Not looking for a fight, just responding to your claim about their identity and adding menu items, and implication that adding another type of non-roast beef sandwich would be akin to trying to be a fast-food sandwich shop, cafe, and Starbucks-style coffee house all at once and “stringing out their staff trying to be…

I was responding to your argument that Arby’s identity is roast beef and that branching out to include fake meat items (since that is what this is about) would dilute their brand. The majority (2/3) of their menu items are not roast beef. Adding one more category of protein (fake meat) in their sandwich options is…

“Arby’s response was to current rumors that it was striking a deal with Impossible Foods, who, as of right now, only make ground beef-like products.”

You seem to be missing the overall point - unsurprising, since you contradicted your own.

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...