self-serve

Partnered with the fast-food industry’s growing prioritization of app users — as of February 2024, McDonald's has more than 150 million app users who have logged in within the last 90 days — it makes sense that some of the dining-in amenities, like self-serve refills, would fall by the wayside.

For instance, a few months ago, McDonald’s announced it would start getting rid of self-serve drink stations, and as a result, free refills —and now some customers have started noticing the in-store perk is indeed disappearing from locations across the country.

In the Los Angeles-Long Beach metro area, a gallon of regular self-serve gasoline costs just under the state average: $5.13.

Served individually as part of a bread course in butter-pat dishes accompanying warm sourdough or crusty French loaves, or put out as a self-serve spread with crackers; it is always a hit.

In the Los Angeles-Long Beach metro area, a gallon of regular self-serve gasoline costs a few pennies less on average than in the rest of the state: $5.32.