McDonald's Menu Prices Have Collectively Doubled Since 2014
r/allhow dare they leave out the most egregious price hike--hash browns! I think they were $.89 each in 2014 and are now $3.19 each.
$3.19 for a hashbrown is ludicrous. It's literally fried potatoes.
Btw it’s barely a fried potato. The way they’re made it’s only a couple grams of actual carbohydrates.
I love their hash browns but it’s pure oil and barely enough potato to form the shape! Can’t eat them anymore it grosses me out. Feels like that got worse over the years.
but it’s pure oil
And what tasty oil it is.
Their hash browns taste the closest to how their fries used to taste.
I never noticed a change in the fries. I must be missing the taste buds for some flavors like how I can't taste anything in beer because I lack certain tastebuds.
The big change was in 1990 so it depends on your age.
Their fries used to have beef fats. They served them that way in India and it created a big issue.
People talk about how Taco Bell was better in the 90s and prior, it was my first job in the late 80s. LARD!!! Love me some lard. The cinnamon crispas which were discontinued for twists was fried in lard. I would add 2 large scoops of lard to the beans, all the shells were fried fresh in lard. Yum lard. #BringBackLard
Sigh we were generation L
"Buckman! What the hell are you doing?!"
"Stocking the pantry, sir!"
"You forgot 'like an idiot,', Buckman, because you're stocking the pantry like an idiot! What! Are in these! cans! Buckman?!"
"That one's coffee... that one looks like cooking lard, sir."
"And which one do you think we're gonna be using more often, sailor?! The coffee? Or the lard?! You think we're all gonna jump outta bed in the morning and have a big, hot, steaming cup of pig fat?!"
Their fries used to be fried in beef tallow. That’s why they were so tasty.
I fucks with Trader Joe’s Hashbrowns, they are a less greasy/oily version of McDonald’s Hashbrowns. Oh and it’s $2.59 for a pack of 10 Hashbrowns
Literally a whole pack of hashies for the same price of one at McD.
Also you can air fry those frozen hash browns from Trader Joe’s and other supermarkets. They come out amazing after about 9 minutes lol
Jesus. I used to snag them when they were 2/$1.
For a very, very long time you could get a sausage biscuit and a hash brown for $1.
Yeah that's the real bullshit. Inflation is real, but now there are only a couple things you can even get for under $5, when not that long ago there was an entire menu section devoted to the items that cost $1.
I have no confidence in any company claiming inflation. It's all price gouging under the proclamation of inflation costs. Everyone is doing it and reporting record profits.
If they were just breaking even, then that would be inflation.
But they're posting multi-billion dollar profits and stock buybacks which confirms my thoughts it is just pure profit-driven price gouging.
I think there was some natural inflation for a time, but then corps realized they could just raise prices as much as they felt like on many items without reprecussion.
In the 90s, there used to be a lot more smaller, locally owned businesses: a candle store, a greeting cards store, a mom and pops grocery store, etc. This was before Walmart was in every town of America. Those local stores had slightly higher prices, yes, but Walmart kept it's prices lower to compete and draw in customers.
Walmart accomplished two things: they drove a lot of local stores out of business, and they moved a lot of production from the USA to China to lower their costs and make things cheaper to buy.
Now that so much of the retail/grocery sector has been centralized to a few corporations like Walmart and Dollar General, and the supply chain has moved outside the US, they can price gouge with less pushback than ever.
Yep, we had this problem back a hundred and fifty years ago with the railroad and oil barons. We had to fight tooth and nail, with sweat and lots of blood to get anti-monopoly laws in place. Annnnd we are more or less back right there.
but then corps realized they could just raise prices as much as they felt like on many items without reprecussion.
Better yet, there is repercussion for it -- people somehow blame politicians for it, and they demand lower corporate taxes as the solution, which will make the company even more money.
I feel like you cant even blame inflation here. I got Burger King yesterday for the first time and it was $4 for two double cheeseburgers and their chicken wraps were like $3. Taco Bell still does entire "cravings meals" with multiple items and a drink for $5 flat. McDonalds has just lost its mind but people are too conditioned at this point to stop eating it
You can buy a 12 pack of them at walmart for $3.49
10 pack at trader joes is like $2.49
The Trader Joe's ones are amazing in the air fryer
Throw 'em in an air fryer for 7-10min & you get about as close to the McD's experience as you could realistically expect, without a lot of clean up or extra oil.
Wait until you find out how much potatoes and oil cost...
Talking just in the UK but it used to be the standard cheapest place to eat (and you'd accept that it tasted so bland as that was the deal you made for cheap food)
However it's now either similarly priced as competitors or sometimes even more... It's shocking.
Same in the US. I don't know how they're still in business. It's not like the food got better.
In my area of the US, the double cheeseburger size has been shrunk down to basically the size of a slider. It's tiny, about half the size it used to be, and more expensive. You can get a real meal at a restaurant here for the same price as a meal as McD.
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Totally.
A good part of the appeal that McDonalds had was 'just hand me food in a paper bag out the window' - Now, at least where I live, they make you pull around and wait for just about everything.
I'm not positive, but I think if you were to ask McDonalds why they're doing this, they'd say something like 'We want the food to be freshly made and as good as it can possibly be.'
Thing is, it's not any better, or at least not better enough to notice, and certainly nowhere near justifying the huge price increase.
OTOH, i've pretty much given up on fast food, which is a positive thing for my health.
Pull around for everything is right. Why did they even add a second drive thru lane if they can't handle 1 is beyond me. Don't get me started how 3 cars can get their order and drive around before anyone acknowledged I was even in the other lane. Fuck McDonald's.
I'm not positive, but I think if you were to ask McDonalds why they're doing this, they'd say something like 'We want the food to be freshly made and as good as it can possibly be.'
It's to decrease their "avg time per customer", not deliver fresh food.
They make you pull around because it gets you off the sensor showing how slow they are
I remember some comedian's rant about fast food, the punch line being 'Cut out the middle man and flush it straight down the toilet'.
This is Jim Gaffigan's bit about hot pockets.
You can have one for breakfast, one for lunch and be dead by dinner.....Dead Pocket 🎶
I don't know if anyone remembers the "In the year 2000" bits on Late Night With Conan O'Brien, but there was a similar line from one of his guests.
"White Castle cuts out the middle man and grinds up their hamburgers to pressure spray them into toilet bowls." lmao I loved those bits growing up.
The only fast food place near me that's still a good value imo is Checkers/Rallys. Can do their "pick 2" and get a burger, chicken sandwich, fries, and drink for $7.50 which isn't bad. All other fast food places seems like you can't get shit for less than $12.
Though ultimately I guess it's not a bad thing that I eat less of it now
Wendy's has the biggie bag for $5
Jr. Bacon, 4 nugs, small fries, and a drink
That's an actual good value. That would be like $12 at McDonalds
The CEO of Costco literally threatened the lives of his staff when they pitched the idea of changing the price of the hotdog, so hopefully it doesn’t for a while..
Jim is no longer with the company in any capacity. The company has changed significantly at the top and is much more profit driven than it ever has been before. I would not be surprised to see the cost of the Hot Dog increase sometime in 2024.
Pray for our souls
The low-cost hot dogs and rotisserie chickens are loss leaders. They're intentionally taking a loss on these products to draw people in their stores. Maybe that'll change.
"If you raise the fucking hot dog, I will kill you" -Jim Sinegal
Theres a Pizza place naer my house that gives 2 large slices (2 meals for me) for $6 after tax. That is fast AND cheap. It is my regular go-to if I am in a hurry.
But with the price of fast food approaching low/medium sit down restaurant prices, if I am prepared to wait a bit, I usually order from a local restaurant and pick it up. A full ramen dish with drink costs me $21. A big mac meal is $18.
There is no reason for me to ever go to a fast food restaurant unless I am specifically craving their types of food. It is neither fast or cheap.
In 2018, Craig Jelinek, Costco's CEO, told Jim Sinegal, the company's co-founder, that the hot dog combo couldn't be sold for $1.50, saying, "We are losing our rear ends". Sinegal responded, "If you raise the effing hot dog, I will kill you"
Word!
There's a private burger joint down the road from me.
11 dollars flat, for a Bomb ass burger, fry, and fountain drink combo, and it's a better burger than any fast food joints.
The fast food corporations are out of their f**kin minds.
Actually, they're not out of their minds, they are quite literally seeing how hard they can wring us before we stop paying for their crap all together.
Actually, they're not out of their minds, they are quite literally seeing how hard they can wring us before we stop paying for their crap all together.
Judging by a couple of McDs near me (EU).. never. Full each day every day, and you'd think freebies are given on the weekends, seeing how many people are in McDrive lanes. And the prices just keep going up.
I was astonished when the pandemic lockdowns lifted in the UK that people were queuing up to get McDonalds, Burger King, KFC etc. That food isn't worth it even if you can walk straight up to the register and get served immediately. Long queues to wait in? Hell no.
Takes the whole point out of fast food.
It's not just fast food. It's grocery items and everything else we are getting gouged on.
Coming out of COVID some things like microprocessors and building supplies were very hard to get and the prices soared.
The rest of these companies saw this and decided to double their prices as well. They are all generating record revenues.
I believe the term is “greedflation”
‘They could get away with it, so we probably can.’
Bought one yesterday and actually laughed when I pulled it out. Like wtf. Double is 3 times the price and half the size?
Im German so im curious about the term Slider, can u explain it for me please?
Slider is a tiny burger. At restaurants they are on the appetizer menu and you usually get 3 of them for one order. They are about half the size or smaller than a regular burger. They are good if that's what you know you're getting.
Baby burgers, usually an appetizer or party / get together food:
https://shadybrookfarms.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/SBF_Ranch-Turkey-Burger-Sliders.jpg
https://krollskorner.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cheeseburgersliders_11-2508.jpg
https://www.onceuponachef.com/images/2017/08/Southwestern-Cheeseburger-Sliders-1.jpg
In Italy McDonalds milkshakes used to be 1€ for 0.5L (at least until 2020). Last time I had one in 2023 it was 1.8€ for 0.25L. Half the size and almost double the price.
I still cherish my crazy youth times when I ordered five strawberry milkshakes for 5€. Unhealthy but fun challenge
And they always looked like a post-assembly smash burger.
Same Here. The re-released the Burger, IT got smaller and more expensive. Right now McDonald's is AS expensive AS indepentendet Burger Stores. Why would i Order at McDonald's, If i can Support local Business and the food is better?
I don't know why you would or wouldn't support Micky D's, but I applaud your unflagging support of the Shift key.
Dude for real, why tf would I EVER pay 12 dollars for a McDonalds meal when I can get fucking Chinese food for the same price lol
much rather support the local hometown Chinese spot than this big corporate mess.
A fucking SUCCULENT Chinese meal!
A succulent Chinese meal.
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If the locations don't sell hamburgers, the rent and franchise fees will dry up pretty immediately.
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But the reason people keep buying them up is because franchises still make money and it's a decent investment because customers are still buying hamburgers. If people weren't buying burgers the company would crumble quickly.
this is the zero-effort, zero-thinking, ignorant self-assurance that makes the world bad
McDonalds certainly thinks long-term an on big scales- they buy their ingredients on futures markets lol. They supply the ingredients to stores. They manage the national menu and advertised pricing. Rent was "only" 38% of their revenue in 2023.
It's not like McDonalds is a ponzi scheme, which is what you're implying. And that's not hard to realize, if you take even 5 minutes to research, or 5 seconds to think
McDonalds was founded in the 50s and that has been their business model since Ray Croc took over in the early 60s.
Believe it or not, they might not be as dumb as you think.
Because all the competition is also ramping up prices. The whopper is also up 135%. So is Wendy's. All the fast food places are basically working in unison at this point.
If Wendy's was working in unison they wouldn't have the $5 Biggie Bag, which at this point might be the best deal in fast food.
You know how some people won't stop smoking cigarettes, despite knowing the health risk? It's like that.
Nowadays I can get a full doner box at my local kebab place that will stuff me for the same price as a single chicken sandwich at McDonalds. I legit haven't been there in multiple years.
Wife and I used to get a quick full "meals" worth for both, under $20, HELL we used to eat with $15 at McD.
We've come to understand those days are long gone, it's easily $20 each. But for that $40 we might as well go grab an actual hot meal from a local restaurant, so we do. Obviously this is isn't a nightly thing, HELL! not even weekly nowadays.
Yep.
Fuck McDonald's. Price gouging and making sure their pockets are fat.
I kinda hope they fuck themselves really.
People should pull back hard from their food.
They'll get the benefits of most likely better food at home, maybe some veggies.
They'll save some money
And stick it to these greedy fucking corporations that are sucking us dry
I mean doubling prices in ten years? If all prices doubled in ten years no one would be able to afford anything. If that doesn't work and isn't ok, this isn't either.
No big loss tho. It's just mcdonalds after all.
(P.s. these prices don't reflect every city. Here in Seattle, most of these, if not all prices, are wrong. It's even more expensive.)
yeah I used to hit them a couple times a week but it's flat out not worth it now, fuck em I make a better breakfast sammich anyway
The local co-op has bomb breakfast sandwiches and they charge the same as McDonald's does. Literally no reason to go to McDonald's for breakfast anymore.
And yeah people will say "get the app you'll still get good deals" I've never craved McDonald's enough to go to an app store and download an app to eat it. That was their whole business model. Want bad food for dirt cheap? Just pull up and ask the dude working the register for it, you'll have it in two minutes. You were supposed to be lazy about it. If it adds a single extra step like downloading an app or placing an order online it suddenly becomes a lot less appealing then just stopping randomly when you see when and telling an underpaid teenager to go grab you some greasy food for two or three dollars.
Exactly. I don't want to accrue McBucks to become a stickier customer. The only time I get it is when I'm driving and I don't want to mess with my phone. I just want to pull up, order a fucking sausage egg mcmuffin, orange juice and hash brown for a few bucks.
They've done the math and have figured out that they can afford to lose people like me as a customer by raising prices.
I saw a comment a while back that really stuck with me. I'm paraphrasing:
Businesses use to be founded on the principle of 'We want to offer our customers a good product with good service at a good price so that we can be competitive in the marketplace.' Now it's 'We want to milk these fucking pay pigs for as much as we can and make them hate the service but set society up so they have no alternative. Also we hate our employees and actively try to make their lives miserable.'
And having lived in both places, McDonalds is much better in the UK than in the States
it’s cheaper to get a double double cheeseburger meal at in n out (where there’s way more employees working) than it is to get a quarter pounder meal with kiosks everywhere… it’s not even real food. so fucking processed. gtfo mcdonald’s!
In n Out employees are also paid more and receive benefits.
Mcdonalds is pure cancer
I'm always surprised nobody copies In-N-Outs moderate business model.
They all go for the extra greedy route of squeezing every penny out of everything.
In n Out is playing the long long game. They're family owned and have organically grown over the span of decades without selling to private equity or going public. This allows them complete control over the business. If it was easy to create a brand like that, everyone would do it. Your typical investor doesn't have that kind of patience and isn't making choices so that their grandchildren will reap the benefit decades from now
It's almost like staying private allows a business to set their own goals, rather than solely compete for nothing other than infinite profit growth.
It's almost like staying private allows a business to set their own goals, rather than solely compete for nothing other than infinite profit growth.
The business is still seeking infinite profit growth. It just isn't being done with only the short term in mind so that owners can offload their shares.
WE MUST APPEASE THE STOCKHOLDER AT THE EXPENSE OF THE BUSINESS
The Seattle area has Dick's. https://www.ddir.com/employment/
They're able to provide those benefits when the most expensive burger is $5.30
Love me a hot bag of dicks.
I really liked dicks when I lived near Seattle but it feels like they just smush some burger ingredients in a wrapper and throw it out the window. In n out feels like they gave you this perfectly constructed, cared for, visually appealing burger. I also dont have to peel my burger apart to add the topping I want at in n out.
Wait their is a restaurant called Dick's?
Their slogan should be "Eat a Dick".
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Yup. I live up where Culver's are all over the place. They are now cheaper than McDonalds and are far superior in every way. They always have a whole slew of staff and even bring your food to the table (or car). Their ice cream (frozen custard) is killer, too
I stopped at an Arby's the other week for my husband, they had sandwiches 2 for $6, and a decent portion. There's also a Dairy Queen by us that has $7 meals, which comes with a larger, tastier burger than McD's, fries, a drink and a sundae or ice cream cone. And its directly across from McD's (small town). We don't eat out that much, but if I did, I'd grab the DQ all day.
DQ fries have been the best underrated fries for decades.
Unfortunately I succumb to buying a Blizzard every time, which makes it horrible to eat out there for me lol
Do you dip the fries in the Blizzard? I tried that with a Frosty at Wendy's, it was actually fantastic.
My guy (or gal). Welcome to everyone everywhere ever when it comes to dipping the fries in frosties
I miss Culver's. They were always the "premium" fast food burger. Now they are the best and the cheapest. It's a no brainer. Sadly I moved to California and they are not on the west coast.
Culver’s is like the Chick-Fil-A of burger places.
Great and consistent quality no matter the location, fast service, and like 27 sixteen-year-olds working for them at all times.
i enjoy that there's actual kids working there. I dunno why or how, but they must be doing something to attract teens that actually want to work, and are pleasant and competent
BK and McD's in the same area are staffed by burnt out idiot adults for the most part
i would guess that chick fil a and culvers both have lots of teens working for the same reason - teenagers aren't going to deal with that much bullshit because the money is more often for fun and not for survival, and both companies tend to be better quality in general regarding employee treatment
whereas i would imagine many teenagers working at mcdonalds or similar restaurants would rather quit, whereas adults don't always have that option
I love Culver's, but I wish their cheese curds didn't suck. I've been to many locations in Minnesota and their curds just suck ass.
In N Out just opened in my area with several more locations on the way and they’re killing it here. It’s a heck of a value for what you get.
The quality is massively inconsistent too
So what about the other 43 states? Not everyone can get in n out
Big corporations are a cancer in the world. They grow and grow and grow until they become malignant. I’m working in one now in a different field in the professional band and I hate it
Literally all they have to do to fix their problems is “only” make a lot of money, instead of making a metric shit ton that increases every year at the cost of literally everything else.
The entire conceit of our economic system relies on businesses being able to see infinite growth on a finite sized planet with a finite number of resources.
Absolutely this. In n out is superior in every way.
so fucking processed
It's not healthy, but the burgers and fries aren't magically more processed than the burgers and fries you make at home.
McDonald’s menu prices have collectively increased by 100% since 2014 across popular items.
This was the highest among any fast food chain analyzed by FinanceBuzz.
The price increases have far surpassed national inflation, which saw the cost of goods increase 31% since 2014.
The result? Less customers are visiting McDonald’s, with global same store sales at 1.9% in the last quarter.
Wall Street was expecting this figure to be at 2.1%.
Source --> this visual investing newsletter
EDIT: Corrected global same stores sales for MRQ
"Sir, people have stopped going to our establishmets! Our sales are down almost 4%!" "Quick! Increase the menu prices again to compensate!"
Sales down 3.4% but prices up 100% - If I were a McCEO I'd take that math any day.
For real. McDonald's saw an increase in profits of 10% in 2022, and 9% in 2023. So that is more profits and having to move less product. They will keep cranking things up until that percentage stabilizes to a profit to product ratio they are happy with, whether we like it or not.
Edit: apparently the numbers I listed are gross profit, and McDonald's saw a dip of 20% in 2022 from 2021 numbers.
This is just not true. Their net income dropped 18% in 2022 compared to 2021's. It did rebound in 2023 though, yes.
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While blaming the cost increase on minimum wage.
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On the plus side, never in my life have i been eating healthier than in the last couple years.
IKR! I'm down like 15lbs because all food got expensive since corporations figured they could get away with it for a while. Good job greedy fucks, you helped me finally get that sweet summer bod, and just in time!
I legit only get fast food when I'm traveling now. It's so expensive now I might as well order out and get real food.
"I believe that EVERY BUSINESS used inflation as an opportunity to test where the supply/demand curve really is, without as much market backlash as they would normally receive, in order to compare it to the cost structure and see how much business is worth sacrificing for increased margins."
This. Every business (especially corporations) saw the pandemic as a cash grab opportunity.
Shrinkflation is the biggest method used. A lot of consumers aren't educated enough to check the price per ounce. They just see it's the same price and think it's fine.
In one of my senior marketing classes in college, our entire grade was based off a team online simulation called PharmaSim, where we ran an OTC cold medication company. Every week, we had to submit our new product strategy and compete with the other teams for market share. After a few weeks, I started to notice that there was barely any price sensitivity and the virtual sick people market tended to prefer higher prices for the illusion of quality. My main strategy then became raising the price more than any other team every week. By the time the semester ended, my team had gained almost all of the market share and we got the only As in the class. Our prices had ballooned to something ludicrous, like $30 for a bottle of cough syrup.
In my final report, I tried to imply that we didn’t even really use marketing principles because all I did was figure out how to game the software, and I felt especially unethical as a pharmaceutical company. My professor replied that this is exactly how the market works in real life but on a much longer timeline, and that I had brilliantly reacted to the market analysis …It’s all just a fucking game.
This is how corporations work. They don't care if it's ethical, ridiculous, or harmful. They will do anything to maximize profits.
They are slaves to the shareholders and the shareholders demand profit growth.
You don't have to just believe it. It's the truth. CEOs basically said as much
4% less sales, but prices up 70% more than inflation. They're still massively coming out ahead.
That's probably exactly how the meeting went
I bet it literally was.
"In order to cover the lost profits, we need to increase our pricing".
Problem is they don't just increase the price. They also shrink the items. Damn big Mac should be called the little Mac now a days
That’s what MBA mills teach. Slash workers, raise prices, say buzzwords. Repeat.
Yeah but.. if you can make the same money but use less food to do it and less traffic in the stores less wear and tear on the doors the tables and bathrooms wouldn't you do that too?
People are still addicted to their food.
I work in a mall in Europe,there is an fast food courner with all the big brands.
By far there is an huge crowd ordering at MCD,next there is an smaller crowd at KFC.The next 8 fast food joints dont have enough crowd to even match half of the KFC crowd.This is on a daily basis and gets worse in weekends.
Don't go. Spend your money elsewhere, there are multiple options that could use your money.
A quarter pounder w/cheese meal is only $3 less than a huge meal at the Mexican restaurant near me. A meal from them is like two meals, they give you so much delicious food. It feels good to give money to a place where the staff actually cares
Can't do combo meals at fast food ever anymore if you're looking for value. Gotta do 2/$3 promos and skip the sodas.
chilis has a deal where you can get an app, an entre, and a drink all for 10.99. way better than a damn mcnugget meal.
Would you say the menu prices have collectively McDoubled?
every time gas went to its highest point, they blamed increases on that, then when they readjusted gas prices back down, they never lowered the food price increase. Eqch time they recorded record stock profits.
And then they blame Joe Biden lmao
I hate living in conservative America. All I hear is old white assholes bitching about "Biden's economy" like he's the sole reason for this crap. I wish they would look past their nose so we can actually address the root cause of this and hold these greedy corps accountable, but the propaganda is too strong for them.
Top it off with longer wait times. Once upon a time it was ok because the food was cheap and you could go through the drive through pretty quickly. Price and speed made up for quality. Now, I could just as easily go to a sit down restaurant for almost the same cost and time with the benefit of better food. We very rarely go there now.
I was working Door Dash the last few months and McD's was consistently one of the slowest places I went to. I stopped going there because of it. I was also shocked at how they were always so busy. How do people still want that crap for those prices?? And just think its even more expensive on Door Dash!
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I think this was part of the reasoning for the price increase. They saw people were already paying 15 dollars for a big mac in 2021, may as well charge 12 in the store
I remember years and years ago where all the burgers were cooked, put on the shelves and you'd have one a few seconds after paying. You could see what there were loads of. What happened?
People preferred their dogshit tier food to be "fresh" and made to order, so now it's shit, expensive and slow.
Not to mention all the fucking delivery drivers queueing up and being prioritised for the people who are too fucking lazy to go and get fast food.
I can't imagine ordering fast food delivery. Like, it already tastes like shit and now you want it to be cold and even more expensive. lol
I thought the system was about to achieve efficiency perfection when they started using designated parking spaces to make people with larger orders wait so the line would keep moving. A few months later, that just became the new drive thru line and they'd have me waiting over there for a plain cheeseburger and fries lmao. If I'm clogging up the drive thru line then who isn't? People ordering coffee?
That’s why fast food doesn’t make sense any more. You can pay the same price and get food that will actually give you nutrients and not make you sick.
The whole point of fast food is the "fast" part. Most people do not want to prep or cook.
Same with ordering delivery vs picking up the food. People are willing to pay 50% more for their food just for the sake of not moving.
Give it to me fast. Don't make me move. Fast Food.
Cheapness was a part too. I can order pickup from a restaurant and not wait any longer than a McDonald's when I get there
I've said it before I'll say it again, when you order ahead you can be in and out of a real restaurant even faster than you can get through a drive through line. And get better tasting food than mcdonalds, and maybe support a local business.
Its a stupid move, they only hold a marketshare by being cheap fastfood.
With higher prices, people will go elsewhere for better quality.
That’s what I did. Why do I want to pay sit-down restaurant prices to get shit McD quality and customer service? If I’m paying that much, I’ll just go be waited on.
When Culver's is cheaper than McDonalds (and far superior), why would I ever go to McDs again?
Regional chain? Never heard of it out east
Yeah I moved away from the east coast and Culver’s is extremely good when compared to the major fast food chains.
CULVERS SUPREMACY!
Culver's is the best.
everything goes up and the weight of it all goes down.... greed
The beef patty on the Big Mac is thinner than the fucking pickle on the sandwich.
Practically 4 bucks for a medium French fry is fucking ridiculous.
Everyone is complaining but not enough of you guys are avoiding McDonald’s. Of course they’re going to raise prices.
The ice cream stayed the same because the machine is still broken.
I live in France and when I was a student 10 years ago with 5€ I could get 3 small burgers (1€ each) and 2 small fries (also 1€ each).
Went back recently and getting the same thing would cost 12€50 (2€50 for every single article).
I wouldn’t even be able to afford the cheapest items and eat enough if I were a student nowadays.
It's crazy they don't use €12.50 instead of 12€50.
I still can't fucking believe that the dbl cheeseburger used to be $1. Then they decided that was too good for us, so they created the "McDouble" and robbed us of a slice of cheese. Then that also became too good of a deal, so they ditched the dollar menu and just raise the price of the McDouble every few months. It's now $3.29 where I am.
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Not even that fast.
The service has gotten way worse as well. I see no reason to go here now as opposed to a local diner or other restaurant.
Even my kids tell me its to expensive at McD's and rather eat somewhere else, and they are 11 and 12. Wild things I didn't expect, but works out great!
I quit going there months ago. No more supporting this bullshit.
no mention of how portion size changed over that same period
PROFITFLATION! using God damn covid as the cover.
FUCK. MCDONALDS.
Seriously, predatory real estate fuck heads who poison us with sugary and salty garbage. Oh and it costs more, tastes like shit and you get less of it than you used to, how the fuck are they still in business?
Interesting considering their quality control has gone down by 100% during the same time period.
Super expensive crap food pandering to nostalgia. Yay.
And nobody seems to stop eating it...smh. prices to up b/c ppl allow them to. If everyone stopped getting it, then they would have to lower back down.
McGreedy
Spend a little more and go to non chain burger joints. The quality of everything is way better.
What a crime to not include bigmac on the graph
And their stock has tripled since then.
RIP my $2 bacon McDouble, $2 fry and $1 large drink. Best $5 meal 10 years ago haha
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Prices doubled.
Food quality somehow dropped.
It’s baffling they think their food can be priced the same as some sit down places.
They're trying to get people to use the app. I don't eat McD, but a coworker of mine goes there several days a week and says that you must use the app to get the "cheap" prices. They've made their menu prices so high that it forces people to sign up for the app and tries to lock you in and make you feel special for getting good deals.
They're hoping the once a week McD customer becomes a twice a week McD customer in exchange for losing the once every few months customers.
I don’t think they understand their own demographic. People that eat that over-processed garbage only did so because of low price and speed of service. McDonald’s offers neither these days.
Their numbers don't show that, though. They only had a 3.4% dip in their customer base in this same time period. Beating out Wall Street estimates by more than a percent.
Losing that sliver of customers while being able to charge 100% more to the 96% you kept is not a move they are going to regret. They're also cutting out their poorest customers and that's not something they likely care about. It might even be more ideal for them.
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