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Well now I'm pretty curious, how does McDonald's operate all of their distribution channels with the whole franchise/renting model? Most of the Micky D's I've s
by TheGRS 10y ago
Well now I'm pretty curious, how does McDonald's operate all of their distribution channels with the whole franchise/renting model? Most of the Micky D's I've seen have tons of freezer food that they put through various machines to make all of the food items quickly. I can't imagine they let owners get their primary products from anything other than a distribution center. Do the owners need to buy those products separately? Can they buy from alternate distributors? Do they franchise their distribution somehow? Maybe I'm overthinking all of this. But I am genuinely curious how that factors into the franchise model since that means McDonalds is still very liable for food production.
- greedo 10y agoThe owner/operators purchase from approved vendors; I've been out of the game for awhile, but we bought everything through two distributors; bread products from an approved vendor, and everything else from a second vendor.
- frankydp 10y agoIt is all through one distribution vendor with regards to product now. Only plant(equipment) purchases are outside of the primary distributor now.
- greedo 10y agoIt's killing me that I can't remember the distributor! Sixteen years of working through them and my mind is a sieve. This was in SoCal, and they had the contract for almost all of the region.
- nuclear_eclipse 10y agoIn Ohio and upstate NY in the early 2000's, the distributer we used was named M&M.
- PhantomGremlin 10y agoI will guess that it was Golden State Foods. They are a supplier to McDonald's, and California is The Golden State.
- greedo 10y agoAh yes, Golden State Foods! TYVM.