Not just food, it's the new business model. Just give them something for their money, it doesn't have to be good, or work properly, it just has to be profitable.
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That's what I've been screaming about AI since the beginning.
Take self checkout kiosks for example. Anyone that is old enough to remember what the grocery store was like before the kiosks would know how much faster a human cashier was then the stupid fucking machine. There was no tabbing through 20 screens of fruit to find the plantains, there was no "sorry you have to scan every pencil individually and place them in the bag one by one because we can't do multiples", and there was never, ever, an unexpected item in the bagging area.
The doctor I go to has replaced all their front office staff with self check-in kiosks. You cannot check in with a person anymore. If you are unable to use the machine you have to press a special button and wait for someone to come from the back and press the buttons on the kiosk for you. The time to check in for an appointment with the person used to take under a minute. The kiosk takes 10+ and has a 25% error rate.
But none of that matters, because the machines don't draw a paycheck, and they don't care about anything else.
Many businesses have calculated that they'd rather save the paycheck, and live with a drop in customer service. That attitude will increase, and eventually customer service will be one of those unreasonable things that only stupid customers expect.
"You gave me your money, you got your thing, we're done here, now you're just bothering me, so get out!"
Except it'll be more like Idiocracy where they charge her for the fries and don't give her anything, migrating towards a built in failure rate to what customers will accept vs profits.
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This guy gets it.
I stopped eating most fast food for this exact reason.
funny how all the local places are still tasting just as great yet corpo places are slinging literal shit for food.
Its an expensive lesson. Life's education is never cheap
me cooking at home 😎
Don't be afraid! You get better the more you do it and you learn more about your tastes.
The best burgers I have had, have been from small back alley places. Had one a couple of months ago, lovely quarter pounder with chips (fries) and a drink for around £6 here in London.
Had less of an upset stomach too, although I do still check the hygiene ratings for the places which helps in this regard.
TIL the UK has publicly available hygiene ratings. I like that.
Ah thanks for pointing that out, I forget not all US States have it.
Nearly every restaurant I've been to, and take away place, has proudly shown their hygiene ratings as a sticker on the window. These can be verified via a website too. It's very useful as I get an upset stomach rather easily.
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I had a Whopper and fries at Booger King last year for the first time in a couple of decades. With a drink it was like $20 which is pretty absurd. It actually tasted pretty good and the fries were fresh out of the fryer (which is basically what makes fries good), but I just felt so physically bad after eating. I don't know what it was, probably the massive amount of salt in it.
The impossible whopper helps with this. I'm not vegan nor do I eat fast food often, but I'm sold on the impossible whopper over the standard when I gotta stuff my maw at immediate, inconvenient, times.
Same. The vegan patty has better consistency than their actual beef.
I sometimes feel like shit if I get a drink with one of the red dyes, red 40 I think? It's in orange crush, some pink lemonades, and some fruit punches iirc, but it makes it feel like there's pressure on my gut. Kinda like I have to take a dump but I don't.
Probably not what you experienced but figured I'd mention it since it took me a while to make the connection, especially since it doesn't always happen if I have an orange pop (maybe different dye?).
Hmm, that's interesting. I'm a big orange soda fiend and I drink Sunkist, Crush and Fanta. it does appear that only Crush has Red 40 in it. Sometimes I feel like I have to fart real bad and sometimes I don't - maybe that's the dye. I should really be drinking water but I find it so boring.
Ah nice, I see fanta a lot but often skip it because I don't want to risk feeling kinda crappy. But I'm glad I like water, it's so refreshing!
Edit: maybe try a filtering system, because after thinking about it, crappy water isn't very fun to drink, but my reverse osmosis filtered water is great.
I cook dinner 95% of the time and honestly, it sucks. I don't blame people who have the money eating out constantly, but i can't afford that crap and i would be 300 lbs.
$25 can get me either a terrible pasta dish at olive garden, or 2 meals at a local diner, so i usually go to local small places. Screw $15 burrito's and $18 hamburgers, i'll make them at home.
I like that this post is coming right as I'm planning to tighten my budget a fast more/lose weight.
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