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50 years ago McDonald's opened in Woolwich

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  • bobmunro said:
    swordfish said:
    swordfish said:
    Do they publish historical records giving the average number of cows eaten per customer since it opened I wonder? 
    No. That would be weird.
    Why? I bet they have figures for average burger consumption per customer over time, or should have to better understand market demand.
    1. Because cows are not universal in size.
    2. They won't know how many customers they have served (they may have details of transactions, but that doesn't correlate with consumption per capita). 
    3. Even if they did, why would they publish it?

    Estimates put it at 60-70k cows per day.
    So what is the average number of cows eaten per McDonald's customer since 1974?
  • bobmunro said:
    swordfish said:
    swordfish said:
    Do they publish historical records giving the average number of cows eaten per customer since it opened I wonder? 
    No. That would be weird.
    Why? I bet they have figures for average burger consumption per customer over time, or should have to better understand market demand.
    1. Because cows are not universal in size.
    2. They won't know how many customers they have served (they may have details of transactions, but that doesn't correlate with consumption per capita). 
    3. Even if they did, why would they publish it?

    Estimates put it at 60-70k cows per day.
    So what is the average number of cows eaten per McDonald's customer since 1974?
    I've herd it could be 200, but that maybe a load of bull.
  • clive said:
    bobmunro said:
    swordfish said:
    swordfish said:
    Do they publish historical records giving the average number of cows eaten per customer since it opened I wonder? 
    No. That would be weird.
    Why? I bet they have figures for average burger consumption per customer over time, or should have to better understand market demand.
    1. Because cows are not universal in size.
    2. They won't know how many customers they have served (they may have details of transactions, but that doesn't correlate with consumption per capita). 
    3. Even if they did, why would they publish it?

    Estimates put it at 60-70k cows per day.
    So what is the average number of cows eaten per McDonald's customer since 1974?
    I've heard it could be 200, but that maybe a load of bull.
    Sound like a load of old bullocks to me 
  • I worked in a small office above shops in Powis Street at the time .I was just 21 with 4 other girls around the same age for company ..I was quite often " charmed" into going on the Macdonalds run on a Friday. The place was teeming with people more like a busy airport but always extremely clean.
  • clive said:
    bobmunro said:
    swordfish said:
    swordfish said:
    Do they publish historical records giving the average number of cows eaten per customer since it opened I wonder? 
    No. That would be weird.
    Why? I bet they have figures for average burger consumption per customer over time, or should have to better understand market demand.
    1. Because cows are not universal in size.
    2. They won't know how many customers they have served (they may have details of transactions, but that doesn't correlate with consumption per capita). 
    3. Even if they did, why would they publish it?

    Estimates put it at 60-70k cows per day.
    So what is the average number of cows eaten per McDonald's customer since 1974?
    I've herd it could be 200, but that maybe a load of bull.
    Let's not milk it ay.
  • Diamond Geezer is a national treasure. I don't know where he gets the time and energy to write so much about London.
  • DA9 said:

    There isn't enough of this mans work on tele.
  • serious question - why Woolwich?
  • serious question - why Woolwich?
    They had an empty shop at the time in Powis Street. It was that or Dunn and Co
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  • shirty5 said:
    serious question - why Woolwich?
    They had an empty shop at the time in Powis Street. It was that or Dunn and Co

    Dunn & Co were further up, pretty much next to The Shakespeare :-P
  • bobmunro said:
    shirty5 said:
    serious question - why Woolwich?
    They had an empty shop at the time in Powis Street. It was that or Dunn and Co

    Dunn & Co were further up, pretty much next to The Shakespeare :-P
    Wherefore art thou?
  • serious question - why Woolwich?
    At the time someone at McDonalds was quoted as saying they considered Woolwich "a typical English town".
    It was actually already starting to decline from arguably it's heyday in the 50s and 60s as a bustling shopping hub with 3 departments stores, thriving market and high street shops and thousands employed in the Royal Arsenal and up the road at Siemens

  • Used to go there as a kid as my grandad worked for the building contractor fitting out their stores, and he later went on to work as Bob Rhea's house manager. Woolwich was our local. We had a free pass to eat any time. As it was signed by the McDonald's chain owner Bob Rhea. As a youngster I occasionally went to his house in Chester Square. Whenever we ate in the store they were always really nice and friendly. When we moved to Sheffield in 76 I asked if Bob would let us have one in Sheffield and sure enough he send some guys up north to have a look and fire long we got one. 
  • PWR but when I used to work in Oxford Street in the early eighties I used to love a Wendy’s. Beat Burger King and Maccy D’s. 
  • I don’t mind a maccys when in the mood, their breakfast menu is the best bit.

    If I fancy a fast food burger it’s Wimpy for me. Mr Ahmet has owned the one up Bexleyheath for donkeys, and he hasn’t aged a day, so prefer to support his business. Plus you can’t beat a bit of Wimpy special sauce.
    Do Wimpey still do a Brown Derby?
  • PWR but when I used to work in Oxford Street in the early eighties I used to love a Wendy’s. Beat Burger King and Maccy D’s. 
    Used to like the occasional Big Dave.
  • I used to go to a very weird unofficial youth club thing in Dartford (turns out it was nonce central but that’s another story). And we went on a special trip in 1977 to the Woolwich McDonalds. All got in a minibus for our taste of America. I was beyond excited. 

    I hate the place now but it’s a necessary evil at times.  
    Dartford?
  • PWR but when I used to work in Oxford Street in the early eighties I used to love a Wendy’s. Beat Burger King and Maccy D’s. 
    Used to like the occasional Big Dave.
    What you get up to in your own time …..
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  • PWR but when I used to work in Oxford Street in the early eighties I used to love a Wendy’s. Beat Burger King and Maccy D’s. 
    They were massive.
  • I don’t mind a maccys when in the mood, their breakfast menu is the best bit.

    If I fancy a fast food burger it’s Wimpy for me. Mr Ahmet has owned the one up Bexleyheath for donkeys, and he hasn’t aged a day, so prefer to support his business. Plus you can’t beat a bit of Wimpy special sauce.
    I remember the kids wanting McDonald's back in the day (mid 90s) when I insisted it would have to be a Wimpy. 

    Why they'd cry?  Because you get a knife and a fork and a plate and the meal is warm.  No greasy fingers and no greasy horrible litter forming a mountain on the table.  I like a bit of decorum  ... I mean ... you couldn't even get a Rum Baba in McDonald's could ya?  

  • Never the same since they stopped doing root beer. 
    Weird stuff. Tastes like the smell of Germoline. 
  • I don’t mind a maccys when in the mood, their breakfast menu is the best bit.

    If I fancy a fast food burger it’s Wimpy for me. Mr Ahmet has owned the one up Bexleyheath for donkeys, and he hasn’t aged a day, so prefer to support his business. Plus you can’t beat a bit of Wimpy special sauce.
    Do Wimpey still do a Brown Derby?
    No I believe it was stopped when operation Yew Tree started…. 
  • Since I have given up meat one of the few things I periodically crave is a Big Mac. I like the McPlant Burger, but it's not quite the same, (and I prefer the BurgerKing Plant Based Whopper). In the US they stopped the Veggie burger saying the demand wasn't there.
  • I don’t mind a maccys when in the mood, their breakfast menu is the best bit.

    If I fancy a fast food burger it’s Wimpy for me. Mr Ahmet has owned the one up Bexleyheath for donkeys, and he hasn’t aged a day, so prefer to support his business. Plus you can’t beat a bit of Wimpy special sauce.
    Quite like the sausage and egg Mcmuffin.
  • I remember in the '80s a rumour going around our polytechnic in Stafford that McDonald's had links with the IRA and that McDonald's were trying to breed cows without legs.
  • Chips when fresh are great. I had a bad burger from Lewisham and didn't stop chucking up for a day and a half. Didn't go back for 10 years.
  • I feel the same way about Lewisham.
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