The friction thing is so true, when I open twitch, if I get an ad before I can watch a single second of streaming I automatically close the tab 95% of the time
I do the same with UA-cam, if there's a long one or "1 of 2 ads" appears I'll close the video and click on it again. Usually it cancels out the ads playing again because I guess it technically had one on screen. That being said, if they're in-video ads I just fast-forward 60 seconds, that's usually how long they last. Also when I went to type "fast-forward" it went to autocorrect as "fast-food" which I found kinda funny
I don't know what the proper way to advertise on twitch is, cause they DO have to actually make some money to sustain the business, but goddamn have they chosen the most annoying shit so far
Before I'd just mute it and open a new tab and do something else while it runs. Not it pauses when it isn't on screen or upfront. Super annoying. Have to open a new window and put the twitch one on a second monitor to run now
It should be called 'dark psychology' because it's been the cornerstone of modern marketing for decades. There is a whole side of the science of psychology not devoted to helping people, but to selling things. It's called marketing. And though it can be clumsy and most people actually can see through their mind games. But don't think just because you see through it and are not manipulated by them, that it' snot working on others and showing up in their balance sheets. It's quite amazing how manipulative modern marketing really is, they invest trillions into playing people like puppets. They have been doing it for a while in all industries.
The prices will drive people away faster than anything else. Fast food used to be cheap and easy. Now its expensive and easy. Im not going to go to mcdonalds and pay 20 bucks for a shitty burger and some fries. I will just make it at home.
Amen brother. If you live at home alone or with another person, you spend maybe $25 to get every item you'd ever want at the grocery store for a mcdonalds meals, and it lasts you for at least 3 or 4 days.
@@leighz1962 don't get me wrong I would prefer to make them but You must not live in America if you really think you can buy all that for just $15 The burgers alone is $8-$9 for 4x patties near the store I live at. Beverages are $3 for a 3 litter soda or very sugary drink $5 for a 52 fl oz juice even more if it's something healthy.
The fresh beef patties at the grocery store so much better and 3x the size, 6 for 8$ bread veggies. Idk fast food is expensive with minimum wage at 15$
I love how this video starts with asmongold saying people have no impulse control and then around like 22 minutes in he’s talking about going out to get the new McFlurry shown in the video 😂
His justification is that he thot about it for a day before doing it. He's absolutely a victim of it tho it's just that he grew up a victim so it's really hard to see and he's had 30 years of justifications. He's a rational person and his fast food decisions exist within his rationale. It's not impulsive because it's been his method of thinking for his whole life and he's not trying to be healthy or frugal.
Some things you are not considering: 1. In a lot of other countries, there is still a lot of walking. 2. There are ingredients in US food (including food available from drive-thrus) that are illegal in other countries.
Yea cities in Europe are much more walking friendly. Just like older cities in the US. Walking makes such a difference to obesity. I see so many overweight people barely get out their cars and they park as close to a supermarket as they can because the fatter u are the less pleasant exercise is
In my experience. Fast food joints dont even cater to people walking, even from their own parking lot. So many times ive been walking down a sidewalk and decided i wanted a thing from inside, only to realize there is a hedge row blocking my acess from the sidewalk to the front door. No one ever planned for a pedestrian, through the entire planning phase prior to building the place. There are many times that even when i park in their lot i have to traverse an obstacle course across the drive thru, around the bend, travel in a zig zag as im forced to use a handi-cap acessibility ramp. Only to turn around, imagine myself in a wheel chair and think WTF was that. Nowadays these places are too concerned with replacing humans with robots for me to weather their 17 levels of neglect. I view some places above others. I still visit raising canes, in and out, and chic-fil-a without much of a second thought.
many other places in the world don't place profit above all else, too. you touch upon it with the illegal ingredients: other governments make rules that put the health and wellbeing of their populace above the profit of corporations.
Also, the obesity rates between the US and many other western countries aren't that significant, even though people make them out to be. Obesity is a global western problem, not just a US one.
The quality of the food also plays a massive role in it. Yes there is a lack of self control and impulsiveness but you can’t gloss over the fact that the levels of fat, sugar, and salt are essentially unregulated compared to many other countries in the world. I don’t get how people can call out one problem while completely ignoring another when the two go hand in hand.
I love how as soon as she finishes the explination to what a dark nudge is, asmon says 'let me give you an an example' and the video is interupted by a pokemon go advert that is one of the ways youtube practically harrasses its viewers into buying a premium subscription
And boy, they've ramped up the ads in the last few years. Has it been 1 minute? Ad. Oh, did you skip ahead? Ad. Needed to rewind a bit? Ad. Paused for more than 3 seconds? Ad.
its annoying as hell, ive been paying more attention to the total amount of time in a video that is ads and on avarage your looking at about 40% of each video, it was obvious why they started putting ads in the vids though because it was exactly when they first started advertising youtube premium, from then on it was either 'pay to be uninterupted or were just going to bombard you with as many ads as we can legally get away with until you give into your anger and subscribe'
UA-cam premium is the only subscription worth paying for lol. If you pay for netflix, ad free prime, hulu, whatever streaming service you have no right to bitch about youtube premium, as its way better value, irrefutably. All ads are cancer.
Time to use uBlock Origin or Brave Browser on mobile. Your time is worth more than the micro cents the UA-camr receives from your singular view and the personal privacy invasion by advertisers.
It's the seed oils. Nearly all of American fast foods are cooked in seed oils. Scientific studies shows seed oils, which are high in omega 6 fatty acids are endocannabinoids, which means they suppress your hunger hormones and give you the munchies, just like pot. It's not the way we buy food (the drive thru), but the make up of the food. Why is it that a baked potatoe is healthy, but french fries are unhealthy? It's not the potatoes, it's the soybean oil that the fries are cooked in. Fries used to be cooked in tallow (beef fat) and were much healthier. The problem is seed oils are in pretty much everything we eat. This is why when Americans go to other countries and eat similar food, they lose weight. Or when foreigners come here and eat the "same" food as back home they start gaining weight. It's because we cook our food in vegetable oils instead of butter and tallow. Even American pork and chicken are problematic because we feed them corn and soy (and thus have a high levels of omega 6 in their fat). Cows have multiple stomachs and so can filter out the omega 6. We've poisoned an entire generation of people. Government subsidies of corn and soybeans means the oil is absurdly cheap and thus they put it in everything. We all agree that "processed" food is bad for you. Well, what does it mean to be "processed"? It means they use vegetable/seed oils.
Thank you for pointing this out! Another big thing is our bread sucks. Besides being poor quality, everything is full of gluten which is actually quite bad for you. In Europe, they have much more restrictive food regulations, including bread without gluten. Famously, Italy is a favorite travel destination for people who are gluten free, because they can eat as much carbs and pasta and bread as they want without worrying about gluten in the food.
Indeed. Seed oils are incredibly bad for you (not to mention they go rancid incredibly fast). Animal fats are healthier by comparison (just don't eat too much if you don't exercise). People used to eat a bit of oil (usually animal fat) every day. Now? They guzzle seed oil like its water.
Europeans use mostly rapeseed oil and olive oil. Chinese use any mystery oil they can get their hands on, but mainly soy and sesame. In Latin America, maybe avocado oil? Palm oil is of course ubiquitous everywhere. Aint nobody but the chosen one main characters using animal fat to cook with these days
Looks like someone went down the BS nutrition rabbit-hole on social media, just about none of this is proven fact. The only real proven negative of seed oils is when heated and reheated repeatedly which is something these places do but nobody is gonna get health issues cooking with these oils at home. But yeah they've also done studies feeding people high fat meals of different fat types, one high in PUFAs from seed oils and ones high in saturated fats from animal fats and found no difference in appetite or overall food consumption. They also found people eating high seed oil content had lower post-prandial grehlin (hunger hormone) and higher peptide yy (hunger decreasing peptide) as compared to MUFA or SFA from animal fats. Also been studies comparing saturated fats to these plant oil fats that show 0 difference in inflammation or other health markers and there's tons of these studies. They also find saturated fats from animals directly impacts liver fat accumulation more than other fats or even carbs (including fructose), also increases total LDL and has higher risk of heart disease in the long run. So yeah my point is while some may be true theres probably even more evidence to the contrary of what you are saying so coming out here acting like this shit is gospel and scientific fact just ain't it lol
4:20 - I did the same last week. I walked in and placed an order. It took 20 minutes to get my order because the drive thru customers are the #1 priority and they will always prioritize getting them through quickly at the expense of making the IN STORE customers wait. That's another reason why people don't go in anymore.
Yep, that's what I noticed at McDonald's and Burger King as well. Some randos will order food for an entire village at the drive thru and let you wait long enough that going there in the first place for a quick meal wasn't worth it. And then they get half of your order of a single McMenu wrong...
Same story for food delivery drivers. Drive thru, then in store, then delivery. Its bullshit. Make the orders in the order RECIEVED. Its NOT hard (worked in both resturants and also food delivery for many years)
I just never go to fast food, unless I am with friends that want a quick bite. But whenever I eat there, by the time I get home I'm hungry again. Fast food burgers are nothing burgers. I rather go to an actual restaurant, or you know cook myself.
If your going fast food during drive times 5am-2pm or 5pm-8pm then that's why. Fast food has drive times. The managers get a raise if they get green or yellow drive times.
It's always been this way. I started work at mcdonalds in 2009 and drive thru always had priority. You can thank the customers, as they have the expectation of fast service in the drive thru which is why the focus is there.
37:18 For context, $1 in 1960 = $10.55 in 2024. So that triple threat combo was about $5.28. Don't let inflation fool you, that's some damn good value. Nowadays, burger and fries are at least $7
That gimace shake for 2$ canadian was nice. Got a milkshake this week with the large format.,... under 7$Canadian and about 1.3 litre of milkshake Like the 20 mcnuggets box, this is quite a dollar / quantity value like no other!! Not everything is bad bout Mcdo. I 'member the pizza launch. & The ArchDeluxe...
Has little to do with drive-thru. - food is different compared to other countries. The amount of fat, sugar and chemicals that may be banned elsewhere but not in the U.S.A. - the food size. Our medium is your small. Your medium is our large. - the amount of fastfood buildings and the way your cities are layed out is also a problem.
@@kchaifley1692 yea that is what is happening i think the UK had increased obesity it just takes more time due to eu having local shops ,regulations and food culture but its happening also.
True which is the reason why a lot of American products are banned from EU like chicken. Also even the olive oil that they use in USA is not actually olive oil and is quite shitty in quality if you tasted the real thing it's like night and day. So they cook things in olive oil which is by far the healthiest oil but it's not actually genuine olive oil and it just makes the good even more unhealthy.
@@kchaifley1692 ure hypothetically right , if you usually eat 1 big burger for serving , then they suddenly arent selling big burger anymore , one small or medium burger wont satisfy you , you ended up buying two , so "our medium is your small" is kinda doesnt matter , and since big cities in japan have ALOT of fast foods place too , mcdonalds kfc etc. maybe this is somehow because lack of the consequences of people there is kinda high ? if you're walking in most of asia , people here usually are kinda slim , and if we're fat and walking in the middle of the city , we'll get the feeling of standing out between the others , and humans by default don't want to feel left out , as in , the feeling of wanting to use same costume theme as the others in the party ,
I can walk into Maccas or Hungries and have the burger almost straigh away though. Maybe it takes then longer because tour irdering drinks/shakes and have to wait longer. Then agin I order at the counter and use cash because I dont easte my time with stupid click through crap when a staff member can do it for me, I find it hilarous when people are looking ning up to use the self swrvice and no one is at the counter ordering, complete sheeple get treated as complete sheeple.
Mcdonalds is the only fast food place that has a double drive threw in my town. All other drive threws are single car entry and only 1 person can order at a time. It's extremely annoying when the fat piece of shit in front of you orders the entire menu when you just want something small and you have to wait 10 minutes because of their over eating problem. I don't eat fast food but this happens.
I have a privacy filter on my laptop that does that thing where you cant see the screen unless you are looking right at it. There is no anti-glare reason for it, as anti-glare filters are generally polarized the other direction, vertically, instead of privacy filters, which are polarized horizontally. This is definitely being done so you cant read the menu until you are right in front of it.
Bro, in Europe fast food is not even cheap. At least in Denmark. Coin offers don't really even exist anymore at McDonald's here. It's literally only useful for convenience for me at this point. I can eat like three times (at least) the quantity of homemade food if I try instead of getting one fast food meal.
same in Sweden. I even have a butcher contact I buy at least 50kg from each time. Straight from the knife to my freezer. Then I just buy stuff to cook with. Done this for years and it saves me cash and health ^^ plus its very good quality
Yeah, it's just for convenience/speed in northern Europe tbh. For the price of a ~10-12€ McDonalds menu you can just buy a bag of fries (~2-3€), a bottle of coke (~1.50€), some burger buns (~2€) and cheap meat (~4€) at your local supermarket. Based on German supermarket prices near me tho.
The craving of fast food in your head will always be better than the food you get. We all complain about how bad the food looks once we look at our order vs the pictures, so once you realize all this and remember that, their mind games will stop working.
McDonalds has basicly same menu in Netherlands as in the USA. However, the ingredients are controlled by the European Rules. So certain additives like corn syrop are not allowed. Also is there a cap on salt and sugar levels. Yes we have drive throughs. But McDonalds is not cheap here. Most fresh food, fruit, vegetables and even meat prices are capped so its usually a lot cheaper to make a fresh meal instead of fast food. Shame cause I like KFC XD
Same in Australia, though unfortunately the only products we have with regulated pricing is Eggs. Doesn't matter what brand, all Eggs cost the same price. Would be nice if that extended to other raw ingredients too, such as fruit and vegetables, but Woolworths and Coles investors keep lobbying against such ideas.
The problem is not just the food but the quality of the ingredients. A lot of American products would never be allowed in any country with reasonable quality checks. American chicken are all banned from eu for the same reason . Even the olive oil imported to the US is a knock off which is probably quite unhealthy compared to the real thing. So even when they tell you they're cooking things on olive oil in reality this makes it even worse.
American chicken is banned as a political move, because the US had a monopoly on chicken in the mid 1900's its not strictly about quality, but its a great reason to stop. Their was some product the eu refused to export, so basically the US took it to heart and created a chicken war.
I would say sugar is the main issue, I remember going to the US as a kid and couldn't believe that everything I tried in McDonalds was sweet, even the fries.
Actually, the quality of chicken isn't the problem. The US chlorinates chicken meat before sales, as a safety measure (to prevent bacteria and other common meat issues). This is why the EU bans US chicken imports. As far as the farming practices between the ocean, the EU has some stricter regulations than the US, but overall, it's not much different (complete with both having completely bogus labelling practices). Looking into the history of the US chicken ban is more along the line of preventing market dominance, not health and safety (as chlorinated chicken does make chicken meat safer for consumption). US import chicken would upset the local EU chicken market, so the chicken industry brought the clorinated chicken to the public eye as a scare mongering tactic to get US chicken imports banned. I'm not shilling the US chicken market. I merely have a personal backyard flock and have learned a lot about chicken care and regulation because I keep up with news regarding avian flu. As far as the other things talked about, I completely agree. On the olive oil topic, what most people buy in the US is either rancid oil or a mixture of cheaper oils. The real stuff is very expensive and doesn't have a very long shelf life.
I'm from Poland and here almost no one uses drive through. Everyone either walks or parks and sits down to order. In America there is big car culture related to oil addiction and there are stupid zoning laws created to increase the price of houses. In America it's harder to walk to restaurant/fastfood because they are farther than living spaces. Usage of car in almost mandatory.
This polish person is more american than anyone else in the comments. They just get it. Car culture, distance of driving, zoning laws. It WANTS you to do it.
Korean American here who spent some of my childhood in Korea. I am also general manager of a restaurant here in US. Drive thru culture is almost exclusively American. Most families in Korea have one vehicle, sometimes two if both parents work. It is almost unheard of for children to have their own vehicle until they move out, and even then, most don't until they are married. It is very common for them to not have their driver's license until well into 30s. Also in US, about 60-75% of restaurant sales are drive thru. Next focus of restaurants: online order. When people are ordering online without human interaction, they tend to order more without fearing the judgement from a person who he/she interacts with. Online order's average volume is about 25% higher than what they are in person. So yeah, I can see how restaurants are exploiting people's impulsive behavior for profit, and it's only going to get worse with new avenue of online order.
Regarding online orders could the increase in size be related to people wanting to "get their moneys worth" when they get delivery? Or is that online order but no delivery?
@@venems24 The statistic holds in both. I'd say delivery service def take advantage of it as well with their timed offers, service fees to "make it worth the money", etc. There is reason why a lot of restaurant pushes their own apps even for non-delivery, and managers are often told by corporates to push it for this very reason.
I didn't consider the second part, that people might order more. I do that on occasion but it's not very regular because we are really trying to maximize price-to-food, while prioritising low costs.
28:20 I think something you're misunderstanding here is that places like McDonalds don't actually care about whether or not their times are good unless it's a corporate run store. This is because the overwhelming majority of profits they make are from smaller franchises that they rent the building to. McDonalds is in full control of how the store operates and gets to decide how things are run, and the franchise that buys that particular location has to deal with it whether they like it or not because that's their contract. Then if the franchise decides they want out, they bail, and McDonalds sells it to a new one. McDonalds as a corporation isn't actually a restaurant chain, it's a corporate landlord. And they'll always have some sucker take the bait and sign the contract when others fail. They only care if customers show up, not if they have a good experience. Because that way they can bait a new franchise into buying and keeping the con going. And people will always keep returning because the food is addicting, they don't need to think much, and their marketing/reputation is extremely powerful. tl;dr McDonalds' franchise locations do everything they can to try and manipulate us into spending time and money there, but McDonalds themselves don't have any reason to care about the individual experience because they're already making their money off of the franchises that buy into their predatory contract. The franchise is the one that actually cares about our individual experiences at these locations, and often have to work around McDonald's decision making, such as with the tinted menus in their drive-thru. It's a lose for the franchise as much as the consumer. Ronald is truly the only winner here, and that sucks. Source: I worked in fast food for way too long and paid quite a bit of attention to what was happening around me.
There are 2 major reasons I prefer to order any fast food, or coffee, from an app on my phone. 1) To avoid mix ups as much as possible. 2) To avoid holding up a line. I can sit in my car until I got my order perfect.
Big difference is that you have legal ingredience / chemical compounds etc. that are banned in Europe and other countries and it doesn't help with help. Like chemicals in bread that are banned in Europe cuz they are used in foam in beds etc. So it's not just this but chemicals and sugars used in food in US
I used to eat fast food a lot but now my love for fast food has met the brick wall of me being cheap. It's all too expensive for what it is now. Back when double cheeseburgers were $1 it made sense. Now it makes no sense at all financially.
Yea, its true. The pricing has gotten out of control. The worst thing they could have done, was increase the minimum wage. Fast food places used to be temporary jobs, and mostly for teens. You'd go there to make a little money, while you're saving for school and so on. It was never meant to be a career choice. Because they didn't have pay their employees a lot, it means they didn't have to charge as much for the individual items. As the minimum wage went up in those places, and benefits were added, these places started charging a lot more to offset the costs
@@BattleBladeWarrior I ran a fast food taco place years ago. Labor was always the hardest part of the business to manage. At $20 an hour it would be a nightmare.
@@Justintime2GrowNetwork I can imagine. Say you have just 5 employees making 20 an hour, that's around $1000 a day right there, where it would've been half that if not more, a decade or two ago. If you don't mind my asking. . . you mention "years ago", did you have to sell off the business or were you able to turn a sizeable profit before then?
When I lived in Japan, the drive-throughs didn't exist for most of the fast food places because they are usually situated in malls or crowded areas that drive-through isn't possible.
the dual line thing: sometimes i have a hunch that one car will take longer to order cause they are still undecided at the speaker or have a fam of 6... then that's when the other lane comes in handy... knowing i was there after you but i ordered and got ahead of you in the queue is the best feeling.
And I love ordering through the mobile app. Bypass the line entirely, and anyone working the drive through seems super relieved they can just click a couple buttons and send me on my way
TLDR- I used to work for mcdons, one a 1 lane, 2 a 2 lane. One of which was terrible at it and the other got really good at it. Their DT is optimized for speed, which increases the profits and customer count. Everything is optimized for this, but DT is the main focus. Ok, for explanation, this will be long and edited. Everything in the restaurant is designed and updated at least every 25 years to provide the smoothest and quickest experience. Friction is a very good word choice of this. From the moment you walk in, you see kiosks now. This used to be 1-3 people at an order taking station. This is to give multiple points of ordering. This is why your DT has 2 lanes. Kiosks are double sided and during busier times the register person is to help introduce customers to the kiosks and take orders at register if needed. A lot of times that person is just used to do other stuff to make the experience overall much faster. You may see but not notice how the kitchen is set up. That is also for speed. The grill person is able to put food in and take food out of the holding cabinets while not interfering the person on table finishing the sandwiches. That person is helping build the sandwiches up to saucing and the person initiating the sandwich helps build them to the last veggie and cheese, they meet in the middle. (some stores absolutely suck at doing this) The table is set up in order of the ingredients in the best orientation for speed. The grills cook the meat both sides at a time to decrease cook time. The DT team is alligned in a way that they can help with service in times of need up front and stay out of the way of service for when DT is busier. The drink station is a huge help, it can stage 8 drinks, 4 of which are ready to cap and serve. The fry station is perfectly set to be in the path but not in the way of the service team. The DT lane.. this is the bread and butter of fast food. They have 2 lanes so you have a second point of order taking. It should be operated by 2 people. The front person and the one at the 2nd window handles the inside lane and the back person who takes the money in the far lane. They do this because the back person handles all the money taking and will be overloaded at times so they take the slower lanes since most everyone will default to inside lane. As a customer you have a feel of choice in lane. Thats why chic filet does it, thats why dutch bros does it and so on. When working for a single lane store, we were faster than what the DT team could get through. We had a busy weekend and used another person with a walkie talkie to take more orders behind the order taking slot. Both DT restaurants I said before do this too. You do have a speaker at Chic Filet but they usually have a couple of people with tablets able to take your order and even collect payment. This is to move the line faster. Honestly they have the best system when they can staff the store up enough. This is also why if you're going to wait for the food to be served, mcdonalds will pull you forward or park you. Preferably pull forward, its easier on customer and crew. Easier on crew means faster experience for the majority. When your restaurant does 80/20 in DT/inside, you want to keep people moving. If there was a lobby for cars this wouldnt be an issue. Since that would be a major waste of land and just silly altogether being the point is to decrease friction and increase customer count this would not work. I can promise you that McDonalds dont have enough forethought to tint the menu so you dont see it before the speaker. It is solely because the old way would glare and blind you as a customer at certain times of the day/year. Im actually surprised they dont put money down to have a pre menu like burger king does. It would make order taking faster. Although they are more focused now on mobile order taking. You can save a regular order for you and if you order it on phone then go to your mcdonalds it will have the restaurant start it when you get close enough. They are pushing this hard on the customers, trying to do away with the need for an order taker. More points of ordering, more orders coming in. If you dont see a line, you're more likely to visit. You can also skip ahead of those others who do take a year to order, and those guys' order wont count on time until its submitted. Mcdonalds loves that for times in stores so that store cant blame the high times on old timer Bob. Old timer Bob comes in and spends a dollar on coffee every morning and maybe even a sandwich. That's a guaranteed customer. With less people needed to take orders, that frees them up to help with making service even faster. With like a hundred menu items the store is spread out and takes time to make a fry, a flurry and a smoothie. If you have someone make a fry while you grab the smoothie and flurry it'll be quicker. Also, lets not ignore the rising wages increasing more than the price increases. Which is another thing.. the prices go up but not too fast. We did about every 6 months to a year, especially after 2012. They dont raise too much too fast or it will drive customers away. The digital menus do cut down on labor used however. When changes need to be made, someone can take a minute or two to make that change. Example: ice cream machine is down for whatever reason. Manager can go to register in a menu and hit unavailable. This will change the status on all the menu boards at the same time. They used to have to put a sticker on the menu (and take it off later) or explain it to customer as everyone has heard "our ice cream machine is actually down for now". Corporate likes to change stuff to make it modern and now that can be updated on system close and change out the menus automatically. This used to take 20 minutes or even an hour depending on the size of the change. An hour to change the menus is an hour lost by one of the priciest people on the schedule. So while the bottom line is profit, the main focus is speed which turns to profit. The license plate recognition may be a thing but they would rather see your app running in the background and show you a menu or suggestion based on that. That way any car you're in will still be personalized to you. They are perfecting it on the app but I'm pretty sure this is the goal.
When you scrape all the chicken off of the bone there are still tiny bits on it that are normally discarded. They run that through a centrifuge to separate those tiny pieces and then combine them into a single mass. That is what pink slime is. There's more to it, it's hyperprossesed after all, but it's essentially chicken saw dust.
Seeing all the bad drive-through ideas is actually quite insightful into how success gets filtered. Most of the insane things in the world today are just bad ideas enroute to failure. Problem today though is there's so many desperate investment corps keeping all the bad ideas afloat, that they cant just die off naturally. Leaving the world littered with bad ideas that would otherwise have failed.
The difficulty is not just a psychological one, it is also biological. There is a process called myelination, where the axons and dendrites of neurons form myelin around their connections that make synaptic communication faster. Think of it as electrical conduciveness, meaning the messages are met with less resistance on a biological level. Impulsive behavior is usually controled by the frontal lobe, and a lack of myelination there often leads to an increase of impulsive behaviors or thoughts.There are ways to control this, but fasinatingly, it is not just a matter of not doing it; although that is a part of the process of reversal.
I’m European and my workplace is 2 minutes away from a McDonalds and it took me 6 months to visit it just once😂. When I visited the US I was blown away how many people went to the drive through, so I think it’s just something people are very used to over there.
Yeah I'd say its mainly an American cultural thing starting in the 50s and 60s with national freeways causing a huge surge in car travel, leading to the rise of drive-in diners and such where they'd bring the tray out to your car and hook it on your window, preferably by a cute girl on rollerskates. That combined with the convenience factor and everyone being in a rush all the time is what 'drives' most people to the drive thru.
I'm from Canada, but same thing. In the US the drive thru/fast food craze is insane. And its not just the amount of people, its the shape of them too! There's so many obese people in the USA that are driving to those places, order massive meals, eat in their car, and then going home to lay on the couch. The convenience of it just further encourages a sedentary lifestyle with no exercies.
I think it’s because people grew up with it. My family only got fastfood on roadtrip or on rare occasions. In turn, we grew up to not eat fast food as much. A lot of people ate fast food multiple times a week so they do that now too
The dual drive thru is more efficient only if the restaurant has enough staff to handle it quickly. We had a Wendy’s install a dual drive through several years ago. Both lanes were open for about a week, then they closed one of them permanently. Yes, more cars could go through, but the staff couldn’t work quickly enough, so it took just as long or longer as a single lane.
@@bruhus_momentumit takes 30min to an hour to cook dinner at home. Thats a lot of time. It takes 30 minutes to an hour to go drive to a fast food joint, get the food, and come home. The time is the same. There really is no excuse as to why you are getting fast food.
Not all countries are so car based so you don't find yourself hitting a drive through that often. While in the states you are permanently in a car and if you want food its going to be much simpler to just do the drive through.
honestly eu is fat as fuck too. and it's mostly from culture of wanting fast and convenience rather than all these complex topics people wanna bring up. two things you can do with a car in car culture 1: buy food 2: drive somewhere to cook it. bears will kill you fast and convenient in the woods too but i dont wanna be killed by a bear and i dont really feel like getting fat either
I love how Asmon "counters" every point made by saying its just a lack of self control and pauses with a big mic drop moment as if he didn't just make that same point 10 seconds ago.
The ironic part is that he eats the same trash that normally fat people eat. While he may eat smaller portions, im willing to bet that he also has a naturally fast metabolism, cause you know this dude aint getting any meaningful exercise with how much he streams
@@GreatRaijin What I find most ironic in this one, is that he does not exercise self-control when it comes to eating because he himself admitted once that he find eating inconvenient. And just like the woman in the video says, people try to find the path of least resistance. For Asmon eating is resistance, that's why he avoids it.
It's important as an individual to take accountability for your actions and try to exercise self-control. However when dealing with systems, you have to think systemically. The fact of the matter is Fast Food restaurants prey on your weaknesses to push addictive foods on you without consideration for your health. Saying "muh self-control" doesn't solve anything, it just removes accountability from the businesses.
there’s a very clear distinction between the two, one is a matter of willpower, the other is a matter of whether you want to do it or not. fatties hooked on mcd’s are unable to stop due to their poor impulse control. if you asked them whether they want to get fat and unhealthy, they’d say no, but they eat fast food regardless, because they cannot exercise self-control. they are fully aware that mcd’s is actively damaging to their health, they do it regardless. Asmon on the other hand simply doesn’t care to clean, it’s not that he can’t bring himself to do it, he just doesn’t want to. him not cleaning doesn’t hurt him in any way, he very simply doesn’t want to, it’s not a matter of willpower. put it this way: if Asmon wanted to, he would clean, but he simply doesn’t want to, so he doesn’t do it. if a fatty wanted to get healthy, they would have an extremely hard time quitting fast food, if they could even do it at all.
Gotta say, prices stop me dead in my tracks when it comes to eating fast food. I usually just get the $1 breakfast sandwich on the McDonald’s app after work and they try at the window to get me more and thru the app but those prices nah.
I have self control in most other areas of my life. I don’t drink or do drugs, I get good grades, I keep up with my responsibilities. But while I’m eating I find it difficult to stop myself. I don’t have fast food, I’m Jewish so I’ve never been, but I still overeat. If I don’t over eat I find myself feeling depressed. Instead, I do intermittent fasting. I spend the morning starving, but I find that I prefer that. Some people struggle with their weight, not because they’re lazy, but for other reasons. I don’t know everyone’s story, but I don’t think it’s fair to say everyone who is overweight is lazy and has no self control. Some may have self control when it comes to everything but food.
20:00 It happens sometimes that I got to a shop to a buy a tool. When I get there, I realize that there are like 6 different variations of the tool, in wildly different price categories. I might spend like 15-30 minutes, trying to just figure out which one is the best for me and value for money. Then I go back home without buying the tool because now I'm unsure what I needed. Then I do my research and buy the thing online. If there were no options, I would probably had bought the tool no matter if it was a cheap chinesium version or an expensive brand one.
Also more "charged", i dont know how to express it but the difference between a kfc in my country (colombia) and the one i ate a couple months ago when i went to the us was wild, the one from the us felt like eating 27 spices with a mantle of grease.
Drive thrus are the worst I absolutely hate walking into a fast food and waiting 5-10 minutes with no one in front of me just to order it’s because management tells the employees to ignore the stand and focus on drive thru customers
I think one of the biggest issues with that now is that mobile orders are almost as much as the drive thru, so the in person customer is in 3rd place now
@@cremonster Yeah I noticed this too, since 2020 the walk-ins wait the longest. Plus the interiors aren't always clean or even safe. This made a lot of previous walkers like myself go to drive thru now.
@@erawanpencil Yeah i switched over to ordering in the app/website and choosing pickup. Usually by the time I place the order and drive to the location, the food is 1 minute from coming out.
As a commercial real estate broker who works with developers that build drive thru's, the double drive through is also used to reduce the likelihood that a backed up line impacts street traffic for city approval.
It's convenience, and how petrified people are of having a conversation outside of it being transactional. That disconnect from people is ruining social skills
Completely agree even within the first 2 minutes. Living in Europe we do have drive throughs but we don't have the habit of eating in the car or any of that. If we go somewhere to eat, be it mcdonalds or 5 star restaurant, we have the habit to stop, sit, enjoy the meal, whatever meal it is. Whereas in the USA it's common to have your meal within 5 minutes instead of 30 minutes. That and the fact that we walk everywhere here, even if it's a 3mile walk to work passing by 20 fast food chains, we walk or ride a bike we don't get in our cars. Which by itself gives us a little bit of exercise even if we don't count it as exercise. We also don't have that option you guys had to "supersize" everything for basically the same price, everything is driving in the US even if it's within walking distance. If we go to the gym here we get our pre-workout warmup on our way there with a jog instead of driving there and warming up during workout time. Just a different culture I would assume which in turn allows for the mindset of drivethrough and gorge. It's convenient for us in Europe too to go through a drive through but we just don't because we learned how to appreciate a meal rather than just eat and overeat delicious foods. You stop at your 2$ steak, you don't have three 2$ steaks, the price wouldn't be much higher but yet you do stop at one. Other people aren't wired that way and this is particularly true in the USA culture and exploitation of psychology, bliss point effects and all other factors involved in overeating. We were taught control, you were taught lack of accountability. You could argue yeah but in the EU people smoke more, which is true, because when then started we were considered to be about 30 years behind the USA on a cultural level so we didn't have the pre-internet access to all the labels and knowledge, we knew it was bad just not how bad it was. Lack of self control and accountability is present on both sides, but in the USA in particular it's become a mindset, as in you can do whatever you want and be whoever you want, but when you find yourself over 300 pounds you reach a point of no return generally speaking so you just give up, don't get me wrong we have fat people in Europe, it's just not as common, you don't see many of them and the ones you do see actively seek help instead of giving up and throwing in the towel into mcdonnalds repeat visits. It's just the way it is. My opinion it's it was a matter of cultural timing tied with psychology in which the USA was caught at it's most vulnerable time which created what we're seeing nowadays.
Do you also have those ordering terminals in the US ? (you click your order, you get a ticket, you wait for your number, you don't talk to anyone, no one verbally influences you, you just need to read). In the Czech Republic we also have drive-throughs and we are also persuaded to use them. For example, just by the fact that there are 15 parking spaces, 5 of which are occupied by employees and there are 20 tables inside.
We do have them. Our local McDonald's just added them a few months back. I'm not a big fan but mostly because I have not quite figured out how to use them. 😅
Using science to prove what we already knew. Not necessarily discovering truths, but more like discovering the epistemology behind the truths. It's not difficult to push someone over the edge of a bad decision once thy are already in the drive-thru.
34:20 That's how they design retail shelves as well, like grocery stores especially. It's very important that someone's product is at that eyeline level in order to sell more.
Aside from some small countries in like Micronesia and also Kuwait the US leads by a pretty good bit. United States - 42.7% obese, Mexico 36.9%, Ireland 21.0%, United Kingdom 20.1%, Germany 19.0%,
the dual drive thru is faster because they don't have to wait long to get the next order started. When there is just a single line and the car that ordered can't move forward they can't start the next order till it does and that means the orders take longer to make.
The dual lane drive thru is a blessing when there's that one person taking 10 minutes to read the menu before making their order. Because at least some of the orders are going through and stuff is getting cooked
The Wendy's in my town doesn't have a digital menu board. We (I was a shift manager there for about a year) and we would get the new panels delivered before any menu change. Then we would have to price it with by hand, which always sucked because there was never a pricing guide included so you'd have to just ring in the items at the POS. And for new items, you'd have to the buttons to show up in the system that typically happened at midnight on the launch date.
39:43 companies nowadays are like that guy who argues with the cops while being arrested for assault: "she talked to me, so I just assumed she consented, officer." except for some reason, for them it actually works, the police releases them, and then everyone claps. oh, and they proceed to do it again in five minutes. I know its money. also, you now have no idea what those replies are about.
@@Doggo-frencton I do be trying to be funny while intentionally using improper grammar as for annoying humans. the point still stands though. English isn't even my first language. though I also misspell things in Portuguese for comedic purposes. and also this do be a very bad impression of the Illianese accent from the Wheel of Time book series. they do be speaking like so, and I do find it funny. totally recommend the books, and also recommend you skip the TV show. it deserves to be thrown into the sun. it has enough radioactive garbage to reverse global warming trough nuclear energy, then power the entire earth for a century.
39:12 That's how i shop in general, but it's very rare for people. That's why grocery stores can afford to have good sales, because you'll end up grabbing all your other groceries there out of convenience. Not to mention they usually increase prices a week prior to making a deal, so the deal isn't actually that good
The only reason I use the Drive Thru here in Australia is the shear number of employees these places put on the windows. You get ultimate priority over every single patron inside the restaurant. It's significantly faster albeit BULLSHIT. It blows my mind everyone inside is treated worse.
0:40 I wonder this similarly, if our “freedom” and capitalist society structure create this issue unique to America. Being free to eat and seeing low cost and large sizing as high value, we as a society engage in it. The laws don’t prevent low cost ingredients that are banned in many other countries and Americans have no self restraint in a system that gives us everything instantly (see: credit cards, social media , energy drinks, etc). I recently was in Canada and the food difference in quality and ingredients was shocking. The candy at an event was as good as any in the US, but with no added dyes and only 3g of sugar (versus in the US Red, Yellow, etc coloring and 48g of sugar).
Its true. I'm from Canada, and we are a lot more strict on the food additives allowed in products. one of My favorite thing about going to the states, originally, was seeing all the dozens of extra flavors they have over there for different brands, (Soda, chips, candy, etc) that we dont have here. But then I started reading the ingredients list, and now I understand, the only reason the US has so many more options is because of all the banned substances they use in their food that aren't allowed over here. I can't argue the portion size is a lot larger in the US, but on average, the quality of the food (at least when it comes to fast food, snacks, etc) is a lot worse.
The worst part are the excuses like “bad foods are cheaper and more convenient”. You can always choose the salad, or don’t have fries and a soda. It’s not like you don’t have any agency of your own.
When my friends want to hit up McDonald's I get 6 or 9 nuggies or a burger, a diet soda and no fries. Never a problem. But yeah if I got the whole menu I'd have to starve the rest of the day to avoid hitting my calorie max.
@@ChaoticNeutralMatt Then eat smaller portions and amounts of those bad foods. You'll lose weight, be healthier and save even more money. It's a win-win-win.
@@ChaoticNeutralMatt if you only ever eat at McDonald’s. There’s pretty much at least one salad option or grilled chicken sandwich option available at nearly every fast food restaurant. You can still choose to reduce your portions.
people here including asmon forget that the modified food like fast food has salt and sugar poured into them beyond what should be normal, sugar is an addictive and salt make your more thirsty, and they make use of this. you also can't compare a burger to a fucking salad bro XD. I have self control and i dont have a car anyway so forget me with drive-through , but i understand the effect fast food and bad food has because of said addictives in them. There is a lack of self control for sure but its not just that.. Asmon is saying things without knowing all about it and people just blindingly agreeing with him without doing critical thinking for themself lol. i agree with some of his point but there's more to it than what he says. You need to see wider than just a few PoV.
I think a lot of it is how our cities are designed. If you're driving everywhere to get to anything, then the drive through is easier. If you don't have to do that, drive through isn't any more useful than a non-sit-down restaurant
1:30 Because other countries have stricter regulations on food and drugs than we do that's why there are more skinny people in Europe... And because of a lack of impulse control that's general in modern Americans.
the reason they have the menues with the angle screens is to make sure you are ordering from a spot where a mic is, without it a lot of coustomers dont actually get their voices picked up properlly which results in ordering errors or a longer ordering time due to communication difficulty
I'd say that's also largely because salads are not really "drive thru" food in the first place. Ever notice how almost all drive through food are things that you can eat with your hands easily? Most people don't want to get their food and then immediately pull into a parking spot, bust out the fork and salad dressing packet and do the whole salad thing in their car. They want to grab it and go and probably eat some of it while driving to the next place, to be efficient with time.
@@theSato format doesn't matter, you can make healthy food convenient. e.g.: make a subway sandwich on a decent bread instead of sugary bullshit they use, and don't add a crapton of high-calorie souces. or make shwarma with the same mindset. or like anything else. it's just not that profitable.
All of fast foods in my country capital, Prague Czech republic, have Drive-thru. But most of them are empty. Because we have reliable city transport (the best in the world according to many global magazines), as opposed to heavily Car Focused USA. Pretty much everyone has a transport stop within 100-200 yards from their place. It's also mostly much faster than going by car, the subway is underground and the Trams have priority on street and have its own lane and you don't have to deal with parking (good luck finding a place). So people don't drive all that much as long as they are within the city and surrounding villages (that the Capital city transport still covers).
Who wants to sit in a poverty chariot with junkies & drunks? Who wants to live their life by the bus schedule set by the municipality?? Id rather be free to travel how I please than be trapped by the routes of the government.
@@LucVNO By reliable transport I mean transport that goes every 2 minutes. So you don't really live your life by the bus schedule... And the transport is really clean, it has A/C, wifi and is absolutely silent because we respect each other's privacy. You can totally read a book without plugs in ears. Also, we have very low rate of junkies and drunks, you have to really unlucky to come across them. It's possible, but not that much. You encounter a single homeless person like once a week. You're just projecting your own perspective from a f'd up government into our system.
Every since they added these 2 lane drive thrus, I avoid drive thrus because of the social anxiety of racing the guy in the other lane and nudging my way from 2 lines to 1 in a vehicle.
I just don’t understand is anyone shocked by this revelation? EVERY BUSINESS in essentially EVERY FIELD uses psychology to entice customers. It’s built into the act and practice of sales/ services in and of itself. “Want thing? Don’t like when eg. happens to you? Seeking convenient and effortless results? Buy our shit!”
Yeah, but they are less common. But yeah drive throughs are not the issue. The issue is self control and the fact the products being sold are significantly less good for you than the European counterparts. Because in Europe there are stricter regulations on how much Salt, Fat and Sugar can be in fast food products. Meaning if someone decides to choice and eat unhealthy, which is their choice to make, it at least is less bad for you than it could have been.
The fact I'm morbidly obese, needed to get gas and went to the McDonalds across the street this morning speaks volumes... I feel personally attacked. That McMuffin and hashbrowns hit though.
I think Asmon fails to understand that not every country has a Burger King, wendy's Mcdonalds KFC, chicken filet, taco bell , subway, pizzahut and dunkin on every single corner. If other countries had more fastfood chains than citizens they would have a fat population as well.
Also he doesn’t think about how others countries encourages walking and things are more accessible vs driving a lot which affects what places you go. Driving is a need, you don’t have legs without driving
I love how Asmon, amongE so many other people, has no concept of lack of self-control. It's easy to say "just quit being a [female dog] 4Head" and move on with the conversation. My question is, HOW does one do that? It's a really privileged thing to say, like saying "if you're homeless, just get a house 4Head" or "if you feel no hope and want to commit [Alt+F4 IRL], just be happE - it's really easy 4Head". Some people lack self-control, WHAT do they DO in that case? It's not like you could switch on your rational brain in these situations and think whether you have to do it or not. Compulsive eating, drinking, substance abuse, viewing [adult content], and so much more - these are all quite serious problems that may lead to physical and mental issues beyond anything reasonable. HOW do you control yourself? Is there like a decent way to learn how to do that, or is it just AA 12 steps bull[faeces]? Please clarify
Yeah, that's the kind of advice people give when they haven't struggled with something. People who say "just do it" or "just don't do it" know how to intuitively do it or not do it. It comes naturally to them. It's a part of their brain that helps them make good decisions. A part of their brain motivates them to do the right thing. I guess it's about finding the right intuition or being in the right state of mind. Perhaps you're too easy on yourself and don't want to think at all before making a decision, or you're being too hard on yourself, which ends up draining your energy and affecting your ability to make good decisions. Maybe you overthink and obsess about small details so much that, when it comes to big decisions, there are so many factors to consider that your system just hangs and you fall to temptation. Or maybe your temptation signals are too strong compared to the part of your brain that helps with delayed gratification and motivates you to do the right or difficult things. There are all kinds of possibilities. Maybe our emotions are messed up. We're too easy on ourselves because it's too painful otherwise, or maybe we don't care enough about our health or our dreams, or whatever it is. There are times when I've put myself through worse physical and emotional pain than the emotional pain I would have experienced from actually doing the right thing. It's as if it's easier to face the negative consequences of your actions because there's no option but to face them than to actually face the pain of making the right choice. Maybe we live too much in the present and are unable to think in terms of time. Maybe we see our future self as a stranger, somebody else, and not literally as what we are going to experience. Maybe it's too demanding to think about it. Maybe the consequences are so far ahead in the future that they don't seem to affect us in any way. Maybe it's become our comfort zone. Maybe the solution is simple but not easy. Or maybe it's easy but not intuitive. Or maybe it's intuitive as well, but we've just believed that we can't do it because it's easier to rationalize wrong behavior and avoid the pain. Our brains are good at that stuff. Or likely, it's all of these things combined. People tell you to just do the right thing, but they don't tell you exactly how to "just do it." It's like asking someone how to quit smoking, and they say "just quit smoking". That doesn't explain how you do it. They don't have a good solution. I've tried all sorts of things, and haven't found a reliable method. There's always loopholes for my brain to trick me. "Start doing it without thinking" works sometimes or start slow and easy and break it into smaller tasks, and start with one thing. But that also only works when you're aware(normal state of mind) of it, and not being highjacked. It's much harder to want to avoid doing something. I guess you could do something else and forget about the previous thing? I don't think I've ever won a long-lasting willpower war. I either win quickly or I don't. A battle of attrition is a guaranteed loss for me. But when I start doing something, and have that momentum, it's easy to keep going though. Unless, distracted by someone or something. I even avoid eating, I can't eat a lot without throwing up. I'm skinny. In short, when my emotions align with the right behaviors, everything goes according to plan. And when they don't, I mostly lose. I guess sometimes I win with the power of the indomitable human spirit lol. But despite all reasoning, how am I supposed to do something when my decision making system is faulty, when my motivational circuitry is f'd up. I'm actually bad at handling my emotions despite being logical. "It makes sense to do it" but "I don't feel like doing it" so it makes sense to not do it? I don't know man. My emotional self has the final say. It overpowers and manipulates my logical self, and the ship's gone. If I could act according to my logical conclusion, everything would work. But the emotional self is like: "That's not fair. You can't just put me through all that trouble. I don't care about your dreams or future." "But you're the one who dreams of all the good things. Why do you not understand?!!" Maybe it says, "Oh, I wouldn't receive those good things. Those rewards are far ahead in the future. And we've been trying so hard. We've been practicing everyday to get good at this thing. And we're still terrible compared to all those people. And there's no reward for us." "But If you don't do this, we are doomed!" lmao. I feel like it's a communication problem in a way. My emotions and logic aren't able to cooperate. I've also been pretty bad at expressing my emotions, and I feel like I've buried a lot of things. It could be, that that is why my emotions overpower me. I don't know. Basically, It's not very simple. And I don't have a good solution. Maybe the only thing that would work is: To wake up everyday, and just do the right things. And not give ourselves the choice to do the wrong things. And believe that we are a 100% accountable for our choices. In that sense, he would be right. But I don't know if this is going to work, what is wrong with me.
@notrhythm if you go to fast food because its the path of least resiatance or a subconscious decisions, then you just have to wake the fuck up and actively make better choices. Meal prep. Bring something protein shake or bar to eat on the way home from work so you dont stop. Dont drive past tempting restaurants. Create your own obstacles so its no longer an easy or "subconscious" decision. Actively plan the days you do get fast food.
I hardly ever use drive-thrus. I usually prefer to just go in and make an order because it gives you a chance to look at the menu and figure out what you want. With the number people picking the drive-thru, it's often quicker to just walk in anyway.
26:50 I don't think that's anti glare, it's just LCD screens with narrow view angles. Then of course the question is if THAT is intentional or if it's just because they want to use cheaper LCD screens.
Its so interesting listening to psychological break downs of drive throughs. I eat the same couple of items from each restaurant. Cant remember the last time i've impulse ordered in a drive through. I'm way more prone to do that when ordering from mobil apps
Showing you want the person before you bought would work - they already do it in gaming when they show you the weapon that killed you in PVP, then you put the better items behind a paywall. It makes the player believe that if only they had that better gun they would perform better. To a degree they also do it by manipulating skill based matchmaking
Drive thru is the worst because most of the time once you commit yourself to it and enter a queue, most of the time you cant leave. Its designed like that on purpose. So what if you changed your mind or drive thru takes to long. If it would be walking store, you get out and skip your purchase. In drive-thru you cant. Imagine using drive-thru for more consequential purchases like buying a car or real estate using drive-thru. You would be a prisoner of a sales person until you agree to the terms as there would be a car in front of you blocking your exit and high pressure salesperson next to you trying to sell you stuff. Total nightmare.
I stopped using drive thrus years ago, they've always ushered you off into a bay but it happened more and more and I ended up sitting in a bay waiting 10 minutes for 1 time too many and decided this just isn't a life perk any more. That and the friggin drive thru kerbs are far too narrow, it's not worth risking scratching your 80k car alloys on a kerb for the sake of a quick burger
I like the digital menus WAY better also for exactly the reasons you said. The prices will go up the same way whether it's a plastic or paper menu or a digital one. I'd rather have the prettier, nicer and easier to read digital one over any of the old school ones.
In my country here in Europe, most people go into the McDonalds and order with the ordermachine. I mean Drive-Thrus in general are very rare here. Most McDonalds and Burgerkings in my country don't even have a drive-thru because they are somewhere in the middle of a city and you can't even get there by car so thats that. But i am glad that we still do a lot of walking here. That's the problem with the US: Your cities are build around driving a car.
The duel wield drive through is faster even with one order taker because it reduces the time the customer waits for the one in front to order. If one person is taking a lot of time, including moving up to order, the order taker can be taking an order from the other line. Pretty obvious that part of the cycle time for ordering is the time a customer takes to order.
The McDonald's menu is different in different countries. When i visited Germany their McDonald's served Chicken wings and shrimp. Some of the stuff they put in our food in the USA is illegal. Not only are the menu's different in other countries the food also tastes incredibly different imo, you also won't find 5 different McDonald's on the same road within a 5 min drive.
I just want to put it out there, Mcdonalds literally hires auditors to go through the drive thrus, order a meal, and if they do not get the meal within 3 minutes, they fail the audit and the people get in crap for it... They are made to get the cars moving out of there as fast as possible.
The friction thing is so true, when I open twitch, if I get an ad before I can watch a single second of streaming I automatically close the tab 95% of the time
Same
I do the same with UA-cam, if there's a long one or "1 of 2 ads" appears I'll close the video and click on it again. Usually it cancels out the ads playing again because I guess it technically had one on screen.
That being said, if they're in-video ads I just fast-forward 60 seconds, that's usually how long they last. Also when I went to type "fast-forward" it went to autocorrect as "fast-food" which I found kinda funny
Install brave or uBlock Origin extension. It will block your ads
I don't know what the proper way to advertise on twitch is, cause they DO have to actually make some money to sustain the business, but goddamn have they chosen the most annoying shit so far
Before I'd just mute it and open a new tab and do something else while it runs. Not it pauses when it isn't on screen or upfront. Super annoying. Have to open a new window and put the twitch one on a second monitor to run now
“Dark Nudging” sounds like a new Forbidden Jutsu that Rondald McDonald learned in order to be the Fast Food Hokage.
McKage
I just call them marketing tactics. Some worse than others
And 400 episodes later we find out that he's an alien sent to terraform earth into an energy farm.
It should be called 'dark psychology' because it's been the cornerstone of modern marketing for decades.
There is a whole side of the science of psychology not devoted to helping people, but to selling things. It's called marketing.
And though it can be clumsy and most people actually can see through their mind games. But don't think just because you see through it and are not manipulated by them, that it' snot working on others and showing up in their balance sheets.
It's quite amazing how manipulative modern marketing really is, they invest trillions into playing people like puppets.
They have been doing it for a while in all industries.
its Ronald McDonald's version of the thousand years of pain
The prices will drive people away faster than anything else. Fast food used to be cheap and easy. Now its expensive and easy. Im not going to go to mcdonalds and pay 20 bucks for a shitty burger and some fries. I will just make it at home.
$6 - 4x ¼# burgers
$2 - buns(4)
$.25 - condiments
$4 - fries
$2 - beverage
..$15 for 2 people to eat decent non-kangaroo meat food
Amen brother. If you live at home alone or with another person, you spend maybe $25 to get every item you'd ever want at the grocery store for a mcdonalds meals, and it lasts you for at least 3 or 4 days.
@@leighz1962 don't get me wrong I would prefer to make them but You must not live in America if you really think you can buy all that for just $15
The burgers alone is $8-$9 for 4x patties near the store I live at.
Beverages are $3 for a 3 litter soda or very sugary drink $5 for a 52 fl oz juice even more if it's something healthy.
Prices are especially bad in Canada compared to the US. Probably why obesity isn't as high lol
The fresh beef patties at the grocery store so much better and 3x the size, 6 for 8$ bread veggies.
Idk fast food is expensive with minimum wage at 15$
I love how this video starts with asmongold saying people have no impulse control and then around like 22 minutes in he’s talking about going out to get the new McFlurry shown in the video 😂
Asmon is a person. *_confirmed_* 😮 (The Lich King Council will revoke his goblin sword.)
His justification is that he thot about it for a day before doing it. He's absolutely a victim of it tho it's just that he grew up a victim so it's really hard to see and he's had 30 years of justifications. He's a rational person and his fast food decisions exist within his rationale. It's not impulsive because it's been his method of thinking for his whole life and he's not trying to be healthy or frugal.
Also how he says people who decide to go home as losers.
Guess he is a people too!
Yeah but he isn't fat like most Americans.
Some things you are not considering:
1. In a lot of other countries, there is still a lot of walking.
2. There are ingredients in US food (including food available from drive-thrus) that are illegal in other countries.
Yea cities in Europe are much more walking friendly. Just like older cities in the US. Walking makes such a difference to obesity. I see so many overweight people barely get out their cars and they park as close to a supermarket as they can because the fatter u are the less pleasant exercise is
In my experience. Fast food joints dont even cater to people walking, even from their own parking lot.
So many times ive been walking down a sidewalk and decided i wanted a thing from inside, only to realize there is a hedge row blocking my acess from the sidewalk to the front door. No one ever planned for a pedestrian, through the entire planning phase prior to building the place. There are many times that even when i park in their lot i have to traverse an obstacle course across the drive thru, around the bend, travel in a zig zag as im forced to use a handi-cap acessibility ramp. Only to turn around, imagine myself in a wheel chair and think WTF was that.
Nowadays these places are too concerned with replacing humans with robots for me to weather their 17 levels of neglect.
I view some places above others. I still visit raising canes, in and out, and chic-fil-a without much of a second thought.
many other places in the world don't place profit above all else, too. you touch upon it with the illegal ingredients: other governments make rules that put the health and wellbeing of their populace above the profit of corporations.
@@TheHoHWBand please provide some examples of the "many" other places in the world that doesn't place profit above all else? lol!
Also, the obesity rates between the US and many other western countries aren't that significant, even though people make them out to be. Obesity is a global western problem, not just a US one.
“Americans have a self control problem”… hit the nail right on the head man.
Their culture is literally about getting whatever they want, that's their "American freedom". They can't understand someone wanting less
Just watch Dashcam Videos... So much Self Control Problems ☝️🤷🙄
Every country does, but America lacks a lot of basic regulation.
Also accountability. It's not my fault I can't control myself it's evil corps
The quality of the food also plays a massive role in it. Yes there is a lack of self control and impulsiveness but you can’t gloss over the fact that the levels of fat, sugar, and salt are essentially unregulated compared to many other countries in the world. I don’t get how people can call out one problem while completely ignoring another when the two go hand in hand.
I love how as soon as she finishes the explination to what a dark nudge is, asmon says 'let me give you an an example' and the video is interupted by a pokemon go advert that is one of the ways youtube practically harrasses its viewers into buying a premium subscription
And boy, they've ramped up the ads in the last few years. Has it been 1 minute? Ad. Oh, did you skip ahead? Ad. Needed to rewind a bit? Ad. Paused for more than 3 seconds? Ad.
its annoying as hell, ive been paying more attention to the total amount of time in a video that is ads and on avarage your looking at about 40% of each video, it was obvious why they started putting ads in the vids though because it was exactly when they first started advertising youtube premium, from then on it was either 'pay to be uninterupted or were just going to bombard you with as many ads as we can legally get away with until you give into your anger and subscribe'
UA-cam premium is the only subscription worth paying for lol. If you pay for netflix, ad free prime, hulu, whatever streaming service you have no right to bitch about youtube premium, as its way better value, irrefutably. All ads are cancer.
Time to use uBlock Origin or Brave Browser on mobile. Your time is worth more than the micro cents the UA-camr receives from your singular view and the personal privacy invasion by advertisers.
I use brave i no longer have ads unless i use the youtube app. Which is rare.
It's the seed oils. Nearly all of American fast foods are cooked in seed oils. Scientific studies shows seed oils, which are high in omega 6 fatty acids are endocannabinoids, which means they suppress your hunger hormones and give you the munchies, just like pot. It's not the way we buy food (the drive thru), but the make up of the food. Why is it that a baked potatoe is healthy, but french fries are unhealthy? It's not the potatoes, it's the soybean oil that the fries are cooked in. Fries used to be cooked in tallow (beef fat) and were much healthier.
The problem is seed oils are in pretty much everything we eat. This is why when Americans go to other countries and eat similar food, they lose weight. Or when foreigners come here and eat the "same" food as back home they start gaining weight. It's because we cook our food in vegetable oils instead of butter and tallow. Even American pork and chicken are problematic because we feed them corn and soy (and thus have a high levels of omega 6 in their fat). Cows have multiple stomachs and so can filter out the omega 6.
We've poisoned an entire generation of people. Government subsidies of corn and soybeans means the oil is absurdly cheap and thus they put it in everything. We all agree that "processed" food is bad for you. Well, what does it mean to be "processed"? It means they use vegetable/seed oils.
Thank you for pointing this out! Another big thing is our bread sucks. Besides being poor quality, everything is full of gluten which is actually quite bad for you. In Europe, they have much more restrictive food regulations, including bread without gluten. Famously, Italy is a favorite travel destination for people who are gluten free, because they can eat as much carbs and pasta and bread as they want without worrying about gluten in the food.
It is the entire process. Best to just avoid fast food. Its all junk.
Indeed. Seed oils are incredibly bad for you (not to mention they go rancid incredibly fast). Animal fats are healthier by comparison (just don't eat too much if you don't exercise).
People used to eat a bit of oil (usually animal fat) every day. Now? They guzzle seed oil like its water.
Europeans use mostly rapeseed oil and olive oil. Chinese use any mystery oil they can get their hands on, but mainly soy and sesame. In Latin America, maybe avocado oil? Palm oil is of course ubiquitous everywhere. Aint nobody but the chosen one main characters using animal fat to cook with these days
Looks like someone went down the BS nutrition rabbit-hole on social media, just about none of this is proven fact. The only real proven negative of seed oils is when heated and reheated repeatedly which is something these places do but nobody is gonna get health issues cooking with these oils at home. But yeah they've also done studies feeding people high fat meals of different fat types, one high in PUFAs from seed oils and ones high in saturated fats from animal fats and found no difference in appetite or overall food consumption. They also found people eating high seed oil content had lower post-prandial grehlin (hunger hormone) and higher peptide yy (hunger decreasing peptide) as compared to MUFA or SFA from animal fats. Also been studies comparing saturated fats to these plant oil fats that show 0 difference in inflammation or other health markers and there's tons of these studies.
They also find saturated fats from animals directly impacts liver fat accumulation more than other fats or even carbs (including fructose), also increases total LDL and has higher risk of heart disease in the long run.
So yeah my point is while some may be true theres probably even more evidence to the contrary of what you are saying so coming out here acting like this shit is gospel and scientific fact just ain't it lol
4:20 - I did the same last week. I walked in and placed an order. It took 20 minutes to get my order because the drive thru customers are the #1 priority and they will always prioritize getting them through quickly at the expense of making the IN STORE customers wait.
That's another reason why people don't go in anymore.
Yep, that's what I noticed at McDonald's and Burger King as well. Some randos will order food for an entire village at the drive thru and let you wait long enough that going there in the first place for a quick meal wasn't worth it.
And then they get half of your order of a single McMenu wrong...
Same story for food delivery drivers. Drive thru, then in store, then delivery. Its bullshit. Make the orders in the order RECIEVED. Its NOT hard (worked in both resturants and also food delivery for many years)
I just never go to fast food, unless I am with friends that want a quick bite.
But whenever I eat there, by the time I get home I'm hungry again.
Fast food burgers are nothing burgers.
I rather go to an actual restaurant, or you know cook myself.
If your going fast food during drive times 5am-2pm or 5pm-8pm then that's why. Fast food has drive times. The managers get a raise if they get green or yellow drive times.
It's always been this way. I started work at mcdonalds in 2009 and drive thru always had priority. You can thank the customers, as they have the expectation of fast service in the drive thru which is why the focus is there.
37:18 For context, $1 in 1960 = $10.55 in 2024.
So that triple threat combo was about $5.28. Don't let inflation fool you, that's some damn good value. Nowadays, burger and fries are at least $7
That gimace shake for 2$ canadian was nice. Got a milkshake this week with the large format.,... under 7$Canadian and about 1.3 litre of milkshake Like the 20 mcnuggets box, this is quite a dollar / quantity value like no other!! Not everything is bad bout Mcdo. I 'member the pizza launch. & The ArchDeluxe...
thats true but portion sizes have shrunk since then for the same price
In California the combo is 12-16$. In Oklahoma the same combo is like 10$.
Bro 7? Try 15
That’s true if you only take into account inflation. Except wages haven’t matched inflation in the United States since the 70s.
Has little to do with drive-thru.
- food is different compared to other countries. The amount of fat, sugar and chemicals that may be banned elsewhere but not in the U.S.A.
- the food size. Our medium is your small. Your medium is our large.
- the amount of fastfood buildings and the way your cities are layed out is also a problem.
The video is an hour long and just dropped, you don't even know what the argument is.
@@kchaifley1692 yea that is what is happening i think the UK had increased obesity it just takes more time due to eu having local shops ,regulations and food culture but its happening also.
True which is the reason why a lot of American products are banned from EU like chicken. Also even the olive oil that they use in USA is not actually olive oil and is quite shitty in quality if you tasted the real thing it's like night and day. So they cook things in olive oil which is by far the healthiest oil but it's not actually genuine olive oil and it just makes the good even more unhealthy.
@TheR3alRyanNo, there is good fat and bad fat. Fast food fat is bad.
@@kchaifley1692 ure hypothetically right ,
if you usually eat 1 big burger for serving ,
then they suddenly arent selling big burger anymore ,
one small or medium burger wont satisfy you ,
you ended up buying two ,
so "our medium is your small" is kinda doesnt matter ,
and since big cities in japan have ALOT of fast foods place too , mcdonalds kfc etc.
maybe this is somehow because lack of the consequences of people there is kinda high ?
if you're walking in most of asia , people here usually are kinda slim ,
and if we're fat and walking in the middle of the city , we'll get the feeling of standing out between the others ,
and humans by default don't want to feel left out ,
as in , the feeling of wanting to use same costume theme as the others in the party ,
in australia, drive thru gets priority over walk ins. if you want ''fast'' food, go to the drive thru or wait 20min for same order inside
Same here in the States. My family would get out to go into McDonald’s on road trips and it would take a hot second to get food
I can walk into Maccas or Hungries and have the burger almost straigh away though. Maybe it takes then longer because tour irdering drinks/shakes and have to wait longer. Then agin I order at the counter and use cash because I dont easte my time with stupid click through crap when a staff member can do it for me, I find it hilarous when people are looking ning up to use the self swrvice and no one is at the counter ordering, complete sheeple get treated as complete sheeple.
"Dual wield drive-thru" made me laugh harder than expected lmao
How did you have an expectation beforehand though? You probably laughed right as he said it 🤔
Mcdonalds is the only fast food place that has a double drive threw in my town. All other drive threws are single car entry and only 1 person can order at a time. It's extremely annoying when the fat piece of shit in front of you orders the entire menu when you just want something small and you have to wait 10 minutes because of their over eating problem. I don't eat fast food but this happens.
its duel wield but one weapon is sheathed when hitting
Dual-wield drive-thru implies the existence of two-handed drive-thru.
Power stancing drive thru
I have a privacy filter on my laptop that does that thing where you cant see the screen unless you are looking right at it. There is no anti-glare reason for it, as anti-glare filters are generally polarized the other direction, vertically, instead of privacy filters, which are polarized horizontally. This is definitely being done so you cant read the menu until you are right in front of it.
Bro, in Europe fast food is not even cheap. At least in Denmark. Coin offers don't really even exist anymore at McDonald's here. It's literally only useful for convenience for me at this point. I can eat like three times (at least) the quantity of homemade food if I try instead of getting one fast food meal.
Fast food is getting more expensive in the UK but it’s still fairly cheap. In the past two years the price has increased a lot though.
same in Sweden. I even have a butcher contact I buy at least 50kg from each time. Straight from the knife to my freezer. Then I just buy stuff to cook with. Done this for years and it saves me cash and health ^^ plus its very good quality
@@tdoran616 in france it's the same price than an actual restaurant for lunch
@@SvenskSork damm that's actually solid advice. Maybe i should try 😊
Yeah, it's just for convenience/speed in northern Europe tbh. For the price of a ~10-12€ McDonalds menu you can just buy a bag of fries (~2-3€), a bottle of coke (~1.50€), some burger buns (~2€) and cheap meat (~4€) at your local supermarket. Based on German supermarket prices near me tho.
The craving of fast food in your head will always be better than the food you get. We all complain about how bad the food looks once we look at our order vs the pictures, so once you realize all this and remember that, their mind games will stop working.
McDonalds has basicly same menu in Netherlands as in the USA. However, the ingredients are controlled by the European Rules. So certain additives like corn syrop are not allowed. Also is there a cap on salt and sugar levels. Yes we have drive throughs. But McDonalds is not cheap here. Most fresh food, fruit, vegetables and even meat prices are capped so its usually a lot cheaper to make a fresh meal instead of fast food. Shame cause I like KFC XD
Yes it's very expensive here. Kinda a waste to go expecially with how many local stuff we have around.
Same in Germany. Cooking fresh/Eating fresh vegetables is waaaaay cheaper than McDonalds & stuff.
Same in Australia, though unfortunately the only products we have with regulated pricing is Eggs. Doesn't matter what brand, all Eggs cost the same price. Would be nice if that extended to other raw ingredients too, such as fruit and vegetables, but Woolworths and Coles investors keep lobbying against such ideas.
@@realkyunu100%... And tastes way better and is healthy
Capped food prices? 😬😬😬
Venezuela I hear you calling.
The problem is not just the food but the quality of the ingredients. A lot of American products would never be allowed in any country with reasonable quality checks. American chicken are all banned from eu for the same reason .
Even the olive oil imported to the US is a knock off which is probably quite unhealthy compared to the real thing. So even when they tell you they're cooking things on olive oil in reality this makes it even worse.
The problem isn't meat, animal fat or butter. The problem is grain, sugar and the plant oils they use.
You ban meat but let in migrants... Brilliant!
American chicken is banned as a political move, because the US had a monopoly on chicken in the mid 1900's its not strictly about quality, but its a great reason to stop. Their was some product the eu refused to export, so basically the US took it to heart and created a chicken war.
I would say sugar is the main issue, I remember going to the US as a kid and couldn't believe that everything I tried in McDonalds was sweet, even the fries.
Actually, the quality of chicken isn't the problem. The US chlorinates chicken meat before sales, as a safety measure (to prevent bacteria and other common meat issues). This is why the EU bans US chicken imports. As far as the farming practices between the ocean, the EU has some stricter regulations than the US, but overall, it's not much different (complete with both having completely bogus labelling practices).
Looking into the history of the US chicken ban is more along the line of preventing market dominance, not health and safety (as chlorinated chicken does make chicken meat safer for consumption). US import chicken would upset the local EU chicken market, so the chicken industry brought the clorinated chicken to the public eye as a scare mongering tactic to get US chicken imports banned.
I'm not shilling the US chicken market. I merely have a personal backyard flock and have learned a lot about chicken care and regulation because I keep up with news regarding avian flu.
As far as the other things talked about, I completely agree. On the olive oil topic, what most people buy in the US is either rancid oil or a mixture of cheaper oils. The real stuff is very expensive and doesn't have a very long shelf life.
I'm from Poland and here almost no one uses drive through. Everyone either walks or parks and sits down to order.
In America there is big car culture related to oil addiction and there are stupid zoning laws created to increase the price of houses.
In America it's harder to walk to restaurant/fastfood because they are farther than living spaces. Usage of car in almost mandatory.
I also thought this. If you already drove an hour through heavy traffic on your way home, the energy to cook something worth eating is rather low.
America is like 30X the size of Poland, dude.
Also, do you mean north America? North and south America? Or you mean the United States? Of which there are 50 states all bigger than Poland.
This polish person is more american than anyone else in the comments. They just get it. Car culture, distance of driving, zoning laws. It WANTS you to do it.
@@tw629108
False.
If Poland became state today it would be in the top 10 biggest.
Google USA to Poland size comparison.
Just cause you eat fast food and stay skinny doesn't mean your healthy.
Yes
I never understood why people would pay so much to eat such a shitty food like McDonald's. Especially with how their prices have skyrocketed.
It's not even fast. If I drive past the drive through I can go home and cook a tastier, healthier, cheaper meal faster.
@@sirgaz8699 🧢
Because they are addicted
Healthier and cheaper yea but lets not pretend big mac dont tastes good @@sirgaz8699
I feel like it was better before, now it's often too dry or served cold.
Korean American here who spent some of my childhood in Korea. I am also general manager of a restaurant here in US.
Drive thru culture is almost exclusively American. Most families in Korea have one vehicle, sometimes two if both parents work. It is almost unheard of for children to have their own vehicle until they move out, and even then, most don't until they are married. It is very common for them to not have their driver's license until well into 30s.
Also in US, about 60-75% of restaurant sales are drive thru.
Next focus of restaurants: online order. When people are ordering online without human interaction, they tend to order more without fearing the judgement from a person who he/she interacts with. Online order's average volume is about 25% higher than what they are in person.
So yeah, I can see how restaurants are exploiting people's impulsive behavior for profit, and it's only going to get worse with new avenue of online order.
Regarding online orders could the increase in size be related to people wanting to "get their moneys worth" when they get delivery? Or is that online order but no delivery?
@@venems24 The statistic holds in both. I'd say delivery service def take advantage of it as well with their timed offers, service fees to "make it worth the money", etc. There is reason why a lot of restaurant pushes their own apps even for non-delivery, and managers are often told by corporates to push it for this very reason.
I didn't consider the second part, that people might order more. I do that on occasion but it's not very regular because we are really trying to maximize price-to-food, while prioritising low costs.
In the Age of Abundance, those with discipline succeed the best
breaking news.... America is huge compared to south Korea in land size......
Video: “Get back to whatever it is you were doing”
Asmond: “texting and driving”
That literally made me laugh out loud
28:20 I think something you're misunderstanding here is that places like McDonalds don't actually care about whether or not their times are good unless it's a corporate run store. This is because the overwhelming majority of profits they make are from smaller franchises that they rent the building to. McDonalds is in full control of how the store operates and gets to decide how things are run, and the franchise that buys that particular location has to deal with it whether they like it or not because that's their contract. Then if the franchise decides they want out, they bail, and McDonalds sells it to a new one.
McDonalds as a corporation isn't actually a restaurant chain, it's a corporate landlord. And they'll always have some sucker take the bait and sign the contract when others fail. They only care if customers show up, not if they have a good experience. Because that way they can bait a new franchise into buying and keeping the con going. And people will always keep returning because the food is addicting, they don't need to think much, and their marketing/reputation is extremely powerful.
tl;dr
McDonalds' franchise locations do everything they can to try and manipulate us into spending time and money there, but McDonalds themselves don't have any reason to care about the individual experience because they're already making their money off of the franchises that buy into their predatory contract. The franchise is the one that actually cares about our individual experiences at these locations, and often have to work around McDonald's decision making, such as with the tinted menus in their drive-thru. It's a lose for the franchise as much as the consumer. Ronald is truly the only winner here, and that sucks.
Source: I worked in fast food for way too long and paid quite a bit of attention to what was happening around me.
There are 2 major reasons I prefer to order any fast food, or coffee, from an app on my phone.
1) To avoid mix ups as much as possible.
2) To avoid holding up a line. I can sit in my car until I got my order perfect.
Big difference is that you have legal ingredience / chemical compounds etc. that are banned in Europe and other countries and it doesn't help with help. Like chemicals in bread that are banned in Europe cuz they are used in foam in beds etc. So it's not just this but chemicals and sugars used in food in US
I used to eat fast food a lot but now my love for fast food has met the brick wall of me being cheap. It's all too expensive for what it is now. Back when double cheeseburgers were $1 it made sense. Now it makes no sense at all financially.
I remember the McDoubles being $1.00 just 11 years ago. 15 years ago they had 2 pieces of cheese on them also, haha!!
Yea, its true. The pricing has gotten out of control. The worst thing they could have done, was increase the minimum wage. Fast food places used to be temporary jobs, and mostly for teens. You'd go there to make a little money, while you're saving for school and so on. It was never meant to be a career choice.
Because they didn't have pay their employees a lot, it means they didn't have to charge as much for the individual items. As the minimum wage went up in those places, and benefits were added, these places started charging a lot more to offset the costs
@@Reaper_One Bro I remember cheeseburgers for 59 cents!! The 90s were awesome.
@@BattleBladeWarrior I ran a fast food taco place years ago. Labor was always the hardest part of the business to manage. At $20 an hour it would be a nightmare.
@@Justintime2GrowNetwork I can imagine. Say you have just 5 employees making 20 an hour, that's around $1000 a day right there, where it would've been half that if not more, a decade or two ago.
If you don't mind my asking. . . you mention "years ago", did you have to sell off the business or were you able to turn a sizeable profit before then?
When I lived in Japan, the drive-throughs didn't exist for most of the fast food places because they are usually situated in malls or crowded areas that drive-through isn't possible.
the dual line thing: sometimes i have a hunch that one car will take longer to order cause they are still undecided at the speaker or have a fam of 6... then that's when the other lane comes in handy... knowing i was there after you but i ordered and got ahead of you in the queue is the best feeling.
And I love ordering through the mobile app. Bypass the line entirely, and anyone working the drive through seems super relieved they can just click a couple buttons and send me on my way
TLDR- I used to work for mcdons, one a 1 lane, 2 a 2 lane. One of which was terrible at it and the other got really good at it. Their DT is optimized for speed, which increases the profits and customer count. Everything is optimized for this, but DT is the main focus.
Ok, for explanation, this will be long and edited. Everything in the restaurant is designed and updated at least every 25 years to provide the smoothest and quickest experience. Friction is a very good word choice of this. From the moment you walk in, you see kiosks now. This used to be 1-3 people at an order taking station. This is to give multiple points of ordering. This is why your DT has 2 lanes. Kiosks are double sided and during busier times the register person is to help introduce customers to the kiosks and take orders at register if needed. A lot of times that person is just used to do other stuff to make the experience overall much faster.
You may see but not notice how the kitchen is set up. That is also for speed. The grill person is able to put food in and take food out of the holding cabinets while not interfering the person on table finishing the sandwiches. That person is helping build the sandwiches up to saucing and the person initiating the sandwich helps build them to the last veggie and cheese, they meet in the middle. (some stores absolutely suck at doing this) The table is set up in order of the ingredients in the best orientation for speed. The grills cook the meat both sides at a time to decrease cook time.
The DT team is alligned in a way that they can help with service in times of need up front and stay out of the way of service for when DT is busier. The drink station is a huge help, it can stage 8 drinks, 4 of which are ready to cap and serve. The fry station is perfectly set to be in the path but not in the way of the service team.
The DT lane.. this is the bread and butter of fast food. They have 2 lanes so you have a second point of order taking. It should be operated by 2 people. The front person and the one at the 2nd window handles the inside lane and the back person who takes the money in the far lane. They do this because the back person handles all the money taking and will be overloaded at times so they take the slower lanes since most everyone will default to inside lane. As a customer you have a feel of choice in lane. Thats why chic filet does it, thats why dutch bros does it and so on. When working for a single lane store, we were faster than what the DT team could get through. We had a busy weekend and used another person with a walkie talkie to take more orders behind the order taking slot. Both DT restaurants I said before do this too. You do have a speaker at Chic Filet but they usually have a couple of people with tablets able to take your order and even collect payment. This is to move the line faster. Honestly they have the best system when they can staff the store up enough. This is also why if you're going to wait for the food to be served, mcdonalds will pull you forward or park you. Preferably pull forward, its easier on customer and crew. Easier on crew means faster experience for the majority. When your restaurant does 80/20 in DT/inside, you want to keep people moving. If there was a lobby for cars this wouldnt be an issue. Since that would be a major waste of land and just silly altogether being the point is to decrease friction and increase customer count this would not work.
I can promise you that McDonalds dont have enough forethought to tint the menu so you dont see it before the speaker. It is solely because the old way would glare and blind you as a customer at certain times of the day/year. Im actually surprised they dont put money down to have a pre menu like burger king does. It would make order taking faster. Although they are more focused now on mobile order taking. You can save a regular order for you and if you order it on phone then go to your mcdonalds it will have the restaurant start it when you get close enough. They are pushing this hard on the customers, trying to do away with the need for an order taker. More points of ordering, more orders coming in. If you dont see a line, you're more likely to visit. You can also skip ahead of those others who do take a year to order, and those guys' order wont count on time until its submitted. Mcdonalds loves that for times in stores so that store cant blame the high times on old timer Bob. Old timer Bob comes in and spends a dollar on coffee every morning and maybe even a sandwich. That's a guaranteed customer.
With less people needed to take orders, that frees them up to help with making service even faster. With like a hundred menu items the store is spread out and takes time to make a fry, a flurry and a smoothie. If you have someone make a fry while you grab the smoothie and flurry it'll be quicker. Also, lets not ignore the rising wages increasing more than the price increases. Which is another thing.. the prices go up but not too fast. We did about every 6 months to a year, especially after 2012. They dont raise too much too fast or it will drive customers away. The digital menus do cut down on labor used however. When changes need to be made, someone can take a minute or two to make that change. Example: ice cream machine is down for whatever reason. Manager can go to register in a menu and hit unavailable. This will change the status on all the menu boards at the same time. They used to have to put a sticker on the menu (and take it off later) or explain it to customer as everyone has heard "our ice cream machine is actually down for now". Corporate likes to change stuff to make it modern and now that can be updated on system close and change out the menus automatically. This used to take 20 minutes or even an hour depending on the size of the change. An hour to change the menus is an hour lost by one of the priciest people on the schedule.
So while the bottom line is profit, the main focus is speed which turns to profit.
The license plate recognition may be a thing but they would rather see your app running in the background and show you a menu or suggestion based on that. That way any car you're in will still be personalized to you. They are perfecting it on the app but I'm pretty sure this is the goal.
Probably one of the best comments on YT I’ve ever read! Thank you!
I ain't reading all'at
That was both interesting and informative. Than you! :D
tell me you have a poor attention span without telling me you have a poor attention span
What's weird is in the UK, wait times in Maccy D'z are significantly longer than what they used to be in the 90's and 00's.
Dark Nudging:
camping trip, past midnight. you and homie roll over at the same time. tips touch. dark nudging.
How the fuck is that what you think of when you hear dark nudging
@45noop a man can dream.
Well. This is america. So at least the devil could help people burn a extra 20 calories a hour.
If you were already sleeping together naked then this was no accident.
Bruh, LMAO
When you scrape all the chicken off of the bone there are still tiny bits on it that are normally discarded. They run that through a centrifuge to separate those tiny pieces and then combine them into a single mass. That is what pink slime is. There's more to it, it's hyperprossesed after all, but it's essentially chicken saw dust.
Seeing all the bad drive-through ideas is actually quite insightful into how success gets filtered.
Most of the insane things in the world today are just bad ideas enroute to failure.
Problem today though is there's so many desperate investment corps keeping all the bad ideas afloat, that they cant just die off naturally.
Leaving the world littered with bad ideas that would otherwise have failed.
The difficulty is not just a psychological one, it is also biological. There is a process called myelination, where the axons and dendrites of neurons form myelin around their connections that make synaptic communication faster. Think of it as electrical conduciveness, meaning the messages are met with less resistance on a biological level. Impulsive behavior is usually controled by the frontal lobe, and a lack of myelination there often leads to an increase of impulsive behaviors or thoughts.There are ways to control this, but fasinatingly, it is not just a matter of not doing it; although that is a part of the process of reversal.
I’m European and my workplace is 2 minutes away from a McDonalds and it took me 6 months to visit it just once😂. When I visited the US I was blown away how many people went to the drive through, so I think it’s just something people are very used to over there.
Yeah I'd say its mainly an American cultural thing starting in the 50s and 60s with national freeways causing a huge surge in car travel, leading to the rise of drive-in diners and such where they'd bring the tray out to your car and hook it on your window, preferably by a cute girl on rollerskates. That combined with the convenience factor and everyone being in a rush all the time is what 'drives' most people to the drive thru.
I'm from Canada, but same thing. In the US the drive thru/fast food craze is insane. And its not just the amount of people, its the shape of them too! There's so many obese people in the USA that are driving to those places, order massive meals, eat in their car, and then going home to lay on the couch. The convenience of it just further encourages a sedentary lifestyle with no exercies.
I think it’s because people grew up with it. My family only got fastfood on roadtrip or on rare occasions. In turn, we grew up to not eat fast food as much. A lot of people ate fast food multiple times a week so they do that now too
The dual drive thru is more efficient only if the restaurant has enough staff to handle it quickly. We had a Wendy’s install a dual drive through several years ago. Both lanes were open for about a week, then they closed one of them permanently. Yes, more cars could go through, but the staff couldn’t work quickly enough, so it took just as long or longer as a single lane.
I've avoided this by being too lazy to want to go out to eat while still being dedicated to exercising and cooking my own food.
Yeah, for me its more convenient to cook something on your house instead of suiting up and leaving the house
Yes 👍 the fact that I stopped eating out cause it was more inconvenient is better
So not lazy at all, just smart enough to not give in to the toxic american culture surrounding you.
@@bruhus_momentumit takes 30min to an hour to cook dinner at home. Thats a lot of time. It takes 30 minutes to an hour to go drive to a fast food joint, get the food, and come home.
The time is the same. There really is no excuse as to why you are getting fast food.
Not all countries are so car based so you don't find yourself hitting a drive through that often. While in the states you are permanently in a car and if you want food its going to be much simpler to just do the drive through.
Yeah when I visited Amsterdam it was so amazing to be in a city where I could just walk or bike around and get to everything I needed
honestly eu is fat as fuck too. and it's mostly from culture of wanting fast and convenience rather than all these complex topics people wanna bring up. two things you can do with a car in car culture 1: buy food 2: drive somewhere to cook it.
bears will kill you fast and convenient in the woods too but i dont wanna be killed by a bear and i dont really feel like getting fat either
@@cremonstermove there then lmao
Someone who actually says it correctly 👏
I love how Asmon "counters" every point made by saying its just a lack of self control and pauses with a big mic drop moment as if he didn't just make that same point 10 seconds ago.
It's almost as if he can't control himself from making that point
The ironic part is that he eats the same trash that normally fat people eat. While he may eat smaller portions, im willing to bet that he also has a naturally fast metabolism, cause you know this dude aint getting any meaningful exercise with how much he streams
@@GreatRaijin he eats not great, just not very often. That's how he does it.
@@GreatRaijin What I find most ironic in this one, is that he does not exercise self-control when it comes to eating because he himself admitted once that he find eating inconvenient. And just like the woman in the video says, people try to find the path of least resistance. For Asmon eating is resistance, that's why he avoids it.
You don't need to exercise to avoid obesity. Asmon practices OMAD (One Meal A Day) which helps a lot.
Asmon criticizing demonic marketing techniques and then immediately saying "should i go get one of these?" when the trick or treat mcflurry comes up 💀
It's important as an individual to take accountability for your actions and try to exercise self-control. However when dealing with systems, you have to think systemically. The fact of the matter is Fast Food restaurants prey on your weaknesses to push addictive foods on you without consideration for your health. Saying "muh self-control" doesn't solve anything, it just removes accountability from the businesses.
Asmond doesn't have the mental fortitude to clean his room, yet keeps telling people to just "not eat too much"
there isnt a person on this planet with the name asmond
Id rather be messy than obese. He might feel the same.
there’s a very clear distinction between the two, one is a matter of willpower, the other is a matter of whether you want to do it or not.
fatties hooked on mcd’s are unable to stop due to their poor impulse control. if you asked them whether they want to get fat and unhealthy, they’d say no, but they eat fast food regardless, because they cannot exercise self-control. they are fully aware that mcd’s is actively damaging to their health, they do it regardless.
Asmon on the other hand simply doesn’t care to clean, it’s not that he can’t bring himself to do it, he just doesn’t want to. him not cleaning doesn’t hurt him in any way, he very simply doesn’t want to, it’s not a matter of willpower.
put it this way: if Asmon wanted to, he would clean, but he simply doesn’t want to, so he doesn’t do it. if a fatty wanted to get healthy, they would have an extremely hard time quitting fast food, if they could even do it at all.
@@mencibenci sure_
@@mencibenci "if i wanted to stop drinking booze, i would" - every alcoholic ever
Gotta say, prices stop me dead in my tracks when it comes to eating fast food. I usually just get the $1 breakfast sandwich on the McDonald’s app after work and they try at the window to get me more and thru the app but those prices nah.
I have self control in most other areas of my life. I don’t drink or do drugs, I get good grades, I keep up with my responsibilities. But while I’m eating I find it difficult to stop myself. I don’t have fast food, I’m Jewish so I’ve never been, but I still overeat. If I don’t over eat I find myself feeling depressed. Instead, I do intermittent fasting. I spend the morning starving, but I find that I prefer that.
Some people struggle with their weight, not because they’re lazy, but for other reasons. I don’t know everyone’s story, but I don’t think it’s fair to say everyone who is overweight is lazy and has no self control. Some may have self control when it comes to everything but food.
Fasting is a powerful tool I wish I knew about it sooner!
@@Charlie-hi3pf It changed my life! Especially when I was a teen living in a house where I couldn't control what I ate, but I could control when.
20:00 It happens sometimes that I got to a shop to a buy a tool. When I get there, I realize that there are like 6 different variations of the tool, in wildly different price categories. I might spend like 15-30 minutes, trying to just figure out which one is the best for me and value for money. Then I go back home without buying the tool because now I'm unsure what I needed. Then I do my research and buy the thing online.
If there were no options, I would probably had bought the tool no matter if it was a cheap chinesium version or an expensive brand one.
Portions are bigger in the US than anywhere else
then order less and save money 😅
Mcdonalds burgers have been reduced in size, so you buy more.
This is a good thing. People should just control themselves
Also more "charged", i dont know how to express it but the difference between a kfc in my country (colombia) and the one i ate a couple months ago when i went to the us was wild, the one from the us felt like eating 27 spices with a mantle of grease.
I feel like that's a lie. been overseas and portions were about the same
1 hour of asmon talking about his favorate thing
Showing the last car's order is like seeing your friend's store purchases in CoD as free advertising.
Drive thrus are the worst I absolutely hate walking into a fast food and waiting 5-10 minutes with no one in front of me just to order it’s because management tells the employees to ignore the stand and focus on drive thru customers
I think one of the biggest issues with that now is that mobile orders are almost as much as the drive thru, so the in person customer is in 3rd place now
@@cremonster Yeah I noticed this too, since 2020 the walk-ins wait the longest. Plus the interiors aren't always clean or even safe. This made a lot of previous walkers like myself go to drive thru now.
@@erawanpencil Yeah i switched over to ordering in the app/website and choosing pickup. Usually by the time I place the order and drive to the location, the food is 1 minute from coming out.
Sounds like a local issue, either they need more hires or the manager is just kinda crappy.
As a commercial real estate broker who works with developers that build drive thru's, the double drive through is also used to reduce the likelihood that a backed up line impacts street traffic for city approval.
It's convenience, and how petrified people are of having a conversation outside of it being transactional. That disconnect from people is ruining social skills
Completely agree even within the first 2 minutes. Living in Europe we do have drive throughs but we don't have the habit of eating in the car or any of that. If we go somewhere to eat, be it mcdonalds or 5 star restaurant, we have the habit to stop, sit, enjoy the meal, whatever meal it is. Whereas in the USA it's common to have your meal within 5 minutes instead of 30 minutes. That and the fact that we walk everywhere here, even if it's a 3mile walk to work passing by 20 fast food chains, we walk or ride a bike we don't get in our cars. Which by itself gives us a little bit of exercise even if we don't count it as exercise. We also don't have that option you guys had to "supersize" everything for basically the same price, everything is driving in the US even if it's within walking distance. If we go to the gym here we get our pre-workout warmup on our way there with a jog instead of driving there and warming up during workout time. Just a different culture I would assume which in turn allows for the mindset of drivethrough and gorge. It's convenient for us in Europe too to go through a drive through but we just don't because we learned how to appreciate a meal rather than just eat and overeat delicious foods.
You stop at your 2$ steak, you don't have three 2$ steaks, the price wouldn't be much higher but yet you do stop at one. Other people aren't wired that way and this is particularly true in the USA culture and exploitation of psychology, bliss point effects and all other factors involved in overeating. We were taught control, you were taught lack of accountability.
You could argue yeah but in the EU people smoke more, which is true, because when then started we were considered to be about 30 years behind the USA on a cultural level so we didn't have the pre-internet access to all the labels and knowledge, we knew it was bad just not how bad it was. Lack of self control and accountability is present on both sides, but in the USA in particular it's become a mindset, as in you can do whatever you want and be whoever you want, but when you find yourself over 300 pounds you reach a point of no return generally speaking so you just give up, don't get me wrong we have fat people in Europe, it's just not as common, you don't see many of them and the ones you do see actively seek help instead of giving up and throwing in the towel into mcdonnalds repeat visits. It's just the way it is. My opinion it's it was a matter of cultural timing tied with psychology in which the USA was caught at it's most vulnerable time which created what we're seeing nowadays.
Do you also have those ordering terminals in the US ? (you click your order, you get a ticket, you wait for your number, you don't talk to anyone, no one verbally influences you, you just need to read).
In the Czech Republic we also have drive-throughs and we are also persuaded to use them. For example, just by the fact that there are 15 parking spaces, 5 of which are occupied by employees and there are 20 tables inside.
We do have them. Our local McDonald's just added them a few months back. I'm not a big fan but mostly because I have not quite figured out how to use them. 😅
In Swizerland they took out XXL Menus about 15-20 years ago, and the Price is about the same as a normal Restaurant.
Using science to prove what we already knew. Not necessarily discovering truths, but more like discovering the epistemology behind the truths. It's not difficult to push someone over the edge of a bad decision once thy are already in the drive-thru.
34:20 That's how they design retail shelves as well, like grocery stores especially. It's very important that someone's product is at that eyeline level in order to sell more.
This problem isn’t exclusive to America. Other developing/developed countries like Mexico and china have a similar obesity problem.
Also Europe, especially British and Ireland.
For china not that much.
Aside from some small countries in like Micronesia and also Kuwait the US leads by a pretty good bit. United States - 42.7% obese, Mexico 36.9%, Ireland 21.0%, United Kingdom 20.1%, Germany 19.0%,
the dual drive thru is faster because they don't have to wait long to get the next order started. When there is just a single line and the car that ordered can't move forward they can't start the next order till it does and that means the orders take longer to make.
*“Dark Nudging”* sounds like what I do when nobody’s around
haha, my thoughts exactly
54:55 Love how she brings up self control like it's a new concept
The dual lane drive thru is a blessing when there's that one person taking 10 minutes to read the menu before making their order. Because at least some of the orders are going through and stuff is getting cooked
The Wendy's in my town doesn't have a digital menu board. We (I was a shift manager there for about a year) and we would get the new panels delivered before any menu change. Then we would have to price it with by hand, which always sucked because there was never a pricing guide included so you'd have to just ring in the items at the POS. And for new items, you'd have to the buttons to show up in the system that typically happened at midnight on the launch date.
39:43 companies nowadays are like that guy who argues with the cops while being arrested for assault: "she talked to me, so I just assumed she consented, officer."
except for some reason, for them it actually works, the police releases them, and then everyone claps. oh, and they proceed to do it again in five minutes.
I know its money. also, you now have no idea what those replies are about.
Do be? wtf I hate this timeline
@@Doggo-frencton I do be trying to be funny while intentionally using improper grammar as for annoying humans.
the point still stands though. English isn't even my first language. though I also misspell things in Portuguese for comedic purposes. and also this do be a very bad impression of the Illianese accent from the Wheel of Time book series. they do be speaking like so, and I do find it funny. totally recommend the books, and also recommend you skip the TV show. it deserves to be thrown into the sun. it has enough radioactive garbage to reverse global warming trough nuclear energy, then power the entire earth for a century.
@@Doggo-frencton do be dooby do
39:12 That's how i shop in general, but it's very rare for people. That's why grocery stores can afford to have good sales, because you'll end up grabbing all your other groceries there out of convenience. Not to mention they usually increase prices a week prior to making a deal, so the deal isn't actually that good
The only reason I use the Drive Thru here in Australia is the shear number of employees these places put on the windows. You get ultimate priority over every single patron inside the restaurant. It's significantly faster albeit BULLSHIT. It blows my mind everyone inside is treated worse.
0:40 I wonder this similarly, if our “freedom” and capitalist society structure create this issue unique to America. Being free to eat and seeing low cost and large sizing as high value, we as a society engage in it. The laws don’t prevent low cost ingredients that are banned in many other countries and Americans have no self restraint in a system that gives us everything instantly (see: credit cards, social media , energy drinks, etc).
I recently was in Canada and the food difference in quality and ingredients was shocking. The candy at an event was as good as any in the US, but with no added dyes and only 3g of sugar (versus in the US Red, Yellow, etc coloring and 48g of sugar).
Its true. I'm from Canada, and we are a lot more strict on the food additives allowed in products.
one of My favorite thing about going to the states, originally, was seeing all the dozens of extra flavors they have over there for different brands, (Soda, chips, candy, etc) that we dont have here.
But then I started reading the ingredients list, and now I understand, the only reason the US has so many more options is because of all the banned substances they use in their food that aren't allowed over here.
I can't argue the portion size is a lot larger in the US, but on average, the quality of the food (at least when it comes to fast food, snacks, etc) is a lot worse.
The worst part are the excuses like “bad foods are cheaper and more convenient”. You can always choose the salad, or don’t have fries and a soda. It’s not like you don’t have any agency of your own.
Bad foods are cheaper, more convenient and are designed to make me enjoy eating them! 😂 At least the first part used to be true.
When my friends want to hit up McDonald's I get 6 or 9 nuggies or a burger, a diet soda and no fries. Never a problem. But yeah if I got the whole menu I'd have to starve the rest of the day to avoid hitting my calorie max.
@@ChaoticNeutralMatt Then eat smaller portions and amounts of those bad foods. You'll lose weight, be healthier and save even more money. It's a win-win-win.
@@ChaoticNeutralMatt if you only ever eat at McDonald’s. There’s pretty much at least one salad option or grilled chicken sandwich option available at nearly every fast food restaurant. You can still choose to reduce your portions.
people here including asmon forget that the modified food like fast food has salt and sugar poured into them beyond what should be normal, sugar is an addictive and salt make your more thirsty, and they make use of this. you also can't compare a burger to a fucking salad bro XD. I have self control and i dont have a car anyway so forget me with drive-through , but i understand the effect fast food and bad food has because of said addictives in them. There is a lack of self control for sure but its not just that.. Asmon is saying things without knowing all about it and people just blindingly agreeing with him without doing critical thinking for themself lol. i agree with some of his point but there's more to it than what he says. You need to see wider than just a few PoV.
I think a lot of it is how our cities are designed. If you're driving everywhere to get to anything, then the drive through is easier. If you don't have to do that, drive through isn't any more useful than a non-sit-down restaurant
1:30 Because other countries have stricter regulations on food and drugs than we do that's why there are more skinny people in Europe... And because of a lack of impulse control that's general in modern Americans.
Okay but can we talk about the friction created when McDonald's decides not to fix their milkshake and ice cream machines?
“What a mystery that must be.” Lmfao
the reason they have the menues with the angle screens is to make sure you are ordering from a spot where a mic is, without it a lot of coustomers dont actually get their voices picked up properlly which results in ordering errors or a longer ordering time due to communication difficulty
Yeah right?!!!
If it’s a Salad Drive Thru, no one would buy anything, that’s called a U-Turn.
I'd say that's also largely because salads are not really "drive thru" food in the first place. Ever notice how almost all drive through food are things that you can eat with your hands easily? Most people don't want to get their food and then immediately pull into a parking spot, bust out the fork and salad dressing packet and do the whole salad thing in their car. They want to grab it and go and probably eat some of it while driving to the next place, to be efficient with time.
@@theSato format doesn't matter, you can make healthy food convenient.
e.g.:
make a subway sandwich on a decent bread instead of sugary bullshit they use, and don't add a crapton of high-calorie souces.
or make shwarma with the same mindset. or like anything else.
it's just not that profitable.
@@theSato People who eat salad can walk lmao.
All of fast foods in my country capital, Prague Czech republic, have Drive-thru. But most of them are empty. Because we have reliable city transport (the best in the world according to many global magazines), as opposed to heavily Car Focused USA. Pretty much everyone has a transport stop within 100-200 yards from their place. It's also mostly much faster than going by car, the subway is underground and the Trams have priority on street and have its own lane and you don't have to deal with parking (good luck finding a place). So people don't drive all that much as long as they are within the city and surrounding villages (that the Capital city transport still covers).
Who wants to sit in a poverty chariot with junkies & drunks? Who wants to live their life by the bus schedule set by the municipality??
Id rather be free to travel how I please than be trapped by the routes of the government.
@@LucVNOI'd rather exist around people and not have to drive anytime I literally want to exist anywhere outside of my house(I live in the suburbs)
@@LucVNO By reliable transport I mean transport that goes every 2 minutes. So you don't really live your life by the bus schedule... And the transport is really clean, it has A/C, wifi and is absolutely silent because we respect each other's privacy. You can totally read a book without plugs in ears.
Also, we have very low rate of junkies and drunks, you have to really unlucky to come across them. It's possible, but not that much. You encounter a single homeless person like once a week.
You're just projecting your own perspective from a f'd up government into our system.
@bullettime1116 sounds like you want a 15 minute open prison city
@LucVNO nope I just want to have things close by while not being in a deathly cramped city
Asmongold watching this while sipping the softdrink😂😂😂
Another wonderful thing about digital menus is they can now start instituting demand surge pricing. 🤗
The irony of Asmon saying people should have impulse control and then immediately stating multiple of his impulse control issues.
The anti-glare on the menu could be for nearby roadway users, and not the customers themselves.
Anti glare is nice 👍
Every since they added these 2 lane drive thrus, I avoid drive thrus because of the social anxiety of racing the guy in the other lane and nudging my way from 2 lines to 1 in a vehicle.
I just don’t understand is anyone shocked by this revelation? EVERY BUSINESS in essentially EVERY FIELD uses psychology to entice customers. It’s built into the act and practice of sales/ services in and of itself. “Want thing? Don’t like when eg. happens to you? Seeking convenient and effortless results? Buy our shit!”
Asmongold basically called out the whole premise. Drive thru exists everywhere, but not everywhere people are fat.
Yeah, but they are less common.
But yeah drive throughs are not the issue.
The issue is self control and the fact the products being sold are significantly less good for you than the European counterparts. Because in Europe there are stricter regulations on how much Salt, Fat and Sugar can be in fast food products. Meaning if someone decides to choice and eat unhealthy, which is their choice to make, it at least is less bad for you than it could have been.
Yeah... No, the regulations is stopping us to get fatter, we go to fast food as much as American. American fast food are just 50 time more fatter
Asmondgold has never heard of AB testing?!? Randomly try it at places and measure changes in sales. You dont have to logic it out. You test it.
The fact I'm morbidly obese, needed to get gas and went to the McDonalds across the street this morning speaks volumes... I feel personally attacked.
That McMuffin and hashbrowns hit though.
It's not necessarily 'Lazy', I think it's more of efficiency. Time-efficient workplaces improve at a higher and faster rate, obviously.
I think Asmon fails to understand that not every country has a Burger King, wendy's Mcdonalds KFC, chicken filet, taco bell , subway, pizzahut and dunkin on every single corner. If other countries had more fastfood chains than citizens they would have a fat population as well.
I don't think he "fails to understand" he's an American so of course his experiences are with American fast food places, duh
Also he doesn’t think about how others countries encourages walking and things are more accessible vs driving a lot which affects what places you go. Driving is a need, you don’t have legs without driving
Where there isn't any demand, you can't sustain a business trying to supply. It's not a one way street.
90% of obesity comes from poor mental health.
I love how Asmon, amongE so many other people, has no concept of lack of self-control. It's easy to say "just quit being a [female dog] 4Head" and move on with the conversation. My question is, HOW does one do that? It's a really privileged thing to say, like saying "if you're homeless, just get a house 4Head" or "if you feel no hope and want to commit [Alt+F4 IRL], just be happE - it's really easy 4Head". Some people lack self-control, WHAT do they DO in that case? It's not like you could switch on your rational brain in these situations and think whether you have to do it or not. Compulsive eating, drinking, substance abuse, viewing [adult content], and so much more - these are all quite serious problems that may lead to physical and mental issues beyond anything reasonable. HOW do you control yourself? Is there like a decent way to learn how to do that, or is it just AA 12 steps bull[faeces]? Please clarify
Yeah. The lack of control is a software but can also be a hardware problem too like ADHD or other neuropsyhatric disorder.
@@carrottvision7844 YEP gotta defrag that hard drive
@@mityakiselev if only...
Yeah, that's the kind of advice people give when they haven't struggled with something. People who say "just do it" or "just don't do it" know how to intuitively do it or not do it. It comes naturally to them. It's a part of their brain that helps them make good decisions. A part of their brain motivates them to do the right thing. I guess it's about finding the right intuition or being in the right state of mind. Perhaps you're too easy on yourself and don't want to think at all before making a decision, or you're being too hard on yourself, which ends up draining your energy and affecting your ability to make good decisions. Maybe you overthink and obsess about small details so much that, when it comes to big decisions, there are so many factors to consider that your system just hangs and you fall to temptation. Or maybe your temptation signals are too strong compared to the part of your brain that helps with delayed gratification and motivates you to do the right or difficult things. There are all kinds of possibilities.
Maybe our emotions are messed up. We're too easy on ourselves because it's too painful otherwise, or maybe we don't care enough about our health or our dreams, or whatever it is. There are times when I've put myself through worse physical and emotional pain than the emotional pain I would have experienced from actually doing the right thing. It's as if it's easier to face the negative consequences of your actions because there's no option but to face them than to actually face the pain of making the right choice. Maybe we live too much in the present and are unable to think in terms of time. Maybe we see our future self as a stranger, somebody else, and not literally as what we are going to experience. Maybe it's too demanding to think about it. Maybe the consequences are so far ahead in the future that they don't seem to affect us in any way. Maybe it's become our comfort zone. Maybe the solution is simple but not easy. Or maybe it's easy but not intuitive. Or maybe it's intuitive as well, but we've just believed that we can't do it because it's easier to rationalize wrong behavior and avoid the pain. Our brains are good at that stuff.
Or likely, it's all of these things combined. People tell you to just do the right thing, but they don't tell you exactly how to "just do it." It's like asking someone how to quit smoking, and they say "just quit smoking". That doesn't explain how you do it. They don't have a good solution. I've tried all sorts of things, and haven't found a reliable method. There's always loopholes for my brain to trick me. "Start doing it without thinking" works sometimes or start slow and easy and break it into smaller tasks, and start with one thing. But that also only works when you're aware(normal state of mind) of it, and not being highjacked. It's much harder to want to avoid doing something. I guess you could do something else and forget about the previous thing? I don't think I've ever won a long-lasting willpower war. I either win quickly or I don't. A battle of attrition is a guaranteed loss for me. But when I start doing something, and have that momentum, it's easy to keep going though. Unless, distracted by someone or something. I even avoid eating, I can't eat a lot without throwing up. I'm skinny. In short, when my emotions align with the right behaviors, everything goes according to plan. And when they don't, I mostly lose. I guess sometimes I win with the power of the indomitable human spirit lol. But despite all reasoning, how am I supposed to do something when my decision making system is faulty, when my motivational circuitry is f'd up. I'm actually bad at handling my emotions despite being logical. "It makes sense to do it" but "I don't feel like doing it" so it makes sense to not do it? I don't know man. My emotional self has the final say. It overpowers and manipulates my logical self, and the ship's gone. If I could act according to my logical conclusion, everything would work. But the emotional self is like: "That's not fair. You can't just put me through all that trouble. I don't care about your dreams or future." "But you're the one who dreams of all the good things. Why do you not understand?!!" Maybe it says, "Oh, I wouldn't receive those good things. Those rewards are far ahead in the future. And we've been trying so hard. We've been practicing everyday to get good at this thing. And we're still terrible compared to all those people. And there's no reward for us." "But If you don't do this, we are doomed!" lmao. I feel like it's a communication problem in a way. My emotions and logic aren't able to cooperate. I've also been pretty bad at expressing my emotions, and I feel like I've buried a lot of things. It could be, that that is why my emotions overpower me. I don't know. Basically, It's not very simple. And I don't have a good solution.
Maybe the only thing that would work is: To wake up everyday, and just do the right things. And not give ourselves the choice to do the wrong things. And believe that we are a 100% accountable for our choices. In that sense, he would be right. But I don't know if this is going to work, what is wrong with me.
@notrhythm if you go to fast food because its the path of least resiatance or a subconscious decisions, then you just have to wake the fuck up and actively make better choices.
Meal prep. Bring something protein shake or bar to eat on the way home from work so you dont stop. Dont drive past tempting restaurants. Create your own obstacles so its no longer an easy or "subconscious" decision.
Actively plan the days you do get fast food.
I hardly ever use drive-thrus. I usually prefer to just go in and make an order because it gives you a chance to look at the menu and figure out what you want. With the number people picking the drive-thru, it's often quicker to just walk in anyway.
In China we all eat food delivery, who has time to drive to a restaurant, that's insane.
Food delivery is worse in North America and ppl here a bit old fashioned. Wastes time yea
Using food delivery like Uber Eats in the US, you'll easily pay 2 or 3 times what you would at a drive through or a pickup order. Not worth it
@@steveiguana6887 Guess you guys need more third world workers then
26:50 I don't think that's anti glare, it's just LCD screens with narrow view angles. Then of course the question is if THAT is intentional or if it's just because they want to use cheaper LCD screens.
Its so interesting listening to psychological break downs of drive throughs. I eat the same couple of items from each restaurant. Cant remember the last time i've impulse ordered in a drive through. I'm way more prone to do that when ordering from mobil apps
Showing you want the person before you bought would work - they already do it in gaming when they show you the weapon that killed you in PVP, then you put the better items behind a paywall. It makes the player believe that if only they had that better gun they would perform better. To a degree they also do it by manipulating skill based matchmaking
Drive thru is the worst because most of the time once you commit yourself to it and enter a queue, most of the time you cant leave. Its designed like that on purpose.
So what if you changed your mind or drive thru takes to long. If it would be walking store, you get out and skip your purchase. In drive-thru you cant.
Imagine using drive-thru for more consequential purchases like buying a car or real estate using drive-thru. You would be a prisoner of a sales person until you agree to the terms as there would be a car in front of you blocking your exit and high pressure salesperson next to you trying to sell you stuff. Total nightmare.
I stopped using drive thrus years ago, they've always ushered you off into a bay but it happened more and more and I ended up sitting in a bay waiting 10 minutes for 1 time too many and decided this just isn't a life perk any more. That and the friggin drive thru kerbs are far too narrow, it's not worth risking scratching your 80k car alloys on a kerb for the sake of a quick burger
I like the digital menus WAY better also for exactly the reasons you said. The prices will go up the same way whether it's a plastic or paper menu or a digital one. I'd rather have the prettier, nicer and easier to read digital one over any of the old school ones.
In my country here in Europe, most people go into the McDonalds and order with the ordermachine. I mean Drive-Thrus in general are very rare here. Most McDonalds and Burgerkings in my country don't even have a drive-thru because they are somewhere in the middle of a city and you can't even get there by car so thats that. But i am glad that we still do a lot of walking here. That's the problem with the US: Your cities are build around driving a car.
The duel wield drive through is faster even with one order taker because it reduces the time the customer waits for the one in front to order. If one person is taking a lot of time, including moving up to order, the order taker can be taking an order from the other line. Pretty obvious that part of the cycle time for ordering is the time a customer takes to order.
i need more drivethru videos which include overall talking and review in the end from you asmon
The McDonald's menu is different in different countries. When i visited Germany their McDonald's served Chicken wings and shrimp. Some of the stuff they put in our food in the USA is illegal. Not only are the menu's different in other countries the food also tastes incredibly different imo, you also won't find 5 different McDonald's on the same road within a 5 min drive.
I just want to put it out there, Mcdonalds literally hires auditors to go through the drive thrus, order a meal, and if they do not get the meal within 3 minutes, they fail the audit and the people get in crap for it... They are made to get the cars moving out of there as fast as possible.