MOTUS A.D.: Accountability: It’s What Made America Great

Friday, January 30, 2015

Accountability: It’s What Made America Great

Good news: the first black president has been ousted due to to poor performance. Bad news: it’s McDonald’s president, not ours.

Donald Thomas: out

Apparently Mickey D thinks the CEO is where you look for accountability if things continue to decline:

Same Store Sales, red arrow designates point at which Mr. Thompson took over

Butt that’s not the worst part: Not only did McDonald’s fire their first black president, they replaced him with a white Guy, a Brit who bears an unsettling resemblance to Simon Cowell. Tell me that’s not racist.

Steve Easterbrook - in

What went wrong? It’s not like McDonald’s wasn’t paying their historic president a living wage, he earned $9.5 million in 2013, according to Bloomberg. Despite his raise however, McDonald's continued to lose both same store sales and market share in the US throughout his tenure. It doesn’t require a genius to figure out why. The Vodka Pundit (not to imply that he isn’t a genius) has identified 3 reasons for the decline:

Competition from the new “fast casual” burger chains like Five Guys, In-n-Out and – my fave - Smash Burger.
The rapidly rising price of beef – despite claims that a Mickey D burger doesn’t actually contain any.
The left’s relentless cultural battle against the entire American concept of McDonald’s. He cites their victory in getting McDonalds to remove the beef fat from their fryers in order to assuage the sensibilities of vegetarians (specifically Hindus as I recall, in order to give the “protest” more diversity) as the beginning of their death spiral.

Indeed, the “emasculation” of their fries did reduce them to a nearly flavorless calorie delivery system. Butt that didn’t stop them from bowing to Lady M’s demand that they eliminate them altogether from their previously “Happy Meal” in exchange for a 2 year waiver from implementing ObamaCare.

“Want catsup with those apple slices?”

So for those of you who like to find morals in sad stories, here’s a couple for you:

1. Judge a leader by the quality of his qualifications rather than the color of his skin. Which is to say, don’t hire an electronic engineer to run an international burger chain.

2. You can lead a horse to healthier food,

butt if it doesn’t taste good,

you just can’t make them eat it.

Just like with school lunches.

So Don, enjoy your early, unplanned retirement. And don’t forget to thank the people who made it all possible: BO, MO - and let’s not forget the enlightened Left.