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Funny since a common argument against a fed minimum wage from the right was that prices would increase, and then they increased anyway
Min wage has been the same for 12+ fucking years man. It blows my mind that people can still seriously argue that prices of thing will go up if wages do.
no see the price would’ve gone up more if wages did.
people are paying $16 whole American dollars for that trash?
Their breakfasts are almost $11 now
what is the point of industrial garbage food if it isn’t even cheap
I only eat their breakfast, and only when I’m in a rush. At least our local donut shop still sells ham and cheese croissants for $4
What do you get for almost 11$ at a mcdonalds breakfast
#1 w/ large OJ
If the price doesn’t fit, you must not sit.
I have become the old man reminiscing about the days of my childhood when mcdonalds had specials running on thursdays, I think, of 14cent burgers and 19cent cheeseburgers.
BACK IN MY DAY!!! UPHILL BOTH WAYS!
yeah but ‘the old days’ was like six years ago
For me it was the 80s.
Becoming unaffordable is truly the greatest sin that McDonald’s can commit. People are generally aware that it’s addictive garbage food used to fuel a massive real estate company, but it’s cheap so people can afford to eat it. Take that away and what’s left?
I know this is meant as a joke and I normally never get burgers from McDonald’s, although I do buy and love their breakfast sandwiches, but just a couple of days ago I was craving a burger and went to McDonald’s specifically for the first time in maybe decades and was shocked at how expensive it was. I think all fast food is really expensive now. Might as well buy a real meal for basically the same cost.
Anyway, point being, I can afford to waste money on a meal like that but I just wondered what poor families who sadly live off cheap fast food are doing to eat now.
Three meals a day is round 6 hours of minimal wage job. Thanks industrialization, some real labor saving here
fast food workers i think statutorily have to make 15 in nyc.
The worst thing about “inflation” is how it’s completely manufactured and every single fucking person pretends that this is just the all holy market behaving rationally
I’ve heard they subsidize the prices pretty heavily through in-app offers/deals to get you into their ecosystem
most of the bigger fast food chains do this now. Taco Bell even does it. I only have the McDonalds app (because I fucking love their french fries sue me) but it is genuinely insane how a large fry and mcflurry outside of the app is like $9 but you can get that down to like $3.00-5.00 depending on the day and deal used.
Didn’t they tie a class action suit waiver into the ToS of their app or something?
Oh yeah I remember that post
Yummy yummy arbitration-waiving fries 😋
WTF? I thought fast food down in america was supposed to be dirt cheap. Above the 49th I’m also consistently shocked that the A&W coupons are increasing in price so rapidly, I swear each one that comes out, the combos go up a dollar. I only eat fast food when my work is paying lmao, it’s a fuckin racket
burger king did this too, but like they also sell their burgers for like 2-3 dollars in bundles for absolutely no reason.
Like OK- it’s 30 dollars for two people to get a whopper combo. Which is nuts
But if you take away the drinks that cost burger king 20 cents, and then order one additional whopper, three additional regular cheeseburgers, and one additional order of fries, you know how much that costs you? They will hand you 10 to 12 dollars. It is literally negative 10 dollars for what burger king considers 20 dollars worth of food.
It’s all so made up
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Honestly it feels like a 2 tiered pricing strategy, like if you don’t know you’ll go in and pay 15 dollars for one meal, but if you do know, you’ll get like 4 meals for 20 bucks
ya the meals were always absurd – just grab shit off the value menu if you’re in a pinch.
Taco Bell is still cheap. Besides that it really feels like everything costs $10 or $15 now
I haven’t been to McDonald’s in a while. Dafuq? Is it really that much now, or is it just at certain places or certain items?
If it’s in a city like NYC, maybe. Anytown USA and it’s more likely $12-13 for the large meal which is still absurd.
the taco bell $5 combo is the last thing i can somewhat consistently afford now because its $5 and fills me for like almost the whole day. the food cost situation in america is making me miserable.
I think the price of fast food is genuinely a major sign of decline in a treat-centered country like the US.
Just end the country, there is no point going forward
after ww2, Europe and America decided between a social safety net and free refills, and America made their choice, and now the refills aren’t even free.
If McDonald’s switched to a bean-based patty without telling anyone they could slash that price in half and also be secretly vegan and nobody would be able to tell.
Yeah but now that they know customers are still willing to pay that price, they would switch the ingredients and leave the price the same to increase their profit margins.
And then vegans would be passing over the vegan burgers and eating the currently secretly non veg fries
I’m not sure they could, McDonalds beef is 80% dairy cow
True, but I think that the flavor is mostly their additive, so they could probably get away with switching out the beef if they got the texture right.
