McDonald's recovery missing key ingredient  Is it time for the
all-American restaurant to make a push in China?  By Dec 12,
2012 12:55PM Shaun Tandon, AFP, GettyBy Jonah Loeb  The
bitterest disagreements between me and my college roommate were
about fast food. He, the kind of guy who owned a flag bandana
and a replica Captain America shield, was unapologetically pro-
McDonald's (MCD). I turned up my nose more often than not
(although once we did hit up the Golden Arches for a during a
post-Yom Kippur break-fast), denouncing the chain as déclassé. I
was a pretty insufferable kid in college. My friend insisted
that McDonald's was on its way up, pointing to the relatively
gourmet Angus Third Pounders and Snack Wraps. Evidently, he was
right.   McDonald's has torn through flat sales estimates for
November with a global sales increase of 2.4%, mostly in the
U.S. and Europe. This follows a 1.8% decline in October, the
restaurant's first monthly decline since 2003. Analysts pointed
to the restaurant's increasingly po