/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18268242
I didn't read the rest of your post but no fucking way is it not fast. It's faster than ever. When I get some uber eats person to deliver taco bell it's at my door in like 10 minutes.

>>18268242
>no longer cheap
What the fuck are you talking about?

>>18268242
I was just thinking about this the other day. I bought two mcdoubles and a junior chicken for like 11.50, ate all 3 and felt like shit after. it's just not worth it anymore. Pretty sure that mcdonalds order was the cause of my cold that just randomly sprang up too. but one a side note i got a good deal at kfc a few days ago, got a famous chicken sandwich for 4.95.

>>18268293

>>18268242
>no longer cheap
The fuck it isn’t.
>no longer fast
Seems the same to me
>actually takes a long fucking time sometimes
Yeah if something is wrong. Sometimes my fiber internet slows down for a minute also.
>deals have been taken away
Check the chain’s app.
>sometimes it's OK to have when you're traveling, super busy, hungover or just being lazy
That’s literally the point of fast food. You can grab something quick while you’re out. If you’re at home, and go out for the sole purpose of grabbing fast food, then yeah you’re being silly.

>>18268308
Fucking kek where the hell is this? Five guys?

>>18268242
No, there's still proper fast-food workers out there that can crank out tickets.
Maybe it's a bit of a rare skill these days, but it's not gone entirely.

>>18268308
Anon plz you’re being disingenuous as fuck. I can do it too.

>>18268293
Do you have your head in the sand? McDonald's used to have 1$ sandwiches and burgers. They're 3 dollars now just for the cheapo garbage ones. A meal at McDonald's is now 10 dollars where 10 years ago it was 5.99. Yes, it's inflation, but it's more than just that. The value of going to these places is definitely much much worse. They rarely ever offer good deals anymore. All of it is "app only" garbage so they can try to turn you into subscribers basically.

I've never been so glad I stopped eating fast food and learned to cook. Fast food is a bigger ripoff than it has ever been. People who eat there are literally just making themselves fatter and poorer for no reason.

>>18268293
Not OP, but what in the actual fuck are you talking about? Even 5 years ago Taco Bell was one of the last places with a real dollar menu (when's the last time you've even looked at a McDonald's menu lol?), and just look at them now. Basically restaurant prices for a worse selection of worse items.

>>18268368
Dude the menu didn't change.
Your dollar did.

>>18268383
The menu changed. the prices are literally more expensive now on the menu you dumb fuck. Taco Bell likes to advertise $2 beefy burritos here but at the actual store itself it's $2.69. shut the fuck up liar

>>18268383
>the taco bell menu didn't change
I know this is just bait so someone can ask if you've been living under a rock and you can reply that you don't eat that garbage, but have you literally been living under a rock? Even if you stopped eating fast food in the 90's you're still on /ck/ and must be aware of what they've done to the menu.

>>18268395
...
Because shit costs more...
It's almost like inflation is a thing or something.

>>18268365
You are a grown ass adult man you shouldn't be having a fit over $10

>>18268402
The point is that there's no point to even eat fast food when they're basically charging the same price as a real restaurant. Shit, I can drive 5 minutes and get a 1/3 pound burger cooked medium rare with all the fixings and a big side of fries for $13, and I can order a beer with it. Why on Earth would anybody go to McDonald's when those are your options?

>>18268402
Except this spills over into the rest of your life. There's a reason I'm financially stable and you likely aren't. Poor choices and laziness add up. They add up to fat fuck bellies and empty wallets.

I can make myself meals for 2 dollars that taste way better than any fast food ever could in a comparable amount of time that I spend waiting in line for them at a fast food place. It's a difference of 24 dollars a day or more. If you're telling me you don't need 720 extra dollars, then just send it over to me and I'll put it to better use.

>>18268242
you forgot
>barely food
the fact this garbage even exists simply because it's fast and cheap is depressing.

>>18268420
>720 extra dollars
per month, I meant to add

>>18268420
Can you share your $2 meals bro? I'm trying to cook at home more and expand my repertoire

>>18268365
>All of it is "app only" garbage so they can try to turn you into subscribers basically.
Stop being a schizo.
App-ordering represents a massive overall time-savings for the company, so they can sell shit cheaper when it’s used.

>>18268443
That shit doesn't help.
Online orders arrive at random, outside of the flow of other orders.
I can only fix one ticket at a time.

>>18268443
Except it's not cheaper it's more expensive than ever before you stupid fuck

>>18268420
Why do you assume everyone is in the same financial situation as you?
And why do you assume that someone can only choose between zero fast food and every fucking meal being fast food?

>>18268441
Sure.

Eggs
Rice
Beans
Onions
Peppers
Mushrooms
Cooking oil
Ham
Turkey
Chicken
Apples
Oranges
Carrots
Bananas
Mustard
Salt
Pepper
Water

It will initially cost more to get things like oil or other basic ingredients, but then you can mix and match any of these things to make cheap tasty meals that average out to 2-3 dollars each and it gives you plenty of variety and they're simple meals so they don't involve complicated cooking. Sautee everything for low calories and good taste. Optionally, pick up some sauces to diversify your meals.

If you're a fat fuck and eat over 2k calories, it will cost a little more, but you can easily eat 1200-2000 calories per day and lose weight on the items I listed above. Cost varies state by state and yet still those things are infinitely cheaper and better tasting than fast food.

>>18268454
But financial metrics say otherwise.
If someone orders via app,
>they aren’t holding up a line deciding what they want
>a worker isn’t spending time having to enter their order and customizations or answer questions
>money transaction consumes no time (same reason restaurants often use those vending tickets in Japan)
It removes a bottleneck. And when you scale that enterprise-wide to a massive chain with millions of customers every day, it shows up on the books.

>>18268455
So is everything at my grocery store you ignorant faggot.

>>18268489
Sure, it removes that bottleneck.
My kitchen can still only produce foods at a certain rate.
Like, okay, you saved the 40 seconds talking to the FOH girl on the phone.
Now what?

>>18268420
>My time is worthless

If you always have time to grocery shop and cook then you are a broke college student that should be studying or a completely single with no friends totally expendable at work adult with no interesting hobbies.

>>18268443
No it doesn't. Their staff hasn't increased, bozo. Even if someone orders online, there's either a customer at the window or the person picking up their online order. Sometimes both. It does very little to save time and their prices are higher than ever.

They do the online ordering because they want people to constantly advertise the product to themselves.

>Open phone
>Big app for the product is right on their phone that they use constantly, reminding them of the product
>better sales
Not to mention fast food chains have already started rolling out subscriber deals that will only become more predatory.

>>18268458
>Why do you assume everyone is in the same financial situation as you?
Maybe you can't read. I assume you aren't. If you eat fast food, there's a very high chance you're poorer than I am.

>And why do you assume that someone can only choose between zero fast food and every fucking meal being fast food?
If you don't care about being wasteful with money and 10 dollars doesn't matter, then why should it matter for every meal? Why not have it delivered with door dash and add another 10 dollars to your bill? There is no logical end to your bad decisions. If you're willing to waste 10 dollars once, then you'll waste 10 dollars anytime on a whim. Until you don't have enough money left to do so.

So it's easy to assume that people that have such thought processes are poor or stupid.

>>18268502
>My time is worthless
I knew you'd reach for this but no dice. Either you are poor enough that home cooking should be a staple to save money and have better tasting and healthier meals or you're rich enough to hire a personal chef or someone to cook for you or have delivery companies bring you high end restaurant quality food.

The people in between are either poor or stupid. There is no escaping this. You can't pull this "Duh, I just value my time, that's why I eat fast food" bullshit because it doesn't logically make any sense. You're simply making a stupid decision by eating fast food.

>>18268502
>>18268514
This sheer level of immaturity, condescending attitude, and cheapness makes it seem more likely you are a college student but its still hard to tell if you're just a recent grad with a crap degree and an entry level low paying job that forces a degree requirement.

Definitely don't have any friends or are dating though

>>18268242
they have to compete with actual restaurants like red lobster and olive garden

>>18268551
Your ability to judge people is shit. You were wrong about quite literally everything in your post. But at this point you're just desperate and trying to go for ad hom since you know I'm correct.

>>18268545
>Either you are poor enough that home cooking should be a staple to save money and have better tasting and healthier meals or you're rich enough to hire a personal chef or someone to cook for you or have delivery companies bring you high end restaurant quality food.

You have no sense of what things cost to people who work, so you're definitely a college student.

>>18268568
>I have no argument so I'll just keep saying you're a college student
There's a decent chance finished college before you were even born. I am sorry my truths here offend you but it's not my fault that you like making stupid decisions like buying fast food.

>>18268499
That’s 40 seconds the girl can spend doing something more tangibly productive than talking on the phone.

>>18268503
>It does very little to save time
Fucking hell it’s painful trying to explain basic business concepts to zoomers. If you seriously can’t understand how even extremely small time/cost savings per customer or location scale into significant numbers for a fuckhuge company, I’m not sure what to tell you.
>more expensive than ever
Double cheeseburger at my closest McDonald’s is $2.59. They’re BOGO through an app deal. So basically $1.30
They haven’t been $1 for almost 15 years. If you’re going to cry about paying .30 more than you did 15 years ago, you’re retarded.
>muh predatory
Are you really so incapable of simply not buying something if it doesn’t represent a deal to you?
I know zoomers think massive corporations are run by idiots bent on destroying the world, but this shit is data-driven.
App-ordering is a proven cost-savings. Whether or not you personally agree does not affect actual accounting.

>>18268589
Sure, but I still only have the one kitchen.
Put in your order as fast as you want, I can still only be one place at a time, do one thing at a time.

>>18268293
>wtf are you talking about
>3 items at taco bell is $45

>>18268589
>Fucking hell it’s painful trying to explain basic business concepts to zoomers.
I know, you're retarded as shit and don't seem to understand how a kitchen works or how they actually process online orders. I'll give you a hint: try ordering on the app and showing up at precisely the time you ordered it and let me know how often your order is ready for the time that you put it in for. Because the answer is not very often.

If you think these high schooler fast food workers are worrying about online ordering when they have impatient customers in a line outside their window, I just have to laugh at you.

The simple truth is it doesn't have that much of an impact and you're grossly overstating its effect to defend and justify company shifts to subscription and loyalty models.

>Double cheeseburger at my closest McDonald’s is $2.59. They’re BOGO through an app deal. So basically $1.30
So basically if you jump through their hoops and they happen to have some kind of app only deal at the time that saves you money then maybe you can find something cheap. And only at the low low cost of advertising to yourself and enabling these companies to enslave you through future commitment deals.

Just remember in the future after these fast food places start rolling out more and more "customer loyalty app only" and "subscription only" services that you were a fucking retard and I was right. Let my laughter echo through your head when your dumb fat fuck ass signs up for that "McDonald's VIP service" bullshit.

>>18268577
>There's a decent chance finished college before you were even born.
Yea I'm calling bullshit. Post your year of graduation, degree, current job and salary. I'm expecting you to continue the LARP

No working adult finds it impossible to conceive of a reality where sometimes there are more interesting things happening in life that they don't have time to cook and pick up something quick.

My job and salary actually puts me into the category where I could conceivably eat out for every meal but I actually enjoy cooking and there is cost saving involved by not spending so much money on restaurants everyday.

But normal adults don't take ridiculous one side or the other stances on such things.

Cultured adults know that there are also meals that are impossible, near impossible, or a complete waste of time/money for the home chef to create at home. They range from extravagant things like Michellin dining experiences to basically any deep fried food you aren't making for a large dinner party.

They take their girlfriends or friends out to those meals, which you ignored when you were LARPing about your life

>>18268514
>if you’re gonna spend $1 you might as well spend $1mil
Please.

The only people I’ve known who unironically have the attitude you’re displaying are people who either grew up in, or at least went through, some absolutely hard/painful shit in terms of finances.
If that’s your case, and you’ve managed to put yourself on solid footing and improve your situation, that’s awesome and damn right you should be proud. Most people just make it worse for themselves.

But begrudging someone a damn cheeseburger to the point of assuming they’ve failed at life is a bit much, don’t you think?

>>18268633
>Yea I'm calling bullshit. Post your year of graduation, degree, current job and salary.
Alright then I won't answer since you won't believe me anyways. Not that it's even relevant to this discussion.

>No working adult finds it impossible to conceive of a reality where sometimes there are more interesting things happening in life that they don't have time to cook and pick up something quick.
In other words, you have no foresight or ability to plan ahead and stock nothing at home. You are frequently lazy, make poor decisions, can't cook, and thus waste money rather than make better decisions. And you're angry at me because I don't let myself slip to your lazy indulgent standards.

>My job and salary actually puts me into the category where I could conceivably eat out for every meal but I actually enjoy cooking and there is cost saving involved by not spending so much money on restaurants everyday.
If this were true you would agree with me. Either you're so rich that your time genuinely is worth the money to just throw money at getting restaurant food delivered(not fast food garbage), or you don't have enough money and cooking home meals is the only sensible thing to do. There is no in between. If you eat fast food, you're stupid.

>But normal adults don't take ridiculous one side or the other stances on such things.
No True Scotsman fallacy.

>Cultured adults know that there are also meals that are impossible, near impossible, or a complete waste of time/money for the home chef to create at home.
None of those meals are served at fast food places. If you can't cook everything on a fast food menu, you're a failure of a cook.

>They take their girlfriends or friends out to those meals
To RESTAURANTS. What kind of sad fuck takes his girlfriend to fast food? Restaurants are more understandable even if they are also a waste of money, they're at least justifiable for various occasions.

>>18268659
>Alright then I won't answer since you won't believe me anyways.

(You)

>>18268659
Some people do it for the love of it.
I could re-up my certs and have a TS tomorrow and rake in like 300 grand a year.
I'd rather be in a kitchen for ten grand a year.

>>18268668
>Wow you are such a liar you are full of shit tell me your job, salary, degree, and graduation year!!
I could have answered that question or not answered it since the result is the same, so I chose not to. Yet another great decision on my part and another clear example of your lack of intelligence.

I accept your concession.

>>18268624
>more schizo ramblings
Holy fuck you seriously hit the “corporate enslavement” tier.
You clearly know fuck all about business, so you default to hating and fearing something you understand nothing about.
Numbers > the conspiratorial shit you come up with in your head. Sorry.

>>18268683
>omg I can't even, how could you, those fast food corporations would never!
lol
I'd hate to break it to you but part of the "numbers" game is, yknow, the "enslavement". Customer loyalty, advertising, and incentivizing return customers are all very basic economic strategies, and yet when I lay them out, you call me a schizo. You act like the entire gaming industry isn't based off of exploiting psychology to milk gamers out of their money using subscription and gacha models and like other industries, like the food industry, aren't trying to also copy these ideas to work within their industry frame.

Call it schizo all you want, it is the future.

>>18268368
What happened to tb anon bros

>>18268308
You're at fucking Five Guys, you retard. That's not fast food, that's "I want a gourmet artery-clogger but I don't wanna grill at home" food.

Jesus Christ would be ashamed of you. Go to Wendy's and get that 5$ bag, then come and tell me the dumb shit you just said.

>>18268723
>BIGGIE BAG
>small fry
>small drink
>4 pc nuggets
>sandwich jr.
What did they mean by this?

>>18268723
A Wendy's cook?
How's your four-corner-press?

>>18268242
magdonna's has remained consistently bad
Burger King has gone downhill
Wendy's has gone downhill
jack in the box is unbelievably worse
whataburger is still good
in-n-out is still good
chick-fil-a has gone up in price, but remains consistently bland
I don't do chicken on the bone, so I can't say anything about Popeye's, KFC, or Church's

>>18268737
>Whataburger now asks you your name at the drive thru
Nah, I'm out. Fuck those carpetbaggers.

>>18268740
ok. and?
check-fil-a asks for your name, too. do you hate them?

>>18268747
Yes.

>>18268749
yea, I agree. you're a colossal faggot. confirm it by replying. :)

>>18268754
not the heckin tyson pattyariono bro!
Fuck Chicago and fuck Mormons.

>>18268715
Gets banned for farting within 100 yards of a keyboard these days.

>>18268293
It IS expensive as fuck and for what? A meal at mcdonalds costs like 10 bucks. For 12 bucks, I can buy a literal platter of sushi rolls at Costco. Why the fuck would I ever spend money on the garbage at mcdonalds?

>>18268242
here in Colombia we have fast food cheap as fuck because you can have it also in the fucking street, good luck having fun in your crappy country with shitty and overpriced junk.

>>18268773
>everyone is so poor there's no vehicle traffic on the roads
How is that a benefit?

>>18268769
Muh proofs. Seriously, if you only had 12 bucks, why the fuck would you ever spend it on mcdonalds over this? The only time I ever go to mcdonalds is if I'm traveling and there's nowhere else to eat. It's a huge ripoff otherwise.

>>18268769
>Costco sushi
enjoy your worms

>>18268291
First post, best post and nobody replied to you this entire time because they're too busy seething.

>>18268792
All sushi restaurants have the risk of parasites. This is not a risk when the salmon in question is frozen (and especially not when it's ground up, as in a sushi roll), which is a requirement for all places that serve sushi. You are more likely to die from ecoli and other shit from sushi than parasites.

>>18268302
It's mainly this for me. Quality of employees has tanked and getting sick or just plain bad food is so much more common. Can't trust sit down places anymore let alone FF places.
Sucks man.

>>18268812
>Quality of employees has tanked
Holy shit this.
It's like the zoomer can opener video, but a whole kitchen.

>>18268812
This. Last time I ate at popeye's, my food was cold and it made me sick afterwards. Granted, it was a fucking popeye's, but I swear it wasn't this bad like 10 years ago.

Last time I ate at Taco Bell it was just shy of 14 dollars.

>2 chicken quesadilla
>2 chipotle chicken melts

That's a lot of money for shitty fast food. Especially when 1/4 of the dillas never contain chicken

>>18268242
>>no longer cheap
I hasn't been cheap in a long time.
It has always been cheaper to make your own food starting in the 90s.
Hard Shell tacos are probably the only thing hard to make from Taco Bell unless you have a deep fryer.

>speed
it really varies, but hardees in the morning is less than 5 minutes.
McDonalds in nashville serves in less than 1 minute.

>>18268825
You must be doing it wrong.
I spend like $2.18 at Taco Bell.

>>18268812
My local McDonald's is staffed with 50 year old central American ladies who can barely speak English. It's like 50/50 on whether or not you get the correct order.

Taco bell and Chic FIL a are the only fast food places in my town that don't religiously fuck up what you order.

>>18268841
It's $13.95 to order that at my local taco bell online... and those are about the only things on the menu I like. They axed everything else

>>18268715
hopefully died while drunk driving like he boasted about in so many threads

>>18268866
You know they have shit other than the big flagship items, yea?
>I bought the most expensive named item on the menu!
>How did it cost so much!?!
I mean, duh?

>>18268715
>>18268868
Oh, that guy.
Nah, he's still around.
His burritos are a bit sloppy these days, though.

>>18268873
No shit faggot. I said they got rid of everything else on the menu I liked.

Their ground beef is also dog food tier

>>18268880
So, you purposefully bought the most expensive shit they have, just so you could complain on /ck/ about how you spent so much money on fuckin' Taco Bell?
Like... okay? Where do we go from here?

>>18268883
Yes, that's exactly what I did and why I did it.

Holy shit you're a retard.

>>18268889
Well, why don't you explain it?

>>18268891
>go to taco bell
>notice they took half the crap off the menu I liked
>order 2 of each item left that I do like
>get charged almost 14 dollars for it
>stop eating at taco bell

Why is this such a hard concept for you to grasp?

A trip to Taco Bell, right now, is about two dollars cheaper for me than a trip to Chiptole. In what world would anyone choose Taco Bell over Chipotle if they cost the same?

>>18268898
So, you went to a place you don't like, to get shit that you think is overpriced?
On purpose?
Wow, you sure burned them, bro fr fr no cap?

>>18268868
>he doesn't have a car flask
How do you even end up eating Taco Bell? Nobody is ordering it sober.

>>18268905
You honestly think that I studied the menu before hand? It's fast food. I was unaware that they changed the menu, so I was stuck with limited options as to what I like.

Why is me ordering food that I think tastes good such a difficult concept for you? Were you dropped on your head?

>>18268916
So, you can't read or plan your actions in advance?
What a god damned tactical mastermind!

>>18268916
The menu is right there on your phone. You can pick everything you want and modify it how you want and see exactly what it's going to cost before you pay. Do you also show up at a job interview without a resume and get confused when they ask you why you want to work at their company?

>>18268919
>plan actions before hand
>for taco bell

Ok, I get it now, you're just fat.

>>18268242
cry more

>>18268926
No cap bruh, if Taco fuckin' Bell is too complicated for you, you're going to have a bad time at life...
I legitimately feel sorry for you.

>>18268924
>comparing ordering fast food to a job interview

I should have left this place years ago

>>18268242
poor people don't deserve to starve but if they were hungry more of the time it would benefit everyone

>>18268932
Nah, he's right, it's literally the same thing, at least for proper fast-food cooks.

>>18268932
It's the same basic life skills shit that's part of being an adult. It's really not that complicated. Just know where you are and why you're there and what you wanted from there that led you to that place to begin with. You might have left this place years ago if you'd literally ever had a job interview in your life.

>>18268949
No it's not. I don't randomly pull up to job interviews when I'm hungry.

But keep being a midwit

>>18268962
I wouldn't personally hire someone who struggled ordering fast food.

>>18268962
A fast food kitchen requires a pulse and an IQ above room temperature. (and pulse is negotiable)
I wouldn't hire you.

>>18268970
>struggled
>got what I wanted
>it was just expensive for fast food

Bro just give up, your embarrassing yourself. You're not the big brain you think you are for try to psychoanalyze my fucking fast food order.

>18268984
>struggled
>got what I wanted
>it was just expensive
It sounds like you're complaining about paying taxes for public schools when you yourself took the short bus.

>>18268991
You're the one who can't comprehend me bitching about fast food being expensive in a bitch about fast food being expensive thread

>>18268878
I haven't seen him post in months. Think he got scared off after some anons found his location

>>18268997
Oh, he's a nice enough guy.
Makes tacos at elevation.
Just the kind of schizo that is legitimately good at Taco Bell.
Maybe I don't agree with him on some esoteric matters, but I can respect a cook.

This thread is just one cheap retard replying to everybody else right?

>>18268996
>can't comprehend me bitching
That's not something you "comprehend". You're bitching. I see you bitching. We all see you bitching. What I'm trying to comprehend are the words that you type. I can see that you're really struggling, and can see glimpses of something shiny in there, somewhere. I'm really trying to work with you here, anon. You can always take a break and do some finger painting.

>>18268811
Ground up meat is more dangerous than whole cuts

I had 5 guys recently for the first time. It tasted ‘ok’ granted I haven’t had a mcdonalds burger in forever to rate just how much better it is. The fries seemed kinda shit though, or at least my batch was oversalted

7-Eleven is unironically one of the best fast food restaurants.

>>18268242
Fast Food as a concept and business is not dead. However, I think the current titans of the fast food world are dying. McDonald's, Taco Bell, BK, Wendy's, etc are all floundering right now. The main reason is as you stated, prices have gone up, service is not as fast as it was, and the quality is the same if not worse. OP is correct in that the value proposition of fast food just isn't there anymore. Wages haven't kept up with inflation. Making $10 per hour a decade or 15 years ago and then going to the dollar menu at McD's after work wasn't a big deal. But if you're still making $10-$15 per hour...a meal at mcdonald's is gonna cost an entire hour of your time. Not a good deal when you can get better food at another restaurant for $10-15.

What I think is going to happen is that higher quality Fast Food restaurants will proliferate, while the old guard falters. We've already seen this with the expansion of Shake Shack and Chick Fil A, but it's going to accelerate. Whataburger just opened a million spots in my hometown, I still haven't had it yet, but it's popular and people are willing to pay for it.

Braum's is another example of a fast food restaurant I think could take over. Their vertical integration allows them to keep many costs down. I can get a double quarter pounder cheeseburger, large fries, and a large chocolate milkshake for under $10. Not sure where else I could achieve that

>>18269946
It's pretty good in Hawaii and a number of Asian countries.

Like how are you zoomer fucktards THIS bad at being cooks?
Seriously, I have more dexterity in my fuggin dick than you do in your whole prefrontal cortex.
What the fuck man? It's sad.
Like, I try to get mad, but I just can't. It's like, like dealing with an old person with dementia, except you're young.
What in the god damn?

>>18268557
You're a funny guy, you know that?

>>18268291
I dont believe you

So I guess we need to have _that conversation_.
The conversation of the philosophy of a fast-food cook.
Our overall goal is happy customers.
This is accomplished via three main methods: Speed, accuracy, and consistency.
Speed means when the thing beeps at us, we jump on it like paratroopers.
Accuracy means we make what the ticket says. (this one seems obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people are literally illiterate and embarrassed to say so. Reading is a kung fu skill like any other, you gotta grind on it on the daily.)
Consistency: Each time I make X item, it's the same item. The customer expects such.

Now that that's established, let's talk about details.
Firstly, take that shit off your wrists and fingers.
No rings or bracelets.
I don't give a FUCK about your dead fuckin' parent or whatever, fuck you, that's irrelevant, cut it off.

This is the part where I hand you my box-cutter and dare you to use it on me.
You should see the poor kids struggle to open it. It's really quite pathetic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxHyliIspkA

>>18270194
Right I'm gonna be able to cook when I'm traveling hundreds of miles. Fuck off.

>prices can increase over time
Wow we got a real nobel prize winner over here, someone call the mises institute!

>>18268242

Haven't eaten fast food in a while. Once It became $20+ for two adult meals I decided I'd only go to sit-down places. A sit-down place that's at the same price point has much higher quality food. The only time fast food is worth it these days is if you are traveling and stopping doesn't make sense. You're right that even then sometimes it's not worth it because some fast food places are so understaffed and mismanaged that it takes 20 minutes to get your order (about as fast as ordering food at the bar in a sit down restaurant.)

I only eat fast-food when I'm on the road or in a rush but yeah it's gotten significantly worse over the years.

>drive up to the window after ordering a really simple combo order
>Uhm sir could you please park your car over there and we'll bring your order to you
>Proceed to take 10 minutes to bring me a chicken sandwich with fries and a drink

They have your money hostage too so there's nothing you can really do about it. Making you park wasn't even a thing in my experience until the last few years.

>>18270977
Why are there so many disingenuous retards in this thread? The price of fast-food has gotten as expensive or even more expensive than eating at a sit-down restaurant. Why are you pretending like this was always the case? How old are you?

>>18271043

Because there are ALOT of fast food shills on this board.

Do you seriously think real people make McDonalds, Dominos and Taco Bell threads every single day?

>>18271046
Only the Taco Bell posters are real people. People do post about McDonald's, but only non-Americans.

>>18268401
>It's almost like
Anyone who talks like this is a faggot

>>18271046
>Do you seriously think real people make McDonalds, Dominos and Taco Bell threads every single day?
Yes. That's what people who like anime and use an anime website eat you non-American retard. Deal with it.
Also the more you schizos post about everyone being a marketer the more you're making shitposters want to take advantage of your mental illness and post extra "for me, it's the McChicken©" threads to tweak you out. You do it to yourself.

>>18268242
Ive basically stopped going to fast food places for those reasons.

I would add what I make at home tastes way better, is healthier and has the added bonus, and I cant stress this enough, of not having to worry about whether some nog spit in it, dropped it on the floor, or otherwise mishandled it.

Fast food had its heyday, but that time is not now

>>18268359
>Roasted Broccoli
>$12.00

>>18268291
The taco bell near me, and the KFC thats across the street, both will people pull into a spot and wait until they bring the food out to you. Ive actually seen people leave before getting their order. That's how fucking slow it is

Even ordering carry out isn't much better these days. Honestly, fuck small businesses and fast food both, cook at home or get assraped by greedy fucks who are still milking the pandemic excuse dry.

Why is it so hard for people to admit things got worse?

>>18271114
Same, all the time. I've left the line myself because it took so fucking long. I ordered in the McDonald's the other day, I shit you not, a large iced coffee, a McDouble and a McChicken. It legit took 30 mins.

>>18271131
Some weird need to be a contrarian, or to sound smart by blabbering "inflation" even though there's a clear and easily verifiable discrepancy that doesn't back that up.

In other words: mental illness, mostly. Fast-food jacked up their prices because they could. It's that simple.

>>18271062

I'm not going to pretend to even care that you're this stupid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_marketing

>>18271114
>Ive actually seen people leave before getting their order. That's how fucking slow it is

Yeah I've seriously considered just ditching a few times but I don't make enough disposable income to easily do that. It probably doesn't help that they're severely understaffed and they refuse to make conditions or pay be more enticing for new employees. That's in my area, anyways. Like why would you ever work for fucking McDonald's when you can get a WFH setup with very little education or experience that pays much more for less physical labor and stress plus you get to work in the comfort of your own home? It's a huge no-brainer.

>>18268242
>no longer cheap
we're in a recession
>no longer fast
not where I live

>>18271214
They have raised the pay considerably for fast food joints, probably higher than it's ever been, and lazy fucks still don't want to work.

>>18271234
>we're in a recession
We have the lowest unemployment rate ever.

>>18271244
is that why every business is hiring and a bunch of places have closed down?

>>18271244
It certainly doesn't feel that way. Almost every single business has an 'available positions' poster on the door over here kek

>>18271239
I don't know what it's like in the US but over here I'm seeing $13.75 cad and WFH positions seems to float around 17-20 entry level. It's not even a question.

>>18268242
>>no longer cheap
Still cheaper than the alternatives, ie sit-down restaurants
>>no longer fast
Even when I go at peak times, I've never waited even 5 minutes for my food. At a diner that service would be considered exquisite.
>>actually takes a long fucking time sometimes
Zoomie with no concept of time confirmed
>>deals have been taken away
The were never good deals, they were Loss Leaders that existed solely to tempt you into purchasing other items with higher markups.

I don't know why I bothered

>>18271244
thats misleading because so many people simply arent looking for work. The unemployment rate takes into account people actively looking. The reality is the economy currently extremely weak

>>18271282
>Still cheaper than the alternatives, ie sit-down restaurants
By a much narrower margin than before. Like maybe $3 cheaper.

>Even when I go at peak times, I've never waited even 5 minutes for my food.
Unless you've only visited a fast food place once, you're full of fucking shit. Everyone on the planet has waited more than 5 minutes for fast food before if they're over the age of 18 and eat fast food. If you claim you've never had to pull over and wait, you're lying.

>Zoomie with no concept of time confirmed
Clearly talking about yourself.

>They were never good deals
Yes they were.

>>18268481
How short are you?

>>18271282
Taco Bell is a sit down restaurant.

>>18271359
Technically anywhere that sells food and has seating for diners is a restaurant by definition. But you know, Americans.....

>>18271194
Corporations don't decide to do things. People working at corporations do. And nobody working in the marketing department of any restaurant chain is going to decide to secretly market on 4chan because A) they can't measure success and take credit for it the way you easily can when you market on twitter or facebook and B) they would have to present on their work to their superiors at some point which would entail telling your boomer exec bosses a name they will Alta Vista up and get back a bunch of hits about underage porn and gore pics.
That's why you're a schizo and are confusing shitposters with marketers in a nutshell.

>>18268368
Dollar menus are a millennial thing. We never had them when I was young except at Wendy's. Personally, I'm glad to see them go. Never cared for them.

>>18271403
>I like paying more for my food
fuck off

>>18271414
I unironicallly don't like deals because they make me feel like I'm being manipulated.
Just give me the straight price, no gimmicks.

>>18271388
They're not targeting 4chan. It's a canvassing of the entire internet. They don't say "4chan" in the meetings. They say "500 popular websites in combination reaching 95% of all internet users."

>>18268242
>deals have been taken away
nigga you can get a huge ass burrito and tacos from the dollar menu at taco bell
its my guilty pleasure at 3 am when im drunk

>>18271244
All you literally need to do is go outside for an hour or two and you'll see that that doesn't check out at all. Do you question anything or do you just believe what you're told every time?

>>18268368
who makes such a photo? what are they showing off? what is the purpose of it?

>>18271282
Hello corporate shill

>>18271403
>i'm 45 and what is this

>>18271422
Kek what a weird fucking belief. You literally dislike saving money because...what...you feel manipulated? kek.

>>18271438
>"dollar menu"
>nothing is even a dollar on there anymore
With tax and shit, you're paying at least $7 for 2-3 things from that menu. $7 is something I can easily afford, but the point stands, it's more expensive than ever and you're getting less food at the same time. If ever there was a time to say fuck you to fast food, it's now.

its time for you motherfuckers to learn how to make the better variants of this shit at home--lurk moar

>>18271450
>when anon discovers that people actually used to post images of food on the food and cooking image board

>>18271334
I'm 6'3. Why?

>>18271457
>lurk moar
Lol. I always get a chuckle when somebody who obviously just got here goes out of their way to act like an oldfag.

>>18268589
You've never worked in fast food.

>>18268242
I got a 5 patty with cheese no bun add mayo burger at whataburger the other day and the fucks totally skimped on all the fixins despite me paying $20 for what is essentially a meat and cheese salad. Took them half an hour, too.

>>18271422
lmao what

>>18271359
>Taco Bell is a sit down restaurant.

>>18271456
Not him but Taco Bell at least is the last vestige of actual decent deals. Currently:

Chipotle Ranch Grilled Chicken Burrito: $2, 510 calories
Beefy Melt Burrito, $2, 620 calories
Cheesy Bean and Rice Burrito: $1, 420 calories
Fiesta Veggie Burrit: $2, 570 calories
Combo Meal: $5, 800-1300 calories depending on what you choose

All of those are sufficient. The single burritos are enough if you aren't fat, and even if you're fat the combo meal should be enough at $5 and it's way cheaper than its competitors. Of course, that's a narrow menu, but it does allow cheap options.

>>18271517
None of those prices are accurate at any location I've been to in the past year, and paying $5 for a 5 layer burrito and a basic taco is not a good deal.

>>18271523
>None of those prices are accurate at any location I've been to in the past year
It is accurate as of today. Go check it out if you don't believe me. There will be like 30 cents of tax or whatever but otherwise the prices are accurate. Yes, the 5 layer burrito is not a cheap item. But the guy you responded to said Taco Bell is frequently selling some fat caloric bomb burrito for nothing and he's right. They constantly introduce new items and sell them dirt cheap to get people hooked on them and then try selling them at a higher price later on, but there is always 3-5 burritos loaded with 600-1000 calories rotating in the 1-2 bucks menu at any given time.

>>18271523
>paying $5 for a 5 layer burrito and a basic taco is not a good deal.
It's $5 for a 5 layer burrito, a soft or hard shell taco, a drink, and nachos.

>>18271541
>nachos
Yeah right. The only nachos they even have on the menu at this point is the bell grande, which is like $6. You either get cinnamon twists or chips and cheese, which are both throw away items, and a drink doesn't fucking count for anything.

>>18271551
>chips and cheese
...otherwise known as nachos.

>a drink doesn't fucking count for anything.
You don't count for anything because you're clearly mentally retarded. What drives you to be this stupid, wrong, and contrarian? You don't HAVE to argue with me, you know. You could have just said "Yeah you're right, but I personally don't care about drinks or nachos that don't have salsa"

>>18271558
Dipping 7 tortilla chips into a small ramekin of cheese sauce isn't "nachos" by any stretch of the imagination. That's like calling a mushroom swiss burger a beef wellington because, "hurr, it's just beef and bread and mushrooms!". Also, only a fucking loser thinks that getting a 5 cent sugar water included with their combo is a "deal".

>>18271488
Skeletor

>>18268769
> I can buy a literal platter of sushi rolls at Costco. Why the fuck would I ever spend money on the garbage at mcdonalds?

>>18268242
Fuck fast food. People who love food love slow food. Check us out: https://www.slowfood.com/

>>18268242
this post proves you're anti-indian racist who is against a global economy so therefore you're also an anti-semitism

>>18271517
They advertise those prices, but in my area it's actually $2.69 for the Beefy Melt and Chipotle Ranch Rito, not sure about the Fiesta. I think CBRB, god bless it, is even like $1.20 now or something. Plus tax, that's not much of a value at all.

>>18271533
It isn't. >>18271523 is right.
See
>>18271703
It should be illegal to falsely advertise but I'm sure they have some loophole in .5pt font.

>>18271541
Plus tax...

Sheetz is still good and fast, but damn have the prices shot up. Problem is, so has everything else. Those shitty tyson chicken tenders went from $7 to $12 here.

>>18271724
Our Savior Biden is doing such an amazing job. He really is.

>>18268293
>18268293▶>>18268308 >>18268365 >>18268368 >>18268616 >>18268769
>>>18268242 (OP)
>>no longer cheap
>What the fuck are you talking about?
How about this?

>>18271766
That's fucking absurd. Doritos Locos Regulars are $2-something where I'm at. Where are you? Fucking Manhattan?

>>18269995
There's been a ton of Culvers opening in my area in the past few years and it seems like I'm always seeing another one go up.
Shit's crazy.

>>18271766

>>18271802
Pricing varies by location, who knew???

>>18271577
>Dipping 7 tortilla chips into a small ramekin of cheese sauce isn't "nachos" by any stretch of the imagination.

>>18271426
>They're not targeting 4chan. It's a canvassing of the entire internet. They don't say "4chan" in the meetings. They say "500 popular websites in combination reaching 95% of all internet users."
You can easily track sites like Twitter and Facebook to show your return on investment.
You can't do that with 4chan. Especially not if you're secretly doing it instead of paying whatever nothing fee 4chan charges to use their real advertising services.
Don't work in marketing personally (I'm an engineer) but I've seen companies I've worked at advertise on plenty of websites and not once has 4chan ever been a part of that.
ROI is kind of the entire basis for anything a marketer ever does, and an anonymous anime fan site where you go out of your way to refuse the actual tools a paid ad would afford you is the worst way possible to establish any sort of ROI.
It's worthless even if you secretly made you restaurant's traffic jump by a huge amount because you would never be able to establish proof it was because of your actions afterwards.
So great for the corporation, but again, corporations don't make decisions, people working at corporations trying to get credit for their accomplishments make decisions. So any beneficial to the business decision you can't get credit for is as bad as a decision that doesn't help the business from the perspective of anyone who could pull the trigger.

>>18271488
ubermensch get

>>18271816
>chips and NACHO CHEESE SAUCE
It's not nachos you fucktard, if you've ever ordered the box in your life. You'd know that its just a small bag of chips with some cheese whiz dip.

Also I hate at how much TB has gutted their menu.

>>18271890
Nachos are a Mexican food consisting of fried tortilla chips or totopos covered with melted cheese or cheese sauce, as well as a variety of other toppings, often including meats, vegetables, and condiments such as salsa, guacamole, or sour cream. all i have to do is pour the cheese on the chips and you have the most basic Nachos by definition

Prices are so shit here in Canada. The only reason I'd ever go to Taco Bell is because they've got a buy 2 get 2 free tacos deal on Mondays.

>>18271910
We don't even have that in the U.S., stop fucking crying.

>>18271847
>It's worthless even if you secretly made you restaurant's traffic jump by a huge amount because you would never be able to establish proof it was because of your actions afterwards.

All marketing outside of internet clicks is this. All of it. If sales go up they take credit without proof. If sales go down but the budget wasn't totally fucked, then they just say it was some external thing.

>>18271313
>Unless you've only visited a fast food place once, you're full of fucking shit. Everyone on the planet has waited more than 5 minutes for fast food before if they're over the age of 18 and eat fast food. If you claim you've never had to pull over and wait, you're lying.
I swear to god, the longest wait I've ever had was about 5 minutes at Culvers, but I waited because culvers is delicious. Why would you wait for longer than it takes to just go somewhere else? Very beta behavior.

>>18271910
>Prices are so shit here in Canada
well, you guys keep voting for that. I don't know what to tell you.

>>18271942
No, proof is always demanded. That's why the term ROI exists. Even the most retarded, worst performing executive in existence knows enough to insist on an ROI. That's as basic as remember to wear pants before leaving your house.

>>18268242
>be me
>go to costco
>get their $6 rotisserie chicken, get a $1.5 hotdogs on my way out
>have lunch & dinner for next 4 days
>the secret they don't want you to know

>>18268242
It just depends on the restaurant, and maybe where you live. In my region there's a fast food restaurant called Cookout. You can get a tray that has a sandwich, and comes with two sides (which can be things like corn dogs, chicken wraps, quesadillas--you name it) and a drink and it comes out to like 9 dollars. You can swap the drink for a milkshake for a couple dollars more. Now, it's not the 1 and 2 dollar option of two decades ago, but it's a decent deal today...

>>18271929
When you include tax (13% baby), its almost $6 for two tacos here.

When is mcdonalds going to rename their $1/$2/$3 menu to $2/$3 menu?
Because their cheapest shitty burger is $2 now.

>>18271947
>pay for food
>pull up
>they tell you it'll be a few minutes and to pull over at the next window
>mouthbreathing 4chan retard claims this has either never happened to him or he just leaves after paying them for food
Just stop posting you stupid fuck

>>18268402
venmo me $10 right now faggot

>>18271766
>pov you live in a major american city
where i live, tacos aren't a dollar anymore. they're a dollar and change. i can still eat at most places for under $10. also
>90 cents more for tomato, sour cream and less meat
kekw

>>18271043
a triple cheeseburger is 3.19. You could also have 2 mchickens for $3. That's pretty inexpensive for a meal. Also, they have deals on the app which can lower the price quite a bit if you pay attention.

that being said, they have added a lot of "premium" things to the menu. A good example being the crispy chicken sandwich at $4.19. This is obviously because they make more money on that shit.

>>18271450
He's showing off how much of a based goy he is. He buys the products that define him, but without showing them off he does not exist
>>18271482
>look at what i consoom guys
>am I cool yet?
>tell me i am cool

>>18268242
>no longer cheap
wrong! $2 dollar burritos are still a thing at taco bell, and those things are huge
>no longer fast
>actually takes a long fucking time sometimes
maybe where you're at and when you're going, but my taco bell gets my burritos in around 3 minutes from when i order them, especially if I'm in the drive thru
>deals have been taken away
nope. mcchicken is still under $3 and the taco bell burritos are still $2. seethe elsewhere

>>18268293
It cost me about 20 dollars to get two meals at wendies.

>>18272306
why are you going to wendy's in the first place

>>18272306
4 for $4?

what are you getting? are you just a lardass ordering food for 4 people?

>>18268242
Taco Bell is ironically the only cheap fast food left. I checked out of fast food when they killed the Dollar Menu. I will buy a McRib when they come back.

BK is still cheap

>>18271456
>nothing is even a dollar on there anymore
bruh what
you live in NYC Or Cali or some shit? spicy potato soft taco is still $1 and I still order like 4 of those things every time I go

>>18272342
they used to have the best burgers of any fast food place. actually fresh beef, fresh vegetable fixings, fresh(ish) steamed bun, fries typically freshly fried for your order. it was low-key the only large scale fast food company upholding the old american diner standard of burger. they aren't now, however, unless you are lucky and find a well-managed one.

if your question is really "why would you ever get fast food?", then you are probably unaccustomed to being busy and tired.

>>18268242
you gotta download the app
so many retards in here crying that there's "no more deals or cheap fast food" when i literally get $2 off every time I go to wendy's just by ordering on the app.
I also get a free nachos bell grande at taco bell almost every other time I order because I use the rewards system. if you're still going and ordering through the speaker at fast food places you are doing it wrong

>>18272662
Yeah no, fuck apps

>>18272629
>Cali
not him but this is from mine in cali about as cheap as yours

Remember me?

>>18272711
Yes. This would have been the early 00s. I walked to a local one and got this all the time. Then it went up to $3 or something and I said fuck this

i havent eaten fast food in 6 days

>>18272711
This has become something of an urban legend in Canada. The Big Xtra was basically a version of the Big N Tasy, but the patty was larger and seasoned with a unique grill spice. When the Big Xtra was dropped, some franchises continued to serve it due to how McDonald's supply chains worked. While most people stopped seeing the Big Xtra in the early 00s, some people were finding locations serving it years later. I believe the most recent confirmed sighting was 2014, but all the photos are like pictures of Bigfoot.
I still dream of walking into a rural McDonald's one day and seeing the Big Xtra up on the menu board.

>>18272662
>yes goy, let the fast food corporation spy on your every move to save a few bucks

>>18272662
having to use an app to order fucking fast food is fucking retarded and so are you

>>18272726
A thread on here inspired me to get McDonald's - it was a letdown minus the soda because I was hungover

>>18268242
I hear ya OP. Breakfast at McD's use to be cheap. Could get two egg and cheese biscuits for 1$ each and 2 hashbrowns for a dollar. Now 2 hasbrowns are 6 bucks and 2 egg and cheese are 10$. Fucking rip off man but that's what happens when you pay everyone 15/hr. Now they can slack off cause they getting paid and the price of food cost more

>>18268242
do amerifats really?

>>18272802
a sausage mcmuffin is $4.19 a Sausage McMuffin WITH Egg is $6.19 they are charging 2$ for an egg fuck them

>>18271388
>Alta Vista up
Goddamn what a blast from the past

>>18272895
I was a Lycos guy myself

>>18268242
yeah fast food is a meme now but it is still packed because people have not figured out they can get a huge bump in quality for the same price by going to a restaurant which is the new fast food nearby

>>18268242
I'll never eat fast food again.
There used to be a video of fast food workers spitting in food and rubbing it in their ass cheeks. But it's been scrubbed from the Internet. Only one i can find is the one where she rubs a bun on the floor. Someone paid big money to have the other removed I'm guessing

>>18271169
Shills, bots, and undiscerning fatties won't let you blaspheme their lord and savior McDonald's.

I went to weinerschnitzel last night bought two chili cheese dogs a six piece mini corn dogs and a small pepsi
it was $12
fucking $12 what the fuck

>>18271718
You an Oklahoman, too? Turns out few places tax food and groceries

>>18268291
If it takes that little time for uber eats to get to your house you could probably walk your fatass right over there and get it yourself. Smhing my head at you wasting money on delivery.

>>18268242
On a technicality it is still fast food, its just that most people who visits these places like to order almost everything on the menu in bulk, like its a fucking buffet for some ridiculous goddamn reason that would have costed way less to cook and eat at home, slowing down the time it takes to get the food out.

>>18272802

the mom and pops should have paid more to their employees but now they all went to work for places like walmart instead, it's their fault for being too cheap. You should cook your own food instead of chugging and supporting sodium and corn syrup garbage all day you american.

Kek. Imagine being dependant on McTrash. Mercifully here in Asia the overwhelming majority of street foot vendors absolutely destroy western fast food both in that they actually serve food even faster and that the food is actually god damn good. And cheaper. And the endless variety. It always amuses me when I see Asians get cucked by McTrash et al when they’ve got much better local cuisine. I’m literally white and I’ve had Asians get triggered at me for calling McTrash McTrash when it’s precisely that: trash. I swear they must be putting some psycho shit into their food when they make people willingly give up their superior and cheaper local cuisine to eat this garbage daily.

It's really funny when balding leftoids try to convince people nothing is worse or more expensive.

>>18273975
>I’m literally white and I’ve had Asians get triggered at me for calling McTrash McTrash when it’s precisely that: trash.
So what? You act like McDonald's is white people food or something. It's American which is a brown country.

>>18273975
Asia? The place where you fucking faggots start pandemics by eating fucking bats and other retarded things you shouldn't be eating? Fuck off. You're lucky you don't get nuked again. If I had the choice I'd pull the trigger with no hesitation.

I was big on the dollar menu.
Remember what they took from us.

>>18271422
You're fucking dumb dude.

>>18271974
Not him, but you're assuming the exec won't just take credit themselves for the boost and talk to upper management about it without mentioning things. No one advertises on this shithole besides other shitholes but it isn't uncommon for no proof to be shown when the big wigs are rubbing elbows.

>>18274812
Is it really taking it away from us over no longer offering it to us?
Like not trying to split hairs but taking it away implies they gave something to you which they then stole from you, rather than denying you something which they previously "gave" to you in exchange for $ . The former has a much stronger tone of obligation than what I expect from some fast food joint.

>>18273975
Yummy yummy bugs and dog cooked with gutter oil YUUUUM

>>18274082
Not really seeing that in this thread, more just general arguing over how worse and expensive they are, especially in comparison to other kinds of restaurants/home cooking.
If you're talking about somewhere else, I wouldn't bother with a place where people argue it's all bad or all good.

>>18274839
Autism, the post

>>18274839
>Is it really a kick or just swinging a lower limb?
deep

>>18274902
I am diagnosed and yeah I hardly hide it.
I just don't see removing the dollar as something akin to one losing something they owned or had any control over.

>>18274919
Yeah, you don't get it. This is a retarded argument, just drop it dude.

>>18274914
I mean not an exact parallel but if you're using the latter term there is probably a reason, like it being an unintentional action that merely had the appearance and consequence of a kick.
If you think that's an incredibly useless hair split I don't think you've ever had someone accidentally walk into your leg with their foot before, or simply don't care about intention.

>>18274925
I think I get that no one outside of beancounters at McDonalds liked or approved of them getting rid of the dollar menu. I'm in the same boat.
But that's fundamentally neither giving something to you or taking it away beyond a potential transaction, and not a tangible gain or loss. I think people just use that language due to visceral nostalgia over what was, what is, and what should have been, like they had the right timeline taken from them.
I do not think I am overthinking this, but I do think I come off as annoying to people who just want to use "they took this from you" without much thought put into it's applicability.

>>18274958
>I do not think I am overthinking this, but I do think I come off as annoying to people who just want to use "they took this from you" without much thought put into it's applicability.
You are not just overthinking it, but also bloviating, and also just wrong. Someone can take an offer away from you. It doesn't have to be a physical, tangible thing you own. You are just retarded and autistic.

>>18274935
I think you think you're being intelligent but don't realize you're coming off more like a teenage stoner engaging in semantics.

>>18274971
>>18274982
You both are correct about the autism. I don't see myself trying to come of as more intelligent, I just easily get particular over word usage in a way I think most people can just interpret loosely without feeling dissonance, and see my probing as annoying at best. In real life I've learned I get by the best by focusing on minimizing my responses and holding my tongue a lot, but that's more avoiding alienating people than anything else.
I'll take a page from that and stop trying to make a point of no relevance to anyone else. Have a good day.

>live in third world shithole
>even if you go back one, two, three decades to "the good ol' days before that dang inflation" fast food was still relatively expensive, for no reason besides average joe willingly overpaying for fucking fast food
>fast forward to today
>one proper meal at mcd's or burger kang or whatever costs basically one week's worth of groceries

>>18275108
Right but you're also just wrong here. It's not "loose interpretation" by others. You are interpreting it incorrectly. It's fine to be an autist about language if you're correct, but you're not technically correct in this instance. Offers can be given and taken away. Once you give someone an offer, removing the offer is taking it away. Thus to say "They took this(the offer) away from us" is completely correct and proper usage of language.

>>18275129
>>one proper meal at mcd's or burger kang or whatever costs basically one week's worth of groceries
I'm still shocked that they are still in business. I guess people are just bad with money in general.

>>18275135
Yeah, I am failing to interpret it like others do to the point that it takes away from the main point.
Have a good day.

>>18275182
More accurately, you were wrong. You have a nice day too.

Thing is, Taco Bell is still cheap if you only order online and only get the 5 dollar box and have rewards set up.

5 dollars for
>crunchwrap
>beefy 5 layer
>fiesta potatos
>drink
That shit can last me 2 meals, sans the drink. Now the problem is THE ONLY FUCKING TACO BELL IN MY AREA HAS HAD MOBILE ORDERING TURNED OFF FOR 3 WEEKS STRAIGHT AND I'M FUMING. I CAN'T GET THE 5 DOLLAR BOX AND I CAN'T USE ANY OF MY REWARDS THAT HAVE FUCKING EXPIRATION DATES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. I fucking hate them so goddamn much. I used to go like 2-3 times a week after work because 5 dollars for lunch and a snack/dinner later is nice, but now I don't go at all anymore. Hope their manager gets in a car accident.

Restaurants and stores that do mobile only deals and have a rewards program that is app/online only should never be allowed to turn their mobiles off for more than a day at a time (understandable on an extremely busy day or extremely understaffed day). Taco Bell should be looking to replace the manager/dm that is allowing this to happen.

>>18271802
They actually upcharge you if you order in the store. For example, my Taco Bell across the street has the grilled cheese burrito deluxe box at $7 online and even stays the same as you check out and there is no upcharge at all. Go into the store and order on the machine, it's $9.69 or some shit.

>>18268368
Naked Lunch is a great film

>>18268242
The prices went up but if you find fast food expensive it's time to get a better job you poor fuck.

>>18272629
>>18272685
How is regional pricing even a thing at all? It's literally a scam to grift people. Everything they get is from the same company, using the same trucks, using the same gas, etc. And it's not like a "well Chicago is far from the distribution center, so it's more expensive to ship it there" considering Taco Bells in Chicago are more expensive than Taco Bells right outside of the city in the suburbs or even in some hick farming town in Illinois.

It's all the same shit and they are paying all the same fucking prices, so why is it just okay for them to upcharge people who live in wealthier areas? It's not like seafood or imported foods where they have to go through expensive and laborious methods of keeping food fresh and transporting it.

>>18268291
This is actually a good point. I used uber eats and it only took 15 minutes.

about a week ago, i went to mcdonalds for the first time in a year or so.
i was traveling, and hungry, i just wanted to order a chicken sandwich and be on my way.
if i recall correctly, it cost €1.59
i opened my wallet, and took out a €2 coin and gave it to the employee.
but the idiot must have looked into my wallet and seen that i had a ton of change, so he suddenly DEMANDED that i pay €1.59 exactly.
wtf? why is it any of his business how i want to pay? i have a ton of change in my wallet for a reason (e.g. for parking, vending machines, etc.) and the guy wants to steal my change.

it's still cheap, you're just a lot poorer than you used to be

>>18275396
You keep coins in your wallet? What the fuck, man?

If they want my money they better bring back the Volcano menu

>>18268242
And they're all starting to ask for tips as well. Don't forget that. I fucking can't believe it when the tip option comes up at the register in a goddamn fast food place.

>>18275350
>It's all the same shit and they are paying all the same fucking prices, so why is it just okay for them to upcharge people who live in wealthier areas?
If you mean okay as in tolerated, it just boils down to it not being illegal and the intended consumers not giving enough collective fucks to force them to equalize prices one way or the other.

>>18275350
Property tax + utilities probably

>>18271455
>>18271511
>>18274825
He's right and you're all wrong. Deals are often bullshit and it's not hard to find examples of stores marking up a price then marking it down a few days later, just so they can put an enticing "50% off!" sticker on it. High-low pricing is blatantly manipulative.

That's why Walmart was based for implementing everyday low prices (EDLP) so you don't have to wait for sales or any other bullshit special occasion. You also know if you buy a product you won't kick yourself the next day when it goes on sale--it's already at the lowest possible price.

If you like deals you're a primitive skinner box rat. Enjoy dancing to the Jew's fiddle.

>>18275562
>I'm such a fucking retard that I can't decide for myself whether something is a good deal or not and rather than take advantage of any possible good deals, I'll just pretend they're all jewish sorcery so I don't feel bad about being too stupid to figure it out
Peak retard

>>18268291
Well in my experience Taco bell drive through takes about 10 minutes or longer

>>18268977
nigger it took 2 fucking interviews to get a shitty burger king job that gives me 2 hours a fucking week

>>18268308
>getting a milkshake with a burger and large fries
Wonder why most of you are fat as fuck

>>18271131
Things were already awful before, admitting things are getting even more bad now is too difficult for some people. We haven't even gotten to the mass panic when the economy actually detonates.

>>18276206
I don't like anime

>>18268481
This guy knows

>>18275350
It has nothing to do with shipping or any of the actual food. Taxes and rent in a big city are fucking expensive. It costs way more in rent and taxes to have a shop in downtown Manhattan than it does it bumfuck nowhere.
McDonalds actually doesn't do the regional pricing thing as much because they are a fucking real estate company that sells burgers. They make way more money off owning buildings and land than they do slinging their shitty burgers

>>18275245
>THE ONLY FUCKING TACO BELL IN MY AREA HAS HAD MOBILE ORDERING TURNED OFF FOR 3 WEEKS STRAIGHT
My taco bell used to pull this bullshit and I complained to corporate and they got their shit together real fast. I think they just do it because they are lazy and don't want to take any additional orders. They also "turned off" a bunch of newer menu items so you couldn't order them on the app for awhile but they have them all on now.

>>18276276
How do you make money off of land that you don't rent out or sell?

>>18268291
Maybe it's faster that way, but every delivery service piles on so many extra charges that you end up paying double. $10 for Taco Bell is already ridiculous, I'm not paying $20 after delivery fee, service fee, and tip. And that doesn't change the fact that drive thrus are slower than ever. Fast food is a scam for stupid people who can't cook for themselves.

Taco Bell took away my grilled cheese and chipotle burritos and the drive thru takes 20 mins. Then the employees forget to put items in the bag.
Don’t go to Taco Bell anymore it’s not worth it. They have real problems

>>18276837
>Then the employees forget to put items in the bag

always check before you leave

>>18276879
It’s not my job. I’m just not going to give them business

>>18276837
there's a really sweet middle aged woman at mine that always calls me sugar

>>18276904
Is she a black woman?
There's one at mine who always calls me honey and I can always count on my order being correct when she's working.
Problem is she only works in the afternoon and when I go there at night the fucking teenagers always fuck my shit up every damn time.

>>18275937
>2 hours a week
Yea, read the room you autist.
If you quit they don't have to pay unemployment.

>>18276837
The Taco Bell in my town has the fastest drive-tru of all the drive-thru joints.
If I want to be sure I won't get stuck and be late to something else, I hit them up.

>>18276837
The thing is, Zoomers can't read.
No, really, they're literally illiterate.
I don't know how that works.
They're on their phones all the time, so you'd think they'd know how to like, read words, but no.
It genuinely disturbs me because I don't get it, it doesn't make any sense.
How is it they can read text messages or whatever, but they can't read tickets?
Furthermore, why do they seem so confused all the time?
It fucks with me because my grandma had dementia in her last years, and the sort of confusion she exhibited appears to be the same thing I see in the eyes of zoomers when I try to train them at my workplace.
That shit keeps me up at night. Like what the fuck?!

>>18271766
Well, that's one way to make sure I only ever order from the value menu.

>>18268291
No delivery service has ever been fast for me.
Last time I ordered through Door dash the dumbass picked up my order and drove it all around town for 45 minutes before dropping it off.

>>18268242

Chik Fil A is still top dog. There's a reason why they give the other shitty fast food chains a run for their money, even despite being closed one day out of the week. The prices may have risen but the quality is still great and the service is pretty quick.

>>18268427

This. I don't know how anyone eats this slop. No wonder everyone is nutritionally deficient.

>>18278797
Chikfila is definitely the fastest but they exist in a tier on their own.
In terms of speed it's
Chikfila >>>>>>>>>> Wendy's > Taco Bell > BK > McDonald's >>>>>>>>>> KFC

>>18270240
>boomer parents fail to teach child how to use basic shit like a can opener, proving they are colossal fuckups
>kid is also a fuckup as a result
>blame the kid
can't make this shit up folks

>>18271457
>FB_IMG
post disregarded

>>18278854
you forgot popeyes which is about 6x as slow as kfc somehow because all the urban folk working there need to fuck each other and smoke 6 bowls before they get to your order

>>18278854
too made chick fil a costs too much

>>18268308
>Makes OP post
>Posts literally cheapest option as example of how shit is no longer cheap like someone who rides the short bus... facing backwards
>Called out.jpg
>Posts literally most expensive option for a burger anywhere outside of a sit-down restaraunt
>Includes fries and shake from a venue that notoriously overcharges for fries and shakes because their profit from the burgers is comparitively low

You either aren't very bright or you're not arguing in good faith. Fast food is still incredibly cheap and its not going anywhere. Its much more likely that supermarkets will continually go more and more out of style along with home cooking as the supply chain continues to fracture, and the only food options you'll have will be fast food or grocery delivery from the warehouse to your door.

>>18273805
Not that anon, but I grew up there. Don't live there anymore, but you have my condolences. I've never been anywhere as soulsucking as that state. Nobody has ambition for anything except getting drunk.

there aren't many things I order from the fast food landscape anymore. it was the declining quality and the skyrocketing prices that caused my habits to shift, and I'm talking about 2 or 3 years ago not just now with the inflation. the last straw for me was in March 2021 I ordered 3 quarter pounder meals from McDicks (for 3 of us, not myself) - 3 burgers, 3 medium fry, 3 medium drinks. it was 33 dollars. never again.

I used to enjoy Wendy's but just a chicken sandwich and medium fry alone is $11

>>18279792
>Fast food is still incredibly cheap
It's mostly not. Most people in this thread were all citing deals and offers. The vast majority of fast food menu items are no longer cheap and are becoming dangerously close to restaurant prices. The dynamic has most definitely shifted.

>>18271847
I understand what you're saying but there have been confirmed instances of shilling on /v/. I know what ROI is but I question how much it really matters for shilling because you cant really measure ROI for /v/ either.