One, is you can still get cheap food at McDiddy’s IF you use a bunch of online coupons from either the McDiddy’s app or other food ordering sites so stoners getting delivery still buy it while allowing the company to try and charge out the ass for walk in customers, because corpos want everyone to do fucking everything on the app now.
Two, McDiddy’s actually make most of their money from real estate speculation, the burger joint is really just a tax payer, so they’ve been trying to squeeze their customers on the burgers and for a while didn’t care that much it was causing declining sales cuz they were still making bank on the real estate. Now they over played their hand and the burger shacks aren’t making enough to even cover the taxes now, but once corpos have decides that their shitty burger is worth $15 they have a hard time justifying dropping it back down to the shareholders.
The app deals have mostly dried up. I’m the kind of weirdo who tracks deals for literally everything in my life and honestly all the fast food app deals have largely disappeared.
Which is fine, fast food is generally shit (gonna give some props to stuff like chipotle that actually will give you some decent nutrition). I think what’s sad is workers struggling with multiple jobs/gig work legitimately being low on time and needing easy food options and fast food is just too expensive to justify now.
Yeah during early lockdown I went through a “drunk with a shitty kitchen” phase where I ordered pickup and delivery WAY too much, and there were a lot of surprisingly good deals on the apps. Like I could get a 3 course thai meal or a whole ass good pizza with fancy topping for a steal, then get drunk and eat it and play Rimworld for 6 hours.
I also gained a lot of weight and developed really bad hypertension and sleep apnea. Thankfully I eat out less, have a CPAP and have lost like 50 pounds since then.
So there’s two things going on here.
One, is you can still get cheap food at McDiddy’s IF you use a bunch of online coupons from either the McDiddy’s app or other food ordering sites so stoners getting delivery still buy it while allowing the company to try and charge out the ass for walk in customers, because corpos want everyone to do fucking everything on the app now.
Two, McDiddy’s actually make most of their money from real estate speculation, the burger joint is really just a tax payer, so they’ve been trying to squeeze their customers on the burgers and for a while didn’t care that much it was causing declining sales cuz they were still making bank on the real estate. Now they over played their hand and the burger shacks aren’t making enough to even cover the taxes now, but once corpos have decides that their shitty burger is worth $15 they have a hard time justifying dropping it back down to the shareholders.
The app deals have mostly dried up. I’m the kind of weirdo who tracks deals for literally everything in my life and honestly all the fast food app deals have largely disappeared.
Which is fine, fast food is generally shit (gonna give some props to stuff like chipotle that actually will give you some decent nutrition). I think what’s sad is workers struggling with multiple jobs/gig work legitimately being low on time and needing easy food options and fast food is just too expensive to justify now.
Yeah during early lockdown I went through a “drunk with a shitty kitchen” phase where I ordered pickup and delivery WAY too much, and there were a lot of surprisingly good deals on the apps. Like I could get a 3 course thai meal or a whole ass good pizza with fancy topping for a steal, then get drunk and eat it and play Rimworld for 6 hours.
I also gained a lot of weight and developed really bad hypertension and sleep apnea. Thankfully I eat out less, have a CPAP and have lost like 50 pounds since then.
Yep. Easy shitty food and losing hours of time to Rimworld is absolutely a thing I’ve done far too often.