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50 years ago McDonald's opened in Woolwich

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  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,334
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  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,855
    bobmunro said:
    SporadicAddick said:
    swordfish said:
    SporadicAddick 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?
  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,454
    SporadicAddick said:
    bobmunro said:
    SporadicAddick said:
    swordfish said:
    SporadicAddick 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.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,599
    clive said:
    SporadicAddick said:
    bobmunro said:
    SporadicAddick said:
    swordfish said:
    SporadicAddick 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 
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,900
    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.
  • O-Randy-Hunt
    O-Randy-Hunt Posts: 10,642
    clive said:
    SporadicAddick said:
    bobmunro said:
    SporadicAddick said:
    swordfish said:
    SporadicAddick 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.
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,413
    Diamond Geezer is a national treasure. I don't know where he gets the time and energy to write so much about London.
  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    DA9 said:

    There isn't enough of this mans work on tele.
  • lancashire lad
    lancashire lad Posts: 15,626
    serious question - why Woolwich?
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,223
    lancashire lad said:
    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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  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,234
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  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843
    shirty5 said:
    lancashire lad 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
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,625
    bobmunro said:
    shirty5 said:
    lancashire lad 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?
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    lancashire lad said:
    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

  • The Prince-e-Paul
    The Prince-e-Paul Posts: 6,688
    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. 
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,561
    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. 
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,561
    ValleyGary said:
    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?
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    LargeAddick said:
    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.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,561
    Greenhithe said:
    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?
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,561
    killerandflash said:
    LargeAddick said:
    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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  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,625
    LargeAddick said:
    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.
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,679
    ValleyGary said:
    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?  

  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    golfaddick said:
    Never the same since they stopped doing root beer. 
    Weird stuff. Tastes like the smell of Germoline. 
  • RaplhMilne
    RaplhMilne Posts: 4,601
    LargeAddick said:
    ValleyGary said:
    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…. 
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    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.
  • HastingsRed
    HastingsRed Posts: 1,587
    ValleyGary said:
    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.
  • captainbob
    captainbob Posts: 941
    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.
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,855
    captainbob said:
    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.
    Not surprised if it was a Poly.
  • KingKinsella
    KingKinsella Posts: 1,311
    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.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,229
    I feel the same way about Lewisham.

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