unironically it is shit like this that will bring the United States of America to an end
That's because you're all communists therefore you don't get free soda refills!
Those are real American strongholds of freedom, not wokedonalds!what do mcdonalds burgers look like in the west? cos you know here in eastern europe everything has that blueish eastern european color, right? so the burgers look pale and colorless. but i'm assuming they look normal and you know, like food in the west.
They're all big, yuge, and stuffed full of so much freedom and democracy that every time you take a bite, red-white-blue rays of light shoot out of your mouth as the national anthem plays in your soul while you chew.
They're so nutritional and filling that you'll get all your needed nutrients and vitamins your body's starving for, like ketchup and electrolytes, that's what plants crave!
Every time you have a REAL PATRIOTS burger you gain more muscle mass and move closer to becoming the modern Adonis you could become, for only a small micro-payment installment plan of 100 payments of 29.99 per burger.
BECOME A REAL AMERICAN TODAY!
Yeah, same in most global south countries i've been to. Burger King on the other hand actually advertises that they have free refills.
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside
The day the refill diedI'd easily bet on balkanization within 25 years. Certainly inevitable before 2075. All it will take is one Katrina level disaster with people not having access to food and water. Texas snowstorm and COVID were very early previews of what it will look like. Replace the looting for toilet paper with real militias hijacking national guard trucks carrying food.
Realisticaly maybe even under 15 years given 99% chance the current climate trend will continue to worsen.
How the fuck are mcdonalds not going out of business.
Every day I see people complaining it's garbage food that costs more than actual restaurant food and every day they do more and more to jack up prices and lower value.
But I can't rember the last time I saw a closed McDonald's.
They're entrenched
For every Wendy's or Burger King, there's like four McDonald's
When it's 3:25am and you want a hot, vaguely food-themed thing to put in your mouth to satisfy the primal need for salt and fat, it's liable to be something from McDonald's
Yes. The last time I ate a McDonald's burger was about a year ago around that time of night when a friend and I were drunk and he insisted we go to McDonald's. I objected because I thought it was going to be shit, but I have to admit it was surprisingly all actually pretty damn delicious. Keep in mind though that I was very, very drunk and very hungry. Before that, I hadn't eaten a McDonald's burger meal for at least a decade, likely longer. I think they are kept afloat by people who are either very poor or very drunk.
Every McDonalds I see constant has a huge line of cars in the drive through, and almost every parking space is filled. Yet at the same time I always encounter people who talk about how they haven't gone to McDonalds in years.
I don't think I've ever seen a McDonalds permanently close either, unless it was moving to a new location down the street or something. They always manage to stay open even in neighborhoods where everything else shuttered long ago.
I think McDonalds owns a bunch of food and agro infrastructure that actually makes them the bulk of their profit, so as long at the brick and mortar stores are barely profitable or break even they can stay open.
Also they can let their franchise owners absorb some of the losses
exactly this, and for good locations the central office will own the land and if necessary just sell it or sit on it while the mcdonald's makes it look valuable
Pretty sure a chunk of their income is being a landlord, they own the property the franchisee is running a McDonalds shop on.
Are they still one of the largest real estate companies in America? That was the initial grift with franchising.
Because the slop IS still cheap and tbh the quality is the same as it ever was. If you use the app you can still get a full meal for like $5-6 if you're aiming for it and avoid the new trendy stuff. Yeah, the dollar menu is gone and everything is more generally more expensive but frequently there's a BOGO deal or a half off on a certain thing
"It's actually not that expensive if you also just hand over all your personal info and give them access to all your data" is incredibly draconian and not a reasonable solution
I mean yeah, it's incredibly dystopian and I hate it. But we're living in a dystopia and I'm broke enough to eat the slop in the first place
I used to work fast food like 6-7 years ago now and it is shocking just how much it's gotten visibly worse since. If you keep charging $15 for a combo and dropping service even further, people are just not going to go get fast food anymore. People already were balking at our prices back in 2017, now those prices would be a fucking steal if they were that today
If you keep charging $15 for a combo and dropping service even further, people are just not going to go get fast food anymore
good lol
That's kind of how capitalists and their 'businesses' work. If something becomes not profitable enough, one of the available strategies is to reduce expenses on that thing. If there is no way to draw profit from it any further, they can just close the relevant filial, or stop the production of the relevant commodity, or stop the relevant service.
This is actually a literal textbook example of what a capitalist would do, covered in introductory economics courses.
enshittification today
enshittification tomorrow
enshittification forever
If I'm elected McDonalds executives will be publicly water boarded with Fanta.
Damn, being drowned in a carbonated beverage is not something I've thought about thus far, that sounds absolutely miserable
Okay, okay! No more! I'm begging you! Plain water was bad enough! The bubbles are killing me!
There will be intermissions where the cloth is allowed to partially dry and get very sticky.
fountain soda barely costs anything, this isn't about saving money so much as it's about extracting more out of the customer
I’m silly, of course statesians will pay extra for more colored sugar water.
About $7 over the course of an entire day of operation. That honestly might be too high, come to think of it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_refill#:~:text=Due%20to%20the%20extremely%20low,refills%20as%20a%20sales%20gimmick.
Due to the extremely low cost of fountain soft drinks (especially the beverage itself, not including the cost of the cup, lid and straw), often offering a profit margin of 80-82%, establishments tend to offer free refills as a sales gimmick.
When I worked at Pizza Hut (early 2000s), for shits and giggles I calculated the actual cost of a glass of Pepsi. Accounting for the syrup bag, the CO2 cylinder and water (the latter being the cheapest since it was filtered tap from the city main) it was like $0.14 a glass.
If either Biden or Trump run on getting them to reinstate the free refills, their poll numbers would go up by like 5pts. This is an attack on the American way of life.
