806kB transferred. 766ms to finished. I hit the DFW AWS CloudFront pop from here.
Similar page for BK https://www.burgerking.co.jp/menu
31MB transferred. 6.5s to finished. Hits the DEN pop (but it's a "miss").
I am in Colorado. uBlock is on.
Even if you don't count the 7.5MB of fonts on the BK page, that's wild.
Now if only every other website on the internet would learn that latency matters...
Do you want to add one of [x]?... No. How about now, add one of [x]?... No. Do you want to round up your total to [n]?... No. Do you want to eat in, even though we'll still put it in a takeaway bag so this option is really just the equivalent of a close door button on an elevator in that it does nothing except placate you?... Yes.
https://boingboing.net/2026/04/08/japans-truth-in-packaging-...
>No Entrepreneur may make a ... representation where the quality, standard or any other particular relating to the
>content of goods or services is portrayed to general consumers as being much better than that of the actual goods or services
When I visited a couple years ago, everything seemed to be fairly cheap. Like you can find a decent apartment in a decent area in Tokyo for about $1500 that would cost $3500+ in Manhattan, or maybe $2200 or so in medium sized US city centers. I purchased a couple pairs of running shoes that were about 30% cheaper than they were offered for sale in the US, some were more than 50% cheaper (and occasionally less than half what they could be had for in the UK). I purchased an umbrella for $45 that sells in the US for $75.
https://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/en/products/4530/
But others, it's just inexplicable:
https://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/en/products/1010/
Burger King isn't doing this though (close the two popups to see the menu):
https://www.burgerking.co.jp/menu
Is it some kind of trendy style? It does feel kinda... cute.
It's just much more visually interesting than a page full of perfect burgers. Each one looks like a unique thing from the real world; they don't "look AI", as the kids say these days.
I suspect that efficiency of layout is the top priority in both cases, but I wouldn't be surprised if McDonald's is also consciously trying to show that their food is human-prepared, both in the store design and in their food photos.
The new ones near me now have touch menu that customers enter and swipe payment instead of cashiers and the grill area is no longer visible.
Except with pickles. They never get the pickles on the actual burger.
there should be some sort of named law (in the "law of headlines" sense, not legal sense) about mcdonalds and pickles.
i dont like pickles. i ask for no pickles. i always receive pickles. the people that want them? too bad, they put them on mine instead apparently
Now it's just down to the kitchen to fulfill the order correctly, and while it's not 100% it's a lot, lot better.
https://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/en/products/1210/
Big Macs haven't been that cheap since 2008 in the US.
Oddly I could not find any cheaply priced Japanese Whiskey, and I looked around quite a bit. It was all about as much or more than what I could get it for in the states.
Source: I watch a lot of behind the scenes restaurant videos on YouTube and I'm always shocked at the prices. Most dishes are cheaper than if I were to go to the grocery store and cook it myself...
The Bai Egg Cheeseburger achieved more than slightly askew, it is defying gravity.
I wonder if it's related to their strict rules on realistic pictures for advertising products
I’m sure discussions like this is exactly why they did it. Considering other chains in Japan don’t do this, it clearly has nothing with regulations (unless those are really unevenly enforced).