rant

McDonald's is hereby declared the winner of "Most Mind-Boggling Business Model" award. I went there twice, last night and today, and I've been realizing some crucially paradoxical things about their business model.

1) It's dumb to kill your most faithful customers by heart attacks. You lose a lot of business that way.
2) You need to make food that is edible for more than two days in a row. And salad that actually has less calories than the burgers on the dollar menu.
3) The counter-people keep asking what size drink I want. All of them are priced at $1. Why ask?
4) Last night, as James, Joe, Mikey, and I were in McDonald's, looking for the cheapest deal for the most food (because we were breaking fast), Joe noted that 3 sets of 4-piece McNuggets were cheaper than 1 10-piece McNuggets. We laughed over it, and James said, "I bet 90% of people don't even realize it though." I said, "Yeah, people are in general too stupid to notice that kind of stuff."

This morning, I bought a 6-piece McNugget set. It cost 2.39. Yet 4-piece McNugget sets cost 1.19. You do the math.

Words come back to bite me in the butt.