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Sometimes progress isn't progress.

I stopped in at a McDonalds - to get a McFlurry - which was recommended to me by someone who is aware of my DQ Blizzard habit.

So they have this big dynamic menu now up behind the order-takers. It will show some category of menu items - and there are moving pictures and camerawork - and then it will move on to another. Very fancy. It's like a mini-jumbotron.

Point being, it's stupid as fuck. Like something comes up on the McFlurry - and there are some options and prices while there is video zooming in on one from some daring angle - but then it goes away, and the menu board goes to burger combos for awhile - then desserts - and so on.

So I'm standing there waiting for the board to come back to the McFlurry - and I have to wait for like 3 rotations because it doesn't stay up for that long I don't know what the fuck I want.

I remember menu boards that were basically big static spreadsheets with all the options and prices. So much better, that.

Progress is often progress but sometimes it's not progess.


That is all.
 
The Dairy Queen I go to doesn't do that - with the Jumbotron rotation - it has the static spreadsheet that I want. My only slight complaint is it has the calories of everything. Like everything. Every variation and every size. The calories list for Blizzards takes up a whole damn panel.

I don't care about the calories of my DQ purchase. I know it's not diet food ---> good enough.


It might be a law that they have to have it though. Wouldn't be surprised.
 
Fucking morons in here. Muddy packs fucking boxes for a box company and he thinks he can second guess the decisions that McDonalds makes, perhaps the most successful brand in his lifetime, certainly in the food sector.

The video board isn't for you ass-clowns. The whole mcdonalds experience isn't for people who don't go to mcdonalds. You ever go into a mcdonalds and see a bunch of people staring up at the board? ITS FUCKING MCDONALDS. They have cheesburgers, something with chicken, something with fish, and those potato things, whatever they're called.

Implementing that video board in a single city makes more in upcharges at point of sale than the value of boxes MC packs in a single year, guaranteed. Getting kids and stupid people to part with their money b/c they saw a flashy picture of a mcflurry and they just want one (but they don't know why?!?) is progress.
 
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