A Retired Clown is challenging CEO Chris Kempczewski to eat a whole Big Mac on camera within 5 days — or resign.
It sounds absurd.
Gaming executives who've never played their own games. Fast food CEOs who call burgers "products" and take cautious nibbles off-screen. There's a pattern: consumer products companies increasingly run by people optimized for capital allocation, not for the thing the customer actually buys.
Sometimes corporate accountability doesn't require a regulator. Sometimes it just requires someone to notice that the emperor isn't eating his own food — and say so with a countdown timer.
myopic_guy•1h ago
this seems to be a reference to ron mcdonald, the clown mcdonald's has retired silently some years ago. my theory is that they retired him because of the terrifier movies.
drkica•1h ago
It sounds absurd.
Gaming executives who've never played their own games. Fast food CEOs who call burgers "products" and take cautious nibbles off-screen. There's a pattern: consumer products companies increasingly run by people optimized for capital allocation, not for the thing the customer actually buys.
Sometimes corporate accountability doesn't require a regulator. Sometimes it just requires someone to notice that the emperor isn't eating his own food — and say so with a countdown timer.