date:Dec 26, 2012
idn't happen much in the company's Chr istmases past. Richard Adams, a consultant and former McDonald's franchisee, said that Thanksgiving was never open.
Then 15 to 16 years ago, some started staying open. As recently as five or six years ago, you would never even talk about being open on Christmas, even if some were open on Thanksgiving. For the franchisees, this is a big cultural shift.
But McDonald's must pull out all the stops to eke out gains following its global October sales decline, i