mcdonald's headquarters in chicago he spoke earlier on the program with the company's ceo steve east easterbrookcovered some of those trade tensions as well with steve earlier. mcdonald's, one of the most recognized global american brands all around the world. but at the same time, mcdonald's is in the middle of all these big, massive modernization pushes whether it's the new corporate headquarters here in chicago, redesigning their stores, addingiosks and table service all across the country of course, having to constantly calibrate and recognize where the consumer is in the united states in terms of confidence. here's what he said about that >> i think as we're entering the year, we thought there would be a bit of an uptick in consumer confidence generally with fuller employment is always a good thing. wage inflation is benefiting people's pockets and -- but also -- probably the trickle through from tax reform we thought could help as well. on the flip side we're seeing interest rates and gas prices when they fill up their car, cost them a few more dollars at the moment, i think uncertain. it'

carl is live from mcdonald's corporate headquarters in chicago, where he spoke with the ceo, steve easterbrookearlier. hey, carl. >> hey, wilf two dow 30 ceos in the same show with nadella and easterbrook here in chicago. this is one of the big initiatives, sort of flags in the ground that k has planted along wi all day breakfast and redesigning the modern mcdonald's for a new era even as he sort of tries to grapple with and get his arms around these leadership issues that are forming in this new era of the modern krae take a look -- take, for example, what happened to starbucks in philadelphia with that bathroom issue, had to shut down sres for a day for the anti-buy as training we asked easterbrook about all sorts of things but we asked him about those issues in which you have so many daily touches with the consumer. >> every business is under greater scrutiny than any other time before. social media allows that happen and public expectations of how big companies behave is heightened and that's fair enough for us -- first of all, let me be clear we have absolutelytolerance of any harassment

a lot to ask steve easterbrook about.out the dollar, talk about commodities, oil prices, consumer, and a lot more on "squawk on the street" at 9:00 a.m. eastern time >> and you talk about that stuff, i'm telling you, i swell with pride i don't work there, but there are people -- honestly, it's part of the tribalism of current society. there is people that think mcdonald's is this -- i think it's just fantastic and amazing. and do you remember what got us into china, carl i think it was ping-pong or something. did you see what kim jong-un wants? this is our bargaining chip. he wants a mcdonald's. >> i know. i think that's a legitimate question for steve it's double sided. >> mcdonald's brings everyone together we're all the same we're all the same i want mcdonald's. i want it now. >> carl, not only that, charlie munger says that mcdonald's has been more important than the american university system in terms of getting people ready, training them in their first jobs, making them responsible, making them get together he said

. >> that was mcdonald's ceo steve easterbrook sitting h ca carl quintanilla earlier today mcdonald's-serve kiosks and mobile ordering capabilities. shares down 7% for the year but as the company doubles down on tech, how should investors value the stock? tim is at the plasma to break it down. >> bottom line, do you want to ve up to these other big comps? steve easterbrook just talked aboukiosks we know what they're doing with fresh beef, the dollar menu, international is booming if you want to grow into that valuation that these guys have, look at that look at that for domino's and that's an international play chipotle, we know it's expensive now but bottom line is a lot of this is marketing, a lot is a technology view. let's go to the chart real quic i think mcdonald's does grow into a fuller valuation. i think everything they're talking about about this experience of the future means that this stock, which basically had this re-rating period went right up and has been stagnating here if you believe the breakout comes, that comes when you get this follow-through from ordering online

steve easterbrook says they can order through mobile they can come curbside and we'll run it out as well as the existing traditional weights you can pay a different ways and customize your food in different ways i think we're trying to add more choice and variety the u.s. is a little behind when it comes to installing kiosk international markets like canada australia and the u.k. are already fully integrate it with kiosk service and mobile ordering mcdonald's is hoping to install a kiosk and implement mobile ordering by the year two thousand and twenty the fast food giant says it's a looking to upgrade its restaurants in its top five markets where seventy five percent of the population lives within the remind us of a mcdonald's those countries include the u.s. france u.k. germany and canada many fear these are immediate machines will impact the workforce however a recent m.s.n. poll shows americans prefer cashiers over automatic. so for now mcdonald's cashiers will continue to hold their position the food chain giant is a looking to adapt to ways in which people like to get their food so

. >>> mcdonald's stock is up 62% since president and ceo steve easterbrook took the helm in march 2015ernizing the business, but shares have underperformed in 2018, sliding 7% since the beginning of the year here's what easterbrook had to say about mcdonald's stock this morning in an exclusive inte cnbc. >> we've now had 11 quarters of growth, top line growth, and the market's reacted very generously to us over the last three years and i think the reality is if we just keep driving the growth and taking care of the cost side of things, and, you know, they will end up being winners and losers in this market share battle, and if we keep positioning ourselves on the winning side of that, i think the market will react accordingly. >> joining us now is rj, morning star sector strategist rj, great to have you with us. why is mcdonald's a loser this year when it comes to its stock performance? >> i thinkre's thr things that have put pressure on the restaurant the big refranchising trade we've seen the last couple years where mpanies sell their company allocation and franchisees level up and r

restaurants in the uk and ireland because of the ban passed at least in the uk we talked to steve easterbrookarlier in the month about how the company is trying to step up recycling efforts. >> 60 million customers a day. you need a lot of straws we'll continue to explore. we're trying to contribute back in any way we can to society whether it's through training of our people, through environmental standards. we are the only restaurant business that signed up to the paris climate accord around reducing gas emissions whatever we can do about waste and recycling is a very visible part of our business >> mcdonald's has been exploring different types of disposable straws in belgium and will try them in france and norway later this year. the world economic forum tweets there's enough plastic in the ocean to create basically the size of 500 jumbo jets, believe it or not. and if you put it all together in the ocean it would be the size of france >> someone needs to figure out who is the manufacturer of paper straws that's a long bet. >> it's like buying chicken ahead of the mcnugget. >> so many comp

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. >> your reporting on steve easterbrook was fabulous how cool is he >> yeah.nd the kitchen and all of that. >> yeah. i pulled up at wendy's last week and they, too, were surprised that my wife liked the baconator given the 1,200 calorie. she liked the baconator? come on. it tastes real good. the fatator. >>> dow is up almost 50 here we'll get to bob. >> good morning. happy monday mixed open but we're at the highest of the day marching toward 2800 sectors a little bit defensive at the open it's getting better. consumer staples, as well. energy a bit weaker. tech went positive a moment ago. the big debate over the weekend is we get to 2800. those passing through the march highs. that's getting close to the old numbers of january the record highs we have the right leadership tech has been strong and bank has been coming back retail verse done well in the positive earnings common tear. it's not right to say that the trade wars have no intact. they had a big impact in marge march. people are getting used to the confusion at this point. the feds this weekend don't a