A few weeks ago my daughter and I were out and about and almost went to McDonalds. We decided instead to go to our favorite local Italian place and it ended up being cheaper than McDs, if you don’t include the tip, for a much better meal at a sit down restaurant that supports local businesses. I really feel like McDonald’s priced themselves out of their own market… and they’re not even the most expensive “fast food”.
It’s wild to me the prices that McDonald’s is near me. You can save quite a bit by using the mobile app and succumbing to their data mining, but I don’t want to do that.
You’re absolutely right that, well, sans alcohol, I can eat at a good chunk of sit-down, nice restaurants in my area for basically the same price as McDonald’s. Which is absurd.
“Three years” isn’t a very long time.
Could it be that it’s exponentially cheaper to make a better version of everything they have right at home?
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Well I stopped buying it a few months ago after the prices went up again despite them being incapable of getting 4/5 orders correct and just a general drop in quality
Why go to McDonald’s or Burger King when there’s a Five Guys nearby?
Not surprising even a little bit. McDonald’s is not and never will be a premium burger. That is not their market segment. But they have priced themselves at and above many premium burger offerings. I get the desire to move out of the absolute lowest budget, but they’ve done it too much. There’s no point in going to McDonald’s when you can get a significantly better burger for the same or less money.
Hungry Jacks in Aus (local Burger King licensee) is somehow even worse, Maccas put their prices up, but HJ’s put their prices to the moon.
You can get a Dominos pizza (also crap) delivered (remember, we don’t do tips either…) cheaper than a Whopper w/ Cheese (not a meal, just the burger)
The local burger joint down my street is chapter than McD. And there’s another premium place nearby that sells smash burgers for the same price as a big mac. Makes no sense for me to go McDonald’s anymore
A dozen buffalo wings and a pound of french fries from Chilis’ It’s Just Wings app are within a dollar of a medium chicken sandwich combo at Burger King. Can’t tell you what prices are doing at McDonald’s because I haven’t tried eating McDonald’s in a year, their service is too terrible.
I find it hilarious it’s the service that keeps you away. LOLZ
I’ve pulled back as well. They’ve eliminated all their good coupons and increased all their prices to the point where a more upscale restaurant is on equal footing in price and far ahead in quality.
McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Wendy’s, and Burger King all compete on being cheap, filling, and of adequate quality for most people. Now they’re not cheap anymore and I can get Cane’s, Popeye’s, Culver’s, and Five Guys for nearly the same price. What incentive to I have to choose McDonald’s/BK/TB/etc? Also, I don’t drink soda, so no value meal options anywhere for that. I’ll never buy that $5 meal deal.
Taco Bell’s chili cheese burrito is $3.79. Beef and bean burritos are $2.49 for gods sake. That shit used to be 89 cents. Even with inflation it should only be about $1.50. McDonald’s double cheeseburger is $3.79, too. BKs app deals are a joke and what was once a pretty good value meal is basically toast. Same at Wendy’s, and they’re also investigating surge pricing for food, even though they walked it back.
I’m glad folks are voting with their wallets and saying no more to this crap. I get prices go up in the long term but damn, this feels more like price gouging than inflation.
Yes!!! The 20% off 3$ is now $7 at McDonalds. And I ordered that new maple bacon chicken sandwich at Chick-fil-A… $12.50!!! No thanks.
Yeah sure, they’re ridiculous right now. But when they’re all dead and gone or hard to find, you’ll be missing those cheap ass burritos and happy meals.
My fault. I moved from Tokyo to the countryside and there’s no food delivery so I went from at least once a week down to once a month or less. I’ll try harder to think of the profits next time.
Well, I do have to go into town tomorrow for an appointment…
Fuck that garbage employer and its wares.
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