Lower your price gouged menu prices. I quit them a few years ago. I eat out about twice a month now.
It certainly isn’t going to be their nasty tasting cardboard food.
They turned in Luigi, likely by having facial recognition in all stores. This is not justifying what Luigi is charged with, but fuck McDonald’s for being a part of that lie. Traitorous lying scum.
They have cameras pointing up at you from the register area when you place an order, apparently “just for QR codes.” And all their fucking digital menus have cameras in them. Why exactly is that needed? Fraud prevention for the illicit big Mac?
McDonald’s doesn’t value privacy and I don’t believe for a second a random employee there identified Luigi.
Between them trying to use AI on me to take an order (and likely trying to voiceprint me) and also just not caring about privacy at all, why the fuck would I go there? Nope.
I don’t trust them at all. In the US, corporations are legally allowed to lie to you if the government approves so if they do have some program in cahoots with police for facial recognition, we would never know.
I’m not saying it’s bad to catch bad guys who are religious radicals, but the government is not exactly trustworthy.
And, on top of this, they fucked everyone over on price, then lowered it slightly when they realized they stepped in dog shit, showing how price increases were partly price gouging.
Fuck McDonalds.
Between them trying to use AI on me to take an order (and likely trying to voiceprint me)
Why do they need an AI to do that? People have been hollering into their ordering system for decades.
i thought an employee turned in Luigi, not facial recognition…
That’s the official explanation, but the employees name was withheld and at the time there was a grainy picture of “Luigi” with only part of the person’s face visible. It’s possible but hard to believe.
i’ve seen other stuff about how they weren’t paying that employee the reward, the employee got threats and was fired… i dunno, jumping to nationwide facial scans from the app scanning thing isn’t too logical though….
they all have regular security cameras anyways, a cash register underneath view wouldn’t really help them much….
You get what you fucking deserve.
McDonald’s and other fast food burger chains mostly exist to me for when I’m craving fries and download the app and get some deal where it’s like buy the smallest drink and get free large fries. They get like $2 about every 6 months from me
Burger king in the Whitehouse for the next leader summit then
Whitehouse already has a clown I guess. More than one actually.
Burger King
Careful, Trump might take that as a threat to his singular power
From Hark a Vagrant!
I completely forgot this existed. Thank you.
Maybe they should introduce the new Executive Faceburger to their menu.
Get allthe leopards to start eating there.
It’s ok we shouldn’t be eating that garbage anyway
We need to educate the next generation on how to feed themselves easily on a budget.
Right now, most of them don’t bother making their own meals because they’ve been conditioned to treat food as an adventure that they can brag to their friends about every time.
Peak boomerism.
No, it’s anti-consumerism.
This generation has sold itself out to the lowest bidder, so it makes some sense that we have to look to the past for how to live with more self-respect.
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.
Having to use a stupid fucking phone app to get less astronomical prices for bad food, poor service and rude/flippant employees is what tanked their sales.
I love the idea of blaming trump anyway because fuck that asshole.
A few years ago I got drive through that wasn’t put together properly. They dumped all the stuff into the box. Could have gotten a proper restaurant dining experience for the same price.
McDonalds has gone so far out of touch with what they are as a business.
While I’m sure it really is bad, worse sales since Covid doesn’t really sound that bad. That’s an incredibly low bar and not that long ago.
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.
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.
Growth for the sake of growth is literally cancer.
Nothing to do with feeding genocidal maniacs and boasting about it? Pretty sure that helped the boycott
Yeah, but we’re not going to hear that tale from imperial media.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 don’t blame the employee; they’re not paid enough to give a shit.
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.
