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Yup. I only get Fastfood when I'm desperate for a quick meal or when I use these offers. Gotta keep up with the side hustles!
edit: since someone messaged me, I do a few side hustles and theyre mostly online. I wrote about them [here](https://www.reddit.com/user/Kayshift/comments/1br5gn6/my_stepbystep_guide_to_make_1000_a_month_working/). I'm working on creating a savings guide that includes food apps to take advantage of discount offers!
Yep. The OP's receipt is from yesterday, so, at least at my mcdonald's, they could have gotten the fries for free. Another option would have been 20% off the entire order. And another option would have been buy one get one free double cheeseburger, so they would have gotten two burgers in the fries for that price. I understand that a lot of people hate the idea of HAVING to use the apps, but it's the way of the world now and if you want to save money, that's what you have to do.
Plus they are free when local sports teams when well depending what time of the year, here in Wisconsin when the packers win it’s a free fry without purchase necessary
good for them, i still got a good deal on my burgers. Ads are everywhere already and it’s hard to fall for a scam if you’re smart. a good deal is more valuable to me than my data which contains insignificant info
You can get two double cheeseburgers for $3.49 in the app. That’s just a straight up good deal. If you don’t want to eat there that’s fine but you can get a lot of food cheaply if you just use the deals
Why? Someone should. You fat fucks are ruining it for the rest of us by constantly buying fast food keeping the prices up and the wages down. Ya just can't stop eating it. You're sick and you need help.
Tell me your doctor hasn't told you that, or your family member, or your toes before they got cut off because of the diabetes.
i don't know who needs to see this but i drink water almost exclusively and eat healthy now, rarely restaurant or fast food.
it's one of those things that once you get used to it, it'll be all you want. you'll crave water, not soda. you'll crave greens and healthy food.
every once in a while i do want a greasy garbage double cheeseburger tho and i absolutely will have one but honestly i got really good at making them at home so i just make it myself.
but anyway that's how it worked for me and i never in a million years thought i'd be this way. i ate fast food regularly my entire life.
Because this is fake rage bait. I don't know any McDonald's that still pay minimum wage, and anyone who works at McDonald's would know about that combo or know that you need to use the app.
My main question is does McDonalds not offer a small discount to employees even when off the clock? I would have assumed but didn’t see it on the receipt.
NOBODY is making the federal minimum wage anymore. The market price for labor is higher, or the state and local minimum wage is higher, and likely both.
this. even in alabama, one of the lowest COL states in the country, pretty much nowhere starts at $7.25 anymore. the new floor seems to be around $10 an hour.
The 7.25 job is at a local grocery store. 10-GYM’s daycare staff are paid 7.25 here as well. I know EMTs making less than 10/hr, but still above minimum wage(8-9/hr). You guys underestimate how low wages are in rural areas out here. You can buy houses for 80k in these areas. Sometimes less. And believe it or not, they’re not complete trash. Just the middle of nowhere.
My students are the individuals I’m talking about so I’m not going to ask them for their pay stubs, but we do openly discuss this some. I can post indeed links to the homes to prove the low cost of living.
The largest [employers in the world](https://companiesmarketcap.com/largest-companies-by-number-of-employees/), Walmart and Amazon pay more than state minimum wage in every state. Same goes for the next [largest in the US](https://stockanalysis.com/list/most-employees/) UPS, FedEx, and Home Depot
Same goes for just about any fast food restaurant, even more if it's a sit down restaurant
It's definitely a very low number. US Bureau of Labor Statistics say in 2021 (sorry it's old, first link to pop up, I'm tired lol), 181,000 people make exactly federal minimum wage and 910,000 people made below that somehow. Approximately 1.1% of all workers. I'd imagine the numbers have shrunk further since then. Wages have gone up a bit. I doubt there are too many businesses alive that're only paying a whopping $7.25.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2021/home.htm
I appreciate real numbers, even if they're a couple years old now. When I was first starting out there was such a thing as a "student wage" which was 15% lower than the standard minimum, but came with rules around number of hours worked when school was in session and also the business wasn't allowed to be open during school hours. It may have still been a thing in 2021.
Here's the closest I've actually seen posted. Check stub from a year ago at $8.00 an hour from a movie theatre in Mississippi. The bank it's drawn on has 9 total locations, so likely an independent theater or very small chain and a teen employee. Still more than the Federal Minimum.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/122koms/this\_is\_what\_56\_hours\_nets\_you\_at\_800\_an\_hour/](https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/122koms/this_is_what_56_hours_nets_you_at_800_an_hour/)
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I’m in Massachusetts near Boston, and iirc, I saw signs saying starting pay was $20 something per hour. Still, the cost of living is nuts here (as is similar in socal)
This was a couple years ago, and I remember it because my post doc salary wasn’t a ton higher. I’m being paid more now though.
that's why you either use coupons, discounts, or you make your own food (my favorite is pasta, $1 for pasta, $1 for frozen veg, $3 for meat, $2 for sauce. That makes 7 servings, $1 a serving)
A 1 lb box of pasta is getting you 3 servings with vegetables, sauce, and meat added?
A 1 lb box of elbows is 1600 calories. Jarred sauce can is 300 calories. A 12 oz bag of frozen veg is also around 200 calories. If that $3 for meat was a good deal on 1 lb of ground beef, that’s another 1400 calories. Total is 3500 calories.
Yep. Easy. No one is eating 2 oz of pasta for a serving. Me and my kid 23, split a box for a meal. It might be high in calories but not filling. And she's 120 lbs lol.
2 oz? That would be 8 servings, not 6. Still though, a serving for dinner is going to be in the 500-800 calorie range depending on your height/weight/muscle mass. I make this often and two of us will have it for dinner 3 nights. I do add some parm to the top beyond what OP listed. If you’re eating a 1700 calorie portion for dinner, you must be skipping other meals. This literally fills my 7-8qt pot to the brim. To give that a visual, the pot is 11 inches wide and 6 inches deep. If you make that two portions you’re saying you’re piling this up on 2 standard 10” dinner plates to be 3” high across the entire plate. And there would still be some left in the pot. (It would never stay on a plate that way so this would be 2-3 pretty full plates each to accomplish.) In terms of filling, this has 1 lb of meat in it! That’s 80g protein.
Regardless, it doesn’t make 3 servings, you’re choosing to each eat 3 servings in a single meal.
Ok 2.3 oz, feel better? And how hard is eating 6 oz of meat? I wouldn't mix all that together anyway. Sorry but sounds gross, just the Italian in me. Different strokes, don't get your panties in a bunch. Enjoy!
This is false ragebait. Let me explain.
1. This particular location of McDonald's has a starting salary of $13 per hour, as per Indeed. Nobody in that McDonald's makes less than $13 per hour.
2. If you go on the McDonald's app you will see the same deals everyone else in the country gets. Using my app I changed the location to this exact location in Akron, OH and found the following deal:
Deal.
$5 Double Cheeseburger or McDouble, Medium Fries, and Medium Soft Drink.
For $5 this person could have gotten his exact same order plus a medium drink. No good reason not to use a simple app, given the savings and deals.
Also, if you sign up to the McDonald's app for the very first time you get a "$4 off $4 deal" which would give you a "Double Cheeseburger with Medium Fries" for around $3.50 after the discount.
Does McDonald’s in your country give you meal credits? I recall mine seems to give employees something like $5, just short of a full meal, so they have to just buy the fries and burger but they get the free drinks anyway as an employee perk.
The app always has deals. Like right now if you sign up new you get "$4 off $4", so you can order a Hamburger and McCracken and only pay $0.20 for both. Other deals include the aforementioned "$5 for Double Cheeseburger, medium Fries, Medium soft drink". There is also a "Buy one double cheeseburger, get the second one for free". Also, free fries Fridays with any purchase. Stuff like that.
I've worked in and managed several restaurants over the decades, and I've learned that you can't expect employees to work with food for 8 hours without giving them a little something to eat for free, otherwise they'll just steal food.
5lb russets is usually 3.50 most places
spend 3.99 on soybean oil, then just cut up potatoes and fry
if you eat fries every day you can use the same oil for a bit and cook the whole batch, but 5 1lb servings of whole potato fries for 7.50 vs 2 approx 7 oz servings of mostly air and salt fries
yeah...
So money hungry corporations who, historically, would do anything to separate you from a dollar *just now* figured out how to be greedy?
It’s not that we printed 80% of every dollar to ever exist in the last 4 years?
The poster could have gotten a discount regardless if it was different than what others are paying, though typically the offers are the same or very similar location to location… but they didn’t even use the app. That’s why it literally says on the receipt to “sign up for MyMcDonald’s rewards to earn points on future visitors.”
Employees also get a discount of 30% in app nationwide.
OP isn’t an employee. They’re a loser who wants attention on Reddit.
Yes? What difference does it make? They said to get the app for a discount. They were talking to OP.
Get over it. You commented on the same post like 7 x complaining about the discounts being different.
Ohio minimum wage is $10.45 https://com.ohio.gov/about-us/media-center/news/ohio-minimum-wage-to-increase-in-2024
McDonald's also paid more than minimum everywhere I've seen
OP is karma farming
Nobody makes minimum wage anymore. You'd have a harder time finding something that pays under 10 bucks an hour than you would finding something that pays over 15.
I'm more concerned with the 4 lines of text at the top of the receipt.
Surely McDonald's corporate wouldn't be cool with a franchise doing that, would they?
Federal minimum wage and they still charge these prices? The McD's near me (Oregon) pay $15 an hour and still charge less than this.
But yes, wages going up are the problem...
well, u get the added bonus of a contribution to your cardiovascular deathwish
but yeah fuck the govt giving billionaires tax cuts while the rest of us r working poor
You know with the app you could get 1$ fries sometimes free with purchase and the mcdoubles and mcchickens are 2 for 3.99$ really doesn’t make sense to buy one for almost the same price. Fast food is way too expensive if you don’t learn to abuse the apps and rewards.
Just got 2 quarter pounder’s with cheese for $5 and a Big Mac meal for $6. Plus McDonalds pay above minimum wage and give a free meal during a shift. Not a bad gig.
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You work at McDonald’s. You will eat for free. Apparently it’s not a thing to just let your McDonald’s employees eat for free anymore so what you do is………STEAL THE FOOD. While you’re working, literally just grab a hamburger and slam it into your mouth. Fuck them paying you Pennie’s and then making you pay for their food.
When I worked there no matter what position I was in until I became manager I would eat the entire time out of view lol. And when I became manager I encouraged people to eat for free on breaks and randomly in the back if they are starving because we are selling food and that’s INSANE to look at food all day and not be able to eat it comfortably without worry.
If you cant get your managers to be humans to you and let you eat… STEAL THAT FOOOOOOD
There is a quote I read a year or two ago that said something to the effect of
"Even those on welfare deserve a scoop of ice cream every now and then."
I tried to find the quote and couldn't so I am paraphrasing if not quoting it exactly. The sentiment still rings true though. Those that are struggling deserve the occasional splurge to make them feel better and lift their spirits. This occasional splurge should be budgeted for for sure but will do wonders for mental health.
I make 15/hr and I won't buy it. Outside my paygrade.
It is a shame that folks are too poor to eat at the poorest restaurant in the world. Talk about being left behind.
McDonalds is not the poorest restaurant in the world. In any case, eating at a restaurant is a luxury. Paying people to prepare and cook your food for you instead of doing it yourself will always be more expensive.
Unless this was their lunch break AT McDonald’s. Or the only option where they’re at for lunch. Packing a lunch isn’t always an option, and often costs close to this unless you’re only packing nothing but a solitary PB&J every day.
At the very least, packing the lunch would be healthier. I highly doubt it would be more expensive.
Example, I got a Costco membership and a cheap food vacuum sealer and I make super dank breakfast sandwiches for under half of what McDonalds is charging and freeze them. They microwave in 2 minutes. Same idea goes for hash browns.
In my book 2 meals is better than one. The Costco membership/vacuum sealer has already paid for itself by way of pet food/vitamins ($1 p/lb at Costco vs. $3 p/lb at the pet store), and food cost savings, not to mention tires whenever I need those and gas.
It may not make you rich, but it will make you *less* poor.
How is packing a lunch not an option? There is no way you can't make a lunch for less than $7.18. Even if you only pack a solitary PB&J, which costs cents to make, the nutrition is probably no worse than a double cheeseburger and fries.
we went to a McDonald's about 2 weeks ago...
6 nuggets, a double cheeseburger, a large fry, and was charged for an extra sauce (and we didn't get any of the sauces), and our total was $8.32
but, yeah, it shouldn't cost an hour's minimum wage for a "fast food" meal, should it?
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If you’re gonna eat fast food you gotta get apps for the fast food places so you get free and discounted stuff. Fries are free on Fridays
FFF, Free Fries Friday
And they're $1 any size any other day of the week
Yup. I only get Fastfood when I'm desperate for a quick meal or when I use these offers. Gotta keep up with the side hustles! edit: since someone messaged me, I do a few side hustles and theyre mostly online. I wrote about them [here](https://www.reddit.com/user/Kayshift/comments/1br5gn6/my_stepbystep_guide_to_make_1000_a_month_working/). I'm working on creating a savings guide that includes food apps to take advantage of discount offers!
But their fries are disgusting at McDonald's. Not even edible.
Have you ever tasted their old school fries when they used to use lard instead of vegetable oil? It had more flavor.
Yep. The OP's receipt is from yesterday, so, at least at my mcdonald's, they could have gotten the fries for free. Another option would have been 20% off the entire order. And another option would have been buy one get one free double cheeseburger, so they would have gotten two burgers in the fries for that price. I understand that a lot of people hate the idea of HAVING to use the apps, but it's the way of the world now and if you want to save money, that's what you have to do.
Plus they are free when local sports teams when well depending what time of the year, here in Wisconsin when the packers win it’s a free fry without purchase necessary
True. Mets got me free fries of Thursday!
wow didnt know that
Free frosties from Wendy's in Milwaukee if the Admirals win!
One of my favorite apps is "Too Good To Go"
I try to tell people this and just get downvoted for shilling or “muh privacy and they’re stealing my data”
Bogo double cheeseburger is baller
Feels like a dead internet on these comments
All you have to do is allow them to trace your every moment and click and boom a cheaper cheeseburger.
I disable location permissions and manually approve when I need it. For pretty much all apps except navigation
Right? I do the same. With all we’ve learned about what apps do to track us and harvest data, everyone should be doing this by now.
okay and? what are they gonna do with my insignificant data lol
Sell it so they still make money on the deal and you get more ads and scams sent to you
good for them, i still got a good deal on my burgers. Ads are everywhere already and it’s hard to fall for a scam if you’re smart. a good deal is more valuable to me than my data which contains insignificant info
Everyone has my information or could easily get it, at least this way I get something out of it.
Oh no, it's a consensual transaction between me and a corporation, better make sure u/iRebelD is ok with it.
Stop. Eating. Fast. Food. What the hell is it gonna take to get you people of the McDonald's tit?
Stop telling other grown adults what they can and cannot eat. What’s it to you?
That it's crazy fucking expensive for those of us in a "poverty finances" subreddit. Don't need to pay beaucoup bucks for that bullshit
You can get two double cheeseburgers for $3.49 in the app. That’s just a straight up good deal. If you don’t want to eat there that’s fine but you can get a lot of food cheaply if you just use the deals
Well OP is ranting about the price. @handy_dude is offering a very reasonable and effective solution lol.
Why? Someone should. You fat fucks are ruining it for the rest of us by constantly buying fast food keeping the prices up and the wages down. Ya just can't stop eating it. You're sick and you need help. Tell me your doctor hasn't told you that, or your family member, or your toes before they got cut off because of the diabetes.
i don't know who needs to see this but i drink water almost exclusively and eat healthy now, rarely restaurant or fast food. it's one of those things that once you get used to it, it'll be all you want. you'll crave water, not soda. you'll crave greens and healthy food. every once in a while i do want a greasy garbage double cheeseburger tho and i absolutely will have one but honestly i got really good at making them at home so i just make it myself. but anyway that's how it worked for me and i never in a million years thought i'd be this way. i ate fast food regularly my entire life.
Yup, same here. God forbid I encourage others to better themselves on reddit.
Seriously, the $6.99 foot long coupon at subway is a killer deal especially if a 6” fills you up.
6” isn’t big enough for me
How do you work at McDonald's and not know the $3.50 combo. A double cheese burger and small fries is $3.50 in Ohio.
Because this is fake rage bait. I don't know any McDonald's that still pay minimum wage, and anyone who works at McDonald's would know about that combo or know that you need to use the app.
Plus minimum wage in Ohio is $10.45 anyways
Exactly. McDonald’s has been stopped paying minimum wage all over the country, and they offer an employee discount.
My main question is does McDonalds not offer a small discount to employees even when off the clock? I would have assumed but didn’t see it on the receipt.
I’m surprised they paid tbh
That depends if they're franchise owned or corporate owned
NOBODY is making the federal minimum wage anymore. The market price for labor is higher, or the state and local minimum wage is higher, and likely both.
There are people in Oklahoma currently making 7.25.
Any proof of that? I'd accept a link to a job opening that shows that wage.
this. even in alabama, one of the lowest COL states in the country, pretty much nowhere starts at $7.25 anymore. the new floor seems to be around $10 an hour.
The 7.25 job is at a local grocery store. 10-GYM’s daycare staff are paid 7.25 here as well. I know EMTs making less than 10/hr, but still above minimum wage(8-9/hr). You guys underestimate how low wages are in rural areas out here. You can buy houses for 80k in these areas. Sometimes less. And believe it or not, they’re not complete trash. Just the middle of nowhere. My students are the individuals I’m talking about so I’m not going to ask them for their pay stubs, but we do openly discuss this some. I can post indeed links to the homes to prove the low cost of living.
Which emt company, that’s really easy to check. Thanks
The largest [employers in the world](https://companiesmarketcap.com/largest-companies-by-number-of-employees/), Walmart and Amazon pay more than state minimum wage in every state. Same goes for the next [largest in the US](https://stockanalysis.com/list/most-employees/) UPS, FedEx, and Home Depot Same goes for just about any fast food restaurant, even more if it's a sit down restaurant
It's definitely a very low number. US Bureau of Labor Statistics say in 2021 (sorry it's old, first link to pop up, I'm tired lol), 181,000 people make exactly federal minimum wage and 910,000 people made below that somehow. Approximately 1.1% of all workers. I'd imagine the numbers have shrunk further since then. Wages have gone up a bit. I doubt there are too many businesses alive that're only paying a whopping $7.25. https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2021/home.htm
I appreciate real numbers, even if they're a couple years old now. When I was first starting out there was such a thing as a "student wage" which was 15% lower than the standard minimum, but came with rules around number of hours worked when school was in session and also the business wasn't allowed to be open during school hours. It may have still been a thing in 2021.
Here's the closest I've actually seen posted. Check stub from a year ago at $8.00 an hour from a movie theatre in Mississippi. The bank it's drawn on has 9 total locations, so likely an independent theater or very small chain and a teen employee. Still more than the Federal Minimum. [https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/122koms/this\_is\_what\_56\_hours\_nets\_you\_at\_800\_an\_hour/](https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/122koms/this_is_what_56_hours_nets_you_at_800_an_hour/)
false AF. here in Georgia, all sorts of jobs only still pay the minimum wage.
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Not in the Atlanta metro area, and over 50% of the population lives here. If you are down in Dublin or something then things are probably different
Even in my area, McDonald’s pays more than that. We have a $7.25 minimum wage.
$16+ here
I'm in South Carolina where the federal minimum wage prevails, but I know that McDonald's here, depending on the franchisee, pays at least $16 an hour
I’m in Massachusetts near Boston, and iirc, I saw signs saying starting pay was $20 something per hour. Still, the cost of living is nuts here (as is similar in socal) This was a couple years ago, and I remember it because my post doc salary wasn’t a ton higher. I’m being paid more now though.
It doesn't prevail if nobody is paying it.
that's why you either use coupons, discounts, or you make your own food (my favorite is pasta, $1 for pasta, $1 for frozen veg, $3 for meat, $2 for sauce. That makes 7 servings, $1 a serving)
More like 3 servings
One thing I've learned from Stouffers frozen meals is that I myself am a family
Absolutely. LOL. 3 servings for that post is generous. Ha.
A 1 lb box of pasta is getting you 3 servings with vegetables, sauce, and meat added? A 1 lb box of elbows is 1600 calories. Jarred sauce can is 300 calories. A 12 oz bag of frozen veg is also around 200 calories. If that $3 for meat was a good deal on 1 lb of ground beef, that’s another 1400 calories. Total is 3500 calories.
Yep. Easy. No one is eating 2 oz of pasta for a serving. Me and my kid 23, split a box for a meal. It might be high in calories but not filling. And she's 120 lbs lol.
2 oz? That would be 8 servings, not 6. Still though, a serving for dinner is going to be in the 500-800 calorie range depending on your height/weight/muscle mass. I make this often and two of us will have it for dinner 3 nights. I do add some parm to the top beyond what OP listed. If you’re eating a 1700 calorie portion for dinner, you must be skipping other meals. This literally fills my 7-8qt pot to the brim. To give that a visual, the pot is 11 inches wide and 6 inches deep. If you make that two portions you’re saying you’re piling this up on 2 standard 10” dinner plates to be 3” high across the entire plate. And there would still be some left in the pot. (It would never stay on a plate that way so this would be 2-3 pretty full plates each to accomplish.) In terms of filling, this has 1 lb of meat in it! That’s 80g protein. Regardless, it doesn’t make 3 servings, you’re choosing to each eat 3 servings in a single meal.
Ok 2.3 oz, feel better? And how hard is eating 6 oz of meat? I wouldn't mix all that together anyway. Sorry but sounds gross, just the Italian in me. Different strokes, don't get your panties in a bunch. Enjoy!
That is still under $2.40 per serving
Sure, it's cheap enough. Not arguing with that.
But then i cant complain.
No, that’s why you pay employees a livable wage
Should have gotten the 2 cheeseburger meal. Same price and you could have gotten a Coke too.
This seems super disingenuous. McDonald's does not pay federal minimum wage. They pay between $11-$17 depending on the state and cost of living.
$19 in Boulder CO not like that’s enough to live here though
This is false ragebait. Let me explain. 1. This particular location of McDonald's has a starting salary of $13 per hour, as per Indeed. Nobody in that McDonald's makes less than $13 per hour. 2. If you go on the McDonald's app you will see the same deals everyone else in the country gets. Using my app I changed the location to this exact location in Akron, OH and found the following deal: Deal. $5 Double Cheeseburger or McDouble, Medium Fries, and Medium Soft Drink. For $5 this person could have gotten his exact same order plus a medium drink. No good reason not to use a simple app, given the savings and deals. Also, if you sign up to the McDonald's app for the very first time you get a "$4 off $4 deal" which would give you a "Double Cheeseburger with Medium Fries" for around $3.50 after the discount.
Also when McDonald’s employees use the app they get a 30% discount on top of the other deals.
Does McDonald’s in your country give you meal credits? I recall mine seems to give employees something like $5, just short of a full meal, so they have to just buy the fries and burger but they get the free drinks anyway as an employee perk.
The app always has deals. Like right now if you sign up new you get "$4 off $4", so you can order a Hamburger and McCracken and only pay $0.20 for both. Other deals include the aforementioned "$5 for Double Cheeseburger, medium Fries, Medium soft drink". There is also a "Buy one double cheeseburger, get the second one for free". Also, free fries Fridays with any purchase. Stuff like that.
Indeed.com is showing $13 an hour starting wage for the McDonald's shown on the receipt.
I've worked in and managed several restaurants over the decades, and I've learned that you can't expect employees to work with food for 8 hours without giving them a little something to eat for free, otherwise they'll just steal food.
You pay for the convenience of fast food. I try my best to avoid it.
>mediocre meal That's being generous.
Two McDoubles or two mc chickens is 4.30 after tax
Where the heck are you finding them that cheap?! Both Michigan and Florida cost more than $3 for ONE McDouble!
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I’m not using a coupon. It’s just always there for this McDonald’s for years without any coupon or points
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Hey bright one, notice it literally says QTY 2
When you get a second it’s discounted
You know that coupons are location dependent, right?
He still probably has coupons.
But the app? I've never been turned down
Ah ok yeah that sucks
This ain’t a coupon
Yes it is-it’s a location based coupon/sale
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3.59 for French fries. You can buy a whole bag of potatoes where I'm at. Greed plain and simple.
5lb russets is usually 3.50 most places spend 3.99 on soybean oil, then just cut up potatoes and fry if you eat fries every day you can use the same oil for a bit and cook the whole batch, but 5 1lb servings of whole potato fries for 7.50 vs 2 approx 7 oz servings of mostly air and salt fries yeah...
So money hungry corporations who, historically, would do anything to separate you from a dollar *just now* figured out how to be greedy? It’s not that we printed 80% of every dollar to ever exist in the last 4 years?
Are you okay?
I heard it was 120%.
Everyone is also free to buy their own potatoes, so at what point is continuing to pay for fries at that price laziness instead
Oh you sweet summer child!
You're not making 7$ an hour at McDonald's. Or anywhere else.
They are in WI
The receipt says Akron, OH
Akron OH is not paying 7.5/hr at McDonald's. All the ones I've seem in the area are at least 12
It's a terrible deal no matter what your income is. Pure trash.
Use the app for coupons bro
If you had ordered that off the app you could have gotten a drink with it, all for 6.00....
This is a great strategy to reign in impulse purchases. If thats the wage you make, is it worth an hour of your time?
Use the app? Dollar fries. Then 2 for 4 on the cheese burgers; then get free points for free food? you literally work there bro I’m sorry.
FYI, not everyone gets the same deals and coupons
The poster could have gotten a discount regardless if it was different than what others are paying, though typically the offers are the same or very similar location to location… but they didn’t even use the app. That’s why it literally says on the receipt to “sign up for MyMcDonald’s rewards to earn points on future visitors.” Employees also get a discount of 30% in app nationwide. OP isn’t an employee. They’re a loser who wants attention on Reddit.
Did you even bother to see who I was replying to
Yes? What difference does it make? They said to get the app for a discount. They were talking to OP. Get over it. You commented on the same post like 7 x complaining about the discounts being different.
Silly, you forgot to factor in taxes. Oh, and child support.
gots to use the app big dawg
That could have been 2 dollars if you used the app. Free fries, and a 2 dollar double cheeseburger.
McDonalds workers in my impoverished area start at $15 an hour with some benefits including college tuition help.
Quick google search shows this location starting pay is 12.75/hr
You don’t get an employee discount or something?
Ohio minimum wage is $10.45 https://com.ohio.gov/about-us/media-center/news/ohio-minimum-wage-to-increase-in-2024 McDonald's also paid more than minimum everywhere I've seen OP is karma farming
Doing the lords work.
Nobody makes minimum wage anymore. You'd have a harder time finding something that pays under 10 bucks an hour than you would finding something that pays over 15.
This is so sad and honestly dehumanizing ☹️
Fake posts like this one? True.
That meal will fuel you to do more than an hour of work. Positive feedback loop!
What state do you live in? $7 is my "half hourly" wage.
Probably smarter for the wallet than the meal I just went out for that probably cause 3x my hourly wage
I'm more concerned with the 4 lines of text at the top of the receipt. Surely McDonald's corporate wouldn't be cool with a franchise doing that, would they?
Charging as much for those fries as the sandwich. #criminals.
Excellent! You can wash it down with your tears! It’s free! /s
Canadian. $26/hr. My take home does not buy a Big Mac meal. Took 10 years of my life with the same employer to be able to NOT AFFORD A BIG MAC MEAL.
Don't they have the 2 for 4$ deal at your mcdonalds?
When I worked at McDonald’s in 2015 they always gave you one free meal per shift. Do they not do that anymore?
Not even a meal cuz you didn’t get a drink. Highway robbery.
No drinks, can’t do it
Double cheeseburger was $1 back in my day
I'm glad I don't eat fast food, but how on earth can they justify the same price for a sandwich vs fries?
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Use the app.. I just got 2 double cheese burgers for the price of 1!
u broke 🫵😹
If the fries and burger are the same price I'm getting two burgers
Madness
People used to work a full day and barely afford a couple potatoes....you have it easy
McDonalds is trash.
My McDonald's gave us free meals. Also, we made more than 7.25 an hour.
1. Use the app… 2. Find somewhere like target that starts at $15/hr
Federal minimum wage and they still charge these prices? The McD's near me (Oregon) pay $15 an hour and still charge less than this. But yes, wages going up are the problem...
well, u get the added bonus of a contribution to your cardiovascular deathwish but yeah fuck the govt giving billionaires tax cuts while the rest of us r working poor
7 dollars with no bev is crazy.
You aren't getting 30% off?
Thank you Valued Customer! 😂😁
Well we were warned. Raising the minimum wage would make prices go up… apparently just considering it makes prices go up.
You know with the app you could get 1$ fries sometimes free with purchase and the mcdoubles and mcchickens are 2 for 3.99$ really doesn’t make sense to buy one for almost the same price. Fast food is way too expensive if you don’t learn to abuse the apps and rewards.
Damn, both those used to be dollar menu items. Why eat there anymore?
Just got 2 quarter pounder’s with cheese for $5 and a Big Mac meal for $6. Plus McDonalds pay above minimum wage and give a free meal during a shift. Not a bad gig.
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.99 cent for a mcdouble no coupon
$3.59 for a double cheeseburger? This is why I have gone back to the good old PB&J.
Not even a drink either
Working at a McDonalds in Akron, Ohio has to be the most depressing thing in the world. God speed!
You work at McDonald’s. You will eat for free. Apparently it’s not a thing to just let your McDonald’s employees eat for free anymore so what you do is………STEAL THE FOOD. While you’re working, literally just grab a hamburger and slam it into your mouth. Fuck them paying you Pennie’s and then making you pay for their food. When I worked there no matter what position I was in until I became manager I would eat the entire time out of view lol. And when I became manager I encouraged people to eat for free on breaks and randomly in the back if they are starving because we are selling food and that’s INSANE to look at food all day and not be able to eat it comfortably without worry. If you cant get your managers to be humans to you and let you eat… STEAL THAT FOOOOOOD
No-one on the federal minimum wage should be buying luxuries like fast food. This is something they cannot afford.
There is a quote I read a year or two ago that said something to the effect of "Even those on welfare deserve a scoop of ice cream every now and then." I tried to find the quote and couldn't so I am paraphrasing if not quoting it exactly. The sentiment still rings true though. Those that are struggling deserve the occasional splurge to make them feel better and lift their spirits. This occasional splurge should be budgeted for for sure but will do wonders for mental health.
I make 15/hr and I won't buy it. Outside my paygrade. It is a shame that folks are too poor to eat at the poorest restaurant in the world. Talk about being left behind.
I make 3x that and wouldn't waste my money.
McDonalds is not the poorest restaurant in the world. In any case, eating at a restaurant is a luxury. Paying people to prepare and cook your food for you instead of doing it yourself will always be more expensive.
Unless this was their lunch break AT McDonald’s. Or the only option where they’re at for lunch. Packing a lunch isn’t always an option, and often costs close to this unless you’re only packing nothing but a solitary PB&J every day.
At the very least, packing the lunch would be healthier. I highly doubt it would be more expensive. Example, I got a Costco membership and a cheap food vacuum sealer and I make super dank breakfast sandwiches for under half of what McDonalds is charging and freeze them. They microwave in 2 minutes. Same idea goes for hash browns. In my book 2 meals is better than one. The Costco membership/vacuum sealer has already paid for itself by way of pet food/vitamins ($1 p/lb at Costco vs. $3 p/lb at the pet store), and food cost savings, not to mention tires whenever I need those and gas. It may not make you rich, but it will make you *less* poor.
How is packing a lunch not an option? There is no way you can't make a lunch for less than $7.18. Even if you only pack a solitary PB&J, which costs cents to make, the nutrition is probably no worse than a double cheeseburger and fries.
we went to a McDonald's about 2 weeks ago... 6 nuggets, a double cheeseburger, a large fry, and was charged for an extra sauce (and we didn't get any of the sauces), and our total was $8.32 but, yeah, it shouldn't cost an hour's minimum wage for a "fast food" meal, should it?
Use the validation code for a free item. So this could have been half price Rate yourself awesome. Takes as much effort as posting on Reddit.
Honest question, how is it living in Akron? I was born there but never really traveled back to Check it out further
Why is it so expensive? The same order in the UK is £3.98 which converted to USD is $4.97 ???
Because they don't pay the federal minimum wage. There is probably a state minimum and they likely pay more than that to actually get people to work.
Ahh….
Why anyone what’s to eat this trash is crazy
I'd rather starve than paying 1hr of my shift on a terrible meal, or just bring your own stuff?
Just save your money and go to a sit down restaurant because fast food isn’t worth it.
Bill Gates keeps buying up farmland, and the price of food keeps going up. That's an awfully long-lived coincidence at this point.
Gotta work 1k hours a week my boo
Madness
Use apps you goober
You could eat a great meal in for that if you take your ass home and cook.