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This isn’t “Taco Bell outsold McDonald’s for six months so all of a sudden McD’s sells McTacos.” This is, “McDonald’s realizes about two years too late that no
by quartesixte 4y ago
This isn’t “Taco Bell outsold McDonald’s for six months so all of a sudden McD’s sells McTacos.” This is, “McDonald’s realizes about two years too late that no one wants to eat burgers anymore so in a last-ditch attempt they add tacos to the menu.”
- edmundsauto 4y agoI believe the real world analogy would be that McDonalds started using real beef and chicken in their food, expanded out the breakfast menu hours. Which they did, deciding whether it strengthened their future prospects is an exercise best left up to each individual.
- tomlin 4y agoYour analogy doesn't work because people /do/ like Tacos, and people /do/ like Facebook to not be TikTok. The proof is in the active users. Silicon Valley is such a self important circle jerk. You can operate a business, it lose users, and still exist. Christ.
- ulfw 4y agoThen you make burgers hip again. You extend the menu. You bring out cool new styles. You advertise hard. You give samples, you discount, you run specials, you collab with others. 100 things you can do to reinvigorate your 'boring Burger' business. You don't just pivot to copycat the tacos business years late. Why would customers go to you rather than staying with their Taco brand of choice?
- HeyItsMatt 4y agoYou laugh, but there are still franchisee owned stores selling McPizza and *the horror, the horror* McSalads.