If you’re bothered by the McNuggets, then notice that McDonalds prices are way more inconsistent than that. In many times and places you can get 2-for-5 10 piece McNuggets, or pay $6.29 for a 20 piece. One time I was presented with a choice of a 20 piece, 2 large fries meal for $9.99, or a 2-for-5 10 piece plus 2-for-$4 large fries. They very much reward ordering in code, whatever the code of the day happens to be. But the codes change, and often aren’t reflected on the menu but only buried in a deal section or on a poster in the corner of the dining room (and not at all at the drive thru). Prices and deals are often different if you order online vs in person. If you order at the counter instead of a kiosk, the price depends on whether the employee enters your order in the system using the same code you ask for.
On the gluten free waffle cones: this sounds like an argument for those unobtrusive-but-visible GF symbols off to the side of a menu item’s name, rather than changing the item’s name.
Makes sense that McDonalds would use price discrimination on the basis of willingness to study the menu—they want to pick up the very bottom of the market that needs the help.
Yes, it does. Maybe it works better now with kiosk and app ordering, because in the past, in practice, they never gave the cashiers enough info on what the deals were for them to reliably enter them into the registers anyway. Even if you ordered with the exact same words you’d sometimes get quoted different prices depending on who was working.
I very rarely eat McD’s anymore, it just always struck me as kinda extreme in how complicated they made ordering. AFAIK none of the other fast food chains do that.
If you’re bothered by the McNuggets, then notice that McDonalds prices are way more inconsistent than that. In many times and places you can get 2-for-5 10 piece McNuggets, or pay $6.29 for a 20 piece. One time I was presented with a choice of a 20 piece, 2 large fries meal for $9.99, or a 2-for-5 10 piece plus 2-for-$4 large fries. They very much reward ordering in code, whatever the code of the day happens to be. But the codes change, and often aren’t reflected on the menu but only buried in a deal section or on a poster in the corner of the dining room (and not at all at the drive thru). Prices and deals are often different if you order online vs in person. If you order at the counter instead of a kiosk, the price depends on whether the employee enters your order in the system using the same code you ask for.
On the gluten free waffle cones: this sounds like an argument for those unobtrusive-but-visible GF symbols off to the side of a menu item’s name, rather than changing the item’s name.
Makes sense that McDonalds would use price discrimination on the basis of willingness to study the menu—they want to pick up the very bottom of the market that needs the help.
Yes, it does. Maybe it works better now with kiosk and app ordering, because in the past, in practice, they never gave the cashiers enough info on what the deals were for them to reliably enter them into the registers anyway. Even if you ordered with the exact same words you’d sometimes get quoted different prices depending on who was working.
I very rarely eat McD’s anymore, it just always struck me as kinda extreme in how complicated they made ordering. AFAIK none of the other fast food chains do that.