Well, “the market” (in the overall sense) is clearly in favor of restaurants adding fake-meat options, and they can still “Have The Meat” while offering other (fake meat) options as well. But your claim is that their identity is “beef,” and that adding other options to beef would dilute their identity - when they…

“Arby’s identity is roast beef”

Yes, it was a successful marketing campaign (the “gambit” was the marketing campaign, which was based on that slogan). It still doesn’t mean what you clearly seem to believe it does, given my comment to which you replied.

A restaurant choosing to not offer fake meat (or other vegetarian) options limits their customer base, as it excludes those who do not eat meat. It’s pretty simple.

No, I didn’t - but I guess you’re reading that slogan as something it’s not.

Lol.

Beef is only one of the four meats on their menu - they offer pork, chicken, and turkey menu items as well (in almost the same quantity as their beef items). Seems like they’re already pretty well “diluted.”

Yup. There are a lot of restaurants where I live that don’t get our business when I go out to eat with our group of friends because they can’t be bothered to offer vegetarian options on their menu. And I live in Seattle - vegetarianism is a pretty big thing with people here. I’ve tried the Beyond and Impossible…

“It won’t happen on my watch... The only way would be if I got fired for some reason.”

Not all fake meat products mimic ground beef patties - there are many fake meat products that either come in sliced form or can be sliced. I used to buy a roast beef - type fake meat product that was really good for Philly beef & Swiss sandwiches (can’t recall what brand), so it’s possible for Arby’s to make…

Just don't go.

He completely negated his own argument; he said that counterfeiting (security) was the reason for the redesign, and “based upon this” (the security feature redesign), the new $20 bill won’t come out until 2028. He then says that the security feature redesign (addressing the counterfeiting issue) will be met in 2020 -…

The thing that differentiates this from a brain fart, or from any other excuse that boils down to “OK, I messed that up, but I obviously know my job,” is that he didn’t even recognize the acronym (which he should immediately have) and literally thought, in that context, that she was talking about Oreo cookies - which…

Well, no - because there’s no reasonable excuse for him to have thought he was being asked about Oreo cookies in that situation. The fact that he thought he was shows that he neither knows nor cares whether he should know the acronym, as well as the fact that he is completely unfit for the position he holds.

Yeah, well looks like he got the last laugh...

Well he’s still under audit, so...

I didn’t say it was necessarily a problem, but there is quite a bit of potential for it to be (or for one to arise as a result) - much more so than if a more senior person were to buy the intern coffee, donuts, or a sandwich. Which was my point, of course. And there is no way for that senior person to actually know…

“...within three months, New Coke was gone, locked away in the Coca-Cola vaults, never to be heard of again...until now.”

I didn’t say anything about getting an intern “plastered” - but your reply actually hints at the point.

Theres a huge difference between buying interns coffee and donuts or a sandwich and buying them alcohol.