McDonald’s Outsmarts San Francisco’s Happy Meal Ban, Make More Money In The Process…
McDonald’s 1 — San Fran Nanny State 0
Via SF Weekly:
On Thursday, Dec. 1, the city’s de facto ban of the Happy Meal commences. San Francisco has accomplished what the Hamburglar could not. Or has it?
In order to include a toy with a meal, restaurants must now comply with city-generated nutritional standards. Those are standards that even the “healthier” Happy Meals McDonald’s introduced earlier this year don’t come close to meeting.
And yet it seems McDonald’s has turned lemons into lemonade — and is selling the sugary drink to San Francisco’s children. Local McDonald’s employees tell SF Weekly the company has devised a solution that appears to comply with San Francisco’s “Healthy Meal Incentive Ordinance” that could actually make the company more money — and necessitate toy-happy youngsters to buy more Happy Meals.
It turns out San Francisco has not entirely vanquished the Happy Meal as we know it. Come Dec. 1, you can still buy the Happy Meal. But it doesn’t come with a toy. For that, you’ll have to pay an extra 10 cents.
Huh. That hardly seems to have solved the problem (though adults and children purchasing unhealthy food can at least take solace that the 10 cents is going to Ronald McDonald House charities). But it actually gets worse from here. Thanks to Supervisor Eric Mar’s much-ballyhooed new law, parents browbeaten into supplementing their preteens’ Happy Meal toy collections are now mandated to buy the Happy Meals.
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Planned Parenthood would like to take happy meals off of the menu.
Isn’t it insane? They’ll let grown men wander around naked, including sitting in seats in restaurants, spreading God knows what diseases on those seats and yet they’re so worried about health that they want to put a halt on McDonalds Happy Meals for children.
This is why capitalism is the best economic system ever conceived.
The unstoppable force of supply and demand meets the immovable object of leftist ignorance, moves around it.
Seriously Kathrine, lol ugly filthy naked men allowed to dine in public… toys with meals for children that are fried and or sugary… horror upon horror! lol
Power and control.
Too bad for SAN FRANSTINKHOLE but it looks like RONALD McDONALD had a few tricks up his sleave CRY ME A RIVER SAN FRANSTINKHOLE
This is what happens when morons elected to an office right off the street with liberal views go up against multi billion dollar corporations, by telling them how to run their business, and telling the public what they can or cant have based the morons idea of what he likes.
Liberals will never learn to mind their own damn business.
The comments at SF Weekly are absolutely amazing – a typical liberal mindset of double down on the stupid, since this one didn’t work. A case example of unintended liberal consequences.
If you want parental responsibility you’re evil.
If you’re for the free market you’re a heartless robot with blinders.
Liberalism truly is a mental disease.
The Bay Area is really another world entirely, everytime I’ve been there I’ve had a hard time not laughing hysterically at all the stupid garbage they buy into. It’s a very lovely place, but the majority of the residents are brainwashed liberal nitwits.
Showing once again and forever,capitalists’ are ,when push comes to shove,much smarter than moonbats.
Perfect example of why stupid idealists should not be trying to replace freedom with social engineering. When I was a kid if a naked man walked into a restaurant, well, it wouldn’t have happened.
Life was great, you just didn’t offend your fellow men, if you did there would be consequences.
Now, these stupid idealists get into office and pass laws and regulations that use our police forces, which taxpayers pay for, to enforce things upon us that we do not want…
I feel kinda like Peter must have felt when Jesus said to him “when you were young you dressed yourself and went where you wanted, when you are old you will be dressed by others and taken where you do not want to go.”
Heh. I can here the SF lefties wailing and gnashing their teeth from here.
correction: hear
SHAME ON YOU SAN FRANCISCO and IM GLAD THE GIANTS DIDNT MAKE THE WORLD SERIES I hope you all had a good cry in city hall of fools
My son is 6 he loves happy meals and not for the toy’s., he never even opens them. I give those to my Mother to pass out to visiting Grandkids.. my son is happy with the food,but if he wanted that and the toy.. so be it.
and he is stick thin.
San Francisco needs to fall into the ocean its become a blihght on the west coast
i’ll eat what i want and when i want it. i do not give a shit if you like it or not. just leave me the hell alone and you will have no problem. stick your nose in my business and you will have one hell of a big problem. simple.
I’m going to buy me a delicious Big Mack meal today. I wasn’t really going to, but all this talk about happy meals and San Francisco has made me a bit peckish.