Jim Cantalupo Quotes

You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.
Jim Cantalupo

Business, Focus, Run

And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.
Jim Cantalupo

Business, Focus, Discipline

And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.
Jim Cantalupo

Focus, Reason, Growing

As I said, I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about partner brands.
Jim Cantalupo

Time, Thinking, Said

Because we only feed in the United States less than 1 per cent of the meals, most of them are eaten elsewhere. Most meals are eaten at home. So to make McDonald's the target is not going to solve the problem.
Jim Cantalupo

Home, Problem, Less

But I tell you, I would really be interested if there was a partner we could take in, that could put them over here on the side, that would allow us full leverage and access down the road.
Jim Cantalupo

Down, Put, Here

But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them.
Jim Cantalupo

Kids, Market, Telling

But we had a pretty diversified portfolio of businesses around the world and things tended to offset each other. But one or two years ago, we had a lot of things happening at the same time.
Jim Cantalupo

Time, Two, Pretty

But you know the second month I was here I put out a healthy lifestyles directive. The pundits will say it was because we were sued. Well that's what they say. It was never about that.
Jim Cantalupo

Put, Here, Second

But, on balance, we seized the marketplace. We've got a great infrastructure. And yes it's struggling in some areas because of some external factors and some internal factors.
Jim Cantalupo

Great, Balance, Struggling

Every year we close 300-400 stores anyway, just relocations.
Jim Cantalupo

Year, Close, Anyway

I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back... so by the end of next year, I hope most of that's in place.
Jim Cantalupo

Hope, End, Focus

I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace.
Jim Cantalupo

Moving, Place, Another

I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants.
Jim Cantalupo

Great, Needs, Wants

I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer.
Jim Cantalupo

Family, Old, Won

McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales.
Jim Cantalupo

Pretty, Old, Able

Playtime and toys are good for kids, or they wouldn't buy them. McDonald's can provide that experience. And having dinner with the family is good for kids.
Jim Cantalupo

Family, Good, Experience

Ronald has had bicycle safety and safety in the home. Yes, Ronald is McDonald's, second most recognised figure after Santa Claus, and there's an element of obviously benefiting your business.
Jim Cantalupo

Home, Business, After

Salads was a big indicator of that - there was a huge market out there for it. And why not tap it? Some of the things we are doing now around the globe are responding to customers. It's not because some guy sued you.
Jim Cantalupo

Why, Big, Around

So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher.
Jim Cantalupo

Money, Big, Making

Some of the analysts were saying, Now you're a cash cow, there's no growth at all, pay it all out in dividends, give me it all, you can't invest wisely.
Jim Cantalupo

Saying, Give, Growth

The fact of the matter is, most of our orders are not supersized. Less than five per cent are supersized - that's never mentioned. The whole issue has been supersized itself.
Jim Cantalupo

Whole, Matter, Fact

The markets where we've got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe - where we've only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000.
Jim Cantalupo

Good, Real, Older

We cover hamburgers, chicken, veggie burgers, salads, we've got a pretty broad range. To me, McDonald's isn't only about the food. It's about the prices, it's about the way we eat.
Jim Cantalupo

Food, Pretty, Eat

We have very specific rules about how we go to market with children, and I think they are very responsible.
Jim Cantalupo

Children, Rules, Market

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: November 14, 1943

Died: April 19, 2004

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