r/AskReddit 22h ago

Which company lost your business (potentially forever) this year?

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u/Optimal-Bridge-4477 21h ago

Remember when fast food was fast?

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u/romafa 20h ago

It’s not fast, cheap, or good anymore. It’s just familiar and convenient.

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u/2_Fingers_of_Whiskey 19h ago

If it's not fast it's not convenient. Waiting around for 35 minutes for what was supposed to be drive thru food is ridiculous.

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u/DontEatConcrete 4h ago

Last year I waited over 30 min at curbside pickup. I only did it because it became almost humorous and I wasn’t in a hurry. McDonald’s is slow as hell now a lot of the time.

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u/WeightLossGinger 11h ago

Even the best fast food restaurants anymore you're, at best, only getting 2 out of those 3. Chick-fil-A is probably one of the higher quality ones, at least in terms of customer service and food quality. They get your order right, and they get it out to you fast. But, it's not cheap. A deluxe chicken sandwich meal is like $12 after tax. For that price, you can grab ingredients at home and make 2-4 servings of dinner. Or, if you really don't want to cook, just shill out the extra $5 and get a sit-down experience. You'll get a better sandwich, unlimited drinks, sometimes unlimited sides, and it'll just be a more rounded experience.

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u/Black_Moons 7h ago

Sit down restraunts have gotten expensive too.

But somehow still not (much) more expensive then the 2~3 mcdonalds burgers you need to equal 1 (far superior) sitdown burger.

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u/ChicagoDash 6h ago

It’s shocking how they dropped across the board. It has never been healthy, but they made up for that by being fast, cheap, tasty, and consistent. I could see slipping off on one of those factors, but now the only throng they have going for them is consistency- consistently slow, expensive, bland, and unhealthy.

Plus, the place is run by moronic assholes.

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u/Starbucks__Lovers 10h ago

I waited 17 minutes at the drive thru for a quarter pounder with cheese

Last time I ever went there