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It’s time to move to cash only. These places need our money, and if they want it, it’s time to play ball.
Ps: please raise your kids better so they, too, can have a good future. Being silent does nothing. Gotta be a squeaky wheel
When they try to make me jump through hoops I just give my money to someone else or throw a substitute burger into the air fryer.
Me: turns on Desktop mode “What is this app you speak of? I’m a desktop computer.”
Website: “Right you are, here’s the menu.”Me: Show me your menu.
Them: Not without all this info.
Me: No. I’ll eat someplace else.
Them: Shocked Pikachu face.
Something similar - I was looking to book a spa day for my wife for Mother’s Day. I just skipped over every place that wanted me to sign up to see the availabilities. Oooohhhhh wellll
Say: “Can I order directly without using the app?”
If they say “No”, walk out.
It’s like any other store were you come in and if you don’t find anything suitable for you, you leave. You really have no obligation, moral or otherwise, to buy.
Near me, only mediocre chains do this. Everyone knows the hole in the walls are where the real foods at (and that, we have plenty of).
That said, they often do cash only because fuck 3% credit card fees, lol.
I think they mainly do cash only because fuck paying taxes.
Based
Impossible!!
Yes, that one, now tell me the damn price!
(I’m vegan)
Do you ever miss old fashioned bean and lentil burgers? I’ll eat an impossible burger, but I don’t love them as much as they’re often the only plant based option these days.
Hell yeah, bean burgers are fantastic. But I’m glad to have the impossible option too, and there are times where I get a craving for it. I think with them being more widespread, it’s easier to get tired of them. Plus there’s something… creatively satisfying about a vegan meal that does it’s own thing and shows off what it can do rather than just substituting.
Are those the black bean patties? Cuz those things are fucking delicious. I’m not vegan or vegetarian or anything, I just like tasty food, and you guys have come up with some good stuff! The impossible burgers are pretty decent too - I’d go for one of those over a ‘beef’ fastfood patty any day (calling those horrid things ‘beef’ is a stretch right out the gate, but you get gist).
Yep, “original” vegan food is so much tastier than all the modern “fake” stuff. I eat whatever, but I’d honestly choose one of those bean burgers if they were offered anywhere.
That’s funny, I’ve been veg my whole life and initially found the impossible/beyond stuff off-putting because it reminded me of eating meat. Once I got past the ick I actually really enjoy the texture and flavor compared to the old stuff.
I especially don’t miss the bargain-bin-sitting-in-the-back-of-the-freezer-for-2-years-drier than-the-Sahara black bean patties.
Of course the vegan has to tell everyone they’re vegan…
Good joke though, I chuckled
Good news! There are like 700 competing Burger places
I went to a restaurant that had qr codes on the table to download an app. I asked for a menu and they don’t have any.
I just fucking left. Fuck that.
Same thing, but the waiter took my order directly without going via their website/app/whatever-the-fuck-was-behind-the-qr-code when I refuse to use their online system as I had already seen their menu outside and knew what I wanted.
Funnily enough about 5 minutes later two people sat in the table next to mine and they also asked to order direct from the waiter who commented to them “Yeah, we actually have quite a number of people who don’t want to use the online system”.
Mind you, I’m in a country where that shit isn’t at all common and it just comes out as them trying to skint on service and most places I’ve seen that opened up with digital ordering systems ended up closing down after a while.
I bet that if they didn’t give people the option to order via the waiter their business would’ve already gone down.
This type of malarkey exploded in popularity in the UK during COVID, mostly due to chains trying to make money from data during tough times.
Most of the time was just a multi-megabyte PDF to download (with a double digit percentage of it being outdated) and everybody hated it.
Some still insist on it and wonder why they’re going bankrupt. But if there’s one thing the British hospitality industry does well, it’s… not hospitality. At least not when combined with technology.
How big was the app? Several hundred megabytes?
Let me guess, they don’t have customer WiFi
They do: The current password is on the menu.
I’m finding this happening in person as well. Why does your restaurant refuse to list prices on the menu, tv menu screen, and take out menus? This is fast food, not fine dining. Why are you hiding this from your customers?? I just want tacos!
Because all that data makes them billions.
You are the taco.
I wish. I’m talking about single location family owned stores. If my little “los zapatos” or “burro burrito” were on the take, I feel like they’d expand
They’ll make that money, and then some after you select «Agree»
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Fuck Adobe, progenitors of SAAS AKA subscriptions for life.
Because people are more likely to buy impulsively if they don’t see the price. I don’t go places like that because I don’t encourage manipulative bullshit.
I remember once at a diner with some friends I ordered pancakes and orange juice without looking at the menu, and was pissed when the orange juice was like $10. Now I always check.
Does that work on people? I just spend 5 asking about prices every time I show up
Loads of people, for many reasons, feel uncomfortable when interacting with strangers, so the pressure of having to make a decision while not wanting to ask encourages the impulsivity.
Remember kids, roughly 95% of marketing is about fucking with your head when you’re next in line. the other 5% is about combating buyer’s remorse so that word of mouth stays positive.
Because they are immensely cheap.
Most of the world runs on non-chain brand food places, both fast food and restaurants. Only in America is it almost exclusively chains like that. And no single (or a few) shop will have their own app etc. Yet another of countless extremely weird, bad and morally corrupt things that are specifically 'Murican.
I mean, yeah that’s the choice we have: join the inanity or exclude ourselves
I will happily exclude myself. I don’t need to go to restaurants to live a happy life.
Forcing us to become careful & selective about who/what we allow into our personal space.
As soon as that second panel happens, I am closing the tab.
I go to a restaurant, I see the price for food, I ask for the food, I eat it, I pay for the food, then I leave.
If I can’t do any of those things when I go out to eat … I’m not staying or eating at this restaurant.
I won’t bother making the trip if they don’t have an online menu easily viewed by clicking on a button or as the default page. Gotta make sure the price and likely quality are aligned.
No thanks, I’ll have a beef patty
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