unironically it is shit like this that will bring the United States of America to an end
No bread, no circuses, just austerity for us 
mcdonalds has never had free refills here. welcome to eastern europe.
That's because you're all communists therefore you don't get free soda refills!
i think kfc and burger king have free refill... just not mcdonalds
Those are real American strongholds of freedom, not wokedonalds!
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside
The day the refill died
How the fuck are mcdonalds not going out of business.
Every day I see people complaining it's garbage food that costs more than actual restaurant food and every day they do more and more to jack up prices and lower value.
But I can't rember the last time I saw a closed McDonald's.
They're entrenched
For every Wendy's or Burger King, there's like four McDonald's
When it's 3:25am and you want a hot, vaguely food-themed thing to put in your mouth to satisfy the primal need for salt and fat, it's liable to be something from McDonald's
Yes. The last time I ate a McDonald's burger was about a year ago around that time of night when a friend and I were drunk and he insisted we go to McDonald's. I objected because I thought it was going to be shit, but I have to admit it was surprisingly all actually pretty damn delicious. Keep in mind though that I was very, very drunk and very hungry. Before that, I hadn't eaten a McDonald's burger meal for at least a decade, likely longer. I think they are kept afloat by people who are either very poor or very drunk.
I think McDonalds owns a bunch of food and agro infrastructure that actually makes them the bulk of their profit, so as long at the brick and mortar stores are barely profitable or break even they can stay open.
Also they can let their franchise owners absorb some of the losses
Every McDonalds I see constant has a huge line of cars in the drive through, and almost every parking space is filled. Yet at the same time I always encounter people who talk about how they haven't gone to McDonalds in years.
I don't think I've ever seen a McDonalds permanently close either, unless it was moving to a new location down the street or something. They always manage to stay open even in neighborhoods where everything else shuttered long ago.
Are they still one of the largest real estate companies in America? That was the initial grift with franchising.
I used to work fast food like 6-7 years ago now and it is shocking just how much it's gotten visibly worse since. If you keep charging $15 for a combo and dropping service even further, people are just not going to go get fast food anymore. People already were balking at our prices back in 2017, now those prices would be a fucking steal if they were that today
Can confirm, haven't got fast food in several years, just stopped.
If you keep charging $15 for a combo and dropping service even further, people are just not going to go get fast food anymore
good lol
enshittification today
enshittification tomorrow
enshittification forever
Literally nickle and diming. Soda syrup costs almost nothing.
This is why Xi is going to nationalize McDonalds.
If I'm elected McDonalds executives will be publicly water boarded with Fanta.
Damn, being drowned in a carbonated beverage is not something I've thought about thus far, that sounds absolutely miserable
Okay, okay! No more! I'm begging you! Plain water was bad enough! The bubbles are killing me!
It is the nazi soda
How much money would that even save?
fountain soda barely costs anything, this isn't about saving money so much as it's about extracting more out of the customer
I’m silly, of course statesians will pay extra for more colored sugar water.
About $7 over the course of an entire day of operation. That honestly might be too high, come to think of it
Due to the extremely low cost of fountain soft drinks (especially the beverage itself, not including the cost of the cup, lid and straw), often offering a profit margin of 80-82%, establishments tend to offer free refills as a sales gimmick.
When I worked at Pizza Hut (early 2000s), for shits and giggles I calculated the actual cost of a glass of Pepsi. Accounting for the syrup bag, the CO2 cylinder and water (the latter being the cheapest since it was filtered tap from the city main) it was like $0.14 a glass.
My 9/11
A second plane has hit the Golden arches of freedom
the west has fallen
Time to start mixing corn syrup and carbonated water at home
where were you when america was kill ?
If either Biden or Trump run on getting them to reinstate the free refills, their poll numbers would go up by like 5pts. This is an attack on the American way of life.
The Ship Of State Is Wrecked
Might be a hot take but this doesn't matter that much. If you actually go inside a McDonald's these days it's almost abandoned, all their business is drive through or take out now. This is just dabbing on the small portion of people who eat in
So retirees and teens? Those are the only people I ever see inside McDonald's when I go to pick up my slop at the counter
Every time I see a headline like this, I think of the silver lining: the reason they do shit like this is TRPF. The contradictions are mounting. It's the little stuff
Just a reminder to boycott Mcdonald’s
NOOOOOOOO NOT THE FREEDUMB
Unironically let me have my treats god damnit
mcdonalds has fallen
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
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