How much does Mr. Krabs care about the quality of his product?

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DadMom AngryPants

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He is often more than willing to sell substandard food and provide barely acceptable service if it will turn a profit, but other times he seems to care deeply about the integrity of the Krabby Patty and takes pride in his restaurant. In "Selling Out", for example, he is appalled to see patties being mass-produced using poor quality ingredients, even though the sale of them no longer effects him financially.

Do you think quality ultimately only matters to him when it effects his bottom line, or does it run deeper than that?

Discuss. :sherlock:
 
He cares about the quality of the Krabby Patties because they're based off of a sacred recipe that's been in his family for generations... but anything else he adds to the menu (Krabby dogs, pure grease, etc.) is just a get-rich-quick scheme and the quality doesn't seem to matter.
 
He probably does care a minimum of a little considering (as you already pointed out), he is rather disgusted with the factory-grade crap substituting any organic materials or ingredients.

Otherwise?


He's cheaper than Dollar General.
 
He seems to care about the integrity of the formula as seen in the episode "Jelly Patty" where he was opposed to Spongebob's idea of putting jelly inside his Krabby Patty. But overall he's more interested in money than actually caring what his product tastes like.
 
I think Krabs does value the essence of the Krabby Patty. Even though sometimes his ingredients aren't the freshest, (aka using patties as ice skates, using a tomato as a clown nose, etc).

True side: He makes sure his employees come to work clean and not sick everyday. No animals are allowed inside seeing how this could cause dirtiness. In the KK Training video, employees must throughly (and when they say throughly they mean it) wash their hands. So in this area the show is pretty good in.


Greedy side:
It doesn't matter how "fresh" the ingredients are to Krabs. Sometimes they can be either from like what I said earlier, used as something as beforehand. This doesn't happen too much though. Sometimes under the grill can be very dirty aka in Born Again Krabs and in as of late, Eek An Urchin (but to be fair that's SpongeBob's responsibility).

In Greasy Buffons he wanted to add onto the recipe of the KP. While in Selling Out they were literally making KP out of nasty garage. I think SO was just too far in terms of nastiest even compared to the dreaded Greasy Buffons. So there is probably a line that steps beyond even what Mr. Krabs cares about.
 
RedSoxFan274 said:
He cares about the quality of the Krabby Patties because they're based off of a sacred recipe that's been in his family for generations... but anything else he adds to the menu (Krabby dogs, pure grease, etc.) is just a get-rich-quick scheme and the quality doesn't seem to matter.
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I kind of agree with this, but he is guilty of altering the classic Krabby Patty on occasion. He insisted on selling a rotten patty that SpongeBob found under the grill, as well as Spongy Patties ("The Krusty Sponge"), Jelly Patties ("Jellyfish Hunter") etc. I'd say that they, too, count as get-rich-quick schemes.
 
RedSoxFan274 said:
He cares about the quality of the Krabby Patties because they're based off of a sacred recipe that's been in his family for generations... but anything else he adds to the menu (Krabby dogs, pure grease, etc.) is just a get-rich-quick scheme and the quality doesn't seem to matter.
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Too bad this kinda contradicts with Friend or Foe, which shows the recipe was made by Krabs and Plankton. I really don't know how to tie the "family generation formula" into the mix. So with this said, I don't know if we can still call it a sacred recipe.
 
CowBob RanchPants said:
Too bad this kinda contradicts with Friend or Foe, which shows the recipe was made by Krabs and Plankton. I really don't know how to tie the "family generation formula" into the mix. So with this said, I don't know if we can still call it a sacred recipe.
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Hm, that's true.

But there are plenty of other references to it being a "family recipe," as stated, for example, in Enemy In-Law when Krabs says his mother would know it.
 
RedSoxFan274 said:
Hm, that's true.
But there are plenty of other references to it being a "family recipe," as stated, for example, in Enemy In-Law when Krabs says his mother would know it.
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That's the only example I can think of myself. But when you compare Friend or Foe, a whole special dedicated to the beginning of the Krabby Patty and something that was only noted like twice in Enemy In Law, I'd have to say FoF wins. Unless all the spices and things that fell into the KP mix were ingredients used before from another formula of either a different family food or a different family burger


WAIT WAIT WAIT.


Then it just hits me, I just remembered something. Because SpongeBob and Patrick went back in time in Dunces of Dragons, they met with King Krabs and probably shared with him the recipe so he could make them for the dragon jellyfish. Or King Krabs might have created the food on his own, without SB and Patrick. But what are the odds that King Krabs came up with a burger as soon as SpongeBob and Patrick gave one to the dragon jellyfish? It just seems a little too coincidental to me. But of course you gotta keep in mind this is a cartoon, so Krabs inventing it was all done for comical uses. But if it was true that SpongeBob and Patrick did share it, then it would had changed up the time line to where it would be considered a family recipe. Thus, the importance of the Krabby Patty is there for Krabs because it could an actual family recipe.

How about them apples?
 
It seems as if he cares about the Krabby Patty different in each episode. (which is true)

Sometimes, he cares about how the customer gets his Krabby Patties to ensure they'll come back and eat more so Krabs can make some good cash. For example, In the episode "Wigstruck", he doesn't allow SB to make the patties without a hair net to prevent the customers from being unhappy. But then again, take a look at "Born Again Krabs", in which he took an old patty not caring about anything else but selling it to make money. It clearly indicates that he can care in some episodes, but then couldn't care less in others.

He's on the iffy side with how much he cares about the quality, but it does seems that he has care for it. But when it comes to simple ways to make his money, he takes that luck. (Just like in "The Play's The Thing", were he allowed the customers to THROW the patties with no respect)

So, it's a 50 yes and a 50 no for me.
 
It's a bit of both. He cares about how the Krabby Patty tastes, and he does care about the quality. But when earning even more money is involved, he seems to start caring less about the quality of the food.

In "Selling Out", however, it's clear he doesn't want cheap ingredients, or the Krabby Patties to be processed rather than made by hand. Though I thought his hatred of automated cash registers was related to his fear of robot overlords.
 
The way I look at it he is at a middle between Soulless Burger Empire and Nice Local Burger Joint.


I don't wanna mention much else since everyone has already pointed out the main points that I would have.
 
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