MORNING RANT - The Corporate Follies: Wing Stop Decided to Become <i>“a Tech Company that also Sells Wings,”</i> and Puzzlingly, It’s Now Struggling to Sell Wings

MORNING RANT - The Corporate Follies: Wing Stop Decided to Become “a Tech Company that also Sells Wings,” and Puzzlingly, It’s Now Struggling to Sell Wings

News that a quick-service restaurant chain is suffering from a persistent decline in sales is not necessarily a significant story. At any given time, some restaurant chains are growing, some are stable, and some are in decline. The headlines about Wing Stop’s struggles only caught my eye because there was one near a former office of mine. I liked Wing Stop’s food and I was a frequent customer when there was a convenient location. Now, reading about its current problems, I see that Wing Stop is yet another mismanaged company wishing to be something it’s not. In this case, it’s a fast-food restaurant chain trying to re-imagine itself in the spirit of Silicon Valley.

Quite simply, the wing joint adopted a “digital-first strategy” in 2021, but many customers refused to play along as Wing Stop strove to avoid human interaction with its patrons. As customers were repelled by gimmicks that made ordering food more difficult, Wing Stop’s executives doubled down on their vision of making Wing Stop a tech company. They continued to reject their legacy model of serving wings and fries to customers who simply walk up to the counter and place an order.

Wing Stop’s current predicament is that same-store sales have declined significantly for six quarters in a row, with a cumulative decline exceeding 30%. That is a catastrophic level of lost revenue.

Amidst this free fall, Wing Stop’s CEO, Michael Skipworth, remains hell-bent on remaking the company into a digital company that rejects cash and customer interactions. In an interview with Restaurant Business Online in April 2024, Skipworth called Wing Stop “a technology company that sells chicken wings.”

A 2024 article in Nation’s Restaurant News quoted Skipworth as remaining committed to completely eliminating customer interactions, stating that “The company has a goal of digitizing 100% of transactions.”

An article in Nation’s Restaurant News last month discussed how proud Mr. Skipworth is about making its kiosk ordering system slower than ordering at a counter. He boasted that customers don’t feel rushed at a kiosk, therefore they spend about 50% more time placing an order than it takes to order from a human at a counter, and that the prompts and slow ordering process can lead to incremental menu items being ordered via a kiosk.

Slowing down the ordering process for fast food seems like a rather bold strategy. But what about the customers who’d prefer to just walk up to the counter and quickly place their order with a live human? What about the people stuck waiting behind a slow person navigating the kiosk and all its upsells? What about the people with cash in their pockets but lacking a credit card? The decline in same-store sales almost certainly includes many patrons who now view the ordering process as a time-consuming hassle, and then never came back.

Even worse, the fact that Wing Stop’s CEO dismisses its core product as being an afterthought to tech is a reminder of the poisoned philosophy that has captured so many C-Suites. That mindset is:

• Products are interchangeable units. In too many CEO minds, there is no difference between a chicken wing or an airplane seat or an appliance. Those are all just generic products to which business school wizardry is applied.

• Customer service is not considered a part of the product being sold.

• Staffing to assist customers is considered an intolerable expense.

• Customers are seen as remitters of electronic payments rather than as valued patrons.

• Product quality is not a primary focus.

If I were on the Board of a company (let’s call it “Acme Widget” ) and I inquired of the CEO what the mission of the company is, the answer I would need to hear is something like “Acme delivers shareholder value by selling the best widgets available, while providing an excellent customer experience.” If the CEO replied that his vision is to pivot Acme into a technology company that just happens to sell widgets, I would seek to replace him.

It’s almost funny that concurrent with its plummeting revenue, Wing Stop is boasting that its Q3 2026 digital sales are up to a record 74%! Percentages are funny that way. By running off cash and counter-service customers, the percentage of digital customer sales necessarily had to increase, even if the actual dollar amount didn’t.

To be fair, ordering fast food via an app is quicker and easier for loyal customers than having to order at a counter every visit. There is a chain sandwich shop near my office from whom I routinely order my usual lunch in just a matter of seconds via an app. I appreciate the convenience, and it’s imperative that fast food joints have an app for their loyal customers. But I refuse to download an app and add payment info for every eatery that I occasionally visit, especially not on my first visit.

Wing Stop has chosen to run off all but its most frequent customers in an effort to become a tech company. That does not sound like a restaurant growth strategy, nor a way to attract new customers, but it does sound like a contagious business fad that can wreck a company.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 Hi

Posted by: Lizzy at November 06, 2026 11:00 AM (rOKnE)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 06, 2026 11:01 AM (2614e)

3 Mornin' Buck.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 06, 2026 11:01 AM (2614e)

4 >>• Customers are seen as remitters of electronic payments rather than as valued patrons.

We are (revenue) farmed, not served.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 06, 2026 11:01 AM (rOKnE)

5 It doesn't help that Wing Stop's wings kinda suck.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 06, 2026 11:02 AM (2614e)

6 Methinks MBAs are not going to be popular in this thread.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 06, 2026 11:02 AM (Riz8t)

7 I'm not sure why he thinks digital interactions at a store are such a winner. I can get all the frustration and anger I want via my home computer.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 06, 2026 11:03 AM (Riz8t)

8 Old and busted: “a technology company that sells chicken wings.”

New hotness: A real estate holder that sells off its restaurant properties.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 06, 2026 11:04 AM (rOKnE)

9 I don't want to pay $18.00 for 12 wings. Is that wrong?

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 06, 2026 11:04 AM (OkYzo)

10 What I require of a fast food restaurant is a quick and seamless experience ordering food that arrives quickly and is as advertised.

As Buck points out; if I have to navigate some stupid ordering system that prolongs the irritation of being in the restaurant in the first place, I will not be a happy camper.

This is not rocket surgery!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 06, 2026 11:05 AM (k5CNB)

11 >>• Customer service is not considered a part of the product being sold.

Saw what you want about the owners, but customer interaction at Chik-fil-A is ALWAYS pleasant.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 06, 2026 11:06 AM (rOKnE)

12 9 I don't want to pay $18.00 for 12 wings. Is that wrong?

Oh? Would you rather pay $24, because that's what that attitude is going to get you, you whiner.

Posted by: Wing Stop CEO Michael Skipworth at November 06, 2026 11:06 AM (Riz8t)

13 If I go into a restaurant and must download an app in order to have a meal, I walk out and never return.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at November 06, 2026 11:06 AM (0U5gm)

14 Several years ago I ordered pizza from a local pizza joint. I ordered it online and had to jump through a number of hoops before I was able to get it done. Far more complicated than it needed to be.

It would have been far quicker and easier to order over the phone.

Which is what I'll probably do next time I order pizza from that location.

Most of the time I prefer to go there to eat, though.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 06, 2026 11:07 AM (s2iZv)

15 I never use a restaurant app - allergies can't. So, I hate them.

Funny enough, my non allergic kids hate them, too b/c they don't want any more sh&t clogging up their phones...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 06, 2026 11:07 AM (Gb7+b)

16 CEO's that know nothing about the industry they're getting to lead doesn't tend to work out very well.

This guy knows NOTHING about the fast food industry, obviously. He's destroying it.

Same as the asshole that tried to destroy Southwest Airlines.

Same as the buffoons leading Ford Motor Company right now.

It seems a Masters Degree in anything means you can take on any job you want because, well, MASTERS DEGREE!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 06, 2026 11:07 AM (2614e)

17
This story occurs again and again. A company that is managed by people who don't acknowledge that the purpose of a company is to make money.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 06, 2026 11:08 AM (ienUH)

18 Never had a Wing Stop wing. Don't care for that particular sort of food, anyway.

But the fact that the company is trying to eliminate as many humans as possible reminds me of something I was thinking about while trying to find a reason to get out of bed - a recurrent complaint from the 'young' is that life is too expensive; they can't afford a decent apartment, their wages are too low and forget about even trying to save a nest egg for a house. . .

Am I Grandpa Simpson for thinking that if these yutes want to save money, they should give up DoorDash, Uber, Tovala and every other form of 'convenience' that is only convenient to hoovering bux out of their pockets?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 06, 2026 11:08 AM (qRla/)

19 Skipworth called Wing Stop “a technology company that sells chicken wings.”

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You have to go to school for a lot of years to get that stupid.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 06, 2026 11:08 AM (2UnvF)

20 As Buck points out; if I have to navigate some stupid ordering system that prolongs the irritation of being in the restaurant in the first place, I will not be a happy camper.

This is not rocket surgery!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 06, 2026 11:05 AM (k5CNB)

Last time I stopped in a McDonald's and had to use their kiosk, it wasn't the most pleasurable experience, to say the least.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 06, 2026 11:09 AM (2614e)

21 That said, I will order online from a website if they have a place for changes and allergies. I will tip for takeout, and then I will verify the order at the restaurant at the pick up (I will never order for delivery). So, I will tech - just my way with no sh&t on my phone, either, and more room for text to be seen and read...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 06, 2026 11:09 AM (Gb7+b)

22 I spent a shitton of money on a college education. I'm smarter than you.

Give me all control......I will impose my brilliance upon the world.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 06, 2026 11:10 AM (2614e)

23 This story occurs again and again. A company that is managed by people who don't acknowledge that the purpose of a company is to make money.

Akshually, I think the problem is that far too often, they are willing to do absolutely anything for a short-term bump in profits, without considering whether they're destroying the attributes that made the company popular in the first place.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 06, 2026 11:10 AM (Riz8t)

24 >>Funny enough, my non allergic kids hate them, too b/c they don't want any more sh&t clogging up their phones...

Also more expensive in my experience, when it's a 3rd party app/website.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 06, 2026 11:10 AM (rOKnE)

25 Bummer. I actually liked Wingstop.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 06, 2026 11:10 AM (svLOV)

26 Skipworth called Wing Stop “a technology company that sells chicken wings.”

This tells me you don't give a flying f*ck about the people nor the food you produce.

Jackwagon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 06, 2026 11:11 AM (2614e)

27 Last time I stopped in a McDonald's and had to use their kiosk, it wasn't the most pleasurable experience, to say the least.......

Every time I'm forced to use a kiosk, I can't help recalling all those stories about how public surface like gas pump handles are covered with fecal material and E. Coli. I'm sure those kiosks are no better.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 06, 2026 11:12 AM (Riz8t)

28 I'm old enough to remember when you could get 5 cent wings with good size and quality and customer service and cheap beer. Alas, those halycon days are long past.

Posted by: Any better, I'd be twins at November 06, 2026 11:13 AM (2CeDH)

29 a technology company that sells chicken wings.

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See it was cool to say that McDonald's was a real estate company that sold burgers. Makes MBA finance people sound smart.

Whether true or not, you still have to sell food to real customers.

Posted by: SH at November 06, 2026 11:13 AM (qCV5n)

30 Wings?? Luxury! If we were lucky we got the ankles!

Posted by: fd at November 06, 2026 11:14 AM (MWfyi)

31
Good morning, all.

My theory is that some CEOs don't want to be "caretakers" of the brand and merely let it continue to be profitable and familiar. They want to leave their mark. They want to be on the cover of Fortune. They want to be famous beyond the business world.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 06, 2026 11:15 AM (mmrXZ)

32 When making road trips, McDonalds was our usual stop for coffee and sometimes lunch. The kiosk ordering made it such a pain we no longer stop there.

About this: "In too many CEO minds, there is no difference between a chicken wing or an airplane seat or an appliance. "

Not a new phenomena. Way back at the end of the last century I moved to a new job with my company, doing sales support at an automotive customer. The two major divisions were called "Develop Product" and "Produce Product".

I wondered how many customers went to the car dealership and asked the salesman for a product.

Posted by: George V at November 06, 2026 11:15 AM (g6ahB)

33 I've noticed that both In & Out and CFA employ a lot of actual people, and both those stores have lines out the door. Amazingly enough, their employees are nice and seem to actually enjoy being there and servicing the customer.

In an AI world, this is the way forward.

Posted by: SH at November 06, 2026 11:15 AM (qCV5n)

34 If you haven't noticed, products and services suck nowadays.

Posted by: fd at November 06, 2026 11:16 AM (MWfyi)

35 I'm old enough to remember when you could get 5 cent wings with good size and quality and customer service and cheap beer. Alas, those halycon days are long past.
Posted by: Any better, I'd be twins at November 06, 2026 11:13 AM (2CeDH)

People loved to dump on Hooters, but I found their wings to be some of the best on the market.

I love a good sized wing, breaded and tossed in whatever sauce I choose, dripping on the plate as I eat it. Hooters was really good at it.

That technique is lost nowadays.

They were on their way back to that when Hulk Hogan took over and was bringing it back to original, then he died and they're all closing down.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 06, 2026 11:16 AM (2614e)

36 I'll say this, Wingstop's ranch dressing is fantastic.

Posted by: SH at November 06, 2026 11:17 AM (qCV5n)

37 COVID did such a number on Mickey D's.
The customer at the counter is assiduously ignored.
All attention is given to The Great And Powerful Drive Thru.
The big kiosk is completely non-intuitve and frankly a bit intimidating.
And no more bright primary colors. Just blah grey and off white surfaces with the occasional brown laminate.
All housed within a personality-free utilitarian square box which can easily be converted into a Taco Bell in less than a week.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 06, 2026 11:17 AM (2Ez/1)

38 Lesbian Bars that go national !!! Maybe call them Last Ditch!!!

Posted by: tubal at November 06, 2026 11:18 AM (Gqar8)

39 1990's Hooters would make absolute bank right now.

Posted by: SH at November 06, 2026 11:18 AM (qCV5n)

40 If you haven't noticed, products and services suck nowadays.

I think that's partially because lots of Americans, but especially MBAs and yoots, think producing a product that appeals to people is beneath them, and that the companies for which they work should just be grateful to have their services for awhile.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 06, 2026 11:18 AM (Riz8t)

41
I don't want to pay $18.00 for 12 wings.

You want wing affordability.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 06, 2026 11:19 AM (Cqx++)

42 Wings? I remember when the Menendez Brothers killed their parents and collected the payouts from the father's company, the first thing they wanted to do was buy their favorite chicken wings store in their former home in New Jersey. "Shoot Mom and Dad! For the wings!"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 06, 2026 11:19 AM (o2Pnv)

43 If you haven't noticed, products and services suck nowadays.
Posted by: fd at November 06, 2026 11:16 AM (MWfyi)

Children have been raised by TV, the internet and video games. They have the social interaction skills of a sloth.

You can tell a well raised kid by how they interact in a customer service job. There are still good ones out there, but few and far between.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 06, 2026 11:20 AM (2614e)

44 My theory is that some CEOs don't want to be "caretakers" of the brand and merely let it continue to be profitable and familiar. They want to leave their mark. They want to be on the cover of Fortune. They want to be famous beyond the business world.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 06, 2026 11:15 AM (mmrXZ)

Exactly. They want to be ray Kroc, Dave Thomas or Harland Sanders. Nobody wants to be John Y Brown.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 06, 2026 11:20 AM (qRla/)

45 Skipworth called Wing Stop “a technology company that sells chicken wings.”

I'd rather go to a fast-food restaurant that sells military hardware.

Posted by: t-bird at November 06, 2026 11:21 AM (oh+I7)

46 Wings?? Luxury! If we were lucky we got the ankles!

Posted by: fd at November 06, 2026 11:14 AM (MWfyi)

You asked for it........ish....

https://youtu.be/pIshmVf-Tts

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 06, 2026 11:21 AM (2614e)

47
a technology company that sells chicken wings

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Once the management decides they're not fundamentally a company that sells a product, they can be anything: a technology company, a fort made of cardboard boxes that has a sign on it saying "No Heteros Allowed," anything. For a year or two, then they go bankrupt. .

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 06, 2026 11:22 AM (4Aqsh)

48 Thx Buck
Skipworth got paid $35.3m in 2025 . His BS is working for him

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 06, 2026 11:23 AM (7XuqV)

49 ZH: Foreign-born workers soar by 809K in October, the biggest monthly increase since Jan 2025
Native-born workers dropped by 64K

https://x.com/zerohedge/status/2118711025012756498

Now that's some intelligent President'in right there!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 06, 2026 11:24 AM (qwx/I)

50 wingsoverusa.com

Bonham Menu

Walk in, walk to counter, talk to human, place order.

Easy peasy. Beats wing stop.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 06, 2026 11:24 AM (zFF15)

51 >>I've noticed that both In & Out and CFA employ a lot of actual people, and both those stores have lines out the door. Amazingly enough, their employees are nice and seem to actually enjoy being there and servicing the customer.

It's a good sign that the company treats they employees well, and in turn, they treat the customers well. Amazing how that works: valuing your employees and your customers!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 06, 2026 11:24 AM (rOKnE)

52 The oldest axiom in business is never piss off your customers. How many times a day is this violated? I've been in meetings where they literally discussed ways to make it harder for customers to be satisfied.

I work for a company now that prioritizes itinerant customers over long time ones. We were bought out about three years ago by a behemoth version of our company to become the largest in our industry. Our new masters have a different format to their primary product although it is much the same as ours. But their business model, at least to me, places the priority on short term gain over long term customers. Oh well. I'm just playing out the string now until something better comes along.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at November 06, 2026 11:25 AM (gynjj)

53 A few good chains out there still. Chick-fil-a, Culver’s, Olive Garden - - -

Posted by: tubal at November 06, 2026 11:26 AM (Gqar8)

54 a technology company that sells chicken wings

In fairness, GM has been a finance company that sells cars as a sideline for years.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 06, 2026 11:26 AM (4NO2D)

55 They want to leave their mark. They want to be on the cover of Fortune. They want to be famous beyond the business world.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 06, 2026 11:15 AM

Tell me more...

Posted by: Elizabeth Holmes at November 06, 2026 11:26 AM (2Ez/1)

56 Had wing stop for a game a few weeks ago. Enjoyed the wings a lot. My wife does the ordering for these things since I have no patience and I believe she just called it in. I'll have to ask.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at November 06, 2026 11:26 AM (gynjj)

57 I went into a McDonald's for the first time in about 5 years and I completely understand why they are losing revenue. (And are going to flush 8 BILLION to figure out why.)

Their ordering kiosks are cumbersome and don't give a receipt or an order number. You could not order via a real person.

Downloading an app while there is bullshit.

The food was somewhat expensive for McD's and it took 8-10 minutes to deliver one egg and sausage breakfast sandwich (no meal).

Who made these retarded decisions?

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 06, 2026 11:27 AM (iOpI2)

58 Buffalo Wild Wings. Good, bad, Horde?

Posted by: tubal at November 06, 2026 11:27 AM (Gqar8)

59
38 Lesbian Bars that go national !!! Maybe call them Last Ditch!!!
Posted by: tubal at November 06, 2026 11:18 AM

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"The Neglected Crevice."

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 06, 2026 11:28 AM (4Aqsh)

60 The food was somewhat expensive for McD's and it took 8-10 minutes to deliver one egg and sausage breakfast sandwich (no meal).

Who made these retarded decisions?

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I honestly think McDonald's should go back to the basics. Just offer burgers, fries and drinks (one size). Sort of an In & Out light.

Posted by: SH at November 06, 2026 11:28 AM (qCV5n)

61 About GM, I read something years ago that one of their executives described themselves (not happily) as a health care company that sells cars. Their union deal provides ridiculous health benefits to current and former employees and they have a huge division of the company that simply manages the health plan. Surprised they haven't folded yet.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at November 06, 2026 11:29 AM (gynjj)

62 "Wings?? Luxury! If we were lucky we got the ankles!

Posted by: fd at November 06, 2026 11:14 AM (MWfyi)

You asked for it........ish....

https://youtu.be/pIshmVf-Tts
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer"

My people use all parts of the chicken.

Posted by: fd at November 06, 2026 11:29 AM (MWfyi)

63 Precisely the reason I hardly ever go to a McDonalds anymore. What with the damnfool ordering kiosks with their snot-covered touchscreens, and video screen menus that keep scrolling so quickly that one cannot make meaningful price comparisons between alternative choices, eating there is a PITA.

And I won't put anybody's app on my phone. Why let the cocksuckers track me and monitor my spending habits?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 06, 2026 11:29 AM (yky4J)

64 "If I were on the Board of a company ..."

... I'd definitely stay out of the restaurant business, the most treacherous of all.

Posted by: gp at November 06, 2026 11:30 AM (Jr5Lq)

65 When I'm on a road trip I just look for a local barbeque joint.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 06, 2026 11:31 AM (2Ez/1)

66 Skipworth got paid $35.3m in 2025 . His BS is working for him
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Damn. 5% of the company's revenues going to the CEO and he runs that golden goose into the ground. Heckuva job, there, Sparky.

Posted by: t-bird at November 06, 2026 11:31 AM (oh+I7)

67 Generally a company can only do very few things well.

Sometimes someone like Amazon will hit lightning - from selling books to selling other people's stuff to AWS but most companies that diversify outside the areas they are good at fail.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 06, 2026 11:32 AM (sKqQm)

68 I honestly think McDonald's should go back to the basics. Just offer burgers, fries and drinks (one size).

Which is just how the McDonald brothers started out in San Berdoo all those years ago.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 06, 2026 11:32 AM (qRla/)

69 I used to be a thing.

Posted by: Boston Market at November 06, 2026 11:33 AM (2Ez/1)

70 Order wings from a kiosk or order wings from a Hooters waitress? Decisions, decisions.

Posted by: Cosda at November 06, 2026 11:33 AM (FVUW0)

71 Posted by: tubal at November 06, 2026 11:26

Was at Chik-Fil-A this morning with spouse. We had a chicken, bacon and waffle sandwich. I liked the fact they had real flowers on their tables, and as I was walking around waiting I saw a large table and said the table was made from wood from abandoned and forgotten houses made by people who once felt abandoned and forgotten . It is apparently a ministry: www.morethanatable.com. I am going to look it up. I also liked the fact that they had a table with those "shoebox Christmas boxes" you could fill and give to Samaritan's Purse to hand out.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 06, 2026 11:33 AM (JrHfD)

72 I pretty much never go to McDs. I could get a better burger from any of the local subshops and amazingly now usually for cheaper.

Of course I can make a better burger then them too assuming the weather lets me get the grill

Posted by: 18-1 at November 06, 2026 11:33 AM (sKqQm)

73
About GM, I read something years ago that one of their executives described themselves (not happily) as a health care company that sells cars. Their union deal provides ridiculous health benefits to current and former employees and they have a huge division of the company that simply manages the health plan. Surprised they haven't folded yet.
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz

Medicare for all will put an end to that.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 06, 2026 11:33 AM (Cqx++)

74 Do not get me started on industries that investment capital firms have bought.

Buy a company.
Make so many cuts it's impossible to make anything good.
Company loses revenue.
Investment company sells off property.
PROFIT!!! But this time they actually do.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 06, 2026 11:33 AM (iOpI2)

75 49 ZH: Foreign-born workers soar by 809K in October, the biggest monthly increase since Jan 2025
Native-born workers dropped by 64K

https://x.com/zerohedge/status/2118711025012756498

Now that's some intelligent President'in right there!
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 06, 2026 11:24 AM (qwx/I)

So job gains still didn't go to young white male dudes...tracks with their voting...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 06, 2026 11:34 AM (Gb7+b)

76 wingsoverusa.com

Bonham Menu

Walk in, walk to counter, talk to human, place order.

Easy peasy. Beats wing stop.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 06, 2026 11:24 AM (zFF15)

I don't see an option for breaded wings......

I gots ta have my breaded....holds the sauce so much better.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 06, 2026 11:34 AM (2614e)

77 The wing restaurant experiences I have had are sub-meh. Buffalo, Wings n Tings, a small local chain. Food ranged from pretty good to barely OK (none was better than what I make at home). Prices? Laughably outrageous. This goes back long before The Great Idiocy. Just part of an overall trend. We stopped eating out except for a handful of excellent places. The value proposition completely disappeared.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 06, 2026 11:34 AM (U/Byj)

78 For businesses using damn QR codes at point of sale or contact, please learn that not ALL customers have f'n smartphones.

Posted by: gp at November 06, 2026 11:34 AM (Jr5Lq)

79 The oldest axiom in business is never piss off your customers. How many times a day is this violated? I've been in meetings where they literally discussed ways to make it harder for customers to be satisfied.

I work for a company now that prioritizes itinerant customers over long time ones. We were bought out about three years ago by a behemoth version of our company to become the largest in our industry. Our new masters have a different format to their primary product although it is much the same as ours. But their business model, at least to me, places the priority on short term gain over long term customers. Oh well. I'm just playing out the string now until something better comes along.
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz

Call my company's customer service line and you will get a US based human being 24/7/365 who has the authority to actually solve problems.

That's the one thing long term customers keep giving the thumbs up to in annual surveys.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 06, 2026 11:35 AM (zFF15)

80 When we go out to eat our hierarchy of demands on the place are food quality, price and service. In that order. Abject failure in any of those three will cause a cancellation. Two out of three being good will get us to return.

Posted by: tubal at November 06, 2026 11:35 AM (Gqar8)

81 I honestly think McDonald's should go back to the basics. Just offer burgers, fries and drinks (one size). Sort of an In & Out light.
Posted by: SH at November 06, 2026 11:28 AM (qCV5n)

They've done that - there's no produce on their menu save apple slices. For food, they have done what you want.

Beverages are now the only place really complicated.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 06, 2026 11:35 AM (Gb7+b)

82 It seems a Masters Degree in anything means you can take on any job you want because, well, MASTERS DEGREE!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November

If you really want to be humored by how meaningless this is, let me remind you that I have an MBA.

Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 11:35 AM (ZdaMQ)

83 I don't see an option for breaded wings......

I gots ta have my breaded....holds the sauce so much better.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Boneless. Love 'em.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 06, 2026 11:35 AM (zFF15)

84 Order wings from a kiosk or order wings from a Hooters waitress? Decisions, decisions.

A while back they opened a Hooters in Boston. Some angry feminist fire bombed it

Now this was a generation of feminism ago and back then the idea men could pay to have good looking women in shorts pretend to like them was a bridge to far for feminists.

I can't imagine how a business like that would work since trannies were introduced. Hire one as a waiter and you'll be down to serving Talaricos and Barack Obamas. Don't hire one and you'll be sued into oblivion.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 06, 2026 11:35 AM (sKqQm)

85 "ZH: Foreign-born workers soar by 809K in October, the biggest monthly increase since Jan 2025
Native-born workers dropped by 64K "

Cripes.

Posted by: gp at November 06, 2026 11:36 AM (Jr5Lq)

86 Depends on how high the required wage is.

I was in Silicon Valley a few years ago, and I ate at a fast-food place where you placed your order and paid via your phone or a kiosk, got a text when your order was ready, and grabbed your order.

Zero human interaction.

Fast food chains in California have to pay their workers $20 an hour, so it pencils out.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 06, 2026 11:37 AM (aD4fx)

87
It's a good sign that the company treats they employees well, and in turn, they treat the customers well. Amazing how that works: valuing your employees and your customers!
Posted by: Lizzy at November 06, 2026 11:24 AM (rOKnE)

Back in my business class day, we were taught their were 3 prongs that had to be balanced for a successful business - employees, customers, and owners (aka profit)...

In this day and age, most folks focus on the one, the profit to the exclusion of the other 2...and here we are, with AI being the newest way they screw the 2 prongs to just make more and more money.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 06, 2026 11:37 AM (Gb7+b)

88 71 Posted by: tubal at November 06, 2026 11:26

Was at Chik-Fil-A this morning with spouse. We had a chicken, bacon and waffle sandwich. I liked the fact they had real flowers on their tables, and as I was walking around waiting I saw a large table and said the table was made from wood from abandoned and forgotten houses made by people who once felt abandoned and forgotten . It is apparently a ministry: www.morethanatable.com. I am going to look it up. I also liked the fact that they had a table with those "shoebox Christmas boxes" you could fill and give to Samaritan's Purse to hand out.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 06, 2026 11:33 AM (JrHfD)

Yes, they are a bright light in the food industry. And, I like the food, so that helps. Not an after church lunch option, though.😉

Posted by: tubal at November 06, 2026 11:37 AM (Gqar8)

89 Buffalo Wild Wings. Good, bad, Horde?
Posted by: tubal

Good. Overpriced.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 06, 2026 11:37 AM (zFF15)

90 Foreign-born workers soar by 809K in October, the biggest monthly increase since Jan 2025
Native-born workers dropped by 64K

Trump somewhat improved things over Biden but I think there was a fair expectation he'd do much more then he did.

Of course, theoretically we held congress as well and they could also have done something...anything...with their time in office

Posted by: 18-1 at November 06, 2026 11:37 AM (sKqQm)

91
Tell me more...
Posted by: Elizabeth Holmes

================

You and John DeLorean flashed through my mind, although you don't *quite* qualify. You guys didn't take a good company and sink it; you each simply founded a shipwreck. But same principle applied to an industry -- get insanely ambitious to make your mark on an existing industry when you are actually clueless in some crucial area.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 06, 2026 11:38 AM (mmrXZ)

92 The hand helds / iPads used to take an order at the table are a buzzkill too. I just want to place my order, not have to wait while they scroll through the menu to find the tater tot button.

Posted by: scampydog at November 06, 2026 11:38 AM (2bFN5)

93 Great point, great example, and well written.

This is some platinum level content.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at November 06, 2026 11:39 AM (LO74d)

94 I can't imagine how a business like that would work since trannies were introduced. Hire one as a waiter and you'll be down to serving Talaricos and Barack Obamas. Don't hire one and you'll be sued into oblivion.
Posted by: 18-1

Seems the American public likes Talafreako.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 06, 2026 11:39 AM (zFF15)

95 Imagine, for a moment, if America had been a zealous about protecting its tech industry from foreign encroachment all the way back to the 90s

Instead we gave it all away and most of those high paid American software engineers became moderately paid Indians...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 06, 2026 11:40 AM (sKqQm)

96 Am I Grandpa Simpson for thinking that if these yutes want to save money, they should give up DoorDash, Uber, Tovala and every other form of 'convenience' that is only convenient to hoovering bux out of their pockets?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Not necessarily, but I think it would be a good idea to find out if the particular yute you are talking to does any of that, and then start with "Maybe we can look at your expenditures and see what' s going on?"

No faster way to be branded old and out of touch than hectoring before you understand the actual situation in front of you.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 06, 2026 11:40 AM (vJrRc)

97
And I won't put anybody's app on my phone. Why let the cocksuckers track me and monitor my spending habits?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November

This is going to make booking your workout at my studio problematic. 😊

Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 11:40 AM (ZdaMQ)

98 I also liked the fact that they had a table with those "shoebox Christmas boxes" you could fill and give to Samaritan's Purse to hand out.
___

Operation Christmas Child.

Our church participates in that every year.

One of my boxes went to a little girl in Chad.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 06, 2026 11:40 AM (qesug)

99 Great point, great example, and well written.

This is some platinum level content.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)

And we get it for free!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 06, 2026 11:40 AM (zFF15)

100 93 Great point, great example, and well written.

This is some platinum level content.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at November 06, 2026 11:39 AM (LO74d)

Buck’s posts are always worth a read.

Posted by: tubal at November 06, 2026 11:40 AM (Gqar8)

101 We stopped eating out except for a handful of excellent places. The value proposition completely disappeared.

I rarely eat out anymore, because the food generally isn't as good as I make at home, and I detest the fad of making them deliberately noisy, because this somehow conveys popularity.

I can afford good restaurants, so I reserve my trips for such places. My kids tease me for insisting on a tablecloth as the minimum test for a decent place.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 06, 2026 11:40 AM (Riz8t)

102 Wing Stop pitching itself as a "technology company" had nothing to do with the service of its food.

It wasn't about making the service better or worse or even any different at all.

The "we are a technology company" was a naked pitch to the stock market at a time when tech was the hot ticket in stocks. "Invest in us! We don't sell cheap chicken wings, we're a technology company."

You know what? It worked. Big time. The company's stock went up 400% after launching this stunt. It eventually came back down to earth, as actual earnings declined. But you can be sure all the executives and big investors made a pile of money on this stunt.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 06, 2026 11:40 AM (iFTx/)

103 98 I also liked the fact that they had a table with those "shoebox Christmas boxes" you could fill and give to Samaritan's Purse to hand out.
___

Operation Christmas Child.

Our church participates in that every year.

One of my boxes went to a little girl in Chad.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 06, 2026 11:40 AM (qesug)

We just got ours filled/done. Fantastic ministry.

Posted by: tubal at November 06, 2026 11:41 AM (Gqar8)

104 For businesses using damn QR codes at point of sale or contact, please learn that not ALL customers have f'n smartphones.
Posted by: gp at November 06, 2026 11:34 AM (Jr5Lq)

I don't know if my phone will even read a QR code. And I don't have mobile data enabled, so it's probably moot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 06, 2026 11:41 AM (yky4J)

105 Oh FFS! We just had one open in the Township.

AI Overview: The Ridley Township location—alongside thousands of others—runs on an AI-powered system. It uses an AI forecasting engine that predicts order demand every 15 minutes by tracking local weather, school calendars, and events.

They completely eliminated paper order tickets. Kitchen crew members use digitized, gamified touchscreens and readiness displays to cut down average ticket wait times.

So, while they don't sell tech, they use advanced automation under the hood to fry and outpace traditional fast-food kitchens."

Our Commissioners, for a dollar...

When it fails, we'll likely learn it had been granted a 10-year tax abatement 'gift,' like new empty warehouses.

Posted by: L - No nic... at November 06, 2026 11:41 AM (NFX2v)

106 Yes it is, tubal.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 06, 2026 11:41 AM (qesug)

107 There is a national chain sandwich shop near my house. They have more people working the app orders than they do walk-ins.
As I stand in line I laugh at the people who ordered on line who still have to wait. The place has much whelm and cannot handle the overflow.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 06, 2026 11:41 AM (2WIwB)

108 When we go out to eat our hierarchy of demands on the place are food quality, price and service. In that order. Abject failure in any of those three will cause a cancellation. Two out of three being good will get us to return.

**************

Last night I went to a pizza joint on Perdido Key to catch a couple of friends on stage who are part of the Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival.

I had a small pizza (10") with three toppings and one Jack and Coke. The bill, not including the tip, came to $38.

Never again. I'll just stay home and open a can of soup.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 06, 2026 11:41 AM (J4Dwc)

109 Yes, they are a bright light in the food industry. And, I like the food, so that helps. Not an after church lunch option, though.😉

Sorry, but I can't get past their CEO saying that whites should shine blacks' shoes. CfA has been on my shit list ever since.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 06, 2026 11:41 AM (qRla/)

110 Ok, consumer news update.
I recently learned a neat trick you can do with the WallyMart phone app.
It will help you find a specific product by telling you the aisle and even the section. But sometimes even that isn't enough such as the densely packed vitamins or supplements area.
So you can take it to The Next Level.
The app will allow you to find the specific spot for your organic gluten free fair trade free range rose hips by FLASHING THE SHELF TAG LIGHT FOR TEN SECONDS.
Is this a great country, or what?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 06, 2026 11:41 AM (2Ez/1)

111 I have met Nevergiveup a few times at a local Applebees, and the wings were excellent, the beer was cold, and the bartender paid attention.

And not a kiosk to be found in the entire place!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 06, 2026 11:41 AM (k5CNB)

112 Am I Grandpa Simpson for thinking that if these yutes want to save money, they should give up DoorDash, Uber, Tovala and every other form of 'convenience' that is only convenient to hoovering bux out of their pockets?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Not necessarily, but I think it would be a good idea to find out if the particular yute you are talking to does any of that, and then start with "Maybe we can look at your expenditures and see what' s going on?"

No faster way to be branded old and out of touch than hectoring before you understand the actual situation in front of you.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

"I can't afford a house yet I only eat out 15 times a week!"

Posted by: rickb223 at November 06, 2026 11:41 AM (zFF15)

113 How did the foreign-born/native-born employment trend invert so radically? It's been dramatically in favor of natives for over a year I think.

And "smart Presidentin'" is securing the border, creating a self-deportation climate, substantially amending the H1-B process (making it much more expensive and difficult), and beginning to look at OPT and other stupid programs that are contrary to their actual intent.

But like the millions and millions of idiots who just handed the country over to an alien and stupid party with zero substance to offer (and which literally offered nothing), it's important these days to demand instant magical results.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 06, 2026 11:42 AM (U/Byj)

114 When one of my daughters was about 10, someone's brother owned a Hooters in the town where we were having a tournament.

They set up a number of tables for us on the patio and we had a great time. No one cared that the ladies serving had nice boobs and short shorts. Prices were good and everyone liked the food.

The girls on the team could have cared less. Now this was about 25 years ago, before everyone became ultra sensitive to everything. It might be different now.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 06, 2026 11:42 AM (iOpI2)

115 If you really want to be humored by how meaningless this is, let me remind you that I have an MBA.

Posted by: Piper

You hang out here, and that's a much better indicator of a brain than an MBA.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 06, 2026 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

116 I have met Nevergiveup a few times at a local Applebees, and the wings were excellent, the beer was cold, and the bartender paid attention.

And not a kiosk to be found in the entire place!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

I miss the Commodore.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 06, 2026 11:42 AM (zFF15)

117 Seems the American public likes Talafreako.

Looking at the election results my first though was, ok, they printed 20M votes like in 2020. But...that would mean they did it under the noses of a bunch of red state vote counters. Possible? Well maybe, but it does look like a bunch of LIVs voted D.

And why? Their issues are affordibility right and the price of gas right? Why would you vote for the people that doubled costs under Biden and also had $4 gas just a couple of years ago.

That leaves us with...they already forgot anything before 2 years ago, they didn't read any election coverage outside of an FNM headline, and still went and voted straight D...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 06, 2026 11:43 AM (sKqQm)

118 "I rarely eat out anymore" For chains, if I get a good discount coupon, I go. Otherwise, nope.

Posted by: gp at November 06, 2026 11:43 AM (Jr5Lq)

119 40 If you haven't noticed, products and services suck nowadays.

I think that's partially because lots of Americans, but especially MBAs and yoots, think producing a product that appeals to people is beneath them, and that the companies for which they work should just be grateful to have their services for awhile.

Posted by: Archimedes

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And primarily because we flooded the country with 3rd worlders who have no discernment because 1st world quality is new to them. Yes, they are a minority but they are the margins and companies always chase the margins.

I am in Japan and I can think of ZERO products that turned to shit with bad quality, fake oils, fake sugar, or chemicals. ZERO. (the do keep getting smaller though.)

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at November 06, 2026 11:43 AM (LO74d)

120 Am I Grandpa Simpson for thinking that if these yutes want to save money, they should give up DoorDash, Uber, Tovala and every other form of 'convenience' that is only convenient to hoovering bux out of their pockets?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Listen here ya stoopid boomer. Even if I gave up my $100 a day DoorDash habit I still could afford a house because a house costs more than $100.

Now where is my free health care and $100k remote,4 day a week job Democrats promised me?

Posted by: Gen Z at November 06, 2026 11:43 AM (O3eDY)

121
Wing Stop “a technology company that sells chicken wings.”

In that case, WingStop should be putting tiny traceable GPS chips in their wings, that implant in the gut lining when eaten, so-

they can know the whereabouts of their customers at all time,

And sell the info to Our Democrat Overlords.

Win-win.

Call me WingStop for other Helpful Tyrannical Ideas!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 06, 2026 11:44 AM (YSUhf)

122 116 I have met Nevergiveup a few times at a local Applebees, and the wings were excellent, the beer was cold, and the bartender paid attention.

And not a kiosk to be found in the entire place!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

I miss the Commodore.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 06, 2026 11:42 AM (zFF15)

Well, at the risk of being mocked, I have never had a bad experience dining at Applebee’s.

Posted by: tubal at November 06, 2026 11:44 AM (Gqar8)

123 Sorry, but I can't get past their CEO saying that whites should shine blacks' shoes. CfA has been on my shit list ever since.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 06, 2026 11:41 AM (qRla/)

CFA is a franchise, each place is independently owned. They have to follow the franchise rules, but is not a chain like an Olive Garden.

Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 11:45 AM (ZdaMQ)

124
They set up a number of tables for us on the patio and we had a great time. No one cared that the ladies serving had nice boobs and short shorts. Prices were good and everyone liked the food.

The same people that tell me that having a toddler watch a man in a miniskirt twerk in their face is fine and dandy also argue if you take a kid to hooters you are sexualizing them.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 06, 2026 11:45 AM (sKqQm)

125
And why? Their issues are affordibility right and the price of gas right? Why would you vote for the people that doubled costs under Biden and also had $4 gas just a couple of years ago.

Because they're stupid and can't connect actions to consequences?

Posted by: Archimedes at November 06, 2026 11:45 AM (Riz8t)

126 You and John DeLorean flashed through my mind, although you don't *quite* qualify. You guys didn't take a good company and sink it; you each simply founded a shipwreck. But same principle applied to an industry -- get insanely ambitious to make your mark on an existing industry when you are actually clueless in some crucial area.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 06, 2026 11:38 AM (mmrXZ)

DeLorean actually made and sold cars, and people bought them. But his financing was hinky.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 06, 2026 11:45 AM (yky4J)

127 "I don't know if my phone will even read a QR code. And I don't have mobile data enabled, so it's probably moot."

I tried to set up an account at ID.me. First they tried to get me to read a QR code. When that didn't work, they wanted me to turn on my cam and do an interview. I don't have a damn cam. F them.

Posted by: gp at November 06, 2026 11:45 AM (Jr5Lq)

128 Sorry, but I can't get past their CEO saying that whites should shine blacks' shoes. CfA has been on my shit list ever since.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 06, 2026 11:41 AM (qRla/)

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Really?? I'm out then.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 06, 2026 11:45 AM (iOpI2)

129 This is just one small example of the very large picture of the addiction to tech, AI and data centers. Many companies are pivoting because leaders have been convinced by other leaders this is the future and if you are not pivoting you are losing out... and yet. Check out the pivot for Google, Amazon, Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe (Add any other big tech company.) you can think of) Which one of these, or your own example, has so willingly and quickly abandoned it's core products for these new untested, wet behind the ear, over hyped, and clearly unprofitable products. I would challenge anyone to point out a tech company which still has a robust core product the company is protecting and promoting while also carefully experimenting, testing, evaluating as an enhancement to the core product, and implementing in a responsible business model with a risk assessment which will allow the company to survive.

Posted by: The Party of Hell No! at November 06, 2026 11:45 AM (wnlwW)

130 I'm not going to get involved in another generational squabble, but the idea of looking at expenditures and delaying gratification are never bad ideas.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 06, 2026 11:46 AM (Riz8t)

131 Wing Stop has chosen to run off all but its most frequent customers in an effort to become a tech company. That does not sound like a restaurant growth strategy, nor a way to attract new customers, but it does sound like a contagious business fad that can wreck a company.

Some companies should act as a warning for others. In this case Wing Stop has stepped forward and demonstrated that when people go out for food, its not purely about the food, its about the social engagement - for all the anti-social troglodytes, there is DoorDash.

Posted by: Community Notes at November 06, 2026 11:46 AM (a6PrB)

132 125
And why? Their issues are affordibility right and the price of gas right? Why would you vote for the people that doubled costs under Biden and also had $4 gas just a couple of years ago.

Because they're stupid and can't connect actions to consequences?
Posted by: Archimedes at November 06, 2026 11:45 AM (Riz8t)

And b/c they lost their Covid era health insurance bump and looked at their electricity bill on top of food and gas prices and said no more...Trump did manage over the former 2...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 06, 2026 11:47 AM (Gb7+b)

133 This is going to make booking your workout at my studio problematic. 😊
Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 11:40 AM (ZdaMQ)

Can't do workouts anyway. Too busy carrying this bull around.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 06, 2026 11:47 AM (yky4J)

134 I'm not going to get involved in another generational squabble, but ~~the idea of~~ looking at expenditures and delaying gratification are never bad ideas.

FIFM

Posted by: Archimedes at November 06, 2026 11:47 AM (Riz8t)

135 Last time I stopped in a McDonald's and had to use their kiosk, it wasn't the most pleasurable experience, to say the least.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
----

It's designed by people who live in their phones.
If you don't live in your phone that kiosk is a mystery.
Also their offerings have the highest carbohydrate to
protein ratio of any local fast burger places in town. No
longer a patron, I am.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 06, 2026 11:47 AM (wljQY)

136 The Chick - fil - a CEO statement dovetails very nicely with the post. I won’t stop going to a restaurant I love to get back at a guy as remote as the man on the moon.

Posted by: tubal at November 06, 2026 11:47 AM (Gqar8)

137 The same people that tell me that having a toddler watch a man in a miniskirt twerk in their face is fine and dandy also argue if you take a kid to hooters you are sexualizing them.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 06, 2026 11:45 AM (sKqQm)

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I think drag shows should be outlawed. It's a fetish.

I said GIRLS team on purpose, because it was.

I didn't say the girls on the team were wearing tank tops and short shorts it was the waitresses. Which, by the way, is less than what you see at the beach.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 06, 2026 11:48 AM (iOpI2)

138 "I have never had a bad experience dining at Applebee’s."

Me neither, but it's been maybe 25 years since I've been there. Culver's has reliable quality, but no discount coupons I've found so far.

Posted by: gp at November 06, 2026 11:48 AM (Jr5Lq)

139 Well, at the risk of being mocked, I have never had a bad experience dining at Applebee’s.

Posted by: tubal at November 06, 2026 11:44 AM (Gqar

It provides the advertised experience at a reasonable price. I have no problem with the place, and will return.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 06, 2026 11:48 AM (k5CNB)

140 Had a similar thing at a local restaurant this summer. Bill came and it was a QR code. I told my waiter I don’t want to download an app to pay. He said no problem we can run a credit card the “old way” lol. I’m like dude the “old way” was the “new way” like 7 minutes ago.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 06, 2026 11:48 AM (O3eDY)

141 I love this subject. I think the thread is so topical.

The idea that Corporations exist to generate profit for Shareholders, via the sale of a Product the masses want and can afford, just isn't how most Corporations work now.

And hasn't been for a while.

Go read into the 60s and muscle-cars. And how two of the Big Three just wanted none of it, regardless of how the cars sold. Because, boiled down, those in Authority thought "it just wasn't right".

And on and on and on through the decades. The Old School Republican view of Corporations in a generally positive light is past its expiration date.

I'd vote for curtailing some Corporate Protections in the legal code.

Posted by: Howdy at November 06, 2026 11:49 AM (S2K0Y)

142 I don't mind the McD's kiosks anymore, becaise NO customer service has become better than customer service.

Posted by: t-bird at November 06, 2026 11:49 AM (oh+I7)

143 "112 Am I Grandpa Simpson for thinking that if these yutes want to save money, they should give up DoorDash, Uber, Tovala and every other form of 'convenience' that is only convenient to hoovering bux out of their pockets?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing"

Tell them the TVs in their house would have cost thousands of dollars. If they had been available. What would a real 75" TV cost in 1990? 5k? more?

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at November 06, 2026 11:49 AM (r7+Q7)

144 Think I've only eaten wings at bars. I like that because 1) beer and 2) quality control vis necessary.
Years ago I had Hooters wings , but breaded wings aren't right in my view

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 06, 2026 11:50 AM (7XuqV)

145 Quite simply, the wing joint adopted a “digital-first strategy” in 2021, but many customers refused to play along as Wing Stop strove to avoid human interaction with its patrons. As customers were repelled by gimmicks that made ordering food more difficult, Wing Stop’s executives doubled down on their vision of making Wing Stop a tech company. They continued to reject their legacy model of serving wings and fries to customers who simply walk up to the counter and place an order.

Yes, I want grabbing wings to be just like submitting a ticket to a help desk in India.

C'mon, executives.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 06, 2026 11:50 AM (HFrEr)

146 Well, at the risk of being mocked, I have never had a bad experience dining at Applebee’s.
Posted by: tubal
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Yep. Beer is always cold, staff is well trained, and their food is consistent.

Posted by: scampydog at November 06, 2026 11:50 AM (2bFN5)

147 It doesn't help that Wing Stop's wings kinda suck.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 06, 2026 11:02 AM (2614e)

They're not terrible but they're not very good.

Ok for a last second drop-in before watching a football game before grabbing some beer.

They could easily cut the price of their wings by 50% and still make a handsome profit.

Their wings aren't worth the current cost anyway. The New Upcoming Democrat Turbo-Inflation will probably kill their business.

Is Troy Aikman still involved with the WingStop Corp? I think he was an original investor.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 06, 2026 11:50 AM (YSUhf)

148 OK, past 100...after six weeks I'm getting discharged from the hospital today, to a shelter in Huntsville, AL. I have reason to believe this relocation to the Rocket City may enable an improvement in my fortunes, and frankly I've wanted out of Montgomery for years, so, for the best.

Time for a new chapter.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at November 06, 2026 11:50 AM (hmH3B)

149 McD's has nothing worth the price they charge. This is what minimum wage laws have wrought.

Posted by: gp at November 06, 2026 11:50 AM (Jr5Lq)

150 I have a friend who does DoorDash here and there. He’s told me the vast majority of orders he does is fast food deliveries to people in shitty apartments. With delivery fees and tip these people are spending $30 for a Big Mac meal.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 06, 2026 11:51 AM (O3eDY)

151 Prayers for you, BrotherTim.

Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 11:51 AM (ZdaMQ)

152 Years ago I had Hooters wings , but breaded wings aren't right in my view
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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*fistbump*

Posted by: scampydog at November 06, 2026 11:51 AM (2bFN5)

153 I think drag shows should be outlawed. It's a fetish.

My take is treat it like any other fetish, what you do at home with a willing partner I don't care. But doing sexual things in public shouldn't be allowed.

I didn't say the girls on the team were wearing tank tops and short shorts it was the waitresses. Which, by the way, is less than what you see at the beach.

That is the other funny part of this. I see women wearing equivalent outfits out and about normally, not even counting beachware. I remember a few years ago having to do some HR training and the woman running the training wore a see thru shirt (with a bra) and a pair of pants so tight you could see her thong.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 06, 2026 11:51 AM (sKqQm)

154 148 OK, past 100...after six weeks I'm getting discharged from the hospital today, to a shelter in Huntsville, AL. I have reason to believe this relocation to the Rocket City may enable an improvement in my fortunes, and frankly I've wanted out of Montgomery for years, so, for the best.

Time for a new chapter.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at November 06, 2026 11:50 AM (hmH3B)

God be with you, Brother Tim.

Posted by: tubal at November 06, 2026 11:51 AM (Gqar8)

155 You and John DeLorean flashed through my mind, although you don't *quite* qualify. You guys didn't take a good company and sink it; you each simply founded a shipwreck. But same principle applied to an industry -- get insanely ambitious to make your mark on an existing industry when you are actually clueless in some crucial area.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 06, 2026 11:38 AM (mmrXZ)

DeLorean actually made and sold cars, and people bought them. But his financing was hinky.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 06, 2026 11:45 AM (yky4J)
________

John DeLorean getting arrested for cocaine trafficking wasn't the greatest marketing for the car, either.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 06, 2026 11:51 AM (iFTx/)

156 And so it begins.

I love that just two days after winning an election by promising to focus on affordability, Democrats immediately pivoted to putting dicks in chicks’ bathrooms.

https://tinyurl.com/kuffeyvz

Posted by: That guy who always says it's just beginning at November 06, 2026 11:52 AM (Riz8t)

157 You have to be 17 to go to an R rated movie. But a 5 years is allowed to see a drag show. Or get a sex change for that matter.

America in 2026

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 06, 2026 11:53 AM (O3eDY)

158 In my old town, we had an Applebee's and I always enjoyed it.

We used to have a Gator's that had a bottomless conch chowder and salad that was a really good price.

Oh, the good ol' days. I'm older than shit.

Pretty soon I'll be talking about how I paid $1.50 for gas in the old days.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 06, 2026 11:53 AM (iOpI2)

159 148 OK, past 100...after six weeks I'm getting discharged from the hospital today, to a shelter in Huntsville, AL. I have reason to believe this relocation to the Rocket City may enable an improvement in my fortunes, and frankly I've wanted out of Montgomery for years, so, for the best.

Time for a new chapter.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at November 06, 2026 11:50 AM (hmH3B)

If you are ready for a job, remember to post what skills you have and what you're looking for here b/c contacts are key in the AI job hiring environment...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 06, 2026 11:53 AM (Gb7+b)

160 You and John DeLorean flashed through my mind, although you don't *quite* qualify. You guys didn't take a good company and sink it; you each simply founded a shipwreck. But same principle applied to an industry -- get insanely ambitious to make your mark on an existing industry when you are actually clueless in some crucial area.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

DeLorean actually made and sold cars, and people bought them. But his financing was hinky.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

It was the booger beer that sank him.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 06, 2026 11:53 AM (zFF15)

161
DeLorean actually made and sold cars, and people bought them. But his financing was hinky.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

=============

Exactly what I meant. Lacking in some crucial aspect -- more than one in his case, because don't forget, his cars were shyte.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 06, 2026 11:53 AM (mmrXZ)

162 Saw a video last night of a guy interviewing a blue haired young woman who admitted she didn't know how to cook and ordered out for every meal.

She had a job making $60k/year so she could afford doing this but it basically meant she had little left for savings or other things.

Her argument was this wasn't fair, since she had a job she should be able to order out for all her food and have plenty left over for savings and other luxuries.

The interviewer pushed her for what she wanted and the answer was...a cash subsidy.

I think this is part of the problem in this last election, people making decent money that watch media and assume everyone else is rich from inheriting money and needs to "share" with them so they can afford "the basics" like...restaurant food every meal

Posted by: 18-1 at November 06, 2026 11:54 AM (sKqQm)

163 Hi welcome to Wings, did you place your order 3 hours ago on our buggy app?

//Smart Six figure CEO

Posted by: sven at November 06, 2026 11:54 AM (Int1s)

164 Prayers up, Brother Tim.

May God bless you.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 06, 2026 11:55 AM (qesug)

165 I’ve never had Wing Stop… guess I never will

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 06, 2026 11:55 AM (LQ1/y)

166 Trump raised electricity prices? AFAIK every single thing done with any connection to this would, of course, lead to the opposite. Younger people naturally have usually lacked worldliness and understanding of many basic things, and they still marinate in an orwellian make-believe world of media, but voting Dem because of electricity prices? So absurd it's funny.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 06, 2026 11:55 AM (U/Byj)

167 Chili's Applebees , olive Graden etc are fine for what they are. The funny thing is the people who look down their noses at those restaurants, and the people who go there, don’t know that the $40 burger they’re getting at their gastro pub comes from the same Sysco truck as the $17 burger at Applebees.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 06, 2026 11:55 AM (O3eDY)

168 "I have a friend who does DoorDash here and there. He’s told me the vast majority of orders he does is fast food deliveries to people in shitty apartments."

This tracks 100% with what my new Section 8 neighbors do.

Posted by: gp at November 06, 2026 11:56 AM (Jr5Lq)

169 I’ve never had Wing Stop… guess I never will
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

You're not missing much.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 06, 2026 11:56 AM (Ta4DE)

170 167 Chili's Applebees , olive Graden etc are fine for what they are. The funny thing is the people who look down their noses at those restaurants, and the people who go there, don’t know that the $40 burger they’re getting at their gastro pub comes from the same Sysco truck as the $17 burger at Applebees.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 06, 2026 11:55 AM (O3eDY)

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Yes.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 06, 2026 11:56 AM (iOpI2)

171 Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 06, 2026 11:55 AM (qesug)

Amen!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 06, 2026 11:57 AM (JrHfD)

172
Time for a new chapter.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at November 06, 2026 11:50 AM (hmH3B)

God be with you, Brother Tim.
Posted by: tubal at November 06, 2026 11:51 AM

Every bit of this right here.

Prayers up, man. Godspeed. May your troubles soon be in your rearview.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 06, 2026 11:57 AM (2614e)

173 Now where is my free health care and $100k remote,4 day a week job Democrats promised me?

I'm reminded of the series of videos showing how big projects were made. The Panama Canal, railroads through the mountains of Ecuador or through Russian perma-frost. The building of bridges, the deep silver minds of Mexico, clearing a forest and planting row crops without modern machinery. The commercial seafood farming of south east Asia is some of the most inhumane conditions that make antebellum Southern Slavery look like a week at Club Med.

Death, disease, long hours and drab conditions were the norm. Hundreds of thousands of people, either Coolies, war prisoners or people down on their luck all recruited, didn't have families, didn't have a future and died ether on the job or within a few years due to wear and tear on the body.

And then we have Gen-Z with their gripes - not knowing how humans worked all around the world for all of human history.

Posted by: Community Notes at November 06, 2026 11:57 AM (xE0sV)

174 DeLorean at GM and Iacocca and Ford were the two cats I was thinking of above.

And both had to fight the Corporate Brass every step of the way to make their Corporations money by making cars the public obviously wanted at the time.

Again, the High School Junior Achievement indoctrination of how Corporations work is just wrong. Has been wrong our entire lives.

Posted by: Howdy at November 06, 2026 11:57 AM (S2K0Y)

175 162 Saw a video last night of a guy interviewing a blue haired young woman who admitted she didn't know how to cook and ordered out for every meal.

She had a job making $60k/year so she could afford doing this but it basically meant she had little left for savings or other things.

Her argument was this wasn't fair, since she had a job she should be able to order out for all her food and have plenty left over for savings and other luxuries.

The interviewer pushed her for what she wanted and the answer was...a cash subsidy.

I think this is part of the problem in this last election, people making decent money that watch media and assume everyone else is rich from inheriting money and needs to "share" with them so they can afford "the basics" like...restaurant food every meal

Posted by: 18-1 at November 06, 2026 11:54 AM (sKqQm)

Urban political demands are literally unworkable. It's not even that they demand things that are long run dysfunctional, it's not possible to meet their demands.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at November 06, 2026 11:57 AM (okun6)

176 170 167 Chili's Applebees , olive Graden etc are fine for what they are. The funny thing is the people who look down their noses at those restaurants, and the people who go there, don’t know that the $40 burger they’re getting at their gastro pub comes from the same Sysco truck as the $17 burger at Applebees.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 06, 2026 11:55 AM (O3eDY)

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Yes.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 06, 2026 11:56 AM (iOpI2)

But they smear something something aioli on it - for the low low upcharge of 23$!,,

Posted by: tubal at November 06, 2026 11:57 AM (Gqar8)

177 Everyone enjoying the corporate town halls that started on Wednesday and just happened to include cheering the election results? We are in for a cascade of shit.

Posted by: NCKate at November 06, 2026 11:58 AM (enNUy)

178 I really thought the 2024 election killed the tranny trend for good. How stupid am I? Sigh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 06, 2026 11:58 AM (LQ1/y)

179 DeLorean actually made and sold cars, and people bought them. But his financing was hinky.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

She don't lie
She don't lie
She don't lie

.........Cocaine.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 06, 2026 11:58 AM (2614e)

180 John DeLorean getting arrested for cocaine trafficking wasn't the greatest marketing for the car, either.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 06, 2026 11:51 AM (iFTx/)

Well, that is part of what I meant by hinky financing. Also the crappy P-R-V V6 in what was purported to be a super car was dumb. He should have bought the Rover V8 from Leyland.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 06, 2026 11:58 AM (yky4J)

181 And then we have Gen-Z with their gripes - not knowing how humans worked all around the world for all of human history.

Flip side of the coin. The perverse pride certain folks have in suffering for the virtue of suffering.

Posted by: Howdy at November 06, 2026 11:59 AM (S2K0Y)

182 Seems like so many companies, falling into the traps of socialism, have forgotten the basics of capitalism: offer something the consumers want at a price/quality/service level that is better than competitors.
The Gov't sees us as sheep to be shorn, and so do so many companies (especially those that "sell" us the privilege of using their products, as we buy something we don't technically/legally own--Yeah, I'm talking to you, LG, who "own the glass" of every TV a customer buys)...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 06, 2026 11:59 AM (l3cgK)

183 Just what the Royal Family needs.

FBI arrests Meghan Markle's dad at Florida retirement home for "troves" of child porn found at properties in the Philippines, Mexico, and LA

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living the Dream at November 06, 2026 11:59 AM (qC/tp)

184 167 Chili's Applebees , olive Graden etc are fine for what they are. The funny thing is the people who look down their noses at those restaurants, and the people who go there, don’t know that the $40 burger they’re getting at their gastro pub comes from the same Sysco truck as the $17 burger at Applebees.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 06, 2026

I am a restaurant snob, this is no secret. I luckily live in a place where I can be a restaurant snob, and can avoid Sysco food. Big enough for really decent food, small enough that you know most of the owners / chefs and where the food is coming from.

Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 12:00 PM (ZdaMQ)

185 A company in the food industry that doesn't concentrate on the food first and foremost will die a miserable death, as they should.

Seems very common sense to me.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 06, 2026 12:00 PM (2614e)

186 DeLorean actually made and sold cars, and people bought them. But his financing was hinky.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
----
I was holding out until the Flux Capacitor became a standard option.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 06, 2026 12:00 PM (s2iZv)

187
FBI arrests Meghan Markle's dad at Florida retirement home for "troves" of child porn found at properties in the Philippines, Mexico, and LA
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living the Dream at November 06, 2026 11:59 AM (qC/tp)

Tell me Meghan was molested as a child without telling me she was molested as a child.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 06, 2026 12:01 PM (2614e)

188 181 And then we have Gen-Z with their gripes - not knowing how humans worked all around the world for all of human history.

Flip side of the coin. The perverse pride certain folks have in suffering for the virtue of suffering.

Posted by: Howdy at November 06, 2026 11:59 AM (S2K0Y)

Self-flagellation for the non-religious...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 06, 2026 12:01 PM (l3cgK)

189 Ate wings Wednesday at a little bar and restaurant in rural PA coal country, that looked like it could have been used as a set for Justified. They were excellent and I paid cash , although they took credit cards but added 3%.

Posted by: Cosda at November 06, 2026 12:01 PM (FVUW0)

190
Flip side of the coin. The perverse pride certain folks have in suffering for the virtue of suffering.

You call that suffering? When we were young...

Posted by: Archimedes at November 06, 2026 12:01 PM (Riz8t)

191
Urban political demands are literally unworkable. It's not even that they demand things that are long run dysfunctional, it's not possible to meet their demands.

Indeed, the reason people mostly make their own food is the cost would be too high otherwise.

Now you can work around that with military mess hall type deals but that mostly removes choice, timing, and good luck with boutique allergies/restrictions. Oh and you'd have to go get it.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 06, 2026 12:02 PM (sKqQm)

192 Some guy put together an album of unreleased McCartney tracks. I post the link only as proof it was actually done, but def not for listening:
youtube.com/watch?v=B5htJYuaIJo

Posted by: gp at November 06, 2026 12:02 PM (Jr5Lq)

193 I eschew companies which aim to separate me from 1) printed menus and 2) human beings.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at November 06, 2026 12:02 PM (w6EFb)

194 133 This is going to make booking your workout at my studio problematic. 😊
Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 11:40 AM (ZdaMQ)

Can't do workouts anyway. Too busy carrying this bull around.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 06, 2026 11:47 AM (yky4J)

Why are you carrying a bull around when you probably have welding to do? That hair isn't gonna light itself on fire, you know.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at November 06, 2026 12:03 PM (QGaXH)

195 187
FBI arrests Meghan Markle's dad at Florida retirement home for "troves" of child porn found at properties in the Philippines, Mexico, and LA
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living the Dream at November 06, 2026 11:59 AM (qC/tp)

Tell me Meghan was molested as a child without telling me she was molested as a child.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 06, 2026 12:01 PM (2614e)

This was my thought...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 06, 2026 12:03 PM (l3cgK)

196 148 Posted by: Brother Tim sez at November 06, 2026 11:50 AM (hmH3B)

Good luck Tim.

Posted by: sven at November 06, 2026 12:03 PM (Int1s)

197 And then we have Gen-Z with their gripes - not knowing how humans worked all around the world for all of human history.

Flip side of the coin. The perverse pride certain folks have in suffering for the virtue of suffering.

Posted by: Howdy at November 06, 2026 11:59 AM (S2K0Y)

Self-flagellation for the non-religious...

True wisdom resides in being able to deny yourselves the things you don't need, and paying properly for the things you do need, without confusing one for the other. Or something.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 06, 2026 12:03 PM (Riz8t)

198 178 I really thought the 2024 election killed the tranny trend for good. How stupid am I? Sigh
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 06, 2026 11:58 AM (LQ1/y)

I think conservatives lost this issue when they lost (conceded to some extent) on gay marriage. Gay culture has always been very transgressive, contemptuous of normality. That's now codified into society in various ways. Conservatives (whatever that term means these days) may succeed around the edges, like getting the weirdos to stop transitioning kids etc., but we lost the culture completely to Gay Inc. and there's no putting that faggy genie back in the bottle.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 06, 2026 12:03 PM (HFrEr)

199 And Meghan's mother left her daughter with a known pervert?

Posted by: NCKate at November 06, 2026 12:04 PM (enNUy)

200 192 Some guy put together an album of unreleased McCartney tracks. I post the link only as proof it was actually done, but def not for listening:
youtube.com/watch?v=B5htJYuaIJo

Posted by: gp at November 06, 2026 12:02 PM (Jr5Lq)

Can't be as bad as Yoko screeching out another of her hits...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 06, 2026 12:04 PM (l3cgK)

201 I’ve always liked Applebee’s (Chili’s, Olive Garden etc)… the only negative experience I’ve ever had at an Applebee’s… and it was only mildly negative: Around last Christmas I’m in a midwestern town that’s sorta dying… there’s an Applebee’s right next to the mall and the mall is dying; at least half the stores are now closed.

Anyway, went to Applebee’s for lunch and the food was good… but between the near deserted mall and Applebee’s itself being mostly empty, the atmosphere was depressing. Dying midwestern towns are depressing; that’s where I grew up

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 06, 2026 12:04 PM (LQ1/y)

202 187
FBI arrests Meghan Markle's dad at Florida retirement home for "troves" of child porn found at properties in the Philippines, Mexico, and LA
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living the Dream at November 06, 2026 11:59 AM (qC/tp)

Tell me Meghan was molested as a child without telling me she was molested as a child.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November

In other news, it looks like it may be her step brothers and he set his father up. What a flipping trashy family.

Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 12:04 PM (ZdaMQ)

203 I was holding out until the Flux Capacitor became a standard option.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 06, 2026 12:00 PM (s2iZv)

DeLoreans looked real cool, and that will sell a mediocre car for a while. They still attract a crowd at car shows.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 06, 2026 12:04 PM (yky4J)

204 If you want to take a Deep Dive into the world of chicken wings, a YouTuber named Sam Reid has produced a series of videos where he seeks to find the best wings in the country.
He visits Buffalo, NY last. Very entertaining and well produced.
Channel is called The Studio Revue.

https://tinyurl.com/ymvprcjz

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 06, 2026 12:05 PM (2Ez/1)

205 166 Trump raised electricity prices? AFAIK every single thing done with any connection to this would, of course, lead to the opposite. Younger people naturally have usually lacked worldliness and understanding of many basic things, and they still marinate in an orwellian make-believe world of media, but voting Dem because of electricity prices? So absurd it's funny.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 06, 2026 11:55 AM (U/Byj)

No, he was president when they went up, way up...and he encouraged and praised AI and data centers, which were some of the drivers of those price raises.

It doesn't matter if he could have stopped the prices...it matters to voters that he seemed to verbally support them.

Don't blame the messenger, but under 65 folks are getting killed with insurances, power bills, water bills, food, gas, etc...see why Hispanics said the economy and not ICE as their prime vote driver...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 06, 2026 12:05 PM (Gb7+b)

206 193 I eschew companies which aim to separate me from 1) printed menus and 2) human beings.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at November 06, 2026 12:02 PM (w6EFb)

Yes, this. I hate going into a place and being told to scan the QR code for the friggin' menu.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 06, 2026 12:05 PM (l3cgK)

207 Life is so good for people in this country, they have to invent problems. Which is how you get the tranny shit, all the perceived racism, etc.

And even though life has never been better they’ve been convinced by the mss/Dem compels that it’s never been worse.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 06, 2026 12:05 PM (O3eDY)

208
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at November 06, 2026 11:50 AM (hmH3B)

=================

Godspeed, Brother Tim!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 06, 2026 12:06 PM (mmrXZ)

209 I think this is part of the problem in this last election, people making decent money that watch media and assume everyone else is rich from inheriting money and needs to "share" with them so they can afford "the basics" like...restaurant food every meal

Posted by: 18-1 at November 06, 2026 11:54 AM (sKqQm)
________

This is a yuge problem that goes beyond politics. We have nearly an entire generation (or generations, plural) who think the world owes them a living. That they should get everything they want without having to work for it.

And probably most problematically, they think that everyone who has the things they want got those things just handed to them. That the guy with the house and car they want didn't work for that. No, he just woke up one morning and found out he owned a house and car.

There will always be the very lucky nepo babies, born into great wealth. Twas ever thus. But the vast majority of successful people were self-made. They built that themselves.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 06, 2026 12:06 PM (iFTx/)

210 We are going out to dinner tonight. Which means I get to wear real clothes and shoes for a change!

Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 12:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

211 202 Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 12:04 PM (ZdaMQ)

Our moral betters, she feels she should guide us all.

Posted by: sven at November 06, 2026 12:06 PM (Int1s)

212 Anyway, went to Applebee’s for lunch and the food was good… but between the near deserted mall and Applebee’s itself being mostly empty, the atmosphere was depressing. Dying midwestern towns are depressing; that’s where I grew up
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 06, 2026 12:04 PM (LQ1/y)

Thanks for the jobs round eye.

Posted by: Chinese Workers at November 06, 2026 12:07 PM (O3eDY)

213 Wing stop takes a long time to get food out for a fast food type place. I've always been able to order from a human at the counter but the dine in experience is meh. 🫤 I don't go often, maybe a few times a year.

Posted by: lin-duh at November 06, 2026 12:08 PM (f9RL7)

214 211 202 Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 12:04 PM (ZdaMQ)

Our moral betters, she feels she should guide us all.
Posted by: sven at November 06, 2026 12:06 PM (Int1s)

She doesn’t know the difference between a stamped napkin and an embroidered one. Harry needs to run.

Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 12:08 PM (ZdaMQ)

215 I hardly eat at restaurants (or order from them) these days. Went to Denny's to meet BILs the other day, one dish was $18...at Denny's...
WTH?
At least the $15 burrito I ordered at the Mexican place was 4" diameter and 10" long...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 06, 2026 12:08 PM (l3cgK)

216 210 We are going out to dinner tonight. Which means I get to wear real clothes and shoes for a change!
Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 12:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

Applebee’s??? JK.

Posted by: tubal at November 06, 2026 12:08 PM (Gqar8)

217 "Don't blame the messenger, but under 65 folks are getting killed with insurances, power bills, water bills, food, gas"

Yes. When people say things are too expensive, not all of them are lying. The walls of our conservative info silo are a little too thick.

Posted by: gp at November 06, 2026 12:08 PM (Jr5Lq)

218 This is a yuge problem that goes beyond politics. We have nearly an entire generation (or generations, plural) who think the world owes them a living. That they should get everything they want without having to work for it.

Every generation thinks like that. Including the oldest one - who just assumed growth would always happen because growth always happened.

Everybody has had a hand in this.

Posted by: Howdy at November 06, 2026 12:08 PM (S2K0Y)

219 214 211 202 Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 12:04 PM (ZdaMQ)

Our moral betters, she feels she should guide us all.
Posted by: sven at November 06, 2026 12:06 PM (Int1s)

She doesn’t know the difference between a stamped napkin and an embroidered one. Harry needs to run.

Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 12:08 PM (ZdaMQ)

Who would embroider a paper napkin?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 06, 2026 12:09 PM (l3cgK)

220 At least the $15 burrito I ordered at the Mexican place was 4" diameter and 10" long...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

The Paolo.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 06, 2026 12:10 PM (Ta4DE)

221 Yes, this. I hate going into a place and being told to scan the QR code for the friggin' menu.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 06, 2026 12:05 PM (l3cgK)

Have not encountered this yet. If I do, I will walk right out again. And if I order off the menu, and get presented a QR code for the tab, the waiter is going to have to bring me the menu, and I will use the calculator on my phone to total the bill, and pay him in cash. And no tip.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 06, 2026 12:10 PM (yky4J)

222 Urban political demands are literally unworkable.

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The Vigilant Fox 🦊
@VigilantFox
DSA leader Megan Romer has NO answer when Fox News’s Martha MacCallum asks where the $49 TRILLION for her socialist agenda is coming from.

Romer calls the number “made-up.” Then MacCallum what HER number is, and it gets embarrassing fast.

MACCALLUM: “That’s $350,000 per household.

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Who hasn't got a.spare $350 K laying around?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living the Dream at November 06, 2026 12:10 PM (qC/tp)

223 Who would embroider a paper napkin?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 06, 2026 12:09 PM (l3cgK)

If she were still around ? My grand-mother. That chic would embroider a running bull if she could.

Posted by: Howdy at November 06, 2026 12:10 PM (S2K0Y)

224
No, he was president when they went up, way up...and he encouraged and praised AI and data centers, which were some of the drivers of those price raises.

It doesn't matter if he could have stopped the prices...it matters to voters that he seemed to verbally support them.

Don't blame the messenger, but under 65 folks are getting killed with insurances, power bills, water bills, food, gas, etc...see why Hispanics said the economy and not ICE as their prime vote driver...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 06, 2026 12:05 PM (Gb7+b)

AI is probably a drag, both directly as a platform position and indirectly as a driver of inflation.

I don't see much reason to promote AI as it is likely to get overbuilt anyways and any competition with China is irrelevant without an accompanying reindustrialization and naval rebuild.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at November 06, 2026 12:11 PM (okun6)

225 221 Yes, this. I hate going into a place and being told to scan the QR code for the friggin' menu.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 06, 2026 12:05 PM (l3cgK)

Have not encountered this yet. If I do, I will walk right out again. And if I order off the menu, and get presented a QR code for the tab, the waiter is going to have to bring me the menu, and I will use the calculator on my phone to total the bill, and pay him in cash. And no tip.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 06, 2026 12:10 PM (yky4J)

Yes, another thing I hate: pre-calculated tips based not on the food total, but the food + tax total. Why should I tip on Gov't coerced tax on top of everything else?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 06, 2026 12:12 PM (l3cgK)

226 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 06, 2026 12:05 PM (l3cgK)

Yes; I don't like that myself . I tell them "I'm an old person. Could you just me an actual menu?" Last place I asked about that with QR code ( which was about four years ago) they did have an actual menu to give me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 06, 2026 12:12 PM (JrHfD)

227 Don't blame the messenger, but under 65 folks are getting killed with insurances, power bills, water bills, food, gas, etc...see why Hispanics said the economy and not ICE as their prime vote driver...
Posted by: Nova Local at November

Most Hispanics who came here legally do not support illegal immigration. You are in a very blue area, your messaging is very different than what I hear.

Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 12:12 PM (ZdaMQ)

228 If she were still around ? My grand-mother. That chic would embroider a running bull if she could.
Posted by: Howdy

Worked with a guy that drank so much coffee that he could thread a running sewing machine.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 06, 2026 12:13 PM (zFF15)

229 Chili's Applebees , olive Graden etc are fine for what they are. The funny thing is the people who look down their noses at those restaurants, and the people who go there, don’t know that the $40 burger they’re getting at their gastro pub comes from the same Sysco truck as the $17 burger at Applebees.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 06, 2026

I am a restaurant snob, this is no secret. I luckily live in a place where I can be a restaurant snob, and can avoid Sysco food. Big enough for really decent food, small enough that you know most of the owners / chefs and where the food is coming from.
Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 12:00 PM (ZdaMQ)
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You probably woulda loved the event last night then. Food prepared by Daniel Boulud. He was there too. He's a little dude!

Also Macallan 18 and Opus One.

It was all free and I drank way too much Mac 18.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 06, 2026 12:13 PM (iFTx/)

230 One thing about foreign opposition to America - all they have to do is wait us out. It is baked in our cake.

Posted by: tubal at November 06, 2026 12:13 PM (Gqar8)

231 Yes, this. I hate going into a place and being told to scan the QR code for the friggin' menu.

Ok, I scanned it (i.e., with my eyes) Now where's the menu?

Posted by: t-bird at November 06, 2026 12:14 PM (oh+I7)

232 216 210 We are going out to dinner tonight. Which means I get to wear real clothes and shoes for a change!
Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 12:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

Applebee’s??? JK.
Posted by: tubal at November 06, 2026 12

Ha!

Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 12:15 PM (ZdaMQ)

233 That Romer interview might be the last from any DSA member on Fox.

Questions be hard, yo.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 06, 2026 12:15 PM (Ta4DE)

234 Most Hispanics who came here legally do not support illegal immigration. You are in a very blue area, your messaging is very different than what I hear.
Posted by: Piper

Yeah. They do. The RGV, Rio Grande Valley, went Hinojosa Tuesday. Main complaint? ICE.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 06, 2026 12:15 PM (zFF15)

235 227 Don't blame the messenger, but under 65 folks are getting killed with insurances, power bills, water bills, food, gas, etc...see why Hispanics said the economy and not ICE as their prime vote driver...
Posted by: Nova Local at November

Most Hispanics who came here legally do not support illegal immigration. You are in a very blue area, your messaging is very different than what I hear.
Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 12:12 PM (ZdaMQ)

That was National Hispanics...they cited the economy as the #1 driver of their vote.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 06, 2026 12:15 PM (Gb7+b)

236 230 One thing about foreign opposition to America - all they have to do is wait us out. It is baked in our cake.

Posted by: tubal at November 06, 2026 12:13 PM (Gqar

Oh, and "Bake the Cake, H8ters!"...--Same folks allied with the Left

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 06, 2026 12:15 PM (l3cgK)

237 Don't blame the messenger, but under 65 folks are getting killed with insurances, power bills, water bills, food, gas, etc...see why Hispanics said the economy and not ICE as their prime vote driver...
Posted by: Nova Local at November 06, 2026 12:05 PM (Gb7+b)

I find it annoying because their expectations are out of whack… way out. My parents raised 6 kids, always paid their bills, no welfare of any kind (they’d die first)…. We always ate extremely well (mom’s a great cook) and had a wonderful childhood (well clothed and sheltered). Oh you know what? My dad’s salary never exceeded $30K per year as was often well below that. They were savers and budgeted and they did this during Carter inflation. So I’ve no patience for hearing how people are getting killed now. People are spoiled

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 06, 2026 12:15 PM (LQ1/y)

238 218 This is a yuge problem that goes beyond politics. We have nearly an entire generation (or generations, plural) who think the world owes them a living. That they should get everything they want without having to work for it.

Every generation thinks like that. Including the oldest one - who just assumed growth would always happen because growth always happened.

Everybody has had a hand in this.
Posted by: Howdy at November 06, 2026 12:08 PM (S2K0Y)

I think we (29 year olds) have a tendency to see some particularly stupid young person on the internet (who is being presented as clickbait) and extrapolate that to all young people and conclude the youngsters are all risible fools and pinkos.

It's not very constructive. Sort of the mirror image of the "okay, boomer" stuff.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 06, 2026 12:15 PM (HFrEr)

239 She doesn’t know the difference between a stamped napkin and an embroidered one. Harry needs to run.

Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 12:08 PM (ZdaMQ)

Who would embroider a paper napkin?...

You're not going to attract the best clientele with that attitude.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 06, 2026 12:15 PM (Riz8t)

240 I'm having a flashback to the classic SNL skit with the Sodom Chamber of Commerce having an argument over whether to rebrand Sodom as a family-friendly destination. "But Sodom MEANS sodomy!" "Yes, but we don't have to emphasize it. If they want it, the sodomy will still be here."

Heh.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 06, 2026 12:15 PM (qlLNh)

241 Yes, another thing I hate: pre-calculated tips based not on the food total, but the food + tax total. Why should I tip on Gov't coerced tax on top of everything else?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 06, 2026 12:12 PM (l3cgK)

I usually tip pretty well, but always based on the pre-tax total.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 06, 2026 12:15 PM (yky4J)

242 One thing about foreign opposition to America - all they have to do is wait us out. It is baked in our cake.

Yep. I wish some would remember that the next time this or that President talks long term military action.

We CAN'T do long term military action. Elections every two years guarantee that.

Maybe that's a feature and not a bug. It's certainly a fact.

Posted by: Howdy at November 06, 2026 12:15 PM (S2K0Y)

243 232 216 210 We are going out to dinner tonight. Which means I get to wear real clothes and shoes for a change!
Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 12:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

Applebee’s??? JK.
Posted by: tubal at November 06, 2026 12

Ha!

Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 12:15 PM (ZdaMQ)

Even pants, like for the book thread?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 06, 2026 12:16 PM (l3cgK)

244 Huh. By pure coincidence I just realized that I'm currently working on a course shell for a course on customer focus and satisfaction.

Haven't worked with the instructor much, but he seems pretty gung-ho about offering a positive customer experience for clientele.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 06, 2026 12:16 PM (s2iZv)

245 We are going out to dinner tonight. Which means I get to wear real clothes and shoes for a change!

Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 12:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

Notice:

She didn't mention pants, specifically.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 06, 2026 12:16 PM (2614e)

246 It was all free and I drank way too much Mac 18.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

I. Hate. You.

😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 at November 06, 2026 12:16 PM (zFF15)

247 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 06, 2026 12:16 PM (NcvvS)

248 You probably woulda loved the event last night then. Food prepared by Daniel Boulud. He was there too. He's a little dude!

Also Macallan 18 and Opus One.

It was all free and I drank way too much Mac 18.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November

Well he is French, we aren’t known for our height. 😂

Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 12:16 PM (ZdaMQ)

249 Federal jobs report released this morning beat expectations.

"Experts" declare it to be a "great" report.

Posted by: mrp at November 06, 2026 12:16 PM (rj6Yv)

250 232 216 210 We are going out to dinner tonight. Which means I get to wear real clothes and shoes for a change!
Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 12:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

Applebee’s??? JK.
Posted by: tubal

Ronald and Grimace aren't judgy.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 06, 2026 12:16 PM (Ta4DE)

251 John DeLorean getting arrested for cocaine trafficking wasn't the greatest marketing for the car, either.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 06, 2026 11:51 AM (iFTx/)

Well, that is part of what I meant by hinky financing. Also the crappy P-R-V V6 in what was purported to be a super car was dumb. He should have bought the Rover V8 from Leyland.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 06, 2026 11:58 AM (yky4J)
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Kinda innovative financing, though. "I need money, fast. How do I do that? [Turns on episode of Miami Vice] I've got an idea!"

(Yes, I know MV wasn't on TV then.)

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 06, 2026 12:17 PM (iFTx/)

252 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 06, 2026 12:17 PM (2614e)

253 Take 100 random 27 year olds.
Go to their apartment.
Take a look at their stoves
I’d bet60 of those stoves have never been used

But bro Trump makes life too expensive.

Posted by: Chinese Workers at November 06, 2026 12:17 PM (O3eDY)

254 234 Most Hispanics who came here legally do not support illegal immigration. You are in a very blue area, your messaging is very different than what I hear.
Posted by: Piper

Yeah. They do. The RGV, Rio Grande Valley, went Hinojosa Tuesday. Main complaint? ICE.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 06, 2026 12:15 PM (zFF15)

Yes, ICE only was the biggest Hispanic driver in SW TX...overall, it was the economy (although in that area, ICE may have been ruining the economy b/c if business owners are deported and workers aren't, or too many workers are deported so business have to close, there are no more businesses, and remaining employees are jobless, and folks feel that effect, so it's intertwined)...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 06, 2026 12:17 PM (Gb7+b)

255 "I usually tip pretty well" ... because food service workers have one of the shittiest jobs there is. I do it out of pity.

Posted by: gp at November 06, 2026 12:17 PM (Jr5Lq)

256 I'm having a flashback to the classic SNL skit with the Sodom Chamber of Commerce having an argument over whether to rebrand Sodom as a family-friendly destination. "But Sodom MEANS sodomy!" "Yes, but we don't have to emphasize it. If they want it, the sodomy will still be here."

Heh.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Almost sounds like a Monty Python skit.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 06, 2026 12:18 PM (zFF15)

257 Hispanics polled before voting put ICE/deportations far above economic concerns (40% to 26%). This is one of the most ominous data points of Tuesday (and it's backed up by the amazing switch of 2024 Trump Hispanics to Dems).

Electricity prices have *already* been driven up by data centers (= new demand)? Really, where? The prices aren't 95% driven by lack of capacity, "investment" in fake/wildly cost-inefficient "green" capacity? Things that have been going on for years. The table was set by the usual idiots, the price/capacity issues go back years.

Insurance? That's not driven by state-level misregulation? What's the federal share of blame there? Apart from "health" "insurance", which the party just handed the keys massively (further) f***ed up in recent years?

But of course I'm ignoring that the Dems have all sorts of fixes on offer for all these things, so of course they'll get the nod. Oh, wait. No, in fact they are neck-deep in every single self-inflicted problem, and have literally zero ideas or proposals to address any of them.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 06, 2026 12:18 PM (U/Byj)

258 You probably woulda loved the event last night then. Food prepared by Daniel Boulud. He was there too. He's a little dude!

Also Macallan 18 and Opus One.

It was all free and I drank way too much Mac 18.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November

Well he is French, we aren’t known for our height. 😂
Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 12:16 PM (ZdaMQ)
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His business partner was there too. Pretty sure he's french too, but he's tall. Like 6-4.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 06, 2026 12:19 PM (iFTx/)

259 175 162 Saw a video last night of a guy interviewing a blue haired young woman who admitted she didn't know how to cook and ordered out for every meal.

She had a job making $60k/year so she could afford doing this but it basically meant she had little left for savings or other things.

Her argument was this wasn't fair, since she had a job she should be able to order out for all her food and have plenty left over for savings and other luxuries.

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This is what I call "a complete idiot."

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 06, 2026 12:19 PM (iOpI2)

260 This post's timing is perfect, I have some buycott news.

First, those two gremlin women who on their podcast, wished they could dig Charlie Kirk back up to kill him again? Chewy is a sponsor. If you use Chewy, cancel and tell them why. Tell your friends to BOYCOTT them. Make the donors of these vile lefties feel the Bud Lite pain. Make these podcasters lose money, since they hate capitalism.

Second, BUY from Sticker Mule! The owner, Anthony Constantino just won a house seat. In blue New York. The stickers are the best, and he is hated by the left. So many of my art friends rebuke him and are boycotting him because he supported Trump.

Funniest headline about Constantino's win I've found, from the Times Union:

"Anthony Constsntino was a sore (and unhinged) winner." Boo hoo. That describes the winners in the left perfectly as well.

Posted by: LizLem at November 06, 2026 12:20 PM (Toos7)

261 We rarely eat at chains anymore.

There's some good mom and pop operations in my AO, and the food is good and won't break the bank.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 06, 2026 12:21 PM (qesug)

262
It seems a Masters Degree in anything means you can take on any job you want because, well, MASTERS DEGREE!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 06, 2026 11:07 AM (2614e)
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Reminds me of the scene from "Back to School" starring Rodney Dangerfield. He's a wealthy construction business owner in a business class with his son and the teacher is talking about things you will need to consider when starting a business. Rodney says "Don't forget all the graft and kickbacks to union bosses and government bureaucracrats" and the teacher says stuff like that doesn't happen in the real world he's a teacher with no real world experience.

Posted by: Darth Randall at November 06, 2026 12:21 PM (iRQm6)

263 I’d bet60 of those stoves have never been used

The microwave was wildly popular in the 70s as well. Hence the Microwave Stand.

Today's 27 year olds weren't buying them then. Mostly because they weren't alive.

Women that are over 70 now, however ? Buying them as soon as Hubs worked enough overtime to afford one. Damn Millennials.

Posted by: Howdy at November 06, 2026 12:21 PM (S2K0Y)

264 Torchys Tacos did the same. Dont know what their results are $wise.

Posted by: susan harms at November 06, 2026 12:23 PM (Kkd7F)

265 217 Posted by: gp at November 06, 2026 12:08 PM (Jr5Lq)

I have a 26 year old son I ordered to live at home as he is single....he makes over 50 a year....

I know the numbers...they were programmed their whole lives to be socialists....this IS socialism comrade.

Fuck em, they want "help" help costs.

Posted by: sven at November 06, 2026 12:31 PM (Int1s)

266 Crumbl is an Utah company, I enjoyed watching their rise during the pandemic. Who knew lazy people would pay for comfort food delivered to their door they can make for pennies? You can during a pandemic! Pots they tapped into social media and TikTok.

They are closing stores like mad now. Why? A natural overreach as they tap out the national market. Over complicating what they sell, way too many items now. A bad economy. Bad press from a shake that has more calories than you should consume in a day. Not making their staples, the pink cookie and the chocolate chip, always on menu. And apparently they have lowered the quality of their ingredients, and don't make everything in house anymore, which is the kiss of death.

Krispy Kreme did the same thing, don't make their donuts in store fresh, it's trucked in from another site. And Panera bread stopped making artisan bread in house, chains that did took over. Kissed of death.

The food industry rises and falls are fascinating.

Posted by: LizLem at November 06, 2026 12:32 PM (Toos7)

267 260 Posted by: LizLem at November 06, 2026 12:20 PM (Toos7)

eh maybe....or do what goof did....after her cancer she can't have soy period....turns out Starfucks aside from shitting on soldiers under Bush the younger loves soy....

she decided to master home brewing....and she makes better coffees at 1/10th the cost....

the young and their 6.60 a cup habit is part of why they are fucked....the generation that taught me to be a worker bitched about 35 cent a cup coffee that base purchasing power adjustment and one sugar would cost about 90 cents now....

they are spoiled rotten.

Posted by: sven at November 06, 2026 12:34 PM (Int1s)

268 254 Posted by: Nova Local at November 06, 2026 12:17 PM (Gb7+b)

Well look NOVA great new the southern border in Texas is about to be wide open....

so our little amigos will be tres happy ole....and with all the new donk judges springing the criminals I do not want to hear a peep about crime.... you wanted it enjoy it omae.

Package deal ese.

Posted by: sven at November 06, 2026 12:36 PM (Int1s)

269 259 Posted by: Seems Legit at November 06, 2026 12:19 PM (iOpI2)

Kind of but not really, what they are doing is demanding the American people make the USG their absent provider husband from the 70s.

Someone else alluded to the 70s microwaves, and i remember the story of our family's first color TV.....the kids do not understand how much hustle the 70s involved.

Posted by: sven at November 06, 2026 12:38 PM (Int1s)

270 They could have just asked Panera customers about ordering from a kiosk. They hated it and many never went back.

Posted by: Ronzoni at November 06, 2026 12:40 PM (9rPbL)

271 270 Posted by: Ronzoni at November 06, 2026 12:40 PM (9rPbL)

Take garbage cans in front of establishments...they removed them because of hobos....

there is this place called wing stop at the crumbl in Alexandria I walked in to order and threw away a coke from my car....got a two minute lecture from a shithead 24 year old looking asshole manager.....

looked him in the eye winked and said I could walk from Ft Polk escaping a hurricane, you could be the only food in a hundred miles and I would walk on by......

went next door bought the Fed Ex cookies and tipped them 20 bucks and will never buy from wing stop again.......all because no one will confront the homeless.

Posted by: sven at November 06, 2026 12:44 PM (Int1s)

272 In other news, it looks like it may be her step brothers and he set his father up. What a flipping trashy family.
Posted by: Piper at November 06, 2026 12:04 PM (ZdaMQ)

****
The sub reddit mocking her, Hazbeen, and her entire family is my guilty pleasure. I call it an anthropology study.

In reality the commenters often make me laugh out loud. When she has videos of her as never crap it is hysterical.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 06, 2026 12:44 PM (hzuYO)

273 272 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 06, 2026 12:44 PM (hzuYO)

If you are ever really bored deep dive into the depravities of the Borgias....I sometimes go back and reread antiquity to remind myself as I remind others there is little new under the sun....Me-again Murkle is just Obama with an actual vagina and less brains which is just beautiful.....

Posted by: sven at November 06, 2026 12:48 PM (Int1s)

274 Eh the TX Senate will stop it....for now I suspect.

Posted by: sven at November 06, 2026 12:59 PM (Int1s)

275
Products are interchangeable units. In too many CEO minds, there is no difference between a chicken wing or an airplane seat or an appliance. Those are all just generic products to which business school wizardry is applied.

I'm young enough at 29 to remember when Bush the Elder had hired some idiot economist who confidently asserted "potato chips, computer chips, what’s the difference?" HW got raked over the coals for that one, with good reason.

Don't tell me that the Bushite GOPe is full of wicked smahrt people. Don't you dare.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 06, 2026 01:13 PM (y9nCu)

276 Teddy: When you look at me, what do you see.
Robert McCall: [chuckles, shifts in his seat]
Teddy: The answer's nothing. I have no feeling about you one way or the other. You're like... like lint or a bottle cap. You're just a thing to remove.

Posted by: SMOD at November 06, 2026 01:24 PM (RHGPo)

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