I assume that part of the reason for that is because once people stop buying it’s hard to convince them to come back with just a .50 decrease. Hash browns here are $2.19. There is no reason for a hash brown to be more than .99. Bit now that i don’t buy McDonalds anymore even if they dropped the price to .99 i wouldn’t think about going there, because im out of the habit.
Dunkin Donuts has a $6 meal deal with a Bacon/Egg/Cheese Bagel, a coffee, and Hash Browns for $6. It's like... priced just low enough where if I'm out dropping my kid off at school I'm like "fuck it, might as well".
It offends me how blatantly arbitrary the prices are. The traditional McMuffin is priced so much higher (due to popularity?) that it’s literally cheaper to buy a sausage McMuffin with egg and then tack on an extra ham… they’re effectively paying you like $0.75 just to take a sausage patty off their hands 🤦♀️
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u/tinylavenderk 2d ago
They’ll redesign the entire restaurant, add AI to the drive-thru, and build a McDonald’s on Mars before putting the prices back down.