You've given me nothing but what the typical anti-McDonalds hype brigade pumps out! Are these you're own thoughts???
What you fail to see is people can choose to work these jobs. McDonalds isn't the ONLY employer out there! Get a job at Coles or Safeway or some of those other dead-end positions if you feel so strongly about it. Nobody is holding a gun against anyone's head to work there.
YES, the company has moved with the times! These days you find more adults than kids going into the place because their main "money spinner" is coffee. Their McCafe's are perhaps their biggest earner within the restaurant itself and quite frankly I think they produce a better coffee than many of your typical coffee vendors!
The McDonalds corporation sponsors sporting events - EVERYWHERE! From Auskick to the FIFA World Cup.
Their McHappy Day alone last year scored $2 million dollars for their sick & terminally ill children who seek the help of the McDonalds House program.
Fair dinkum, I'd love to hear some of the other horrible things this company does, other than having its ties with an American company (which, by the way, this is not America
) so that I may educate myself further about the evil corporate giant that is McDonalds. Let's start on Coca Cola next and other large corporate companies simply because we have to have the tall poppy syndrome about them all.
These are massive companies! Like your typical government or anything else to that scale they aren't going to please everyone with everything, it's a business there to make money primarily, but then what it does with many of that excess is pump it back into communities in the way of sporting sponsorships and charity programs. Seriously, please list me some of the negatives about them. I take your point with workers salaries, that has always seemed to be a bit of an issue with them, but I'd be interested to hear more.
(ps: I don't even know why I'm sticking up for them, I don't even like their food :lol