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Burger King made a statement that they're not using surge pricing, rather they're reducing the cost during slow hours. Uh... That's surge pricing since they already raised the "regular" cost quite a lot.
- The whole fast lane argument again...

Pricing can change for a variety of reasons.
Not good enough there, King.
- SCOTUS said it’s okay for ~~presidents~~ kings to do this.
  
  ‘Berder King
  
  'It's good to be the Burger King.'

Cancel order. Every. Time.
- A billion times to the quadrillionth power. Until the heat death of the universe, beyond the decay of protons and the evaporation of the last black hole in the degenerate era.
  I am still here. I am still cancelling.

I'd say the real concern here is that someone is spending over $30 at Burger King. For that much I could have gone somewhere good.
- People have families that also need to eat.
  
  That's just it, though. A lot of fast food places have been pricing themselves up to the point where they're meeting the price of proper sit-down restaurants. The only thing they have to offer at this point is convenience. It's just not worth buying fast food any more.
  
  Judging by the last time I went to Burger King that $30 probably paid for 2 people to eat. There are plenty of good restaurants I can go to and get an entree for $15 or possibly less.
  
  I can feed my family at a sit down restaurant for about the same price as fast food, and the food is better on top of it...
  
  For $30 you can order a week’s worth of meal kit for two (6 meals) from some of the cheaper meal kit websites.
  
  People have families that also need to eat.
  Yes. So why TF are they buying from Burger King? That's not food.
  And $30 at any fast food place these days does not feed a family.
  
  "And by God, it better be Burger King"
- Not around here, take out is going to be $40-50+ for two people even at cheap places.

Pricing can change for a variety of reasons
Gee, thanks
How long before pricing starts going up whenever you start an order?
- Well you did increase demand when you started the ordering process
  /s

Expedia pricing literally went up $300 between starting checkout and finalizing, within 10-12 minutes.
God damn predatory horseshit.
- That may be because they don't check the tickets every minute. Once they check it, they get the current price. You should use the airline or hotel site anyway. It's usually cheaper.
  
  And then you don't have to deal with Expedia when something goes wrong, you can just deal directly with the company whose lobby you are standing in.
- I'm sad to say that Costco travel did the same thing to me and my wife. We cancelled our plans. Homey don't play that.
  
  Just gotta say, I'm real happy I'm not the only one that still drops Homey D. Clown references.

One would think they could prevent price changes during the order process... This is just gouging for a little more money from the customer. I'd be surprised if they didn't do it systematically.
- Bad business practice too. Are those few cents worth them considering not to choose BK next time? As well as everyone they show/post the picture they took to?

The enshittification continues in ever more surprising and confusing ways.
- I wouldn't call it surprising or confusing, unfortunately.

I have a WILD solution. Stop giving them money. And somehow this never occurs to anyone on here.
- that's what they want. we're entering the "whale economy". why should they make and sell 10 burgers for $1 each when they could make and sell 1 burger for $10? they make the same revenue but more profit because their labor and materials could be cut by up to 90%. some idiot will keep paying because they're impulsive or desperate or have enough money to simply not care. if nine customers are alienated for the one that opens their wallet 10x wider than usual, the investors are happy and the MBAs give themselves bonuses and celebrate. it works for mobile/f2p games, it works for saas, it works for software, it'll work for this and it'll work for every other industry before long. get ready for surge pricing groceries and gas and internet and power - it's coming, under the false justification of "savings". the unprofitable non-whales can die for all they care.
  
  This makes absolutely no fucking sense. Comparing a restaurants business model to f2p/saas is absurd.
  Fast food restaurants have 2 main selling points, cheap and fast. If you take away the cheap all you're left with is people who don't have time to go anywhere else. People who are interested in spending a lot of money on food are not going to spend that money at McDonalds.
- “Enshittification isn’t a problem; just stop eating!”
  
  I mean you have a point, but burger king is not your only option. There's plenty of affordable food out there that is equally as unhealthy as BK
  
  Spot on. These replies are maddening...

Burger King's on the shit list then
- Sure, but were you ever gonna waste your money there to begin with?

Wait until it hits your groceries, too.
Price tags, which are normally printed out individually for items using paper and ink, are slowly being replaced by digital displays that grocers say will increase productivity and potentially lower prices for consumers.
They always throw that line out there.
Bullshit. It never serves the customer’s interest. Just like every big-box store was supposed to lower prices and increase variety for the consumer, instead they drove small stores out of business, reduced variety to save costs, sell the same junk, and now control pricing where you no longer have choices.

I need more context here. I know of talk about dynamic pricing, but heard they walked that back. I mean would you get the same notification if you like added bacon or a dessert on the final menus right before you hit total?
- Wendy’s walked theirs back after mistakingly misadvertising their “discount” scheme in a way that was construed as surge pricing. Heh, we’ll see.
  For this, can only find the Reddit source online.
- Don't know about US case law, but UK and NZ, the pricing when selecting is considered an "invitation to treat". When the product is actually brought to checkout an offer is made at the listed price on the checkout, which can then be either accepted or declined.
  Was brought up after a business was done for selling switchblade knives that were only on display - as no offer was actually made and accepted they weren't "being sold".
  To answer your question more directly, prices listed on advertising and boards are considered "invitation", not an offer and acceptance. It can change until the final offer and acceptance is made - bullshit but legal.

Sic semper tyrannis

Good post, wrong community.
- It's relevant because surge pricing can be applied to rent too.

Maybe they did an online order then changed the location?
- It seems evident they took a picture of an order summary on a kiosk, looking at the UI as well as the reflection on the screen.

I will continue to not eat at Burger King

Really interesting lighting and background windows in this "Burger King".
- Maybe it’s in an airport. Either way I’m not sure what this has to do with a housing bubble.
- The OP on reddit said that they were on the New Jersey turnpike.

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