"Enjoy your extra *BIG ASS FRIES*"
Posted on 12/09/2014 5:36:08 PM PST by outofsalt
It turns out that people aren't eating as many McHamburgers as they used to, which is a big problem if your business is all about slinging meat. So McDonald's is hoping the novelty of its "Create Your Taste" ordering kiosks will lure some customers back in. The machines will be installed in 2,000 of its US outlets by the end of 2015.
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I have not yet been to Chick Fil A. I’ve heard their customer service
is better than most fast food places.
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Make the effort. Drive thru lines can be long in some locations and inside it’s
pretty much like other fast foods. A counter to order, a station with condiments,etc
and tables for seating. The food is good, imo.
"Enjoy your extra *BIG ASS FRIES*"
I’m betting that Obama can make it 100 Million American’s “no longer in the work force”, before he leaves office.
In addition to 10 Million unemployed ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS on the AMERICAN TAXPAYER dole!
Whew! For a moment I thought you were Jim...
/johnny
That’s why I like In-N-Out burger...Burgers, Fries, Shakes....that’s it!
“Parts is parts.”
Buc-cee’s has kiosks and lots of employees. I don’t think a kiosk took one job. And if your order is wrong, it’s your fault. Plus I don’t have to explain simple math to millennial idiots.
The other day I was buying something for 97 cents and I gave the girl $1.07. She had no idea what to do. Another employee said to her “Give him a dime.”
I asked her “If something is priced 3 for a dollar and I only want 2, what would you charge me?”
Without hesitation she answered “I have no idea.” This girl was in her 20s.
Sheetz been using something like this for a couple of years.
People would NEVER had gotten into the touch screen business for fear it would crash BUT
Ever since BO was made electable and kept in his ‘job’ courtesy of a teleprompter, they went back to the drawing board and figured if it could run a Robot pResident, it could order a hamburger.
“But for a limited time only.”
Ahh, the McRib, made from the sweet rib meats of the elusive jungle swine of Sumatra, which only leave the impenetrable heart of the rainforest twice a year to mate. We must treasure it while we can.
Who knows, maybe he’ll work something out with Groupon, if it doesn’t conflict with their beliefs of being free to post what they want to post. I’m not very knowledgable on such topics, wish I was.
“I like WAWA! Gas station food done right!”
Our WAWA equivalent in NC is called Sheetz. I suspect McD’s is losing business to the super gas stations as well as Chick fil’A and any fast food place that tries to keep the restaurant clean and hire employees who can smile and actually communicate in complete sentences.
If I were named CEO of McDonalds, the first thing I would do is copy Chick Fil’A and station an employee in the eating area during peak dining times to pick up the trash, wipe the tables clean, keep the condiments stocked and fetch drink refills for the customers. The second thing I would do is put paper towels in the restrooms and make sure restrooms are frequently cleaned. The third thing I would do is change the hiring profile to actually have standards for employees. The fourth action would be to simplify the menu and improve the quality of the ingredients. On the second day I would . . . .
yes, it seems certain longstanding freep gags are now verboten with the mods... see post 69 & 70.
See my post #68. This happened at a Toyota parts counter.
Of course the service managers are just as stupid. I was trying to explain to them that the mileage distance indicator on my wife’s 4 runner is wrong. They kept telling me “It’s calculated by a computer based on driving conditions.”
I tried and tried to explain to them that if the damn thing shows I’m getting 20 miles to the gallon and I fill it up and it holds 20 gallons it should compute a distance of 400 miles but the wife’s car shows 331. It just started doing this. They couldn’t understand it. They kept bringing up different driving conditions.
I said “Okay, look at it this way. It says I’m getting 20 miles per gallon at 26 miles an hour. If I drive on the Bonneville salt flats and stay at 26 miles an hour until I run out of gas I should be able to go 400 miles.” They all just stared. You could tell they were trying to figure out how I came to that number. One of them appeared to be looking for a calculator. I walked out. And let me point out this was the second dealer I had gone to.
My wife told one of them that her clock is losing time. She was trying to make him understand that there’s something wrong electrically. He said “We charge $1,200 to replace the clock. You can buy a darn nice watch for $1,200.”
These are the people that are running our country.
>>I don’t eat there often, but when I do I go to the cashier and say: “I’ll have a #1 Combo, with a small coke, small fries.”
>>And that kind of complicated ordering always seems to throw them into a tailspin. It’s beyond their intellectual capacity to figure out what to serve me.
Probably because YOU just ordered a burger, 2 small fries, and 2 small cokes. Hint: the combos come with small fries and a small coke. It’s not rocket science.
I hope hand sanitizer is available after using one of those touch screens. You’ve no idea where other people’s fingers have been, and do you really want to handle your food after using a publicly available touch-screen?!
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Yep. There’s nothing like a big screen full of greasy fingerprints to get my appetite going, especially when I think of the average McDonald’s customer.
Oh, double damn. Where will all those cheery Master of Arts in Cultural Rap Music peoples find employment?
If I may suggest Chicago as a starting test market...
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