Jim Cantalupo
Jim Cantalupo
James Richard "Jim" Cantalupowas an American businessman. He served as chairman and chief executive officer of McDonald's Corporation until his sudden death by heart attack at the age of 60...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth14 November 1943
CountryUnited States of America
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And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.
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I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back... so by the end of next year, I hope most of that's in place.
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You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.
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And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.
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Every year we close 300-400 stores anyway, just relocations.
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Ronald has had bicycle safety and safety in the home. Yes, Ronald is McDonald's, second most recognised figure after Santa Claus, and there's an element of obviously benefiting your business.
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We don't follow the definition of the tradition growth company that Wall Street talks about. But that doesn't mean we're not going to grow.
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When you're doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they're not on the same page.
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We have very specific rules about how we go to market with children, and I think they are very responsible.
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Today for us, it's not about more stores.
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Because we only feed in the United States less than 1 per cent of the meals, most of them are eaten elsewhere. Most meals are eaten at home. So to make McDonald's the target is not going to solve the problem.
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You then get into a period a few years ago, where a lot of external factors that we didn't have anything to do with did hit, and some of them at the same time... devaluations, weak economies, you name it, in various parts of the world.
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The fact of the matter is, most of our orders are not supersized. Less than five per cent are supersized - that's never mentioned. The whole issue has been supersized itself.
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There'll always be a level at which communities are popping up and you need to be there. There's always that level of store openings.