about leaving my fate in the hands of a government decision. I realize one may be talking about debt write-off at higher levels in govnernment. The CCF wrote off alot of debt after the 30's and they were rewarded by getting the vote of large farmers (kept their farms) for the next few generations while those farmers that watched their p's & q's got nothing.

[grrrr]

Choice-I agree 100%. This past summer, me and a couple of ol' boys sat around having coffee and "land that was bought back for half price or less" came up. These guys now walk around with their noses up in the air, while the rest of us paid for their earlier greed.