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Jim Cantalupo

"We cover hamburgers, chicken, veggie burgers, salads, we've got a pretty broad range. To me, McDonald's isn't only about the food. It's about the prices, it's about the way we eat."

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"We cover hamburgers, chicken, veggie burgers, salads, we've got a pretty broad range. To me, McDonald's isn't only about the food. It's about the prices, it's about the way we eat."

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Akshay Vasu

"Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household."

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"A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear."

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Akshay Vasu

"It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life."

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Akshay Vasu

"A good food is mouthwatering when you see it and finger licking when you eat it."

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Akshay Vasu

"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."

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"I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding."

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Akshay Vasu

"I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again."

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Akshay Vasu

"If music be the food of love, play on."

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Akshay Vasu

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

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Akshay Vasu

"Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world."

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Jim Cantalupo
"The markets where we've got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe - where we've only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000."

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Jim Cantalupo
"I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer."

Family

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Jim Cantalupo
"And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy."

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Jim Cantalupo
"I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace."

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Jim Cantalupo
"But, on balance, we seized the marketplace. We've got a great infrastructure. And yes it's struggling in some areas because of some external factors and some internal factors."

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Jim Cantalupo
"We cover hamburgers, chicken, veggie burgers, salads, we've got a pretty broad range. To me, McDonald's isn't only about the food. It's about the prices, it's about the way we eat."

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Jim Cantalupo
"Salads was a big indicator of that - there was a huge market out there for it. And why not tap it? Some of the things we are doing now around the globe are responding to customers. It's not because some guy sued you."

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Jim Cantalupo
"When you're doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they're not on the same page."

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Jim Cantalupo
"When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you're running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach."

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Jim Cantalupo
"Some of the analysts were saying, Now you're a cash cow, there's no growth at all, pay it all out in dividends, give me it all, you can't invest wisely."

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