If you are a parent and your little kids want to go to McDonald's, the thing to do is to see if they actually eat the food. A lot of little kids have seen the commercials and are excited about going to Mac's, but the food has a different texture from what they get at home, and they won't eat it.

You'll notice that don't call it a Tasty Meal, they call it a Happy Meal.   I used to work in a fabric store, and one evil day, a woman allowed her 4-year old to wander around the store, hiding French fries in bolts of fabric. The resulting grease stains cost the store a lot of money, once we discovered what had been going on. But the main point is that the kid thought of the fries as something bad that she had to hide so she didn't have to eat it.

And if parents are stupid enough to waste money of soda and diet soda, well that's their problem.

I eat at Mac's from time to time. Esp. on the way to catch a plane early in the morning, when we don't want to make breakfast and wash dishes. And when you've been shopping and feel wobbly at 4 pm, a MacDonald's small burger is just the thing.