How much are you willing to spend on a BIg Mac?

Samm · 2023-10-24T21:28:05.893Z

WuWei:

Nemesis:

Thanks to this thread I had a big mac last night and it was perfectly acceptable. Though I did get it delivered through Grub Hub which made it stupidly expensive but could not be arsed to drive or make anything more complex than a bowl of cereal.

Well…you’re english. “Acceptable food” is different.

Samm · 2023-10-24T21:34:55.881Z

Nemesis:

Cratic3947:

Nemesis:

Cratic3947:

Nemesis:

Thanks to this thread I had a big mac last night and it was perfectly acceptable. Though I did get it delivered through Grub Hub which made it stupidly expensive but could not be arsed to drive or make anything more complex than a bowl of cereal.

It’s nice you can afford to waste money. Have a little sympathy for those who can’t. I remember when dems were for working people.

Your comment makes no sense? You realize my post was meant to be light hearted. Not everything needs a Supreme Court type of response.

Oh, it kind of came off as bragging to me… A " Let them eat cake" kind of thing.

Not at all. Not sure anyone brags about eating at McDonalds. It was more me taking the piss put of myself for being lazy and wasting my money on a Big Mac of all things.

If you’re going to use Grub Hub to order food because you’re lazy, at least order something worthwhile. Thai or Chinese or even a pizza would be much more for your money (even providing leftovers if you do it right) than a freaking Big Mac and fries.

biggestal99 · 2023-10-24T21:48:22.535Z

Striker840:

What he failed to mention is they get higher pay because the cost of living is higher

they told me they moved to NYC to get a higher rate of pay.

base salary: 110,000 plus OT.

Allan

biggestal99 · 2023-10-24T21:49:27.729Z

Striker840:

What he failed to mention is they get higher pay because the cost of living is higher. My guess is a net loss overall when you take housing, food, utilities into account.

Mark lives in a room.

family still in Texas

Allan

Nemesis · 2023-10-24T22:04:13.624Z

Samm:

Nemesis:

Cratic3947:

Nemesis:

Cratic3947:

Nemesis:

Thanks to this thread I had a big mac last night and it was perfectly acceptable. Though I did get it delivered through Grub Hub which made it stupidly expensive but could not be arsed to drive or make anything more complex than a bowl of cereal.

It’s nice you can afford to waste money. Have a little sympathy for those who can’t. I remember when dems were for working people.

Your comment makes no sense? You realize my post was meant to be light hearted. Not everything needs a Supreme Court type of response.

Oh, it kind of came off as bragging to me… A " Let them eat cake" kind of thing.

Not at all. Not sure anyone brags about eating at McDonalds. It was more me taking the piss put of myself for being lazy and wasting my money on a Big Mac of all things.

If you’re going to use Grub Hub to order food because you’re lazy, at least order something worthwhile. Thai or Chinese or even a pizza would be much more for your money (even providing leftovers if you do it right) than a freaking Big Mac and fries.

You are spot on. It is really bad value for money when a yellow curry only costs a few dollars more.

I blame this forum for putting the big mac idea in my head. I refuse to takd accountability for this LOL

biggestal99 · 2023-10-24T22:04:51.378Z

Samm:

By the way, even in your Manhattan (as opposed to NYC) argument, -111,000 people + 17,000 people = - 94,000 people. Even a first grader knows that is fewer, not more.

population is rising. it hit the bottom in 2022, rising this year.

by 2026 losing population will be a distant memory, as people come flocking back.

Allan

Samm · 2023-10-24T22:14:07.957Z

The trend is downward in spite of one year of modest gain. (I ask again … how many illegals came to NYC in the last year?)

Optrader · 2023-10-24T23:02:01.863Z

Nemesis:

WuWei:

I’ve eaten english food. It’s not “acceptable.”

It’s garbage.

I call ■■■■■■■■ my friend. .

Go and try a Ginsters cornish pasty or a sausage roll from Greggs.

Get yourself a bacon sandwich with proper bacon and not the sad excuse for bacon that exists here.

Tuck into a sunday dinner with all the trimmings and I guarantee you will not be dissapointed.

Next time I go to England come along and I will educate you. Plus you can drink a real mans beer and not the piss you all seem to love so much here.

I can truly say I loved my time in England. I got my first choice of duty stations when I went in the Air Force. Got to spend two years at RAF Bentwaters/Woodbridge. You have some wonderful history in England that I wanted to see. Can’t say much for most of the food, but you’re right about the beer! I don’t drink anymore, but as a young single man in the service, I enjoyed many a pint.

CHEERS!

Optrader · 2023-10-24T23:47:58.165Z

Nemesis:

Optrader:

Both looked like drug addicts and very slovenly. The cashier’s can’t make change, are seldom courteous and I often have to pull to the window by the exit to wait for my order. I understand why these people got hired because that McDonald’s advertises on their sign “WORK TODAY, GET PAID TOMORROW.”- doesn’t instill confidence that I’m going to get a meal that I would eat if I could actually see who prepared it and the conditions under which it was prepared.

Regardless of hourly wage, I would say what you describe above is a failure of that location’s management or franchise owner.

We have some horrific franchise owners here and I will not go then there are others where its obvious the owner is engaged and wants the business to be a success. My kids worked in a McDonalds where the owner had several and he was constantly rotating between branches, not micromanaging but making sure everything remained on track. His location’s were great to visit.

Yes I agree, the manager and or owner should be responsible for standards but when they apparently can’t get people to work for more than a couple consecutive days then it seems the problem is also a poor pool of workers to choose from, and that says a lot more about the state of our country than the jobs created numbers touted by Biden. The problem isn’t low pay…

Samm · 2023-10-24T23:51:53.143Z

Nemesis:

Plus you can drink a real mans beer and not the piss you all seem to love so much here.

Everyone here does not drink piss beer. The country is full of micro-breweries that equal the best that Great Britain has to offer, and some that easily surpass it.

Amusingly, I was in a English pub in the early eighties enjoying a wonderful steak and kidney pie drinking as good an ale as the house had to offer when I noticed a beet sign for Carling Black Lable (an American beer, if you are not familiar.) I asked about it and the proprietor told me that it was a best seller there. IMO Carling Black Lable not only fits the description of piss, it’s one of the worst piss beers I’ve ever drunk. Go figure.

Supreme_War_Pig · 2023-10-25T02:14:52.922Z

Cratic3947:

Nemesis:

Thanks to this thread I had a big mac last night and it was perfectly acceptable. Though I did get it delivered through Grub Hub which made it stupidly expensive but could not be arsed to drive or make anything more complex than a bowl of cereal.

It’s nice you can afford to waste money. Have a little sympathy for those who can’t. I remember when dems were for working people.

The dude just bought a damn burger. Lighten up Francis.

Striker840 · 2023-10-25T07:23:42.829Z

biggestal99:

Striker840:

What he failed to mention is they get higher pay because the cost of living is higher. My guess is a net loss overall when you take housing, food, utilities into account.

Mark lives in a room.

family still in Texas

Allan

Ok that is ONE person, let me guess, every single one is doing that.
Absolutely none of them have families with them, none are paying more for housing, food, etc??

Did you ever stop to think just why the pay is higher there than in Texas??

WuWei · 2023-10-25T10:58:49.774Z

biggestal99:

Mark lives in a room.

family still in Texas

Mark didn’t “move.”

biggestal99 · 2023-10-25T11:14:09.429Z

Samm:

The trend is downward in spite of one year of modest gain. (I ask again … how many illegals came to NYC in the last year?)

nope the trend is upward for this year. will increase again next year as people come back.

Allan

gooddad409 · 2023-10-25T12:59:59.136Z

biggestal99:

Samm:

The trend is downward in spite of one year of modest gain. (I ask again … how many illegals came to NYC in the last year?)

nope the trend is upward for this year. will increase again next year as people come back.

Allan

biggestal99 · 2023-10-25T15:01:18.224Z

gooddad409:

laugh all you want i see it every day, the city returning to normal.

Allan

Samm · 2023-10-25T20:48:45.859Z

biggestal99:

Samm:

The trend is downward in spite of one year of modest gain. (I ask again … how many illegals came to NYC in the last year?)

nope the trend is upward for this year. will increase again next year as people come back.

Learn the difference between trend and variation and perhaps we can continue. Otherwise, this conversation is done.

Eagle-Keeper · 2023-10-25T20:52:55.521Z

Zippy:

gooddad409:

local McDonalds (we have a couple close) employees now are almost totally hispanics that speak english poorly.

No high school kids.

The other fast foods hire some kids.

In So Cal I have seen the progression.

It use to be high school kids who worked FF( first job and all)

Then high school kids were slowly replaced with retirees working PT.

Then the retirees we replace with fresh across the border hispanics who can’t even speak English, have extreme trouble taking an order and mostly get it wrong.

I’m seeing more and more of that in the fast food places in NJ as well.

Samm · 2023-10-25T20:55:30.189Z

gooddad409:

biggestal99:

Samm:

The trend is downward in spite of one year of modest gain. (I ask again … how many illegals came to NYC in the last year?)

nope the trend is upward for this year. will increase again next year as people come back.

He is so desperate to be right that he even makes up future data to prove his point.

Toll_Collector · 2023-10-25T22:16:14.371Z

I don’t know why anyone would work at McDonald’s. Or any of these fast food restaurants. They dress you up like a little freak. You have to work with their nasty food all day, coming home smelling of it. And many of the customers you’re dealing with, are from the bottom end of society. On top of that, you’re being paid almost nothing. It’s a demeaning job. Plenty of minimum wage jobs out there, I have no idea why people choose a fast food restaurant.