Going to Mickey D’s for the last time

This all began about three weeks ago. I’m not a “fast food” customer all that often, maybe once a week or a little less. Of course, it isn’t really fast food anymore, either. Still, I like to go there on a whim or as a little treat now and then. I usually go inside because I can check what I get before going back to the car.

I go to the counter in the oddly remodeled building. The order area is disorienting now, not familiar, not logical somehow. The lighting doesn’t seem quite right.

I go to the small, very low counter. Some one comes from around the corner to help the person who is ahead of me, but he is told they want him to order at the kiosk.

By Barbi on 2024 01 08

You are preaching to the choir! After being loyal customers for so many years, the corporations are basically telling us we are completely unnecessary to them. I wish we could all revolt at once and show them who needs whom. However, we are dependent on them. I would love to tell Walmart I will never shop there again. However, I just can't afford to ditch them - and they know that. But yes, for many of these companies we can tell them to take a hike. We don't go to certain chains because of their political support that go against our morals and beliefs. Each time we hear of what another company is doing, that is one more place we won't ever go again.
Thank you, Dr. Smith, for telling what we would all like to say...Do you hear that, McD?

By keann on 2024 01 09

I refuse to use self-checkout or kiosks. Easier for me, I'm retired and have the time. I hear WaWa food is better than most fast food but you need to order from a kiosk so I've never tried their fare. There is no "customer service" today unless you consider computer generated menus asking you to pick a number so they can direct you to the correct computer generated voice that has been programed to give you a general answer that fits your area of problem.
I used to feel sorry for those human customer service people behind the counter that dealt with rude, irate humans that took all their frustrations out on them as if they personally had been the responsible party to their dilemma. No more, the person behind the customer service desk has become the rude, irate human to deal with and you can take it or leave the premises for good.

By Watsyxz on 2024 01 09

This is a result of the incremental take over of the country by the Marxist-communist oligarchs who are in control - the Biden regime run by Obama and his worshippers, and the World Economic Forum pushing Agenda 2030 down our throats. Congress and the courts just do what the lobbyists and the imbedded Deep State bureaucrats dictate. They are abetted by the woke-leftist media and the government run indoctrination centers they call “schools and colleges.” Many of today’s entitled youth and adults feel they should not have to work or learn anything, so AI, machines, and government controllers are being put in charge. This is another step towards communism. More and more, people are beginning to realize how uneducated and ignorant adults are often hired for authoritative jobs that they are unqualified to hold. We live now in the Twilight Zone and Orwell’s 1984.

By Kddomingue on 2024 01 09

I don’t frequent fast food establishments very often…once or twice a month perhaps. Prices have gone through the roof and I can make a better burger or taco at home (and for much less) than what I can purchase at a fast food joint. However, now and then, it’s nice to stop and get something so I don’t have to cook. Burger King and Sonic have recently cured me of that urge. Between the poor service and finding out that I have to order through an app to get the price advertised for the items I wish to purchase…well, just forget it. I don’t want or need what they’re selling that bad. Nor should I fail to mention that the app requires one to insert one’s credit card information. So they can have my information in their permanent data base? I think not. Burger King, Sonic and McDonalds (amongst others) have lost my business. I’m sure that those businesses don’t give a tinker’s damn that they’ve lost my patronage. But if enough people get tired of the poor service/no service and start going instead to establishments that remember how to treat their customers as welcome guests instead of as unwelcome nuisances…well, maybe Burger King and the others will remember how they climbed to the top of the fast food chain to begin with. And it certainly wasn’t by treating customers as lower life forms.

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