Ultimately, the bread and butter of McDonald's is delivering great service, great quality food, at affordable prices day in and day out.
I've never met him, but I love the simplicity with which Warren Buffett describes good and bad businesses and how he makes his investment decisions.
When you're in a turnaround situation, you cannot incrementalize your way out of it.
Me and my mate used to go across the park, jump on the Met line to get the Tube into Harrow. There was a sports shop we always used to go into, and there was a McDonald's. We used to go off with three or four quid in our pocket. That would cover our train fare, mooching around Harrow, and going to McDonald's.
Ultimately, we're in the service business. We will always have an important human element.
People come into McDonald's two to three times a month - to extrapolate that to the cause of obesity is a real stretch.
