Key quote from memo: \u201c[W]e capitalized on the opportunity to be open while our customers were on the road \u2014 and those customers rewarded us.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nA Few Thoughts\u2026<\/h4>\n
What\u2019s the price for the Golden arches \u2014 that icon of American culture \u2014 to stay open on Christmas Day? $5,500 in sales, apparently.\u00a0The issue here is two-fold. First, I\u2019m guessing there are a lot\u00a0of people who would stop to eat at McDonald\u2019s if it were open. Maybe they don\u2019t care that much about the meaning of Christmas, maybe they\u2019re traveling and hungry. I don\u2019t question whether or not McDonald\u2019s would make money. It\u2019s\u00a0a commentary on our culture that they would choose to do what even a decade ago would have been unthinkable. The second issue is that by opening, they would require employees to work who may, in fact, have objections based on their faith but feel pressured to work or lose their jobs. It\u2019s about what kind of organization McDonald\u2019s will be. Somehow I doubt Ray Kroc would vote to be open on Christmas Day. See Chik-Fila for a good example.<\/p>\n
If they\u2019re open every Sabbath Day, is an extra-Biblical holiday like Christmas really all that different to God?<\/h4>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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