Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Homeless upset that businesses actually want to make money

From http://www.myfoxny.com/dpps/news/homeless-upset-about-mcdonalds-dollar-menu-increase-dpgoh-20100907-fc_9517802

Homeless Upset About McDonald's Dollar Menu Increase

...the eatery [McDonald's] got rid of its Dollar Menu about a month ago. That move, which McDonald's called a simple business decision, means items on the menu are now too expensive for the people who spend much of their day hanging out on the sidewalk in front of the restaurant.

Items on the Dollar Menu now cost around $1.50.
OMG 50 cents more! You're breaking my bank!

The article goes on to say:
Homelessness has been a problem in San Francisco for decades. Tension between business owners and homeless people who hang out on sidewalks in front of their stores and offices has prompted Mayor Gavin Newsom and some Haight Street merchants to support a ballot measure in November that would ban sitting or lying on public sidewalks, The Chronicle reported.

Some homeless people think the more expensive menu is the next logical step in the crackdown, though the move does not affect other McDonald's in the city.

"That means that the Dollar Menu is a hoax, a fraud, a phony," Blake Edwards told KGO-TV .
Homeless people are like the opposite of Vulcans when it comes to logic. McDonalds restaurants all over the United States have price differences. It is totally within the rights of a restaurant to raise their prices, and it can certainly make sense to do so if profitable. As discussed in the Bum Hate article "The Tragedy of the Commons - An example of bums ruining it for everyone", some McDonalds have to turn off their soda fountains and not offer free refills because of the homeless people stealing soda. If the bums don't like the price increase, they're more than welcome to go to a competing restaurant. That's how capitalism works baby! FUCK YEAH!
"We reserve the right to refuse service to any dirty homeless mother fucker"

1 comments:

TimGiangiobbe said...

Mc Donalds is DROOL.You CORPORATE KISS ASS.McDonalds warkets to the GHETTO and is selling sodium bombs for a buck.The McDouble is McSAlty McCrap and McAwful.
You assume way too much.If there are a bunch of BOOZING idiots hanging around tell them to leave.If there behavior is as abhorable as you say it is then call the cops.
The Idiots who eat this shit will never be healthy.The assault on the poor by selling CHEAP CRAP is awful.They are better off spending 40 more cents and getting a double cheese the way it used to be.McDonalds was doing NO FAVORS selling the MC DOUBLE SODIUM BOMBS