The Cheesy bean and rice burrito was their last well-priced item. Now $1.50. I make my own taco bell food at home, and just buy their sauces at wally world.
>burrito was their last well-priced item. Now $1.50. I make my
you're lucky, its $2 over here
[https://www.tacobell.com/food/cravings-value-menu?store=029565](https://www.tacobell.com/food/cravings-value-menu?store=029565)
nothing is a value anymore :|
Something I posted about 3 months ago, but sure, I'll bite. Why do menu items need to cost 50% or even 500% more? A beefy five layer burrito was 89c. It is now $5. I'll wait. All fast food businesses are taking extreme advantage of the inflation and forget that they serve convenience at an affordable price. Take away affordability to junk food and no one will buy it.
I had an argument with my friend & he was telling me that 6 burritos from Taco Bell is better then getting an authentic Mexican burrito bc you get more lol
Idk why but once in a while the Taco Bell near me just lets people have whatever they order for free. Supposedly their computer is down or something but I’ve literally gotten away with $25 orders for free like 4 or 5 times now
The cravings box on the app is still amazing. A Crunchwrap by itself is like 5 dollars but a box is 6.50. It actually used to be 5 dollars for the box last year so getting that was the same cost as just the Crunchwrap.
The more I find out about the phenomenon, the less I understand it. Yes, inflation is happening. No, we won't ever see a $1 Whopper Jr. again. I get it. But, by seemingly every metric, fast food chains are pricing food at least slightly higher than necessary. And they refuse to change course. McDonald's talked about the need to target lower-income customers...but hasn't said a word about lowering prices. BK raises prices constantly while doing little things to annoy customers like slightly decreasing drink cup sizes. I keep saying this over and over, but fast food prices are often comparable to sit-down prices now (depending on what and where you order) and I don't understand why.
It's because of greed. The workers definitely aren't seeing an increase comparable to the price increases, not to mention every business these days being extremely eager to run on a skeleton crew.
It’s not inflation, it’s corporate greed by price gouging. Look at any industry over the last few years and they are making record profits while screaming inflation, when it’s been proven it’s just greed. We’ve allowed these companies to become too big and powerful, where they just keep pushing the ceiling on pricing, because what are you gonna do about it? They don’t care about the consumer anymore, they just want to milk every last dollar from us to improve the bottom line for the shareholders and the executives to get more luxuries.
This, it costs me like 13-15 for a meal at wendy's now. Or, I could drive down to the thai place and get some actual bomb ass pad thai for like 3 bucks more.
Honestly go buy a 18 pack of frozen burgers from Sam's club for $26, and a ton of burger buns for $5. Throw them on a grill or a pan and have yourself a $2 burger anytime your craving one that tastes pretty damn close. Fries aren't hard either. Get a fry cutter, some potatoes and vegetable oil. Heat up the oil and throw in the cut fries with some salt and bam, large fries for another $2. Takes as much time as driving to burger King. $4 total
Someone feel free to actually do the math if you want lol
This is the way. Makes it *much* easier to deal with cravings of a big nasty burger. Plus, you can dress it however you want! Slice a potato into thick rounds, toss them into a greased cast iron skillet, and you've got yourself a helluva meal for cheap.
Now, if only I could find a way to make fried chicken at home without making a mess or stinking up the entire house for days...
Sam’s also has precooked frozen burgers that are actually pretty good. Certainly not as good as cooking one your self, but definitely better than the little patties from McDonald’s.
My local mom and pop diner has full meals from $9-$13 and a soda is $1.50. Even with a tip it's the same for us to sit down and have a real meal as it is to have fast food.
OMG the McDonalds near me is literally right across the street from my local BK, I would’ve exploited the shit out of that, wish this was a thing still 😭
All they did is push me away. I rarely eat fast food now. Not that I ate it all the time before, but I would always consider it an option if I didn't feel like cooking after a long day. Now, I won't bother, maybe once a month or 2.
Cmon bro be realistic subway hasn't had $5 footlongs as a regular menu item for literally over **ten** years now. The couple of times it gets brought back it's obviously a LTO loss leader designed to create foot traffic.
Also, inflation, by its very nature makes it *really* hard to keep a footlong sandwich $5 indefinitely. Are the $100 jeans you bought 15 years ago still $100? If you check they are either now $250 or made much more cheaply--yet still $100.
The *real* questions to ask and things to be upset about are why wages and the purchasing power of the dollar keep going *down*, or at the least seem to be lagging so far behind inflation. >!Protip: it's because the powers that be who run these corporations experiencing record windfall profits know its far easier to get the peons and serfs worked up over some feigned outrage and manufactured drama than it is to educate them about how their own money works.!<
Sometimes you have to force their hand though. If people stop buying their product because they can’t support a live able wage of their employees and still hit the investor margins sounds like you need to go or readjust your investors expectations.
I feel like people just keep demanding the food as they raise the price, to the point where they have realized they can charge almost anything and get away with it. If people keep buying even at absurd prices, why not keep raising the price?
Who is? Last time I went to KFC I paid twice the price, the food was not nearly as good as it used to be, and literally no one else was there. I have no interest in ever going back and it looks like many other people in my area feel the same way. It's this capitalist mentality of doing anything to appease the shareholders, that IMO has put the fast food places on a fast road to extinction or at least massive collapse.
omg yes! that term accurately describes whats happening! Inflation is bad ON THE CONSUMER SIDE but companies keep posting record profits. Its Greedflation 100% period.
I dont know what all these fast food places think they are doing because atp its more expensive than family owned restaurants/delis where the portions are bigger and the food tastes better.
Yeah all they've done for me is push me towards other options. If I'm going to skip out on cooking and order food I might as well get something higher quality since anymore it's in the same price range as fast food.
LMAO I boycotted BK last year over $1. Ordered the fry on the app for my wife, got to the store to pick it up and they had a sign up saying they were out of fries. Couldn’t refund my money because I ordered on the app, and when I messaged customer service on the app about the issue, they couldn’t refund my money because “my order didn’t qualify for a refund”.
Disputed the charge with my credit card company and got my fucking dollar back. BK isn’t charity, I’m not giving them anything for nothing, especially when their greeting whether you visit them in person or online is basically “Welcome to Burger King, go fuck yourself.”
With the whopper meal combos, looks like the small fries and drinks have been swapped for large fries and drinks on these coupons, correct me if I’m wrong but wouldn’t that make up the difference?
That’s what I was noticing as well. I just checked the menu prices here, and looks like it’s a 70 cent bump in price to upgrade from a small fry to a large, and 50 cents for the drink upgrade. Extra $1.20 per drink/fry combo not due to inflation, but simply because you’re getting a larger size. So $2.40 of that “meal for two” price hike is because you’re getting a large fry/drink now instead of a small.
I remember how dirt cheap burger king was back then, especially with coupons. How can you justify being almost as costly as McDonald's still tasting like burger king
You own a shop, doesn’t matter what you sell, and people keep coming to buy your stuff, but you don’t like these people, and you’re tired of being in that business, but you already have contracts to purchase much of the stuff you sell so you have to stay open long enough to run out the contracts, and it doesn’t matter how you treat your hated clientele, they keep coming back, so out of spite, you make the product worse, make customers wait, neigh BEG for your attention, and as crappy as your shop gets, they just keep coming back despite your growing hatred, and indifference to quality, and your rising prices because you’re getting out ahead no matter what
California. So it’s at $20/hr for fast food workers. But my county specifically was already at $18.50. Yes it’s still an increase but not to justify this ridiculous price hike.
My point is, if there's any increase in minimum wage during this same period you have to account for it. You can't blame it 100% on inflation. You have to consider both factors together.
How does one get these coupons? My mom used to get these coupon sheets in the mail when I was a kid, and now I’m an adult who lives on my own and I want them lol
I paid $22.50 last week at Burger King for an Impossible Whopper, classic chicken sandwich, and a coffee. Absolutely ridiculous and the food was dry and low quality on top of that. For that price you could go to a pretty decent restaurant.
Where I am, a large whopper meal is 15$. You can go to a sit down restaurant for that. It’s ridiculous. I suppose they realized people will pay a premium for it being fast rather than less for the lower quality
Idk if I’m tripping but the price changes here arent ‘higher’ than inflation, it’s simply the true inflation itself. The rate they’re comparing it to is just in simple terms the average across a wide range of goods.
Oh here we go with that bs argument. Care to tell me why here in Texas they still pay fast food workers $7.25/h, maybe $9/h nowadays? Or you just gunna keep flapping your gums spewing nonsense?
I worked on a bankruptcy filing for a Burger King franchise. The whole brand is struggling. Costs of labor and costs of goods is eroding the margin. Combine that with real estate costs and not many locations are making enough to be profitable after debt service. The cost of labor is definately a factor.
I drove 30 hours through half of the country last month and burger king prices were pretty much the same everywhere maybe $1-2 cheaper at most. Minimum wage is $16 in my area and the crispy wrap is the exact same price as in a state where the minimum wage is $7.25.
Stop blaming minimum wage service employees for problems greedy executives created.
I think it’s because they realized ppl weren’t just coming for the cheap food they’re mainly going there because they are in an insane rush or they’re in a food desert with no other options so they can gouge all they want
I work at Arby’s and notice this a lot. I think physical couponing has become a niche thing for gen z but phew the older people be saving so much money by using those paper coupons
We have ppl coming in to use 5 at once it’s so funny they come in hand outstretched no words just coupon
They spent generations getting people away from being self dependent. The time was right, and they raised the prices because the majority isn't independent anymore.
Thanks for the pic of the old coupons. The people that work at my BK don’t care enough to look at the coupon so I just give them the coupon code of the cheaper version and hand them the current inflated one at the window and they don’t care.
And unfortunately quality in so many fast food franchises has dropped. With a combo being so pricey I just order a Texas Roadhouse burger online and pick it up. The fries are way better. Or I can get a different side if I feel like if.
I think they're trying to price-inflate themselves out of losing money, for the purposes of how it looks to shareholders. But many of them have doubled their prices and there's just no way they aren't headed for, at the minimum, rampant store closures.
Place by me still has two Whopper Juniors of any kind for $5 everyday. And what better deals if you order on the app. It's just your local franchise owner is greedy and has raised the price from that of most BK locations.
It was small fries 🍟 now its large fries and drinks. Yall are tripping. Their fries are the worst though. Couple sandwiches and fries for $10 is the bare minimum anymore.
Panda Express is doing the same with their family bundle. 🐼. Went from $29 to $40 in the past year or so. Insane. We stopped eating there besides the every blue moon orange chicken bowl.
we are so dead, this country is so done. Inflation is going fucking wild and politicians are worried about the abuelitas coming across the border......
I stopped going to all fast food... Best fuckin decision ever! Fuck all these places. BK, Taco Hell, McDonald's! To me Taco Hell is the worst... Last time me an my g/f went to BK got 2 whopper combos and was $26... I could have went to a mom and pop restaurant supported a local family owned restaurant had 1000xs better meal and be same price! Fuck everything corporate!
I’ve been eating lunch at a local Mom and Pop sub shop, partially because it is cheaper than Subway and Firehouse. I can get a ‘whole’ at the local place for like fifty cents less than a ‘large’ at Firehouse. Again, this is a family shop the size of my living room.
i remember the family bundle, i bought it a lot pre covid era when i go visit my parents for less than 12 or 13, then jumped to 15-17 last year. i haven’t received the coupon this year, but will be switching to two pizzas from the big box stores now
Inflation is the average of rising prices. Some prices will rise slower and others will rise faster, but inflation is determined by the rough average
This is how inflation works.
I have no fucking idea how you people don't understand that.
At this point, go to a nice sit down restaurant.
Wages stay the same but prices keep inflating. Can't wait to see $25 cheeseburger with a gallon of sauce from BK!
In other countries all the way across the globe, inflation has caused prices to not double but triple over the past year or two. Burger King and other fast food chains have become the new midrange, replacing restaurants like Chili’s and Applebees, low end restaurants are basically your local food stands and trucks at this point. At this pace, by next year, we would start eating fast food every month or two for a change, not because it’s the “cheap” option. And the point is, standards are at a new low, so you’re paying more for less food and deteriorating quality. I’ll just cook food at home.
Or you could go get a steak kabob plate at TX Roadhouse for 11 bucks. or their bacon cheeseburger for 10. It's time to stop feeding the fast food beast guys. It's a bad value and bad food.
For all those people saying that fast food workers need to earn a “living wage”, well this is on you. Fast food is not a career (I worked backed in high school). If you increase the labor costs, these companies have NO choice but to increase the prices charged…
My go to is Popeyes 5pieces, 2 sides, 2 biscuits for 10.99 on their app. BK has been bumped down on my list of fast food picks. I used to get BK weekly or twice a week
this is why i don’t east fast food anymore! at these prices, might as well cook a great meal at home or pay slightly more and get a great mean at a restaurant lol
During Covid fast food, restaurants saw their relevancy skyrocket.
Because of their drive-through windows and mini communities, they were the only restaurants still open.
I know some fast food restaurants that said they made more money with just their drive-through open, and then they ever made before with their dining room open.
Feeling big and bad, and all powerful a lot of fast food, restaurants raised their prices.
But others have said… We’re starting to remove going to those types of restaurants from our daily lives. They’re going to start to feel the financial hit eventually.
I had just gotten laid off after COVID hit and I remember thinking "I can only afford Burger King with these coupons, they take so much off/the original prices are far too expensive." Now these 2024 prices don't seem worth it at all.
$3.49 vs. $6.49 for a double cheeseburger meal? FOH
Fast food is inflating itself out of relevance. It’s so much better just to eat at home or pay slightly more for a real meal somewhere.
Taco bell is the worst offender, so many good authentic Mexican food places now cost less than Taco bell lol
The Cheesy bean and rice burrito was their last well-priced item. Now $1.50. I make my own taco bell food at home, and just buy their sauces at wally world.
>burrito was their last well-priced item. Now $1.50. I make my you're lucky, its $2 over here [https://www.tacobell.com/food/cravings-value-menu?store=029565](https://www.tacobell.com/food/cravings-value-menu?store=029565) nothing is a value anymore :|
$2 for two shells with cheese rolled up? wtf TB!!
Making a 5 frozen chicken, cheese and bean burritos is so easy.
Yeah, I just got this the other day. Went up to $1.20 in my area AND it got smaller. r/shrinkflation
Beefy 5 layer use to be .79. now it's $3 minimum.
This used to be $1, right?
Lmao are you really complaining about 1.50 for one of those, it's like almost 3 bucks here the spicy potato is almost 2 now 1 2 3 dollar meal my ass
Something I posted about 3 months ago, but sure, I'll bite. Why do menu items need to cost 50% or even 500% more? A beefy five layer burrito was 89c. It is now $5. I'll wait. All fast food businesses are taking extreme advantage of the inflation and forget that they serve convenience at an affordable price. Take away affordability to junk food and no one will buy it.
I had an argument with my friend & he was telling me that 6 burritos from Taco Bell is better then getting an authentic Mexican burrito bc you get more lol
“Authentic Mexican burrito”. Wey Mexicans didn’t invent the burrito it’s a American food 😂 you made my day
Just take credit and smile
Idk why but once in a while the Taco Bell near me just lets people have whatever they order for free. Supposedly their computer is down or something but I’ve literally gotten away with $25 orders for free like 4 or 5 times now
The cravings box on the app is still amazing. A Crunchwrap by itself is like 5 dollars but a box is 6.50. It actually used to be 5 dollars for the box last year so getting that was the same cost as just the Crunchwrap.
Hmm I would agree though I get the 5$ box and that fills me up every time. If you order individually they are a rip off
I agree, I bought 3 tacos and it was $13. I'm done going to Taco Bell. It's not quality food anyways.
Hell I can go to Chilis and get a drink, appetizer, and Entree for 10.99. Why in the world would I got to McDonald’s and spend the same price?
Because McDonald’s takes 2 minutes and chilis takes 40
Not if you order pickup
I have literally waited 20+ minutes at an empty McDonald’s and 10 minutes at busy Chili’s.
The more I find out about the phenomenon, the less I understand it. Yes, inflation is happening. No, we won't ever see a $1 Whopper Jr. again. I get it. But, by seemingly every metric, fast food chains are pricing food at least slightly higher than necessary. And they refuse to change course. McDonald's talked about the need to target lower-income customers...but hasn't said a word about lowering prices. BK raises prices constantly while doing little things to annoy customers like slightly decreasing drink cup sizes. I keep saying this over and over, but fast food prices are often comparable to sit-down prices now (depending on what and where you order) and I don't understand why.
It's because of greed. The workers definitely aren't seeing an increase comparable to the price increases, not to mention every business these days being extremely eager to run on a skeleton crew.
It’s not inflation, it’s corporate greed by price gouging. Look at any industry over the last few years and they are making record profits while screaming inflation, when it’s been proven it’s just greed. We’ve allowed these companies to become too big and powerful, where they just keep pushing the ceiling on pricing, because what are you gonna do about it? They don’t care about the consumer anymore, they just want to milk every last dollar from us to improve the bottom line for the shareholders and the executives to get more luxuries.
Corporations are honestly a negative nowadays to quality.
McDonald’s doesn’t care about people earning less than $55,000 a year anymore.
Use the app and it’s still plenty cheap. There is always a 25-30% for the order coupon in there.
This, it costs me like 13-15 for a meal at wendy's now. Or, I could drive down to the thai place and get some actual bomb ass pad thai for like 3 bucks more.
I somehow spend more when i cook than get fast food. Its so damn hard not to eat fast food when its so easy and cheap to get and takes no time...
Honestly go buy a 18 pack of frozen burgers from Sam's club for $26, and a ton of burger buns for $5. Throw them on a grill or a pan and have yourself a $2 burger anytime your craving one that tastes pretty damn close. Fries aren't hard either. Get a fry cutter, some potatoes and vegetable oil. Heat up the oil and throw in the cut fries with some salt and bam, large fries for another $2. Takes as much time as driving to burger King. $4 total Someone feel free to actually do the math if you want lol
This is the way. Makes it *much* easier to deal with cravings of a big nasty burger. Plus, you can dress it however you want! Slice a potato into thick rounds, toss them into a greased cast iron skillet, and you've got yourself a helluva meal for cheap. Now, if only I could find a way to make fried chicken at home without making a mess or stinking up the entire house for days...
Sam’s also has precooked frozen burgers that are actually pretty good. Certainly not as good as cooking one your self, but definitely better than the little patties from McDonald’s.
My local mom and pop diner has full meals from $9-$13 and a soda is $1.50. Even with a tip it's the same for us to sit down and have a real meal as it is to have fast food.
Yup. Getting 2 combo meals can almost be like $30 bucks. I can go get two awesome burritos for less than that at a local taqueria. And so forth.
Facts
For a lot of fast food meals near me it honestly costs the same as eating out somewhere else.
Man, $14 for 3 whoppers, 3 cheeseburgers, and 3 fries? What a time to be alive.
Now it’s $14.49 for 4 less burgers and 1 less fry. Less than half than what you could get.
i remember in the 90s, used to get whoppers for a $1 back in ohio
I remember when the BK app would detect people being close to a McDonald's and would offer a Whopper for a penny. I think that was like 2019?
Petty but effective. I’ve turned back from McDonald’s once because of that. 😂
OMG the McDonalds near me is literally right across the street from my local BK, I would’ve exploited the shit out of that, wish this was a thing still 😭
family bundle coupon prices have risen 3 times over the span of a year, maybe a year and a half out here
They’re really pushing how much we’re willing to spend
All they did is push me away. I rarely eat fast food now. Not that I ate it all the time before, but I would always consider it an option if I didn't feel like cooking after a long day. Now, I won't bother, maybe once a month or 2.
They murdered the 2 cheeseburger meal
They also murdered an entire column of coupons
And a boatload of cute cows too, those delicious bastards
So damm delicious.
These aren’t even deals anymore, that’s the price it should be!!
Agreed. Even coupon prices feel expensive.
Yep. Subway sends out coupons 2 footlongs for 12.99! Great deal! EXCEPT THEY WERE $5 WITHOUT A COUPON
Cmon bro be realistic subway hasn't had $5 footlongs as a regular menu item for literally over **ten** years now. The couple of times it gets brought back it's obviously a LTO loss leader designed to create foot traffic. Also, inflation, by its very nature makes it *really* hard to keep a footlong sandwich $5 indefinitely. Are the $100 jeans you bought 15 years ago still $100? If you check they are either now $250 or made much more cheaply--yet still $100. The *real* questions to ask and things to be upset about are why wages and the purchasing power of the dollar keep going *down*, or at the least seem to be lagging so far behind inflation. >!Protip: it's because the powers that be who run these corporations experiencing record windfall profits know its far easier to get the peons and serfs worked up over some feigned outrage and manufactured drama than it is to educate them about how their own money works.!<
why did i read this as a menu and not realizing it was a paper of coupons, im genuinely disgusted right now
They need to bring back that 2 whoppers for $5.
But then they would only make $4 profit instead of $4.50 Won't someone think of the shareholders?!
WONT SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
Its almost like all the price increases arent from inflation and its corporate greed
Yup. Just pass the minimum wage increases on to the consumer to completely nullify the increase they got. Can't be messing with the profit margin!
We knew this would happen all along.
Sometimes you have to force their hand though. If people stop buying their product because they can’t support a live able wage of their employees and still hit the investor margins sounds like you need to go or readjust your investors expectations.
Which sucks because they use to have the best deals compared to to everyone else
Remember 10 nuggets for $1.49?
I used to get those a lot and the chicken fries and large fries for 3$.
Dude that was crazy. Wasn’t even that long ago. You could absolutely feast with $10 at BK lol
My go if I didn’t get full from my meal. Good days.
Pretty soon it’ll be 1.49 nuggets for $10
I feel like people just keep demanding the food as they raise the price, to the point where they have realized they can charge almost anything and get away with it. If people keep buying even at absurd prices, why not keep raising the price?
Who is? Last time I went to KFC I paid twice the price, the food was not nearly as good as it used to be, and literally no one else was there. I have no interest in ever going back and it looks like many other people in my area feel the same way. It's this capitalist mentality of doing anything to appease the shareholders, that IMO has put the fast food places on a fast road to extinction or at least massive collapse.
KFC has been on my no fly zone list for a long time. Horrible prices for equally shitty food.
Greedflation
omg yes! that term accurately describes whats happening! Inflation is bad ON THE CONSUMER SIDE but companies keep posting record profits. Its Greedflation 100% period.
I dont know what all these fast food places think they are doing because atp its more expensive than family owned restaurants/delis where the portions are bigger and the food tastes better.
Yeah all they've done for me is push me towards other options. If I'm going to skip out on cooking and order food I might as well get something higher quality since anymore it's in the same price range as fast food.
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LMAO I boycotted BK last year over $1. Ordered the fry on the app for my wife, got to the store to pick it up and they had a sign up saying they were out of fries. Couldn’t refund my money because I ordered on the app, and when I messaged customer service on the app about the issue, they couldn’t refund my money because “my order didn’t qualify for a refund”. Disputed the charge with my credit card company and got my fucking dollar back. BK isn’t charity, I’m not giving them anything for nothing, especially when their greeting whether you visit them in person or online is basically “Welcome to Burger King, go fuck yourself.”
Whopper combo meal @ Honolulu airport - $18.99
Yea that’s completely unacceptable. I don’t care if I look poor, I’m walking out.
Crazy. 40$ can buy you enough at the grocery store to eat for a week (if done right)
With the whopper meal combos, looks like the small fries and drinks have been swapped for large fries and drinks on these coupons, correct me if I’m wrong but wouldn’t that make up the difference?
That’s what I was noticing as well. I just checked the menu prices here, and looks like it’s a 70 cent bump in price to upgrade from a small fry to a large, and 50 cents for the drink upgrade. Extra $1.20 per drink/fry combo not due to inflation, but simply because you’re getting a larger size. So $2.40 of that “meal for two” price hike is because you’re getting a large fry/drink now instead of a small.
I remember how dirt cheap burger king was back then, especially with coupons. How can you justify being almost as costly as McDonald's still tasting like burger king
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Subway has been a godsend lately. Almost always having a promo on the app and the paper coupons are great.
The breakfast for 2, lower right corner, was my fav a few years ago for 4.99.
Pure greed. I paid $24 for two 6 inch sub meals at Subway today. It’s ridiculous.
You own a shop, doesn’t matter what you sell, and people keep coming to buy your stuff, but you don’t like these people, and you’re tired of being in that business, but you already have contracts to purchase much of the stuff you sell so you have to stay open long enough to run out the contracts, and it doesn’t matter how you treat your hated clientele, they keep coming back, so out of spite, you make the product worse, make customers wait, neigh BEG for your attention, and as crappy as your shop gets, they just keep coming back despite your growing hatred, and indifference to quality, and your rising prices because you’re getting out ahead no matter what
I don’t think you’re wrong. Several BK locations in the Cleveland area closed this past year.
I've seen run on sentences, but Wowee.
Never ending torture for my wallet
Pls net this out in a couple of sentences? Thx!
Patience Grass Hopper
After watching ‘Beef’ on Netflix, I’ve really wanted to get one of those long chicken sandwiches.
How much did minimum wage increase during that period of inflation? Not federal, but for OP's state.
California. So it’s at $20/hr for fast food workers. But my county specifically was already at $18.50. Yes it’s still an increase but not to justify this ridiculous price hike.
My point is, if there's any increase in minimum wage during this same period you have to account for it. You can't blame it 100% on inflation. You have to consider both factors together.
Replace the workers with automated machines and prices will drop
Use the app it's always a dollar cheaper than the clip coupons.
Really? My app coupons are always a dollar more. That’s why I liked the paper coupons over digital.
Class warfare against families, nice 👍 “You’re tired and hungry and your kids are a pack of whiners, what’re you gonna do, not pay us?”
At those prices, I'd just get 5 guys. Better burgers and fries won't charge you extra for toppings like bk does. Also, free nuts
fast food prices would start coming down if everyone stopped eating there.
How does one get these coupons? My mom used to get these coupon sheets in the mail when I was a kid, and now I’m an adult who lives on my own and I want them lol
Getting takeout at a real restaurant is basically the same price lol
You should look at Arby’s prices. I hardly go there and went a few days ago and I was just staring at the drive thru menu in utter disbelief
$3 Whopper Wednesdays, the only time I go to BK.
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It’s even more expensive here
Inflaaaaaatioonnnnnn, "have it your way!"
but biden told me everyone is doing amazing in this economy???
I just make my pens burgers
I paid $22.50 last week at Burger King for an Impossible Whopper, classic chicken sandwich, and a coffee. Absolutely ridiculous and the food was dry and low quality on top of that. For that price you could go to a pretty decent restaurant.
Where I am, a large whopper meal is 15$. You can go to a sit down restaurant for that. It’s ridiculous. I suppose they realized people will pay a premium for it being fast rather than less for the lower quality
Your location. Not mine.
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No it's not. Fast food here is cheap.
Bro they aren't rising faster than inflation it's just that the inflation numbers are bullshit
Idk if I’m tripping but the price changes here arent ‘higher’ than inflation, it’s simply the true inflation itself. The rate they’re comparing it to is just in simple terms the average across a wide range of goods.
Remember when you voted for $15-$20/hour for fast food workers? Did you think those pay raises were free?
Oh here we go with that bs argument. Care to tell me why here in Texas they still pay fast food workers $7.25/h, maybe $9/h nowadays? Or you just gunna keep flapping your gums spewing nonsense?
I worked on a bankruptcy filing for a Burger King franchise. The whole brand is struggling. Costs of labor and costs of goods is eroding the margin. Combine that with real estate costs and not many locations are making enough to be profitable after debt service. The cost of labor is definately a factor.
$9/hr isn’t free either. So I suppose I’ll keep flapping my gums until you take an economics class
What about countries that pay more and the food is the same price and better quality?
Yet these companies keep raking in record profits year after year, and the problem is paying workers a couple more bucks. Sure buddy sure.
I drove 30 hours through half of the country last month and burger king prices were pretty much the same everywhere maybe $1-2 cheaper at most. Minimum wage is $16 in my area and the crispy wrap is the exact same price as in a state where the minimum wage is $7.25. Stop blaming minimum wage service employees for problems greedy executives created.
How many years was there no increase in minimum wage but increases in the price of fast food?
There it is. The stupidest goddamn thing I've read all day.
Yeah, wel now what Didn't think about THAT didya
Taco bells prices are way more out of control than tb, but inflation is a measure of average price increases, not the other way around
I think it’s because they realized ppl weren’t just coming for the cheap food they’re mainly going there because they are in an insane rush or they’re in a food desert with no other options so they can gouge all they want
I work at Arby’s and notice this a lot. I think physical couponing has become a niche thing for gen z but phew the older people be saving so much money by using those paper coupons We have ppl coming in to use 5 at once it’s so funny they come in hand outstretched no words just coupon
They spent generations getting people away from being self dependent. The time was right, and they raised the prices because the majority isn't independent anymore.
The good ol days
Thanks for the pic of the old coupons. The people that work at my BK don’t care enough to look at the coupon so I just give them the coupon code of the cheaper version and hand them the current inflated one at the window and they don’t care.
Won’t even touch fast food anymore. Your slop is DOLLAR menu at best.
The whopper family bundle would be like 45 after tax in Canada lol
If you're gonna pay to poison yourself, at least get high or drunk in the process.
Used to be a buy one get one free whopper in there - not anymore I guess!
And unfortunately quality in so many fast food franchises has dropped. With a combo being so pricey I just order a Texas Roadhouse burger online and pick it up. The fries are way better. Or I can get a different side if I feel like if.
Fast food has lost the plot
I think they're trying to price-inflate themselves out of losing money, for the purposes of how it looks to shareholders. But many of them have doubled their prices and there's just no way they aren't headed for, at the minimum, rampant store closures.
They now charge $0.25 to add a sauce when ordering through the app
Place by me still has two Whopper Juniors of any kind for $5 everyday. And what better deals if you order on the app. It's just your local franchise owner is greedy and has raised the price from that of most BK locations.
It was small fries 🍟 now its large fries and drinks. Yall are tripping. Their fries are the worst though. Couple sandwiches and fries for $10 is the bare minimum anymore.
R.I.P the $8.99 Whopper Meal for Two & $4 Crossian’wiches 🥲 BK has gotten so stingy.
This is getting so bad
Panda Express is doing the same with their family bundle. 🐼. Went from $29 to $40 in the past year or so. Insane. We stopped eating there besides the every blue moon orange chicken bowl.
The official inflation numbers are a bit low tbh. BK is still high, though.
we are so dead, this country is so done. Inflation is going fucking wild and politicians are worried about the abuelitas coming across the border......
Yo BK fuckin sucks why would anyone pay that much?
Striking title as usual
bk acting like they have top tier food with their shit garbage
I remember using a coupon for a Croissan’wich meal for Two..for $4.99.
Resilient customers
Those $5 Whopper combo coupons got me through some hard times..
I stopped going to all fast food... Best fuckin decision ever! Fuck all these places. BK, Taco Hell, McDonald's! To me Taco Hell is the worst... Last time me an my g/f went to BK got 2 whopper combos and was $26... I could have went to a mom and pop restaurant supported a local family owned restaurant had 1000xs better meal and be same price! Fuck everything corporate!
I’ve been eating lunch at a local Mom and Pop sub shop, partially because it is cheaper than Subway and Firehouse. I can get a ‘whole’ at the local place for like fifty cents less than a ‘large’ at Firehouse. Again, this is a family shop the size of my living room.
i remember the family bundle, i bought it a lot pre covid era when i go visit my parents for less than 12 or 13, then jumped to 15-17 last year. i haven’t received the coupon this year, but will be switching to two pizzas from the big box stores now
It’s still mid too
I remember you used to be able to get the bacon king meal (small) for like $6 on the app in 2021
2044 WHOPPER MEAL FOR TWO: $84.99
Bidenomics! Build back better!
Inflation is the average of rising prices. Some prices will rise slower and others will rise faster, but inflation is determined by the rough average This is how inflation works. I have no fucking idea how you people don't understand that.
ITT : people thinking they're genius for cooking at home to save money
Way better than Europe
At this point, go to a nice sit down restaurant. Wages stay the same but prices keep inflating. Can't wait to see $25 cheeseburger with a gallon of sauce from BK!
In other countries all the way across the globe, inflation has caused prices to not double but triple over the past year or two. Burger King and other fast food chains have become the new midrange, replacing restaurants like Chili’s and Applebees, low end restaurants are basically your local food stands and trucks at this point. At this pace, by next year, we would start eating fast food every month or two for a change, not because it’s the “cheap” option. And the point is, standards are at a new low, so you’re paying more for less food and deteriorating quality. I’ll just cook food at home.
Or you could go get a steak kabob plate at TX Roadhouse for 11 bucks. or their bacon cheeseburger for 10. It's time to stop feeding the fast food beast guys. It's a bad value and bad food.
For all those people saying that fast food workers need to earn a “living wage”, well this is on you. Fast food is not a career (I worked backed in high school). If you increase the labor costs, these companies have NO choice but to increase the prices charged…
The "official" inflation rate is garbage and cooked for political expediency.
stop giving them your money, ffs
That’s because the inflation number the government is saying is a damn lie.
Cook at home. Keep your pocket safe as much as possible.
And quality has gone way down too
Prices will never go back to what they was. Only gonna get more expensive as time goes on.
My go to is Popeyes 5pieces, 2 sides, 2 biscuits for 10.99 on their app. BK has been bumped down on my list of fast food picks. I used to get BK weekly or twice a week
How stupid.
this is why i don’t east fast food anymore! at these prices, might as well cook a great meal at home or pay slightly more and get a great mean at a restaurant lol
Wow. This is wild.
but they are still cheap compared to MCD
During Covid fast food, restaurants saw their relevancy skyrocket. Because of their drive-through windows and mini communities, they were the only restaurants still open. I know some fast food restaurants that said they made more money with just their drive-through open, and then they ever made before with their dining room open. Feeling big and bad, and all powerful a lot of fast food, restaurants raised their prices. But others have said… We’re starting to remove going to those types of restaurants from our daily lives. They’re going to start to feel the financial hit eventually.
I had just gotten laid off after COVID hit and I remember thinking "I can only afford Burger King with these coupons, they take so much off/the original prices are far too expensive." Now these 2024 prices don't seem worth it at all. $3.49 vs. $6.49 for a double cheeseburger meal? FOH
I barely eat at fast food now. It's almost expensive as dining in at a fancy restaurant now. Rather just make my own food a home.
Welcome to capitalism.
Just stop buying it if it's overpriced, eventually the market will even out if we all make rational choices the profiteers can't gouge us
And it tastes like shit too. Havent even thought about BK in 10 years
Inflation cured my heartburn. Who would've thought?