• kn0wmad1c
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    12017 days ago

    Dear McDonald’s,

    A big mac is not a $7 burger. It’s not even a $4 burger.

    That’s all

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          17 days ago

          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.

          • Hemingways_Shotgun
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            3117 days ago

            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.

              • @[email protected]
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                616 days ago

                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.

                • @[email protected]
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                  116 days ago

                  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.

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          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

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

  • BombOmOm
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    16417 days ago

    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.

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      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.

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      17 days ago

      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.

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      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.

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      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.

  • @[email protected]
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    1516 days ago

    As I understand it, mcd had already done so many other cost cutting tactics to increase profits for their masters, the SHAREHOLDERS. The corporate business model demands increases EVERY quarter. This kind of continuous infinite profit growth just doesn’t make sense in real life. They may have exhausted all other options to increase profit for their shareholders beside price increases. They have no one to blame but themselves. They could stand up to their shareholders and not raise prices, but seems like they’re spineless, and now they are pushing up against the edge of what their customers are willing to pay. I don’t know how long they can keep this up.

  • @[email protected]
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    8517 days ago

    I stopped eating there a year ago when I found out they were charging me about 50% more for not using their app.

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      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.

      • anon6789
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        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.

      • @[email protected]
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        1317 days ago

        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.

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        616 days ago

        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.

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        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.

      • @[email protected]
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        216 days ago

        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.

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          111 days ago

          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.

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      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        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.

  • @[email protected]
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    5417 days ago

    This is only half bullshit. Quality is through the bottom level of hell on every metric at McDonalds. The ONLY reason I go is because they have a kids playplace. The app is essentially required, but sucks ass for usability. They took the soda machines out of most of them so free refills are basically gone, the prices are rediculous and the food sucks. Also, people are tightening belts because Trump (WHO MCDONALDS SUPPORTED) is an idiot.

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      Stop going there.

      Do not teach your kids to compromise on their values.

      Plus those indoor play places are so hard to clean properly and unhygienic, you may inadvertently expose your kids to the measles virus or something.

      Take them to the YMCA or something.

    • AugustWest
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      3717 days ago

      All of that gripe and you still go there instead of a public park?

      • @[email protected]
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        1417 days ago

        At least here in Los Angeles, many of the parks are unsafe for children. I found a knife in the playground last year.

        • @[email protected]
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          3016 days ago

          Defund public spaces, then increase the cost of private spaces. Neoliberalism, everybody.

        • AugustWest
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          816 days ago

          After I sent that I was worried that would be the answer. I am so sorry your kids can’t just go to a park.

        • @[email protected]
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          1916 days ago

          Go help clean them up, then.

          Done that plenty, it makes a huge difference and as people notice they come and help out too.

          Ya know how many toilets I’ve helped dragged out of local streams and creeks? Way too fucking many.

          • ThrowawayOnLemmy
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            I don’t mind cleaning up garbage. But I’m not usually prepared to safely handle sharps.

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              Nobody is. Kinda heartbreaking.

              What we usually do is find an empty milk jug or soda bottle to collect them in, and we have a method where rake and spread out garbage out before we pick it up in order to spot any sharps and avoid injuries.

          • @[email protected]
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            616 days ago

            Toilets? Like ceramic? The home appliance that you shit into everyday? People throw those into streams and rivers??

            …(Shatner.gif)But why?

            • @[email protected]
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              1016 days ago

              That’s just how people are sometimes.

              I’ve also helped fished out:

              • enormous dildos
              • car engines
              • stoves
              • tires
              • a coffin (it was empty, we reported it to the cops)
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                  416 days ago

                  It was like three inches in diameter, the length of a forearm, & covered in algae.

                  At first I thought it was a wolf eel or something, but then I saw the balls.

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            If your kids are playground aged, you probably don’t have a ton of free time/babysitter money to be doing that. You could bring the kids, but I’d rather not have my small children handling used needles and condoms (just a few of the delights I’ve found on my local playground)…

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              I can think of a million completely valid reasons that may prevent someone from helping improve their community.

              But still something that we need to find the time to help improve our community and that time needs to come from our jobs, not our family, so steal as much time from your employer as you can.

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        114 days ago

        We spend a LOT of time at the local parks. I’ll guess you don’t have kids. Sometimes it rains, other times it’s cold, sometimes you need to get them to just put SOMETHING in their stomachs, because if they don’t, they’ll get hangry but don’t have the emotional or bodily intelligence to understand what’s going on.

        ChickFilA also has playplaces but they have their own set of issues.

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          Oh I do have kids. They went outside rain or shine to parks most of their lives. I went to a play place once… it was gross. If they needed food we went to a local place that was good for them. It is funny now because my oldest sometimes complains that they never understood fast food or how to order it. Sometimes they tell me I ruined them because all the snack foods taste like crap to them.

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      Heh. McDonald’s here in Canada (at least the ones near me) is generally pretty good as far as fast food goes, my only gripe was the shitty app. Of course, we’ve already stopped eating there anyways; dumbest trade war in history

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    I blame the $6 mcmuffins and $4 hash browns.

    For the price of McDonalds, you can go somewhere with decent food these days. The o ly reason to go there is if you are in a super rush, and even then, c-stores are putting out increasingly good food these days that can be grabbed in 2 minutes.

    • Pyr
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      I paid $12 for a plate of two eggs, 2 sausage, 2 bacon slices, 2 slices of tomato, a hash brown, 2 slices of toast, and a large coffee at A&W the other day.

      Def the best breakfast for fast-food around.

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    Lol sure, I don’t mind companies blaming trump. But what about the decreasing sales before 2025?

    Does the effects of tariffs travel backwards through time? 🤔

    (Mcdonalds is so bad, you might as well just get food from your local Chinese restaurant, which cost about the same and is much healthier)

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    Then maybe the place that sells plastic food shouldn’t have let this felon rapist use one of their restaurants for a photo op.

  • nkat2112
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    1817 days ago

    I’m in need of a meme involving a certain type of feline and the regrettable mutilation of faces, but it escapes me at present. Any assistance would be gratefully appreciate. Thank you kindly beforehand.

  • @[email protected]
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    2916 days ago

    Well, their “food” now costs as much or more than a nice sit-down meal. And, in my opinion, it’s terrible.

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      Exactly, some European countries will let you have a beer with your Maccies, but personally I’d rather have a meal at a pub or cheap restaurant, where the prices are similar.