• SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo
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    1 year ago

    The original poster added context in a comment, saying that the location they ordered from was a Buffalo Wild Wings Go store, a contactless version of the establishment.

    Was the location you were ordering from one of these? Maybe instead of paying proper wages like fast food restaurants these assholes were trying to make up for people being unlikely to tip for pickup to keep the profits from being able to pay employees barely anything?

    • ArtVandelay@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Mine was not, it was a traditional BWW establishment. Tbh, I didn’t know they had such a thing lol

  • GaryPonderosa@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s a charge for the container your takeout food went into. They’re a significant expense, especially if it’s any type of sustainable packaging. This is not new. It has been a thing since at least the early 2000s.

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      1 year ago

      I’d disagree with that there, these things are bought in bulk for literal pennies from wholesalers

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        1 year ago

        I have never seen that style of container for takeout in my life and I spent two decades in the service industry. That’s not common in America.

        Still, for arguments sake that works out to about £.05 per box. Of course, that’s if you go to the wholesaler to pick it up. If you’re running a restaurant, you probably get it delivered with the rest of your dried goods. You pay for that, just like you pay for the cutlery and the napkins and the sauce packets and the bag it all goes in.

        A buck really isn’t unreasonable here. I’ve worked at spots where the takeout container was $0.30 each, and that’s without figuring in the delivery/fuel surcharge.

  • tpihkal@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You voted with your wallet. That’s how capitalism is supposed to work.

    • ToxicHyena @sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      except actual voting is 1 person = 1 vote. shareholders, corporate conglomerates, and lobbyists have made it that 1 person gets millions upon billions of votes. when we do vote with our wallets and buy from the places we want to support, the corporations always win in the end. either by buying them out, or because what we supported decided to cater to shareholders instead of customers. just look at what happened to reddit

      • IHeartBadCode@kbin.social
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        Capitalism does work in the voting with your wallet. However there’s two things that tend to get in the way. Laziness and mergers. Either customers don’t care and/or all your other opinions got bought out.