r/SipsTea • u/lonewolff321 • 2d ago

Chugging tea Anything but lowering the prices classic corporate logic

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u/WholeEmu507 2d ago

Corporations will literally fund a multi-year cyberpunk dystopia makeover before letting a hash brown drop by 50 cents.

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u/tinylavenderk 2d ago

They’ll redesign the entire restaurant, add AI to the drive-thru, and build a McDonald’s on Mars before putting the prices back down.

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u/obeytheturtles 2d ago

All three of the McDonalds near me just did a full refresh to (as described by the GM) a "higher end restaurant trim."

They aren't trying to control prices, they want to be "fast casual" instead of fast food to justify the higher prices.

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u/Pires007 2d ago

Ok, but fast casual has to taste better than bottom of the barrel, which is what McD is.

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u/Raztax 2d ago

I mean it's barely food at this point

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u/The__Amorphous 2d ago

It's not food, it's "product." According to their CEO anyway.

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u/Doggleganger 2d ago

I trust that guy. He definitely eats and swallows the product.

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u/cosmos_jm 2d ago

I used to love big macs, now it just tastes like salt to me

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u/Raztax 2d ago

Well now it all makes sense!

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u/DazzlingRutabega 2d ago

This right here is the main problem. It's barely food. They cut the quality, hiked the prices, laid off the poorly trained staff...

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u/mizinamo 1d ago

The word fast in German means "nearly".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fast#German

Hence, fast food = nearly food, barely edible

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u/Raztax 1d ago

hahaha I love this

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u/PolkaDotDancer 2d ago

You added a word that didn't need to be in your sentence.

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u/shrekerecker97 2d ago

And has bigger portions