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Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?

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Post by criddell »

ranger_danger wrote: post #40
cortesoft wrote: post #22

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I have an autistic kid who went through a phase where she would only eat McDonalds chicken nuggets... I live in a city and have 3 McDonald's pretty close to me, and the price for the same order of nuggets would vary by up to 50 cents between the 3... the cheapest place is only a half mile away from the most expensive one. It really is strange.

I don't mean to be rude but I'm just curious... did you try simply not giving them junk food? I have done some research on this and have not found any good evidence that most autistic children will actually starve themselves for any meaningful amount of time if their picky foods are not provided.

Kids will definitely reduce how much they eat to the point when you take them in for their annual checkup, you will be asked why your child is underweight. The doctor will call it "failure to thrive". Depending on your relationship with your doctor, they might suspect neglect or abuse.

Our daughter went through a phase were there were only a few things she wanted to eat. Our pediatrician said to feed her what she will eat and be patient because her tastes will change. He was right.

Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?

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Post by astura »

Loughla wrote: post #91
camkego wrote: post #46

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Apparently the prices are scraped from the mobile app. I installed the mobile app and for some reason, and that location can’t be found inside the mobile app. Actually, you cannot (I can’t anyway) order from that location from the website either. It just goes to show data cleaning is hard. It’s true for statistics and it’s probably just as true for LLMs.

Why does Taco Bell have an app? What is its purpose?

To order food. You can also place your order on the website.

Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?

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Post by pimlottc »

jdestaz wrote: post #98
pimlottc wrote: post #85

For the umpteen millionth time, please please please do not use red/green for the scale, it is very difficult for colorblind people to distinguish, which is ~5% of the male population. Look at Colorbrewer for some alternative suggestions: https://colorbrewer2.org/

As a developer with a red/green colorblindness, I've had to point this out to UX designers I've worked with over the years. I ended up making a small game to show how frustrating it can be to use UIs that rely on color alone to express information. https://jdestaz.itch.io/colorblind-curse

This is great! Level 3 is so easy :)

One small suggestion: keep score separately for each level so you can compare at the end and see how much icons helped.

Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?

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Post by whamlastxmas »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #48
gscott wrote: post #36

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You can apparently eat them 15 years straight before it causes a problem https://www.cbsnews.com/news/british-teen-stacey-irvine-hosp...

I know you're joking but just in case someone miss it, even 1 meal of McDonald chicken nugget is bad for health. Its just that after 15 years you die of it, before you are very unhealthy, especially for kids.

Almost anything is fine in moderation. It’s honestly not that bad beyond the saturated fats, and even then an otherwise healthy and active person who eats other healthy things during the day would be totally fine having nuggets for dinner every day

Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?

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Post by dylan604 »

hunter2_ wrote: post #132
gowld wrote: post #123

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None of that justifies an app, vs an in-store kiosk or a website.

For customers to feel like they're saving time (versus having a cashier take their order) the kiosk isn't it: you can't on average discover and select on a screen faster than you can speak. The time savings of the app/website is from building the order on the way there, reducing the in-store interaction to speaking your name or order number (which is mostly constant across all methods of ordering). As for app vs webs…

also, there's only so many kiosks available just like there's only so many human staffed registers. This means there's potential for waiting in line. If every one has an app, there's no line. Ever. Well, except for when you show up to pick up your order and have to wait for everyone else.

Of course all of that is just the icing on top of the data harvesting cake

Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?

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Post by yathern »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #48
gscott wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can apparently eat them 15 years straight before it causes a problem https://www.cbsnews.com/news/british-teen-stacey-irvine-hosp...

I know you're joking but just in case someone miss it, even 1 meal of McDonald chicken nugget is bad for health. Its just that after 15 years you die of it, before you are very unhealthy, especially for kids.

> even 1 meal of McDonald chicken nugget is bad for health

I think this isn't true in any meaningful way. Absolutely, making it (or any fast food) a big component of your diet is not going to promote good health. The more often you eat them, the more likely it will have an impact on your health, mostly from the increased sodium and trans fats. Consistently living with high blood sugar and higher LDL will increase your bad health outcomes. But in the example of the parent, it's not just the negative consequences of consuming fast food, but the negative consequences of not eating anything else (so lacking in many micronutrients).

The good news is this makes the marginal impact of one meal over your lifetime is absolutely miniscule. It's not like each meal increases your risk of mortality a linear amount.

Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?

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Post by kansface »

pimlottc wrote: post #85

For the umpteen millionth time, please please please do not use red/green for the scale, it is very difficult for colorblind people to distinguish, which is ~5% of the male population. Look at Colorbrewer for some alternative suggestions: https://colorbrewer2.org/

What percent of the rest of the population is confused by not using red & green?

Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?

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Post by hunter2_ »

pimlottc wrote: post #85

For the umpteen millionth time, please please please do not use red/green for the scale, it is very difficult for colorblind people to distinguish, which is ~5% of the male population. Look at Colorbrewer for some alternative suggestions: https://colorbrewer2.org/

It basically comes down to using linear brightness (at sufficiently high contrast between steps) instead of random brightness. TFA could get away with almost any colors at all, even red to green, as long as it goes from light to dark.

The problem is that they decided to use dark for BOTH ends of the scale, with light in the middle, so in the absence of color perception we can only tell whether a price is extreme or moderate.

Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?

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Post by throwway120385 »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #125
sidewndr46 wrote: post #119

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Yes because while traveling from one jobsite to the next everyone has a full kitchen available to them.

What proportion of Americans are traveling from one job site to the next? Surely, the vast majority are coming home every day, and the vast majority of those presumably have a kitchen.

The word "surely" is doing a lot of work for you.

It sounds like you're arguing that the lived experience of an itinerant construction worker doesn't matter in your quest to ensure everyone cooks all of their meals from healthy fruits and vegetables no matter how much grind it takes to accomplish. That's probably not the best way to address GP's concerns.

I once had to wait out a lease and commute an hour and a half one way when I got a new job, and I stopped at convenience stores a lot more often than I would have liked. It's not pretty but sometimes you have to compromise between many competing priorities in your life, especially if you really need the job as a springboard to something better or as a big pay increase on its own.

I empathize with other people currently in a similar situation, even if it's by choice, because unless you live off of a trust fund or are supremely fortunate you will often have to take work at the intersection of your skill set and your willingness to compromise other aspects of your life in order to get ahead.

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