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If you're with a group of people who are trying to decide where to go to dinner, but no one's putting out suggestions or willing to make any hard calls: Sugges
by ketzo 5y ago
If you're with a group of people who are trying to decide where to go to dinner, but no one's putting out suggestions or willing to make any hard calls:
Suggest you all go to McDonald's.
There's nothing that gets people to immediately shoot down an idea and suggest something else quite like the prospect of a Big Mac.
- elwell 5y agoI love a Big Mac.
- SketchySeaBeast 5y agoYeah, I read that and asked myself "Am I a garbage person?".
- yuuu 5y agoNo, everyone else is just pretending they don't like McDonald's for that valuable elitist cred.
- ketzo 5y agoTrust me, so do I. But when you're picking between "trendy Thai place" and "trendy bar down the street," the suggestion of McDonald's really sharpens people's metaphorical knives.
- tomjakubowski 5y agoYou might luck out and find people agree to go there.
- Teknoman117 5y agoExcept I lost on that one because some of my coworkers were all over the buy one get one free Big Mac on Tuesdays a few years ago.
- QuercusMax 5y agoA 2-big-mac lunch sounds like a terrible idea
- michaelcampbell 5y agoI can't any more in my 50's, but up through college that would have been no problem at all.
- toast0 5y agoIf I buy one and give you the free one this time, we can do it the other way next time. PS I'm almost always open for McDonald's lunch, so that one isn't going to encourage me to give a good idea. Not eating at Jack in the Box though, would rather starve, thanks.
- munificent 5y agoMy "group decision on where to eat" rule is pretty simply but works well: * Anyone can veto a suggestion, but they must suggest an alternate restaurant (that has not already been vetoed) instead. This rule is gameable. A bad faith participant could veto a restaurant and suggest a patently horrible one and then rely on someone else to veto that and do the work to come up with a good suggestion. But there is a meta-rule here which is: * Don't be friends with people who would do that.
- Jtsummers 5y agoWe permit a restaurant to be suggested a second time, but only by the person that vetoed it. Suppose someone vetoed the Cuban place, but no other idea was agreeable to the group. If they just didn’t want to go there but could do it, they can suggest it again and that’s usually where the group goes (when this happens). Otherwise we use the same process, it’s very effective.
- munificent 5y agoThis works OK, too. I prefer the "no revisiting" rule because it places backpressure on participants to not veto unless they really meann it. If they really would be OK with the restaurant such that they would allow revisiting it, then they probably shouldn't veto in the first place. This tends to make the game go faster, which is an important goal.
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- ketzo 5y ago> But there is a meta-rule here which is: > * Don't be friends with people who would do that. Lol, I think this is actually very generalizable for.. many rules. Pretty good call.
- jamespwilliams 5y agoCunningham’s Law IRL
- tshaddox 5y agoIn most groups I find myself in, the likelier collective response would be closer to "oh my gosh, I haven't been there forever because I try to be healthy, but that sure does sound good."
- Zababa 5y agoMcDonald's food is nice from time to time, at least in France.
- xxxtentachyon 5y agoMcDonald’s in France is kind of a cut above McDonald’s elsewhere, even neighboring countries and very similar markets. I’ve been to McDonald’s all over Western and Northern Europe, and the McDonald’s on the right bank in Lyon will forever hold a special place in my heart
- ComputerGuru 5y agoMcDonald’s in the Levant and Middle East is similarly of much higher quality than many other locales around the world.
- michaelcampbell 5y agoThe McDonalds I was at in Moscow was not only clean and well maintained, they were hosting a kids birthday party, and the parents felt comfortable enough to drop off the kids and leave.
- Zababa 5y agoWhich one do you mean if you remember? There are McDonald's everywhere in Lyon.
- mym1990 5y agoMcDonald's in Milan serves macarons, and that is why it holds a special place in my heart!
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- toast0 5y agoI ate at a Paris McDonald's a couple times in 2008, there was something wrong with the way their fries came out. Not sure if they used regional potatoes and didn't adjust the processing or what. The burgers met my expectations though.
- laurent92 5y agoSteve Jobs told to his associates: “If by the end of the night you don’t find a name, I’ll send the paperwork with ‘Apple’.” So he had 8hrs sleep and a name. That strategy didn’t work well for Jeff Bezos, who went with “Cadabra” for a few months, which he admits is a terrible name (cadavra).
- stronglikedan 5y agoI can find something anywhere, so I use your trick to determine the pickiest eater in the group, and then make them choose.
- michaelcampbell 5y agoBe fine for me; a Big Mac is kind of my 2-3x/year guilty pleasure.