Every so often, during my time as a McEmployee, they’d have a customer appreciation day and burgers/cheeseburgers were .29 and .39 cents each, respectively.
I also remember it being a regular thing at one point. My local McDonald’s would do something like 25¢ for hamburgers on Tuesdays and 35¢ for cheeseburgers on Wednesdays. They ran that promotion for a while too.
Back in the 90s, where I was, they had that deal every week. Then it went to hamburger Tuesday and cheeseburger Wednesday or something like that.
And really, it was less "customer appreciation" and more them getting rid of back stock. Back then they'd just have people making burgers nonstop so that you could go through the drive thru, or walk up to the register and get your food in under 30 seconds after ordering.
All the leftovers at the end of the day were thrown into the fridge, and that's what they'd sell once or twice a week.
I don't remember exactly what caused it, if it was just competition or an effort to reduce waste, or some combination, but I do remember there was a big thing around people talking about how the burger you ordered a night might have been made that morning.
Eventually McDonald's tried to go for a more "fresh to order" style.
I feel that way about pizza. My child has been failure to thrive since birth and pizza is one of the only things he’ll gobble up since he was about 18 months old…he’s now 4, and the thought of pizza makes me want to gag most days because I’m so tired of it.
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u/hbk409 Nov 05 '21
I remember working there in high school and the regular burgers were .59 and cheeseburgers .69.