Was just in a donut place yesterday morning where you paid with one of these pedestals. I indicated which donuts I wanted, they put them in a box, and I paid with a card. Before signing, the options for a tip were: no tip, 15%, 18%, or 20%. Guess which one I selected.

I was at a fast food place once, the person taking my order spoke broken English and Vietnamese. The Manager spoke even worse broken English and Spanish. The cook spoke Portuguese and apparently nothing else.

I can tell you, that was not a fast food experience!!!! I do wish I'd had it recorded though, the keystone cops could of done an equal job.

Fortunately for me I am unable to eat anything at Mickey D's without getting ill.

The only thing I get from McPukes is coffee.

I'm kinda surprised the fast food industry hasn't capitalized on the smart phone app. thing
You could order and pay for anything and everything on the phone, be assigned a order number, then pickup at the drive thru or the walk in.
Pretty much only need a few people to assemble the food and hand it out.
Kinda like what UBER is doing for the Taxi.

I really don't want to be rude to you guys, so I apologize in advance.

But a bunch of *ahem "mature fellers" complaining about McDonald's new fangled menus, while also complaining about the lack of mental acuity of the typical minimum wage worker, is just so funny to me. I love good irony. A good many of you guys will drop the whole finicky eater thing when you retire, and just go for a cheap seat and cheap meal. You'll be a McDonald's customer, in other words.

Personally, I resent the higher prices. But I understand what's driving them up. When our California minimum wage hits $15 per hr, retired people will have to go back to work at McDonald's in order to live. Maybe the electronic menus will have to be replaced with the plastic numbers and letters that you stick on felt boards by hand like at Dairy Delite.

Apology accepted. Only PoP made disparaging remarks about the mental acuity of anyone. As mean spirited as his post was, I'm not sure even he was serious. So don't accuse the rest of us for his rudeness.

Don't acuse the rest of you...for his...wha???

OK, let me clear this up for you. One more time. I was pointing out that it's humorous to see old dudes, who are past their mental prime, complain about the capacity for achievement of minimum wage workers.

And re-read the thread. There are several comments to that effect. PoP sort of doesn't count. His comments are always like that.

I was apologizing for being the rude one for my comment, not saying that everyone else is being rude. The polite thing would be to let the hypocrisy ride on and I did not do that. As for the original comment, maybe it's valid or maybe not. I think I understand that McDonald's resentment may be primarily directed toward underwhelming customer service. If you don't like the food, then don't go there. But I think that I totally understand why the comments about minimum wage workers were made. For the most part, the average McDonald's worker is very courteous, but the company's standards are underwhelming to me as a customer. You don't see the same sort of comments made about all minimum wage workers, just the ones at companies with low expectations.

Boy did you completely miss the point.

You thought that it was "rude" that I wanted to choose to support someone working to better themselves and pay their bills versus sitting on their ass at home collecting a welfare check? The woman in my anecdote obviously didn't realize that she was trying to entice me to choose a behavior that would marginalize her (beyond what working at Walmart already did) and make her job and her paycheck obsolete in the interests of higher profits for do-nothing "managers" and financiers. For one I'd rather that my purchase dollar go to help someone who's choosing to work rather than sit around on the welfare dole, but at the end of the day what I realized is that if they're too stupid to realize that they're telling me to go ahead and replace them with a robot, I really can't help them. It's not worth trying to help people who aren't willing to help themselves. I guess that realization offends your delicate little mamby-pamby sensitivities, or (more likely) you just saw it as an opportunity to (poorly) try to take a dig at someone you don't happen to like because I don't embrace your progressivist bullcrap. Oh well. Too bad, so sad. I really don't give a rip what you think.

I had a similar experience with the kid who was my "server" at Red Robin last time I was in there - trying to convince me that the stupid Ziosk thing on the table was a good thing and that I should use it. Umm, no. Actually what you're doing is cheapening the entire dining experience (which is coming out of your tip there bubba) and making your role less relevant in the interest of flipping the table and hustling me the hell out the door faster. Sorry, I ain't playing along. I'll pay a little more for a dining (or shopping) experience elsewhere that's not so mechanized. If I want it automated and don't care about service per se, I'll get it online.

I saw this for the first time yesterday. It was very confusing. I usually always get the same thing (Big Mac) but of course the one time I was looking for a chicken sandwich, I go to a McDs that has this new menu. Nothing stayed on the screen long enough for me to understand it so I ended up with another Big Mac.. ridiculous..

Lets explore some possible economic reasons for the rotating menu (just hypothetical and not real numbers):

-If you can read the entire menu, you can see that the #3 only saves you 12 cents as opposed to ordering ala carte and only paying for the stuff you really wanted.
-If you don't see the dollar menu double cheese burger for 1.49 you may just order the item you remember: the quarter pounder with cheese (which has virtually the same amount of meat) for 3.59
-You may not notice that one apple pie is a dollar but two are 1.29

Not having complete information causes the masses to not always make the best choice.

It also helps get rid of the customers that don't eat that crap.

I typically stop at McDonald's on road trips to use the restroom facilities. Usually cleaner than many gas stations. I always try to buy something and not just pee and run. Usually a "Senior" coffee or maybe ice cream. The first time I encountered the electronic menu, I waited and waited for it to roll to show the ice cream selections. Nothing ever came up about that. Feeling pressured, and in a hurry I finally babbled out "A small M&M Blizzard" and got a dirty look and a reprimand. "It's called a McFlurry here!"

A little off thread, but it's the "self serve" checkouts that amaze me.... the amount of stock 'leakage' that must occur must be enormous. I attempted to use one once to find the previous guy had put $73 dollars through, before just walking off.
Of course, then I couldn't put my drink through ($1.25), so I just put it down, and walked off also.
And how often do the avocados get put through as potatoes I wonder?

It'll be a cold day in hell before I eat at McDonald's after I retire. I'm not a picky eater, but I will not eat the **** masquerading as "food", that they sell.

Just my 2 cents.......

This sorta thing is a by-product of the world we live in today. A world filled with "special effects' with little substance to back it up.

When is the last time a movie was made without a crazy amount of special effects?

I'm not saying all special effects are bad.

Or that we shouldn't have special effects.

But when the tail begins to wag the dog.......

Point them out to me. I see PoP, who you agree doesn't count, and Sammy, who would disparage his grandmother for a laugh, but who else here is past his mental prime and disparaging the capacity for achievement of minimum wage workers?

The OP is complaining about an interface that is poorly designed to facilitate a customer making a wise decision. I do not see the hypocrisy that you do.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/words_that_end_in_gry.png

I think that's valid. Probably the people who eat that crap are not very studious, and don't do the math. At least that's my impression.

I just wanted a sandwich made of fake chicken meat that's all. Whatever that damn thing is call has disappeared in about 10 seconds. I ask the counter girl about ordering a grill chicken burger. She asked"which one". Fook, the one that disappeared as soon as I try to read the name. Its not the number 1 or 3 meal. You guys are reading too deep into this with the pricing and salary or mental capacity of the workers

Face it, Jeff, ya just weren't destined to eat that crap. :p

I hope your Dad is doing well.