I know the KFC menu fairly well and I agree with you. The latest iteration is not very descriptive at all.
I don’t recall naming McDonald’s specifically, but yes, I’m in Australia - where a Big Mac on its own is somewhere around the $5 mark depending which store you’re at and the Grand Angus is somewhere around $6.50 or so, again depending which store you’re at.
Burger chain Grill’d charges $9.50 for its standard hamburger alone (they’re a lot trendier and more upmarket than McDonalds, though) too and you’ll find yourself paying between $6 and $10 for a hamburger with the lot at most local fish and chip/takeaway places too, in my experience.
Well, all those beets are probably expensive.
But dingo meat should be pretty cheap, you’d think…
Didn’t Starbucks take some heat a couple years ago when it stopped listing the “tall” sizes of it’s beverages from the drive-thru menus even though they were still available? Then they tried to backpedal claiming they did it to make the menu less cluttered for customers.
You people all need to check out In & Out Burger, if there’s one in your neighborhood. (It’s mostly a West Coast chain.)
Their ENTIRE menu consists of:
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[li] Single burger.[/li][li] Double burger.[/li][li] Single cheeseburger.[/li][li] Double cheeseburger.[/li][li] Fries. (One size only.) (Salt-free on request.)[/li][li] The usual self-serve beverage bar.[/li][/ul]
Diced onions on burger optional, grilled diced onions on request.
That’s it.
All burgers cooked when ordered, not in advance and kept warm while they dry out; not cooked at a factory, frozen, and shipped out. Likewise, fries cut from fresh whole potatoes and cooked on site.
(For the insider crowd, there’s also a secret menu that’s not shown at all. You just have to know about it. It’s easily googlable.)
Get outta the LINE!
Isn’t this exactly what the OP is complaining about? I mean, he’s complaining about posting the complex and hiding the basics, and In-and-Out posts the basics and hides the fancy, but it’s the same problem.
You think finding babies to feed them is cheap?
It seems to me that the pattern has been to get away from text and more toward pictures on menus.
I’m just wondering how long it’ll be before some fast food manufacturer goes to pictures and prices only… like some sort of medieval style menu for quasi-illiterates.
Not listing all of what you have for sale and positioning your marketing so you can only see what costs what by ordering it at the register is a deceptive business practice.
People need to know that the price of the sandwich jumps up to $4.65 when you add a slice of cheese.
I would have thought that it was common sense when the line stacks up 20 deep because the register clerk has shouted. “Manager, I need a key-card on register 3” that there is a net loss of profit and profitability given the company pays by the hour.
Also, doesn’t a better educated consumer make the business transaction smoother so the company can move more product per 8 hour shift? Dumbing down the menu to pictographs so your customers can say Ugh! Ugh! and point
seems to be at odds with profitability.
“Knowledge…? Knowledge? That is a worship word. Yang worship. You will not speak it.”
Not so. The babies required to fatten them up for butchering don’t come cheap,
Wow-- every fast food place here (midwest) has prices shown clearly. Yeah, the “Numbered Meals” are getting bigger* (hope I never hit the point where I walk in and say “I’ll have a 2 and a 5” like I saw a fat guy do the other day).* But my beloved Dollar Menu is still there…
Bacon Ranch burger, fries and a fruit/yogurt parfait for $3.15 with tax: Mmmm…
You forgot their shakes. That’s listed on the menu as, well. Love the short, simple menu, although as good as their burgers are (my favorite fast food burgers), with only two grill orders, you’d think they’d figure out the fries by now, but I guess there must be people who like them.
I thought for sure this thread was going to be about Chinese Restaurants.
Now I see its about people who have trouble finding the menu items that aren’t in flashing neon lights.
No, we have trouble finding them at all. Because they aren’t posted anywhere. I’ve asked. And it’s even more annoying trying to order a couple of pieces of chicken when you’re in a neighborhood where you have to talk to the cashier through an intercom.
That thing that looks like the full menu over on the side wall? That’s the nutrition information card.
You want me to not hold up the line? Inform me of all the available choices.
Hasn’t that been the case at most of these places for at least 20 years or more?
Oh I guess maybe the combo includes a drink, if that’s what you meant. If I do eat at one of these places I only get a sandwich, so I haven’t been paying attention much.
If there’s also a secret menu, then what’s posted is obviously not their ENTIRE menu, no?
The in-n-out secret menu is the same items, just cooked differently. They still only have burgers, fries, soft drinks, and shakes, but you can get your onions grilled or get any number of beef patties or cheese slices or have the whole shebang wrapped in lettuce instead of a bun. Then there’s animal style, where they do something magical and delicious that I don’t fully understand but order every time I’m there.