Mildly Interesting

“You’re presumably over the age of 15.”

It's a literal family business, not like franchise like McDonald's or Subways where the franchiser has to squeeze pennies constantly to make a dime.

It's the main reason it's one of the "better" fast food places left when the rest have mostly gone to shit. Because the people who control product quality and prices don't need every last penny. For their company, it's still a generational investment. 40 years from now, they want people to still want to eat there.

If that means a few less million in the bank today, then this isn't even about a wealthy family doing a benevolent thing. It's a wealthy family investing for theirnown future in a fiscally responsible fashion, which is something we can count on.

People don't understand how much the franchise method has fucked up America.

That's what I thought. Raise the item price to 67 dollars. Who's laughing now? Here's your 67 dollar burger. Now get lost xd.

But the shit your employees would have to go through .... All the raging dads xd.

Comes with free miniture couch toy

A shiboleth only works so long as the outsiders can't replicate it. Once theres no outgroup theres no ingroup either.

I remember when Facebook was new and cool and everyone wanted to be on it. They destroyed themselves as soon as the first parent joined. It was cemented with the first grandparent.

Article says they also skip order 69 in their system

This is really no different than the lack of a 13th floor. It doesn't make sense, but things bow to public pressure, and an internet meme can be peak pressure. Hell, what about Name McName, look how things bend to try and avoid that trap. I still think the best approach is a parental one of accepting it and even parodying it so the original users get tired, bored, or embarrassed. Trying to avoid it is a form of Streisand effect, it enhances the desire.

I have run into it once that I remember. There's the line with "17 38" in it from the Fetty Wop song "trap queen. A restaurant in a neighborhood I used to live in had a menu item that came out to $17.38 after tax. People would shout it back at the cashier. Mostly teens but grown adults too.

I think eventually they added a few cents to the menu cost to make it go away.

It's the order number not an item number on the menu. I had to read like half of the article to figure this ut

They were shoving cameras in employees faces demanding they say stupid shit for Tiktok and responding by going absolutely apeshit, so how about no.

It's the ticket order number they call out

Couch sauce

the article mentions 69 being skipped as well. I assume it's pretty simple, just check it against the list and increment until it's valid.

int getNextOrderNumber(int currentNumber) {
    currentNumber++; 
    while(isBanned(currentNumber)) {
        currentNumber++; 
    } 
    return currentNumber; 
} 

where bool isBanned(int orderNumber) simply checks the order number against the banned list and returns true if it's not allowed.