It feels like every decision is bad

It's just beef tallow baw. They'll still taste like fries.

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It's just beef tallow baw.

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I stand corrected we finally have a good corporate decision

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I stand corrected we finally have a good corporate decision

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It was a PR stunt.


All that shite is still pre-blanched in vegetable oils.

Southwest new policy, self checkouts, DEI, automakers all in on EV, John Deere, and the list goes on. I understand the bottom line drives it but sometimes it’s bigger than that in business. Customer satisfaction has to be worth a few % of profit

The last few ounces never taste as good anyways

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Not if you go somewhere selling fresh cut. But yes, the places with frozen fires were already blanched before sending out to the restaurants.

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He was clearly referring to Steak and Shakes very public "switch" to tallow.




But they didn't really switch. It was a PR stunt.

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The last few ounces never taste as good anyways

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True, but a tall boy is still 16, not 24.


With 24s I pour in a glass and keep the rest in the fridge.



With 16 oz you throw away when you have a couple of sips left.

The current flavor of capitalism is to create a good brand, have someone (usually PE, hedge, or investors when it goes public) want to buy the brand, investors scream for it to be immediately profitable, raise prices while decreasing manufacturing costs and increasing marketing/dei costs, get by for half a decade with only loyal customers getting mad, and then everyone burns out, company is sold or rebranded, rinse repeat.

There are some good PE firms out there, but a ton of them churn and burn already established brands, which is insanely frustrating.

A huge problem with breweries, for example, is a lack of basic economic understanding along with a huge disconnect between brewers and money people. An IPA should not cost the same as a blonde, but for a lot of places it does. Also, I make a good bit of money, but I can not justify 8 dollar beers that are shrinking in size. More than 50 cents an ounce is just getting insane for flights, much less full size pours.

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The current flavor of capitalism is to create a good brand,

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Think if you started waiter and these big arse companies wanted to buy you out.


Why wouldn't you? Waitr is now gone and so is asap. But the guys that made waitr made out like bandits.


And this was happening even when we were a kid. Think of the cell phone and phone companies.

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It’s seems like when companies make changes they always make them that make the customer experience worse. I’m just a dumb blue collar baw, but this seems to be counterproductive.

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My wife and I were talking about this a couple days ago. Pisses her off royally every time one of her products (lotions, shampoos, makeup) gets “reformulated” because it’s always a little worse after according to her.

Problem is, if all companies are doing it, there’s nowhere else to take your business. It’s a race to the bottom.