A true capitalist would jack up the price instead so that you make a big profit off of bad parents appeasing their screaming hellions.
That's what I thought. Raise the item price to 67 dollars. Who's laughing now? Here's your 67 dollar burger. Now get lost xd.
But the shit your employees would have to go through .... All the raging dads xd.
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My white conservative christian boss whos almost 60 did the 6 7 thing today while we were talking about finances...
I give this whole thing another few days tops.
A shiboleth only works so long as the outsiders can't replicate it. Once theres no outgroup theres no ingroup either.
I remember when Facebook was new and cool and everyone wanted to be on it. They destroyed themselves as soon as the first parent joined. It was cemented with the first grandparent.
I hear people say that all generations have their dumb numbers, but I don't remember so many establishments having to ban 69 back in the day. Yes, there will have always been something dumb getting popular, but I think it's more willfully obnoxious now, and I don't think I'm just an old man yelling at a cloud.
E: Thinking about it a bit, I think there's truth to it being willfully obnoxious. The rise of social media encourages being more disruptive, causing a bigger scene, anything to go viral. God, now I really do sound old.
Article says they also skip order 69 in their system
This is really no different than the lack of a 13th floor. It doesn't make sense, but things bow to public pressure, and an internet meme can be peak pressure. Hell, what about Name McName, look how things bend to try and avoid that trap. I still think the best approach is a parental one of accepting it and even parodying it so the original users get tired, bored, or embarrassed. Trying to avoid it is a form of Streisand effect, it enhances the desire.
I have run into it once that I remember. There's the line with "17 38" in it from the Fetty Wop song "trap queen. A restaurant in a neighborhood I used to live in had a menu item that came out to $17.38 after tax. People would shout it back at the cashier. Mostly teens but grown adults too.
I think eventually they added a few cents to the menu cost to make it go away.
Missed an opportunity to put the most expensive shit in that slot
It's the order number not an item number on the menu. I had to read like half of the article to figure this ut
Oh, ticket #67. The tickets print numbers 65, 66, 68, 70 now. 69 was previously removed. I thought it was a #67 burger, I guess like the numbers at Jersey Mike's. It makes more sense that they banned it because teens would cause a riot when order 67 got called out
People keep ordering this meal because of some Internet meme!
Wtf I hate money
I get it's annoying but come on. It ain't hurting no one and they aren't eating poisonous pods. Let them have their fun.
What in the secret menu was a 67?
It's the ticket order number they call out
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Interesting that numbers can be excluded from the ordering system like that. I wonder if other numbers considered unlucky or meme numbers have been excluded before...
the article mentions 69 being skipped as well. I assume it's pretty simple, just check it against the list and increment until it's valid.
int getNextOrderNumber(int currentNumber) {
currentNumber++;
while(isBanned(currentNumber)) {
currentNumber++;
}
return currentNumber;
}
where bool isBanned(int orderNumber) simply checks the order number against the banned list and returns true if it's not allowed.
Not that it's hard to implement, but neat that it is already being practiced in tgese systems, similar to noticing floors 4, 13 or 14 being skipped in a building.
I went to an Ottawa 67s game the other day. At the one-minute mark it was like "ha ha, this thing" at the two-minute mark I was calculating how much my beer expenditure would have to be to last the whole game.
Maybe we can reverse it by doing nothing when we hear 76
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