Do the employees make more money during these times?
You know they won’t lol
What are you? Some kind of socialist pig?
The CEO needs another 100k watch!
I can’t imagine why they would
We’ll just call more of them up at the last minute. Get here in 20 minutes or you’ll be on 3rd shift.
So, you’re a restaurant and when people come for restauranting at restauranting times, you charge them more, because people should actually come restauranting outside restauranting times.
That is, er, innovative.
I don’t know how it is in the US, but people will typically go for lunch at lunch times where I live and if a fast food restaurant starts considering this kind of shit, it will promptly go out of business.
Unless they change the metrics by which they price their menu items. If the price is lowered, and surge pricing makes a 12 noon burger $0.50 more than usual, but an off-peak burger costs less than the OG price (but enough to still turn a profit), then Wendy’s might actually see more money if they can undercut other FF joints.
Corporations aren’t trustworthy enough to handle all the data they’ve been given with modern computing. Of course they’re going to pick it apart and try to figure out a way to profit off it, customer service, ethics, and common sense be damned!
Fast food restaurants have lost the plot and violated their balance of fast/cheap/Meh. Now it’s fastish/over priced/meh and below
There’s a McDonald’s near me. I’ll never spend less than $20 there on a full meal, or I leave hungry. Unless I get just an Al a carte McGriddle or something.
There’s a cash only breakfast place across the street. A huge chicken friend steak with gravy and potatoes, corn, hash browns, pancakes… mmm…. $10.
There’s a McDonald’s near me. I’ll never spend less than $20 there on a full meal
Which means you should never spend more than $0 there. They’ll just keep raising the prices for as long as you’ll pay them.
I feel like Jimmy johns and chick fil a are the only truly fast restaurants anymore. For JJ you do have to go inside, but they often make your sandwich and complete payment in less than a minute, maybe 5 minutes max.
Meanwhile I’ve been to other drive throughs where even with very few people in line, it somehow takes 10/15 mins to get your meal. Plus, it’s often incorrectly made and expensive
Chick fil a is homophobic; that might be keeping demand lower than it would be otherwise.
It was due to the Celebrity Chef “everyone has to be a professional chef” era that we’re coming out of. People didn’t want to change their eating habits, but they wanted to feel fancy like rich British food man on TV, so they started demanding gourmet experiences from restaurants that had no business attempting to offer gourmet experiences. Everybody fancied themselves a foodie without actually trying to go out to nice places.
I can’t wait until they use this and “market pricing” to justify charging minority demographics in urban centers more for higher-traffic peak hours or simply extend the peak hours wider in these zones to exploit these communities more aggressively.
You know they will, because they’ll be able to, and the current “justice” system doesn’t know what just action looks like if it marched in to Congress and stole the podium.
We already allow housing, transportation, groceries, and I’m sure tons else to be effectively price-redlined, so I’m disappointed but not surprised to see more of it encroaching.
For those of us outside the US/North America, what is this flux price Wendy’s thing?
Basically, price surges on the menu when in high demand. So if you would go take out some Wendy’s during some holiday or a very busy time the prices would be higher than usual.
Obviously, I agree with others that Wendy’s will probably do that sneakily and not with huge price difference but the concept is disgusting especially when it comes to food imo.
Oh wow, that’s really bad wtf. I would not mind it if it meant that the employees also get paid that much extra. But by looking at another comment here, it looks to me as if that is not the case. Really sad how undeserving of our support this system is, especially in the USA.
They are probably going to start small, at most a dollar so people don’t really notice at first.
Some places seem to do this through a shitty app, that only gives discounts at unpopular times.
Of course it only does this like twice, so you never get any good deals once you’ve used it a few times. RIP Double Bacon XL for like £2. No way am I paying normal Burger King prices. There’s a fucking Greggs next door you chimps!
I stopped doing fast food a long time ago. My burgers are way better now. Its just not worth it if you have a kitchen
The point of fast food is not to get a great burger, it’s to get someone else to make you a mediocre burger fast either because you’re in a hurry or you’re tired and you don’t feel like cooking
I don’t think anyone has ever claimed that a McDonald’s cheeseburger is better than a homemade one lol
It used to be fast and cheap, what happened to the cheap part?
Whenever I eat at burger king or McDonald’s (which is almost never) I have to download their stupid apps for the coupons because without a 2 for 1 coupon the prices are just ridiculous for what you get. Actually, nevermind. The prices are still ridiculous even with the coupon
Corporate profiteering, mostly.
Yeah I get that. I just got used to it and now its just another thing I do all the time. Now I come home half dead and whip up a dinner no problem. The only reason I would recommend fast food over home cooking is if you are disabled.
Cool… So next time I’m on a long trip and I need something quick for lunch I’ll just pull over on the side of the highway and set up the camp stove? Should be no problem 👌
You could go to a normal restaurant. But yeah, usually fast food is faster, but that’s because it’s at the truck stop, not because you get the food so fast
Truck stop? I think I got fast food at a truck stop once like 10 years ago lol the ones I go to are normally just stand alone restaurants with a drive through. The only reason I go there is if I’m in a hurry and there’s no other options because it’s faster than going to a regular sit down restaurant
I pack lunches. But yeah there’s gonna be edge cases like that. I’d imagine long haul truck drivers probably dont cook often either. But for the average American I’m confident fast food and even restaurants are largely unnecessary.
Americans when surge pricing:
Americans when all the burgers are 30% off all year except at lunch and dinner (it’s happy hour now): 😀
Then you raise prices every month until it’s back. :D
Now they can legally advertise one price, and then charge you a completely different one! They’re probably hoping you won’t even notice you got ripped off.
I hate the use of the pedofascist’s meme format but it’s very fitting here.
That’s stonetoss
This is srgrafo
yes i’m taking about shitgrafo. Have people already forgotten about the chloe shit? Where he ran a subreddit for a sexualized loli character he made? And you didn’t have to look far in his comment history to see examples of him being a smug right-wing creep.
I get it
