McDonald's CEO acknowledges image problems after tough results


NEW YORK: McDonald's Corp Chief Executive Officer Don Thompson owned up to some corporate image problems on Tuesday after it posted a nearly one-third drop in quarterly profit and warned that its global restaurant sales would fall again this month.

Stock in the fast-food chain, which Thompson conceded is sometimes seen as little more than "a manufacturing plant," was down 0.6 percent at $91 in afternoon trading after reporting a 30 percent fall in third-quarter net income to $1.07 billion and traffic declines in every major region.

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