They enshittified the seating at my usual Maccas. Previously there were fixed benches with large, deep cushions, on at least one side of the tables. These have been fully replaced with gray plastic chairs that are rock hard and make a godawful racket when moved.
I like to pay cash at fast food so my wife can’t track my diet. I’m sick of having to beg a McDonalds employee to come to the counter and take cash. Is this problem just McDonalds or will I have the same issue at BK or Carl’s Jr and Arby’s? I think In n Out is still cool at the counter. What fast food places still have someone at the counter to take cash easily?
on edit: if you’re going to attack me for hiding my diet please state how long you’ve been married, lol. I’ve been married 26 years and we are until death do us part.
You can redeem through Drive-Thru or inside cashier. Caveat-In my area, when using inside, you can’t redeem at kiosk and the cashiers seem annoyed at it (just my experience, Ive used it a couple times). It’s like McD offers this in exchange for information but is trying to eliminate the cashier position, making it hard to use. Can’t blame the stretched employees I guess, just an observation. It would be convenient to use in conjunction with the app or kiosk.
Hadn’t been to McDonald’s for a couple of months, was driving the other day so decided to grab and go a McChicken and free medium fries.
Then checked my points to see if they were going to expire, and that’s when I noticed: points are basically useless now.
I used to routinely spend 1500 points for a free McChicken, which in my area was about 2.5-2.79. But now there’s no point, no pun intended. A McChicken is now $2 and they’ve raised the cost to 2000 points. Looking at the rest of the catalog is equally disappointing.
Why would I spend 2000 points for something that’s $2, or 3000 points for something that’s $1 (with daily or weekly deal in app). It makes zero sense.
Edit: the only real upside is I can now get a $2 Mcchicken and use a coupon deal for another item for $1-2 at the same time. But still need to accumulate a lot more points to get something decent.
McDonald's is a burger chain that doubles as one of the world's largest landlords. The company collects more than $10 billion in annual rent from its franchisees. It owns the buildings of roughly 80% of its 45,000-plus restaurants and the land under about 56% of them.
Interesting article touching upon McD‘s business model, with real estate holdings estimated at ~$120 billion. Via the MotleyFool, unfortunately linked through the Yahoo Finance site (if you think McDonalds is bad, Yahoo is the dysfunctional armpit of the internet).
McDonalds is going to see a lot of me this month.
When I was a kid in the 90s happy meal boxes had cheap mazes and art featuring whatever toy was included. I remember learning about tortoises(they ate prickly pears which made me love them because prickly pears are evil) from one of them Now it’s just a red box with an ad for whatever IP they’re using for their toy this year. I weep for the children!
I tried again. Gotta free 6pc I ate like 2 or 3 then looked down and was kinda mad I had so many left. Why do y'all love these fn things?
Nothing new here, but they understand those with low income (poor folk) are running out of that extra cash to patronize McD. It’s not unique to MickeyD, these higher gas prices combined with customer squeeze is becoming interesting for a broad variety of businesses and the economy. Oh, the fun little game.
Personally, I go there every so often and have a saltless McDouble or McCrispy Deluxe, fries and a Dr Pepper, no ice. I use the app and/or the survey discounts. I usually spend ~$8, don’t get/need a soda refill and I’m not angry about it.
I’m mildly curious about the McD business model and always amazed at the dichotomy of reactions about anything related to McDonalds.
You would think they would start seeing ehat burger king is doing or how innout and habit are expanding my providing fresh high quality options at a good price but it seems McD's is doubling down on diabetes
The Onion Rings are actually onion rings, not chopped and shaped extrusions.
So I've got the McDonalds app and whenever I go, I would always try to use the deals they have on there, usually multiple at a time. If you try to use multiple deals in a row at the register, it'll tell you have to wait 15 minutes to use another coupon, but I learned pretty early on that doesn't apply if you use them at the self-service kiosks they have. Unfortunately, that's apparently changed recently, I went to McDonalds last Saturday and when I tried to use a second deal coupon after my first order (I have to split my order into multiple ones to use the deals), I got hit with a 15 minute wait time that I've never seen before on the kiosks.
So it looks like they finally fixed their little oversight, but for me, I think this is gonna be my end going to McDonalds. I know it sounds super gluttonous, but without being able to use multiple coupons like that, I feel like there's little reason to go. I was going to buy a double cheeseburger with a 40% coupon and then get a free medium fries. but I ended up just eating the cheeseburger by itself.