最初由 hulaha 发布
麦当劳和肯德基都是全球一个价的,当然,味道也使全球一个样。我估计各店进货的价钱全球也是一样的。如果国内没有原料生产车间和基地的话,原料成本肯定会比北美更贵(有运费)。相对国内低廉的人力成本,价钱是高不少。
Shame on you! At least should Google...before you talk!
McDonald's Looks to China to Supply Restaurants
Source: Reuters
10/11/2006
Beijing, Nov. 10 - McDonald's Corp is looking to trim costs by supplying more of its restaurants around the world with food and packaging made in China, company officials said Friday.
Since the early 1980s, McDonald's has invested heavily in creating a large supply chain in China to serve its growing number of restaurants in the world's most populous nation.
Now, McDonald's is hoping its restaurants in other parts of the world will be able to benefit from that investment.
"The supply chain for (McDonald's Asia, Middle East and Africa unit) is looking at ways to leverage what is available in China to supply other parts of Asia and other parts of the world," Jerry Schafer, chief restaurant officer for McDonald's China, said at a media event at the company's Beijing distribution center.
When McDonald's opened its first restaurant in China in 1990, all it had was a single meat production plant. The rest of its products were brought in from elsewhere and subjected to hefty import duties, said Herbert Wong, senior director of supply chain management for McDonald's China.
It wasn't until 1999 that McDonald's was able to supply all of its restaurants in China with french fries made from Chinese-grown potatoes. That came 14 years after McDonald's and its primary french fry supplier, Boise, Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Co., invested in the creation of a commercial potato farming industry where there was none.
Today, nearly 96 percent of the products sold in McDonald's 770 restaurants in China are produced at 43 facilities there. And, its supply chain is far larger than what those restaurants demand. For instance, the company uses only two-thirds of the french fry capacity available to it in China, Schafer said.
As a result, McDonald's suppliers have started to export some of the products made in China to the company's restaurants in other markets where the cost of doing business is higher.
Snow peas grown in China are shipped to the United States for use in McDonald's Asian-style salad. McDonald's suppliers also export chicken, beef and apple pies produced in China to some of the company's other markets in Asia, including Singapore and Japan.
In addition, some of the packaging used in McDonald's European restaurants is made in China.