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echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Oh yeah I hate the way it works. If you want a meal, you actually have to choose the option for a meal. You can’t just choose the individual items that make up a meal. If you do that, it doesn’t work and you have to delete them all and start again.

But it does work exactly the same way on the website. So most people are used to its crappy design by now.

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brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

You can’t just choose the individual items that make up a meal. If you do that, it ~doesn’t work and you have to delete them all and start again~ makes the franchisee an extra $2 profit!

Cha-ching!

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- echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  But McDonald’s are the ones who make the interface. So there’s no reason for them to want the franchise to make more money. So I think it’s just a matter of crappy design.
  
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  - brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Maybe for the 5% of locations which are company owned? And to satisfy franchisees, who probably already like that people who order items separately at the registers pay more (provided employees don’t help out and combine them).
    
    Their mobile app is hands down the most advanced in the US fast food space, so they def have the tech know how.
    
    But definitely just speculating :)
    
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    Uncle_Bagel@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’m 100% never going to download an app for a restaurant. I atopped getting my free World Series Taco from Taco Bell the year they required the app.
    
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