Household names like Chipotle and McDonald’s cautioned about flagging purchases among low-income customers.
“Flagging purchases” is an interesting way to phrase “we tripled our prices and cut staffing to the bare minimum and are surprised that it didn’t result in infinite money”.
Right? A burrito is $10+ and they wonder why people don’t go there as often.
I’m so thankful the local halal place around the corner from my house is there… and gyro and fries is only like 9 USD. I commented to the owner about how cheap his food is; he said he’s seen a bit of an uptick in business over the summer and he thinks it’s because the chain places have gone mad with pricing.
Businesses: How can we pay our staff as little as humanly possible?
Also businesses: Why don’t people have any money to spend in my store?
It would be comical if it wasn’t so absurd.
But the M.B.A. told us to focus on our high dollar customers…
Fast food is too expensive and people aren’t willing to pay top dollar for shit quality. Who knew?
They cut costs as much as possible and now they think it’s the consumer because their food is shite. See the cost cutting.
They may have cut costs, but they also raised prices
Yes Chipotle, consumer demand is the issue, not the fact that your food safety track record reads like a Chinese bio lab
My hubby refuses to eat there since he gets sick about 65% of the time. Definitely questionable food safety. Probably safer to just lick you cell phone.
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Reminder: disinfect your cell phones often!
I’ve never gotten sick from then, but doubling the prices while halving the serving sizes made it pointless to go there any more
If you’re in the business of selling slop, it has to be cheap and readily available. Nobody is paying restaurant prices for warmed over garbage.
I haven’t ate McDonald’s in over a year and I don’t plan on it ever again. Doing my part!
They must be desperate since they’re rolling out the McRob nationwide in a few days. NGL it’s tempting…
McRob is how they rob banks in Scotland
Maybe people are realizing how terrible a value it is, you can make the place look as fancy as you want, you’re still serving what’s supposed to be cheap food for crazy prices. There is no possible way you can justify blaming the consumer when the CEO is making tens of millions of dollars, he doesn’t do that fucking much, no one does.
this is a recession indicator
Woe is me if all these fast casual places go under.
If you’re housed you can buy the exact same shit they heat up from frozen at a restaurant supply store and heat it yourself.
I’ve never seen a restaurant supply store in my life. What?
Use a search engine, you’ll find one near you.
Best prices on cookware, frozen food, bdsm gear …
You might be interested in this More Perfect Union video about how Sysco is ruining restaurant culture and is about to form a monopoly over the industry.
Oh I thought you meant a literal store
https://www.restaurantdepot.com/
I don’t know if this is a regional only thing but there are brick and mortar restaurant supply stores. You usually need a membership to buy from them but you can bulk buy the same food and supplies that restaurants buy.
There are also literal stores. I regularly visit a nearby US Foods “Chef’store”
These restaurant g suite idiots just can’t figure out how they tripled prices and people are staying away.
So they are failing their customers expectations, and all they know to do is cry for help?
Wait that’s communism! They should calm down, the market will regulate itself /s
the market will regulate itself
Success! It actually does!
It hurt itself in confusion…
That’s literally what is happening, this is just capitalism at work. No fish is too big to be eaten at the end of the day.
That’s just code for “the
sheepcustomers will pay this price eventually”
That’s a strange way to say they aren’t selling as much as they were expecting to, even a few months ago. How about, “Some restaurant chains are reporting decreased consumer spending”
Wages basically stopped rising (compared to asset prices) a couple of decades or so ago
Funny that people without any more money, aren’t able to buy as much stuff now it’s more expensive
I don’t know why anyone on the west coast would eat this crap when we have legitimate taco shops. That being said we’re definitely at the end of the monopoly game a few of the worst most psychopaths own everything and working people are tapped out completely. Hard to run a consumer based economy without consumers. That’s why they are installing an oppressive facist police state with AI driven mass surveillance. A feudal dictatorship is what comes next and mass killings of anyone inconvenient to this new system. Anyway that’s why you can’t afford to buy subpar burritos
Nah, Ukraine proved you can stand up and win against even the biggest bullies with the Maidan Revolution.
Can I say something? Fuck fast food, embrace slow, healthy food
Where’s all this time coming from when people need to work more jobs?
Of course in this case there’s no other option, just saying that if you can choose, choose to prepare things at home.
Chipotle Mexican Grill, which operates thousands of U.S.-based stores, faulted consumer weakness for disappointing sales…
There ya go. Blame the very people for something that’s not their fault that you depend on for your overpriced luxury foods, clothing, houses, and yachts.
~That sounds like a good strategy to win them back.~
Yeah for what I’d pay for a burrito at Chipotle I can go get a burrito at a local place instead. I am not a chain restaurant person anyway, but the prices are equivalent now, there’s kind of no point to them.
I do actually go to Panera sometimes because it’s across the street from my work, it’s so expensive but do feel like I get some nutrition at least. And there is no local bagel place so I get those there sometimes too. But my kids who used to eat more junk food from chains are meal prepping their lunches now to save money, with no input from me they just got tired of it. I don’t think they’d go back now they are used to making food that they like.
