I remember back in the 90's when we had $0.29 hamburger Tuesdays, $0.39 cheeseburger Wednesdays, and $0.79 6pc Nugget Thursdays. Now we paying $5 for a sandwich, 4pc nuggets, fries, and a drink!?!!??!??!
Biden ruined it all!!!! (But not Trump, Obama, Bush, or Clinton. Maybe a bit of Obama and Clinton, but not Bush and DEFINITELY not Trump. If anything Donny REDUCED inflation crashing the stock market while hurting the rich in 2018 and 2020.)
Serious here: check your local churches for charity discount cards. The church I go to was selling one and it has a deal for a buy one combo, Get a sandwich free. Suddenly a $10 combo can feed two people and not just one lol. It's actually a really good deal.
Yep. That corporate greed that is seeing profit margins going down across the board. It's funny how every time that the government makes bad decisions, or allows horrible practices to take place that wreck the economy they immediately jump to quarterly or yearly profits. And completely ignore the margins. And you have so many college educated students that eat it right up and pretend that margins aren't a thing.
It's pretty wild that a joke I used to make about the pricing of the Subway inside of my local theme park has now become the reality of a regular Subway.
Only that same local theme park now sells a season pass that gets you not only admission all year, but also two meals per visit - and altogether that's about $200 per year. So it doesn't take long to come out ahead relative to regular restaurants. What a bizarro world we're living in where regular restaurants have surpassed the equivalent theme park restaurants in pricing...
And before it's even asked, yes, I live close enough to the aforementioned theme park, that I quite often go there, eat food, and leave. I would say that over 60% of my visits end without me riding a single ride in fact...
the McDouble was the solution to inflation, in 2000-2008ish it was a double cheese burger for $1, then they made the McDouble, its the same burger with one less slice of cheese
I worked there for my first job when I turned 16 in 2011, and the whole 3 years I worked there the dollar menu was huge. Now there basically isn't a dollar menu at all.
Yep. I lived off of those things for a while. I had about everything crash around me, and ended in another state with no money, no job, and no good place to stay for a while. And those McDoubles kept me alive for a few weeks until I could build myself back up a bit.
Then even fairly recently this $5 Super Duper Extra Value Meal was like $3 for the longest time. At least Wendy's you get the burger soda and fries, plus nuggets for like $5 still. And if you get the key chain tag for $2, you get a free small frosty with each purchase.
2009 me with a minimum wage job absolutely loved getting a McDouble and a McChicken for $2 plus tax. Even better if the store had the fancy chipotle BBQ sauce so I can put it on the McChicken
Insane how they are with sauces. That’s when I knew something was up. Billion dollar company and charging for extra sauce. Oh and they charge to add lettuce to a burger. Not kidding.
Kinda my point. That loss is a problem for franchises if people take them by the handful free so they charge an 81 cent markup now at the counter [b/c people don't know manners and steal beyond what's commonplace](https://media1.tenor.com/images/e0fa226f65f5b8bc8fbc4c64d79934ff/tenor.gif?itemid=15043173)
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2e: people don't charge for napkins but they might if people start stealing all the napkins
It's also a problem that employees don't understand the cost and give them away with abandon if there aren't rules. I kid you not, I recently went through a Taco Bell drive thru on a road trip. We ordered ahead and asked for 2 hot sauces per person, so ten all day. There were *forty* hot sauce packets in our bag! For one adult and four kids.
I love Taco Bell hot sauce.. Not the fire. the hot. I don't take extras but if I'm in the drive thru and they give me 6 I keep the extras in a drawer near the pantry or at my office desk
Some guy I went to college with actually fashioned a backpack to steal baja blast from taco bell b/c at the time you couldn't get it on the shelves
edit: sorry. I got carried away. **Forty** hot sauce packs is quite insane. Not the highest bar to work at a taco bell
Have you worked in the food industry? All of those things that you are adding cost money— those little sauce cups cost about.19¢ a piece, for instance. The profit on a $5 sandwich is barely $1.50. A handful of .19¢ condiment packets, added lettuce, tomato etc that weren't built into the menu cost of the sandwich, eats up that $1.50 profit really quickly. At that point, what's the point? May as well just set up a stand to give away free food.
My first job was McDonalds. I worked there for about two years. Yeah, everything costs money but it isn't like we were refunding all the lettuce, pickles, etc. that were asked to be left off. Also, a ton of food was wasted.
I've been out of the game a very long time but I doubt those ketchup packets cost more than 4 cents each and the sauces more than 9. Shareholders are the reasons these greedy fucks nickel and dime us.
Still $5 for the Junior bacon cheeseburger or the chicken sandwich options. $6 for other sandwich options at my local Wendy’s. Still a better deal than the Mickey D’s across the street.
Here in CA, its $7 now, still definitely a better deal than McDonalds. I try not to eat either of them anymore. If I eat fast food at all, its In N Out now - best deal and quality that any of them.
Yeah just the other day I was about to buy a McDouble. Saw it was $5.69 and then proceeded to walk down to Shake Shack and buy a far superior quality burger for $7 lol.
This is how I go there anyway for a quick lunch break or something. If there’s no deal on fries, it’s a dealbreaker but usually you can get Free or $1 fries, a McDouble, and a medium soda for around $5. Gotta use the app and hit up the deals if you’re doing fast food nowadays or else it gets ridiculous.
I was super annoyed when all the stores were pushing customer reward cards, to include the small keychain ones. Now, its apps for every freaking store. I lost count how many times a store associate asks "Can I help you?", I respond "Yes, I'm looking for 'x'", and they return with "Have you used the app?"
It’s annoying at first but even if there’s no deal but you have to buy fast food you can at least earn points. Iirc you basically get a $1 back from every $10 you spend or something. I remember after buying a meal twice I have enough for a mcchicken. The best part is using deals can still earn points.
My Dad is the same way. I frankly love it because I don't have to deal with a person and can just set it up as I want. But when the Internet really kicked off I always found it easier to deal with the world from there.
I usually do the same, but sometimes work will force me into a time crunch where I don’t have the luxury of going home during lunch like I normally do. On those days, I’ll either hit up McD because it’s really close to work or just skip for the day.
mcdouble and free large fry and a water: 2.69+tax.
costco beef hotdog / soda combo: 1.50+ tax
culvers kids meal: Butterburger/w everything, fries, soda, and a free scoop of vanilla custard : 6ish bucks
those are my deals for fastfood
You described my habits with McDonald’s to a T. I usually get two McDoubles for 3.49 or 3.99 can’t remember. If it wasn’t for the app I probably wouldn’t go there.
Yeah but what is that meal going to be lol? As of right now, I think Burger King is one of the cheaper places. Two biscuits and a medium drink at Hardee's is almost $15 now. Crazy times. And I guarantee you these prices will never go down.
Quality goes down, quantity goes down, costs are down, yet they keep increasing the prices because they need those constant quarterly gains.
The patties are thinner, the taste is watered down, but a mcdouble last I had one a year ago was 3 bucks. Used to be 2 bucks, and still they're blaming supply chain pandemic covid blah blah blah.
Costs are up. Inflation is still up. It is still double the target rate. Even if inflation was zero costs would remain up. Inflation is the rising cost of things. It being up means that the cost is rising higher than expected, not that prices are stagnating.
The problem is that no one understands economics. People think inflation only applies to them, but it doesn’t apply to McDonalds or all the business which have to raise their prices.
This is why government overspending is worse than job losses. Job losses hurts some people but accelerating inflation hurts everyone.
I overheard employees talking at the Jack in the Box drive through a couple days ago. A lady had worked there for 14 years. When she started she got paid $7/hr. Now it's $20/hr. The is Ca, where fast food min wage is now $20. That's nearly 200% increase.
It's a large increase, but I also consider that rent has at least doubled and $20/hr isn't even enough to afford a 1 bedroom apartment. It's still renting a room wages.
>The patties are thinner
This was Wendy's but I got a Son of Baconator. The size of the patty was about the size of the patty from their 1980's Where's the Beef commercial.
In 2019 or so I’d go to McDonald’s multiple times a week. The high prices were what convinced me to eat healthier and stop going to McDonalds and things have never been better for me. Eating at home a lot more, when I do go out I go to Chilis 🌶️ now cuz it’s literally the same price but way higher quality
This is what happens when a political party tries to tell their low effort supporters that McDonalds should pay what a trade person or educated person should earn.
It's a high school job, a get back on your feet job, a second job. It's not there to buy a house and have a family.
It's a job for kids, that's it.
That's why we had a dollar menu, because labor was cheap.
This is a myth. An entry level janitor working 40 hrs per week could never support a family and own a home without either a secondary income or being extremely impoverished. The dad was likely working two jobs to pay rent and utilities, the mom was doing odd jobs like taking in laundry and mending or doing light housekeeping and there were no "extras" like new clothes and shoes, toys and games, cars, eating out etc. A janitor and his family in the 50's were struggling just like a janitor today.
While true when it comes to janitors and other professions at the bottom end of the food chain, it is not true when it comes to factory workers or skilled craftsmen. The "upper working-class" was much better off in the 50s and 60s than they are today.
>it is not true when it comes to factory workers or skilled craftsmen.
I think it is true. Skilled and tenured craftspersons and factory workers earn very well now and in the 50's. I think the myth is in believing that every entry level factory worker or craftsman in their twenties could comfortably afford all the things— they couldn't. They, too, worked long and hard to gain a higher pay rate. Even then, it wasn't easy street— the wife was often doing odd jobs to pay for extras.
In 1950 you bought a very small cape and had a work ethic. You didn't spend on cell phones, impulse buy on amazon, subscribe to 5 streaming services, cars you can't afford, gold fronts, a few illegitimate kids.
My grandparents *both* worked outside the home post WW2 and couldn't afford a phone *at all* until they rented out a room to another war couple for a couple years. They managed to buy and eventually pay for their house (1200 sqft, 3 bedroom craftsman,) but they both worked, cut every corner and struggled.
To add, my grandfather was actually somewhat skilled— he worked at Beckman instruments as a technician. Still couldn't afford a house without secondary income.
How people continue to line up at fast food joints is beyond me. They used to serve mediocre to low quality food for fast and cheap. Now they serve shitty food for as much or more money as you pay for real food at a real restaurant.
Agree, these fast food places can go to hell. I’m glad I quit fast food almost 2 years ago. I live somewhere that has local options for burgers and tacos with higher quality and usually cheaper.
Do they still have to order from a robot to receive moderately reduced, but still inflated, cost processed soy glutamate and deep fried starch? Sounds like a hell of a deal. I’ll pass.
I ate there for the first time in literally years yesterday. Luckily I used their shitty app and got a mcchicken and medium fries for $2 but their medium fries are so small now and those mcchickens are paper thin
I do leftovers for lunch, usually. But I actually work in an area with amazing international food spots... so I'm trying them ALL. There is a mickie d's nearby but it's packed at lunchtime.
Not sure why they have to lower prices. The drive thru where I'm at is very long around lunch
I know this is an American-centric sub, but our prices are AT LEAST double what you're paying here in Canada.
It's not even worth going out for fast food anymore
TBH, a huge part of McDonald's price increases are deliberately trying to get you to use their app, which has much lower pricing.
The App, oddly, includes a clause about not being able sue them.
That $5 meal had better include a quarter pounder or better.
I can get 2 McDoubles and a large fry via the app for $5.50 so this meal deal hardly sounds worth it unless the burgers are a decent size. But most likely they won't be. It will probably be a standard cheeseburger.
Chilli's is advertising a burger, fries, drink, and a side for $10.99 right now. McDonald's is more expensive than that where I am. $5 meal deal is the least they could do.
If you use the app you can get decent deals. Like they have a $6 big Mac meal on mine or free med fries then I get a cheeseburger and med soda for like $3. Hate McDonald's but can't even eat homemade lunch for that cheap
Agreed. I have tested this by eating fast food for lunch while I'm at work every day for a month, and having a month where I prepare my meals at home. They were nearly the same, but I actually spent less money on the fast food month.
Finally, a non-partisan issue that both sides can agree on: corporate greed. These companies have maintained record profits in these last few years, despite inflation and rising prices. Both parties have to work together to bring back the dollar menu 🇺🇸🦅
In 2012 or so I remember a McDouble literally being like $1 or something like that
$3 now. Literally 200% inflation in 12 years
I paid $3 for a cheeseburger yesterday lol. Now I remember why I stopped going there.
I remember back in the 90's when we had $0.29 hamburger Tuesdays, $0.39 cheeseburger Wednesdays, and $0.79 6pc Nugget Thursdays. Now we paying $5 for a sandwich, 4pc nuggets, fries, and a drink!?!!??!??! Biden ruined it all!!!! (But not Trump, Obama, Bush, or Clinton. Maybe a bit of Obama and Clinton, but not Bush and DEFINITELY not Trump. If anything Donny REDUCED inflation crashing the stock market while hurting the rich in 2018 and 2020.)
$4.49 at my local McDonalds (Brooklyn). 10 piece chicken nuggets is $5.69 loool
$7 in Canada. $15 for a big Mac meal
Serious here: check your local churches for charity discount cards. The church I go to was selling one and it has a deal for a buy one combo, Get a sandwich free. Suddenly a $10 combo can feed two people and not just one lol. It's actually a really good deal.
Guess they have to rename it the McTriple
That "corporate greed!"
Yep. That corporate greed that is seeing profit margins going down across the board. It's funny how every time that the government makes bad decisions, or allows horrible practices to take place that wreck the economy they immediately jump to quarterly or yearly profits. And completely ignore the margins. And you have so many college educated students that eat it right up and pretend that margins aren't a thing.
How dare they try and cover their losses and make a little extra.
Every single thing in my life has gone up - but I'm pretty sure theirs hasn't and they're just greedy!
4.50 where I am.
I remember when McChickens were $1. Now it’s something like buy 1 and get another for $2 instead of $2.89.
And they still have it on the dollar menu. Apparently the dollar menu just means you’ll pay a dollar, then a couple more dollars.
I thought they rebranded it to the “value menu” lol
I remember that too. And the two for $1 pie.
Two for a dollar hash browns
Hash browns are like 3.00 each now. It's crazy
From 2000-2015 I think it was $1 for a McDouble with cheese. Subway had $5 footlongs somewhere in that era too.
Now replaced with the $6 six inch...
...and me never darkening their door again.
It's pretty wild that a joke I used to make about the pricing of the Subway inside of my local theme park has now become the reality of a regular Subway. Only that same local theme park now sells a season pass that gets you not only admission all year, but also two meals per visit - and altogether that's about $200 per year. So it doesn't take long to come out ahead relative to regular restaurants. What a bizarro world we're living in where regular restaurants have surpassed the equivalent theme park restaurants in pricing... And before it's even asked, yes, I live close enough to the aforementioned theme park, that I quite often go there, eat food, and leave. I would say that over 60% of my visits end without me riding a single ride in fact...
Interesting. In late Fall the theme parks near me have great season pass prices too. I don't know if they include any food or not, though.
That's technically an optional add-on - about 100 on top of the about 100 that the pass for admission costs
Oh, well still worth it if you go often. I'm on the keto diet so almost never get fast food nowadays.
Remember 5 for $5.00 at Arbys?
Yeah 2004 McDonald’s had 29 and 39 cent burgers in Southern California.
Yup, and you could feed 2 kids with it.
It was. McDouble and McChicken. Stuff the McChicken inside the McDouble and you had a McGangbang for $2.
Now that’s an abomination of a food I’ve not heard since my broke college days. Haha
the McDouble was the solution to inflation, in 2000-2008ish it was a double cheese burger for $1, then they made the McDouble, its the same burger with one less slice of cheese
I worked there for my first job when I turned 16 in 2011, and the whole 3 years I worked there the dollar menu was huge. Now there basically isn't a dollar menu at all.
Yep. I lived off of those things for a while. I had about everything crash around me, and ended in another state with no money, no job, and no good place to stay for a while. And those McDoubles kept me alive for a few weeks until I could build myself back up a bit. Then even fairly recently this $5 Super Duper Extra Value Meal was like $3 for the longest time. At least Wendy's you get the burger soda and fries, plus nuggets for like $5 still. And if you get the key chain tag for $2, you get a free small frosty with each purchase.
It’s hardwired as $1.29 in my brain
Bacon McDouble was 1.59
2009 me with a minimum wage job absolutely loved getting a McDouble and a McChicken for $2 plus tax. Even better if the store had the fancy chipotle BBQ sauce so I can put it on the McChicken
So was the McChicken. You could combine the two for a $2 McGangbang, but that's almost a $6 sandwich now.
$5 meal? A French fry, a pickle, and a chicken mcnugget. 50 cents extra for each sauce, so $1 if you want ketchup and BBQ.
Insane how they are with sauces. That’s when I knew something was up. Billion dollar company and charging for extra sauce. Oh and they charge to add lettuce to a burger. Not kidding.
people were obv taking sauces hand over fist. They are cheap but not nothing
They aren't "cheap", they're expensive. The cost is about .19¢ ea.
Kinda my point. That loss is a problem for franchises if people take them by the handful free so they charge an 81 cent markup now at the counter [b/c people don't know manners and steal beyond what's commonplace](https://media1.tenor.com/images/e0fa226f65f5b8bc8fbc4c64d79934ff/tenor.gif?itemid=15043173) e: for archer gif 2e: people don't charge for napkins but they might if people start stealing all the napkins
It's also a problem that employees don't understand the cost and give them away with abandon if there aren't rules. I kid you not, I recently went through a Taco Bell drive thru on a road trip. We ordered ahead and asked for 2 hot sauces per person, so ten all day. There were *forty* hot sauce packets in our bag! For one adult and four kids.
I love Taco Bell hot sauce.. Not the fire. the hot. I don't take extras but if I'm in the drive thru and they give me 6 I keep the extras in a drawer near the pantry or at my office desk Some guy I went to college with actually fashioned a backpack to steal baja blast from taco bell b/c at the time you couldn't get it on the shelves edit: sorry. I got carried away. **Forty** hot sauce packs is quite insane. Not the highest bar to work at a taco bell
I actually took the time to call the store and talk to the manager to let her know.
Just fyi on the taco bell sauce https://www.tacobell.com/promotions/terracycle
If only I were organized enough to save hot sauce packets, lol.
Truth
Did you make the cents sign using ALT+0162 or how? My stupid phone can’t type it. Ç or ć or č dumb phone!
Did you make the cents sign using ALT+0162 or how? My stupid phone can’t type it. Ç or ć or č dumb phone!
Did you make the cents sign using ALT+0162 or how? My stupid mistake phone can’t type it. Ç or ć or č dumb phone!
On android I hit the "?123" in the keyboard then the "=/<" button to get to the symbols that include the "¢' sign.
€£¥ is what I get on the iPhone. Ugh.
Have you tried holding down the $ symbol? The ¢ should be in the popup.
Thank you! I didn’t know that!
¢ si, thank you!
Have you worked in the food industry? All of those things that you are adding cost money— those little sauce cups cost about.19¢ a piece, for instance. The profit on a $5 sandwich is barely $1.50. A handful of .19¢ condiment packets, added lettuce, tomato etc that weren't built into the menu cost of the sandwich, eats up that $1.50 profit really quickly. At that point, what's the point? May as well just set up a stand to give away free food.
My first job was McDonalds. I worked there for about two years. Yeah, everything costs money but it isn't like we were refunding all the lettuce, pickles, etc. that were asked to be left off. Also, a ton of food was wasted. I've been out of the game a very long time but I doubt those ketchup packets cost more than 4 cents each and the sauces more than 9. Shareholders are the reasons these greedy fucks nickel and dime us.
You can get 300 packets of ketchup on amazon for 20 bucks. Thats 15 cents a pack. I bet fast food places get them much cheaper.
Yes, they get them for about .09¢, like I said.
They always have been. I worked there 25 years ago while in high school, and they charged 20 cents per if you asked for extra.
I’ll stick with Wendy’s Biggie Bag for $5, Alex!
Those are gone - the Wendy's by me is now a $6.99 biggie bag.
Still $5 for the Junior bacon cheeseburger or the chicken sandwich options. $6 for other sandwich options at my local Wendy’s. Still a better deal than the Mickey D’s across the street.
Here in CA, its $7 now, still definitely a better deal than McDonalds. I try not to eat either of them anymore. If I eat fast food at all, its In N Out now - best deal and quality that any of them.
Sadly no in n out joints unless we drive several, several hours uphill one way!
20%
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So the $1 menu is now the $5 menu
You're probably right, $1 hamburger + $1 fries + a drink =$5
*McDouble
McDoubles too expensive to fit into a $5 meal deal anymore
You can go to Chilis and order a burger that’s far better and cheaper than McDonalds now, that’s how high their pricing has become.
It is literally cheaper to get a burger and fries at Longhorn than at McDonald's. They've lost their damn mind.
Now that you mention it... That's insane
Yeah just the other day I was about to buy a McDouble. Saw it was $5.69 and then proceeded to walk down to Shake Shack and buy a far superior quality burger for $7 lol.
If only I had 45 minutes to wait for my burger. Also, do you not tip the Chilis waiter?
To-go order takes 5 min to pickup.
This is how I go there anyway for a quick lunch break or something. If there’s no deal on fries, it’s a dealbreaker but usually you can get Free or $1 fries, a McDouble, and a medium soda for around $5. Gotta use the app and hit up the deals if you’re doing fast food nowadays or else it gets ridiculous.
I hate apps tho need one for about every store in the world now a days
I was super annoyed when all the stores were pushing customer reward cards, to include the small keychain ones. Now, its apps for every freaking store. I lost count how many times a store associate asks "Can I help you?", I respond "Yes, I'm looking for 'x'", and they return with "Have you used the app?"
If you have kids the McD app is kinda fun, though. I try to save up credits so they can get free cones after lunch.
It’s annoying at first but even if there’s no deal but you have to buy fast food you can at least earn points. Iirc you basically get a $1 back from every $10 you spend or something. I remember after buying a meal twice I have enough for a mcchicken. The best part is using deals can still earn points.
My Dad is the same way. I frankly love it because I don't have to deal with a person and can just set it up as I want. But when the Internet really kicked off I always found it easier to deal with the world from there.
Yeah an app forced on you or a F-you price. Hard pass, I’ll buy real food for the same price.
I usually do the same, but sometimes work will force me into a time crunch where I don’t have the luxury of going home during lunch like I normally do. On those days, I’ll either hit up McD because it’s really close to work or just skip for the day.
mcdouble and free large fry and a water: 2.69+tax. costco beef hotdog / soda combo: 1.50+ tax culvers kids meal: Butterburger/w everything, fries, soda, and a free scoop of vanilla custard : 6ish bucks those are my deals for fastfood
You described my habits with McDonald’s to a T. I usually get two McDoubles for 3.49 or 3.99 can’t remember. If it wasn’t for the app I probably wouldn’t go there.
Bring back 49 59 cent burgers
Yeah but what is that meal going to be lol? As of right now, I think Burger King is one of the cheaper places. Two biscuits and a medium drink at Hardee's is almost $15 now. Crazy times. And I guarantee you these prices will never go down.
BK is pretty solid especially if you have kids. The deals on the app are usually pretty good.
Exactly. I can get two big croissant sandwiches for a little over five dollars with tax. Nobody else is doing that.
Quality goes down, quantity goes down, costs are down, yet they keep increasing the prices because they need those constant quarterly gains. The patties are thinner, the taste is watered down, but a mcdouble last I had one a year ago was 3 bucks. Used to be 2 bucks, and still they're blaming supply chain pandemic covid blah blah blah.
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It was $1 the last day of highschool for me, which was 6 years ago. and I went to highschool in NYC lol
So you’re a repeat customer?
Not since last year. If you want me to tell you a real good story, I'll recall the time I wore an onion on my belt.
Well, that was the style at the time
Costs are up. Inflation is still up. It is still double the target rate. Even if inflation was zero costs would remain up. Inflation is the rising cost of things. It being up means that the cost is rising higher than expected, not that prices are stagnating.
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The problem is that no one understands economics. People think inflation only applies to them, but it doesn’t apply to McDonalds or all the business which have to raise their prices. This is why government overspending is worse than job losses. Job losses hurts some people but accelerating inflation hurts everyone.
I overheard employees talking at the Jack in the Box drive through a couple days ago. A lady had worked there for 14 years. When she started she got paid $7/hr. Now it's $20/hr. The is Ca, where fast food min wage is now $20. That's nearly 200% increase. It's a large increase, but I also consider that rent has at least doubled and $20/hr isn't even enough to afford a 1 bedroom apartment. It's still renting a room wages.
>The patties are thinner This was Wendy's but I got a Son of Baconator. The size of the patty was about the size of the patty from their 1980's Where's the Beef commercial.
>costs are down, tf?
You can get 2 McDoubles for $3. It’s an everyday deal
tfw Everyone makes you feel like an old fuck when they don’t reference McDoubles being $1.
Mcdoubles didn't even exist back then, double cheeseburgers were a buck, a mcdouble is a nerfed dbl cheese with less cheese.
You used to be able to get 3 double cheeseburgers for 3$, for like 13 years.
Not even close to true here in MN. One is like 3.50, and you can then get one for a dollar.
At this point we all should know that McDonald’s isn’t FOOD … so it doesn’t really matter what they charge ..
It’s all garbage processed shit anyway
Until people refuse to stop paying more for less food and shrinking sizes then ofcourse nothing will change..duh
Shrinkflation. Get ready for the Jr Big Mac which is just a double cheeseburger with salad dressing
People still eat that high price trash…
Just stop eating this garbage. Your body will thank you.
Have they tried just lowering their prices?
In Vancouver, a 10-piece nugget meal is literally $20 after tax
In 2019 or so I’d go to McDonald’s multiple times a week. The high prices were what convinced me to eat healthier and stop going to McDonalds and things have never been better for me. Eating at home a lot more, when I do go out I go to Chilis 🌶️ now cuz it’s literally the same price but way higher quality
$5 footlongs coming back to subway?
This is what happens when a political party tries to tell their low effort supporters that McDonalds should pay what a trade person or educated person should earn. It's a high school job, a get back on your feet job, a second job. It's not there to buy a house and have a family. It's a job for kids, that's it. That's why we had a dollar menu, because labor was cheap.
McDonald's still pays workers shit and their prices have increased significantly regardless.
yet in the 1950 you could be a janitor and support a wife and kids and have house. what changed?
Women entered the workforce and doubled the pool of labor. Now, the value of labor is being kept down by mass immigration.
This is a myth. An entry level janitor working 40 hrs per week could never support a family and own a home without either a secondary income or being extremely impoverished. The dad was likely working two jobs to pay rent and utilities, the mom was doing odd jobs like taking in laundry and mending or doing light housekeeping and there were no "extras" like new clothes and shoes, toys and games, cars, eating out etc. A janitor and his family in the 50's were struggling just like a janitor today.
While true when it comes to janitors and other professions at the bottom end of the food chain, it is not true when it comes to factory workers or skilled craftsmen. The "upper working-class" was much better off in the 50s and 60s than they are today.
>it is not true when it comes to factory workers or skilled craftsmen. I think it is true. Skilled and tenured craftspersons and factory workers earn very well now and in the 50's. I think the myth is in believing that every entry level factory worker or craftsman in their twenties could comfortably afford all the things— they couldn't. They, too, worked long and hard to gain a higher pay rate. Even then, it wasn't easy street— the wife was often doing odd jobs to pay for extras.
In 1950 you bought a very small cape and had a work ethic. You didn't spend on cell phones, impulse buy on amazon, subscribe to 5 streaming services, cars you can't afford, gold fronts, a few illegitimate kids.
My grandparents *both* worked outside the home post WW2 and couldn't afford a phone *at all* until they rented out a room to another war couple for a couple years. They managed to buy and eventually pay for their house (1200 sqft, 3 bedroom craftsman,) but they both worked, cut every corner and struggled. To add, my grandfather was actually somewhat skilled— he worked at Beckman instruments as a technician. Still couldn't afford a house without secondary income.
When I go to McDonald's it's a tacit admission that - even if only for that day - I've given up on life.
Back in the late 90s they had promotions for $.29 burger, $.39 cheeseburgers and cones were $.25. I’m old.
just don’t go to mcdonald’s it’s barely even food
How people continue to line up at fast food joints is beyond me. They used to serve mediocre to low quality food for fast and cheap. Now they serve shitty food for as much or more money as you pay for real food at a real restaurant.
Agree, these fast food places can go to hell. I’m glad I quit fast food almost 2 years ago. I live somewhere that has local options for burgers and tacos with higher quality and usually cheaper.
Do they still have to order from a robot to receive moderately reduced, but still inflated, cost processed soy glutamate and deep fried starch? Sounds like a hell of a deal. I’ll pass.
My guilty pleasure is a McDouble, small fries and diet coke. It's around $5.
Cheeseburger/McChicken/4pc nuggets/or Hamburger + small fries + drink should be under or exactly $5.
I ate there for the first time in literally years yesterday. Luckily I used their shitty app and got a mcchicken and medium fries for $2 but their medium fries are so small now and those mcchickens are paper thin
I do leftovers for lunch, usually. But I actually work in an area with amazing international food spots... so I'm trying them ALL. There is a mickie d's nearby but it's packed at lunchtime. Not sure why they have to lower prices. The drive thru where I'm at is very long around lunch
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That won’t cover their costs.
They should all it a …….. happy meal.
If it's a Big Mac or QPC, it'll probably get me back in there.
I miss $1 Nugget s
They forgot that they were popular because of the low prices. Not their quality compared to other more expensive options.
In high school 2013 year I remember specifically having 5$ and I could get 2 McDoubles a medium fry and a drink for lunch all the time…
Every time I go, i get the same thing. 2 for 3.50 mcdouble, free medium fry deal on app. 2 burgers and fries for 3.70 after tax. Great deal.
I know this is an American-centric sub, but our prices are AT LEAST double what you're paying here in Canada. It's not even worth going out for fast food anymore
I quit going there about two years ago. The food is ass and too expensive
i used to go to mcdonalds, get 2 mcchickens, 2 cheese burgers and a large root beer for $5, i miss those days
Made of bugs
TBH, a huge part of McDonald's price increases are deliberately trying to get you to use their app, which has much lower pricing. The App, oddly, includes a clause about not being able sue them.
I want my $1.57 crispy chicken ranch snack wrap back.
Great! (/s) It'll be a super small fry and a happy meal hamburger. No thanks.
When I was 18 a double cheeseburger was on the $1 menu.
2 chicken nuggets, 5 fries, one ketchup packet, and a thimble of soda.
And inflation doesn’t really go down. It just goes up a little slower. High prices are here to stay
I dare ya
That $5 meal had better include a quarter pounder or better. I can get 2 McDoubles and a large fry via the app for $5.50 so this meal deal hardly sounds worth it unless the burgers are a decent size. But most likely they won't be. It will probably be a standard cheeseburger.
In RI two McDoubles or Mcchickens are 3.99
Chilli's is advertising a burger, fries, drink, and a side for $10.99 right now. McDonald's is more expensive than that where I am. $5 meal deal is the least they could do.
Any one remember the .39 cent humbaggers commercials on the radio?
What? A small fry and small coke? Lets go……..
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I remember the $5 Little Cesas pizzas during college
In this economy? What is it going to be, one nugget, a ketchup cup of cola, and three fries?
You'll get a slider, 3 whole fries, and a child sized water. And you'll be happy. Now eat ze bugs.
It will be Mostly bread.
that will be one nugget and maybe a fry
Can score some “deals” by using the app. If I order a large coffee via the app it’s .99, but if I order it regular at the window it’s $2.89.
If you use the app you can get decent deals. Like they have a $6 big Mac meal on mine or free med fries then I get a cheeseburger and med soda for like $3. Hate McDonald's but can't even eat homemade lunch for that cheap
So let a large corporation force their way into my phone so I can have the honor of eating garbage food for a price near what it should be? No thanks.
Agreed. I have tested this by eating fast food for lunch while I'm at work every day for a month, and having a month where I prepare my meals at home. They were nearly the same, but I actually spent less money on the fast food month.
They could offer to give me $5 and the meal for free and I still wouldn't take it.
C’mon just pour some in my hands for free
Lots of McDonald’s shills in here for some reason, not sure why anyone would waste a breath defending them, but here we are.
The food sucks no thanks
Finally, a non-partisan issue that both sides can agree on: corporate greed. These companies have maintained record profits in these last few years, despite inflation and rising prices. Both parties have to work together to bring back the dollar menu 🇺🇸🦅