People don't usually think of me as hip, but I can fool you sometimes, which is why I was standing in line at a McDonald's on York Road the other day with the big lunch crowd. Maybe you heard: McDonald's is the hot place to eat again. Its sales rose 8.2 percent last month, which analysts attribute to consumers watching their pennies and gravitating to cheap fast food and $1 menu items. There may be fewer people popping for a venti frappuccino at Starbucks, where profits are down dramatically and the barristas might as well bring a deck of cards to work and play solitaire. But at McDonald's, people are pigging out on Big Macs and large fries and triple-thick shakes, just like the good old days. Of course, even as I placed my order with the requisite bored-looking kid behind the counter, I flashed back to what happened to poor...
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