Jesus people the Jack-in-the-box people spent 2 weeks telling everyone, “Do you know that our burgers now come with ketcup and mustard in addition to mayo?”
Two weeks later they dropped the mustard since apparently nobody likes mustard as standard on their burgers.
And they have huge signs mentioning their ‘even better’ burgers.
The only reason why I know this is because pay day is ultimate cheeseburger day (every other wed, since the bank I use shares a parking lot with Jack in the box)
So it went something like this: Payday 1
“You want that with the ketcup and mustard right?”
“No, just ketcup”
“Ok”
Payday 2:
“You do know that it will come with ketcup right?”
“Didn’t it come with mustard too?”
“Nobody wanted it with mustard so we stopped”
“Oh”
“Yup”
“Oh well”
“About the ketcup?”
“Yes please!”
Yesterday: talking to the manager (I’m in there every other wed at the same damn time month after month and white guys as pale as I am are pretty unusual in texas)
me–“Aren’t you going to remind me that it comes with Ketcup now?”
“No, corperate said only to do that for 2 weeks. Any repeat customers would know that by now, and any new customers usually ask to see if there is something they don’t want on their burger. And besides, we have that huge banner outside next to the door, if we had the words ‘Improved burgers’ any larger we’d need a new zoning permit.”
“Hehe yeah, back in HS I used to have problems like that at the Hollywood video I worked with. People would go in and get pissed off at why their Blockbuster rental was late when they very carefully returned it a day early. ‘Exactly where in the HUGE NEON SIGN do you see the words Blockbuster’s video written Mr. Rocket Scientist.’”
“And you didn’t get fired?”
“Naa, the only reason why the store I worked at existed was to try to force the blockbuster stores in the area out of buisness so Hollywood video could dominate the market in that county. We just needed to lose less money than the Blockbusters. Which was easy, fewer employees and a smaller selection of movies. Less overhead, less money lost.”
“Wow.”
“Umm, so I’m guessing adding ketchup and mayo on the burgers was to cut down on money lost from all the ketchup packets people would take and throw away?”
“Yeah.”
“It working?”
“Not really.”
“It’s the fries right?”
“Yup.”
“What about a ketchup dispenser?”
“Ever tried to get one of those unclogged?”
“Nope, and I don’t want to start now.”
“That’s what High School students are for.”
“Hehe, we do the same thing in the lab with undergrads who work with us for the summer. 3 glorious months without having to make a single reagent.”
“Nothing like employees who won’t complain”
“Nope”
“Here’s your order”
“Cheers”
Exchange more or less took place, I can’t remember exactly what was said but I did remember the major points of the conversation.