• MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    This is pathetic for everyone involved. I cannot imagine being so afraid of eating anything other than fucking McDonald’s.

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      Donnie dumbass stopped mental development as a teen. He just fires on instinct all the time, and hasn’t had a conscious thought in decades

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        “When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different.”

        By his own admission, teen is being far too generous.

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          McDonald’s is almost the cost of places like Five Guys in many areas now. They have priced themselves out of fast food into fast casual, but still providing the same product. And people are starting to notice finally.

          Less than a decade ago I was able to get a McDouble, McChicken and small fries for $3+tax. Now the McChicken alone is more expensive than that, and the three together are nearly $9 here.

          That’s not inflation, it’s not based on increases in materials cost or labor cost. It doesn’t cost them 3x as much to make those items now, it’s just raised prices for profit and excuses to try and justify it.

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      Not defending Trump in any way but I could imagine the Saudis did this of their own initiative, to please him.

      Bit difficult to tell if all OP provided is a picture & a headline.

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    How did this work legally? Did the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia contract with McDonald’s Corp. (based in the US) to build and/or operate the restaurant, license their trademarks and recipes for a one-off operation, or buy enough of a stake in them to allow them to use their IP?

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      Yes, the royal families in countries like them and the UAE are absurdly rich and like showing off. They flex on the richest billionaires, because not only do they have a net value that is thought to be higher then Musk, it’s not just on paper - they can spend insane amounts without worrying about hurting stock prices

      They probably have food trucks like this for all kinds of restaurants, just sitting on standby. There’s no way they’re not legit - the whole point is to flaunt. This is probably normally used for like their kids pool parties or something

      Or maybe they really did get this set up for Trump, in which case it’s still definitely legit. It even has the new decor they’ve been bringing to their restaurants

      Remember, with the super rich the inefficiency is the point. They’d probably flog everyone for shaming them or something if it came out this wasn’t “real” McDonald’s

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      Are you actually that fucking dumb? McDonald KFC and a bunch other fast food franchises are all over the world even in a lot of Africans country and in all gulf countries. I thought this was common knowledge

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        There is nothing dumb about not knowing something, and asking honestly. It would be dumb not to ask or to shame someone else for asking.

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        Even knowing this allows for the questions being asked, Humperdinck. It is one thing to have franchisees operating in your country. That doesn’t answer the legal and technical mechanics of the actual Saudi Government arranging for this. It’s also well known but not common knowledge that the royal family owns a lot of the businesses in the country anyway so the lines are extra blurry but the point is that none of this is like…in the zeitgeist or something. Certainly not straightforward enough to rate such a shirty response.