Gee, it’s almost like corporations are gouging consumers so badly that their market advantages are being lost due to greed. Inflation this quickly isnt real. It’s what happens when you come off a global pandemic with millions dead and corporations see they can freely abuse you by exploiting the public zeitgeist that prices are going up due to inflation.
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Remember when McDonalds and Taco Bell had dollar menus?
Don’t even get me started on taco bell. I ordered food for me and my GF, it was $29. I was so fucking shocked, I literally said “nevermind”, dipped out of the drive-through, and we went and sat down at an authentic Mexican restaurant and had 2 drinks for 35 bucks.
These chains are smoking fucking crack. The people paying it are even dumber.
I remember when a soft taco was 39 cents.
They were at $.19 back in the early 90s.
Inflation this quickly isnt real. It’s what happens when you come off a global pandemic with millions dead and corporations see they can freely abuse you by exploiting the public zeitgeist that prices are going up due to inflation.
I agree that McDonald’s sucks and I don’t ever go there but this isn’t how economics works. The current inflation isn’t an illusionary public perception thing it’s a real and tangible transfer of wealth and erosion of the value of labor of regular people. We are heading towards a future where society’s resources are no longer being allocated to us.
I keep telling people that those who are rich love blaming inflation, it barely affects their spending and will make their business more money…
This is an excuse to raise prices because of inflation. Those burgers cost them pennies on the dollar.
They don’t need an excuse. I’m not making an excuse for them anyway, I’m saying focus on the real problem (to be clear, not inflation) instead of demanding sympathy from a corporation that was and will always act as your adversary.
remember egg shortage led to record profits?
They have a $1, $2, $3 menu; and everything on it is more than $3. Like why even still call it that?
I guess it depends on your location. For me the highest price on that menu is $2.39 for the mcdoubles
And yet people keep buying it. It’s not going to change until people stop buying it.
McDonalds had remodeled their places to pretend they’re fancier, but the food is still shit fare and the service has a lot gotten worse since they decided to have like two employees maximum per location. Portions have also gotten smaller, not sure if their excuse is that it’s “healthier” or it’s simply what fancier places do, but either way it’s a rip-off and the only way the trend is going to change is if their precious stock price is threatened, which is only about 10% off its all-time high.
that bullshit where they started serving fries in those dollar shop shitty chrome baskets with that stupid overpriced “create your own” was the turning point I noticed when they lost track of what they were and suddenly thought they were a gourmet burger joint.
that initiative failed, the “gourmet” burgers are relegated to a niche menu item with like 2 choices that hardly anyone orders, so instead they just jack the prices on everything else as though it’s “fancy enough”. I only go there where there is actual cheap deals in the app, and for free coffees earnt through the app. their everyday prices are a complete joke for what they provide
We went to Subway a few weeks ago without paying attention to the prices and it was over $30 for two 6" sandwiches, chips, and drinks. What in the absolute fuck? Oh, and then of course the stupid credit card machine asks for a tip with 20% prefilled. A single 6" sub is $10 now. We won’t be going back.
I stopped when our local store had a footlong for $15
$5!$7!$10! $15, Footlong!$5!$7!$10! $15, Footlong!$5!$7!$10! $15, Footlong!The song really is not as catchy anymore…
Subway also used to be the “build your own sandwich” place. Locally, they’ve moved to a “catered” menu or some such nonsense, now it’s just a run of the mill submarine sandwich shop.
I’m pretty sure you can’t even get anything from the “old” menu anymore. the $5 footlong is now a point in history that will not be repeated, since all of those catered sandwiches are easily $10+ for a footlong, unless you want them to modify it in any way at all, because that will cost extra. Drink? fuck you, $3 for a fountain drink that costs less than $0.50 in materials, and you have to get it yourself. Want a bottled drink because you’re heading out and don’t want to spill it in the car? that’s $4.50. want to make it a combo and get a uselessly small bag of chips or a couple of heated ice-cream scoop sized dobs of pre-made batter that’s been heated? ha ha, PROFIT!
The prices are made up but being fairly regular at soubway, they’re not far from the truth. the whole idea of getting a meal at any food place for $5 or less is basically impossible. I consider it a good deal if I’m getting lunch for less than $10. The nice thing is that burger king still has whopper wednesdays, where you can get a second whopper for $1. Makes the whole meal of two whoppers around $5, then I just pour myself a nice glass of go fuck yourself I’m drinking tap water, and I have an actually affordable lunch.
Thanks burger king.
Bk is my cheap option too. I can’t eat 2 whoppers but they have a special for 2 whopper Jr’s for 5$ going. When that isn’t going I just get 2 double cheeseburger. Both come out to 6ish dollars which is a he’ll of a lot better than 10+ I have to pay anywhere else near my job.
The pandemic has raised and leveled prices of pretty much all restaurants. This has two results:
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Everything is expensive
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There is no reason to eat at fast-food joints, because the final bill will be almost identical to a much better tasting local restaurant or burger joint.
And, as a bonus, rhe wait time in rhe local restaraunt won’t be any longer.
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They dropped the two cheeseburgers meal this year. That was the most American meal they offered and they just dropped it.
Nope, it’s still there, it’s a number 7, raised the price from $7.50 to $8.15 for the large though.
Not in New England. It used to be the #6 and it’s been gone since the Summer.
Shows up in the menu in their app. Tap cheeseburger then “make it a meal” and it gives you the two cheeseburger meal. Plus you can pretty much get any sandwich in a meal if you just ask, regardless of whether or not it’s on the menu.
I never understood how anybody can eat that crap. One walk through our garden and I have a free meal. If you don’t have a garden, go to your local farmer, it’s dirt cheap. You can even order great meat for a fraction of the supermarket torture stuff. Ah one last thing - get up from your sorry ass & cook.
There’s no such thing as price gouging for unnecessary goods or services.
If you don’t think the good is worth that price, don’t buy it plain and simple. McDonald’s is not a necessity. They’re going to price their product according to what they believe the market will bear.
Seeing “pushback on some of their prices” is one of the most basic aspects of the market. Fewer people will buy a product at a given price, and McDonald’s will adjust the prices to the appropriate level or they’ll fail.
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Stopped going there when it was over $10 a meal. What the fuck? Plus, my orders wrong 60% of the time. Nope
Haven’t eaten a meal there in a decade now. Go for ice cream like once every two years. Went this summer. $6 for 2 cones. Bruh. What!
Whaaat? Their “dollar cones” are like a whole thing in the summer, even up here in Canada, the land of “just because” price gouging.
I think we lost dollar cones where I live around 10 years ago
And it’s always wrong in the weirdest, someone-has-to-be-fucking-with-me ways. I ordered a sausage, egg, and cheese McMuffin for breakfast the other day. I hate their cheese, so I ordered just sausage and egg.
I opened the wrapper to my sandwich, and I had a sausage patty and 3 slices of cheese. It was rung up correctly, so I truly have no clue what was going on in the back.
“Hate cheese do we?! The Netherlands send their regards!!!”
Ok that made me actually laugh out loud.
I’ve had weird mess ups like that too. I ordered a crispy chicken sandwich and discovered they forgot the chicken part.
Everytime I go the order is either wrong or they need me to park by the door and my order isn’t ready for like 5-10 minutes. Completely negates the entire point of “fast food”.
Only ever go there now if I need a coffee on the road.
In the UK
there’stheirs is probably the worst coffee available.In Canada theirs is probably the best, so not sure if it’s different or we are just really screwed when it comes to coffee.
McDonalds upped their coffee game in Canada to compete with Tim Hortons. If you cross the border into the US, you can get to enjoy McMud.
My god it’s shite in the UK. £2 latte. It’s £1.50ish more to get a drinkable Costa or starbucks or Nero or whatever the fuck is around.
On the flip side, one of the best ice coffee’s was McDonald’s in Malta.
I stopped going there after eating my first BigMac. How can people eat that vile stuff?
I mean it’s a burger, it’s not that bad
That “thing” was as far from a burger as culinary possible while still consisting of comparable ingredients.
And it tasted like shit.
Oh please. There’s nothing strange going on with how McDonald’s food is prepared. A Big Mac is bun, two salt and peppered beef patties, American cheese, onions, lettuce, pickles, and a sauce that is basically thousand island dressing. It tastes fine if you like the combination of ingredients.
Most don’t know how to cook for themselves properly
I know how to cook for myself properly. I just don’t want to.
I stopped going there when they discontinued the Arch Deluxe. Fuck the haters, that shit was delicious.
My all time favorite as well
Same. Price is ridiculous and last time I waited 40mins for my order. Fuck this place.
Look at the bright side - you’re gonna be more heatlhy by not going there!😅
Was about to say this. The best way to handle this is break their economic projections.
Yeah, I can’t remember the last time I went to McDonalds: Progressively shitty food, progressively higher prices, and increasingly lengthy wait times.
It’s not fast, it’s not good, it’s not cheap, and it’s not convenient.
I miss the times when fast food was fast, you place your order and pickup your meal right after without waiting more than 10 seconds
I actually miss when maccas used to make the stuff in bulk and chuck on a rack. you’d order, they’d grab your burger and stuff bag it and your done. now it’s “made to order” and while it’s admittedly pretty quick, during peak times you’ll be waiting a while.
there was never an issue with the bulk system cause everything moved so quick anyway
I would not describe any of them as “pretty quick” but I do know how long it takes to cook a burger and it’s never as long as I’d have to wait at these shitty places: It sure as shit doesn’t take 10-20 minutes to cook a burger on the presses they use. These corporations understaff their restaurants and pay shit wages, so, of course, they don’t get very good employees (or even if they do, why would they try very hard for that pay?)
There’s better places for much less $$ nowadays.
I made a personal rule that if I’m hungry and want McDonald’s, that either I need to get in the car and go to a local burger place that isn’t a corporate chain, or I’m not actually that hungry. It’s been a good life choice. Much better burgers that while slightly more expensive, go to the local owners rather than mcdonalds
Omg that guy is annoying.
Likes the sound of his own voice too much.
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You need personal space when viewing a person through a computer screen?
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It’s just a gimmick
So stop eating there
Publicly complaining that a restaurant’s prices are too high and their crappy food isn’t worth it…while still going there and buying their shit??? The logic behind that is mind boggling. Just stop giving them money. I didn’t even know their prices were this high because I haven’t eaten at a McDonald’s in years.
Taco Bell is still cheap, right? Go there instead of McDonald’s. Vote with your wallet.
One of the easiest tasks a human could face.
