Learn about the tough business of managing a McDonald's in a world of demanding customers, interfering regulators, environmental constraints, and cow manure overloads

Highlights

• Cut down the rain forest to get more land to raise cattle and wheat

• managing factors of production (cows, fields, feedlots) and factors of obfuscation (advertizing to children and PR or bribing of public officials

• decide whether to kill or harvest sick cattle, whether to bribe the local villagers or landowners to get more land for your cattle factories

Be careful if you go bankrupt...Ronald will come after you for bankrupting the company and destroying "years and years of corporate culture"

• Lessons learned: firing employees is the best way to keep them from getting disgruntled, kill the sick cows quickly, GMO crops rock (until they destroy the land)...

• Quit the game when you have lots of money because there is no way you will be able to win in a world overrun with cow poop and barren fields

• For more viewing see Supersize Me, a film by Morgan Spurlock, who ate nothing but McDonald's for 30 days and his adventures.

• Read all about fast food in Eric Schlosser's seminal investigative reporting book about the fast food industry and the meat-industrial complex: Fast Food Nation. There is also a movie loosely based on the themes of the book.

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