McDonald's is getting rid of self-serve drinks and some locations may charge for refills
McDonald's is transitioning away from self-serve beverage stations and some locations may start to charge for refills that were once free.
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Jesus how cheap could they be? Fountain drinks are far and away their highest profit margin item on the menu.
The thing that pisses me off, is while I don't eat McDonald's so it doesn't directly affect me, I just know that other restaurants will see that it's making them more money and will follow suit.
In many rural areas, they have run out the mom & pop stores, plus people will pay for convenience, so I expect that they expect to totally get away with this.
I was explaining something about this to my daughter. Starbucks came in to a lot of smaller towns and drove out the local coffee shop because it had the advantage most of those coffee shops didn't: A drive-through.
The good news is that now, local places have figured out that's all they have to do to get customers to opt for them instead of shitty Starbucks coffee. And they can get away with charging less.
People traveling between cities will opt for the comfortable, safe, familiar places. And sheeple that go to McDonald's just do what they're told. I imagine the CEO would not risk their shares unless they thought they'd get away with doing this to their poor customers.
A lot of businesses do this, purposefully aggravating their customer base, and then say - it's Biden, he made me do it. So for a Magat, going to McDonald's might even be a source of pride!? (Except delicious Chick-fil-A already occupies that niche!?)
no niches filled on sunday*
Let's hope it forces then to fail faster. I like frappes when I'm on the road but I always fill up on soda before I leave. If they stop soda I'll just go to another place that offers me a drink for my extended trips. They are already in decline to burger King and dominos apparently.
That is soooo much sugar you are consuming. Even a small frappe is 10-15 sugar cubes. Add in a soda and you are looking at another 10-15. Maybe refill with water.
I Like coffee with my cream and sugar
I kind of view this as a good thing, honestly. People do not need another 20 oz of sugar water. A medium Coke has 12-15 sugar cubes worth of sugar. The US is pretty much the only place where free refills are common.
