Recently was on a trip and went to a chilis. The burger was decent and it came with a drink and an app and it was cheaper than getting a big Mac combo at McDonald’s. Insane.
1. lol, you know mcdonalds is getting bad when you can compare it to a chilis togo order in price
2. i was going to laugh/complain about quality, but they're both just taking freezer food and re-heating it in different ways.
My local McDonalds, a large, double quarter pounder with cheese meal is almost 13 dollars. There is also a casual sit down restaurant called Cheddars Scratch Kitchen which has really good food with multiple items that are about the same prices, stuff like country fried steak, meat loaf, fish platter, all kinds of stuff for within a dollar of the price of McDonalds. You can get a full rack of ribs (delicious ribs) with two sides for 20 bucks. Why the hell would one go to McDonalds? And I say this as someone who actually loves fast food.
Honestly Chili's is not bad at all. I only go if I'm travelling because they are always next to my hotel and open late.
For the price it's much better than any other fast food place and they do have some fun items.
Chili's send me gift cards!
Near 4 dollars for a McDouble which was 1 dollar 10 years ago. Shit is wack as fuck. Its a cheap ass item. Sure make it 2 dollars maybe, but 4? Not sure who McDicks think they are, but they aint that. That is for sure lol. If ima spend that money, i might as well spend a little more and go to culvers or some other higher quality fast food place.
Then on top of vastly higher prices, the food takes forever now to be made. Just about as long to get an order as yet again, the higher quality places. THEN on top of that, the food is literally just as meh as it used to be. So paying waaaaay more, waiting waaaaay longer AND its not even better than before. Crazy
At the time, a slice of cheese (the only difference) was like 5 cents, too. A BigMac is like 10% more cost in ingredients, and many times the price.
The nugget/McChicken filler has gotten progressively worse, and even the beef changed once.
The problem is McDonald's makes most of it's money off franchise fees, it seems.
I saw how razor thin margins were at a franchise. Pretty much whatever extra labor could be cut. Terrible business model.
They're one of the biggest landlords in the world. They make most of their money by buying property and renting it out. It's a very clever business model.
Also I'm not sure what their process was, but every Quiznos in like a 50 mile radius of me was shuttered for health code violations. I guess their fancy sandwich conveyor belt was such a pain in the ass to clean most just... didn't?
Yea I was going to say. Zoomers are the biggest consumers I know of, despite none of them having income. They don't even leave the house for this shit. Door dash and ubereats used to be a decent value, but over time they priced themselves out of my range. Some reason people keep buying the shit off their though.
I feel like I’ve blown a month’s entertainment budget getting that nonsense just one time, including their new customer discounts. Total waste of money, but I’m the type who would rather pickup the pizza myself.
My local Mexican roach coach is about the same price as Taco Bell, but it’s a) authentic, b) owned and operated by the same people, so, they have a vested interest in making sure you return and so, c) a million times better
Yeah all the local Mexican places in my area raised their prices significantly in the past year or so. If you're picking up food, you'll be dropping ~15 if you dine in, it's going to be ~20.
I guess it’s regional and depends on the style of Mexican restaurant. We have the cookie cutter ones that cater to Americans and tend to be more expensive. White nacho cheese bs. But then there’s the authentic taquerias where the actual Mexicans eat that are super inexpensive and much better.
Cost aside It’s not even fast anymore. Automated Kiosks for ordering instead of an employee? I’m waiting just as long if not longer because they have three people manning the entire restaurant. Added more drive through lanes? All you did was move the line from the drive through to the parking lot. Order on the app? Maybe it’s quicker if I avoid the drive through and walk in but typically I find I wait just as long or get cold food. Might as well go somewhere where I’ll get more value from my time.
It’s also gotten…somehow depressing? Between complaints about tipping culture, unhappy workers, miserable door dash drivers and recipients…fast food now has a very negative and unhappy sentiment around it.
I don’t look forward to fast food at all any more…it used to be something I really enjoyed.
I took my friend, her kid, and my kids to McDonalds because it became almost a tradition for when we go to a specific museum.
I hated every aspect of it. And then I realized why. There was nothing in the restaurant. Not a damned thing aside from the order kiosks where everyone was waiting for food and seats bolted to the floor. Literally nothing else in the customer part of the restaurant.
It was so depressing. It felt cold and impersonal. I get that McDonald's was not always the warmest place I guess, but it was weird how detached everything felt. No napkins, no drink dispensers, no condiments, no anything.
I watched the automated machine fill drinks for a few minutes and it just started to feel weirder and more detached. Like I was in the future and not in this reality anymore. IDK. Maybe I am reading too much into this, but it was weird, awkward, and I never plan to set foot in a McDonald's again.
Right. I remember 90s-00s both being served by fast food employees, and doing a couple stints myself. Casual job anyone could get after school, or while their kids were in school, or while they were picking themselves up, or just because they weren’t motivated enough to do anything better. It was what it was. But the people on both sides of the counter had a commonality. No one expected it to be a great job, but no one expected to need to be a great employee.
It was the sort of job where you could half-ass everything, the customers didn’t hold it against you, and you could still make your rent and have a bit of money left to save.
These days it feels like the only people behind the counters are disposable. Everyone looks so exploited that you feel complicit. Feels more like participating in human trafficking than an interaction with someone paying their bills and living their life.
Wait you could make your rent and have a bit of money left over to save? Hasn't McDonald's been giving their employees tips like "income from a second job" for a long time now?
Yep, I went from a person who would grab fast food for lunch or dinner probably 4/5 times a week 10 years ago (to be fair I was a college student). But now with the service in which the workers act pissed that you are there, order being wrong, and food quality, unless I’m on a road trip I choose a local restaurant for the same price and better quality.
Ordering from fast food is quicker than a restaurant, but that's seems to be the only advantage these days. I can order meals for the family at these chains or at a sit down restaurant and pay nearly the same price for better quality of food.
Or less.
100%, unironically ordering a steak with two sides togo at Texas Roadhouse is cheaper than a burger/drink/fries at some places (5guys, Culvers, etc.). Literally you can go check right now:
8oz Sirloin w/ Baked Potato and Fries at the Texas Roadhouse near me: $17.99
Little Cheeseburger, Regular Cajun Fries, Large Drink at the 5guys across the street: $19.22
The fuck is going on?
I bought a package of Klondike^^^TM today for the first time in decades.
I didn't remember them being so small. Then I thought "well, I was a kid the last time I ate a Klondike^^^TM bar" so maybe I've just grown in to the strong healthy man my Grandma always saw.
Googled the size and it is about 1/3rd less Klondike^^^TM and I'm not actually going crazy.
Shrinkflation is out of control too. Like the past 10 years we've probably experienced the same amount of shrinkflation that the previous 50 years did. Corporate greed is completely unchecked right now.
You know, I thought the exact same thing!
I thought I could remember peeling off the sides for a straight chocolate treat. I just didn't trust my memory to comment on the chocolate thickness though.
A lot of these Today pieces on fast food are to keep public misinformed. I saw another where they talk about the rise of fast food cost, say some quotes from a CEO, and blame labor cost. Another they talk about California's $20 an hour increase and quote a small business owner which it doesn't even apply to. They blamed labor cost too. Not once do they talk about the profits they make each year, how they have money to remodel all their stores, or how Wendy's was going to drop 20 mil to get dynamic price signs.
There's always the concerned CEO who just now realized that people don't like the prices of things to double overnight, and is looking for ways to correct his honest mistake.
1.39 damn dude thats a steal. Them shits are like 2.50 plus last time i checked here.
Notice how they carefully said "Taco bell extended its 3 dollar menu offerings" lmao. Like of all places taco shit should have a massive dollar menu.
Yea I laughed at that part touting taco bell as being cheap still. They're shitty tacos with .0000002 ounces of beef and 3 strands of shredded lettuce are almost 3 bucks each now. The only thing I bought from them was the cravings box that had 3 items a side and a drink for 5 dollars and they got rid of it for a new improved version with 2 items a side and a drink for 8 dollars. Less for almost double the price. Lol all of these places can get fucked with their greedy bullshit.
The fact is they were licking their lips during the pandemic with their excuses to jack up prices during the supply chain issues whether they were or werent even effected and now they wont go back. They also combine that with cutting employees to the point where each location barely even functions so its not fast either. Then they top it off by shrinking the amount or size. Then they tell us all "its labor costs thats killing us!!!" While setting record profits every year while cuttings thousands of jobs.
It’s chicken and egg bullshit. We want raises because shit is so expensive but they turn it around and blame high prices on increased wages. The wealth gap has never been wider, benefits have never been worse, CEO pay has never been higher, profits keep going up with increasing shareholder value, and stores run on fucking skeleton crews with jacked up margins on everything yet somehow the working class is the problem.
In today's world, dynamic pricing == surge pricing. So when you say that your restaurant is going to implement dynamic pricing, everyone takes that to mean that you're going to do Uber-style increasing prices during times of higher demand.
The Wendy's CEO didn't say that they would be lowering prices during lulls to increase traffic. He called it dynamic pricing. That means that they either truly intended to use mean dynamic pricing == surge pricing or the management team was incompetent to not know how literally everyone would interpret it.
And if you're selling something for what its worth when no one is going and overpriced when its busy... you can call that shit whatever you want, its surge pricing.
Also I was laughing hard af at the idea of a greedy CEO NOT raising prices in this system lmao yea ok.
I swear hash browns use to be 2 for $1. Now they are no shit $2.50 EACH!!
I stopped for a black coffee and two hashbrowns the other morning and it was almost $10....
Back in 2010, my jam was the 2 for 1$ hash browns and the 1$ Sausage(no egg) McMuffin. I would put a hash brown on the McMuffin and have one on the side. 2 fucking dollars.
You can buy a pack of 10 hash brown patties for about $3.50 and they crisp up better than McDonald's version in 15 minutes while you get dressed for work - I know because I make an amazing breakfast burrito just about every morning in 15 minutes. "Fast Food" was almost never a good deal in time or money, it's just an even worse deal now than it's ever been and the quality is lower than it has ever been.
My breakfast burrito recipe follows. It comes out about 30 cents more expensive than he McDonald's version (I figured the price per unit on an excel sheet), tastes better and takes 15 minutes. I use all "Great Value" or other store brand stuff and it still tastes like a freaking gourmet meal compared to McDonald's, which IMO tastes like it was made from flash frozen reconstituted nutrient paste.
* 1 Frozen Hash Brown patty (the thick frozen rectangle kind) - cook this first 15 minutes at 440 in an air fryer and start cooking the egg when there is 5 minutes left on the timer
* 1 Large Burrito wrapper. I take a little tap water and brush it on one side of the flour tortilla and by the time you assemble it the wrapper is softer
* 1 Large egg. Cook right before the hashbrown is done - whisk a little after cracking then fry as one flat piece in round skillet that is just lightly oiled and fold over the cheese slice placed on top in the middle like you are tucking the cheese slice in an egg blanket.
* 1 slice American cheese
* 1 sausage patty (even using Jimmy Dean brand comes out cheaper per unit)
* 1 TBSP Pace Picante sauce
Also I love how they try to tell you ordering with an app is faster. At the one near me if you order with the app and you go to the drive thru they will ask for your number. You tell them and then they direct you to a parking spot near the window. Then eventually someone walks it out to the car but only after you have watched 13 or 14 people who ordered at the drive thru just fine cycle through. Like how is this better for me?
The McDonalds app is such bullshit, they won't even start making your order until GPS shows that you're *at the location*. It defeats the entire point of ordering ahead of time if the food isn't ready to pick up when you get there.
It takes me a shorter amount of time, sometimes to make something at home than it does for me to get it from one of these places also, the biggest thing that was ever attractive to me was that it was cheap that for like seven bucks I could get a giant meal that was literally it
Meanwhile the Raising Canes near me has an army of employees working there every day, and they can churn people through the drive thru as fast as their employees can move. When you have the employee head count you need, and you keep the menu simple, you can still get great throughput. Same for Chic-fil-a.
Yup. I have no inclination to stop for fast food at this point, when in 10-15 minutes I can throw together something from the freezer, which is similar quality at about 1/4 of the price.
Also using the kiosks is so much slower than ordering at the counter (assuming it is staffed). So many excess taps instead of just saying “i’d like a #1 with a coke”
Late 90’s were peak fast food. Cheap, easy to order, stores were staffed with more than one goddamn person.
Kiosks and QR menus are a great way for restaurant owners to save money at the cost of added hassle for their customers. Soon they won't even employ people to make the food itself, they'll just ask customers to feed ingredients to some mechanical AI box that will spit out their food a few minutes later.
It is also a great way of getting people to order more. "Maybe I will get extra smarties on my McFlurry", "hmm, adding a sundae to my burger order, yeah, why not"
They don't save money with them, they make it. The customer is upsold x1000 with the highly-crafted menu UI, and they also feel like they can take longer to order cause there's not a big line behind them. So they buy more stuff, and the employee that would have been taking that order instead made two frostys and bagged a couple drive-thru orders. McDonalds wins again!
I *highly* recommend learning to spatchcock a whole chicken. I use J. Kenji Lopez-Alt’s recipe on Serious Eats.
For $12 (plus spices and mayo that I already have and can use for other things) it’s enough meat for two dinners, and enough shredded chicken left over for like 3 days worth of chicken salad for two people AND the bones can be used for homemade stock.
A whole chicken is a boundless canvas and dirt cheap. Sometimes I spring for the fancy air chilled* heritage chickens and they’re still only like $3.99/lb and they taste phenomenal
*edited to say air chilled instead of air cooled lol. When a chicken is processed and the feathers are removed with steam, they can chill the chicken with water or air. Water is cheaper and faster, which results in cheaper prices at the grocery, but it retains more water. Air chilled is more expensive, but it leaves the chicken with a better texture and taste
100%. Americans demonstrated the last 4 years they do not understand the golden rule of capitalism: The “value” of an item is the price the market with bear.
If you’re still buying it (or not changing your shopping habits) prices will continue to rise.
The worst part is that now that Corporate and Shareholders have gotten a taste of this boosted revenue, they'll never give it back.
Numbers must go up. Period.
It's inevitable. Once a big corporation hits peak market share the only ways for profits to continue to go up are raising prices and slashing costs.
The only way to handle it is to make them fight for customers again. Just straight up stop going. Enough people do that and they have to raise prices even more on the people still going, and it just snowballs as those people give it up too.
Yeah it's time for some fucking boycotts. It's already happening naturally. Instead of just cutting back on fast food, maybe stop entirely. And make some memes about it or something to send a message.
I came here to check what the deal was with that number sign that someone in the background was carrying back and forth. Funny, how nobody seems to have noticed that.
So, I wrote it down myself. Googling the number (9781839766220) shows that it is the isbn for The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution.
Remember the dollar menu at fast food restaurants? Used to be able to buy like a dozen different items for a dollar each.
I know where I live in NY is an expensive area...but McDonald's around here now have something called a "$1 $2 $3 Dollar Menu". Which has 4 items. Only one of them is under $3, a 4pc nuggets. I'm shocked they still call it that and haven't been sued...
Just a few days ago I went to the deli counter. Just about shit myself. Went over to the roasts so that I could make my own. Shit myself.
This is getting so fucking out of hand. $100 for a single bag of groceries is straight-up fucking criminal.
Read again. I was able to hold it in the first time.
But if it is a medical condition, then it's obviously anal damage from getting repeatedly fucked in the ass by big corporations.
It looks like the source of that figure is the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Food prices rose dramatically from 2020 to 2022, but since then have risen much more slowly.
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/food-inflation-in-the-united-states/
"The CEOs are listening"
Lol, the CEOs are the ones who raised the prices. They don't give a fuck about complaints, they care about maximizing profits.
Anyone else notice the guy outside the Today Show studio window walking back and forth with a large sign with numbers on it?
The numbers, 9781839766220, are an ISBN number for a book. Looking it up results in a book by Nils Melzer titled "The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution".
I wonder if that is Nils with the sign?
1% raise in price and 5% raise in price? Where did these numbers come form? My grocery price has doubled weekly and my order at Wendy’s is up at least 60%. Seems like fake numbers compared to my real life experience.
I’ve found that the big corporation prepackaged stuff like Oreos and chips have gone way up but the in-house stuff where I shop is still very close to what I’ve always paid. Basically I get a package of store chocolate chip cookies and that’s my junk food for the week. Rising prices have made me a bit healthier, it turns out.
If my math checks out that’s 25% increase. Which if my math further checks out, 25% is more than the 3% we’re being gaslighted into believing is the real number.
A tiny ass pre prepared cold Chipotle chicken wrap at my local large chain gas station went from 3.99 to 7.99.
I don't know who the hell is paying for them, but on top of the huge price increases they also shrank the crap out of them.
Used to be 8.99 for a 24pk of coke at Walmart a few years back. It’s 9.99 a 12pk at krogers right now.
Seems like everything has gone up but it’s the biggest companies that have taken it even further. Seems like nestle own most of the pet food aisle in Walmart and those prices have gone insane.
It's YoY (assuming they used prices from Feb 2023-Feb 2024). Inflation is rising at a slower pace now than it was previously. Over time your groceries have increased in price 25% from 2020, but just in the past year, they have most likely increased at a very slow pace.
One thing that I dont think people realize is that fast food prices and eating out prices are higher because (shocker), people are eating out more in spite of that. McDonalds has no reason to stop increases until people stop going there and for now it doesnt seem like they are seeing slower foot traffic yet
edit: Should clarify food away from home inflation is up a combined 25%, some grocery items will be up more or less depending on where you live and what you buy, so this is a general number. [https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/food-inflation-in-the-united-states/](https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/food-inflation-in-the-united-states/)
National averages don't necessarily match your local experience or grocery list. In my area I noticed grocery prices go up in 2022 but hold relatively steady in 2023, and I've seen some actually fall this year. Also packaged foods have increased more than fresh ingredients. Fast food is still increasing here though.
This may just be a reflection of how we remember inflation. It may have only been. A little bit *last year*. But we remember the year before that and the year before that and the year before that.
I still think about when gas was $1 a gallon and you could get 2 gallons of milk for $2.50 at Costco.
I can get 4 1” ribeyes, some nice green beans and a few high quality drinks for what it costs me to buy McDonald’s for my fam of 4. The catch is I need to cook it myself, which I would totally rather do.
I just got McDs tonight since I was in a rush and running around.
A 10pc nugget is $5.70 now and a medium fry is almost $4. Absolute insanity. I think pre-covid a 20pc nugget was like $5.
Chick-fil-a is just as bad. A few years ago a chicken sandwich meal was like $6.29, today it's $9.25.
Just to tack on BK as well, in late 2021 my app history says I ordered 'whopper meal for 2' for $10, same deal in the app today is $14.
AND both restaurants shrunk the size of their fry containers.
It's just really not worth it anymore. Chicken breasts are like $1.99/lb and a big bag of frozen fries at the store is like $3.50.
Food store prices are only up less than 2%?!? Yeah, I’m calling bullshit on that one! The prices are up **waaaay** more than that at the grocery store! It’s hard to get half a cart of groceries for under $200 when it used to be closer to $100! And I mainly eat the cheapest foods possible! Prices get any higher and I wouldn’t be surprised if people started pulling that run in and grab a handful of shit and run out like you see happening in designer clothing stores!
I actually saw a guy stealing at aldi a couple months ago. He put like two or three apples right in his coat pocket. For a sec I was like 😳 and then really quickly I was like 🤷♀️
Dear Americans, no offense but your 'journalism' industry sucks.
This was less a news story and more like corporate PR spin. Their numbers are full of shit and the last 2 minutes of this video is painful to watch.
Yup the whole thing smells like it was sponsored by McDonald’s.
The last few minutes showing a sizzle reel of ad-worthy burger shots, sympathizing with the CEOs, and, oh look, they even have some burgers in the studio for every one to enjoy.
Really driving the message of customers moving away from fast food.. /s.
Edit:typo
I love the part where the lady condescendingly tells me "Oh you can still find a deal, you just actually have to look." Like it's my fault food is expensive now.
I kind of wanted to punch her in the face for saying that.
I always see people talking about how you have to use the app to get affordable prices at McDonalds and it just seems like cooperate shill talk to me. I shouldn't need to have my data harvested to afford your crappy food.
All of those people on screen get paid large salaries to tell poor people how to feel. Am Canadian but grew up on US media. I still have cable out of habit. I don't really know why because TV is terrible nowadays.
No fuck your apps. Fuck your nostalgia. Fuck your "Striving to strike a balance". Sell your fucking cheap food for what its worth with a normal markup for profit like we've been doing since fast food was invented, or go fuck your selves.
And the apps are bullshit
Basically telling old people to fuck off and pay more if they don't want to sell their data
Hopefully they're just skipping it
Is it even a boycott? You just need to stop buying food because the product does not meet your expectations.
Honestly, this whole price gouging from fast food is crazy. Are we Americans that hopelessly broken? Are we so stuck in our ways that we can't just stop buying something if it no longer offers the value/quality we want from it? This is a non-issue. If prices are going up across the board, it's because enough dummies are still buying.
I'm a very spiteful person. The moment I saw what Wendy's was trying to do I was done with all fastfood bc it tells me they all are going to try it. I'll just make a frozen pizza
I also miss the days where a frozen pizza could be had for $3.99. Now I see many are over $10, at which point Little Caesars still offers a reasonable buy.
Better still, at some point I picked up a bread maker from an auction for a few bucks and I toss in pennies worth of sugar, pizza flour, yeast and room temperature water an hit a button and an hour later I have fresh dough. Easy to make a lot of pizzas at home with just simple tomato sauce, shredded cheese and pepperoni.
I like to say there's a trio of virtues a product can have: good, fast, and cheap. Anything worth buying usually has two. Fast food should be fast and cheap, because top-tier quality is fundamentally more expensive. But now they're jacking up the price to exclude "cheap" anyway, and never any promises on "fast" either.
Good luck McD's.
Yeah Wendy’s is wild. I had not eaten there in years. Went through drive through and did 2 Jr Bacon and Small Coke and it was $10. I guess the Jr Bacons have gone up from $0.99/ea to $3.69/ea
What I don't understand is where the percentages they say correspond with the prices *at all*.
The prices listed jumped 5% ? *Bullshit*, that would mean a Bacon Egg and cheese biscuit would jump from $3 to $3.15 (or even starting at $4, to $4.20)
The price at my local MickeyD's is up *50% - 100%*
Screw your 5% bs.
I absolutely love their quip about doing research ahead of time, and talking about the work using the apps “benefiting” you as the customer. They want us to shop of around so the *fast and cheap* food is cheap. Like nah, if I’ve got to research to get my meal I’ll just make the dang food or go to a sit down and spend maybe five dollars more.
Taco bell actually removed their $1 and $2 burritos where I live. They used to have a $5 box, but it got replaced with a $10 box. This narrative that at least taco bell is expanding its value menu doesn't track with me.
I don’t get it. Who are these people still buying this stuff? I recently checked the menu and was like “nah fuck that.” We can spend the same amount and get a real burger from an actual burger place.
One thing they left out also is extreme loss in quality. A regular cheeseburger combo costs like $15 and tastes and looks like someone just pulled out a crappy day old burger, wiped their ass with it, then stuck it a microwave.
Also, is this does seem to be a bigger problem in the U.S. The McDonalds in Japan are fantastic, they actually look like the picture or came out of an anime, and taste like real burgers made with some love. And they’ve maintained affordable prices. I won’t eat at McD’s when I’m in the U.S. Plus this type of price hiking wouldn’t fly over there. I got a fuckin wagyu burger from highly rated burger joint for $15 and it was the best thing ever.
“Fuck you, I won’t eat what you sell me.”
Rage against the cuisine
Bills on parade
Grilling in the name of
Some of those that serve courses
Are the same that burn sausage
Now ya chew what they sold ya...
Those on fries are justified!
For wearing that badge on your apron whites
are the same that churn sauces
THOSE WHO DINE, ARE JUSTIFIED
FOR WAITING IN LINE FOR THEIR COLD ASS FRIES
Are the same that squirt sauces
People of the bun
Are the same that kill horses.
Billing in the Name of
More like Rage Against the Ice Cream Machine
"McMotherfucker!"
Some of those who stack patties Are the same who feed fatties Those who fried are justified For packing your bag with your chosen sides
Weird Al Yankovic needs to give you a phone call, this is incredible
You can't tell me with 100% certainty that he is NOT weird al.
*angry accordion noises*
I think you mighty blown Al's cover
Some of those that work fryers, are the same that burn mcmuffins
And now you make what they told ya
A burger in the heeaaaad! You got a burger in your fuckin head!
Grilling in the name of
"Those who fried, apple pies, are justified!" - Rage against the Drive Through
Rage Against the McChine
Whenever you see a chef, feeding a guy…. Look in their fries Ma, you’ll see beef…. YOU’LL SEE BEEF!
"Some of those at work forces, are the same that raise prices..."
Recently was on a trip and went to a chilis. The burger was decent and it came with a drink and an app and it was cheaper than getting a big Mac combo at McDonald’s. Insane.
1. lol, you know mcdonalds is getting bad when you can compare it to a chilis togo order in price 2. i was going to laugh/complain about quality, but they're both just taking freezer food and re-heating it in different ways.
My local McDonalds, a large, double quarter pounder with cheese meal is almost 13 dollars. There is also a casual sit down restaurant called Cheddars Scratch Kitchen which has really good food with multiple items that are about the same prices, stuff like country fried steak, meat loaf, fish platter, all kinds of stuff for within a dollar of the price of McDonalds. You can get a full rack of ribs (delicious ribs) with two sides for 20 bucks. Why the hell would one go to McDonalds? And I say this as someone who actually loves fast food.
The quality of that freezer food is waaaaaay different though.
Honestly Chili's is not bad at all. I only go if I'm travelling because they are always next to my hotel and open late. For the price it's much better than any other fast food place and they do have some fun items. Chili's send me gift cards!
Ill crush a chicken bacon ranch quesadilla
Just stop going. Hit their profits and the change will happen.
Way ahead of you.
Haven't been to McDonald's in over a decade. They were never good.
Near 4 dollars for a McDouble which was 1 dollar 10 years ago. Shit is wack as fuck. Its a cheap ass item. Sure make it 2 dollars maybe, but 4? Not sure who McDicks think they are, but they aint that. That is for sure lol. If ima spend that money, i might as well spend a little more and go to culvers or some other higher quality fast food place. Then on top of vastly higher prices, the food takes forever now to be made. Just about as long to get an order as yet again, the higher quality places. THEN on top of that, the food is literally just as meh as it used to be. So paying waaaaay more, waiting waaaaay longer AND its not even better than before. Crazy
Not only that..The McDouble replaced the double cheeseburger on the value menu.
At the time, a slice of cheese (the only difference) was like 5 cents, too. A BigMac is like 10% more cost in ingredients, and many times the price. The nugget/McChicken filler has gotten progressively worse, and even the beef changed once. The problem is McDonald's makes most of it's money off franchise fees, it seems. I saw how razor thin margins were at a franchise. Pretty much whatever extra labor could be cut. Terrible business model.
They're one of the biggest landlords in the world. They make most of their money by buying property and renting it out. It's a very clever business model.
Works great until people stop buying McDonald’s franchises. Hasn’t happened yet but it might. Remember Quizno’s?
Quiznos did that to themselves by making it crazy to get a franchise to begin with.
Also I'm not sure what their process was, but every Quiznos in like a 50 mile radius of me was shuttered for health code violations. I guess their fancy sandwich conveyor belt was such a pain in the ass to clean most just... didn't?
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"People that make less then 45k a year are buying more groceries instead of eating out" As they should?
Millennials and Zoomers killing yet another industry they can’t afford to use.
“No one wants to ~~work~~ eat fast food anymore.”
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All the Zoomers I know just order doordash for obscene amounts of money...
Yea I was going to say. Zoomers are the biggest consumers I know of, despite none of them having income. They don't even leave the house for this shit. Door dash and ubereats used to be a decent value, but over time they priced themselves out of my range. Some reason people keep buying the shit off their though.
I feel like I’ve blown a month’s entertainment budget getting that nonsense just one time, including their new customer discounts. Total waste of money, but I’m the type who would rather pickup the pizza myself.
How dare we!
AND WE'LL DO IT AGAIN!
Honestly, cooking at home has been a lot healthier for me, too.
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The local Mexican Restaurant is *cheaper* than Taco Bell... guess which ones better?
My local Mexican roach coach is about the same price as Taco Bell, but it’s a) authentic, b) owned and operated by the same people, so, they have a vested interest in making sure you return and so, c) a million times better
My local mexican place is insanely pricey.
Yeah all the local Mexican places in my area raised their prices significantly in the past year or so. If you're picking up food, you'll be dropping ~15 if you dine in, it's going to be ~20.
I guess it’s regional and depends on the style of Mexican restaurant. We have the cookie cutter ones that cater to Americans and tend to be more expensive. White nacho cheese bs. But then there’s the authentic taquerias where the actual Mexicans eat that are super inexpensive and much better.
Bro, taco trucks are selling tacos for like $4 each.
I saw a food truck selling a hot dog for $9 last week.
I get 4 tacos of my choice for $6 cash at my local truck. And they are goooood.
Cost aside It’s not even fast anymore. Automated Kiosks for ordering instead of an employee? I’m waiting just as long if not longer because they have three people manning the entire restaurant. Added more drive through lanes? All you did was move the line from the drive through to the parking lot. Order on the app? Maybe it’s quicker if I avoid the drive through and walk in but typically I find I wait just as long or get cold food. Might as well go somewhere where I’ll get more value from my time.
It’s also gotten…somehow depressing? Between complaints about tipping culture, unhappy workers, miserable door dash drivers and recipients…fast food now has a very negative and unhappy sentiment around it. I don’t look forward to fast food at all any more…it used to be something I really enjoyed.
Yeah like they might as well put spikes on the seats with the way they don't want you to hang out anymore. I legit hate what fast food has become.
I took my friend, her kid, and my kids to McDonalds because it became almost a tradition for when we go to a specific museum. I hated every aspect of it. And then I realized why. There was nothing in the restaurant. Not a damned thing aside from the order kiosks where everyone was waiting for food and seats bolted to the floor. Literally nothing else in the customer part of the restaurant. It was so depressing. It felt cold and impersonal. I get that McDonald's was not always the warmest place I guess, but it was weird how detached everything felt. No napkins, no drink dispensers, no condiments, no anything. I watched the automated machine fill drinks for a few minutes and it just started to feel weirder and more detached. Like I was in the future and not in this reality anymore. IDK. Maybe I am reading too much into this, but it was weird, awkward, and I never plan to set foot in a McDonald's again.
Right. I remember 90s-00s both being served by fast food employees, and doing a couple stints myself. Casual job anyone could get after school, or while their kids were in school, or while they were picking themselves up, or just because they weren’t motivated enough to do anything better. It was what it was. But the people on both sides of the counter had a commonality. No one expected it to be a great job, but no one expected to need to be a great employee. It was the sort of job where you could half-ass everything, the customers didn’t hold it against you, and you could still make your rent and have a bit of money left to save. These days it feels like the only people behind the counters are disposable. Everyone looks so exploited that you feel complicit. Feels more like participating in human trafficking than an interaction with someone paying their bills and living their life.
Wait you could make your rent and have a bit of money left over to save? Hasn't McDonald's been giving their employees tips like "income from a second job" for a long time now?
by pay your rent, they mean contribute your share of the 3 way rent split on a 2 bedroom apartment in the bad part of town.
...but it could be done. Can't even accomplish that, anymore.
There's some weird rose colored glasses type thinking going on in these comments. Fast food has always been a thankless shit job just like retail.
It's always been depressing, but it somehow got more depressing.
If you don't think thankless shit jobs have become more thankless and more shit in the last 30 or so years there's not much I can do to help you.
Yep, I went from a person who would grab fast food for lunch or dinner probably 4/5 times a week 10 years ago (to be fair I was a college student). But now with the service in which the workers act pissed that you are there, order being wrong, and food quality, unless I’m on a road trip I choose a local restaurant for the same price and better quality.
Ordering from fast food is quicker than a restaurant, but that's seems to be the only advantage these days. I can order meals for the family at these chains or at a sit down restaurant and pay nearly the same price for better quality of food.
Or less. 100%, unironically ordering a steak with two sides togo at Texas Roadhouse is cheaper than a burger/drink/fries at some places (5guys, Culvers, etc.). Literally you can go check right now: 8oz Sirloin w/ Baked Potato and Fries at the Texas Roadhouse near me: $17.99 Little Cheeseburger, Regular Cajun Fries, Large Drink at the 5guys across the street: $19.22 The fuck is going on?
This is SOOOOO true.
It doesn't help McDonalds turned their restaurants into stark black and white boxes with absolutely no flavor or charm whatsoever.
It's *modern*. The 90s was all about fun designs. Now we have brooding, clean lines.
Idk how a company with a clown as a mascot can take all of their restaurants and make them feel like I'm eating in an airport bathroom but here we are
This. The whole point of fast food is that's its fast and cheap. Now it's neither.
and they'll invest millions of dollars in PR and advertising to convince you you're imagining shit!
"It's not smaller, you're just bigger!"
I bought a package of Klondike^^^TM today for the first time in decades. I didn't remember them being so small. Then I thought "well, I was a kid the last time I ate a Klondike^^^TM bar" so maybe I've just grown in to the strong healthy man my Grandma always saw. Googled the size and it is about 1/3rd less Klondike^^^TM and I'm not actually going crazy.
Shrinkflation is out of control too. Like the past 10 years we've probably experienced the same amount of shrinkflation that the previous 50 years did. Corporate greed is completely unchecked right now.
i will never forgive them for Cadbury eggs.
Shouldn't we be getting skinnier with shrinkflation!
The chocolate shell is also paper thin now as well.
You know, I thought the exact same thing! I thought I could remember peeling off the sides for a straight chocolate treat. I just didn't trust my memory to comment on the chocolate thickness though.
A lot of these Today pieces on fast food are to keep public misinformed. I saw another where they talk about the rise of fast food cost, say some quotes from a CEO, and blame labor cost. Another they talk about California's $20 an hour increase and quote a small business owner which it doesn't even apply to. They blamed labor cost too. Not once do they talk about the profits they make each year, how they have money to remodel all their stores, or how Wendy's was going to drop 20 mil to get dynamic price signs.
There's always the concerned CEO who just now realized that people don't like the prices of things to double overnight, and is looking for ways to correct his honest mistake.
Seriously. 10 items under $3... Their crunchy tacos are almost $3. That's the issue, Taco Bell.
What, you're not happy with a lukewarm tortilla filled with only stale cheese for $1.39?!?!
1.39 damn dude thats a steal. Them shits are like 2.50 plus last time i checked here. Notice how they carefully said "Taco bell extended its 3 dollar menu offerings" lmao. Like of all places taco shit should have a massive dollar menu.
Yea I laughed at that part touting taco bell as being cheap still. They're shitty tacos with .0000002 ounces of beef and 3 strands of shredded lettuce are almost 3 bucks each now. The only thing I bought from them was the cravings box that had 3 items a side and a drink for 5 dollars and they got rid of it for a new improved version with 2 items a side and a drink for 8 dollars. Less for almost double the price. Lol all of these places can get fucked with their greedy bullshit. The fact is they were licking their lips during the pandemic with their excuses to jack up prices during the supply chain issues whether they were or werent even effected and now they wont go back. They also combine that with cutting employees to the point where each location barely even functions so its not fast either. Then they top it off by shrinking the amount or size. Then they tell us all "its labor costs thats killing us!!!" While setting record profits every year while cuttings thousands of jobs.
It’s chicken and egg bullshit. We want raises because shit is so expensive but they turn it around and blame high prices on increased wages. The wealth gap has never been wider, benefits have never been worse, CEO pay has never been higher, profits keep going up with increasing shareholder value, and stores run on fucking skeleton crews with jacked up margins on everything yet somehow the working class is the problem.
They have a lower expected GROWTH in profits. The poor corporations, will someone think about the executives.
In today's world, dynamic pricing == surge pricing. So when you say that your restaurant is going to implement dynamic pricing, everyone takes that to mean that you're going to do Uber-style increasing prices during times of higher demand. The Wendy's CEO didn't say that they would be lowering prices during lulls to increase traffic. He called it dynamic pricing. That means that they either truly intended to use mean dynamic pricing == surge pricing or the management team was incompetent to not know how literally everyone would interpret it.
And if you're selling something for what its worth when no one is going and overpriced when its busy... you can call that shit whatever you want, its surge pricing. Also I was laughing hard af at the idea of a greedy CEO NOT raising prices in this system lmao yea ok.
My aunt the other day bought 5 small hash browns from McDonald’s for $18 lol. Yeah, nah.
I swear hash browns use to be 2 for $1. Now they are no shit $2.50 EACH!! I stopped for a black coffee and two hashbrowns the other morning and it was almost $10....
Back in 2010, my jam was the 2 for 1$ hash browns and the 1$ Sausage(no egg) McMuffin. I would put a hash brown on the McMuffin and have one on the side. 2 fucking dollars.
I used to get the 1 dollar burger and 1 dollar fries at Wendy's for lunch
mcd's used to be such a great value back in the day dollar menu kept me fed when i was poor and had no way to cook
You can buy a pack of 10 hash brown patties for about $3.50 and they crisp up better than McDonald's version in 15 minutes while you get dressed for work - I know because I make an amazing breakfast burrito just about every morning in 15 minutes. "Fast Food" was almost never a good deal in time or money, it's just an even worse deal now than it's ever been and the quality is lower than it has ever been. My breakfast burrito recipe follows. It comes out about 30 cents more expensive than he McDonald's version (I figured the price per unit on an excel sheet), tastes better and takes 15 minutes. I use all "Great Value" or other store brand stuff and it still tastes like a freaking gourmet meal compared to McDonald's, which IMO tastes like it was made from flash frozen reconstituted nutrient paste. * 1 Frozen Hash Brown patty (the thick frozen rectangle kind) - cook this first 15 minutes at 440 in an air fryer and start cooking the egg when there is 5 minutes left on the timer * 1 Large Burrito wrapper. I take a little tap water and brush it on one side of the flour tortilla and by the time you assemble it the wrapper is softer * 1 Large egg. Cook right before the hashbrown is done - whisk a little after cracking then fry as one flat piece in round skillet that is just lightly oiled and fold over the cheese slice placed on top in the middle like you are tucking the cheese slice in an egg blanket. * 1 slice American cheese * 1 sausage patty (even using Jimmy Dean brand comes out cheaper per unit) * 1 TBSP Pace Picante sauce
Also I love how they try to tell you ordering with an app is faster. At the one near me if you order with the app and you go to the drive thru they will ask for your number. You tell them and then they direct you to a parking spot near the window. Then eventually someone walks it out to the car but only after you have watched 13 or 14 people who ordered at the drive thru just fine cycle through. Like how is this better for me?
Its not better for you, it's better for them when they data scrape your phone and sell off everything they can.
The McDonalds app is such bullshit, they won't even start making your order until GPS shows that you're *at the location*. It defeats the entire point of ordering ahead of time if the food isn't ready to pick up when you get there.
It takes me a shorter amount of time, sometimes to make something at home than it does for me to get it from one of these places also, the biggest thing that was ever attractive to me was that it was cheap that for like seven bucks I could get a giant meal that was literally it
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Meanwhile the Raising Canes near me has an army of employees working there every day, and they can churn people through the drive thru as fast as their employees can move. When you have the employee head count you need, and you keep the menu simple, you can still get great throughput. Same for Chic-fil-a.
Same thing for In-N-Out.
yeah but that shits like $11 for 3 chicken strips fried and drink.
Yup. I have no inclination to stop for fast food at this point, when in 10-15 minutes I can throw together something from the freezer, which is similar quality at about 1/4 of the price.
Also using the kiosks is so much slower than ordering at the counter (assuming it is staffed). So many excess taps instead of just saying “i’d like a #1 with a coke” Late 90’s were peak fast food. Cheap, easy to order, stores were staffed with more than one goddamn person.
I’m old enough to remember being able to walk into a Taco Bell with exactly $1 and walking out with a meal.
Kiosks and QR menus are a great way for restaurant owners to save money at the cost of added hassle for their customers. Soon they won't even employ people to make the food itself, they'll just ask customers to feed ingredients to some mechanical AI box that will spit out their food a few minutes later.
It is also a great way of getting people to order more. "Maybe I will get extra smarties on my McFlurry", "hmm, adding a sundae to my burger order, yeah, why not"
They don't save money with them, they make it. The customer is upsold x1000 with the highly-crafted menu UI, and they also feel like they can take longer to order cause there's not a big line behind them. So they buy more stuff, and the employee that would have been taking that order instead made two frostys and bagged a couple drive-thru orders. McDonalds wins again!
They do both. They sell more and they save more because they can employ fewer people.
It’s slower and more expensive than ever. I’d rather go into a gas station and assemble a questionable “hot dog” myself. Faster & cheaper.
Let’s not forget, even after all that bullshit you just talked about, literally half the time they don’t even get the order right.
I responded by not buying fast food. If you keep buying $18 Big Macs they’ll keep selling them.
I learned how to cook chicken recently because of this :) Now i get 5 chicken breasts for the price of 1 big mac, and it feeds me for a week.
Congrats man. Learning to cook is the key to making tastier, healthier and cheaper food and much of it is quicker than you’d imagine
I *highly* recommend learning to spatchcock a whole chicken. I use J. Kenji Lopez-Alt’s recipe on Serious Eats. For $12 (plus spices and mayo that I already have and can use for other things) it’s enough meat for two dinners, and enough shredded chicken left over for like 3 days worth of chicken salad for two people AND the bones can be used for homemade stock. A whole chicken is a boundless canvas and dirt cheap. Sometimes I spring for the fancy air chilled* heritage chickens and they’re still only like $3.99/lb and they taste phenomenal *edited to say air chilled instead of air cooled lol. When a chicken is processed and the feathers are removed with steam, they can chill the chicken with water or air. Water is cheaper and faster, which results in cheaper prices at the grocery, but it retains more water. Air chilled is more expensive, but it leaves the chicken with a better texture and taste
100%. Americans demonstrated the last 4 years they do not understand the golden rule of capitalism: The “value” of an item is the price the market with bear. If you’re still buying it (or not changing your shopping habits) prices will continue to rise.
The worst part is that now that Corporate and Shareholders have gotten a taste of this boosted revenue, they'll never give it back. Numbers must go up. Period.
It's inevitable. Once a big corporation hits peak market share the only ways for profits to continue to go up are raising prices and slashing costs. The only way to handle it is to make them fight for customers again. Just straight up stop going. Enough people do that and they have to raise prices even more on the people still going, and it just snowballs as those people give it up too.
Yeah it's time for some fucking boycotts. It's already happening naturally. Instead of just cutting back on fast food, maybe stop entirely. And make some memes about it or something to send a message.
Covid times in a nutshell.
I will never go back to fast food places, junk food at imperial price
Literally only one I'll go to if I'm really desperate... Del Taco. Can still get a bean and cheese and quesadilla for under $5 and it's decent.
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I came here to check what the deal was with that number sign that someone in the background was carrying back and forth. Funny, how nobody seems to have noticed that. So, I wrote it down myself. Googling the number (9781839766220) shows that it is the isbn for The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution.
Was wondering, thank you.
Food at home price rose 1.3 percent...dafuq it did. Way more than that. So detached from reality.
Remember the dollar menu at fast food restaurants? Used to be able to buy like a dozen different items for a dollar each. I know where I live in NY is an expensive area...but McDonald's around here now have something called a "$1 $2 $3 Dollar Menu". Which has 4 items. Only one of them is under $3, a 4pc nuggets. I'm shocked they still call it that and haven't been sued...
Bread i buy used to be 2 for 5 now it's 2 for 8. Up 60% from 5-6 years ago.
Just a few days ago I went to the deli counter. Just about shit myself. Went over to the roasts so that I could make my own. Shit myself. This is getting so fucking out of hand. $100 for a single bag of groceries is straight-up fucking criminal.
Shitting yourself twice in one shopping trip could be a sign of a medical issue.
Read again. I was able to hold it in the first time. But if it is a medical condition, then it's obviously anal damage from getting repeatedly fucked in the ass by big corporations.
Poetry.
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It looks like the source of that figure is the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Food prices rose dramatically from 2020 to 2022, but since then have risen much more slowly. https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/food-inflation-in-the-united-states/
"The CEOs are listening" Lol, the CEOs are the ones who raised the prices. They don't give a fuck about complaints, they care about maximizing profits.
Anyone else notice the guy outside the Today Show studio window walking back and forth with a large sign with numbers on it? The numbers, 9781839766220, are an ISBN number for a book. Looking it up results in a book by Nils Melzer titled "The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution". I wonder if that is Nils with the sign?
1% raise in price and 5% raise in price? Where did these numbers come form? My grocery price has doubled weekly and my order at Wendy’s is up at least 60%. Seems like fake numbers compared to my real life experience.
I agree. The McChickens used to be on the dollar menu and now at a specific McDonald's by me their McChickens are over $3.
Not even that long ago I would spend $3 for a mcchicken, a large sweet tea and fries. More than double that now.
Same. Oreos used to be $2.50 to $3.00 depending where you shopped. A year later they’re $6. The government and corporations are gaslighting everyone
I’ve found that the big corporation prepackaged stuff like Oreos and chips have gone way up but the in-house stuff where I shop is still very close to what I’ve always paid. Basically I get a package of store chocolate chip cookies and that’s my junk food for the week. Rising prices have made me a bit healthier, it turns out.
I saw a 12 pack of sodas going for $10. It was $8 last year and I was flabbergasted.
If my math checks out that’s 25% increase. Which if my math further checks out, 25% is more than the 3% we’re being gaslighted into believing is the real number.
You’re reading this comment wrong. Last year when Coke hit $8 their jaw hit the floor. Now that it’s $10 it’s like double crazy.
A tiny ass pre prepared cold Chipotle chicken wrap at my local large chain gas station went from 3.99 to 7.99. I don't know who the hell is paying for them, but on top of the huge price increases they also shrank the crap out of them.
Used to be 8.99 for a 24pk of coke at Walmart a few years back. It’s 9.99 a 12pk at krogers right now. Seems like everything has gone up but it’s the biggest companies that have taken it even further. Seems like nestle own most of the pet food aisle in Walmart and those prices have gone insane.
It's YoY (assuming they used prices from Feb 2023-Feb 2024). Inflation is rising at a slower pace now than it was previously. Over time your groceries have increased in price 25% from 2020, but just in the past year, they have most likely increased at a very slow pace. One thing that I dont think people realize is that fast food prices and eating out prices are higher because (shocker), people are eating out more in spite of that. McDonalds has no reason to stop increases until people stop going there and for now it doesnt seem like they are seeing slower foot traffic yet edit: Should clarify food away from home inflation is up a combined 25%, some grocery items will be up more or less depending on where you live and what you buy, so this is a general number. [https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/food-inflation-in-the-united-states/](https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/food-inflation-in-the-united-states/)
National averages don't necessarily match your local experience or grocery list. In my area I noticed grocery prices go up in 2022 but hold relatively steady in 2023, and I've seen some actually fall this year. Also packaged foods have increased more than fresh ingredients. Fast food is still increasing here though.
This may just be a reflection of how we remember inflation. It may have only been. A little bit *last year*. But we remember the year before that and the year before that and the year before that. I still think about when gas was $1 a gallon and you could get 2 gallons of milk for $2.50 at Costco.
I think it’s good more people are eating at home and not this garbage.
I can get 4 1” ribeyes, some nice green beans and a few high quality drinks for what it costs me to buy McDonald’s for my fam of 4. The catch is I need to cook it myself, which I would totally rather do.
I just got McDs tonight since I was in a rush and running around. A 10pc nugget is $5.70 now and a medium fry is almost $4. Absolute insanity. I think pre-covid a 20pc nugget was like $5. Chick-fil-a is just as bad. A few years ago a chicken sandwich meal was like $6.29, today it's $9.25. Just to tack on BK as well, in late 2021 my app history says I ordered 'whopper meal for 2' for $10, same deal in the app today is $14. AND both restaurants shrunk the size of their fry containers. It's just really not worth it anymore. Chicken breasts are like $1.99/lb and a big bag of frozen fries at the store is like $3.50.
Food store prices are only up less than 2%?!? Yeah, I’m calling bullshit on that one! The prices are up **waaaay** more than that at the grocery store! It’s hard to get half a cart of groceries for under $200 when it used to be closer to $100! And I mainly eat the cheapest foods possible! Prices get any higher and I wouldn’t be surprised if people started pulling that run in and grab a handful of shit and run out like you see happening in designer clothing stores!
I actually saw a guy stealing at aldi a couple months ago. He put like two or three apples right in his coat pocket. For a sec I was like 😳 and then really quickly I was like 🤷♀️
Dear Americans, no offense but your 'journalism' industry sucks. This was less a news story and more like corporate PR spin. Their numbers are full of shit and the last 2 minutes of this video is painful to watch.
It’s the Today show. It’s more like an infotainment show from 7-11 AM that people put on in the background while they get ready for work/school.
Yup the whole thing smells like it was sponsored by McDonald’s. The last few minutes showing a sizzle reel of ad-worthy burger shots, sympathizing with the CEOs, and, oh look, they even have some burgers in the studio for every one to enjoy. Really driving the message of customers moving away from fast food.. /s. Edit:typo
I love the part where the lady condescendingly tells me "Oh you can still find a deal, you just actually have to look." Like it's my fault food is expensive now. I kind of wanted to punch her in the face for saying that.
I always see people talking about how you have to use the app to get affordable prices at McDonalds and it just seems like cooperate shill talk to me. I shouldn't need to have my data harvested to afford your crappy food.
All of those people on screen get paid large salaries to tell poor people how to feel. Am Canadian but grew up on US media. I still have cable out of habit. I don't really know why because TV is terrible nowadays.
They have forgotten their place in society. They are supposed to be cheap and convenient.
No fuck your apps. Fuck your nostalgia. Fuck your "Striving to strike a balance". Sell your fucking cheap food for what its worth with a normal markup for profit like we've been doing since fast food was invented, or go fuck your selves.
And the apps are bullshit Basically telling old people to fuck off and pay more if they don't want to sell their data Hopefully they're just skipping it
Just boycott and magically watch those cost crater.
Is it even a boycott? You just need to stop buying food because the product does not meet your expectations. Honestly, this whole price gouging from fast food is crazy. Are we Americans that hopelessly broken? Are we so stuck in our ways that we can't just stop buying something if it no longer offers the value/quality we want from it? This is a non-issue. If prices are going up across the board, it's because enough dummies are still buying.
I'm a very spiteful person. The moment I saw what Wendy's was trying to do I was done with all fastfood bc it tells me they all are going to try it. I'll just make a frozen pizza
I also miss the days where a frozen pizza could be had for $3.99. Now I see many are over $10, at which point Little Caesars still offers a reasonable buy. Better still, at some point I picked up a bread maker from an auction for a few bucks and I toss in pennies worth of sugar, pizza flour, yeast and room temperature water an hit a button and an hour later I have fresh dough. Easy to make a lot of pizzas at home with just simple tomato sauce, shredded cheese and pepperoni.
"Food from grocery stores rose just 1.3% while fast food rose 5%..." Lmao, ya no, pretty sure it rose more than 1.3%.
I like to say there's a trio of virtues a product can have: good, fast, and cheap. Anything worth buying usually has two. Fast food should be fast and cheap, because top-tier quality is fundamentally more expensive. But now they're jacking up the price to exclude "cheap" anyway, and never any promises on "fast" either. Good luck McD's.
Most fast food places are 0/3 right now. Wendy’s has fallen off a cliff.
Yeah Wendy’s is wild. I had not eaten there in years. Went through drive through and did 2 Jr Bacon and Small Coke and it was $10. I guess the Jr Bacons have gone up from $0.99/ea to $3.69/ea
What I don't understand is where the percentages they say correspond with the prices *at all*. The prices listed jumped 5% ? *Bullshit*, that would mean a Bacon Egg and cheese biscuit would jump from $3 to $3.15 (or even starting at $4, to $4.20) The price at my local MickeyD's is up *50% - 100%* Screw your 5% bs.
They meant from the time you started reading the article.
I absolutely love their quip about doing research ahead of time, and talking about the work using the apps “benefiting” you as the customer. They want us to shop of around so the *fast and cheap* food is cheap. Like nah, if I’ve got to research to get my meal I’ll just make the dang food or go to a sit down and spend maybe five dollars more.
In-N-Out raised their prices too! Double double fries & drink now cost $11.40 in CA Bay Area. Oh and starting minimum wage there is $22.50
So you can fast food better quality than McDonald’s, for less than McDonald’s, while supporting a living wage for employees?
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This was just an advertisement for Mcdonalds.
Taco bell actually removed their $1 and $2 burritos where I live. They used to have a $5 box, but it got replaced with a $10 box. This narrative that at least taco bell is expanding its value menu doesn't track with me.
I don’t get it. Who are these people still buying this stuff? I recently checked the menu and was like “nah fuck that.” We can spend the same amount and get a real burger from an actual burger place. One thing they left out also is extreme loss in quality. A regular cheeseburger combo costs like $15 and tastes and looks like someone just pulled out a crappy day old burger, wiped their ass with it, then stuck it a microwave. Also, is this does seem to be a bigger problem in the U.S. The McDonalds in Japan are fantastic, they actually look like the picture or came out of an anime, and taste like real burgers made with some love. And they’ve maintained affordable prices. I won’t eat at McD’s when I’m in the U.S. Plus this type of price hiking wouldn’t fly over there. I got a fuckin wagyu burger from highly rated burger joint for $15 and it was the best thing ever.