Well yeah, change like this is so rarely to the benefit of the consumer.
People know this would end up with a thing they like just costing more money.
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Plus with surge pricing at Wendy's I assume there is still a floor for prices, right? Like at 3pm it's probably still the normal/regular menu price and not some crazy firesale of 99 cent meals
The funny thing is, it doesn't even make sense. Wendy's doesn't run out of stock, costumers just wait a little longer. Uber might have limited cars available so """"""it makes some level of sense"""""" (please don't kill me)
Having the kitchen fully staffed and still working 100% is the most profitable situation for them. This is just a"fuck you because we think we can" situation.
Having the kitchen staffed and working 100% of the time will turn into burnout really fucking quick.
Beancounters need to learn humans are not machines.
Not 100% of the time, but working at 100% capacity during the rush hour.
I worked in a McDonald's, and 1-2 hours working at full capacity was very manageable. It's much worse when it's not very busy but it's extremely understaffed.
Having the kitchen half staffed but spreading the customers out so they still get the same revenue is what they were aiming for.
It's a "fuck you" and "fuck our employees" policy.
If Wendy's hadn't announced/advertised their new variable pricing strategy, fewer people would've noticed, And there wouldn't be this backlash.
People don't really notice fast food prices until theyve already paid and sometimes they still don't even notice until much later In retrospect.
If the poor assholes working get surge wages during the rush I'll go along with it
hahahahaha not under our current corporatocracy!
Corruptocracy
Wendy's was the first to try market price for fast food. I've heard of market price for lobster but never for crappy food.
Weird that consumers tolerate surge pricing on Uber, but the mere mention of it on Wendy's and it's bedlam.
Weird that consumers tolerate price changes for services with limited use units, but the mere mention of suggesting the same thing when you almost never see a fast food place run out of food, and the 'surge' doesn't result in saturated use units but instead translates to maybe an extra 120 second wait and they get angry.
The fact that so many people support your hyperbolic apples to oranges comparison just shows how far Lemmy has fallen in just a few months.
Marketing and surge pricing was a thing from day one or almost.
When the public was learning about this new fangled ordering a car on your phone. Surge pricing was baked into that learning and a reasonable explanation for it given. (Encourage more drivers)
For Wendys, people have been buying fast food for 60+ years. And there is absolutely no reasonable explanation for surge pricing other than gouging the customer.
At least with Uber the point is to get gig economy workers picking up people in inclement weather, and is a much needed service by many. Nobody likes it but when you're stuck you're stuck.
After I paid $4.31 a while back for a large chocolate Frosty, was handed a 12 ouncer, and was assured that it was not a mistake when I insisted that I'd ordered a large, I decided to part ways with Wendy's. Shrinkflation with the Frosty's, hyperinflation with their burgers...fuck 'em. I'll make my own burgers.
How many ounces did their large frosty used to be?
It was 20 oz. for a long time, but I feel like I remember a time in the mid 90s when it was 24 oz. And the price has gone up as well, I definitely wasn't paying $4 and tax for a large Frosty back then.
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