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I don’t eat there so the jokes on them!
The graph itself’s utter lack of proportion is more infuriating than the content.
I don’t always ruin my graphs, but when i do it’s to advertise for the company the graph is dumping on
I love how what’s close to the median Y-axis value is by far the tallest, meanwhile the lowest Y-axis value is the fourth tallest bar and the highest Y-axis value is by far the shortest bar
More reason to stop eating fast food.
Just remember that the location which let the cheeto use it as a platform never got any blowback from corporate. So, just stop going to McDonald’s altogether; plenty of other food places for when you don’t want to cook.
were the bar lengths randomly generated? they make no sense
Well of course they had to make room for the picture of a child eating McDonald’s. How else would people know what they’re looking at, and who would they feel bad for?
They’re dollars. Really not a great way to display the data.
Yeah but some prices double and the 2024 bar is less than 2× as high, other prices that are also double have 2024 bars more than 2× as high. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The qtr pounder $5.39 is shorter than the oreo $4.49
I didnt notice that til you pointed it out, but you’re right. What a mess.
Prices fit for a billionaire who wears depends
Running out of thin kids to show in the commercials so they zoom away from the fat belly.
What’s worse is what it does to your arteries. They become clogged and brittle which then leads to strokes and heart attacks.
Combine that with Soda that destroys your kidneys and spikes your sugar and you are in for a terrible time. The heart and kidneys are closely tied so if you have problems it won’t be pretty.
They can surge all they like. Our family just stopped buying from them (and most fast food places).
It’s not a time saver to sit in a drive thru instead of making something for meals at home.
I agree we’re better off to cut out fast food, but…
How long are the drive thrus you get stuck in? I think the worst I’ve ever had was 20 minutes and it was because their registers were acting up. The simplest meal at home is definitely 20 minutes unless you’re literally only eating plain ramen or cereal. I mean I guess you can make an egg in less than 20 minutes, but that doesn’t count the time in the grocery store or dishes?
Are you including the time it takes to drive to the drive thru and back? For many, that’s 20 min+ right there
You know, I was not at all. I guess I figured if fast food wasn’t on your direct path (or only very slightly out of the way) it wouldn’t even be considered as an option.
Stop buying shitty, overpriced food from a dumpster organization.
If you stop buying it, you’ll help signal to the dumpster organization that their prices are too high.
It has been suggested that’s part of the reason for the price surge. A lot of people just aren’t buying from McDumpster anymore and so in order to hit the same levels of year over year profit increase they’ve raised their prices to make up for lost sales. So they have significantly fewer people paying significantly more money for the same shitty food. Ultimately this will lead to a death spiral, but they’re so massive it’s going to take a really really long time before they hit the bottom.
But here’s the really annoying thing about McDonald’s: they don’t care if their sales trend towards zero. McDonald’s makes all their money on the real estate values of their restaurants, not on food sales.
How’s that?
Say you want to open your own McDonald’s branch. You pass their financial vetting, get on their waiting list, go through McDonald’s boot camp, then McDonald’s corporate builds a new McDonald’s restaurant on land they own (or acquires land before doing so), then they lease the land to you, sell you all the equipment for the kitchen, the furniture for the dining area, and all the food and other supplies you need.
The prices are set according to their rules, the food is provided to you by them, the recipes are all very simple (you learn them at boot camp), all you do is hire and train the staff and operate the restaurant. You pay McDonald’s for everything, your profits are entirely based on sales, they own the land your restaurant sits on. If you decide you want out they’ll find someone else to take over.
Just as residential real estate has skyrocketed in price, so has commercial real estate (even more so). If you decide you’re out and McDonald’s corporate decides that location is no longer profitable then they sell the property with a large return on their investment.
Single establishment commercial space may be pretty expensive still but there’s an awful lot of bigger buildings starting to feel the burn from work from home. I wonder how many of the big buildings would have to fall before the commercial real estate industry takes a serious dive and they lose a crap ton of bank?
A lot I think. McDonald’s doesn’t just build restaurants anywhere. They conduct rigorous market analyses to determine where they want to buy real estate. They don’t buy unless they expect a place to be growing.
They have the benefit of all the data from their restaurants. They can compare that with publicly available data from local city councils. This is one of the reasons big companies seem to be immortal. They just have so much data, experience, and understanding of exactly how the business works at a local level.
Of course what they can’t anticipate (and few can) are global economic slowdowns and other major trends or even sudden events.
Thanks for the detailed response.
I gave up on McDonalds. I can get better food elsewhere for half the price. Their trash was ok for pushing a turd, but not for what they charge today.
Based on the comments here, McDonalds probably made the graphic.
Everyone is more focused on how it should have been done rather then fuming at McDonalds for price gouging.
We used to call this fast food. I would say it is barely 1 of the 2 words in that description.
It is of low nutritional quality, bad for the environment, and takes forever if you dont order the popular stuff. It is often lukewarm at best and they often fuck up the order.
I just see this stuff as a waste of time and health.
This is disinformation
Lazy comment
The 4.49 bar is higher than 5.39. It’s literally disinformation
It’s called inflation right? Try to compare it with a cryptocurrency instead of the dollar ;P
What I as a German take from this is fucking hell was McD in the US cheap before. O.o
I mean it inflated a lot here too, but wow.
That’s really the main reason why any of us ate there. I haven’t gone there for about 5 years now.
