date:Dec 26, 2012
ensure your restaurants are open throughout the holidays, reads the Nov. 8 memo from McDonald's USA Chief Operating Officer Jim Johannesen. Our largest holiday opportunity as a system is Christmas Day. Last year, [company-operated] restaurants that opened on Christmas averaged $5,500 in sales.
While that might not seem like much, consider this: In a second memo, dated Dec. 12, Mr. Johannesen pegged average sales for company-owned restaurants, which compose about 10% of its system, at more than