I just don't get it. McDonald's, Chick-fil-A and all the rest around here have been open for months or even a year now now but every BK in this area refuses to open for dine-in.

I had a colonoscopy on Wednesday and was really jonesing for a Whopper on the way home (after basically not being allowed to eat for two days) after my wife picked me up. We find the nearest BK and lo and behold, they AREN'T FRICKEN OPEN FOR DINE-IN, and the drive through line is 30 cars deep as a result and as usual...NOT MOVING.

BK SUCKS at the drive-through biz so we just said screw it and stopped at a Wawa instead.

It just irks the shit out of me that these places still use the excuse of "we don't have enough people to have the dining room open" while other fast food places have figured it out. It's just laziness if you ask me.

BK will always be playing second fiddle to their competition with this attitude IMO.

In a way, both you and the place are right. They don’t have enough people because people are lazy to work.

We’ve had a McDonald’s open here and then one time for several weeks, the dining room was roped off. It was just drive through and take out. Same with a Popeyes Chicken which reverted to only drive through after we’ve dined in a couple of times.

All the BKs around here are open for dine in.

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Originally posted by PASig:
It's just laziness if you ask me.

Says the guy trying to buy fast food.
Probably did you a favor. Fast food will kill you faster than whatever they can find in a colonoscopy.

The two Burger Kings near me both have their dining rooms open, but the two Arby's and the two Wendy's are one open, one not.

Problem is his local franchisee,

I'll go farther and say that all the fast food places, Mickey D's, Wendy's, Taco Smell, Arby's, on and on, all of them are open for dine in around here.

Having said that, I don't call it dining, when I'm at one of the fast food joints, I call it eating.

I call it dining when I'm at a more elegant place.

It's about 75% open here, but some still not. Have a friend who owns a sit-down Steak and Shake, they've still not been able to keep enough employees to return to full service, had to go to drivethru and counter service only. And they are paying stupid money by old standards.

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I call it dining when I'm at a more elegant place

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There was a man in Russia who was distraught over the closure of McDonalds. He stated that he DINED there everyday. I had the same reaction. It is not even eating it is more like snarfing down food.

I had a fasting blood draw this morning.

Afterwards, I stopped at Mickey D's for an Egg McMuffin seeing as my usual go to (Denny's, for steak and eggs...) never opened after the WuFlu.

NO ONE at the register, someone in the back would holler "The kiosks are open!"

Yeah well, the user interface on your kiosks fucking blows. I've been around computers in one fashion or another since AOL was a thing, and I couldn't figure out how to say "I'm done ordering, I'd like to pay now."

Then again, maybe I've just gotten stupider as I've gotten older, but I gave up and stood there like a doofus until someone finally waited on me.

On the plus side, they haven't figured out how to fuck up a McMuffin. Yet.

Well they never tested those things with real people. I deal with that crap all the time. Software that is not intuitive. They should know better.

BKs are mostly open for indoor dining - all of the mcdonalds I've seen locally are NOT. Drive through only.

Get the McD app Paul. You can get a breakfast sandwich every day for $2. Order on there and pick up at drive through or curbside or dine in. Pay there or with a card.

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Originally posted by Krazeehorse:
Get the McD app Paul. You can get a breakfast sandwich every day for $2. Order on there and pick up at drive through or curbside or dine in. Pay there or with a card.

I might be reduced to grabbing a bite at McD 2-3 times a year...

PASig,

Why so butthurt?

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haha JUST had some anal probing.

Some here do the same. I won't go.

If you have space for a dine in, and were designed for a dine in, then have a dine in. If you don't, I won't patronize your drive through.

(Especially at work since I'll be damned if I'm gonna drive through anywhere and get spit (or worse) in my food at a drive through.

We're all capitalists right? Let's let the market decide. I'm gonna do my part.

It’s best to skip places that don’t offer the service you desire. Let them suffer for that choice. If you do chose to sit in that drive thru line at least use the website on your receipt to complain about not having the indoor dining open. I use the comments to complain about that and have actually received a few replies from managers. Most cite not having staff. That be due to the option of sitting around stoned living on tax dollars.

It would not surprise me to see fast food dining in going away permanently in some regions and chains. I suspect the pandemic demonstrated that profit was higher after the staff reductions from closing the dining area and restrooms, particularly in states with high minimum wage laws.

I look to see new fast-food joints built like the original McDonalds, take out only, but with a drive through window.

The owner of one of the local fast-food franchises stated that she has no intention of reopening the eat-in portion of her operation.

Ever since closing the eat-in area and going to take-out and drive-through only, her total sales have not increased, but her profits are way up.

She does not have to have staff to keep the eating area clean, restroom maintenance is way down, no endless refills for soft drinks, no litter to pick up in the eating area, her business is much simpler and requires fewer employees.

NOTE: No link, this is not from a news source, it is from a personal conversation with the franchise owner.