This seems like one of those artificial issues that don't really matter to anyone serious. Creating a fake sense of conflict. If anything the entire country is experiencing surge pricing for every fast food restaurant in comparison to other countries
I think at this point I only ever go to fast food places when a friend who loves fast food places is over and we happen to go get food. Happens maybe once every couple of years.
I think I'm at an age that if I want burgers or barbecue or something unhealthy or greasy is rather make it myself and have it be extra dirty and less expensive.
I only go there if I happen to get a craving for them and am very hungry, which isn't very often. Maybe once every few months.
I think it’s been ten years since I’ve been to a Wendy’s.
Ohhh! Lemmy is my people. We are small as a group but mighty in spirit. Sometimes I miss my weird little subs at Deadit and o go back and am reminded by the thirty point IQ drop across the board and I content myself to return to Lemmy and see exactly what I needed to see.
Off to the rest of my day.
This one meme satisfies so completely. Except that I may modify it to reflect my decade clean from fast food. Onward!
Rice cookers of the world unite!
Hot take: every business that has a happy hour already has surge pricing and nobody minds because they promote it as offering a discount on the "normal" price.
Some parts of Canada had an environmental fee on plastic bags introduced a while ago, and some places phrased it as a 10¢ discount for using a reusable/paper bag.
But Happy Hour is literally the opposite of surge pricing.
This is not something I’ve heard of as someone who also doesn’t bother with fast food. Is this like, higher prices during rush hours or something?
Yep.
How Wendy's thinks this will play out: 🤑
How it will actually play out:
"WHY DOES THIS BURGER COST 16.99 WHEN IT COST 6 DOLLARS 20 MINUTES AGO?"
"Sir, this is a Wendy's"
"Oh okay, well fuck you" [drives off]
All they need is for enough people to not want to have wasted that time for nothing to buy it anyway to still make more money.
If you try to live your life as disconnected from evil megacorps as you can, it's just a natural boycott.
To exist is to resist
Not trying to be clever but I really see it as to resist is to exist.
Otherwise we are subsumed and consumed.
I'm like a stubborn mule. The more you push the more likely I am to push back.
Isn't this just blatant lying on the part of the fast food company? If you have a printed menu with prices on it, you can't just bait and switch like this.
Wendy's is also investing in upgrading all their restaurants to digital menus by the end of 2025, though.
Wendys actually thinks they can treat CHEESEBURGERS like a valuable, limited commodity. I HAVE to buy gasoline because I have no choice. I don't have to buy Wendy's cheeseburgers. I can make my own damn cheeseburgers.
I wonder how long it will be before "Surge prices" become permanent price increases in certain neighborhoods?
People don't like paying premium prices for average or crap food. But they like being exploited even less. Even if Wendys rescinds the surge pricing policy, those customers are never coming back. People will remember that Wendys tried to f*ck them over.
They're working on that. Wendy's is reportedly replacing all menus with screens.
Most fast food places I see these days have screens, digital price displays that can change by the minute.
That's easily solvable. "For informational purposes only. Prices subject to adjustment without notification."
Soon restaurants will become stock exchanges, with people waiting on the price of chicken nuggets to drop.
My investment portfolio consists of my IRA, and these cups of limited edition McDonald's szechuan sauce.
@NocturnalEngineer @octopus_ink „Nugget futures looking bright this morning with $SCRATCH down 4.69 cents.“
Sometimes I get angry that there is nothing legal I can do to cause financial harm for certain companies. The quest that can happen is me stopping the consumption of their products, bit what is I want doing it in the first place?
I've always said that it's bullshit that those meals were so cheap in the first place. Their lobbyists paid off a bunch of politicians to make it so cheap. It shouldn't have ever been as cheap as it was. That food is terrible for you in every way. It'll probably be good for a lot of people to stop eating it so much. So i see this as a win win.
There’s a documentary “King Corn” that talks about how US government subsidies to farmers for growing corn have made it so inexpensive that it creates a surplus and prices that are too low relative to other foods. This resulted in the proliferation of corn being fed to cattle and other animals, which makes them less healthy to eat but fattens them for slaughter sooner. Also corn syrup is so cheap to make it made soft drinks less expensive. These are large reasons why fast food was so inexpensive and so bad for you. Also surplus corn and corn syrup led to the creation of a lot of unhealthy breakfast cereals which are marketed to kids.