MCDONALD'S U.S.A vs MCDONALD'S JAMAICA The clash of the fast-food titans.

[@EliteJamaica]

Thanks for watching, please share.

[@winchesterlyon]

My company is facing a similar situation. Dell hired a law firm to force JIPO to de-register out brand in favour of Dell's brand of equipment with the same name. JIPO instead of protecting our brand and us or at least give us options, they decided to force a mediation based on claims, not only irrelevant, but false. We had to spend hundreds of thousands in lawyer fees to do what JIPO was created to do. The case is still on going and we haven't lost as yet, but it seems winning in this country depends more on how much money you have to throw at it. I know the Dell lawyers are stretching it out in order to bankrupt us, but luckily we're not quite done at yet.

[@EliteJamaica]

@winchesterlyon Am really sorry to hear that you are facing these challenges. These companies always try to use might to beat right. The truth will prevail however, I hope everything works out in your favour. Thanks for watching

[@winchesterlyon]

@@EliteJamaica Thanks. We're not giving up, though.

[@calligraphy4851]

Excellent video and one everyone home should watch.

[@florencechin6509]

Great Job Alex❗️ I knew of the case but not the outcome. Very interesting!!👍

[@EliteJamaica]

Ok, thank you and thanks for watching

[@winchesterlyon]

Yes... I also knew of the case and knew that McDonald's (Jamaica) won, but didn't know the details...

[@travel_and_explore_with_BIP]

Very informative indeed!! Thank you! 🍺🍺

[@colinamadden1909]

Before I knew about McDonald's International, I knew about our Jamaican McDonald. It was out of grudge that they filed the lawsuit. KMT!!

[@EliteJamaica]

Most certainly

[@delroylawford3282]

I agree fully.

[@kennyj43]

I remember this very well. I used to patronize the local McDonalds occasionally because their food was great and reasonably priced. I also remember how much publicity and attention the case received in Jamaica and how much the finding in favor of the Jamaican company was welcomed by Jamaicans. The feeling was very much 'dem coulda bright!'. The US company, in my view, adopted the wrong approach in choosing to be confrontational and got their just deserts. There was no need for them to bring the case in the first place, I think. Despite the same name nobody was ever going to be in any doubt as to which company was which, so it was a wasted, expensive, divisive, self-defeating effort by a company that was looking to establish itself in Jamaica and this case, I think, was one of the factors that led to the downfall of the US company in Jamaica. Nobody likes a bully.

[@colinamadden1909]

To be honest, I was of the opinion that USA McDonald had won the case. The verdict was not publicized or voiced as loudly as it should've been. I'm sorry that our McDonald went out of business. Each time I drive on Half- Way Tree round I look at the intersection of Cargill and Half-Way Tree roads and remember that our McDonald was once located there.

[@kennyj43]

@@colinamadden1909 I remember it was all over the media at the time. I don't know why Vincent Chang decided to close the restaurant. My guess is it was probably because he had his hands full with Tastee. But for the time it existed that McDonald's restaurant served some great food.

[@delroylawford3282]

Thank you very much. I enjoyed many tasty meals at the original McDonald's on Cargill Avenue. Please continue the good work.

[@EliteJamaica]

Blessings Delroy and thanks for watching

[@delroylawford3282]

@@EliteJamaica You are most welcome.

[@raeh5355]

Please, if you can find the information (maybe The Wayback Machine website or olderGleaner pages), could you do a piece on the disappearance of King Burger and Krazy Jim?

[@EliteJamaica]

I started to look into crazy Jim

[@EliteJamaica]

Thanks for your input.

[@kennyj43]

Talk about blasts from the past! Wow! I remember going to Crazy Jim in May Pen after school occasionally. That was the first place I ever had a slush. Yummy!

[@carolbarfield2592]

King Burger was the boom use to go there and eat I also love 💕 crazy Jim and Road Runner ice cream, creamy corner plus the cream place across the street from Mothers if that is even still all of my favorite eateries 😊😊😊

[@garycollins6157]

Never heard about the case. Thank you very much for the enlightenment 🙏

[@HummingbirdJa]

McDonald's had a cheek though! The Jamaican company was operating before they step foot in Jamaica. So now they expected the Jamaican one to rool over and curl up and die for them! What a cheek! The audacity! Glad they ended up pulling out. The cheek of it😮!

[@trdja]

Not all the facts

[@Kodakcompactdisc]

Too cheeky

[@AckeeEater.]

So glad you addressed this; I was unaware of the outcome. The nerve and arrogance of these American companies to think that locals must clear the way and bow down to them! Kraft Foods put their powdered drink Tang up against D&G's Ting iin the courts n the 1990s and failed too. And that was in the USA! --Æ.

[@EliteJamaica]

Thank you for watching, yes it seems to be a trend because I am seeing alot of similar cases. Stay blessed

[@OmarBhoo]

My father used to take me to that Jamaican McDonald's. He used to take the famaily to that little theater on the same street to see plays then going there after.

[@trdja]

That place was shut down for years and after mcdonalds usa was coming here Chang open back his resturant and said him run things

[@NunyaHarmonee]

I remember visiting the mcdonald's in mobay when I would visit Jamaica during summer holidays. Glad they are gone and caa stand a chance in Jamaica now.

[@sandragreen7698]

Yes, I heard about this before and I’m glad that they stand their ground. We need to stop buying local instead of from these big companies you’re in our country.

[@leecoleman822]

🇺🇸 🇯🇲

[@jacquimiller2827]

This was a favorite place for Holy Childhood students to go eat back in the 70s.

[@earlphillips7847]

While in Jamaica I visit mackdonald on. Cargill. Avenue Severral times.

[@EliteJamaica]

That was not McDonald's it was the Jamaican restaurant Macdonalds.

[@chungy4153]

I wondering if the jamaica mcdonalds is what became Island Grill after a while...i always ask

[@carolbarfield2592]

When I use to go to Arden High School I would sometimes stop there to get lunch something to take to school to eat or sometimes after school I didn’t know anything about American McDonald at all only when I came to America plus if anyone remember there was a knife and fork on the building plus the colour of the building was brown don’t know how it looks now

[@My_Yout]

I remember the original McDonald's in one of the plazas on Constant Spring Rd but I wasn't aware of this legal battle. Thanks again for bringing this to our attention.

[@EliteJamaica]

Blessings

[@winchesterlyon]

You're mistaking McDonald's (Jamaica) with King Burger (not to be confused with Burger King), that had 2 branches, one at each end of Constant Spring Road. MCDonald (Jamaica) is on Half-Way Tree Road and has no other branch.

[@EliteJamaica]

@winchesterlyon It's actually Constant spring rd, next to where courts is now, however that's McDonald's international, MCDONALD'S Jamaica was at Cargill Ave and hwt rd intersection across from Ruthven road

[@EliteJamaica]

@winchesterlyon I think king burger used to be where burger king is now. Not sure if I am remembering correct, my brain is getting old.

[@My_Yout]

@@EliteJamaica @winchesterlyon Yes, King Burger was on Constant Spring Rd near Hot Tracks night club & McDonald's Jamaica was on HWT Rd. You both made me go 40 years down memory lane here.

[@trdja]

How u mean dem right firstly Chiney man place did spell Macdonalds and when him find out them coming here him changw the name to McDonalds

[@antonioforestgardens697]

Curried goat. Yum. From McDonald's, this is a business owner worth supporting. Think outside of the box. No pun intended.

[@WalshyFire]

Have you done king burger yet?

[@dorehb7679]

Didn’t know this 🙏❤️👍

[@lintonmartin]

I think the ruling make good sense 😊u can come Pete with others then you don't be long in the market we all have to laern to come Pete one ❤

[@BORNFREE876]

🇯🇲🇯🇲 How comes mi jus a ear bout this ya? Wey mi ben deh? Mussa when mi fall off the earth this happen. Why we shouldn’t have a local BIG MC restaurant? So many BIG MC live in JAM ROCK. Like for example Mc Kenzie, Mc Farlene, Mc Callum, Mc Beth, Mc Koy, Mc Authur etc. All a dem MC yah are so terrific. The Mac/Mc names are Panasonic You, foreign BIG MC, you’re so generic. We here strive on being organic. Yuh think we were going to panic? Back to the U S with your bulling antic. Law over money, jurisprudence is basic. Laws are there to serve the public, Despite your affiliation or demographic. Just like our sweet reggae music. Words to all, even to the eccentric..

[@trdja]

used to sell burgers just cook food

[@trdja]

Right now him change the name to Tastees