Posted on 09/14/2023 2:11:27 PM PDT by Salman
Dollar items are vanishing at McDonald's. The next thing to go is self-serve drinks.
The burger chain told Insider it was phasing out soda-fountain machines in dining rooms across the US. The news was first reported by The State Journal-Register, citing several franchisees in Illinois. Restaurants in Illinois have already started the process, along with stores out West.
"McDonald's will be transitioning away from self-serve beverage stations in dining rooms across the U.S. by 2032," McDonald's said in a statement. " This change is intended to create a consistent experience for both customers and crew across all ordering points, whether that's McDelivery, the app, kiosk, drive-thru or in-restaurant."
Self-serve soda fountains allow fast-food consumers to refill their drinks multiple times. At a remodeled McDonald's in Orange, California, the self-serve beverage station has already been removed. Customers at that store must ask for refills at the counter.
The owner-operators interviewed by the Journal-Register said several factors contributed to axing the soda machines from dining rooms, including food safety, theft prevention, and fewer dine-in customers.
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This has no effect on us, as we quit that place a few years back. The young woke punks inhabiting the place along with the reduced quality and quantity of food is a great repellent.
We used to love a Big Mac & fries, but that’s many many years ago. They are now best made at home.
Fast food minimum wage in CA is going to $20 next year. Smaller portion, more and more unaffordable for families who dont have a lot of money, more jobs lost to automation. Welcome to paradise!
Translation: We’re sick and tired of freeloaders.
A tiny percentage of customers were greedy, sloppy, entitled pigs who ruined it for everybody.
I recall when one could eat there for a couple bucks...It was fast food after all. Those days are long gone and so is my attendance at their over priced slop joints.
I happen to frequent one of the best McDonald’s stores on the planet and have done so for nearly 30 years. They always get my order right. The food is always good and fresh. This change has no effect whatsoever. No, I don’t eat there every day, nor would I want to. Anyway, this is genuinely a first world problem, if even that, from my perspective.
I am going to guess that it was not just McD customers helping themselves to the fountain drinks.
And put the beef back in the fries!
It’s not the refills that are losing McD’s money. It’s the cups.
‘combo’ soda flavors....
Ahhh I remember the “Suicide” from the ‘80s, its where you mixed all of them.... lol
we love the kiosks we can always get our order correct.
Melt the cheese!
Yes.
Been saying that for at least 20 years. You are a burger joint, not a health food store.
CA min wage is going from 15.50 to 16.00 in 2024
Is it going to 20 in some places like SF?
That was the only reason I went there.
I saw the behind the counter drink filling conveyor type device in action recently. It auto fills the cup from info on the order. A human hands it to you. When I went to to refill my half empty cup to leave, I was given another full Coke and left with 1 1/2. I’m a cheap bastard and figure something else will kill me before McDonald’s grease. I love their app. I actually used it twice yesterday, Egg McMuffin and senior coffee was $1.84. A Big Mac and large Coke $3.29. Both meals mobile ordered and delivered to my car fast enough to make me happy.
A lot of old men frequent my McD and sit just drinking Senior Coffee with free refills while they talk. I imagine some get a McMuffin but most appear to be at local club hanging out, not at a business talking up space.
Just announced yesterday. I don’t have full details. It’s a compromise between the industry and the legislature
Several times I have been invited by people I retired with to breakfast or coffee at McDonalds. I don’t want to sit around with a bunch of old men.
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