So, you're a restaurant and when people come for restauranting at restauranting times, you charge them more, because people should actually come restauranting outside restauranting times.

That is, er, innovative.

I don't know how it is in the US, but people will typically go for lunch at lunch times where I live and if a fast food restaurant starts considering this kind of shit, it will promptly go out of business.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Corporations aren't trustworthy enough to handle all the data they've been given with modern computing. Of course they're going to pick it apart and try to figure out a way to profit off it, customer service, ethics, and common sense be damned!

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Unless they change the metrics by which they price their menu items. If the price is lowered, and surge pricing makes a 12 noon burger $0.50 more than usual, but an off-peak burger costs less than the OG price (but enough to still turn a profit), then Wendy's might actually see more money if they can undercut other FF joints.