[steve86]

“Eliminate dine in option.”

And instantly eliminate business with reliable dine-on customers like me, who eat in at quick service restaurants two or three times a day. And large breakfast and lunch gatherings also.

[RainMan]

Yes. Quite frankly, people like you are an expensive luxury that current minimum wage laws make it hard to service. I have never seen a large breakfast or lunch gathering at a fast food joint ... a requirement of those places is usually a wait staff so that they can get food orders from the attendees.

At the end of the day, the business owner is trying to figure out how to stay in business and make a profit. If that means that he has to give up something that he used to do so that he can cut costs across the board on rent, utilities, labor, etc ... and still maintain a decent profit margin, then more power to him. As much as you may want to bitch about it, if he can keep his burger costs low, and competitors have to raise theirs ... yeah, he will lose people like you but pick up new customers because his prices will start to seem like a bargain.

So, to counter the loss of you, he would probably gain me and many like me as a customer because I never eat in the restaurant anyways. Price, speed and consistent quality are what brings me in.