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Have you even been to a McDonald recently? Free wifi, they are super clean, cheap but delicious coffee, they offer good food above and beyond the cheeseburgers
by derp_dee_derp 7y ago
Have you even been to a McDonald recently?
Free wifi, they are super clean, cheap but delicious coffee, they offer good food above and beyond the cheeseburgers you're thinking about, and they have good ice cream cones for cheap as well.
People often go to McDonald's and use it as a coffee shop and do work.
McDonald's is much better than any other fast food place because they put so much effort into making them nice places to go.
Maybe you shouldn't be so judgemental about people who eat there
- jaclaz 7y ago>McDonald's is much better than any other fast food place because they put so much effort into making them nice places to go. Exactly, and that is actually my point. Since all these features have (obviously) some costs (as well as ingredients, staff, rent, energy, etc.), the moment McDonalds need hypothetically some more money to cover them they might simply increase the prices (correct) or introduce an extra "vague" fee through some weasel words (the Uber way in this case), the end effect is the same for both sides, the customer will pay a little more and McDonalds will have a larger income.
- mikelyons 7y agoI get your point, and I can see that you get the feeling of judgement from my post, but that I think you are adding. 70 percent of mcdonalds business is drive through Big mac and fries are the #1 #2 most popular menu item. BUT I suppose I could still be wrong with the above being true ...
- jaclaz 7y ago>I get your point, and I can see that you get the feeling of judgement from my post, but that I think you are adding. Not at all, the BigMac/MacDonalds was only an example of something everyone knows about, given exclusively to make a layman's comparison, not to start a debate on free market rules, banana republics, regulations or affordable dietary preferences. If you prefer, we can use as reference example - say - any other "service" chain, let's say Starbucks (probably a little less ubiquitous than McDonalds). They make an effort to clean and keep tidy the premises, dispose of litter properly, and put the cost of that in the prices of what they serve, without any need to make a separate fee for that. The weasel attitude is when Uber saying "for complete pricing transparency" calls a plain raise of price a fee as if it was an added service, a fee, by definition : https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fee https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fee is "an amount of money paid for a particular piece of work or for a particular right or service" so logically the income derived from a fee should go directly to cover costs of this particular service (which instead is implied).
- mikelyons 7y agoI can't tell what you're responding to, or what the purpose of this particular post is. Just to confirm that hiding price rise in a fake value-add is dishonest? I don't think anyone was refuting that point ...