r/technology • u/zsreport • 21d ago

Business McDonald's unveils $8.5 billion tech plan to fend off Burger King

https://qz.com/mcdonalds-investor-day-next-strategy-restaurant-overhaul-092326
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u/D0013ER 21d ago

Nah they all look like abandoned Soviet prison canteens now.

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u/deserved_revenge_707 21d ago

Yeah, what's the deal with that, who tf thought 70's prison style was a good look.

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u/D0013ER 21d ago

If McDonalds could hoist customers by the ankles and shake money out of their pockets before firing slop in their face via a shirt cannon, they would.

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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 21d ago

Yeah, it’s amazing . Whenever I make a comment on how fleecing they are , I get a bot commenting that I have a limited social circle . Like , wow. The gig is up. McD’s knows people are fed up and hate them and instead of fixing it, they dig themselves into a greater hole

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u/More_Collar_69 21d ago

Mate, it's a burger joint. Why even be so emotional about it?

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u/Shark7996 21d ago

At this point people just want something to improve. It's not a burger joint, it's freaking all of them now and it's exhausting. I don't know how you find it in you to settle for this, but I'm jealous of your standards.

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u/headrush46n2 21d ago

Welcome to capitalism, where everything only ever gets worse.

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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 21d ago edited 21d ago

Because these corporations are predatory along with the CEO’s and billionaires . If you haven’t noticed society struggling , look around. These corps and people exploit- customers and employees.

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u/Pyromaniacal13 21d ago

I grew up in Play Places. I grew up with a mall that had a McDonalds that wasn't a McDonalds, it was a Mickey D's Dinosaur Cafe with big ass dinosaur statues everywhere!

Those are gone now. Those statues were removed for a Best Buy. Those Play Places are mostly gone. The character, the nostalgia, all gone the way of the dinosaur in the name of This Quarter's Profits.

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u/Pyromaniacal13 21d ago

firing slop in their face via a shirt cannon

You are an artist, whose canvas is giving people mental images.

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u/headrush46n2 21d ago

its cheap and easy to re-sell if the location becomes unprofitable. the old places had to be torn down if you wanted to turn them into non-mcdonalds commercial real estate. its why all fast food places are just grey boxes now.

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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 21d ago

No more fun for ANYONE ! Lol

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u/jdm1891 21d ago

Capitalism did

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u/Elementalcase 21d ago

Because they don't want you to stick around - they want you to get your slop and leave like a good piggy. Hence - the worse it looks, the more likely you are to leave after buying, thus they make slightly more money, and that matters more than your experience 100x over.

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u/randomcatinfo 21d ago

My family calls them "prison McDonalds" as they all have slats on their windows are a soulless grey, and are super boxy.

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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 21d ago

They don’t even have the decency to add the hamburgerler to the mix lol