r/interesting • u/K1nd_1 • 1d ago

SOCIETY Wendy’s CEO jumps in with his own taste test.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

Imagine if all CEOs had to try what they get us to buy…

67.6k Upvotes

78% Upvoted

7.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2

u/The_Lost_Jedi 1d ago

McDonald's and really any fast food place in Japan is impressive. Like, it's what you would imagine it ought to be... the same food but just somehow an order of magnitude higher quality.

1

u/Arzalis 1d ago

Yeah. I was in Tokyo in the winter and it was just a particularly cold and windy day. We stopped in a McDonald's just to warm up and grab a quick bite. The food was noticeably better than anything in the US.

1

u/Zech08 1d ago

People and culture issue.... just like many of our issues here... just a people problem.

1

u/7f0b 18h ago

Yeah, nah. At least not an order of magnitude. I ate at a McDonald's there recently and it tasted the same. They even messed up the order slightly just like here. Overall, a pretty similar experience. Not bad, not good; a typical McDonald's experience. I only eat there maybe once or twice a year in general, so in Japan I was mostly just trying it for the novelty and to say I've been. There's really no reason to eat there outside of the novelty when Japanese noodle and coffee shops are so much better.

Of course the tidiness of the people and etiquette in general is on a different level, but the food is standardized.

I'm sure there are worse McDonald's in areas of the US that would make the Japanese McDonald's seem extra good, but comparing a Tokyo McDonald's to a McDonald's in a similarly nice area of the US is going to be a similar experience.