Dip-Sh*ts
In this day of rising inflation, I suppose it only makes sense that companies no longer nickel-and-dime you to death. Some are quartering you to the grave.
Take fast food giants Burger King and McDonald's, for example.
Apparently we're all a bunch of dipping sauce packet abusers, for BK and Mickey D's are beginning to place us on rations.
Yes, despite the economy being in the toilet and other fast food players such as the submarine sandwich industry engaging in pricing wars, Burger King and McDonald's are having some fun at our expense.
Next time you order some Chicken McNuggets or Chicken Fries or anything that requires dipping sauce, look for a handwritten or half-typed, half-handwritten sign near the drive-thru window or the counter.
It'll tell you how many dipping sauce packets you get, free of charge, based on what you've ordered and the size, along with what it'll cost you to dare ask for more.
No joke.
Dipping sauce packets are tiny things, perhaps no more than an ounce, ounce-and-a-half in size. Sometimes you can barely fit your processed food into the little tub, truth be told.
They can't possibly cost more than a few pennies each to produce.
Yet BK and McD's wants to charge us a quarter (!) for each packet that exceeds the limit that they've mandated.
Twenty-five cents?!
First, is there really such an abuse of the dipping sauce packet supply that we need to be rationing? It's not like they're freely available to the paying customers, like the hot sauce at Taco Bell---who, by the way, couldn't care less how many you pilfer. Good for them.
We've always had to ask for dipping sauce at BK and McD's, even before the rationing. And, frankly, usually the reason you would ask was so that you would get some to begin with!
How many times are the sauces left out of your bag? How many times do the cheerful employees forget to ask you if you'd like dipping sauce?
You're looking at 50 cents!
The sauce distribution at McD's was always curiously miserly to me. They were treated like gold nuggets. It was almost as if the folks working there hoped you'd forget about them, because they sure didn't go out of their way to remind you.
Sometimes they'll ask, but I notice that they ask more now that they've put us all on rations.
So you'd think that BK would want to get the upper hand on McD's. Well, not the location near where I live.
Yesterday I saw that the BK on 12 Mile in Madison Heights is now putting us on dipping sauce rations, too. Instead of doing the opposite---proudly declaring, "NO LIMIT on dipping sauces!"---thus gaining a competitive edge, that location is getting in on the gouging.
Think about this for a moment. Each of these dumb-dumbs have a dollar menu, from which you can order various things, including a cheeseburger. So is one dipping sauce worth 1/4 of a burger?
I wouldn't be so cranky about it if BK and McD's had been vigilant in the past about providing sauce and asking if you'd like some. Or if they had been providing it in full view, a la Taco Bell, and folks were taking 10, 11 at a time.
So depending on the size of the item you've ordered, you'll be afforded one (or two) dipping sauce packets, tops. Anything beyond that? Twenty-five cents seems to be the going rate, per packet.
Maybe if the packets were larger, or if it hadn't been such a teeth-pulling exercise to get them at all in the past, then maybe we wouldn't be asking for so many.
And how can there have been an abuse of an item that has always had to be requested?
The submarine sandwich people are falling all over themselves right now, offering $5 foot-long subs and, in the case of Quizno's, even cheaper sandwiches that are only slightly smaller. Those folks know when to strike when the iron is hot.
BK and McD's?
Gouging us on one-ounce dipping sauce packets while the nation's economy tanks.
I thought we "deserved a break today" and should "have it our way."
Sure---for a quarter.
Take fast food giants Burger King and McDonald's, for example.
Apparently we're all a bunch of dipping sauce packet abusers, for BK and Mickey D's are beginning to place us on rations.
Yes, despite the economy being in the toilet and other fast food players such as the submarine sandwich industry engaging in pricing wars, Burger King and McDonald's are having some fun at our expense.
Next time you order some Chicken McNuggets or Chicken Fries or anything that requires dipping sauce, look for a handwritten or half-typed, half-handwritten sign near the drive-thru window or the counter.
It'll tell you how many dipping sauce packets you get, free of charge, based on what you've ordered and the size, along with what it'll cost you to dare ask for more.
No joke.
Dipping sauce packets are tiny things, perhaps no more than an ounce, ounce-and-a-half in size. Sometimes you can barely fit your processed food into the little tub, truth be told.
They can't possibly cost more than a few pennies each to produce.
Yet BK and McD's wants to charge us a quarter (!) for each packet that exceeds the limit that they've mandated.
Twenty-five cents?!
First, is there really such an abuse of the dipping sauce packet supply that we need to be rationing? It's not like they're freely available to the paying customers, like the hot sauce at Taco Bell---who, by the way, couldn't care less how many you pilfer. Good for them.
We've always had to ask for dipping sauce at BK and McD's, even before the rationing. And, frankly, usually the reason you would ask was so that you would get some to begin with!
How many times are the sauces left out of your bag? How many times do the cheerful employees forget to ask you if you'd like dipping sauce?
You're looking at 50 cents!
The sauce distribution at McD's was always curiously miserly to me. They were treated like gold nuggets. It was almost as if the folks working there hoped you'd forget about them, because they sure didn't go out of their way to remind you.
Sometimes they'll ask, but I notice that they ask more now that they've put us all on rations.
So you'd think that BK would want to get the upper hand on McD's. Well, not the location near where I live.
Yesterday I saw that the BK on 12 Mile in Madison Heights is now putting us on dipping sauce rations, too. Instead of doing the opposite---proudly declaring, "NO LIMIT on dipping sauces!"---thus gaining a competitive edge, that location is getting in on the gouging.
Think about this for a moment. Each of these dumb-dumbs have a dollar menu, from which you can order various things, including a cheeseburger. So is one dipping sauce worth 1/4 of a burger?
I wouldn't be so cranky about it if BK and McD's had been vigilant in the past about providing sauce and asking if you'd like some. Or if they had been providing it in full view, a la Taco Bell, and folks were taking 10, 11 at a time.
So depending on the size of the item you've ordered, you'll be afforded one (or two) dipping sauce packets, tops. Anything beyond that? Twenty-five cents seems to be the going rate, per packet.
Maybe if the packets were larger, or if it hadn't been such a teeth-pulling exercise to get them at all in the past, then maybe we wouldn't be asking for so many.
And how can there have been an abuse of an item that has always had to be requested?
The submarine sandwich people are falling all over themselves right now, offering $5 foot-long subs and, in the case of Quizno's, even cheaper sandwiches that are only slightly smaller. Those folks know when to strike when the iron is hot.
BK and McD's?
Gouging us on one-ounce dipping sauce packets while the nation's economy tanks.
I thought we "deserved a break today" and should "have it our way."
Sure---for a quarter.
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