May 2008

Poor Reception

28 May 2008

Frauke has the sometimes annoying characteristic of using her accelerator as a stress-relief device. If, for whatever reason, she become angry or frustrated while driving, she steps on the accelerator and drives faster. In certain situations this can be counter-productive, for example, when she’s having trouble finding her destination. She can’t find the place she’s [...]

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An Honor Killing in Hamburg

23 May 2008

Spiegel Online International: Afghan Girl’s Death Sparks National Debate. This is the story of a 16-year-old girl in Hamburg stabbed to death by her older brother. One of our best employees in Dibbersen is related to the family and attended the funeral. He told us the family has been very hurt by how the media [...]

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Takeover Battle for Enodis

19 May 2008

It may not be as big as Microsoft, Google and Yahoo!, but for us it’s interesting to watch the bidding war between the restaurant equipment companies Manitowoc and Illinois Tool Works for Enodis. (Today Manitowok increased it’s offer to $2.1 billion). All three are big suppliers to McDonald’s, In our kitchen, the biggest pieces of [...]

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Signs on the Autobahn

17 May 2008

This week we installed signs on the Autobahn A1 a couple of km on either side of the Dibbersen exit. So whether you are coming from Bremen or from Hamburg and you didn’t know about our McDonald’s in Dibbersen, you will now. German restrictions on such signs are very strict, so compared to what you [...]

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Coming Soon to a Carport Near Us

15 May 2008

Frauke’s always wanted a red car: Volkswagen Tiguan 2.0 TDI 125 kW Track & Field.

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Frauke and the iPhone

6 May 2008

About a month ago I bought myself an iPhone. Nothing really special about that (except that T-Mobile dropped their prices 2 days after I ordered), and I never talked about it here (although I did mention it on Twitter a few times). And I love it. Nothing special about that either. But the moment Frauke [...]

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Open All Night… Almost

3 May 2008

As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, starting in May we are keeping the drive-thru open 24 hours on weekends. It’s now the first weekend in May, so last night was our first all-nighter. But we had a problem. Our equipment is connected to an electricity management system, where our opening hours are programmed and [...]

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