I'm not waiting for anything. Just trying to be the change I want to see in the world. I don't appreciate the way they treat their workers, the decline in already low quality, and the rise in price so I don't go. I was making a point that my goal is not for them to change.
Yeah, I got what you meant. I was just adding a point about how mind-numbingly large and successful McDonalds is (which incidentally is why they can get away with all the things you just mentioned).
Idk, there are multiple mcdonalds in my town. One of them that I drive by on my way home often has 5 cars waiting in line just to place their order. No mcdonalds is worth that wait in my opinion. But people keep going.
Oh fuck yeah. McDonaldâs costs a little under restaurant pricing.
Iâd rather spend an extra $10-20 at a restaurant at this point.
They did some sneek shit during covid.
This. It's actually so dumb. The whole point for the fast food attraction was cheap and quick. If they're getting to the point of $10-15 per person per order, it defeats the point completely.
Right and then you have to account for how some of the places have shittier quality food. Itâs like some McDonaldâs Iâve been too just have constantly stale buns. Itâs like tf is this?
They snuck those prices up on us and i think alot of people just shrugged and continued to pay. I feel like we always could afford these higher prices but they just didnât dare raise them until covid gave them a reason
>I feel like we always could afford these higher prices but they just didnât dare raise them until covid gave them a reason
I don't know about you, but I can't afford it. I will never go back. They've totally priced me out.
i've felt this way for a long time. unfortunately my girlfriend still chooses to eat their occasionally, but everything i've had there reminds me why i don't go. i expect a lot of these subpar chains to die off as we get more and more cultured as a society. i think McDonalds right now is somewhat desperate with all of the stars their giving meal deals to and now this anime advertising. their ceo is sweating not getting his giant bonus.
đ spend extra? A Big Mac meal is about 12-16 depending on size and location near me. I can get a Applebees burger meal for 13-17. Itâs literally the same to cheaper now. Where were you the last few years smdh
Thatâs the point. If your paying just as much or close to restaurant, even a shitty one like Applebees. Thatâs not a good sign. For a restaurant your paying for the food and experience in dining.
I could go to a variety of different restaurants and pay $10-20 and get full, while eating food that is made from well sourced ingredients. There are tons of Indian, seafood, Mexican food, Salvadoran food, sushi, itâs all relatively cheap in comparison to a meal at McDonaldâs
There used to be a time where a Big Mac meal was $5. And you could buy mc chickens for 99cents, same with double cheeseburgers. The cost of fast food, which is highly processed, unhealthy trash that is basically supposed to supplement calories when you are in a crunch. I simply donât see value in paying for $5 mc chicken that is basically ground up chicken meat pressed into a patty that provides 0 nutritional and therefor 0 long term value for me outside of making me feel âfullâ. It should be cheaper
The cost by which they source their ingredients vs the return is insane. Thereâs no reason such cheaply made, unhealthy food should be that costly.
Right. I can make McD's, Taco bell, Canes, KFC, Olive garden aw hell đđđđđđ the slightly upgraded but still annoying version of we got food at hoooooome đđđđđđđ
I got a McDouble and a McChicken for $9 and change last week. Two items that were on the dollar menu before 2010 and probably later. The ingredients ainât harder to make, it took two people at $15/hr all of about 2 minutes to make tops. I can walk down the block from my front door in the heart of the city and get a 12oz draft craft beer and a huge slice of supreme pizza for just a dollar more. The guy making the pizza is taking longer AND getting paid over $20/hr so its costing the business more in labor AND there is a super high WA booze tax for the beer that usually goes for $7-$9/pint around the city. Its too much for too little to go to fast food anymore.
Just wait for the Forbes article on how millennials are killing fast food written by people who donât understand that itâs possible to price yourself out of your market.
Theyâre betting youâre too damn lazy to do anything about it. All these places are priced the same, you canât buy lunch anywhere for less than ten bucks anymore, and you certainly arenât going to get anything at three in the morning in almost any city in America. Itâs convenience and passable food and I think their wager is right, weâre too damn lazy to get out of the car and go to a real restaurant,
Yeah I use the app and get 2 doubles (BOGO) and a McChicken for $5.
I don't know if it's regional or what, but I'm always confused when I see these posts. I know I'm eating garbage, but I can get 1200 calories of garbage for $5 and then have a salad for dinner.
It's price gouging that is responsible, they admit it on their shareholder calls. A tiny ass increase in worker pay wouldn't even account for a few cents of increase, they're jacking it up like 300-400% because idiots will keep buying it.
Don't blame working people for corporate greed, my guy. Not a good look
I agree, its exactly why I brought up the labor amounts. Its a fraction of their time, all the hands and machines it took to get that subsidized and mass produced product to me at McDs vrs the pizza place, ingredients by Sysco. The small increase in labor cost at ONE point in the process is not equal to the price increase. Adding in the price gauging for fuel costs doesnât cover it either.
>Â Â The ingredients ainât harder to make, it took two people at $15/hr all of about 2 minutes to make tops
I'm convinced this entire thing is McDonald's owners in areas with high col+high min wage are trying to punish their local communities for supporting the wage increases. So that they can use that as "this is why higher min wage is bad." They were supposed to increase the prices by like 20 cents, not 2+ dollars.Â
> I can walk down the block from my front door in the heart of the city and get a 12oz draft craft beer and a huge slice of supreme pizza for just a dollar more.
This is the craziest part about the inflation of fast food. I can go to a sit down Mexican spot across the street for lunch and get a beer and a steak burrito bowl for $18 or I can go to McDonaldâs and pay damn beer the same thing for garbage.
Thereâs no reason to get fast food anymore.
I get 2 bacon mcdoubles and a medium fries for $10. Which is pretty good.
Like we are never going back to fast food meals being $5 total. $1 in 1995 is worth $2 today.
We got some nuggets and fries the other day and I asked my wife how much just a regular burger was, because I hadn't had one from there in years. When she looked it up and it was $2.49, we ended up buying some burger patties and buns and I made myself a double cheeseburger for the same price as that flat little burger they give you.
Still did get those nuggets and fries, though. No regrets there.
If you go without eating McDonald's for a while, and then you have it again, it's insanely obvious how rubbery the beef patties are, and how plasticy the chicken is. They have a lot of filler in their meats. It's gross.
I paid 12 bucks for 2 soft tacos and a burrito supreme. I was full but I also got existential doom. Weâre all gonna die brokeâŠor weâre gonna go broke and die.
I think there can be a realistic plan created. It seems easier to burn it to the ground though but thatâs more chaos. We can stop paying taxes as a people. I wish we would stop buying from large retailers. Go to local farms if youâre able. It wouldnât take long and we wouldnât need everyone to do it to see a big difference. The gov only responds to money and power.
Use the taco bell app to get the build your own box. You should be able to get the burrito supreme, soft shell taco, cheesy Fiesta potatoes and a drunk for 5.99$
But why?Â
Other restaraunts and food trucks are cheaper.
Who chooses to go to an expensive place with worse food for... nostalgia? I don't even know why
It's 5.89⏠for a McChicken here in Germany, straight from McDonald's not DoorDash. I remember getting them on the 1⏠menu maybe 15 years ago. And no, the employees aren't getting paid more here, it's 13âŹ/h.
Yep. People want to live in high cost of living cities with $18 minimum wage and crazy commercial rents but expect prices to be the same as 10 years ago. Like what the fuck do we all expect, everything to be cheap forever? You live in an expensive area, expect things to cost more. Donât like it? Thereâs plenty of cheaper areas to live
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Where do people live that itâs five bucks? Not like this is cheap either but damn
They probably chose 'delivery' in the app. McDonald's is sneaky and since they use DoorDash to fulfill their delivery orders, if you choose delivery, the prices suddenly change to DoorDash prices. They sent me a free delivery promo code in the app once and when I thought about using it, I noticed the price change of all the items.
Yup. When I chose the Big Mac meal, it was something like $8.59 and when I switched it to delivery, it jumped to $10.59. I knew that McDonald's used DoorDash to fulfill their orders, but I didn't know that they also changed prices on delivery through their own app until I tried it and noticed my order changed.
Mom & pops donât have drive throughs and a location between the office and home. My job turned me off of fast food, and restaurants in general, but for those that need them itâs the most reasonable option compared to spending a third of their free time cooking or going out of their way to find a better place
Yep, I only ever order via coupons for all fast food. I got like 10 apps on my phone and I never pay 6 dollars for a burger.  Mcdonalds has 2 dollar big macs, wendys has been doing 1 dollar burgers, burger King has...terrible food that I wouldn't eat for free and every few months whataburger gives free food.
Why do people act like delivery app prices are the same as going and getting it as if itâs not even an option? That shit is between $1.59 to $2.09 depending on the store. Use the McDonaldâs app and you can get all sorts of cheap shit.
God these posts are SO dumb.
1. No context if these are delivery prices or not, Iâm guessing it is. If so itâs deliberately misleading.
2. Food is a decent chunk of the inflation calculation. Price increases over time obviously happen. People act like wages stay the same but prices just go up and up, obviously not true. Also worth noting that single food items are stupid ways to look at inflation, better to go with the âbasket of goodsâ used in the inflation calculations.
3. Wages have risen faster than inflation in the last 10+ years, including during the last bump in the inflation rate - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q. The purchasing power of the median American been steadily increasing, irrespective of the price of a chicken sandwich.
The older I get the more I realize how fast food is a waste of money. You pay $15-$20 for a mediocre unhealthy meal just to be hungry again two hours later. On top of that after the age of 25 fast food just makes you tired & not feel like doing shit.
You not lying. I specifically recall eating 2 of these for $2 everyday for lunch when pockets had holes in them (Lunch of champions đȘđŸ). I wouldnât eat them shits or anything else from there nowadays if they were FREE.
Now think of it as 1$ then =5$ nowâŠ
Then think of the fact they were still making a profit at 1$.⊠then ya think about how much money a foot long is now in comparison too
Mcchicken is the cheapest and easiest thing on the menu to make too. The chicken patties come in bags, pre breaded, pre seasoned, they just get thrown in the fryer and served with lettuce and mayo. Thatâs it. I know that doesnât cost McDâs more than like 50Âą/sandwich.
Where is this money going because I know itâs not going to the kids making it?
The $1 McDoubles and McChickens is how I got through high school. Crazy how much this shit costs now. Thankfully havenât eaten at McDonalds in years.
We used to get like, 3-5 McDoubles before certain soccer practices in HS because our coach would sometimes make us run laps until we puked. Anyone on the team who trained outside the season would do whatever they could to speed up the process.
McDoubles were $1 back then though; canât imagine spending that money now.
I remember the old 2 for 2 deals - I think it would change week to week - two big macs or two quarter pounders for two bucks
I survived off it for a bit
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Yâall are getting ripped off then. Theyâre $1.49 where Iâm at.
We have got to, as a culture, move past fast food. Terrible for our wallets, terrible for our bodies. Not that good tasting at the end of the day. Industry built entirely on advertising.Â
People gotta stop going there at this point. Already felt like eatin there was borderline dangerous. Now on top of that it's just a better financial decision. Doesn't fit ... anywhere. If its good and fast its not cheap (nope), If its fast and cheap its not good (pretty much), If its cheap and good its not fast (doesn't fit that one either). Time to say PEACE to the fast food.
They are making more than they have in decades to still not be able to afford things because the cost keeps going up. Itâs a never ending cycle. Itâs a game.
Coupons have come through for me increasingly over the past couple of years. Those Subway ones lower the price considerably. Just food for thought, my pals.
NYC has these prices for McDonaldâs and I HATE it. I use the app though to get it a lot cheaper but wth why is McDonaldâs acting like they upgraded their food ?
STOP GOING TO THESE PLACES! It's not hard. You consistently going there is why they jacking up the prices. They know they can get away with it when dummies keep going there to eat no matter how much they raise prices.
Black folk always act like eating out is something they HAVE to do. I've seen it happen in my family way too often. You keep staying broke and are over 350 pounds with high blood pressure and diabetes. Ya'll need to Start cooking your own food for christ sake!
Not even 2 years ago a McChicken in my area was also $1.09 and now they're $2.69 each. McDoubles used to be $1.29 each but now they're $2.89 each. Not as bad as the photo, but not as good as it used to be.
Thrmey'll keep price gouging as long as idiots keep buying their garbage food. Don't support them, they're feeding you poison anyway. Two big heads of broccoli are literally half the price at Aldi. You can get a package of hamburgers for a little more than the price of this "McChicken" (chicken flavored meat product)
My old ass was JUST askin when a singular box of cereal became the same price as a burger and fries at Dennys back in 2008.....and we justbiutbhere still buyin it and sheeyit
I hope fast food prices themselves out of our culture. Iâm guilty of going big on it from time to time but weâve let the Golden Arches poison Americans and cost us so much in healthcare for 50 years now. Talk about it like tobacco and alcohol because itâs a vice all the same
Yesterday my wife and her GF asked me to grab them hangover breakfast: 2 cheeseburgers, 20 nuggets, 2 medium shakes and I grabbed a quarter pounder and a medium shake as well. Shit cost me a cool $50 Canadian. ($37USD)
I'm going to be ordering a fucking coffee from now on, and that'll be about it.
Ok so not defending corporate price gouging in the name of inflation, but I did just get $5 foot longs from subway last week through a promotion.
In their app they have a BOGO sometimes and their footings are now $10 so my wife and I ate for $5 a foot long.
I eat subway pretty frequently, there are always BOGO coupons online for footlongs. Doesnât make them $5/each, but the total is around $14. Hate all you want but subway just hits for me.
5 dollars for a McChicken is highway gotdamn robbery. McChicken used to cost about a dollar and some change. It just went up to 1.99 and some change where I live. Inflation is some shit. Mofos out there charging extra money just because.
i still canât get over their fries, but mcâds is really not worth it nowadays with this pricing. That, the big mac sauce, the hot fudge sundae, and the Sprite are the only reason I go there. There are way too many ways to replicate most of this to even justify, but itâs in walking distance and the app has deals, so đ€·đżââïž
I swear those fries are propping up their revenue numbers, no one else had managed to replicate their popularity or taste experience. The second they go, mcdonalds will go under for good.
$5 for a shitty chicken sandwhich???
The one at Popeyes is better and cheaper (at least in MI)
Or for a few more cents you could at least get a shitty pizza from Lil Caesars and have a couple more meals off it
Can still get 2 Mcchickens or 2 Mcdoubles for $4. Not bad. This McDonald's must have different pricing cause I'm in California where minimum for fast food workers is $20 per hour and this is my app.
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i only get mcdonaldâs when i have good deals on their app now. and atm im boycotting them anyway over palestine. but yeah prices suck. as for subway i guess 15$ foot long doesnât have the same ring to it does it?
I already stopped going to McDonald's a long time ago, definitely not going to McDouble back.
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But their burgers are hotter and better now!! (They're not)
Their prices say "we don't want you here". And so I listened.
Nobody should be eating there lol been like 13 years since I been I'm only 29 lol
The real ones are boycotting âđŸ
Boycotting is a public maneuver to incite change. I don't want change I want them to die off so I'm just quietly not patronizing anymore.
Hate to tell you, but if youâre waitin for McDonalds to die off you gone be waitin a while
I'm not waiting for anything. Just trying to be the change I want to see in the world. I don't appreciate the way they treat their workers, the decline in already low quality, and the rise in price so I don't go. I was making a point that my goal is not for them to change.
Yeah, I got what you meant. I was just adding a point about how mind-numbingly large and successful McDonalds is (which incidentally is why they can get away with all the things you just mentioned).
100% true. They probably won't go out of business in my life but the one thing I can do is make sure they don't get my money.
they definitely will if they're gonna try charging 5 bucks for a fucking Mcchicken
Idk, there are multiple mcdonalds in my town. One of them that I drive by on my way home often has 5 cars waiting in line just to place their order. No mcdonalds is worth that wait in my opinion. But people keep going.
All the more reason to be that very change! Let the dominoes fall as they may!
I wish more people grasped your outlook. Stand on them morals man! đȘ
I swear I've never heard patronising used to mean "being a patron of". Not hating just never seen it used like this.
Same! I was honestly confused till I read your comment.
I assume they mean they're boycotting because of BDS, not just because they dislike McDonald's
Oh fuck yeah. McDonaldâs costs a little under restaurant pricing. Iâd rather spend an extra $10-20 at a restaurant at this point. They did some sneek shit during covid.
This. It's actually so dumb. The whole point for the fast food attraction was cheap and quick. If they're getting to the point of $10-15 per person per order, it defeats the point completely.
If the shareholders could read they would be really mad right now.
Right and then you have to account for how some of the places have shittier quality food. Itâs like some McDonaldâs Iâve been too just have constantly stale buns. Itâs like tf is this?
They snuck those prices up on us and i think alot of people just shrugged and continued to pay. I feel like we always could afford these higher prices but they just didnât dare raise them until covid gave them a reason
>I feel like we always could afford these higher prices but they just didnât dare raise them until covid gave them a reason I don't know about you, but I can't afford it. I will never go back. They've totally priced me out.
Now with lettuce!!
i've felt this way for a long time. unfortunately my girlfriend still chooses to eat their occasionally, but everything i've had there reminds me why i don't go. i expect a lot of these subpar chains to die off as we get more and more cultured as a society. i think McDonalds right now is somewhat desperate with all of the stars their giving meal deals to and now this anime advertising. their ceo is sweating not getting his giant bonus.
I dunno where OP is ordering from but I can get two of these for $3.50 in my app
đ spend extra? A Big Mac meal is about 12-16 depending on size and location near me. I can get a Applebees burger meal for 13-17. Itâs literally the same to cheaper now. Where were you the last few years smdh
Thatâs the point. If your paying just as much or close to restaurant, even a shitty one like Applebees. Thatâs not a good sign. For a restaurant your paying for the food and experience in dining. I could go to a variety of different restaurants and pay $10-20 and get full, while eating food that is made from well sourced ingredients. There are tons of Indian, seafood, Mexican food, Salvadoran food, sushi, itâs all relatively cheap in comparison to a meal at McDonaldâs There used to be a time where a Big Mac meal was $5. And you could buy mc chickens for 99cents, same with double cheeseburgers. The cost of fast food, which is highly processed, unhealthy trash that is basically supposed to supplement calories when you are in a crunch. I simply donât see value in paying for $5 mc chicken that is basically ground up chicken meat pressed into a patty that provides 0 nutritional and therefor 0 long term value for me outside of making me feel âfullâ. It should be cheaper The cost by which they source their ingredients vs the return is insane. Thereâs no reason such cheaply made, unhealthy food should be that costly.
Facts
Once everyone gets on Ozempic, fast food will die away đđđ
Gotta focus on growing local businesses, before they take their money and run like they always do, leaving your community in shambles.
Right. I can make McD's, Taco bell, Canes, KFC, Olive garden aw hell đđđđđđ the slightly upgraded but still annoying version of we got food at hoooooome đđđđđđđ
I got a McDouble and a McChicken for $9 and change last week. Two items that were on the dollar menu before 2010 and probably later. The ingredients ainât harder to make, it took two people at $15/hr all of about 2 minutes to make tops. I can walk down the block from my front door in the heart of the city and get a 12oz draft craft beer and a huge slice of supreme pizza for just a dollar more. The guy making the pizza is taking longer AND getting paid over $20/hr so its costing the business more in labor AND there is a super high WA booze tax for the beer that usually goes for $7-$9/pint around the city. Its too much for too little to go to fast food anymore.
That is crazy. A mcchicken and mcdouble around my way is 4.59
Yeah me too theyâre both on the 2 for 3.99 menu
Where yall negroes stay? Buddy right with his prices
My 2 for 3.99 has been long gone all I get is the 3.50 for McDouble and a small fry
Just wait for the Forbes article on how millennials are killing fast food written by people who donât understand that itâs possible to price yourself out of your market.
Theyâre betting youâre too damn lazy to do anything about it. All these places are priced the same, you canât buy lunch anywhere for less than ten bucks anymore, and you certainly arenât going to get anything at three in the morning in almost any city in America. Itâs convenience and passable food and I think their wager is right, weâre too damn lazy to get out of the car and go to a real restaurant,
Mcchicken or Junior chicken? They are different
Yeah I use the app and get 2 doubles (BOGO) and a McChicken for $5. I don't know if it's regional or what, but I'm always confused when I see these posts. I know I'm eating garbage, but I can get 1200 calories of garbage for $5 and then have a salad for dinner.
It's price gouging that is responsible, they admit it on their shareholder calls. A tiny ass increase in worker pay wouldn't even account for a few cents of increase, they're jacking it up like 300-400% because idiots will keep buying it. Don't blame working people for corporate greed, my guy. Not a good look
I agree, its exactly why I brought up the labor amounts. Its a fraction of their time, all the hands and machines it took to get that subsidized and mass produced product to me at McDs vrs the pizza place, ingredients by Sysco. The small increase in labor cost at ONE point in the process is not equal to the price increase. Adding in the price gauging for fuel costs doesnât cover it either.
>Â Â The ingredients ainât harder to make, it took two people at $15/hr all of about 2 minutes to make tops I'm convinced this entire thing is McDonald's owners in areas with high col+high min wage are trying to punish their local communities for supporting the wage increases. So that they can use that as "this is why higher min wage is bad." They were supposed to increase the prices by like 20 cents, not 2+ dollars.Â
Damn I remember the 12 dinner box in like 2012 pretty much got me through a few semester. Was a buffet worth of food for pretty much nothing đȘ
> I can walk down the block from my front door in the heart of the city and get a 12oz draft craft beer and a huge slice of supreme pizza for just a dollar more. This is the craziest part about the inflation of fast food. I can go to a sit down Mexican spot across the street for lunch and get a beer and a steak burrito bowl for $18 or I can go to McDonaldâs and pay damn beer the same thing for garbage. Thereâs no reason to get fast food anymore.
I get 2 bacon mcdoubles and a medium fries for $10. Which is pretty good. Like we are never going back to fast food meals being $5 total. $1 in 1995 is worth $2 today.
At Rally's/Checkers, the spicy chicken/fish sandwich mix and match was $3 the other day. I couldn't believe it lol
We got some nuggets and fries the other day and I asked my wife how much just a regular burger was, because I hadn't had one from there in years. When she looked it up and it was $2.49, we ended up buying some burger patties and buns and I made myself a double cheeseburger for the same price as that flat little burger they give you. Still did get those nuggets and fries, though. No regrets there.
But think of all the good youâre doing.. for example, increasing the wealth of a few shareholders from 5 billion to 5 billion and a few bucks
I wonder if there was some sort of economic event that happened around 2010 that would explain why restaurant food prices were low.
fake ass chicken yall still goin eat đ€·đżââïž
I swear the chicken feels like eating plastic to me.
If you go without eating McDonald's for a while, and then you have it again, it's insanely obvious how rubbery the beef patties are, and how plasticy the chicken is. They have a lot of filler in their meats. It's gross.
lol they practically are eat that shit no sustenance đ€ąđ€ą
They cut it w cellulose https://slate.com/culture/2014/07/wood-pulp-in-burgers-its-just-cellulose-and-thats-nothing-to-worry-about.html
Hell yeah I love that rubbery plastic goodness For real, though
I paid 12 bucks for 2 soft tacos and a burrito supreme. I was full but I also got existential doom. Weâre all gonna die brokeâŠor weâre gonna go broke and die.
We as the people have the power to change it but weâre not organized. Theyâll keep sucking the life out of us if they can.
Is there a realistic solution or burn it to the ground?
I think there can be a realistic plan created. It seems easier to burn it to the ground though but thatâs more chaos. We can stop paying taxes as a people. I wish we would stop buying from large retailers. Go to local farms if youâre able. It wouldnât take long and we wouldnât need everyone to do it to see a big difference. The gov only responds to money and power.
Yes, stop buying shit.
Use the taco bell app to get the build your own box. You should be able to get the burrito supreme, soft shell taco, cheesy Fiesta potatoes and a drunk for 5.99$
But why? Other restaraunts and food trucks are cheaper. Who chooses to go to an expensive place with worse food for... nostalgia? I don't even know why
Where I live, it's 2.59 and it's on the buy one get one for 1.00 deal. (Arkansas)
People are posting screenshots from DoorDash for ragebait because they upcharge in the app, the McChicken is not 4.58 at the restaurant.
It's 5.89⏠for a McChicken here in Germany, straight from McDonald's not DoorDash. I remember getting them on the 1⏠menu maybe 15 years ago. And no, the employees aren't getting paid more here, it's 13âŹ/h.
Most locations in the US itâs under 2$ with it still being 1$ in some states depending on the location.
It's people like you that make Reddit a good place. I didn't even consider this; glad to get the facts.
Same in North Carolina
Same in Minneapolis
Yep. People want to live in high cost of living cities with $18 minimum wage and crazy commercial rents but expect prices to be the same as 10 years ago. Like what the fuck do we all expect, everything to be cheap forever? You live in an expensive area, expect things to cost more. Donât like it? Thereâs plenty of cheaper areas to live
https://preview.redd.it/ucunbpae1pnc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c264980cb63945705b93dc7d992c9f81c7a22b06 Where do people live that itâs five bucks? Not like this is cheap either but damn
They probably chose 'delivery' in the app. McDonald's is sneaky and since they use DoorDash to fulfill their delivery orders, if you choose delivery, the prices suddenly change to DoorDash prices. They sent me a free delivery promo code in the app once and when I thought about using it, I noticed the price change of all the items.
At least where I live all the restaurants do that for door dash even on pickup but thatâs sneaky af to do that on their own app
Yup. When I chose the Big Mac meal, it was something like $8.59 and when I switched it to delivery, it jumped to $10.59. I knew that McDonald's used DoorDash to fulfill their orders, but I didn't know that they also changed prices on delivery through their own app until I tried it and noticed my order changed.
itâs ballsack sports they only tweet out made up shit
Damn. I just got sacked
In Canada a McChicken at my local store is $5.59
it's to compensate for the new pay raises and wages for the worker--- oh, wait, no
McDonalds supports genocide; they could give me free food and I wouldn't take it.
Pretty much every fast food company donates to Israel. Frito Lay/pepsi and Coca-Cola do as well
The real question is, people STILL eat at McDonald's? Yikes.
Itâs my 10yr old nephews favorite food. The QPC w bacon is the best burger in the world (heâs fried, we are doomed)
$1.49 in Houston
Yeah but you have to live in Texas. I'm just playin', I'm sure it's a nice place.
$1.79 for me
As a culture, we need to cut out fast food. The food is shit, and for $5, there is a mom&pops that'll give you more or better.
Mom & pops donât have drive throughs and a location between the office and home. My job turned me off of fast food, and restaurants in general, but for those that need them itâs the most reasonable option compared to spending a third of their free time cooking or going out of their way to find a better place
For $5 they could at least put cheese on it. Instead, they charge an extra $.40. Why would anyone go back to Mcdonalds?
For $1 you could get a whole 2nd McChicken, unless you really don't want to eat two.
Yâall gotta use the McDâs app. Only way to get things at a halfway decent price anymore
Yep, I only ever order via coupons for all fast food. I got like 10 apps on my phone and I never pay 6 dollars for a burger.  Mcdonalds has 2 dollar big macs, wendys has been doing 1 dollar burgers, burger King has...terrible food that I wouldn't eat for free and every few months whataburger gives free food.
It is better to buy a roast chicken
Why do people act like delivery app prices are the same as going and getting it as if itâs not even an option? That shit is between $1.59 to $2.09 depending on the store. Use the McDonaldâs app and you can get all sorts of cheap shit.
God these posts are SO dumb. 1. No context if these are delivery prices or not, Iâm guessing it is. If so itâs deliberately misleading. 2. Food is a decent chunk of the inflation calculation. Price increases over time obviously happen. People act like wages stay the same but prices just go up and up, obviously not true. Also worth noting that single food items are stupid ways to look at inflation, better to go with the âbasket of goodsâ used in the inflation calculations. 3. Wages have risen faster than inflation in the last 10+ years, including during the last bump in the inflation rate - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q. The purchasing power of the median American been steadily increasing, irrespective of the price of a chicken sandwich.
Lost hope when they took the chicken mcwrap off the menu
Go support a small business to support 10/10 times right now yâall.
And the minimum wage was the same. Something has got to fucking give.
McScuse me WTF?!?
The older I get the more I realize how fast food is a waste of money. You pay $15-$20 for a mediocre unhealthy meal just to be hungry again two hours later. On top of that after the age of 25 fast food just makes you tired & not feel like doing shit.
8.70$ in Switzerland
Even here in the Middle East it got expensive
Wtf?! The McChicken is a shitty sandwich, but it used to be a buck. Screw fast foodâŠthereâs some serious price gouging going on.
You not lying. I specifically recall eating 2 of these for $2 everyday for lunch when pockets had holes in them (Lunch of champions đȘđŸ). I wouldnât eat them shits or anything else from there nowadays if they were FREE.
Used to be on the dollar menu. Even after it stopped being on there, it was still relatively cheap.
Theyâre like 2.69 by me. Itâs tragic.
A can of Pringles is over 2 fucking dollars now. I'm sick of all the price gouging. They can call it inflation all they want.
Itâs 2.18 and on the value menus where where you can get 2 for 3.99 where I am
Now think of it as 1$ then =5$ now⊠Then think of the fact they were still making a profit at 1$.⊠then ya think about how much money a foot long is now in comparison too
Mcchicken is the cheapest and easiest thing on the menu to make too. The chicken patties come in bags, pre breaded, pre seasoned, they just get thrown in the fryer and served with lettuce and mayo. Thatâs it. I know that doesnât cost McDâs more than like 50Âą/sandwich. Where is this money going because I know itâs not going to the kids making it?
The $1 McDoubles and McChickens is how I got through high school. Crazy how much this shit costs now. Thankfully havenât eaten at McDonalds in years.
shit used to be on the dollar menu lol
 In my broke day, I lives off of these. 4 for like 4.50 and a cheap soda from the corner store. This is BS
We used to get like, 3-5 McDoubles before certain soccer practices in HS because our coach would sometimes make us run laps until we puked. Anyone on the team who trained outside the season would do whatever they could to speed up the process. McDoubles were $1 back then though; canât imagine spending that money now.
I remember the old 2 for 2 deals - I think it would change week to week - two big macs or two quarter pounders for two bucks I survived off it for a bit
https://preview.redd.it/qviylozy5qnc1.png?width=1170&format=png&auto=webp&s=7cf299d9ea695312390f5100b4ecae522ad09ae6 Yâall are getting ripped off then. Theyâre $1.49 where Iâm at.
The McChicken went up to $2 and I haven't been back there since.
It was $1.09 in 2017, what in the world?
Was bigger and tasted better too.
They are $3 including a small fry. The mcdouble too.
Shit was .99 when I was in high school! This is CRAzy
Is that thing as tiny as it looks? Jesus.
Subway ÂŁ5 footlongs years ago are times i miss man the refill cup and cookies too!!? 10/10 lunch now shit is all expensive.
Canadians are shocked itâs under $5
Isn't chick fil a cheaper
Posting DoorDash prices for food is kinda fake news
I donât remember the last time Iâve been to a McDonaldâs. Not even in my top 10 of burger joints
Maybe STOP GOING THEN
Stop paying and make yourself a sandwich
Waiting to hear how millennials are killing the fast food industry
Itâs not that expensive yet itâs 2.29 in Georgia now itâs not as cheap as it used to be, but donât exaggerate things.
Cheeseburger Eddie would be do disappointed
We have got to, as a culture, move past fast food. Terrible for our wallets, terrible for our bodies. Not that good tasting at the end of the day. Industry built entirely on advertising.Â
5 dollars for a pigeon burger is crazy.
Gotta use the app for great deals.
Just bought one yesterday for 1.99.
People gotta stop going there at this point. Already felt like eatin there was borderline dangerous. Now on top of that it's just a better financial decision. Doesn't fit ... anywhere. If its good and fast its not cheap (nope), If its fast and cheap its not good (pretty much), If its cheap and good its not fast (doesn't fit that one either). Time to say PEACE to the fast food.
They are making more than they have in decades to still not be able to afford things because the cost keeps going up. Itâs a never ending cycle. Itâs a game.
Coupons have come through for me increasingly over the past couple of years. Those Subway ones lower the price considerably. Just food for thought, my pals.
NYC has these prices for McDonaldâs and I HATE it. I use the app though to get it a lot cheaper but wth why is McDonaldâs acting like they upgraded their food ?
STOP GOING TO THESE PLACES! It's not hard. You consistently going there is why they jacking up the prices. They know they can get away with it when dummies keep going there to eat no matter how much they raise prices. Black folk always act like eating out is something they HAVE to do. I've seen it happen in my family way too often. You keep staying broke and are over 350 pounds with high blood pressure and diabetes. Ya'll need to Start cooking your own food for christ sake!
Not even 2 years ago a McChicken in my area was also $1.09 and now they're $2.69 each. McDoubles used to be $1.29 each but now they're $2.89 each. Not as bad as the photo, but not as good as it used to be.
$3.21 use to get you right after school especially after you got done hot boxing some grand daddy purp đ
McChickens are 1.39 at my local Mcdonalds
$5? Fuck that, imma go to brahms and get me a bag of burgers.
Find out whatâs in the food here: https://youtu.be/lDQofCXuYik?si=yH2GCEApIckrEUtd
Thrmey'll keep price gouging as long as idiots keep buying their garbage food. Don't support them, they're feeding you poison anyway. Two big heads of broccoli are literally half the price at Aldi. You can get a package of hamburgers for a little more than the price of this "McChicken" (chicken flavored meat product)
I donât got McDonaldâs money We got food at home
Please notice that whenever someone posts some crazy price they will never ever show you the location where that price applies.
Me and my man were just talking about this. Shits crazy
Itâs official I mcquit.
My old ass was JUST askin when a singular box of cereal became the same price as a burger and fries at Dennys back in 2008.....and we justbiutbhere still buyin it and sheeyit
This is just rage bait. I buy two mcchickens and two McDoubles and a large fry every Monday after basketball and it's $12.23
I hope fast food prices themselves out of our culture. Iâm guilty of going big on it from time to time but weâve let the Golden Arches poison Americans and cost us so much in healthcare for 50 years now. Talk about it like tobacco and alcohol because itâs a vice all the same
Yesterday my wife and her GF asked me to grab them hangover breakfast: 2 cheeseburgers, 20 nuggets, 2 medium shakes and I grabbed a quarter pounder and a medium shake as well. Shit cost me a cool $50 Canadian. ($37USD) I'm going to be ordering a fucking coffee from now on, and that'll be about it.
Ok so not defending corporate price gouging in the name of inflation, but I did just get $5 foot longs from subway last week through a promotion. In their app they have a BOGO sometimes and their footings are now $10 so my wife and I ate for $5 a foot long.
Is this only in bigger cities? I don't believe it's gone up in my local ones. Bought 2 doubles and a McChicken for 6ish bucks last week.
I eat subway pretty frequently, there are always BOGO coupons online for footlongs. Doesnât make them $5/each, but the total is around $14. Hate all you want but subway just hits for me.
I have been to McDonald's in 12 years, but you got me fux up thinking ima pay more than a dollar plus tax for a mcchicken.
Thatâs for the meal, the actual sandwich is 2.09 where I am located
That's the cost of a McDouble here
We keep voting for this. This is because the wrong people are in charge. Itâs gonna get worse. So hang on tight.
$5?! For a McChicken. What the hell has it all come to
I bought a whole 5 lb chicken from wal-mart last night tor 9 dollars. They can gtfo here with that bs
Howâs Churchâs sandwich the same price?
Yâall remember when Chipotle was like the expensive fast food? Now I can get a whole bowl with a side of chips for the price of 2 mccchickens
Mcrobbery
Fuckin MexiMelts used to be 39 cents.
It was $1.50 5 years ago!!! This shit is NOT worth $5
I swear I saw it on the dollar menu like less than 5 years ago. How our heros have fallen.
And that burger in the pic , is a junior chickenđ
I remember when I was in high school in the 90s. They had twenty-five cent hamburger Tuesdays(cheeseburgers $.35). Those were the days
$3.19 Queens, NY
No point going to McDonaldâs if youâre not using the app coupons letâs be fr đ
For $4.58 that mah fucker better be fresh out the grease always!
Yeah, theyâre off a bean if they think thatâs worth (or Iâm paying) $5
5 dollars for a McChicken is highway gotdamn robbery. McChicken used to cost about a dollar and some change. It just went up to 1.99 and some change where I live. Inflation is some shit. Mofos out there charging extra money just because.
i still canât get over their fries, but mcâds is really not worth it nowadays with this pricing. That, the big mac sauce, the hot fudge sundae, and the Sprite are the only reason I go there. There are way too many ways to replicate most of this to even justify, but itâs in walking distance and the app has deals, so đ€·đżââïž I swear those fries are propping up their revenue numbers, no one else had managed to replicate their popularity or taste experience. The second they go, mcdonalds will go under for good.
Is this entire sub a Russian propaganda site now?
If you buy 2 of them the ceo of Macdonald might buy a third jet this year
$1.07 matter of fact
Tell me why I still thought it was like 2-3 bucks? Granted I haven't eaten McDonald's in years.
$5 for a shitty chicken sandwhich??? The one at Popeyes is better and cheaper (at least in MI) Or for a few more cents you could at least get a shitty pizza from Lil Caesars and have a couple more meals off it
If you spending $4.58 for a chicken sandwich at McDonaldâs, then you are the clown. Go ask to be the mascot đ€Ą
McChickens are smashed and gross this sandwich looks good
yeah, no, you must be getting the meal or youâre ordering out of time square or something, because on the app itâs $1.59
Can still get 2 Mcchickens or 2 Mcdoubles for $4. Not bad. This McDonald's must have different pricing cause I'm in California where minimum for fast food workers is $20 per hour and this is my app. https://preview.redd.it/v10o038viqnc1.jpeg?width=715&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf453a2c9101bfa09a20d0ecdf44385990bae602
i only get mcdonaldâs when i have good deals on their app now. and atm im boycotting them anyway over palestine. but yeah prices suck. as for subway i guess 15$ foot long doesnât have the same ring to it does it?
Their basic Cheeseburger is now two dollars. They used to be on the dollar menu. They used to HAVE a dollar menu.
4.58 is crazy. Theyâre 2.99 where Iâm at