"Ralph Álvarez" is a Cuban-American businessman and the former President and Chief operating officer/Chief Operations Officer of McDonald's Corporation.

Álvarez previous served as President of McDonald's North America and prior to that was President of McDonald's USA and Chief Operations Officer of McDonald's USA.

He graduated from the University of Miami in 1976 with a Bachelor of Business Administration.

Citing health reasons, Álvarez announced his retirement from McDonald's effective December 31, 2009.

As of December 2012, Alvarez now sits on the board of directors for Dunkin' Donuts.

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Although I never knew Ray Kroc, his vision and legacy lives within all of us. By focusing our full-time best efforts on operations excellence, we can keep Ray's vision alive for the next 50 years.

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Beef sales have been flat year over year, while chicken product sales are growing 8 to 10 percent a year.

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Today, we're selling $2 billion in chicken, and that's significantly up from a few years ago. We believe this trend will continue so we're putting a stronger focus on chicken rather than beef but its not at the expense of beef, rather incremental to it.

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While speedy implementation is an admirable goal, we are most focused on the satisfaction of our customers and the quality of our products.

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You will see a greater variety of freshly prepared foods, with a specific focus on the chicken category and breakfast.

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The options are better in many cases than they think.

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As we celebrate this 50-year milestone, I'm proud to say that our U.S. business continues to be very strong.

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As a brand, we have to follow the trend.

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We've got to give consumers variety and new tastes. They're not coming just for our tried-and-true core products.

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