No, it’s because they increased prices dramatically while both quality and food quantity were drastically reduced. Then gaslighted us again for noticing.
If i can go to a local bar and get a fresh made burger and fries with a regional beer for less than a big mac meal, shit is fucked up yo.
I wish this was true where I live.
Big Mac combo - $10.49 (sometimes 8.99 when they have coupons)
Any local pub ~ $14-$20 for burger and fries, $6-$8 for pint of beer, plus tip of course, which is never do at McDonald’s.
Low end uses mostly happy hour and special prices, high end is just normal prices
Let’s keep in context the size of their new Undersized “Big” Mac…
Also McDonalds thinks the pinnacle of the restaurant experience is signing up at a kiosk and coming to the window when they call your number. Uh yeah, I want my overpriced shit food to come to me the same way I get service at the DMV. Sign me the fuck up!
I’m of the opinion they intentionally made the kiosks shitty to encourage people to order in app. It’s a much better experience for the user, minus the data harvesting.
I refuse to install any fast food or restaurant apps.
Absolutely valid
The experience is made more shitty indeed to actually increase sales. It’s intentional design
No, it’s because a Big Mac meal is the same price as an entrée at a better local restaurant.
We all know McDonald’s food is shit, but it used to be cheap, so we accepted it. Now it’s the same price as a sit down restaurant but it’s still shit. So why not pay the same price for actually good food and good service at a real restaurant?
McDonald’s needs to relearn that they are not a top tier establishment. Accept who you are.
The problem is that the corporate machine has already cut their food quality as low as it can be to provide itself with the benefits.
It is not a matter of accepting what it is, it is a matter of accepting that the corporate class is the parasite on the business model. They are the unnecessary costs, and they’re not going to cut themselves.
Thats true. I mean they are a real estate company that also sells burgers from the corporate view. They don’t care about quality, just that the franchise can afford rent.
No, the prices are just nuts. For like 5 dollars more, I could go to a decent sit-down restaurant with service and better/healthier food - while supporting locally-owned business. So I’ll do that or cook for myself
Fucking fries are $5 for a large where I live. It is probably ten cents of product and thirty cents for labor, equipment, and oil. Their markup is absolutely insane.
Don’t forget soft drinks being pennies an ounce at cost.
And those are not even out for free refills anymore.
We take regular road trips and used to stop at McDonald’s for breakfast or lunch regularly. During Covid the food quality went to shit and the prices went through the roof. Orders were wrong and the food was regularly inedible. Since we were driving we couldn’t go back and get them to fix it without taking a 20+ minute detour and their expensive food often ended up in the trash. Things should have improved after Covid, but McDonald’s prices continued to rise while the food quality stayed in the toilet.
The ridiculous prices alone would just have us going to McDonald’s less often. That and the crappy food has us avoiding McDonald’s (and fast food) completely. We’ve gone from a few visits a month to zero and haven’t been in well over a year.
Instead we stop at grocery store delis which only adds a few minutes to our travel time. The food is cheaper, the quality is far better and since we don’t have the waste we did at McDonald’s we’re probably spending 50% less.
cheaper ingredients for profits. they’d use sand if they could. 2.65/hr
They absolutely use sand (silicon dioxide). Their website listing the beef patty as only beef + salt + pepper is a total fucking lie.
They would use sand if they could, but 2.65/hr? Nope, not here in CA. In 2021 it was $14/hour, $15 in 2022 and rose to $20/hour in 2024.
70s i guess. 40 years ago. last time i worked for minimum. no idea except the 7.50 fed minimum they keep harping on.
Even with the app the prices are insane. Remember the dollar menu? Ancient history
Fast food corporations are doomed to die.
Investors and shareholders will continuously demand a larger and larger piece of the pie every year.
But local restaurants and non-chain restaurants don’t have investors. They just need to mark up their prices enough to afford CPI increases on food and equipments which corporate restaurants also. Have to account for.
Eventually fast food will be more expensive then fine dining simply because shareholders want more money.
Fast Food does not have to be tied to a Corporation.
We have a family owned fast food local joint around the corner. Drive through only.
It pays a liveable wage, and you can still get a full great meal under $10. A young couple owns it, they are very nice.
There’s just no corporate parasite sucking out the profit.
Rent. Small mom and pop shops that can’t afford their own space get all that money syphoned away to the landlords. All saving that come from big corporate supply chains and mass production also leave M+P shops screwed.
Large companies can weather hard times much easier as well, so M+P shops will fall away during hard times while McDonald’s will just fire some min wage workers, stop caring about quality and hike prices a bit.
The system is not set up for M+P survival.
Cause their shit is so expensive. I recognize I’m privileged enough that I don’t need to always think about the specifics of food prices, but seriously, the price difference between fast food and sit down food is getting smaller and smaller, it’s crazy.
Not only expensive but it’s just aweful.
Wasn’t nearly as bad when I was kid
McDonalds is more expensive than higher quality fast food. They’re surviving on realestate locations and name recognition. Inn n out, sonic, chick-fil-a, Arby’s, Taco Bueno. Even Wendys and Burger King.
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For $15 I’m get a burger and fries literally anywhere else.
Also their stuff is about nutritious as a cardboard Soufflé.
Bad food and overpriced. Why would anyone choose that? Get bent, McDonald’s. I hope you have to start closing locations.
When they killed off the dollar menu is when they killed their business. Sheer momentum is all that’s kept them going. Loudly supporting genocide didnt help.
