Alvaro Diaz V

[Alvaro Diaz V @AlvaroDiazValen]

@UnaTalAri Soy celíaco, estoy bastante de acuerdo. Pero si puedes hacer una carne a la plancha y una ensalada verde para no tener que llevar tanta wuevada sería espectacular.

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

McDonald's is spending 8.5 billion dollars to find out why families stopped coming.

I can save them the 8.5 billion.

They took out the playground.

The plan, announced Wednesday at investor day. Better food, faster service, new equipment, AI tools, hospitality training, and a bigger push into chicken and beverages. They call it Next. The goal, they say, is making customers feel more comfortable.

Wall Street loved it so much the stock fell 5 percent to its lowest since 2022.

Over five years McDonald's shares are down 3 percent. Burger King's parent is up 14. The owner of Taco Bell and KFC is up 13.

This is not a hamburger problem. This is a McDonald's problem.

So let us talk about who used to eat there.

Parents. That was the whole business. Parents at 5:40 on a Tuesday with three kids in the back and nothing thawed at home.

You did not go for the burger. You went because your kids could run screaming through a plastic tube for 40 minutes while you sat with a coffee and experienced silence.

That was the product. The food was the cover charge.

The first PlayPlace opened in 1971 in Birmingham, Alabama, and for fifty years it did one job. It made small children demand to go to McDonald's.

Then 2020 arrived, every play area in the country closed, and a great many never came back. The equipment came out during a remodeling program named Experience of the Future.

The Experience of the Future turned out to be a touchscreen.

Their own chief executive said he did not know if ball pits were in their future.

Sir, you were not selling ball pits. You were selling forty minutes.

So now there is no counter, no playground, and no reason for a seven year old to want to go. A screen, a window, and a bag.

And for that we pay prices that require a moment of reflection in the parking lot.

For thin, overcooked, oddly uniform pucks that taste like a memory of beef.

I did not love them because they were good. I loved them because I was eight and there was a slide.

And have you seen the new buildings.

The old ones were unmistakable. Red roof, yellow arches, legible from a highway at 70 to a child who could not yet read.

The new ones are a flat gray box with a small logo and a drive through wrapped around it. A regional claims office with a fryer.

They removed the color, the characters, the counter, and the playground, and then hired consultants to find out why it no longer feels like anywhere.

Which is why, when I have to eat fast food, I go to Chick-fil-A.

Not for the politics. For the competence.

They have led the customer satisfaction index for fast food eleven years running, and average 8.5 million dollars per location against McDonald's 4 million.

More than double, while closed on Sundays. Fifty two days a year with the lights off, and still double.

A seventeen year old hands you a bag and says my pleasure and means it about 70 percent, which is 70 percent more than a touchscreen has managed.

McDonald's is spending 8.5 billion on hospitality training.

Chick-fil-A earns 8.5 million per restaurant by just having some.

So here is my consulting proposal, free of charge, on behalf of mothers everywhere.

Put the playgrounds back.

Not a nostalgia campaign. Not a retro cup. The structure. Tubes, slides, a door the kids cannot open from the inside, and a bench where a tired woman can sit.

And understand what you are buying, because it is not lunch.

A six year old does not know your food is bad. He has no basis for comparison and no functioning palate. He thinks the burger is incredible because he is standing in a castle made of tubes.

That is the window. That is the only window you get.

You catch them before the taste buds arrive, and thirty years later they drive past your sign, feel something they cannot explain, and pull in anyway.

That is not a menu strategy. That is imprinting, and you shut it down in 2020 to save on cleaning.

Eight and a half billion dollars for AI tools and hospitality training.

Or a slide.

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[Alvaro Diaz V @AlvaroDiazValen]

@JurasicoParco @biobio Si eso fuera todo el desempleo sería mucho mayor. Yo he contratado muchas personas en mi carrera y ninguna tenía apellido pituco ni pituto.

[Alvaro Diaz V @AlvaroDiazValen]

@Licenciada_007 No soy capaz de verla. Me da urticaria.

[Alvaro Diaz V @AlvaroDiazValen]

@amylcris No pueden ser tan wueones. Con el bailecito van a detener a un violador.

[Alvaro Diaz V @AlvaroDiazValen]

@MasterMaliq No

[Alvaro Diaz V @AlvaroDiazValen]

@SteveOnSpeed Attitude

[Alvaro Diaz V @AlvaroDiazValen]

@xavixuan @ingenieroatleta Y se llevan tu tarjeta. Yo en Estados Unidos prefiero cagarme de hambre o pasar a un supermercado antes que meterme a un restaurante y soportar todo el show.

[Alvaro Diaz V @AlvaroDiazValen]

@exhitchcok @Jou_Kaiser Johannes no tiene a Hitler, nada que ver. Tú en cambio tienes a Stalin y a Mao, muy homenajeables ambos.

[Alvaro Diaz V @AlvaroDiazValen]

@ProudandSweet ¿Y porqué ya no eres?

[Alvaro Diaz V @AlvaroDiazValen]

@AntiWokeMemes Of course

[Alvaro Diaz V @AlvaroDiazValen]

@dirtman It’s worse …

[Don Tinto @DonTinto]

Tema país: berlin con pastelera, manjar o mermelada?

[Alvaro Diaz V @AlvaroDiazValen]

@DonTinto Manjar, mermelada. Con pastelera prefiero otra cosa.

[Alvaro Diaz V @AlvaroDiazValen]

@dogeofficialceo Aidiot. Originally idiot meant someone who wasn’t involved in te affairs of the polis.

[Alvaro Diaz V @AlvaroDiazValen]

@Teaseryy B

[Alvaro Diaz V @AlvaroDiazValen]

@Cooperativa Pero si ella era la CEO 😂

[Unamuno 📜 @UnamunoAgain]

🇩🇪 Friedrich Merz, canciller alemán:

"Simplemente ya no somos lo suficientemente productivos. Todos pueden decir: 'Ya estoy haciendo mucho'.

Pero cuando regresen de China, señoras y señores, verán las cosas con más claridad.

Con el equilibrio entre trabajo y vida personal y una semana laboral de cuatro días, no podemos sostener la prosperidad a largo plazo en nuestro país. Simplemente tenemos que trabajar más duro."

[Alvaro Diaz V @AlvaroDiazValen]

@JoignantAlfredo @JavieraCavada Ahhhh. Por eso es que eres tan atrevido … Ahora se entiende.

[Alvaro Diaz V @AlvaroDiazValen]

@nickgraynews I would then suggest you understand before you call people stupid. Cheers.