I believe that McDonaldโs restaurants in airports should explicitly indicate, with a menu notation, whether or not burgers are served with mustard on them.
Concessions:
- I was born in New Jersey and have lived most of my life on Long Island in New York. Perhaps these two geographic markets are the only unique ones, and if this is the case I would be happy to accept confirmation of that fact.
Facts:
- There are geographic regions in which McDonaldโs ham/cheeseburgers are served, by default with mustard on them.
- There are geographic regions in which McDonaldโs ham/cheeseburgers are served, by default without mustard on them.
My case:
- I believe the number of people who purchase food at restaurants located inside of airport terminals in their destination airport to be completely negligible. Really, who does that?
- I believe the number of people who purchase food at restaurants located inside of airport terminals to be primarily passengers on layovers. I believe the number who are departing passengers is lesser, but certainly not insignificant.
- I believe the temperament and cognition of laid-over passengers to be suboptimal and that it likely regularly occurs that individuals purchasing food may not consider the need to anticipate changes in long established expectations of normal due to geographic variance, especially when in connection to massive corporate entities such as McDonaldโs which provide such commendable consistency in product and service offerings across the very large regional area in which my day-to-day life typically operates.
- I believe that if I were someone who enjoyed mustard on a ham/cheeseburger, that I would enjoy it more when I find it as expected rather than when I am surprised by it.
- I believe that laid-over passengers as well as non-local departing passengers could be forgiven for not researching local normalities to this level of granularity.
Thusly:
I believe that McDonaldโs restaurants in airports should explicitly indicate, with a menu notation, whether or not burgers are served with mustard on them.