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The marketing jargon is entrancing.
by fowl2 8y ago
The marketing jargon is entrancing.
- mrob 8y agoI'm particularly irritated by the talk of "guests". It's a huge insult to charge guests money for food. If I have to pay then I'm a customer.
- ramphastidae 8y agoOof. That’s about as bad as calling co-workers “family.”
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoTo me it's in the same league as referring to McDonald's locations as "restaurants".
- jackhack 8y agoAt least they're not yet so pretentious as to call it an "eatery" which seem to be the latest trend among middling restaurants trying to distinguish themselves.
- gamblor956 8y agoA restaurant "is a business which prepares and serves food and drinks to customers in exchange for money." McDonalds prepares and serves food and drinks to customers in exchange for money. This clearly makes it a restaurant. It may not be a fine-dining type of establishment, but it is a restaurant. More pretentious is all the hipsters that look down on restaurants like McDonalds simply because it doesn't fit their narrow, preconceived notions of what a restaurant should be.
- geodel 8y agoAgreed. Long back my office used to have 'canteen' for food. But nowadays it is considered downtrodden and 'Cafe' is used in place.
- pnathan 8y agoThat's the industry jargon, sorry.
- magic_beans 8y agoThe NYC MTA calls passengers "customers" which drives me insane. It's just.. inappropriate, even though technically subway riders are customers of the MTA.
- geodel 8y agoHeh, you say so. I am perennially pissed off by term 'Grab n Go' at places where one actually purchase food item.