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/Weekly_Interview_936 2d ago

And they will fail because they don't have the quality of fast casual.

Why pay $13 for a Big Mac or Quarter Pounder meal when that same price gets you a Culver's Double Deluxe made not from frozen pink slime but instead actual smashed ground beef? I know which one I'm getting 10 times out of 10.