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McDonald’s menu is enormous, much larger than In n Out. If you’ve ever worked in the quick service food industry (it sounds like you haven’t), you’d know this c

McDonald’s menu is enormous, much larger than In n Out. If you’ve ever worked in the quick service food industry (it sounds like you haven’t), you’d know this considerably affects how every facet of the restaurant functions. I also completely disagree that In n Out is “dramatically better” and I’d be very surprised if that was the resounding opinion across Americans. It is fine, but again, it serves a different purpose, so making such broad apples-to-apples comparisons seems a little short sighted. “Competence in operations” is a nice sound bite but without some real examples related to restaurant management I’m just not convinced. I ensure you that it has indeed come up in a McDonald’s boardroom that raising their wages would result in more competitive hiring, that is not a novel observation. I did three years at McDonald’s and another several at other restaurants; admittedly it doesn’t sound like this comment was made from a place of experience, more a place of convenient idealism.

addicted 3y ago
In-n-Out tastes basically like McDonalds. I don’t understand the people who rave about it. There’s very little difference other than the fact that they have a “secret” menu with their own coded language.
- nijuashi 3y ago
  You should eat more junk food ;) I’ve been to both good and bad McDonalds. Burgers and fries from well-run ones can taste very good. In-n-Out has better consistency, and it’s on par with the quality of well-run McDonalds. It’s probably due to the fact that In-n-out has fewer items? I don’t know.
  - selestify 3y ago
    Huh. I like the slightly toasted bun and the generous amount of veggies they put in the Inn n Out burger. I’m not aware of a similar looking or tasting burger on the McDonald’s menu.
a2tech 3y ago
Also don’t forget scale—-in/out might have ‘dozens’ of restaurants but McDonald’s has ‘thousands’. They also have software that was developed entirely in house that is unbelievably optimized. Weird, but usable. They are a company that fully understands the problem space they operate in. Hospitals should be doing everything they can to run like them but no one likes to hear that.

addicted 3y ago

In-n-Out tastes basically like McDonalds. I don’t understand the people who rave about it. There’s very little difference other than the fact that they have a “secret” menu with their own coded language.

nijuashi 3y ago
You should eat more junk food ;) I’ve been to both good and bad McDonalds. Burgers and fries from well-run ones can taste very good. In-n-Out has better consistency, and it’s on par with the quality of well-run McDonalds. It’s probably due to the fact that In-n-out has fewer items? I don’t know.
- selestify 3y ago
  Huh. I like the slightly toasted bun and the generous amount of veggies they put in the Inn n Out burger. I’m not aware of a similar looking or tasting burger on the McDonald’s menu.

a2tech 3y ago

Also don’t forget scale—-in/out might have ‘dozens’ of restaurants but McDonald’s has ‘thousands’. They also have software that was developed entirely in house that is unbelievably optimized. Weird, but usable. They are a company that fully understands the problem space they operate in. Hospitals should be doing everything they can to run like them but no one likes to hear that.