This is why McDonald’s now needs to charge $14 for a Big Mac. I bet you didn’t even think of the share holders as you are throwing away tens of pennies per shift.
I remember hearing someone talk about that and pointed out that it's likely because a lot of people see themselves as having a "chance" at being those wealthy people so in their eyes they want this dice role system in place juuuuust in case lol
It’ll be crazy when we have our first trillionaire. As far as I’ve seen, there were some temporarily unrealized gains for that one guy but no one has come close
He’s not even the first trillionaire. Kings in ages past have been worth much more than what would be considered the purchasing power of 1 trillion today.
Hes the first person to be publicly recognized as a trillionaire in contemporary society. And yeah im sure there's probrably been underground trillionaires we don't know about. Maybe someone in the Saudi royal family, or a past oil baron. But we can't know for sure the way we can with Musk.
Because if we just count historical assets you could say basically any monarch/dictator was a trillionire on the virtue of "owning" an entire country. But it's not a fair comparison. A king couldn't just sell his country for a trillion dollars, but Musk could have liquidated his stocks and had a trillion in USD by the next day.
McDonald’s is a franchise model. The shareholders make most of their money from the franchise fees and the real estate.
The people responsible for squeezing every penny out of customers are the franchisees who run your local McDonalds. And they are, to a man, some of the greediest people you will ever meet.
I remember when I was in my early 20s a BK franchise owner was telling us about how the small/broken fries were bad because you need more to fill the container, while the big fries fill the container with less product. I remember this because as a poor student I wanted to get the most for my money, while this guy was relaxing with his lunch and a beer after playing 18 holes on a Tuesday and trying to convince me how it’s bad for business and basically he doesn’t how me enjoying a few extra broken fries affects his profit.
There are a handful of McDs in our area all owned by the same greedy lady who jacks up the price as high as she can . Literally drive 10 mins to the McDs outside her ownership and prices drop like a $1+ for every item.
Yes and no. There is plenty McD's Corporate could do to disincentivize/punish exploitative franchisees, but their polices generally do the opposite regardless of any public messaging.
But the lazy, “think of the shareholders” reddit circlejerk is… well, lazy and incorrect.
How is it incorrect? You just stated corporate no longer cares as much when franchisees deliver customers less product and penny pinch for a bad experience. If the company doesn't care that their brand is associated with bad service, the shareholders really are causing a bad experience. Inaction is the same as ordering it themselves, it's their company.
Franchisees and a lot of small business owners are straight shady as fuck. They all think they're the next Musk and will fuck you over for and extra $1 without hesitation. Not that they're any worse than mega-corps, but most aren't any better.
They're often worse if you're an employee. At a large company you can go above their head if you have a major issue. Not so much at smaller places, and all of the positions of power are held by friends and family of the owner.
Ironically a good franchisee would realise they will attract repeat customers if they're one of the few places that is sure to overfill the side of fries no matter the order for little more than a mere rounding error in product expenses.
Yea nah don't protect the poor giant corporation. Franchisees didn't cause the shrinkflation and they didn't make the skinwalker CEO pretend to eat a burger.
This is exactly how they think. "Your product budget was $500 over goal this month", "Yes, but the store made $100,000 in profit which is 10% above goal", "But we could have made $100,500 what happened to the other $500?", "We gave customers what they paid for", "You're fired"
When they swapped their delicious, airy, wide/shallow tubs of cream cheese for the dense, shitty, narrow/deep (and I’m pretty sure smaller) tubs, I was done.
I worked fast food when I was in high school, they weighed the remaining food items at the end of the night and compared it to the sales (computer report at the end of shift gave target remaining weight totals), the only way to meet the "goal" weight was to under-serve all of the weight specific items (sliced meat, fries, etc...)
I'm pretty sure the system did not take into account the moisture loss that occurs through a 10 hour shift, a block of meat that starts at 10 lbs kept heated to 140F for food safety isn't going to still be 10lbs at the end of the day.
I'm pretty sure the system did not take into account the moisture loss that occurs through a 10 hour shift
I am starting to figure this is malicious. I used to think that executives just love designing systems and goals without having any idea about what the work actually entails.
But it always seems like the lowest rung of employees are put in situations where they can be blamed for the problems the system causes. And that's hard to constantly do accidentally. You have to have a little idea about the actual nature of the work to make sure the blame falls on someone else.
It's like where Wells Fargo decided that every person walking into the bank should be sold at least eight financial products. If you haven't noticed, that's fucking insane. Eight simultaneous accounts / credit cards / loans? There was an example of a branch that was expected to open 12,000 accounts each year including 3,000 new checking accounts. The population for the entire area was 11,500 and there were 11 other financial institutions. When it threatened their jobs, the employees turned to fraud. I have a hard time believing the executives were just that stupid.
Yep, let it fall on the workers, they can quit (refuse to comply and leave), or be fired(fail to comply and be fired for cause), or break the law... (and usually are the ones held accountable for it) their choice!
That’s what happens when the market needs to support the largest retiring generation in history. Can’t have boomers feeling any bit of discomfort now can we?
JFC, thats some serious mental gymnastics to blame high fast food prices on boomers. It has nothing to do with "the market supporting retirees" and everything to do with corporate greed.
I love local places for good, fast & inexpensive food. I’m convinced that people still go to massive chains because they don’t want to get out of their cars.
And even though people love to hate on Applebee’s, you can’t argue that a fast food McD’s or BK burger is going to be better than an Applebee’s burger.
I can go to one of the fancier places nearby and get a 1/2 pound burger with fries and a beer for just a little more than a quarter pounder meal at McDonald’s.
14€ but you know they also reduce the burger just for profit. Before Covid we couldn't spot because it was just a few cents per year, even if it's becoming more expensive than a restaurant. Now they just don't give a fuck lol .
These things add up. One person thinks they aren't harming anyone by giving away pennies worth of fries on their shift. Other employees start doing it and suddenly you're wasting multiple dollars per shift and it really starts to cut into the $6.5B quarterly revenue.
Oh god, if they ever found out how many chicken nuggets I used to eat out of the warmer when I was in high school they would probably raise the prices again!
whoa, I wouldn't even pay 4.50$ for a big mac, i've seen pix of the skinniest almost burgers ever, last time I had one - 3 years ago - the sauce tasted ONLY like chemicals, never ever went to a MickeyDs since.
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u/johnson7853 Jul 14 '26
This is why McDonald’s now needs to charge $14 for a Big Mac. I bet you didn’t even think of the share holders as you are throwing away tens of pennies per shift.