I assume many/most of the people regularly eating at these places are very price sensitive. And, especially with demographic shifts in the West, non-premium places are going to be doing everything in their power to replace employees with automation and self-service. A lot of shoppers may grumble but they'll go with the lower prices.

The goal of the mcd app is to generate growth metrics in the tech domain to inflate their ticker value through data mining, and coercion is happening through i flating prices and then offering discounts just by downloading the apps. It's absolutely rubbish short sightedness to price pressure people into using your app.

Techno fascism never looked so bland