But investors are skeptical that the value meals will drive meaningful sales growth without eroding profits.
Won’t somebody think of the red line?
I used to frequent McDonald’s out of sheer laziness. When combos started running $8-$14, I started packing my lunches.
Same! I’ve lost a good bit of weight from that and soda being so expensive now. It sucks I was forced into it but at least I’m eating better!
im a fast food junkie. i love the shit. covid completely changed the landscape and subsequently my habits. my blacklist is getting longer and longer. quality across the board has plummeted while prices increased.
before covid i only had one entry; wafflehouse
Your list is obviously wrong if Waffle House is on there
Y’all have not been to a Waffle House in this decade…
Did you lose weight or compensate at all for that?
You blacklisted Waffle House?!?
i totally did not want to hate waffle house. i eat garbage all the time. i fight the dog for food. i did not see it coming…
after a few decades of wanting to try it i finally go to waffle house. first of all, no pancakes?! they are fucking strict on that waffle thing. and then what i did order was just barely edible food. just awful.
i grew up haunting dennys, which is now quite expensive for no reason.
In your defense, my wife calls them Awful House, because every single time she’s gone there, there’s been something in her food (hair, bugs, bandaid).
Your wife… she is quite the tolerant lady
Me, hungry with $10 in my pocket
Open McDonald’s app
See ad for $5 meals
Click it
All meals are $6 or more
Close app
Make a sandwich
This is becoming a common thing with McDonald’s. The 1,2,3 menu is all $4.50 or more here, too.
The value proposition straight up is not there anymore. The coupons suck now too.
They literally making you work to get a coupon and then prolly collect too much data from the app.
Eshitifoed dystopia… There was a time where working man could just go in get a cheap sandwich, get it fast and consistent.
It ain’t fast and it sure as fuck ain’t consistent well besides being const shite.
Not only did the prices go up but the portions shrank. The whopper is hardly a whopper anymore, its a regular sized patty in a wide bun.
This is the main reason i dont really eat it anymore.
Shrinkflation is real.
In any event, it only works if folks go often enough to not notice small shrinks. If you’d go twice a year or something you’d be amazed at how and why these fuckers get away with it. Vote with your wallets, people!
burrito i used to get from a local chain used to be busting and i would get annoyed sometimes because it would become unwrapped. Now, it looks like half the old burrito and it looks like they wrapped the burrito twice with how much tortilla is left
Kinda to your point have you seen that preserved mcDs big mac from the 70s?
That things still looks better than what i can buy at a mcDs today
That has more meat in one of those patties than the current Big Mac has in the whole burger. The patties are so thin now that they’re going to be transparent soon. Some lady made a video recently where here pickles were thicker than the beef patties on Big Mac.
I’m not supposed to eat beef much anymore, and with McDonalds shrinking their food so much it’s hardly even tempting.
But THIS??? I might be a weak man if McDonalds offered THIS Big Mac at a reasonable price.
Good. Fuck ‘em.
Small, privately owned delis and pizzerias need your money more than shareholders, and the food is better too.
They are also using this as an excuse to get customers on their data hoovering apps to get access to any of the best deals.
It’s the same with supermarkets, and every single website.
It’s insane, people are like “who cares if they know I buy milk” not realising that actually all the data you’re providing is combined in aggregate and they likely have a very complete profile of everything about you.
After getting ripped off by McDonald’s and then seeing how much they raised prices above inflation compared to the rest of the industrly, I’ll never eat there again. Rip me off, fuck you, your food is shit anyways.
It was $15 even the other day for a burger and fries. I won’t be back.
That should be 3 meals.
I could buy a large bag of dumplings for slightly more than $15 and get four meals out of it.
It’s been good, pushed me to shop more local.
used to be national chain fast food was cheap, buy a meal for ~$3-6, and local chains / restaurants where more expensive, $7-15.
Now I can go to a sit down local chain for $7-20 or get a fast food for 15-20
Yeah 5$ for a drop of Coca-Cola and a memory of a hamburger between two playing cards that takes an hour to get to you
I used to eat fast food every day after work. If I had a side hustle, I would eat fast food after my side hustle. But I stopped when I would go through the drive thru, pay $15, then sit for 10 minutes in the parking lot for old, cold, shitty food. Fast food isn’t fast. Fast food isn’t cheap. And fast food doesn’t taste good. It’s been over 3 years since I voluntarily ate fast food and I’m never going back.
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…I’m unclear on context. Why did you punch him?
Meant to be a fist bump.
Oh. Ok.
…so why did you fist bump him in the face at a high speed velocity?
…it was an ordinary fistbump between two people, homie. I was there and saw the whole thing.
This guys over here admitting to taking part in a gang beatdown! You’d think he’d go to jail!
Oh, right. People named Don don’t go to jail. Even if they get convicted.
“Just park around the corner and we’ll bring it out. Eventually.”
Wtf? $6 is now a value for a shitty McDonalds hamburger?
Go to McDonald’s about every 4 years because of some external circumstance
“Yup, still garbage”
Have one in 5 minute walking distance ever since I moved here 5 years ago. Never bought anything there. They’d need to pay me to eat their offerings.
But in fairness shoutouts to the McDonald’s in Madrid airport terminal 4 outside of security. The only place in there not trying to rip you off. Had my share of salads there
People learned how to cook again during the Pandemic … found out it wasn’t hard, and some even found it enjoyable. Tacking on a period of inflation right after that, and fast food is no longer anywhere near the economic staple it was in the Before Times.
Here McDonald’s “lowered their prices” by automatically making it small fries and a small drink.
