alt-text: Woman ordering food (photo): “I would like to buy a hamburger for the same price that it was 2 hours ago.”
Cashier (sketched): “Sir, this is a Wendy’s”
I actually like Wendy’s, but if they implement this at my local store I’m boycotting. The cost for you to make the food per item doesn’t fucking change if there’s 1 person in line or 100, just the wait time. It’s pure profiteering.
The effort the employee has to put forth to meet demand changes during a rush, not that they will see a penny of the higher revenue they are directly responsible for generating.
It changes in that there are economies of scale involved. It actually becomes cheaper and more efficient for the company to make 20 cheeseburgers at once than just one. That’s why this surge pricing thing is a joke. Would the company really like to introduce friction to customers buying more food?
I’ll just demand everything be made to order and be fresh. I encourage everyone to do the same and tank their numbers. If they’re going to charge extra during peak hours then you bet your ass I’m demanding fries fresh out of the frier and burgers right off the grill. I can wait 3 minutes for the fries.
That’s how you end up with spit in your burger.
And a lawsuit. What’s your point?
That’s how you end up with spit in your burger.
^ This.
Forget to switch accounts there bud? I know where the two downvotes came from. Another troll to block.
But are they paying the employee more?
Hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha haha!
I like Wendy’s also and this really fucking torques my tacos. Well, fuck them. I’m not going to be ripped off because I choose to eat at a popular time of day.
What happens? They change the prices throughout the day?
They announced they will be switching to surge pricing. If there are a lot of people trying to get burgers, they’ll increase the price of burgers.
But will the employees see surge pay for handling so many customers at once?
LOL!
No, but the floggings will increase.
Fucking LOL. When are we going to start rioting against all this bullshit?
Rioting won’t work, you talk with your money. The only thing capitalism cares about is your labor and consumption…that’s it.
My money said “string them up from the streetlamps” so I guess we doing that.
Narrator: they didn’t
Let’s put “surge pricing” in quotes to make it clear that it’s some bullshit they just made up.
Back in my day we called it price gauging. Not sure what this surge price bullshit is. They are trying to steal my nostalgic feeling for surge to make it ok?
Ah, Surge…
Wasn’t surge basically the diesel version of mountain dew? I vaguely remember trying it once and not caring for it.
I feel like this is one of those memes that in the future historians and sociologists will use to gleam context and the human element to major life periods after the collapse of society as qe know it.
Shit I mean lul
So what happens if the price changes while you’re waiting in line? Will they post the prices to the last car in line or do you have to wait till you get up to order. What about drive throughs that don’t have enough space for someone to get out of line? Are they gonna try to guilt people into paying whatever price they’re given?
Yes they will guilt you. The McDonald’s in my town has it so you can’t get out of line once you reach the signs with the prices. If you don’t have it memorized and realize you can’t afford it… well sucks to be you
So what happens if the price changes while you’re waiting in line?
They probably want you to preorder. Not saying you should do it
Watch me predict the future: There will be sites/apps that monitor prices so you can order at the least expensive times.
The restaurant chains will sue those sites/apps.
Kinda reminds me of the GasBuddy app that informs customers of varying gas prices in their area, and of course GasBuddy realized how much power they were weilding with this app, and has sold its soul to the devil and now incorporates customer psychological manipulation & data mining into the app.
Yeah… I was an early adopter of GasBuddy and kept my locals up to date. Made more people use it and it was great for a bit. Then enshittificaiton happened… Big corps pull a bait and switch. Small companies sell out…
Yup. Have to change a setting to see stations that don’t have a GasBuddy deal. Such as Costco, which Always has much cheaper prices where I live than anything else.
The only way I’ve been able to find Costco gas prices is to go to the Costco website then search each location separately, quite a time-consuming headache, but I spent a couple hours doing that one day a couple summers ago to figure out which Costcos in California have diesel.
That’s gonna be the dumbest lawsuit, which means it’s very likely to come to pass
maybe some day someone will implement hamburger futures
Since beef futures are already a thing, you could invest in that and then use the profit for hamburgers, money being fungible and all that.
Just wait until Wendycoin drops
If your mom did surge pricing she could buy the whole Wendy’s franchise.
But she wouldn’t because professionals have standards
Would that work, though? There are guys who want to be the only one at the time, and there are guys who want to be one of many at a time.
Splooge pricing
Steps to creating your own “Bullish Burger” Stock Market
- Bulk order just before peak,
- Resell those orders as demand rises.
- Profit
that might not be entierly legal,
you cant legally sell onions on the futures market since 1958Huh, son of a bitch. Can’t wait to use this one
The Onion Futures Act is a United States law banning the trading of futures contracts on onions as well as “motion picture box office receipts”
Lol. Wut?
in 1956 some guy sneakily trough shell companys and such stuff, used the futures market to controll 98% of the onion suply and screwed over a lot of people.
the onion futures act was the goverments absolute brilliant idea for a fix.
i have no idea what the box office receipts thing is about
Yeah no, I get the Onion thing, it’s usually taught in collegiate finance courses… but the Box Office thing threw me off. Apparently the MPAA lobbied to have it added. I am just amused that it’s attached to Onion Law.
From a couple minutes on Wikipedia, it was added to the law as part of Dodd-Frank in 2010, which overhauled the US financial system after the recession. The MPAA lobbied heavily on it
I’ve already long since acquired a severe case of app fatigue to the point that I refuse to order from a place if I’m required to download an app to get whatever price.
Now I’m going to have in person timing fatigue.
You could argue that happy hour is surge pricing already in place, and I suppose that’s true, but the perception is that it’s a lower price than regular.
Wendy’s is presenting this as a higher price than regular.
You’re right, it seems like they’d be smarter to offer a discount during off-peak hours. It should accomplish the same thing.
Im OOTL whats going on?
Wendy’s will be using surge pricing to increase their prices when it’s busy.
Thank you :D
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Not a tax, basically just a price-signal. But maybe also a markeing push since it gets attention by being novel. Its functionally similar to happy hour specials or loss-leaders.
What’s the name of the guy who do this comic? I had it blocked on reddit, how can I block him here?
it looks like OP/[whoever made the template] removed the artist’s name, but it is SrGrafo. I doubt that the artist would be on lemmy though, considering it’s still quite a small platform.
Srgrafo is chill. I wonder why this guy dislikes him.
They probably just aren’t interested in seeing the comics, rather than disliking the artist personally
Fair enough
We are probably better off not knowing.
Why do people genuinely care about this? You couldn’t pay me to eat at wendy’s, I don’t care how they price their products.
It’s a sign of the times. We are fighting change. Humans like having expectations met and standards upheld so we can predict our reality.
You must see how one fast food chain implementing anti-consumer practices can affect an industry at large, right?
Wherever you do like to eat might adopt this one day.
Wait, is that a real thing? Do we also have this here in Germany?
its something the fastfood chain wendy’s is trying out.
they dont operate in germany anymore,
so no.
There’s an altruistic future I could envision where this software goes towards selling burgers for cheap to lower-income people coming in at odd times, in order to avoid food waste where the burgers get thrown out. Similarly, nice restaurant owners do this the simple way: Low prices for good food, always. But, I definitely don’t trust chains like Wendy’s with this.
