All the McD*nalds in my area have been upgraded with order kiosks. Regardless of all the controversy around self-checkout, and minimum wage, and automation taking our jobs, I personally love them. I can take my sweet time composing my order, I can see the full selection (such as it is), I can see pictures and prices clearly without having to strain my eyes to read 12pt font on the tableau, and I don’t have to shout at the cashier to be understood or struggle to hear back. I really believe this is the right way forward.
My only complaint so far has been that the order kiosks only accept card. There is actually a way to pay by cash that the machine never lets you know about - you have to press “cancel” on the keypad when it asks to insert card, and then the screen gives you an order number to give to the human cashier (each store still has one register open) so you can pay in cash. So I still have to wait on line, but at least my order selection is locked in, I can have exact change ready, and there isn’t usually a line anyway anymore.
I know all yall Europeans are proud about your nearly total transition to cashless economy or whatever, and you like to boast how not a single euro banknote has graced the inside of your wallet in months. However I personally like cash, and I genuinely believe that a cash payment system is a necessary element of a liberal democracy and secure society. So at least understand my pleasant surprise when I saw these reverse-ATM cashboxes at this restaurant. They work and were being actively used too! (It spat out my dollar coins though, those bastards!) I hope they find their way into more places.
Haha, you eat at McDonalds!
Honestly, I feel like it gets an unfairly bad rap. Their fries are super good imo. I can get 20 chicken nuggets and a large fries, which feeds me for 2 meals, for $7. It’s really hard to beat that.
It’s not great food, but it’s cheap AF, it’s really fast, and I think it’s not as bad as people act like it is.
McDonalds was good, for is price, when they had a dollar menu meal. And value menu items were 2(ish) to 3(ish) dollars.
It’s certainly not as bad as people make it out to be, but give me Wendy’s any day over McDonald’s. This is obviously subjective but I like Wendy’s fries and chicken FAR better than McDonald’s. That said, there is something about McDonald’s breakfast (especially those hash browns).
A&W has pretty good breakfast, too. They don’t have the burritos but their sandwiches and hash browns are great. Good for dinner, too. I go back and forth between A&W and Wendy’s. Arby’s would be on that list, too, if it wasn’t so far.
This is America, pal. We don’t have your weird Canadian fast food restaurants. What’s next, telling us to fill up at the Esso station? Bah.
Shhh, don’t tell them!
McDonalds ketchup contains heroin.