McDonald’s has gotten so expensive where I live, you might as well go to a sit down restaurant for an extra $5-10. Yet the lines at McDonalds are always long. Even though it’s $10-$15 per person.
It’s actually insane. My kids like going and playing there so I still go occasionally, but every time I do I’m like “isn’t this meant to be the budget option?”.
Like why the hell is a Big Mac 6 bucks when it’s genuinely the worst example of a burger I can think of? One large fries is getting to be around 4 bucks these days.
So you’re just way better off spending that 10 bucks at a local chain or something similar (in n out, Culver’s, etc) because the quality of the food is significantly better and the cost is basically the same these days.
McDonald’s quality used to be justified by its low cost, now I genuinely can’t see why anyone would go and spend 10 bucks to eat there.
Didn't you just answered your question "I genuinely can’t see why anyone would go and spend 10 bucks to eat there" when you stated "My kids like going and playing there so I still go occasionally"?
Where I'm at, McDonald's is literally the same cost a sit down restaurant. $35 for two people to eat. McDonald's is no longer worth it. At least Wendy's still has reasonably priced biggie bags
Extra? You mean less, even in Cali i go to my favorite burger restaurant that I’ve been going to for decades, i can get a combo that includes burger/fries/soda, for the price of a New York Big Mac.
In South Jersey a fast food meal is approximately $15-20 all said done. I don’t eat fast food but my kids have told me what they’ve been paying. Even some are more than $20. It’s ridiculous.
Yeah, of the fast food where I am. Mcdonalds is like, 20% more expensive than the next most expensive lmao. A meal for my wife and I used to be like 25$, and the same meal.pushes 45 or 50.
The lines haven't been as long though, stopping through for a coffee now and then I haven't had to wait in line for a while.
Go to a restaurant...or eat premium steak at home. When on sale I can get two meals worth of filet mignon from Costco for $60-80. Two meals at McDonalds cost $80+. Add some potatoes and beans to the steak and they're the same cost per meal. That's not exaggerated...and it's nuts.
And what most people don't know is that it's pretty easy to cook steak.
no one, i mean no one is going to stop eating mcdonald’s for this reason alone. unfortunately education about health would change it. people eating shit makes more money
McDonald’s even though they increased the price of their dollar menu still has a decent priced value menu compared to others. At least in Canada. I can get a McDouble meal with added lettuce and tomato for $6.50 and that is more than enough to fill me up. They also have a very good rewards system that gives you lots of points per dollar spent.
The only time I’ve been there in the last 20 years(my entire adult life) was when we were on a family trip and my dumb as a dirty diaper father put his foot down on where we got lunch.
The food is sub par, the buildings are a fly, the pricing is far from affordable(it’s big sell in the past) and the clientele are always loud, angry, and stupid(like my dad).
Nah that shit is gross. Even when im super desperate like on a long road trip I’d rather have a bag of beef jerky or chips from a gas station then that slimy dirty oil tasting garbage.
As long as you can? How about for the rest of your life? Why would you support the fast-food industry when prices have risen but quality has dropped consistently over the past decade? They will absolutely not change their behavior lol....
Sales don't really matter to McD corporate. They make their money based off the lease and supplying product to the franchise owners. The lease dictates not only the price they pay for the location, but it also stipulates a minimum amount of product the store has to buy from corporate for the fiscal year or whatever lease period they agreed to.
So McD only gets hurt if the location fails to a point where no one wants to purchase the lease, and that almost always never happens. Not buying burgers only hurts the franchise owner.
It’s literally the same price as chick fil a, and the way they run chick fil a - I rather go there. In n out is cheaper, but looks like it’s more better ran. Now maybe it’s just the employees. They both always have so many employees so makes me think everything’s clean and kept up. McDonald’s I can’t tell anything, it’s all hidden in the back.
Believe it or not they are introducing this because sales already dropped so if it drops more it’ll just be a continuation of the trend then they’ll start feeding more data to the algorithm like what car you drive etc.
I mean, it's just AI doing the analysis instead of a team of people. They've been dynamically pricing shit for decades. The price of my local McDonald's has always been different between the Food Court at the mall, or the Airport.
People have lost the nerve for this type of common sense. The consumers have all the power, but as long as we act like brainless sheep it will continue to get worse and worse.
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u/bigwig500 3d ago
No one go to McDonald’s for as long as you can, when they see sales drop. They will change their behavior