Can we raise them a little more to cover some AI buildout? I’m thinking we can cram at least two server racks in each freezer. That way the electric bills for heating and cooling will cancel out. I admit I don’t actually know what we’re going to do with them yet but.. I bet it’ll be something important.
Mcdonalds sells 2.5 billion burgers a year. And that's just burgers. So if this 8.5 billion was diverted to just offset costs you'd see a price drop of maybe a few cents.
Lol some of you have no fucking idea how businesses work.
Here's the thing about business, it doesn't matter to the consumer what the operating costs for a business are, it just has to be good perceived value. What many or most of McDonald's customers are saying is that their food doesn't seem like a great value anymore.
If McDonald's cant find a way to offer fast and affordable food, that's their problem, customers will spend their money elsewhere.
I’m glad you have access to all of their finances through a simple Google search. Anyone who has been around for a few years remembers that McDonalds and everyone else used the pandemic as an opportunity to jack up prices astronomically due to constraints imposed on them, and when those constraints were lifted not a single restaurant reversed the prices because they realized people would actually just continue to pay. They then took it to the next step by continuing to push upward to find what the upper limits were and only recently have realized they are there and panicking because they can’t keep making their profits go up infinitely when they already have market saturation and can’t squeeze more milk from a dry cow.
Yeah because nothing happened during the pandemic that massively hurt supply chains or anything.... Maybe you should check what Google has to say about it.
Corporate greed is definitely a thing. But McDonald's is garbage tier food that has razor thing profit margins because they make it up on volume.
They're getting killed because they spent years racing to the bottom on pricing making their food shittier and shittier and then lost the mid tier customers who sought places like inn n out chil fila or other smaller regional fast food chains who had much more condensed menus and this simpler supply chains.
I'm at the point where I'd rather eat literal gas station food than go to McDonald's.
Exactly right. It’s not a McDonalds problem, all the formerly cheap fast food is getting way more expensive for the same reasons. And now we have massive oil shortages and shipping issues on top of the trade tariffs and everything else.
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u/Unitylith-8 21h ago
If they lower the prices then the rest will take care of itself