“Even though we’re pushing through pricing, the consumer is tolerating it well,” he said in October analyst call.
normal way to talk about ‘fellow’ human beings
McDonald’s used to be viable because it was shit, but at least it was cheap. Now it’s just shit. I haven’t gone of my own will in years, only with other people who wanted it. $3 for a hash brown is absurd.
The level is lower than that. McDonald’s used to serve the customer, the customer now serves the corporation.
There’s a burger place near me which makes a great burger - good quality ingredients, interesting toppings, great fries and they’re cheaper than McDonalds. Given McDonald’s prices on ingredients will be substantially cheaper, and their volume higher, this is just pure greed.
My local burger places are just like that. Absolutely bonkers what people with a routine will tolerate if the change is slow.
Some people are open to trying new things, they want the excitement of trying out a new restaurant or take out, they want to try types of food they’ve never eaten before.
Then there are the other type. They behave in the same way as children do, they want what they like, and will not take a risk on something new, even on something as pedestrian as a burger.
I’ve worked with a 50 year old man that gets upset if there isn’t a nearby Chick-fil-A. He eats the same thing every day. By his other behaviors I assume it’s undiagnosed OCD or something so we don’t give him shit about it.
My former coworker got the exact same thing from chipotle every single day. Nothing wrong with him, just really liked his routine. Some people are like that.
This seems pretty black and white. Ironically.
I love trying new food. But sometimes I just want to order something where I know what I am going to get.
You’re bi.
I don’t understand how McDonald’s does so well in Australia, since our traditional takeaways do such good burgers and better chips (fries) a home cooked version true to the fish and chip place original
Though my partner prefers the burger “plain” which omits the bacon, egg, and pineapple
Yeah there is a little drive through burger stand 2 blocks away from me. Amazing burger and fries combo for $11. The only downside is their service is super slow, but that’s a crapshoot at nearly every fast food chain at this point
Yeah there is a great place near me that does a really, really good double with pimento, chili, fresh onion and jalapeno for around that too. 2 people getting food, a loaded fry (that’s actually loaded), and tip is somewhere around $30. I don’t see why I would eat at any fast food chain.
It is so sickening how capitalism normalizes stripping people of their humanity
People are just wallets that cry sometimes
Poke poke C’mon… Quit crying! I want some money!
I think it’s even more disturbing how people can continue funneling support into capitalism then turn around and think they’ve got a leg to stand on by complaining about it.
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Breathing doesn’t strip me of the right to complain about the bad air.
So I assume you mean you don’t complain about capitalism at all? Think its an amazing system?
“Some customers are fed up and pushing back”
But continuing to buy things from them, yeah? Companies are not going to change until people stop buying from them.
Nobody needs McDonald’s. I’m not even sure most people actually want McDonald’s. Just stop going, seriously.
I hate McDonald’s. I eat McDonald’s. If I get into some tiny town or get off work in a tiny town at 11pm or later it’s often the only place open.
What I don’t understand is people who eat there by choice. I sometimes work with a guy who will go to McDonald’s by choice, even with better/cheaper options, three times a day.
I wonder how much of McDonald’s average franchise net income is from road warriors.
God damn. What fucked up nightmare is this if your ONLY choice is this toxic shitty unhealthy food?
You poor fucking bastard. Your health will pay for that in time.
You can get $1 breakfast sandwiches and $2 mcchicken with free fries in the app. I definitely use it when I want the cheapest lunch or breakfast option
Lol who tf has the McDs app?
I actually don’t hate the burgers McDonald’s has now. They are hot, and often hit the spot for me.
HOWEVER, a double quarter pounder meal is now like $10, and it’s just not worth it when I have other options next door or across the street that sell better food for about the same price.
Same, my daughter wanted their fries recently and we caved and bought it, and it was actually quite juicy and tasty.
Ironically the fries were undercooked soggy potatoes, so win some lose some I guess.
I heard about this and lmao no deal mcdicks.
Hash brown is 99 cents. Figure it out. We can see your market value.
I vow to not buy a McDonald’s hash brown until it is below $1
Honestly where I live I can get a ni e pub meal for about the same price as one of their burger meals.
True, but fuck KSL, it’s a Mormon-owned entity.
What’s wrong with Mormons? In South Park, they were the only religion whose devout followers have been treated kindly.
Though I haven’t seen The Book of Mormon…
The race bigotry, the anything that isn’t hereto hate, the normalizing of totally cutting people off if they deviate from the cult?
But if you’re basing your views on south park I’ve got bad news for you.
But if you’re basing your views on south park I’ve got bad news for you.
I can’t keep up with all the spins on Christianity that the US comes up with. And the Mormonism episode didn’t drive me to do external research the way the Scientology episode did! Haha
You mean besides being an uber controlling cult that embezzles millions if not billions of dollars?
Also Book of Mormon is excellent, highly encourage you to go see it! There’s not a bad seat in the house for Broadway.
Three bucks for a hash brown? You know Simplot sells packs of ten for four dollars, right? And you can cook them on a stovetop with a tablespoon of vegetable oil, right? Hell, if you’re desperate, you could even throw a pair into the toaster, although they won’t taste nearly as good that way.
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Not for me. My fast food intake has drastically shrank. Better for my health anyway
As someone who works in a mom and pop restaurant, I understand this. McDonalds is huge and buys/manufactures in bulk, sure, so their prices are gonna be cheaper, but their costs are still going up like the rest of us. It kills me to keep seeing our menu updates, but food is fucking expensive now. I’m not saying that McDonalds isn’t pulling down a tidy profit, and if food costs dropped they probably wouldn’t drop their price, but I don’t put the price increase solely on them. Food costs are rising all over, and it’s killing the business. I have a spreadsheet from 6 years ago when I first started analyzing our costs, and my most recent sheet shows anywhere between 150 and 200% increase across the board. That’s absurd. So, blame McDonalds for whatever you want, I won’t stop you, but make sure to aim some hate at the production side of things as well.
The end solution is still the same. If we stop buying it, McDonald’s stops ordering it which gives the production companies shockedpikachu.gif
It’s gotta start somewhere.
The issue is how many people love paying for McDonald’s. Go home and cook for my family tonight? Nah, that’s too much work. It’s much easier to spend $50 at McDonald’s.
And that will never happen. That is the consumer equivalent of kicking the can down the road. “I’ll do my part and stop buying, surely everyone else will do the same and corporations will stop being greedy.” That’s never going to happen, and if you stop at that point, you may as well just keep buying it. Costs have to be regulated. Bailouts have to stop happening. Tax breaks have to end for corporations that don’t act in the best interest of the taxed. We have to hold the government accountable for protecting it’s people, because for as long as people have been people, we’ve found new and creative ways to fuck others over while justifying it as supply and demand. Supply and demand has been a lie since the dawn of the industrial revolution. There is no demand on the supply of necessities that cannot be met with modern means. The cost of grain is still the seed and the soil. Stop inflating costs, and the economy will balance. However, without regulation, those costs will continue to inflate, and the lowest will always have to suffer.
Pretty sure McDonald’s has had more than a 200% increase in menu prices over the last 6 years. Pretty sure labor and other overhead has gone down, and last I checked those were a bigger portion of the menu price than the food itself.
I stopped eating fast food, oh… shit, almost 20 years ago.
these things, though. CRACK. these and sausage egg McMuffins. once a year on my birthday. I’ll pay whatever for them.
edit: before you even… I’ve tried finding the ingredients elsewhere and replicating them— it’s impossible!
I’m so mad about it I haven’t been there in a decade.
Sunday morning, fire up the air fryer and park just outside of McD’s. Selling hashbrowns at $1 a pop.
And get fined by the city for not having a food vending license. And the audited by the IRS.
For the longest time I knew fast food junk was not good for you so I ate less of it.
During the pandemic I completely avoided fast food.
It’s been three years now and I haven’t gone to any fast food at all.
Now I can’t rationalize eating it any more.
It isn’t healthy, it isn’t food, it has no nutrition, it has too much of the things that degrade your health. It’s also prepared by people being paid as little as possible to maximize the profit to the people who do the least in the transaction.
From a health point of view is like investing in degrading your body … it’s like investing in rust for your car or pouring tiny amounts of water or sugar in your gas tank … it’s paying a premium for an unhealthy body in the future.
And now it costs more … it costs more to ruin your health. So you spend a lot of money now to ruin your health and then spend a lot more money to fix your unhealthy self when you get older.
When you look at it over a lifetime, it’s far cheaper to just not eat fast food
My favorite Korean restaurant raised prices twice in a year. It went from $16 to $19 to $22 for a box of Korean fried chicken.
Where the big companies can handle it (and at times, are the ones doing it), mom and pop shops are getting fucked and have to raise prices too.
I learned that Korean fried chicken is pretty easy to make, so I freed myself from the retail price increases. Also, because the place that made by far the best Korean fried chicken closed leaving me with all these watered down fried in olive oil lame places.
Fun nostalgia: Korean chicken joints in Korea in the nineties were frequently late night (like three in the morning late night) drunken smoke filled brawl infested shit shows of soju chugging drunk munching goodness. It’s always a little strange to me to see modern day “nice” chicken places.
