re: McDonald’s to eliminate self-serve soda stations by 2032 citing “changing consumer habits"

I don’t understand this. Getting cheap food and getting free refills of the most well-kept soda are the only real reasons why people went to McDonald’s. Especially with how yucky the food is.

Now, they’re destroying almost every reason to go there. The food is barely less expensive than actual good tasting restaurants. No free refills for sodas. And, heck, the only other reason to go there, which was to have the toppings blended into a McFlurry, is gone too. Now the McFlurry isn’t really any different than a vanilla ice cream with Oreos that you can make for yourself at home.

Wharton MBAs strike again

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Seems like this change has more to do with discouraging refills rather than tackling theft.

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This is code for Coke has jacked up the price of coke and 20 an hour labor is cutting into profits, so we must make things more cost effective for our shareholders and so our CEO can fly on a private jet to the Caribbean for a six week summer vacation.

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you sound jealous. Maybe you should've been the Coke CEO.

I think people like the food, they like getting it quickly, and they like not having to get out of their car. Inside dining has been on the decline. All the new fast food places are strictly drive thru. The cost of operating an inside dining function is pure loss. Youve already paid for the food, now instead of driving off, they have to clean up after you, maintain bathrooms, and pay for additional insurance to have you occupy it. Then factor in all the undesirable people that go inside those places that you also have to deal with. It's just additional risk now.

If they could keep inside dining in suburban locations and eliminate it in urban areas, they would. But they can't do that.

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Seems like this change has more to do with discouraging refills rather than tackling theft.

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Yep.

They know people are less likely to get a refill if they have to ask.

This is simply another long list of reduction of services in order to increase profit.

It’s been a while since I ate inside a McDonalfs. I thought they took out the soda machines during Covid anyways.

2032? Why would it take six years?

The one down voter to my post must have been a culprit that fell victim to that game.

Gotta pay to play, baw!

Drinking soda is trashy