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McDonald's continues to expand menu items

There seems to be a lot of changes in the works at McDonald's lately - switching to trans-fat-free oil, introducing Eco-friendly coffee in the U.K., and even the possibility of selling prepackaged convenience beverages to consumers who would otherwise have to make a pit stop elsewhere to pick up their favorite bottled or canned drink.

Now, in an effort to attract visitors throughout the day rather than just at regular meal times, McDonald's is planning the introduction of "destination beverages" such as smoothies, lattes, iced coffee and other specialty drinks. And that's not all -- if you are the sort of person who likes something sweet to go along with your latte, they'll soon be offering a "cinnamon melt" -- described by the company as "a warm, pull-apart sweet roll with cinnamon glaze."

Does this all sound strangely familiar? I can't help but visualize Starbucks when I read the above. What is next? Big comfy chairs and couches in your local McDonald's restaurant? Dimmed lights and jazz music in the background? No word yet on when the specialty drinks will be available, but they do plan to have the cinnamon melt in select stores by the summer.

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Filed Under: Trends, Drink Recipes, Fast Food, New Products
Tags: coffee, destination beverages, lattes, mcdonalds, smoothies, starbucks

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Ken

3-10-2007 @3:53AM Ken said... I rarely go to McD's anymore. However, recently I had an opportunity to go to one because a friend of mine needed to get some McD's french fry containers for an art project she was doing. So we got a bite to eat. I was very surprised by the choices they had on the menu and noticed the Angus Burger so I ordered the Angus with everything on it. It was surprisingly good!! I went back again to order it another day. I also told some other friends about McD's actually having a decent burger on their menu now and they tried it and all were quite surprised how good it tasted too. Maybe McD's is finally onto something.

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Suzy

3-10-2007 @5:24AM Suzy said... McDonald's has the most processed, disgusting food ever. Even the "healthy" items aren't truly nutritious, and anything they do that will even remotely resemble Starbucks will somehow end up looking like all their other mass-produced crap. No one could PAY me to eat at McDonald's.
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charlie

3-10-2007 @5:25AM charlie said... well mc donalds, use to be great,i had a cup of strong and bitter coffee today, one sip made me gaged.they slaped everything together,so fast, it comes out sloppy.french frys are very skinny, and some are hard, went over to get ketchship, the little paper cup has gone down to a themble size about the size of your pinky....and i asked 4 differen mexican, who spoke a little english, and beleave it or not, they told me they where illegal, that was from two mcdonalds in salem oregon and one in albany oregon.so dont take my word on this, the next time you go to mc donalds, check it out for your self,....so all i got to say is what happen, ronald????to all that great coffee and not so skinny hamburg, and nice frys, ?? so as of bad coffee and sloopy food today, it will be my last time to mcdonalds, sign..charlie
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charlie

3-10-2007 @6:38AM charlie said... you know cannerys around the country are starting up in may and june, so if the govs really want to crack down on illegals what a great place to hit,right// they could get about a 1000+ here in oregon, so if they did this in every state they could send about 100.000 back to mexico, and if we make the border alot harder for them to come here illegal, and force them to go and get sign up and get inline to come here the right way, and if they are illegal and there lady who get pg, and has a kid the kid is from them so it is not a legal as well, iam not againts anyone comeing to the good old usa, butwe have to have better control about our growth, because one day we will have over a billion people++++ here and still counting, and beleave me it wont be that far down the road..last year the feds reported 16.000 murders in the good old usa, thats a fact.. but you dont hear much from the media about that do you. for ex.. they will tell you everyday about how many troops get killed in bagdad,, like i the news too days ago report one person from the army was killed, but mean time in new orleans the mayor has said they have 5 to 6 murders there a day,mostly drug reladed, and thats a fact. we are so brain washed by the media and our elect people, so the next time sak your self who really controls your way of thinking, the media or democracts or the republicans, or are you like me independant, and have common sence, i use to be a democract, but after bobby kennedy got killed, both partys whent down hill and as far as iam concern they are the ones who are destroying this country, so dont take my word on this, just look at all the bashing they do on each other,both sides say the other one is not doing things right when the dems see the rep are doing something good for the country they dont want them looking good in the voters eyes so they try to destroy it,, and the rep do the same, so aint you fed up with both partys??? if so try and become independant, and take back control,of your mind and country, before its to late... charlie, the man with common sence...PS> THINK ABOUT IT>>>
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Sara

3-10-2007 @8:11AM Sara said... They already have the cinnamelt in Wisconsin. They're small, so I didn't buy one. And they already have the comfy chairs, a few anyway, at the one near my work place. I remember reading an article stating that McDonalds is changing over to a more comfortable, retro modern theme. I think they have to change over in the next 10 years, but I'm not sure if that time frame is right.
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Kgee

3-16-2007 @5:02AM Kgee said... to ROBSIE, trust me, I am not here by choice but by obligation to my country to serve and protect. No I didn't ask to be here and can't wait until I get to leave this rock for good. Not paradise at all. So yes you locals do like rice and your obesity rate shows it. I do have complaints but not against you, against the food chain. You don't have to miss me and as soon as the military says so I WILL LEAVE. There are plenty of Starbucks and Jamba Juices if you live and work downtown. Look around Wahiawa (ghetto) how many will you find there? But there are plenty local cuisines to cater to you. And I bet they don't serve american foods like hot dogs and philly cheese steaks in them. So in my opinion, McDonalds and saimin don't mix. If you have a problem with that, then who gives a flying ----. Fill in the blank ROBSIE. Aloha!!
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