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re: Ordering fast food through an “app”
Posted on 3/5/24 at 10:15 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
Posted on 3/5/24 at 10:15 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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What personal info? The trash email I use?
Did you access it through a phone, or use your home IP address?
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And you can opt out of any emails anyway.
That's so cute. Did you also get on the Do Not Call list, allowing them to have a phone number that they know a live person is attached to?
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Posted on 3/6/24 at 1:08 am to Grigio
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Data brokers, Google/Meta/Apple, credit card companies, the government all have "anonymized" profiles on you and that are used to sell you shite you didn't want, show you content you didn't want, and spy on you if you get out of line.
Look I know they are spying on us like crazy and selling our data etc but I do fail to see how that makes them able to sell me shite I don't want to buy or to show me content I don't click on
Posted on 3/6/24 at 1:14 am to Wishnitwas1998
I get it. If a thread is seven pages, I'm probably not going to scan every post. But fark...
This isn't rocket surgery. They're trying to discourage the use of 3rd party apps to order, because it wipes out their margins.
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Uber takes a cut of between 20 to 30 percent of all orders, a high margin but one that has become commonplace with the growth of DoorDash
If you order McDonalds through the McDonalds app, rather than through Uber Eats or Door Dash, the restaurant doesn't pay the fee. So they can afford to give you a free QPC, etc.
This isn't rocket surgery. They're trying to discourage the use of 3rd party apps to order, because it wipes out their margins.
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Uber takes a cut of between 20 to 30 percent of all orders, a high margin but one that has become commonplace with the growth of DoorDash
If you order McDonalds through the McDonalds app, rather than through Uber Eats or Door Dash, the restaurant doesn't pay the fee. So they can afford to give you a free QPC, etc.
Posted on 3/6/24 at 3:55 am to Lake08
A friend of mine has all the places apps on his phone and says he's always takin advantage of all the free food they have on the apps
Posted on 3/6/24 at 5:01 am to BK Lounge
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For increased corporate profits .. the answer is always “profits”..
Yeah. Corporations should definitely strive to NOT make money. That will lead to lots of innovation and new / better products as they strive to not pay dividends to their shareholders. Right Comrade? From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
Posted on 3/6/24 at 5:10 am to Lake08
People need to realize our personal information has a real value that we’re giving away for free.
Posted on 3/6/24 at 5:13 am to WMTigerFAN
So what is your solution?
Posted on 3/6/24 at 6:43 am to Lake08
1. They don’t need someone to take your order. It’s hard to find people with the soft skills to create a pleasant experience and it costs money to have them in place.
2. Average check is higher on apps because of upselling opportunities. The more you spend, the more they make.
3. Accuracy rates are higher, so you’re more likely to return
4. it’s a medium through which they can track your spending behavior and entice you to return in the event you become a lapsed customer. They can advertise to you for free, basically.
5. Busy fast food restaurants have a revenue bottleneck at the drive thru. Their revenue is capped by how many orders they can process in a certain period of time. The app moves people through the line more quickly, thus increasing throughput and, therefore, revenue
I’m sure there are more benefits I’m not considering, but these are substantial factors to the restaurant. They want to condition this ordering behavior, so they offer discounts to encourage it.
2. Average check is higher on apps because of upselling opportunities. The more you spend, the more they make.
3. Accuracy rates are higher, so you’re more likely to return
4. it’s a medium through which they can track your spending behavior and entice you to return in the event you become a lapsed customer. They can advertise to you for free, basically.
5. Busy fast food restaurants have a revenue bottleneck at the drive thru. Their revenue is capped by how many orders they can process in a certain period of time. The app moves people through the line more quickly, thus increasing throughput and, therefore, revenue
I’m sure there are more benefits I’m not considering, but these are substantial factors to the restaurant. They want to condition this ordering behavior, so they offer discounts to encourage it.
Posted on 3/6/24 at 6:44 am to Lake08
Having a fast food app on your phone is the fattest fricking shite I’ve ever heard of
Posted on 3/6/24 at 6:45 am to supadave3
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Because they collect all your information and then sell your wife and children to sex traffickers.
That’s where the real money is in fast food.
Soft drinks, data and human trafficking.
Posted on 3/6/24 at 6:59 am to Lake08
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Ordering fast food through an “app”
This post was edited on 3/6/24 at 7:00 am
Posted on 3/6/24 at 7:50 am to Lake08
I never tried it but don't eat a lot of fast food anyway. Not sure why there are promotions/special prices that are only available when ordering through the app.
Posted on 3/6/24 at 7:56 am to LRB1967
I probably use an app for 90% of my food orders now.
If you ever have any type of customization, it definitely beats telling the dumbass in person that doesn’t write anything down
If you ever have any type of customization, it definitely beats telling the dumbass in person that doesn’t write anything down
Posted on 3/6/24 at 8:02 am to Lake08
I fight off inflation with app orders. 
There hasn’t been an occasion in a couple years now where I paid more than $5 for a subway footlong. Brings back the days of the 2004 Michael Strahan jingle in my head every time I hit the order button.
Bogo footlong code in app: FLBOGO
I always just buy 2 at a time and either one will be for my wife or I’ll eat the other one the next day for lunch
ETA the best part of it though is pulling up and seeing a line in-store a dozen people long and just walking right up to the register and grabbing your food while everyone wonders why they didn’t do that
There hasn’t been an occasion in a couple years now where I paid more than $5 for a subway footlong. Brings back the days of the 2004 Michael Strahan jingle in my head every time I hit the order button.
Bogo footlong code in app: FLBOGO
I always just buy 2 at a time and either one will be for my wife or I’ll eat the other one the next day for lunch
ETA the best part of it though is pulling up and seeing a line in-store a dozen people long and just walking right up to the register and grabbing your food while everyone wonders why they didn’t do that
This post was edited on 3/6/24 at 8:06 am
Posted on 3/6/24 at 8:15 am to Mo Jeaux
A robot makes your food?? Ummm, no
Posted on 3/6/24 at 8:16 am to Lake08
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Lake08
Are you retarded?
Posted on 3/6/24 at 8:19 am to lsusa
quote:it’s the only way I’ll order from them. The drive thru here is a crapshoot.
The Whataburger app is great.
Posted on 3/6/24 at 8:29 am to Lake08
I find myself getting irrationally annoyed by people that wait to order at the drive through. Get the app or go inside but get out of my way.
Posted on 3/6/24 at 9:07 am to milksteak
quote:Will app pricing go up to standard pricing when "everyone" is conditioned to use the app?
They want to condition this ordering behavior, so they offer discounts to encourage it.
Posted on 3/6/24 at 9:10 am to Tigers4Lyfe
quote:Is the Pope Catholic?
Will app pricing go up to standard pricing when "everyone" is conditioned to use the app?
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