Word: mcdonaldization
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...upwardly mobile; others may find it harder to keep apace as the Square begins to flirt in earnest with chi-chi consumerism. I hear there's still an army surplus store at Central Square where, coincidentally, you can also find the proletariat fast food Cambridge opposes. At least at McDonald's two dollars can buy you dinner, not just a sugar rush...
...million worth of financing in February by selling 32% of his company to a group of five venture-capital companies. He hopes to expand the chain to 1,000 restaurants in ten years. At that pace, D'Lites could become a formidable enough competitor to give even McDonald's a case of the shakes...
...Brian McDonald, assistant food services manager at Adams house, said that "if students brought [the silverware] bask, it would be no big deal. The worst thing is that they don't return it. Most ends up in the trash...
...book, which analyzes the successful management styles of such pacesetting companies as IBM, Procter & Gamble and McDonald's, has become a how-to manual for executives eager to put their firms on the fast track. It is Topic A in seminars, skull sessions and water-cooler chitchat. Excellence themes have suddenly turned up in the advertising campaigns of businesses as diverse as the U.S. Postal Service and Bloomingdale's, the chic department-store chain. On the lecture circuit, Peters and Waterman each command up to $15,000 an appearance...
...They also have to provide their services, if they have a service we can use," Ueberroth says. "IBM is going to do the computerization of the Games; AT&T is helping with communications." Since the L.A.O.O.C. had no need for hamburgers, McDonald's built the swimming pool, one of only two major new constructions. The other is the cycling velodrome, contributed by the Southland Corp., owners of the 7-Eleven stores. "We were told that only two facilities needed to be built, a swim stadium and a velodrome," says Southland Executive Bill Scott. "We wanted to build the swim stadium...