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Quit supporting genocide and fascism, then we’ll talk
McD’s has been expensive as fuck for years now. I can feed my entire family of 7 for under $20 at the Costco food court. That’s something for McD’s to aspire to.
It’s not just the value proposition that McDonald’s can aspire to, but Costco’s principles on how they run their business:
Their ultimate goal is to reward their shareholders. Funny. I don’t recall my paid membership giving me shareholder status.
Costcos food court isn’t their primary business, it’s a loss leader.
But it did result in the best CEO quote ever:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/547020/costco-150-hot-dog-soda-combo-enigma
"When longtime Costco president W. Craig Jelinek once complained to Costco co-founder and former CEO Jim Sinegal that their monolithic warehouse business was losing money on their famously cheap $1.50 hot dog and soda package, Sinegal listened, nodded, and then did his best to make his take on the situation perfectly clear.
“If you raise [the price of] the effing hot dog, I will kill you,” Sinegal said. “Figure it out.”"
Side note, someone on here said they got banned from reddit recently for using that quote. AI mods in action.
Definitely AI mods. They don’t understand context, but definitely have a whitelist of what subs and users not to touch for sure.
Their hot dog is a loss leader. But yes, you’re not wrong. Still. Feeding my whole family for under $20 is a feat.
“If you raise [the price of] the effing hot dog, I will kill you,” Sinegal said. “Figure it out.”"
Loved that about him. I hope Costco continues that. The fact that they didn’t “bend the knee” the Trump and kept their diversity and inclusion policies says a lot.
Eat shit, McDonalds.
is this you telling mcdonalds to eat shit, or an ad for mcdonalds?
eat shit, –mcdonalds.
So, their own food?
Yes. Overpriced and unsatisfactory bullshit.
Maybe McDonalds shouldn’t have endorsed a fucking dictator during the election?
Right? It’s absolutely part of why I don’t spend money there. The other part being shit food that’s too expensive, but letting this assclown promote your brand turned about half the country off of your products hard.
I actually forgot about the endorsement until i read the article. Fuck mcd
I stopped eating there a year ago when I found out they were charging me about 50% more for not using their app.
the one here remodeled awhile back to basically a drive-thru, door dash, and mobile app kitchen. dine-in and take-out is a nuisance to them. 10-15 minutes to get an order taken, that long again to get it. the counter and dining room have been designed to absolutely discourage those customers from even wanting to come inside at all.
Aside from it already being shit to eat at a McDonalds to begin with, what sad life must one lead to order McDonalds home, when they could order anything else from the local burger, pizza, asian, kebap, etc. place for the same price in better quality and quantity.
The new ones around me are all like that. No drink station, no condiments, not even a napkin dispenser. The kitchen, which used to be open so you could see the activity, is blocked by a wall, so you have no idea what is happening back there. There is NEVER anyone at the registers, and if you want to order, youbhave to wait until someone hidden in the back happens to look out and notice that someone is waiting to order.
Its obvious that they are getting ready to go fully robotic soon, and when they do, you wont have the ability to see how few people are in the back.
This one doesn’t even have a kiosk or a lobby at all though. It’s really fucking weird. Nowhere to sit and eat your food at all. Strictly drive thru and Uber eats.
Yep. I don’t go often anyhow but won’t anymore as they don’t even seem to take orders. You gotta use a kiosk and I refuse to waste my time doing that when a cashier could ring me out in 15 seconds. And definitely never installing an app.
Ours burnt down, when they rebuilt it, they just didn’t put an inside location at all. It looks like a storefront, but you can’t open the front door. There are no tables, there is no play place, just a drive thru and Uber eats / DD / McDonald’s app pickup area. If you’re on foot, you can go fuck yourself I guess.
I hadn’t been to a McD in ages, but I took my niece and her friend to an event and they wanted to stop there. It was the most dystopian eating experience I ever had.
The interior was all off white and sterile (emotionally). There was no counter service, you ordered through a gigantic kiosk. Food took forever. As you said, the drive in and DoorDash seemed to be dominating the customer base. There were maybe 2 other tables in use during dinner rush.
The funniest/saddest part to me, was it sounded like there was maybe just 1 employee in the kitchen, and at any given time, either a manager was yelling at them or a machine was beeping out orders, I’m assuming from the kitchen timers going or orders coming through. So the whole time we’re waiting, which was a decent amount of time, I’m picturing this lone teenager being yelled out by a lineup of a middle age dude and a parade of machines.
Food came out cold and not great, but about what I expect from McD’s, which is why I don’t like to go there. The kids just each got a Sprite and fries, which we could have gotten anywhere else…
I honestly don’t care all that much that the food is standardized to such a degree, that’s it’s made out of strange industrial processes, or even that it’s always cold when all the other fast food places seem to at least have warm food. It’s that no matter what I get, I always feel like I’ve never actually eaten anything. My stomach always feels as empty after I’ve eaten there. I eat a decent amount of not great for me foods, but McDonalds is the only thing that consistently feels so devoid of any nutritional value whatsoever. It just blows my mind every time.
Yeah, I would always cringe whenever I saw people ordering food in person and not using the app.
It just shows front-and-center how abusive the relationship between businesses and customers is. Like, all of the employees knew you were getting ripped off but none of them told you anything about it.
It’s fucked.
I’m aware the app has cheaper deals. I’m also not willing to enter a binding arbitration deal with them to save a few bucks. I just don’t eat there.
I don’t blame the employee; they’re not paid enough to give a shit.
Last time I went, waited 20 min for ‘fast food’, then got hit with a large bill. Yeah, no shit sales are down. Haven’t gone back in years.
Yep, at least in my area McDonalds is slow, expensive and the foods is consistently crappy. About the fast food place I have a lower opinion of is the local Wendys, because they haven’t mastered the skill of “Let the buns from the fridge reach room temperature before serving them to customers.” A lukewarm patty on a refrigerator cold bun isn’t very appealing.
You got lucky. Last time for me I waited 1hour+. Why? Because I ordered inside the restaurant instead of the drive-through. Apparently they have incentives to keep the drive-through queue small and fast.
And I’m not even in car land (America). It was in Spain. I cannot even imagine what ordering in car land from inside the restaurant will take.
EDIT:
Fast food still exists though, it just doesn’t come in the form of the usual American corporations. My local kebab fulfills the order in 5-10 minutes.
You can get real food for the same cost now. Just no reason to go there
if i’m paying culver’s prices. i’m going next door to culvers. service can be a little slow but they cook to order (not ‘assemble and reheat to order’) and is always a ‘10’, food is usually too–and unlike mcdonalds’ perpetually-‘broken’ ice cream machine, culver’s never runs out of custard, ever.
mcdonalds’ only attraction was a low price–and that advantage has been gone for at least a decade.
Culvers is cheaper than McDonalds, and it’s actually really good quality food. They have a wide menu, too.
Culvers’ burgers are top tier for fast food. So good.
honestly its bumpin now I dont spend more than $5
Fake story. You get hit with the large bill before you wait for 20 minutes.
Get fucked McDonald’s, raising prices every year on cheap, crappy, unhealthy food. Get fucked, you literally voted for this. Fuck all the way off and enjoy your ride. Cunts.
They literally donated so much to his campaign fund
And curbed DEI immediately and eagerly.
Dear McDonald’s,
A big mac is not a $7 burger. It’s not even a $4 burger.
That’s all
It’s not even a real burger
U don’t like bread sandwiches?
As a centrist dem I have to point out that a bread sandwhich (even if it has a little spit inside) is a lot better than a no-bread sandwhich, and if you dont support bread sandwiches then you automatically are to blame for whatever comes after this-- mcdonalds is blameless. Dont let perfect be the enemy of the good.
/s
I doubt it’s even a real Big Mac (as in using the original, unaltered recipe)
If anyone wants the recipe, all of the old school McDonald’s recipies are here: https://archive.org/details/mcmenu
Such a stupid take. It’s fine if you don’t like it but it’s obviously a burger.
I’ll invite you over and make you a burger, then I’ll put a big mac next to it and you can be the judge haha.
If dried road kill for burger meat between two barely reheated frozen buns is a burger then you’re right.
You’ll invite him over for a better burger, no doubt. Because yeah, Big Macs suck.
But by the very definition of the word, a Big Mac IS a burger whether you want it to be or not. Actual facts don’t generally give a shit about your opinion on the matter. A burger patty between two sides of a bun is a burger. Doesn’t matter if the meat is half cardboard and the buns are reheated frozen pieces of shit, it’s still very much the technical definition of a burger.
So please give the pretentious twat persona a rest, thanks.
People like you are exhausting.
big mac is a sandwhich at best. you can’t call that shit between it a patty
This is really how you want to spend your time? Arguing that a 1/6 pound hamburger patty is not a hamburger patty? Come on dude, give it up.
You were wrong, just move on.
Why insist on being right tho? You wasted so much time arguing yourself just so you can point your finger and claim yourself as victorious in your amazing internet battle.
This is why the internet sucks.
People that are technically correct? The best kind?
I’d absolutely love to hear you explain how a Big Mac isn’t technically a burger.
A roadkill burger is still a burger
I guess Trump doesn’t help, but it’s also easy to point the finger. If eating at a fast food chain is no longer fast, cheap nor food (let’s be honest). Is it then strange that sales are declining?
I support all the Trump-bashing in the world, but let’s not allow crappy big businesses to just blame everything on him. McDonald’s has a responsibility and they haven’t lived up to it. Blaming Trump for consumers not choosing your overpriced, shitty product is not reasonable.
THE SHAREHOLDERS DEMAND MORE DIVIDENDS.
MUST. CONTINUE. ENSHITIFICATION.
Sorry, I’ve been eating better for my health.
Their garbage food and sky high prices, and severe lack of quality operations probably did more damage.
Buying fast food is humiliating for customers and employees.
It should be seen as a last resort for emergencies only, not people’s main way to sustain themselves.
McDonald’s should fucking stfu
Why? Even though greed is the real reason, the more big corporations speak out against Trump, the better. Doesn’t matter if they’re not doing it for altruistic reasons, so long as it pisses off the fat man.
They should get Targeted
After McDonald’s dumbass trump stunt during the election, the only reason that I’ll ever go there again is to take a dump in their bathroom on a road trip.
You bent the knee.
Suffer the consequences.
Exactly. Maybe they should ask the president to do another PR stunt to help sales. I hear advertising on the white house lawn worked great for Tesla’s stock price. He should serve McDonald’s on the white house lawn next. /s
Nah, install a franchise next to the oval office.
It’s been well over a decade since I have eaten there. I’d have to be desperate as fuck to ever eat there, like being in the middle of no where and mcd is the only place around.
