• F/15/Cali@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
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    23 hours ago

    I’m finding this happening in person as well. Why does your restaurant refuse to list prices on the menu, tv menu screen, and take out menus? This is fast food, not fine dining. Why are you hiding this from your customers?? I just want tacos!

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      12 hours ago

      Worse, I hate those TV menus that flash up the options for a few seconds then spend the next minute playing coke ads.

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      9 hours ago

      I’ll just leave like damn i ain’t doing all that like OP but sans bonus panel. Already have really but that was more about jacked up prices and my city scamming people with a badly considered paper bag bylaw where the costs are passed down to the consumer on purpose as a covid half measure made permanent.

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      22 hours ago

      Because people are more likely to buy impulsively if they don’t see the price. I don’t go places like that because I don’t encourage manipulative bullshit.

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        21 hours ago

        I remember once at a diner with some friends I ordered pancakes and orange juice without looking at the menu, and was pissed when the orange juice was like $10. Now I always check.

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          Loads of people, for many reasons, feel uncomfortable when interacting with strangers, so the pressure of having to make a decision while not wanting to ask encourages the impulsivity.

          Remember kids, roughly 95% of marketing is about fucking with your head when you’re next in line. the other 5% is about combating buyer’s remorse so that word of mouth stays positive.