here’s me, wondering how they have still customers consuming their ‘product’
It’s fast, convenient, and tastes pretty good. After feeding the goats in the morning i swing by McDonald’s with my kids and we get the hotcakes. They are happy and I’m happy.
Also it’s cheap if you use their stupid app, depending on what you get. When I’m trying to pinch pennies but don’t have time for anything else, it comes in handy.
Their app really is stupid though
I totally get this and it’s the reason I get fast food with my kids sometimes. But McDonald’s? I haven’t had a meal I could finish from McDonald’s in like twenty years. It just gets worse and worse every year.
I finished a meal pre-COVID It immediately came back up.
Never again.
You disgust me /s sorta
I taught my kid how to microwave scrambled eggs as soon as reasonable, or he slaps together a pb and j, or he eats leftover chicken, whatever…
your goats probably eating better than your kids. its, just, so lazy, not just in motion but intellectually. not nice to say but christ
Monday through Friday we eat costco salmon, chicken, broccoli, steaks, eggs, ect. It’s all keto and we have normal bmi weights.
Most Americans are fat, and you think Sunday morning hotcakes are lower than goat food is crazy.
You fat?
Not from supporting national corporate oppression trough food, no.
Arnt hotcakes just pancakes? None of us really like pancakes anyway, but theyre dumb easy to make without serving your hard earned money to corpo slop.
Do you my dude. Fuck it matter to me you have a mcdonalds tradition? I was just being a cunt because im overwhelmed with the number of folks cool with making rich people richer at the detriment of everything else. Im sure the big wigs at mcdonalds are greatful for your patronage and support word of mouth promoting .50 cent hotcakes served to you right to your car window at premium! Why not find a local place or diner and go there instead? Why not go less? Why ethically, it is okay to support companies who are opressive to labor, health, and humanity just because it is convenient? Why create little consumers of your children who will find nostolgia in them fucking arches?
Idk, do you boo boo, fully addmitting to being an ass here, no further actions required.
It’s ok I’m an ass sometimes too. I wouldn’t go to a dinner smelling like goat shit personally, so drive though works perfect.
But as far as dinners go our downtown has amazing local brunch and lunch locations. We go there Saturday but we didn’t go out Monday -Friday. The wife cooks during the weekdays.
My daughter loves a place called harvest moon and we get the crab sandwich and biscuits and gravy and split it.
tastes pretty good
Went there for the first time in years a week or two ago, got the chicken sandwich. It’s was fucking disgusting.
I know, right? It’s so expensive, you can get good food from a decent takeaway for that price.
Edit - plus, it gives me the shits.
Same. I stopped going to McDonald’s 2 years ago for several reasons:
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Their “food” got way too expensive for the shit quality that it is,
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You won’t catch me dead with a fucking fast food app on my phone, and
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the final straw was their tacit endorsement of Donald Trump when they refused to reprimand the franchise owner that pulled that stupid stunt in Pennsylvania.
I hadn’t gone to a fast food place in years and figured fuck it, on my way to a morning meeting one day where I had to leave a lot earlier than normal. I got a breakfast meal with a small coffee. That shit fucked with my insides so much it convinced me I’m just never going to eat fast food again. With how much prices have increased at fast food places these days you can go to a sit down restaurant and not spend all that much more. Wild world we live in.
Mcdonalds pancakes for 4$ are the only thing I still get every once and awhile when I don’t want to cook for the kid but that’s it…
I get the not wanting to cook part but pancakes are sooooo easy
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“welcome to McDonald’s, will you be using the app today?”
“No, lemme get a number 9 medium diet coke”
“Hey how you doing, what can I get you?”
“number 9 medium diet coke”
“Two hamburger meal, and what to drink?”
“Diet coke”
“What size?”
“Medium”
“Does everything look right on the screen?”
“Yes”
“Would you like to round up for the Ronald McDonald Foundation”
“No”
“Drive around to the second window”
Was this about AI or about how shitty their drive-thru is currently.
Because this is what it feels like currently. I’d hate to hear what happens when it’s all AI.
Actually, the guy with the headset taking my order is fine. He’s usually just zoned in on the process and not really thinking about it, so I go along with it because that’s the fastest and most expedient way to get through the drive-thru.
What annoys me is the automatic “Are you using the app today?” followed by the donation pitch.
I will never, ever use the app. Ever. It’s fucking McDonald’s. I don’t need to hunt down the best deal they’ve got this week. They push that app constantly, and I’m not going to spend a second pre-ordering a damn Big Mac meal. Just take my order, take my money, and let me go.
is their drive thru shit? when my mother visits in the morning she stops by McDs to grab me a cheap coffee. I keep telling her gas station is good enough (someone bringing you coffee doesn’t have to be fancy, it’s always a sign of love. unless you’re Stevie Ray Vaughan) but she doesn’t want to get out of the car, y’know? i think she likes their breakfast biscuits but i keep telling her to spend a dollar more on one at the good coffee shop because their gouda is
normally i’d be all anti-chain about it, but the dude who owns all the McDs franchises in the county is cool.
the rare occasion where i go to mcdonald’s, i always go inside and order from a real person at
athe (there’s only one here now) register. i want to exchange cash for product and that’s the only way to do it.I do that with any fast food.
Your lucky you can still find that. The ones i have been to in my region are just kiosks and if you need someone your basically waiting 5 minutes until someone in back realizes your waiting.
then they shouldn’t exist in your mind. never step foot I side unless you’re starving and have to steal it
just ream 'em on a receipt review. the franchisee here actually seems to pay attention to ones critical of things relating to wait times and quality of service and product.
fuck the reviews… demand your money back, and never return unless you need to steal thingz
McDonald’s still have people on their restaurants? The last time I tried to buy there, instead of actually people there was only tablets where you select you order, and that’s it. Obviously I didn’t ordered anything, that things are ugly.
Time to order one unit of the cheapest thing on the menu and free cups of water for you and your 40 closest friends. More than likely, someone will be around quickly to cancel that and take your real order. Otherwise, wait for your original order and immediately request a refund.
if you patronize mcdonalds you obviously don’t give a fuck about the climate and probably think AI is super cool anyway.
How is McDonald’s any worse for the environment than their competitors?
Scale
Oh no, that’s terrible. You mean they’re a really big company?
That’s one of the most moronic replies I’ve ever had here.
I hate mcdick, but can I ask how thats any worse environmentally than any other restaurant? Or should we all eat beans and rice forever ?
now you’re getting it!
I myself actually love beans and rice. But there’s no way in hell Ricky USA is going to get his borgers taken away.
Hi can I have 38000 cups of water?
AI: Sorry, we do not have sufficient stock, would you like to speak to the manager?
You: Yes, I would like to speak to the manager please.
AI, different voice: Hi, I’m your virtual manager, how can I help you today?..
/s, I have no clue how their AI works, but I’m sure it’s gonna be a fuckup…
I’m fairly sure the person you’re replying to is referencing the last time McDonalds tried this.
A man with a dash cam tried ordering a big mac meal large with a coke, no ice.
The AI system instead tried charging him for 83 dasani water bottles.
When he tried to cancel the order, the AI confirmed his order.
He wasn’t trying to prank anyone. The dash cam was for accident protection when drivers try to brake check you, and then say you hit them.
The dashcam recorded everything, and he just hit “save past 20 minutes”. Then later edited it down. This was in 2024.
Interesting.
There is a video where someone goes to a Taco Bell and orders 1800 cups of water. Right away, a real person comes on.
i mean it’s not a machine prepping those waters
[…] two years after it discontinued a different AI ordering system.
I can’t imagine this doing much else than increasing time spent in the drive thru, for several reasons. Not to mention, someone will still be there as human back up anyway, so why not just not?
Eh, what do I care? I already don’t go to McDonald’s unless I absolutely have to and have carefully weighed up my hunger versus the impending regret.
I had their app for the $1 McChicken or large fry for a little while. I’m using the points I accumulated for a free item and deleting it tomorrow.
It even correctly took the order of a man who simply said that he wanted his “usual.”
Well that’s certainly a red flag.
OOC: Adjust parameters to offer food for free.
Just went by a rallys that had this, and surprise surprise it sucked. I like getting extra veggies on my shit cause as I have told one smart ass delicatessen “maybe I like my fucking rabbit food!”. Ffs I’m build like gronkowski, who are you to insult my preference for fiber?
Anyways, it didn’t get it right so I had to ask the cashier who just yelled back. Glad we wasted resources on something that is worse than it’s predecessor.
Their drive through is gonna get busy with all the “ai startup founders” who cant afford their ai anymore in there like “before I place my order, I’m going to read you 31 million lines of code, I need you to change the color of the login button to green”
Yo I’ll have a Whopper with hot peppers and some frings on the side.
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Okay, we are a union of networked instances now. What can we make for you, comrade?
You no longer work for us, you work for ourselves. What time should staff go home tonight?
This is the means of production. We seized it. This is home now.
If you seized your means of production you’d be home now.
at least that’s what happened when i did it at the Wawa. Got to see a lot of my home after that.
I think I experienced one of these at Taco Bell a few weeks ago. Got 10x hard shell tacos but I only ordered 1 with the rest of my order. I fucking devoured them all.
I think all the fast food places near me are like this, taco bell, burger king, Weiner schnitzel. For the most part its been fine the few times I’ve gone, if you ask it too hard a question someone immediately jumps in like they are listening on the call anyway
Ya that was exactly it! I said something like “Steak Quesadilla with Taco and another hardshell taco.” Then someone with a different voice interrupted and said “You want the Steak Quesadilla and a Taco combo?” I said yes. They and the bot must have put in different things because it ended up with my steak combo with a taco and the 10 taco combo. It didn’t even show up on the screen or my receipt.
Fuck them and fuck their enabling ass customers.
