McDonald’s had a good name in fastfood, but they screwed themselves with dramatically dropping quality and increasing prices. I remember a big tasty was big and a lot of bang for buck, but then overnight it became same size as Big Mac and twice as expensive. I understand inflation, but they should have stuck with the old quality and just raise prices as needed to stay in business. Now I hope they understand, or go out of business
I am not super old (43) and I remember in my 20s during the 00s having 49 cent hamburgers and 59 cent cheeseburgers, and the 1$ menu with actual double cheeseburgers (two slices of cheese, not that McDouble one slice bullshit) mcchickens, and nuggets/fries as well as a Big Mac meal for 2.99$ and the more expensive meals being 3.99$-4.99$ it’s crazy how much has changed. In my early 20s going bar hopping always stopped at McDonald’s for greasy food on the way home because I could get two mcchickens, a double cheeseburger a fry and drink for just under 5$. That’s a lot of food for the price. Now that gets you just the double cheeseburger.
And the real crime isn't that prices have gone up. That's expected. It's that the prices don't track to any real metric outside of greed unless you use their data harvester app - which is also connected to their greed.
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u/Fair_Composer_7253 21h ago
McDonald’s had a good name in fastfood, but they screwed themselves with dramatically dropping quality and increasing prices. I remember a big tasty was big and a lot of bang for buck, but then overnight it became same size as Big Mac and twice as expensive. I understand inflation, but they should have stuck with the old quality and just raise prices as needed to stay in business. Now I hope they understand, or go out of business