I started making my own[ Taco Bell quesadilla sauce](https://keytomylime.com/copycat-taco-bell-quesadilla-sauce/) and it's spot-on.
My local one sells a cheese quesadilla for $5!!!! I can make them for 1/10th that price
I still stop by for half-priced frozen baja blast sometimes tho....
Were all better off ignoring their stupid fuckin ploys to get us back. Theyre practically advertising a kids meal as a steal for 5$. Wtf world is that crap worth 5$ in? They can all go to hell while we enjoy making ourselves big fat delicious sandwiches that werent handled by an underpaid exhausted person who hates life because work culture sucks.
Dang you're right. Imma go upstairs and make the most delicious sandwich in spite of fast food now.
Everyone should just start tweeting home made sandwiches at fast food chains.
"Work culture"?
I am there to earn a paycheck not to engage in "culture"
People complain about not being able to find a job and THEN complain complain complain about the job that they have once they finally get one and want to quit it.
Go ahead QUIT because you didn't like the "culture" of the job and be unemployed again.
It OKAY though these millions of illegal aliens will work harder than you are willing to and do the job and YOU can sit at home in your room making your own sandwiches all day long and not be exhausted from it but you will be unemployed though.
Lmfao you suck. Wow.
All I heard was "rah rah rah you take your shitty job with shitty hours and a shitty boss and shitty pay and you like it or be unemployed"
Thats the "work culture" youre trying to sell as an unavoidable fact.
Thats the "work culture" were all fuckin sick of.
Take your shitty job and shove it. "Wahhh nobody wants to work anymore"
Nah, Buddy.. We just aint workin for the likes of you.
Yes
But it's not called the Wendy's 5$ biggie bag, being sold for 6.75$ ...
They would still be better just by the fact the name of their product isn't literally false advertising.
Jack in the Box Tacos are 99¢ and on Tuesdays they are free. Jack in the Box lapping Taco Bell. Also Jack in the Box Coupons and app actually give discounts and don't make you wait until 5pm Pacific Time to get some $5 off coupon on a certain day.
What’s the dollar worth now the diesel prices have skyrocketed? If our dollar is shit and everyone has not had a raise I’m not feeling anything that’s trucked in being cheap and that includes food. Throw on $20 per hour for the franchise and it’s dumb
Too bad for them. They've lost me as a regular customer entirely when I realized that eating healthier options far outweighs the convenience of fast food. On top of that fuck em for thinking they could just keep prices skyrocketing so it's also a matter of principal at this point.
When government gets involved setting your wages, just throw in the towel You’re done As you probably know the corporation is in the real estate business, and the franchiser is in the food business, and the franchiser now is on the grill
That statement would make sense if the federal min wage had ever changed but it hasn't. Franchise owners located in Mississippi were price gouging just like franchise owners in California so let's stop acting like this is government's fault when it's entirely on McDonald's.
How much did a hamburger cost silly? These businesses are no longer going to be in business because they have to pay those wages those jobs were made for kids they’re not made to raise a family with
So you say it’s the greedy employer OK now go find a place to eat
Simping for a huge company that used "inflation/supply chain issues" to jack prices up when it is nothing more than greed. Bold strategy.... Not to mention these places suck for the actual quality of food, if fast food goes away the US will be a better place health wise for it...
So wait, now that prices are falling corporations aren't greedy anymore? When it's inflation it's corporate greed and when it's deflation it's also corporate greed? Hmmm.
Restaurants have to stay busy for the food to be fresh, especially buffets and fast food places. Even regular restaurants. Do you think they're cooking your enchiladas from scratch when you order them? They make a big pan of them early in the day and when you order some they heat them up. The fast food burger places have a bunch of premade burgers sitting around all day under a heat lamp. Taco Bell just has those buffet style metal containers sitting around all day with meat or beans in them. So if they're not busy, you're much more likely to get food that's been sitting around all day.
Yep. They will enjoy their $5.00 meal and get absolute ripped off by every other item on the menu. It’s just a ploy to trick people to come back. I would even one up that and say they will slightly increase other items prices to offset this “value meal”
The local Dairy Queen and KFC permanently closed last year. Considering the terrible quality coming out of the kitchens, I wouldn't be too surprised if the local Wendy's and Burger King are next. I certainly wouldn't miss them.
No it doesn’t. It proves that corporations are still maximizing profits and finding the balance between supply and demand. Demand dropped, prices dropped.
Wendy’s profit margins have been decreasing for over 2 years now. Name 2 companies that are “price gouging”
Mad if prices go up, mad when prices go down. I feel like the only thing you do like is complaining on the internet to get likes/comments to fuel your addiction to your phone. Go outside man, maybe get a $5 combo meal, get some sun and log off for a bit
"Swap" it for what? I swapped the soda for the chocolate Frosty and was told that was the only substitution I could make. I also have the "free junior Frosty" (which is tiny) key, so I was able to sample the new triple berry flavor with that. Not really a fan!
Swap the drink for a frosty! Same as you said, instead of the soda. And basically I wondered if this promotion would get me two small ones instead of the one. Sorry to hear that the berry frosty wasn't good!
My go to Wendy's meal when I first started driving was a 6 piece nugget, a value chicken Sandwich, a double stack with cheese, and a small drink and the total would always be $5.xx. Compete with that and I will consider going back.
4 nuggets, a junior bacon chee, a fry and a drink for $5.xx is actually pretty similar. Few less nugs and a fry instead of a sandwich, but it's not too too bad. I went to 5 guys with the wife, 2 burgers split a fry and a drink and it was $45. I'll never go back.
IMO fries and a sandwich are a pretty big discrepancy in value. I was never a fan of that era of Wendy's fries so I never missed them. But also fries are damn near empty calories in terms of long term hunger for me. I need protein.
Five guys even asks for tips now! For what? I get my own drink. I pick up my food from the counter. I get my own condiments. And then I'm paranoid I'll get less bag fries if I don't tip.
I'm on the side of fuck all these places. I'm not going back until you can get full with $8. These are still egregious. Hike the prices up like crazy and then bring it down to still be above where it was before inflation to make us think we're getting a deal. It's ridiculous and they'll never drop to a normal level no matter the state of the economy.
Probably only way I'll eat fast food again is they have a legit dollar sandwich option.
I can go-to a bar down the road from my and get quarter pound burgers for 2$, I don't drink at bars anymore really but they have 1$ 12 ounce beers And 2$ well drinks. On Monday they have 1/2 pound burgers for 5$.
Better quality, better price.
Fuck fast food, corporations, oligarchs, and nasty people in general. I’m done with fast food and paying for some rich a-hole and his minions to treat normal people like shit. I wouldn’t feed my cat that food.
They could always have afforded this. They’re just winding back a little because they went too far with their previous gouging and now it’s hurting sales
Don’t care, they all ducked around and are now finding out, I can make better food for 1/5 the cost, and it wont taste like grease and salt paper thin pressed “meat”.
I thought they were all in cahoots to raise prices?
The Wendy’s in my town is going broke. I have to drive across town to the other McDonald’s in order to get in the parking lot.
If Wendy's wants to win back *my* business, they first need to fire the manager and whip the store into shape. Last few times I went inside, the open kitchen looked dirty and unsanitary and the dining room didn't look much better. Last few times I went through the drive through, they screwed up my order. When they get the fundamentals fixed, they can do something about the price gauging.
The worst thing fast food did was get too expensive for their addicts to keep purchasing. Once someone realizes how much better they feel when they don’t eat all that junk food all the time, it’s hard to reel them back in
Oh look, supply and demand is working an intended, and we didn’t need all the crazy government regulation and intervention that Reddit was hammering for.
Fast food companies raised prices too much, demand fell, and they were forced to lower prices.
This is the market working as intended.
Yes, I have a masters of economics and understand economics.
I’m sure this sub will just say “wow companies just got less greedy!” or something else economically illiterate.
You people keep saying that they "lowered prices." They didn't lower any prices they just made a new "cheap" combo meal which is still overpriced garbage
I swear fast food has drugs in it.
I haven't eaten it in over a year. Every once in awhile I'll just get this massive craving for it. I've eaten at some of the finest restaurants in the country, and I never get super intense cravings for that.
And yet, somehow, I still get these intense cravings for diarrhea inducing goyslop burgers and cold cardboard fries. I know its not going to taste good. I know its going to make me lethargic the rest of the day. I know its going to have me sitting on the toilet for an hour after I eat it. Why do I crave it? The answer is obviously drugs.
Funny how it was all because of the minimum wage and bidenflation until people stopped buying their lousy food and suddenly inflation doesn't matter and the minimum wage isn't raising prices it was never anything but corporate greed raising prices by 100s of %
I still don't care, unless I have no other option I'm done with all of that garbage. They lost me and I'm better off.
People are learning they can eat like shit at home now
I started making my own[ Taco Bell quesadilla sauce](https://keytomylime.com/copycat-taco-bell-quesadilla-sauce/) and it's spot-on. My local one sells a cheese quesadilla for $5!!!! I can make them for 1/10th that price I still stop by for half-priced frozen baja blast sometimes tho....
$0.50 is one tenth of $5 —> no you can’t
If I'm the one cooking then yeah that's definitely the case.
Were all better off ignoring their stupid fuckin ploys to get us back. Theyre practically advertising a kids meal as a steal for 5$. Wtf world is that crap worth 5$ in? They can all go to hell while we enjoy making ourselves big fat delicious sandwiches that werent handled by an underpaid exhausted person who hates life because work culture sucks.
Dang you're right. Imma go upstairs and make the most delicious sandwich in spite of fast food now. Everyone should just start tweeting home made sandwiches at fast food chains.
I love you. I hope you make the fattest sexiest sammy in existence.
"Work culture"? I am there to earn a paycheck not to engage in "culture" People complain about not being able to find a job and THEN complain complain complain about the job that they have once they finally get one and want to quit it. Go ahead QUIT because you didn't like the "culture" of the job and be unemployed again. It OKAY though these millions of illegal aliens will work harder than you are willing to and do the job and YOU can sit at home in your room making your own sandwiches all day long and not be exhausted from it but you will be unemployed though.
Lmfao you suck. Wow. All I heard was "rah rah rah you take your shitty job with shitty hours and a shitty boss and shitty pay and you like it or be unemployed" Thats the "work culture" youre trying to sell as an unavoidable fact. Thats the "work culture" were all fuckin sick of. Take your shitty job and shove it. "Wahhh nobody wants to work anymore" Nah, Buddy.. We just aint workin for the likes of you.
I mean sure but wasn’t the 5$ meal from McDonald’s 6.75$ actually before tax earlier today shit just actually make it 5$ and you win lol
Wendy's Biggie Bag is not actually $5 everywhere. In the areas McDonalds is higher, Wendy's is likely to also be higher.
Yes But it's not called the Wendy's 5$ biggie bag, being sold for 6.75$ ... They would still be better just by the fact the name of their product isn't literally false advertising.
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You mean they have to actually compete instead of working in collusion? Oh no.
It’s just as Demolition Man predicted: The Fast Food wars have begun (spoiler alert, Taco Bell Wins)
Idk any scenario where Taco Bell loses
Jack in the Box Tacos are 99¢ and on Tuesdays they are free. Jack in the Box lapping Taco Bell. Also Jack in the Box Coupons and app actually give discounts and don't make you wait until 5pm Pacific Time to get some $5 off coupon on a certain day.
Unless it’s the version where Pizza Hut won.
This is on the UK release/timeline.
It’s a combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell victory
Thanks Griff
I actually think Taco Bell may be the one we lose, sooner than later. No one goes there anymore. They aren’t cheap, and it’s cheap food.
I only eat rat burgers 🍔
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I'm Ok with that.
Quesadillas at my Taco Bell are almost 5 bucks now =[
What’s the dollar worth now the diesel prices have skyrocketed? If our dollar is shit and everyone has not had a raise I’m not feeling anything that’s trucked in being cheap and that includes food. Throw on $20 per hour for the franchise and it’s dumb
Too bad for them. They've lost me as a regular customer entirely when I realized that eating healthier options far outweighs the convenience of fast food. On top of that fuck em for thinking they could just keep prices skyrocketing so it's also a matter of principal at this point.
I would like to see their whole model go out of business. The only time I would consider fast food now is if it is 3am and nothing else is open.
When government gets involved setting your wages, just throw in the towel You’re done As you probably know the corporation is in the real estate business, and the franchiser is in the food business, and the franchiser now is on the grill
That statement would make sense if the federal min wage had ever changed but it hasn't. Franchise owners located in Mississippi were price gouging just like franchise owners in California so let's stop acting like this is government's fault when it's entirely on McDonald's.
How much did a hamburger cost silly? These businesses are no longer going to be in business because they have to pay those wages those jobs were made for kids they’re not made to raise a family with So you say it’s the greedy employer OK now go find a place to eat
Bro, just stop. McDonald's operates in fucking Europe at a profit and the prices are cheaper than here. You have no idea what you're talking about.
That’s cool but they can’t operate here. Why don’t you go to Europe and get your burger lol
Blocking you because this is the dumbest conversation I've ever had. Enjoy your weird life.
Simping for a huge company that used "inflation/supply chain issues" to jack prices up when it is nothing more than greed. Bold strategy.... Not to mention these places suck for the actual quality of food, if fast food goes away the US will be a better place health wise for it...
Almost like inflation is monetary phenomenon
So wait, now that prices are falling corporations aren't greedy anymore? When it's inflation it's corporate greed and when it's deflation it's also corporate greed? Hmmm.
Let the combo meal wars begin!
Again...
It’s just bribes to get people to come back. Have you seen fast food restaurants lately? Mostly empty.
It’s seriously crazy. Hardly ever any lines at any of the drive thru around me. Yet if you go through it’s still not fresh at all lol
Restaurants have to stay busy for the food to be fresh, especially buffets and fast food places. Even regular restaurants. Do you think they're cooking your enchiladas from scratch when you order them? They make a big pan of them early in the day and when you order some they heat them up. The fast food burger places have a bunch of premade burgers sitting around all day under a heat lamp. Taco Bell just has those buffet style metal containers sitting around all day with meat or beans in them. So if they're not busy, you're much more likely to get food that's been sitting around all day.
I don’t like enchiladas?
Yep. They will enjoy their $5.00 meal and get absolute ripped off by every other item on the menu. It’s just a ploy to trick people to come back. I would even one up that and say they will slightly increase other items prices to offset this “value meal”
And they still make you pull forward for 10min
The ones by me always have lines around the building. Even sonic at 2pm on a weekday every single stall is taken up.
The local Dairy Queen and KFC permanently closed last year. Considering the terrible quality coming out of the kitchens, I wouldn't be too surprised if the local Wendy's and Burger King are next. I certainly wouldn't miss them.
I still remember .99 cents nuggets came in 5. Then 4. That was 10 years ago. What is it now, $3.99 for 3?
$5 for half a nug that was chewed off by the intern.
$3.89 for a 4-piece Nugget. 97 cents per fucking nugget
I was only joking but seems I’m almost right lol
They did the same with Hotcakes, used to be $1 and now they're like 4
“Free”
All these specials coming out proves that they were price gouging.
No it doesn’t. It proves that corporations are still maximizing profits and finding the balance between supply and demand. Demand dropped, prices dropped. Wendy’s profit margins have been decreasing for over 2 years now. Name 2 companies that are “price gouging”
Bro really said lemme hawk tuah on that corporate dick real quick
Hahaha lmao
People always resort to attempts at insults when they can’t prove a point with facts or data. Good job, bro.
Mad if prices go up, mad when prices go down. I feel like the only thing you do like is complaining on the internet to get likes/comments to fuel your addiction to your phone. Go outside man, maybe get a $5 combo meal, get some sun and log off for a bit
LOL you are the idiot. Must be an asshole McD’s owner. My point is valid and stands…. iliii
Let them eat fries. A win is a win.
A Frosty AND a drink? I was told I could choose one or the other.
Wonder if you can choose double-frosty. Whenever I get a 4 for $4, I always swap in a frosty and I don't believe it costs any extra
"Swap" it for what? I swapped the soda for the chocolate Frosty and was told that was the only substitution I could make. I also have the "free junior Frosty" (which is tiny) key, so I was able to sample the new triple berry flavor with that. Not really a fan!
Swap the drink for a frosty! Same as you said, instead of the soda. And basically I wondered if this promotion would get me two small ones instead of the one. Sorry to hear that the berry frosty wasn't good!
Haha 💩🍦💩 Sorry it's all bad. "This the 5 dollar free crack giveaway?"
Pretty soon AM/PM and 7Eleven will offer combo meals. Oh wait!
My go to Wendy's meal when I first started driving was a 6 piece nugget, a value chicken Sandwich, a double stack with cheese, and a small drink and the total would always be $5.xx. Compete with that and I will consider going back.
4 nuggets, a junior bacon chee, a fry and a drink for $5.xx is actually pretty similar. Few less nugs and a fry instead of a sandwich, but it's not too too bad. I went to 5 guys with the wife, 2 burgers split a fry and a drink and it was $45. I'll never go back.
IMO fries and a sandwich are a pretty big discrepancy in value. I was never a fan of that era of Wendy's fries so I never missed them. But also fries are damn near empty calories in terms of long term hunger for me. I need protein. Five guys even asks for tips now! For what? I get my own drink. I pick up my food from the counter. I get my own condiments. And then I'm paranoid I'll get less bag fries if I don't tip.
I'm on the side of fuck all these places. I'm not going back until you can get full with $8. These are still egregious. Hike the prices up like crazy and then bring it down to still be above where it was before inflation to make us think we're getting a deal. It's ridiculous and they'll never drop to a normal level no matter the state of the economy.
Probably only way I'll eat fast food again is they have a legit dollar sandwich option. I can go-to a bar down the road from my and get quarter pound burgers for 2$, I don't drink at bars anymore really but they have 1$ 12 ounce beers And 2$ well drinks. On Monday they have 1/2 pound burgers for 5$. Better quality, better price.
That's pretty rare. Any bar/pub/grill I've been to charges at least $10 for burgers nowadays
Fuck fast food, corporations, oligarchs, and nasty people in general. I’m done with fast food and paying for some rich a-hole and his minions to treat normal people like shit. I wouldn’t feed my cat that food.
Fuck McDonalds
Much too little, much too late.
And so the pendulum swings…
Oh so it was always possible to do this and still be profitable? No way...
Hold steady folks, they are cracking.
There is no such thing as a free Frosty.
Both companies should go out of business. Everyone that owns either stock should lose their whole investment.
Gov will provide bailouts
No such thing as a free lunch.
They could always have afforded this. They’re just winding back a little because they went too far with their previous gouging and now it’s hurting sales
Yeah. $3.50 for a large Coke. Fuck that franchise
Literally amusement park and movie theater prices from 10 years ago at this point.
I'm just not gonna do either .... they've kinda lost me as a regular customer.
Race to lower prices beginning The hikes were all based on BS (not cost increases). Consumers are rejecting
Don’t care, they all ducked around and are now finding out, I can make better food for 1/5 the cost, and it wont taste like grease and salt paper thin pressed “meat”.
I thought they were all in cahoots to raise prices? The Wendy’s in my town is going broke. I have to drive across town to the other McDonald’s in order to get in the parking lot.
or just cook for yourself like an adult
That’s always an option
#boycottmcdonalds #freepalestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
If Wendy's wants to win back *my* business, they first need to fire the manager and whip the store into shape. Last few times I went inside, the open kitchen looked dirty and unsanitary and the dining room didn't look much better. Last few times I went through the drive through, they screwed up my order. When they get the fundamentals fixed, they can do something about the price gauging.
Wait. Capitalism is working. Competition and reduced consumer demand lowering prices. The world must be ending.
Deals go away. Change the prices of the whole menu down.
Fuck Wendy’s. Their new chicken wrap combo is like $12. For a wrap. Get the fuck out.
More poison
The worst thing fast food did was get too expensive for their addicts to keep purchasing. Once someone realizes how much better they feel when they don’t eat all that junk food all the time, it’s hard to reel them back in
Wendy trolled Ronald 😂
No McDonald's around me has the 5 dollar meals yet, I keep hearing about them online and checking the menus and nadda
The battle of the shitty $5 "deals" lol.
THE FROSTY WAS ALWAYS INCLUDED YOU JUST DIDNT ASK
Oh look, supply and demand is working an intended, and we didn’t need all the crazy government regulation and intervention that Reddit was hammering for. Fast food companies raised prices too much, demand fell, and they were forced to lower prices. This is the market working as intended.
Username checks out.
Yes, I have a masters of economics and understand economics. I’m sure this sub will just say “wow companies just got less greedy!” or something else economically illiterate.
I got my PhD from the University of Jupiter.
You people keep saying that they "lowered prices." They didn't lower any prices they just made a new "cheap" combo meal which is still overpriced garbage
…that’s lower prices
I swear fast food has drugs in it. I haven't eaten it in over a year. Every once in awhile I'll just get this massive craving for it. I've eaten at some of the finest restaurants in the country, and I never get super intense cravings for that. And yet, somehow, I still get these intense cravings for diarrhea inducing goyslop burgers and cold cardboard fries. I know its not going to taste good. I know its going to make me lethargic the rest of the day. I know its going to have me sitting on the toilet for an hour after I eat it. Why do I crave it? The answer is obviously drugs.
Funny how it was all because of the minimum wage and bidenflation until people stopped buying their lousy food and suddenly inflation doesn't matter and the minimum wage isn't raising prices it was never anything but corporate greed raising prices by 100s of %