USGrant1962
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Latest news reports, board chair has overridden CEO, says no surge pricing.
Citation? There was nothing to override. The CEO never said surge pricing, the press made that up.
Latest news reports, board chair has overridden CEO, says no surge pricing.
Citation? There was nothing to override. The CEO never said surge pricing, the press made that up.
To the casual observer those look like different names for the same thing. Those of us with a lifetime of experience in the corporate world see this as a way to say surge pricing without using the word surge.Beginning as early as 2025, we will begin testing more enhanced features like dynamic pricing
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1234412431/wendys-dynamic-surge-pricing[Dynamic] Airlines began varying ticket prices in the 1980s, Shumsky said, noting that customers grumbled about it at first but eventually came to accept it. Today, the practice of announcing price hikes during peak times is still commonplace. Think higher-priced theme park tickets on weekends.
[Surge] More recently, though, technological advancements have made it easier for companies to make minute-to-minute price changes in real-time based on fluctuating demand. The ride hailing app Uber famously uses surge pricing, hiking prices on rides when weather or other factors cause demand to skyrocket.
This is straight up loonie in my opinion. Do they have a new CFO? The marketing person must be locked in a closet, pounding on the door trying to get out. snip
Sadly, I think it will work and spread. I watch in amazement at the number of Doordash deliveries in my little cul-de-sac.
Kid avoids fast food on-duty because he doesn't want any 'extras' added to his food while wearing the uniform.
Reminds me of when I was a columnist for a daily newspaper. I never got to write my own headlines because the paper had a dedicated group of a few guys whose only duty was to write all the headlines.
Reporters and writers would frequently complain to the editors about headlines that were only vaguely related to the text of the articles and sometimes even flat out wrong.
The editors could do nothing about it because the headline writers had a union job and were well protected.
Will they also lower prices when customer traffic is at a low ebb, almost non extistent
I suspect that will be a definite "NO"
Uber does surge pricing and it works. But folks have a choice pay or walk and the distance is almost always too far to walk, so no choice.
But restaurants can't really have surge pricing, I think folks are just going to refuse to buy a $30 hamburger from Wendy's.
I'd eat a PB & Jam sandwich before I'd pay even $10 for a Wendy's hamburger.
If they can change the price at any moment, then it seems fair to me we can negotiate that price before accepting it. What do you think? Probably a waste of time.
Ditto. Been in fast food joint once in the last 15 years.
With our grandchildren. And we both threw away our Big Macs after the first bite. Awful.
I tried (a long time ago) at a Burger King to negotiate.If they can change the price at any moment, then it seems fair to me we can negotiate that price before accepting it. What do you think? Probably a waste of time.
Ditto. Been in fast food joint once in the last 15 years.
With our grandchildren. And we both threw away our Big Macs after the first bite. Awful.
People do fast food because it's cheaper and faster, not because they're good...I've never understood the attraction to Big Macs.
Our city has dozens of very good individual burger places, so there's no need to go to a chain unless you want to.