Mcdonald’s corporate social policy allows McDonald’s to look for more ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle in their restaurants. Just like many other fast food restaurants McDonald’s now only serves paper straws. Another way McDonald’s tries to reduce, reuse, and recycle is by using low-energy LED light bulbs, energy-saving equipment, and waterless urinals, and they also recycle cooking oil into biodiesel to fuel most of their delivery trucks. 85% of McDonald’s packaging is made from renewable resources and they also recycle their cardboard boxes. Due to the New York City “Skip the Stuff,” Bill McDonald’s has been able to reduce their plastic use tremendously by only providing ketchup, cutlery, and other plastic condiments upon request.
McDonald’s sustainability goal is to ensure that its ingredients are always at their best quality. This is not only stated by McDonald’s on their website but I see it daily when working there. Food safety has to always be done making sure everything is at the right temperatures. Also, new timestamps are always placed to make sure that by the time you serve something, it’s still fresh.
I believe that for McDonald’s to create a more ethical and sustainable business, something they need to work on is how they care for and treat their employees. Working at McDonald’s isn’t like any other job where you have one position. Employees’ titles are called crew member or crew trainer and with either one of these titles, you learn/ need to know how to do almost everything because your role can switch from one day (or even at any given hour) being in the kitchen to one day being in the front or even on drive-thru. Working at McDonald’s isn’t as easy as many may assume. It is a highly stressful job to have with very minimal pay and workers are always doing multiple tasks at once while still trying to meet timed requirements. I think that for McDonald’s to improve their business they must acknowledge what they already know about the stresses of this job and first increase their staff’s wages and start giving bonuses to their crew members.
Links:
https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/about-our-food/our-food-philosophy/commitment-to-quality.html
Hi Tamala,
Thank you for sharing.
I think that you have raised a really important matter that lays in the area of ethics. I think that first of all a company has to consider its workers and take care of them. With out a strong foundation and committed workers it is much harder to expand on to social action and other responsibilities.
Hi Rotem,
Thanks for replying to my post and I totally agree with you! The amount of work and the quality of work you do should definitely match your pay at any given job.