Them … and, presumably, everyone else after them that wanted pie. 
Spite has collateral damage, but sometimes it’s still worth it.
Yeah, everyone else are complete fools, right?
The people who are the funniest are the ones whose first kid was really easy to take care of, and they assume that they’ve got great parenting skills. Then they have a normal child or one on the difficult side.
Good to hear that both of yours were always so easy. I’m sure it must be because you did something that no one us ever thought of.
LOL. How true, how true.
Hey, I’ll have you know my kids have enormous IQs and early reading skills and could (and occasionally still do) throw extraordinary, mindblowing, day-wrecking tantrums nonetheless. Is there anything they can’t do 
The person at whom I snarked strawmanned me. That’s a semi-polite way of saying they lied about what I said and then proceeded to attempt to mock what I didn’t say. It doesn’t get much more snidely, passive-aggressively obnoxious than that. But for some people one can be as snidely passive-aggressively obnoxious as one likes but if one is direct one hasn’t been raised properly. I know how to be polite and say things in a way that doesn’t upset anyone. I pretty much do that for a living. But when someone strawmans me they get it back in spades, and you won’t get any apology from me for that.
You don’t even need to write a query, if you have the right reports. With the ERP I work with, it would be a standard screen where you enter “material [pie]” “location [this area]” and “dates”, and check whether any red (output) lines are above, say, 5 units.
Except as soon as you say “reporter” to a carefully controlled image conscious media savvy organisation like McD’s they are going to transfer you to their media relations people who are going to think long and hard about what will play best for their image before they as much as give you the time of day. Let alone give you data.
Not necessarily. At McDonalds, it takes 14 minutes to bake a pie from frozen. I’m not sure if BK has better pie baking technology but running out of pies at McDonalds seriously sucked.
Cookies, however, take only three minutes. And they are freaking delicious fresh. Also, you can deep fry a pie from frozen in a little more than three minutes but you can only fry one in a basket at a time because they stick together. They are also freaking delicious when cooked this way.
Right. It’s not even a reporter thing. It’s about keeping control of their data as well as their image. They would not help you unless there is an exceptionally compelling reason to do so. I doubt ‘I want to investigate a story on Reddit’ comes close. The KFC hoax did, but that was a story that made the company look bad.
I stand corrected. He delayed the child’s gratification by up to 14 minutes. Still, at what amounts to $1.65/minute, seems like a Phyrric victory to me.
Yeah, nobody’s going to run that query without knowing what exactly you want it for and, even then, I’d be surprised if they even bother to take the time to do it.
I blame it on parents no longer being allowed to lock their children in their cars during restaurant visits. It used to be a self-correcting system. Tantrumites didn’t get baked pies, and instead got baked in cars, resulting in fewer tantrumites. These days, children go inside restaurants to play on or to go on the slides (does McDs still have ball filled poo pits?), while adults are relegated to drive-thrus. Sweeney Todd could do a lot for the Restaurant industry.
My initial reaction was to the whole of this post.
I just found it kind of funny that a post containing multiple accusations of smugness on the part of others (not just one person) was expressed in such a smug tone.
Now you’ve introduced another negative characterization (“snidely”) into the mix, with no more awareness of how your posts might contain elements of this than you had before.
And this story is from New York Daily News. Do they even have an editor anymore?
This kind of thing is unlikely to work.
You buy 23 apple pies and they go in the back and open another box of 100.
or
You buy all the apple pies, the kid decides he wants cherry pie more and laughs at you for getting stuck with apple.
or
You hand out pies to other costumers and half a dozen of them give their pies to the kid because people are going to have more sympathy for an upset child then a douchebag out for spite.
Yet the last thread you started was a big complaint about parents paying attention to kids while they were on the phone.
I should think it’s better to be in agreement with oneself before seeking it from others.
And in this case, there is zero upside. The longer the story stays in play, the more people will associate McDonald’s with caterwauling children and rude, lying customers. The reporter will politely be told that McDonald’s sales records are confidential and given a packet of press releases celebrating the Ronald McDonald House.
This story is set at a Burger King, not that that changes the broader point.
I’m throwing a tantrum at my desk right now because I seriously want some pie now.
Buying all the pie in North America to spite you for that may prove a trifle impractical.
Get a Kickstarter page going, would you?