Wednesday April 24, 2024, 07:00:00

MCD: Part 2 of McDonald’s Franchisee Survey Looks at the “Bigger Burger” Initiative

By Mark Kalinowski

Today we publish part two of two of the April 2024 edition of our proprietary McDonald’s Franchisee Survey. As part of this, we asked our franchisee contacts to provide some commentary about the “Bigger Burger” initiative that McDonald’s management has talked about that it has planned for multiple countries.

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Tuesday April 23, 2024, 07:00:00

MCD: Latest Franchisee Survey Shows Price Increases Falling Off and Traffic Gains Elusive

By Mark Kalinowski

McDonald’s plans to release its first-quarter earnings before the market open on Tuesday, April 30th. Ahead of that, we publish part one of our two-part, proprietary McDonald’s Franchisee Survey today.

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Monday April 8, 2024, 07:00:00

MCD: Adjusting Our Forecasts (4/8/2024)

By Mark Kalinowski

This morning, we published an industry report entitled “Updating our Q1 Kalinowski Quick-Service Burger Same-Store Sales Index.” We encourage you to read that report in conjunction with this McDonald’s note.

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