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<i>McDonald's CEO Dies of Heart Attack







Apr 19, 8:55 AM (ET)

CHICAGO (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp. (MCD.N) Chairman and Chief Executive Jim Cantalupo, who helped turned the company around with a focus on better food and service, died on Monday of an apparent heart attack, the company said.
Cantalupo, 60, died in Orlando, Florida, where he was attending a McDonald's meeting for its restaurant owners and operators.

The world's largest restaurant chain could not immediately say who was taking over Cantalupo's responsibilities.

"We're focusing on Mr. Cantalupo and his family," McDonald's spokeswoman Anna Rozenich, said.

The news sent the stock of the Oak Brook, Illinois, company down 3 percent in premarket trading, and was seen pulling the Dow Jones industrial average lower at the start of trading.

Cantalupo, a former vice chairman and president of the company, was brought back to lead McDonald's in January 2003, when the company was struggling to cope with falling profit in a saturated hamburger market, outbreaks of mad cow disease and poor service.

In little over a year, he had helped turn the company around with a focus on improving operations and menu offerings. New items like entree-sized salads and all-white-meat chicken nuggets helped McDonald's post the highest sales gain in 30 years at U.S. restaurants open more than a year in February.

"The worries are that perhaps there may not be a strong No. 2, since he was known as the one with the strong vision,"

said Art Hogan, chief market analyst for investment adviser Jefferies & Co. "In the short term, when you have a turnaround focused on one person, there will be a short-term disappointment" in the stock.

McDonald's shares fell to $26.60 on the INET electronic brokerage in premarket trade from their close of $27.46 on Friday on the New York Stock Exchange.

Since the beginning of 2004, McDonald's shares are up 10.6 percent, the second best performer in the Dow Jones industrial average. In March 2003, the shares had fallen to a 10-year low of $12.45.



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What are you saying, he ate to much of his on food? <img src=icon_smile_dead.gif border=0 align=middle> Since Dave Thomas is dead and now this guy I would not want to be the top dog at Burger King.

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Edited by - Fenderstrat72 on Apr 19 2004 10:44 AM

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how appropriate, but it's JUST a rumor lol

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Hey, I dunno what everyone's issue with fast food is anyway. I eat it all the time and I'm sure as hell not obese or overwieght or any of that crap...

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Ya gotta die of something, two double quarter pounders a day with a milk shake and living 59 is better than living to 70 on tofu and grass.

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Ya gotta die of something, two double quarter pounders a day with a milk shake and living 59 is better than living to 70 on tofu and grass.


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<img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle> Tofu... LOL
BTW "double quarter pounder"????Sounds good, but we don´t have that here in Germany...<img src=newicons/madani.gif border=0 align=middle>

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Ya gotta die of something, two double quarter pounders a day with a milk shake and living 59 is better than living to 70 on tofu and grass.


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^^ word, id rather die knowing real food than dead eating twigs

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its the same as a double royal or something like that i asked for a quater pounder in france and they said 'quarter pounder what is that?'

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I know frag that is the old pulp-fiction-metric-system-story...
A quarter pounder´s called "Royale with cheese" here... but we don´t have a double royale...too bad!! Since a few weeks they´re offering different salads and fruits and stuff like that... the same in uk/usa?? perhaps in a year or so they will offer TOFU?!!!<img src=newicons/tard.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_dead.gif border=0 align=middle>

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No double quarter pounders?

Damn... you guys are missing out... just ask Mr. Jim Cantalupo.

Oh, wait... eh, nevermind. Stay with the new fruits and salads.

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seems like the vitamins came too late for Mr. Cantalupo....<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

no double quarter pounder, if I want to eat a BIG burger I have to go to Burger King... and a Whopper is a Whopper, and yes, we´ve got a double-Whopper at least! Problem is, we only have about 300 BK restaurants in Germany, compared to about 1200 McDonalds... so there´s not always a BK when you need one...

just visited the BK website (US)... THEY HAVE GOT BREAKFAST !!!!
we are really missing out!!!

mcdonalds germany offers the following breakfast-alternatives:

- egg mcmuffin
- scrambled eggs with bacon
- mccroissant (!)
- and the worst: French Breakfast <img src=newicons/Whatever_anim.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=newicons/Whatever_anim.gif border=0 align=middle> - 2 croissants... and dont forget to run away really fast and wave your white flag ....

BTW the best burgers are made by mr. homer32 himself!!!!!
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Edited by - homer32 on Apr 23 2004 10:05 AM

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I have to admit that the McGriddles aren't too bad..especially on the way into work at 0530!

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Here we got double quarter-pounders, or double McRoyals, as they call them. I usually order a doublt McRoyal, Supersize the fries and coke, and usually have an order or two of nuggets on the side.

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"double McRoyal" that sounds good to me...
how often do you eat this menu BR?

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Oh, I eat fast food all the time. Pizza, burgers, hot dogs, fries, onion rings, nuggets, you name it.

"Retreat, hell! We just got here!"-Captain Lloyd Williams, 2nd Marine Division, Belleau Wood, France, WWI