Elon Branches Out In Fast Food, Tesla Stock Tumbles

Tesla has seen its steepest sales slump in over a decade but don’t worry, our newly returned prodigal king has a plan: copy McDonald’s. Introducing the Tesla Diner!

I mean, look at them, they’re a success, right? And what’s so different between a fast food company and a car company anyways? To flagship the pivot, Elon has launched the first Tesla Diner in Los Angeles which opened at 4:20 (yes) on Monday.

It’s just like Nicola always dreamed.

Nerd fans camped out for months to get some robot-served popcorn (classic diner food). Fried chicken, waffles, grilled cheese, tuna melts and a ‘Tesla Burger’ (made with real battery acid) were also on the menu but apparently the bots couldn’t handle that.

Elon tweeted that he wants the diner to become a chain, hoping to phase out production of cars and robots altogether and just focus on flipping burgers by 2027.

Elon McUsk… Elon McDonald… Elon MuskDonald… McDelon… oh god.

But let’s be honest, with Cybertruck happy meal boxes and EV charging ports around the outside, this is clearly just a marketing stunt. A cute pop-up built to make headlines and not much more. Maybe it’ll hang on as a quaint curiosity, but franchise material this ain’t.

Now I know no one cares about this, but I’m mostly thrown off by the aesthetic. It’s marketed as a 1950s diner and it’s playing The Jetsons on the giant LED screens. It’s going for that 50s Americana futurism, but it’s Tesla, so it has to be branded like background set dressing to a Bladerunner film. The result is a mess that can’t decide if it wants to exist in the future or in the past and ends up somewhere slap bang between the two, somewhere roughly in the 2000s, when everything was cheap silver plastic.

Anyway, that’s me off my soapbox. Back to finance or whatever. Tesla stock down, pop-up up.

Oh and the EU has banned EV cars or something? Idk, but it’s something bad for Tesla too. If only Elon was still in charge of the government…

Alright, that’s all the news for today! Have fun, lots of love, Jimmy Balls.

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