Hacker News Reader

Comment by lucidguppy | Hacker News Reader

I think there's some pretty good podcasts about this.

Essentially - this should be a fight between franchisees and McD's. It's also a bad look for McD - yes let's get a lot of bad PR about how we screw over franchisees. If they do that to their partners - what do you think they're doing to the food?

Who are we kidding - we know what they do to the food. The less you deal with the arches the better.

View on HN

McDonald's used to hit a sweet spot. For most people, food needs to be fast, cheap, and/or good. My theory is that it needs to be two of the three of those.

Until about 2 years ago, it used to be cheap and fast. Now it's neither of those things.

My bellwether is my youngest. He's 10 and would rather just eat at home if McDonald's is the only option. Last week he chose peanut butter sandwiches instead of chicken nuggets when we knew we'd be actively on the road during supper. So that's something.

The food around here hasn’t changed much, but price increases have removed and real discounts compared to “high end fast food” and there’s not a real major reason to still choose the McDs.

My kid is price agnostic but has had a couple bad experiences that turned him off. I think more due to labor/staffing issues than anything else. But they slipped a pickle in his burger once (very unappreciated) and the nuggets came under cooked once (also very unappreciated) so he’d actively boycotting although he doesn’t really know it

Reply on news.ycombinator.com