But investors are skeptical that the value meals will drive meaningful sales growth without eroding profits.
Won’t somebody think of the red line?
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
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
It really depends on the establishment. I went to one in the Atlanta area that was just disgusting, but then you hit one in a small town in the Florida panhandle and suddenly you get the best harsh browns you have had in your entire life with some eggs and bacon cooked to perfection. Thankfully the Atlanta suburb experience was my only bad experience. Most of the time it was very good with the occasional amazing.
IMHO, small town Waffle House tend to be a safe bet.
BANDAID??? I can see how a stray hair, or an airborn bug might land on your food.
But a BANDAID??? How does that even happen??? Was it used?
I just asked, and she presumes yes. I’m assuming someone was touching the food without gloves, and it came off.
The bandaid was holding the… BUGS… on…?
Waffle House, Denny’s, IHOP, aren’t even fast food… They’re just bad food. I still don’t understand why people eat at these places. It’s not like it’s ever the only option, or the cheapest option.
Also I love this picture.
Your list is obviously wrong if Waffle House is on there
Y’all have not been to a Waffle House in this decade…
Trust me it is not…
I ate there at the request of a family friend in the last few years…
Ew. Oh God ew… the greasiest saltiest overcooked hash brown crisp ever topped with flavourless meat and cheese that chewed like gristle.
I don’t know how it’s not on there for more people. Not when Diners literally exist.
it’s for ratchet drunk people to hang out after everything else closes and get on world star hip hop for 15 minutes of internet fame
that being said I did enjoy their hash browns. yes it’s been over 15 years since I was a poor student patron of their establishment
"Rosé for dinner. Waffle House for breakfast. " – Rick Ross
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.
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.
The value proposition straight up is not there anymore. The coupons suck now too.
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
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?
fast food companies can go fuck themselves. i used to get fast food at least a few times a week. since the things i ordered went from ~$11 to ~$18 i now get fast food maybe once every few months. it’s almost august and i think i’ve gotten it 3 times this year when there was no other option, and each time was a disappointment. even though i always expect shitty garbage from it
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
Anybody old enough to remember Burger King’s $1 Whopper?
My four heart stents remember.
I remember when Arby’s had a 5 for $5 deal. So much roast beef.
I remember, but can’t stand Arby’s so 5 for $5 was still too expensive.
They have 4 for $10 now
Note that McD’s no longer shows their pricing on their website. You have to add the item to the cart and log into a delivery service to see. Asinine.
Fast food chains can suck a rotting dick and die. Nothing of value will be lost.
Right? “Local spots have better quality, better prices and better interactions” ™
Fast food used to be cheaper because of economies of scale. Can McDonald’s really be paying more for the ingredients and labor to make a big mac meal than a steakhouse pays for a 6 oz steak with two sides?
Probably not more for wages or ingredients, but more for CEOs and need to appease stock holders so their behavior will be different than a small shop, no matter what the scale
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.
