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Ha ha ha. Where I live there is a restaurant chain called Chipolte that makes gourmet burritos. They cost about $6.50 but one is a whole meal or a meal and half with all quality ingredrients. I like picking up from there but the line no matter what time of the day is all the way around the restaurant.
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I like going there between six and eight in the evening, it's when the girls from the small, private university in the nieghborhood like to take their meals there. That's a line I don't mind standing in.
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Sometimes it works the other way. For a long time McDonalds had a cheeseburger for 99 cents and a double burger for $1. For an extra penny you get twice as much meat and cheese. I think they changed it now to $1.25 for the double, I almost never eat there anymore. Those dollar double cheeseburgers fueled many pot-smoking afternoons for me when I was younger and stupider.
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Your right. Back in the eighties I used to work in central London for a chain of photographic shops. I used to go out for lunch to McDonalds on a regular basis.
Then they started the price war to hammer the competition and the queues got twice as long and getting a seat became difficult. Sure I could get a take away an eat it in the shops store room but I wanted to get away for an hour. So I started eating more in Burger King and Wimpy's even though it was more expensive becuase the crowds were much thinner. |
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damn taco-lover, now I want assholes.
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Onion rings come close. Otherwise, you'd have to order those deep fried squid slices which are first coated in batter
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That's funny. When I was standing in line there I think maybe only 20 percent of the patrons where white. Where I live is majority non-white though.
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I still say, based on the two half-pounders I ordered months ago, they did not seem any larger than the .89c burritos. They can say X burrito officially weights Y, but it comes down to the preparer how much he puts into it. |
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True, an order of fries can vary a great deal. Plenty of people get ripped off in that case.
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The matter is now SETTLED. Not only was I right...
...I was UNDER-right! Very exciting stuff. I bought two .89 (actually .99 here in the 'ville) burritos, and I asked the guy. Those 1/2-lb burritos for 1.89 - it's a brilliant marketing move / scam. The "special deal" .89c burritos actually weigh MORE than the 1.89 do! I weighed both mine, they both check in slightly over 6/10ths of a pound. So once again we see, trust your own eyes. They rarely lie. Marketers, by contrast, attempt to deceive around the clock. |
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Burger King franchise owners are currently suing the corporate office for forcing them to sell the dollar double cheeseburger. They claim the ingredients alone cost $1.18. Corporate says it's a loss leader and the franchisees will make back their loss from the massive mark-up on soft drinks. Franchisees say too many people come in and buy a bag full of double cheeseburgers and nothing else, so they are losing money.
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Linder. You haven't explained how, what is obviously a loss leader, gets classified by you as a "scam". What happened to all your free market beliefs?
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It is also no secret in the fast-food world that the Burger King is queer. Over 40, no Burger Queen, no Burger heirs, and he wears a robe and knee-britches in public. I'll take a sack of White Castles myself.
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Check out that bling. Apparently the King is a wigger, too. "You down wit' da Whopper, bitches? Seriously who designed that mascot, the Village People?
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Maybe I should become a socialist so the government can protect me from my own stupidity, eh? We can pay a burocrat to force taco makers to advertise "slightly smaller burritos for more than twice the price." Last edited by Alex Linder; December 31st, 2009 at 05:02 PM. |
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