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Doordash delivers KFC, Jack in the Box, and Panda Express in Silicon Valley as their fast food choices. With Doordash, don't order anything you can't reheat when it shows up. That's the trouble with these low-end delivery services. They're not using a vehicle with hot and cold storage. It's just some sucker's car.
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McDonalds probably has better research on their own business than you do. They wouldn't do this unless they believed it would be worthwhile.
"McDonalds probably has better research on their own business than you do." This is never something you should believe in a major, for-profit company heavy on management. Those companies have people investing in all kinds of BS all the time everywhere from top to store level. That includes McDonalds which is easy to verify by just listening to the employees talk about management and company politics. Now, it may be a…
This is never something you should believe in a major, for-profit company heavy on management.
It takes an astonishing amount of hubris for any single individual to believe they can really have market research superior to a company's when it comes to the company's core competency. Even where it's true, I expect such an individual to have a far more reasoned claim than, "for-profit companies with lots of managers suck!"
Just because companies try things and fail all the time doesn't mean they're not well-thought out and often even well-executed. Do you honestly believe "management heavy" companies are full of people who don't know what they're doing? How do you know what their research teams do or don't do, and know or don't know?
On what basis can you even begin to assert an absolute statement like the one you just claimed? You didn't provide a substantive argument, all you said was companies try things that fail all the time, and implicitly repeated the meme that managers are just vapid drones in the aggregate.
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This. The people eating McDonalds and the people paying for food delivery are not the same people. I'm pretty sure their intersection is statistically insignificant.
You should come to the McDonalds on Clark and Wrightwood in Chicago. It's in one of Chicago's most affluent neighborhoods, and the breadth of people I see there is nuts. There are no less than three groups of senior citizens who come every single day for breakfast. There are a number of people who go there all of the time because they like it. They show up in $100k cars because they want something from McDonalds. I g…
Maybe I'm in the minority, but most of the time food quality is not the #1 most important thing when I eat, speed is more often a consideration for me, I find myself going "well, I can sit down at a restaurant and waste an hour or grab an egg mcmuffin in 5 minutes", especially when eating alone I tend to lean on the quicker option so long as it doesn't taste actively bad to me.
Yeah... a lack of delivery WAS the reason I had been avoiding McDonalds.
This. The people eating McDonalds and the people paying for food delivery are not the same people. I'm pretty sure their intersection is statistically insignificant.
So how did you single-handedly quantify what entire market research teams somehow overlooked about a major initiative within their own company?
Not sure why there are a bunch of people being negative to delivery to McDonalds. Sometimes I just want a burger instead of a Sandwhich or a pizza. I think it adds variety to be honest.
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> I wish dearly that I could just enter my own order on the POS system when I am in such places Visit France. Not only the burger quality is much better there, but also you can order yourself on self serve POS systems for almost a decade. They're also implementing restaurants where your food gets brought to your table.
Can vouch for visiting France for McDonalds being the thing to do
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You should come to the McDonalds on Clark and Wrightwood in Chicago. It's in one of Chicago's most affluent neighborhoods, and the breadth of people I see there is nuts. There are no less than three groups of senior citizens who come every single day for breakfast. There are a number of people who go there all of the time because they like it. They show up in $100k cars because they want something from McDonalds. I g…
Totally true, I don't know where people get the idea that only the poor eat McDonald's, being able to grab something quick and consistent is an extremely handy thing. Their breakfast is quite tasty and cheap too. Maybe I'm in the minority, but most of the time food quality is not the #1 most important thing when I eat, speed is more often a consideration for me, I find myself going "well, I can sit down at a restaura…
They had branded heat-retaining bags (like pizza places) and delivered via scooter. The cost of labor being somewhat lower in Thailand and the quality of the food being somewhat higher (a large double-BigMac meal was ~$10 while delivery was ~$1), it actually worked pretty well for drunk food at night -- or even if you just didn't want to go out to eat. (They usually were faster and warmer than, say, FoodPanda.)
I somehow think it's not going to translate as well to the US market (cost of labor; lower quality food; double BigMacs aren't a thing), but I do miss it.
Of course, Thai McDonalds is dead to me now that they no longer have wasabi sauce. (I suppose it's my schezwan sauce, now.)