/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.12679231]

Have overly complex fast food menus slowed them down, or is it just boomer goggles?

[Anonymous No.12679233]

I'll have uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Anonymous No.12679246]

>>12679231
considering in and out can get through 30 cars before mcdonalds can do 5 the answer is yes

[Anonymous No.12679253]

>>12679231
Everything is so specific now it’s like that everywhere. If you walk into a snackfood isle any 1 brand has like 3+ flavor variants and fat and sugar free versions. I guarantee they don’t always sell out before expiring either.

[Anonymous No.12679284]

>>12679231
has inflation really increased prices ~7x today vs 1972? fuck, a big mac is like 4 bucks

[Anonymous No.12679329]

>>12679231
>Big Mac
>Large Fries
>Strawberry Milkshake
>Ice cream cone
My standard order anyway

[Anonymous No.12679342]

>>12679231
>TRIPPLE RIPPLE ICE CREAM CONE
>TRIPPLE RIPPLE
>TRIPPLE
>TRIPPLE

[Anonymous No.12679348]

>>12679284
Look up whats happened in the past 5 years.

[Anonymous No.12679491]

>>12679348
Googling that gave me a pretty big result set, care to be more specific ?

[Anonymous No.12679508]

>>12679348
Try the lat 2.5 years for a real eye opener. Too bad they've fudged the method so bad, you don't even get real inflation numbers anymore, but an at least somewhat aware consumer can see their grocery costs have increased 30-40% in the last 2 years.

[Anonymous No.12679669]

>>12679284
in 1972 silver was $1.76 an ounce. a big mac would have cost .37 ounces of silver. today silver is $16.43 an ounce and the average price of a big mac is 5.58. a big mac now is worth .34 ounces of silver. food hasn't gotten more expensive, your money has become more worthless.

[Anonymous No.12679689]

>>12679348
>>12679491
>Implying inflation hasn't gone down 1000% since Donald Trump was chosen by GOD as our President
Dilate more, soyboys.

[Anonymous No.12680195]

>>12679508
I have grocery receipts going back years. My grocery bills have halved over the past year.

[Anonymous No.12680474]

>>12680195
>look mom, I told another lie on my favorite board!
Whew boy, Billy Bob, you gettin' too dagnabbed smaht fo' dat dere 'puter thingamugig!

[Anonymous No.12680481]

Make it illegal for anyone over the age of 70 to be out in public without a chaperone and I guarantee life will be easier.

[Anonymous No.12680497]

>>12679689
this. we're in deflation mode now trump is doing so good with the economy. petty trannies cant stand it

[Anonymous No.12680510]

>>12680497
I so wish this was true

[Anonymous No.12680594]

>>12679508
>grocery costs
no that's just dining out costs, grocery costs have flatlined/decreased

[Anonymous No.12680620]

>>12680594
thanks minimum wage

[Anonymous No.12680631]

>>12680620

[Anonymous No.12680641]

>>12680631
The minimum wage should be abolished.

[Anonymous No.12680646]

>>12679342
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6PbdJiAK84

[Anonymous No.12680658]

>>12679231
they started reporting monthly losses for the first time in decades a few years back

yes there's a reason to it, they've been suck for a while. Good riddance, can't wait for all the McDonalds to end as the boomers all die

[Anonymous No.12680667]

>>12680641
cuck

[Anonymous No.12680670]

>>12680641
Get a job.

[Anonymous No.12680675]

>>12680641
I don't agree with it either but the number is so low at the federal level it's hardly destructive. my problem is that it's trotted out as a political hammer every few years for easy points. if they truly gave a shit they would tie it to cost of liverpool nf increases that some states like Ohio have done.

[Anonymous No.12680678]

>>12680675
living/liverpool lmao

[Anonymous No.12680760]

Fuck my grocery bills have gone up. The sad part is that it's mostly "everyday" crap that I've bought the same for 10 years straight. Seems like it don't take much items in a cart to push that bill over $100 anymore.

Also fast food is a joke anymore. The whole "value" part has gone right out the window. Sure they got a dollar menu but the size of the portion is like what you'd feed a kid. Not a adult. They put to many things on a modern menu anymore. Look at mcd's. Part of the reason why they went with the all digital boards was due to menu overload. Look at Wendy's. They still use the same basic boards. No plans to change it either. Cause they don't have waste.

[Anonymous No.12680769]

>>12680760
The value of your money went down in the last ten years too
If your wages haven't gone up you're in trouble

[Anonymous No.12680784]

>>12680667
how am I a cuck for sticking up for labor rights?

>>12680670
you get a job

[Anonymous No.12680840]

>>12679231
>Had Filet-O-Fish
>No McChicken
I haven't read the thread, but I assume McChi/ck/ens are in meltdown mode right now

[Anonymous No.12680847]

it's so refreshing to walk into in n out and have like 3 choices on the menu for what i eat
of course i get animal style but still
like i walk in there knowing 100% that i'm getting a double double animal style, fries animal style, and a chocolate shake. and i know for an absolute fact that i'm getting everything i can get out of a meal at in n out, so there's not an ounce of doubt or regret every time.

[Anonymous No.12681165]

>>12679253
Grocery stores throw out 1 in 7 truckloads of their inventory, so yeah.

[Anonymous No.12681212]

I don't really care how long it takes. But I guess that's because the only item from McD's that I like or ever get is the steak bagel. In my experience about half the mcdonald's around my city will serve it during lunch hours despite it not being on the all day breakfast menu. Which is pretty good as far as I'm concerned. It takes even longer if you get it at that time, but it's worth the wait. So what if I can get something I don't even want or like at light speed? You might say I can just go to any restaurant and get whatever I want. But McD's still has the added convenience of having drive-thrus AND more locations than almost any other chain. That's still something.

[Anonymous No.12681232]

>>12679231
im down with the trip rip nigger

[Anonymous No.12681236]

>>12680620
>>12680641
Are there ANY places that even hire people at the 'minimum wage' anymore? The Taco Schlong's just north of me pays their new hires $13/hour.

[Anonymous No.12681244]

>>12681236
13 IS minimum in some places like chicago. That's probably the only reason they do that

[Anonymous No.12681272]

>>12681236
outside of some complete dead cashier job like be a cashier at salvation army in some rural backwoods in the deep South I doubt it. half the states have their own above that anyway

lowest job I've seen in passing was like $9/he working for some company at Yellowstone and even that's had subsidized housing and food

[Anonymous No.12681273]

>coffee milkshake
Nice

[Anonymous No.12681290]

>>12681244
>>12681272
Well my state and city do not have a set law where the minimum wage is $13/hour. So the question still stands...does anyone hire for just he FEDERAL mandated minimum wage anymore?

[Anonymous No.12681759]

>>12679231
A combination of menu creep, poor training practices, poor education of entry level personnel, and a customer base with high-level Starbucks autism.


McD’s has worked it’s way far down the rabbit hole

[Anonymous No.12681770]

>>12679689
I don't give a fuck about any of that. This is a mc chicken image board. Go back to pol and jack off to cuck porn

[Anonymous No.12681771]

>>12679231
Definitely slowed them down. When I was a kid in the early nineties everything had been made in advance and was waiting on a warm shelf. You would get what you ordered immediately, and the people out back would make a new burger to replace the lost one. We never had to move to the side while our order was prepared and wait for our number to be called. Now there are too many possible burgers to do that, and they're always made fresh. But on the other hand the burgers are always made fresh, so they're better, and that's nothing to complain about unless you're the asshole who has to make all the orders before some fatty starts screaming about having to wait too long.

[Anonymous No.12682510]

>>12679231
There's no tea on that menu.

[Anonymous No.12682559]

>>12682510
And that's a good thing!

[Anonymous No.12682588]

>>12681759
This, I remember a massive drop in speed and quality when they started McCafe.
>>12681290
Very small town grocery stores, fast food, and farms still pay 7.25.

[Anonymous No.12682620]

>>12681236
>>12681236
Small town Alabama reporting in. Local Burger King pays $16.50 hr. for those with 1 yr fast food experience. McDs has matched that. Local Jacks franchise screaming bloody murder because they only pay $7.25, and can't keep experienced staff. Panera Bread has a big banner out front guaranteeing managers $50k a year plus quarterly bonus.
It's a free market, yo! Gotta compete or die. Corporate 'Murika is determined to force out the mom-n-pop shops.

[Anonymous No.12682661]

>>12681236
Housekeeping pays min.

[Anonymous No.12683599]

*blocks your path*

[Anonymous No.12683616]

>>12683599
How do I try out this exquisitely efficient menu in Florida?

[Anonymous No.12683621]

>>12683616
stop being Floridian

[Anonymous No.12683626]

>>12679231
>what I usually order would be only $1.11
and I pay $5.65 or $3.85 on weekdays
well, it's not like I visit that frequently anyway

[Anonymous No.12684603]

>>12679231
I'm in my late twenties and I remember discussing this shit with my cousin six years+ ago. McDonald's used to be cheap, fast, and hot. Now it's expensive, slow, and lukewarm.

[Anonymous No.12684616]

>>12680474
I actually buy food and not prepackaged hamplanet feed, so that's probably why.

[Anonymous No.12684854]

>>12679284

[Anonymous No.12684901]

>>12684603
I used to go to mcdonalds a bunch last year when they had the good deals on the app and a decent $1 menu. But now ever since they got rid of most the $1 menu items and the app deals are crap, I'd rather go to wendys or even burger king. McDonalds charging like $9 for a meal is a fuckin joke. I used to be able to go to mcdonalds and get a simple burger and mchicken for only $2. Now that would cost like $3 and change only a year later.

[Anonymous No.12684965]

Complex menus are fine for fast food restaurants as long as you can browse the menu. McDonald's has this nailed with their self serve machines presenting every option. Others (KFC, Burger King) have just as many items off the menu as on at which point you should just sell less.

DESU I think bars should adopt the same rules. If an item (ignoring cocktails) isn't on the drinks menu then don't sell it. Trying every item one by one until you figure out which are good value is suffering.

[Anonymous No.12684969]

>>12679284
>a big mac is like 4 bucks
It's like $8 here.

[Anonymous No.12685000]

>>12680760
>Sure they got a dollar menu but the size of the portion is like what you'd feed a kid
They also made the items cheaper. The hamburger has shrunk, and for toppings you get one pickle and half a teaspoon of diced onion. Burger King also reduced the size and quality of their nuggets in preparation for their cheapo menu. A meal at either these days costs like $13.

[Anonymous No.12685014]

>>12680594
Of course it's the eternal millennial. Their entire justification for open borders amounts to "muh restaurants." So when restaurant prices go up, they think the sky is falling.
Hint, retards: the economy and employment is booming to record breaking points. Wages are actually gaining for once.

[Anonymous No.12685017]

The drive thru I go to for iced coffee some mornings almost always has homeless people just lying around the entrance and the order mic. Robocop private security when?

[Anonymous No.12685225]

>>12685014
Other posts seem to indicate this is solely inflation.

[Anonymous No.12685239]

>>12685225
Which posts?

[Anonymous No.12685244]

>>12685225
>>12685239
Unless you're referring to the OP, in which case, read the thread. I'm referring to a specific post.

[Anonymous No.12685250]

>>12685239

>>12679508
>>12679669
>>12684854

[Anonymous No.12685252]

When stockholder value is all you care about, food ALWAYS turns to shit. Look at McDonalds in the past 3 years. I'll have the sawdust Small Mac with no sauce please.

[Anonymous No.12685266]

>>12681165
That's such a goddamn waste, pisses me off, they could atleast compost it or something.

[Anonymous No.12685273]

>>12685266
Compost it where? Who will do it? You know you can't just throw any and all food in a compost pile if you want it to be useful for anything

[Anonymous No.12685274]

>>12685250
I'm referring specifically to these two posts.
>>12679508
>>12680594
Inflation in the past few years hasn't been bad at all despite a booming economy. The fed has hiked rates ten times since Trump's inauguration to prevent overboil. We are at record lows for unemployment, record bull run, and record expansion (which did happen partially under Obama, to be fair). Under Obama the fed rate sat at its minimum for a record amount of time and was raised only twice.

[Anonymous No.12685285]

>>12684969
blame your local government then that's the only reason it's $8

[Anonymous No.12685289]

>>12679231
yes. all the shit not on that 70's menu tastes bad too. well... the filet of fish was always bad, but still.

[Anonymous No.12685299]

>>12685285
That's not how it works. Tax goes up 1%, price goes up 3%.

[Anonymous No.12685319]

>>12685299
that's not how that works either. you probably have 1000 competitors around them you can't just gouge people indiscriminately like that in a hyper competitive market.

[Anonymous No.12685321]

>>12685274

Synthetic brakes on a synthetic economy. They're buying back their own stock to inflate the price. This is another house of cards bigger than 2008 ever was. Look at the yield curve.

[Anonymous No.12685339]

>>12685321
I've been listening to you malthusians and doomsayer's for 3 years, yet it hasn't happened. We've have plenty of troughs from lost confidence and recovered just fine.
Soros lost over a billion shorting the dollar expecting Hillary to win. There are people that want you to root for a crash.

[Anonymous No.12685348]

>>12685273
Employees would do it, obviously they have to make a deal with a compost company but it's better than throwing all that food away to rot away in a landfill.

[Anonymous No.12685354]

>>12679233
I'll have two number 9s
a number 9 large,
a number 6 with extra dip,
a number 7,
two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda

[Anonymous No.12685360]

>>12685319
>you probably have 1000 competitors
Not really. And they'll all do it.

[Anonymous No.12685362]

>>12685339

So you think stock buybacks to bolster numbers is sound forward projection. I love you guys. You're the fuckers that denied Chernobyl.

[Anonymous No.12685402]

McDs menu isn’t as complicated as KFC or Taco Belll. McD is just too much expensive and have had any great new items for a long time, the only things they’ve added were a few expensive premium burgers that taste okay but cost too much.

[Anonymous No.12685418]

>>12685362
If you didn't use Robinhood or market retirement plans to make massive money over the past three years, I don't know what to tell you.
You might have to elaborate on this incoming crash.

[Anonymous No.12685537]

>>12685402
taco bell's menu is huge but 90% of it is made with the same 4 ingredients.

[Anonymous No.12685548]

>>12685537

And back when they had like 8 items on the menu in the 80s and you could get a beer in the restaurant the food was only 1000% better than it is today.

[Anonymous No.12685577]

>>12685537

There's not even pictures of the 80s taco bell food, but the fucking nachos were these small salt triangles that were indescribably salty and the Dupont Cheese was salty as well. Basically have to get a kidney transplant after one nacho and cheese.