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May 5, 2009

Inside America’s Boardrooms

bbakermcdonaldsboard.jpg

I guess burgers are the order of the day.

According to FORTUNE (which is doing its bit this month to make corporate boards more palatable), McDonald’s is gorging on the recession, with visits up 2 million over last year to 58 million and profits up 80% to $4.3 billion. My question, however (given how much more the directors look like product testers than tasters), is: what did the board really have for lunch?

(h/t: NB)

  • http://profile.typepad.com/6p01156f7a9b74970c Paul in Boca

    There are 2 people with a French Fry in their mouths, one with a straw from a beverage, and then a bunch of a**holes pretending they are ready to chow down. As soon as this picture was snapped, this food was swept into the garbage and their real meal was consumed. The
    95%ers who are getting a tax break are eating at McDonalds, these people certainly are not.

  • JayDenver

    Off-putting. Most of the slide show images seem contrived and forced. Of the 7, I liked the Environmental Defense Fund shot which seems the most genuine and that of the Federal Reserve Board which is formal and staid, as it should be. Bad series overall in my judgement.

  • http://www.doves2day.blogspot.com g

    Way fake looking. Even the burgers don’t look like real Mickey D’s burgers, they look like TV commercial versions. It looks like they deliberately made it look fake.

  • Gasho

    They might be willing to eat a fry for the cameras.. but they sure as hell ain’t eating anything else!! HA HA HA.. just pretending to put one of these pig-shit laden slabs of rubber in his mouth is enough to get everybody cracking up!!

  • http://rightwingsnarkle.blogspot.com Rightwingsnarkle

    After all of your posts, you’ve finally managed to put up a picture that made me nauseous.

  • http://kscakes.blogspot.com Ksue

    The board probably had Jason’s Deli for lunch. Our daughter is the catering manager for a Jason’s near Mickey D’s corporate headquarters. She did a presentation at HQ shortly after her store opened. They went NUTS over how delicious the food was and they’ve since become their best corporate customer. So no, the Big Boys (and Girls) don’t eat their own swill.

  • http://kscakes.blogspot.com Ksue

    And on second look at this picture … they all look like CLOWNS. As in Ronald McDonald. It bugs the crap out of me that they have SO many people addicted to their shitty food, while they eat anything but.

  • thomas

    Well, they shouldn’t eat that food. Nobody should.

  • smallfry

    They don’t swallow their own bullshit.