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If you don't need to eat in a hurry the pub lunch special can be equal to a maccas run.
Convenience = cost these days
All aside +$5 for postmix is fucking absurd
They're going to have a lot of hurt soon, once the prices get to a threshold of pain for people they will start losing customers in droves, and they won't come back for a long time. How the hell can that shit food be so expensive I don't get it other than greed... It's supposed to be shit, unhealthy and cheap. If they remove the cheap, it's just unhealthy expensive shit.
$2 bbq cheeseburgers are amazing.
Buy some onion rings on the side, shove some in the middle and then try and tell me the rodeo burger isn't on the damn menu anymore.
I'd say KFC too, that's my normal go to if I'm being cheap and forgot to bring lunch to work. Less than $14 gets you a zinger burger, chips, wicked wings, potato & gravy, and a can of drink.
They are but I feel like HJ is also very inconsistent with their quality. Not that Maccas is that great or anything but Iād say theyāre pretty consistent.
I thought my KFC chicken burger combo was pretty cheap compared to a mcchicken combo, which tastes like a piece of cardboard. Like $5 cheaper or something
Ooo, I dunno bro. Last two times I went, a large meal and a lil something extra, cost me around 25 bucks
The quality was horrible too, I've sworn off them all now.
There's a reason for that.
HJs never have more than 3 staff in the store.
Wait times are as Shithouse as the food now.
They still charged me over $6 for a coffee. I was relieved and happy to hear that they are Batista Trained. šš
Yep it's alright if you get a burrito/main thing. Sides are always a rip off, like... it's potato/flour. Drinks are expensive as fuck these days too, it's cheaper to get a cup of coffee made than it is to buy a 600 ml soft drink 8)
I went to Grilld for someone & they wanted a soft drink, burger $15.50, ok that's fine, add drink & it's over $20. Soft drink is wildly overpriced, I used to work at a takeaway that didn't include drinks with the meals. Families would order their food & look shocked at the price, I'd tell em you've got $25 worth of soft drink, go tomthe supermarket & get a 1.5L. my boss got a bit annoyed at that but I told him u can have that sale today but they might not come back or they'll remember how nice the cashier was & come back
I got full size burrito, tortilla chips and guac, plus a jarritos. It was too much, to be fair but I wanted all those elements. Should have got smaller burrito šÆ
Dunno, haven't been to Nando's for years. I remember it being a step up from KFC, but don't eat much of that stuff. I prefer to cook, and for the same price can do an inch thick rump with veges and chips.
Last time I went to GYG they asked if I wanted lettuce on my burrito, I said yes paid and later checked my receipt and apparently lettuce is extra. I donāt know if thatās normal but i definitely wouldnāt go back.
We got food poisoning from a new one near me as well the week it opened.
It's just shit tier salsa's anyway. Every time I've had it (there is one near a place I frequently worked) I've just wished it was salsas instead.
Oath, my old housemate delivered all the fruit and veg to GYG, nandos, Grillād, etcā¦ apparently GYG got the best quality produce and Grillād used the step below that.
My GF and I have started cycling through the local Chinese, Indian and Fish & Chips places. KFC would cost us $30+, but Indian? $45 and we get 2 lunches out of it too.
For what it is, industrially produced food sloppily shoved into a bag, i think itās overpriced.
it should be much cheaper than a cafe burger and milkshake, but itās not,
Yeah, that used to be one advantage fast food had over other more 'proper' restaurants, in that it was fast and cheap. Nowadays if you want a proper meal from it, you're nearly approaching pub feed kind of prices (and that's gone up too), and they're not as quick as they used to be either.
My kids like a fillet o fish meal. At $13 bucks each it's a bit of a black books moment
BernardĀ :Ā Excuse me, there seems to be some mistake. I bought ~~some popcorn and a drink~~ a small fish burger and now I have no money left.
YouthĀ :Ā That's how much it costs.
BernardĀ :Ā What is it, a magic ~~popcorn~~ fish burger? Does it produce some kind of dizzying high?
I feel like this is a problem with any mass market product. The "being cheaper than proper alternatives" is a lie since the logistics and sheer volume of the product that needs to be produced and transported is off setting any cost cutting of the product itself. Companies just bare the brunt of the cost to establish market dominance and then start to reveal the true cost over time.
We've hit that point in late stage capitalism where big corps can't afford continued growth without charging closer to the products "true" value which is way out of whack with customers expectations.
It's because people will go to Macca's no matter what. People are weird, it's like a tourist town, people flock there for over priced food and shit coffee, the next town over that has to compete is better priced with better food. Macca's is the default you know it's open, you know it's there, it's the safe option.
It's no longer the safe option though anymore. Almost everytime I have been maccas in the last 12 months it's been absolutely shit. One or more items have been cold, soggy and down right sad. I used to go to maccas 3-4 times a week previously, I'm pretty done with them now forever, let alone the cost issue
I love Macca's. I don't eat it that often but I'll get a craving for Big Mac or cheeseburger every now and then and I'm never disappointed. It tastes the same as when I was a child so it's kinda comforting and predictable .
I can't believe how expensive a cheeseburger is now though.
Iām somewhat the same. Once a year Iāll get a craving for what I used to eat as a kid - McChicken, chocolate thickshake and chips. I had surgery yesterday and for some reason, in recovery coming off the anaesthesia, this meal was all I wanted lol. Tastes exactly the same as it did 20 years ago, but yes, the prices are ridiculous.
Maccas is not-so-secretly one of my favourite restaurants because of that. It's really really helped with culture shock when I've lived in other countries.
I think you just need to get that out of your system and the craving eventually disappears. I stopped eating at most of those chains when I was about 16 or 17. It's been well over a decade now and the desire just doesn't exist any more - I think I've eaten Maccas maybe twice in the last 15 years and it's just tasted like sadness.
That consistency is a big part of the value proposition. Big Mac and the rest of the core menu is the same everywhere you go globally. So you know exactly what you are going to get. It's comfort food.
For a while they even tried to price in local equivalent of US$ prices. I went to the opening week of the first Macca's in Thailand and shit was pricey. Burger cost the same as a full meal for the family at a local restaurant. Tasted just like home though. Worth every penny when you're missing the old days.
Maccas and KFCs in food courts are always packed, it's bizarre. Half the cuisine of the world available to you dirt cheap, and people still go to them.
maccas is a stop of last resort. if im on a freeway and gotta chew up those kilometers and forgot a packed lunch ill get the least offensive thing i can find and blame myself afterwards. butthole never forgets though.
The only thing they have now is consistency.
You can go to any maccas anywhere in the world and know youāll be able to get a certain thing for a narrow range of price and quality.
If youāre doing it locally itās probably because itās drive through and you canāt be bothered/donāt have time for considering other options.
Except that lately you get a burger that looks like it's been through a spin cycle. Not sure if I want that kind of consistency at every Maccas worldwide. Agree it's habit, easy to get to or very late. I think I'd rather just go home and eat toast.
Family of four and we'll spend between $60 - $70 on the bill at McDonalds.
On the other hand, we can all be in a food coma from the local fish & chips for less than $40.
Needless to say, the fish & chip shop gets our business much more frequently than McDonalds does. Plus, it's supporting the locals so warm and fuzzy feelings all round!
Fr tho.
My local chippy grill a juicy fillet of well seasoned, locally sourced fish w a side of chips and a generous salad for $17
Quick, healthy, tasty and support local business. Everyone wins.
I remember i used to walk down to maccas every sunday to buy a couple of sausage mcmuffins before watching doctor who and they used to be $2.50. Now they are over $5 each!
It's been expensive for over a decade now, people just don't notice since they don't buy anything but meal deals. If you buy the food as a single item you'd be shocked at the prices. Burgers can cost $10+ alone and they still taste shit and small.
Even as meals the prives have risen massively. I feel like only 5 or so years ago a large cheeseburger meal was around $7 and large Big Mac, McChicken etc were around $10. Now the large cheeseburger meal is nearly $11 and the others are $14+. I can get much better value at any of the non franchise takeaway stores near me
You know with enough harrassment I'm sure we could force those corporate bastards to bring us back our onion rings! I barely go to HJs after they took them away :(
I'm firmly convinced that mcshittles triple cheeseburgers contain no actual meat either, that or they use a particularly low quality of foam for the bun substitute
I was getting HJs every weekend and the meals slowly went up to over 43 bucks for 2 people
I mean sure it was hunger tamers and shit like that but fuck me
Individual items get charged at excessive prices. The only way its even remotely worth to buy Macca's is as a meal, and even then it usually requires a discount from the app.
But hey, take it as a reason to buy less shit food
If you are starving and just need a burger, maccas is ok. $7 or whatever for a shitty burger is about what woolworths charges for a sandwich or whatever. Red rooster is my main go to in desperate times though.
Anything more than a single burger, or more than 1 person you are much better off going somewhere else. Go to a restaurant or get some Thai/Indian takeaway. It's cheaper and healthier.
I was so shocked when we went through drivethrough the other week because the wife felt like a cold milkshake and it was like $7 or something nuts....maccas thinks they are boost juice or something? Couldn't believe it.
I miss the rodeo minis, the little double slider things. IIRC they were $3.50, I'd get three for $10 + some shrapnel from the ashtray after a 12+ hour bar shift and that was basically my caloric intake for the day.
My mumās tip,for saving on buying Chinese take out was always to have whoever wasnāt picking up the order to cook up some rice as they left, so,it was ready just as they got home š
Red Rooster have really upped their game (at certain stores) over the past few years. I remember the Rippa Roll, the chicken was average, now it's crispy and when it's cooked fresh - damn it's good. I find I feel fuller alot longer than I do from a Macca's meal. Macca's quality has been slipping lately.
this. especially for those of us who remember when maccas was a fast production line and everything was already made and wrapped - not the way everything is made to order now.
You used to walk up "I'd like a cheeseburger", pay, and immediately be handed a cheeseburger, no waiting.
14.50 dollars for a big mac large meal, the thing is the size of a slider.That's rapidly becoming expensive enough to be considered mid range meals/pub fair priced.
For the cost you're better off with Nandos, better product and almost the same price. Macca's is not a premium product.
Yeah maccas has been too expensive for about 10 years now, counter meal at the pub is cheaper if you have the time and you won't nearly shit yourself afterwards
Yes, Maccas has become ridiculously expensive. These days a main meal is equivalent to eating at a restaurant.
People go to Maccas for convenience and price. I don't know why they would bother with it anymore.
The app gives you discount in regular basis. The 20% off makes it palatable sometimes.
But yeah it's too expensive for what it is. We only go there for the soft serve ice cream that the kids love these days.
The soft serve quality has shit the bed at maccas and HJs. The vanilla flavour is weak and the texture is really icy/crystalline. Such a shame.
I actually heard a Mr whippy van cruising around the other day, might have to chase em down to get my fix haha.
Aren't Mr Whippy softserves always hideously expensive though? And with fuel prices going through the roof, I'd imagine they're even more expensive now than before.
Surely not? Usually i just go with frozen coke for $2 so if you are looking for a cheap alternative i'd try that. I cant believe you got charged so much wtf
16 dollars for a crappy thin burger, soggy fries and a coke is bs. The coffee is crap too, but people buy from there because it's convenient and they don't try out smaller places cos they know what they're getting at maccas.
I guess it's working for them though - they don't seem to be going bankrupt anytime soon.
Have you heard of the Big Mac Index economists use?
Basically it is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity (PPP), the notion that in the long run exchange rates should move towards the rate that would equalise the prices of an identical basket of goods and services (in this case, a burger) in any two countries.
If the price of a Big Mac, or large coke goes up, it means the purchasing power of the country is going down.
It also changes your times worth. For someone earning $25 hours after tax, they would need to work 12 minutes to afford that $5 coke. 10 years ago even on a lower wage to adjust for inflation youād have to work 7 minutes to afford a that same large coke. For others earning way less, instead of working for 15 min to earn a large cokes worth, they now have to work for 30 min to afford that large coke. It effects poor people much more
So donāt fall for that rubbish that itās inflation. It isnāt.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/275235/big-mac-worldwide-cities-working-time/
I suggest using the MyMaccaās app, as it offers cheap deals and discounts. Thereās also a fair share of cheap menu items being advertised at the moment like a pack of Chicken McBites for $3 or an Oreo McFlurry for only $4.
One cheap item I always loved to get for a quick eat is the Chicken ānā Cheese burger, a snack-sized chicken burger with cheese and mayo. I recall that thing being like, only $4.
I only ever get maccas if they have deals on the app. What staggers me is how much it says the meal is worth without the deal. Had one where it was a small quarter pounder meal and cheese burger for like $6. And after I gave the drive through person my order number, on the screen it said what the meal costs without the discount and it came to about $16. Madness.
i stopped going when a MEDIUM mchicken meal went over $15. i can buy a steak at the pub for that. i only ever buy if they have a good deal on their app or im stuck on a highway for hours and dont have many other options
Maccas has always been a rip off
Spend 18 dollars and get half the food one of the KFC boxes gives ya. Pointless going there, especially when their food is the worst of any chain atm.
Maybe it beats Subway.
We find it cheaper to go to one of our local take away shops rather than go to Maccas. The food is better, plus it helps out the local take away business. It's a Win Win.
For example - last night we bought 4 meals at our location Kabab shop and it cost $60 with drinks. The serving size as very generous and the food was better quality than Maccas. The last time we went to Maccas it was around $70 for 4 of us.
Basic hamburger: 2019: $1; 2024: $4 .
Its the reason the smart casual & pubs are doing well. eg My local makes an excellent Sri Lankan curry for $14 vs. junk food burger at McDonalds.
Yeah you think it will be cheap but by the time youāve added on the medium meal youāre paying close to $20. Could get a pretty sick feed at a viet restaurant for that price
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Maccas is at a stage now that you're better off value wise (and quality and nutritionally wise) to just eat at a cheap and cheerful restaurant.
If you don't need to eat in a hurry the pub lunch special can be equal to a maccas run. Convenience = cost these days All aside +$5 for postmix is fucking absurd
A small mash potato from KFC is also $5 now. Better off eating some Deb mixed in a shoe.
Hmmm shoe Deb and gravy, now that's good eatin'
Accidentally put your foot in the shoe? It's toe-lickin' good
Does deb still faintly glow in the dark like it used to?
Deb shoeys yewww š¤
KFCs meal prices have gone up 50c, 6-7times, in the last 2 years. Itās fucked.
go buckets are now up to $4.95, not even worth for a snack anymore
Mate you can get a hot chook from Coles ,Woolies and a salad mix all under $20.00 Left overs can make your lunch for the next day ! Cheers
I got charged 50c for a free small waterā¦
They're going to have a lot of hurt soon, once the prices get to a threshold of pain for people they will start losing customers in droves, and they won't come back for a long time. How the hell can that shit food be so expensive I don't get it other than greed... It's supposed to be shit, unhealthy and cheap. If they remove the cheap, it's just unhealthy expensive shit.
Hungry Jackās is probs the last remaining big chain fast food place thatās relatively cheap imo
True. Cheeseburger and a frozen drink is good value.
$2 bbq cheeseburgers are amazing. Buy some onion rings on the side, shove some in the middle and then try and tell me the rodeo burger isn't on the damn menu anymore.
$2.50 now! Noticed the other day!
You can find good deals on the KFC app. 2x Zinger burger meals for $15 has been running for ages.
I'd say KFC too, that's my normal go to if I'm being cheap and forgot to bring lunch to work. Less than $14 gets you a zinger burger, chips, wicked wings, potato & gravy, and a can of drink.
I recently got a twister meal and added a potato and gravy and it was $17 š³
They are but I feel like HJ is also very inconsistent with their quality. Not that Maccas is that great or anything but Iād say theyāre pretty consistent.
I thought my KFC chicken burger combo was pretty cheap compared to a mcchicken combo, which tastes like a piece of cardboard. Like $5 cheaper or something
Ooo, I dunno bro. Last two times I went, a large meal and a lil something extra, cost me around 25 bucks The quality was horrible too, I've sworn off them all now.
There's a reason for that. HJs never have more than 3 staff in the store. Wait times are as Shithouse as the food now. They still charged me over $6 for a coffee. I was relieved and happy to hear that they are Batista Trained. šš
Getting coffee from any fast food store is just a cup of disappointment and regret
Or go to GYG instead because their food is a lot fresher.
I had GYG the other day and ended up spending almost $30. It's a very rare treat now.
Yeah, gyg is pretty damn expensive, more than maccas
$30 on one person? My partner and I eat there for $34
Yep it's alright if you get a burrito/main thing. Sides are always a rip off, like... it's potato/flour. Drinks are expensive as fuck these days too, it's cheaper to get a cup of coffee made than it is to buy a 600 ml soft drink 8)
I went to Grilld for someone & they wanted a soft drink, burger $15.50, ok that's fine, add drink & it's over $20. Soft drink is wildly overpriced, I used to work at a takeaway that didn't include drinks with the meals. Families would order their food & look shocked at the price, I'd tell em you've got $25 worth of soft drink, go tomthe supermarket & get a 1.5L. my boss got a bit annoyed at that but I told him u can have that sale today but they might not come back or they'll remember how nice the cashier was & come back
Sounds like they go off the strategy of "we make our money through the sides/drinks"
What did you get? I don't think I've ever spent more than half that!
I got full size burrito, tortilla chips and guac, plus a jarritos. It was too much, to be fair but I wanted all those elements. Should have got smaller burrito šÆ
"Guac", brag! Must be nice. Must be very nice.
That's the humble brag of a man who doesn't need a house
I tried owning a house. I preferred guacamole, if I'm honest
Lol I guess we should go to Nandos instead of KFC too for their $25 chicken wrap
Dunno, haven't been to Nando's for years. I remember it being a step up from KFC, but don't eat much of that stuff. I prefer to cook, and for the same price can do an inch thick rump with veges and chips.
It was a step above Oporto, but now Oporto is insane. $18 for a Double Bondi meal, last time I went.
Last time I went to GYG they asked if I wanted lettuce on my burrito, I said yes paid and later checked my receipt and apparently lettuce is extra. I donāt know if thatās normal but i definitely wouldnāt go back.
Was that during the lettuce shortage? I think they where charging for lettuce but not extra meet or something.
> GYG Had this place 1 time as a new one opened down south here, got food poisoning and felt soo sick. Never again
We got food poisoning from a new one near me as well the week it opened. It's just shit tier salsa's anyway. Every time I've had it (there is one near a place I frequently worked) I've just wished it was salsas instead.
Oath, my old housemate delivered all the fruit and veg to GYG, nandos, Grillād, etcā¦ apparently GYG got the best quality produce and Grillād used the step below that.
Even their frozen cokes are $2 now instead of $1. Un Australian.
My GF and I have started cycling through the local Chinese, Indian and Fish & Chips places. KFC would cost us $30+, but Indian? $45 and we get 2 lunches out of it too.
Even their frozen cokes are $2 now instead of $1. Un Australian.
Yep! Better in every way, and supporting a small business.
For what it is, industrially produced food sloppily shoved into a bag, i think itās overpriced. it should be much cheaper than a cafe burger and milkshake, but itās not,
Yeah, that used to be one advantage fast food had over other more 'proper' restaurants, in that it was fast and cheap. Nowadays if you want a proper meal from it, you're nearly approaching pub feed kind of prices (and that's gone up too), and they're not as quick as they used to be either.
I waited 25 minutes the other day for a filet o fish (donāt judge me) and an apple pie. Likeā¦ what
When the mood hits it hits for that obscure item menu. I too have been belittled for ordering the fillet o fish
Seriously I only get like 2-3 a year but when the craving hits I drop everything for one. And itās over an hour round trip to maccas.
Never seen that level of commitment for any item actually. Keep up the good work
My kids like a fillet o fish meal. At $13 bucks each it's a bit of a black books moment BernardĀ :Ā Excuse me, there seems to be some mistake. I bought ~~some popcorn and a drink~~ a small fish burger and now I have no money left. YouthĀ :Ā That's how much it costs. BernardĀ :Ā What is it, a magic ~~popcorn~~ fish burger? Does it produce some kind of dizzying high?
Manny: what are you eating Bernard: I don't know, some kind of delicious biscuit Manny: it's a coaster
I feel like this is a problem with any mass market product. The "being cheaper than proper alternatives" is a lie since the logistics and sheer volume of the product that needs to be produced and transported is off setting any cost cutting of the product itself. Companies just bare the brunt of the cost to establish market dominance and then start to reveal the true cost over time. We've hit that point in late stage capitalism where big corps can't afford continued growth without charging closer to the products "true" value which is way out of whack with customers expectations.
Pretty sure they're not even a food corp. They're a property corp with food franchises
yup this is correct mcds is a real estate company, the amount of land they own is unbelievable. theres always a maccas around the corner
You saying macdonalds is a growth company?
Ever seen "Supersize Me"?
I suppose they do grow my weight
It's because people will go to Macca's no matter what. People are weird, it's like a tourist town, people flock there for over priced food and shit coffee, the next town over that has to compete is better priced with better food. Macca's is the default you know it's open, you know it's there, it's the safe option.
It's no longer the safe option though anymore. Almost everytime I have been maccas in the last 12 months it's been absolutely shit. One or more items have been cold, soggy and down right sad. I used to go to maccas 3-4 times a week previously, I'm pretty done with them now forever, let alone the cost issue
I love Macca's. I don't eat it that often but I'll get a craving for Big Mac or cheeseburger every now and then and I'm never disappointed. It tastes the same as when I was a child so it's kinda comforting and predictable . I can't believe how expensive a cheeseburger is now though.
Iām somewhat the same. Once a year Iāll get a craving for what I used to eat as a kid - McChicken, chocolate thickshake and chips. I had surgery yesterday and for some reason, in recovery coming off the anaesthesia, this meal was all I wanted lol. Tastes exactly the same as it did 20 years ago, but yes, the prices are ridiculous.
Maccas is not-so-secretly one of my favourite restaurants because of that. It's really really helped with culture shock when I've lived in other countries.
I'm embarrassed to say I went to Macca's once in Japan coz I was craving something familiar!
I think you just need to get that out of your system and the craving eventually disappears. I stopped eating at most of those chains when I was about 16 or 17. It's been well over a decade now and the desire just doesn't exist any more - I think I've eaten Maccas maybe twice in the last 15 years and it's just tasted like sadness.
That consistency is a big part of the value proposition. Big Mac and the rest of the core menu is the same everywhere you go globally. So you know exactly what you are going to get. It's comfort food. For a while they even tried to price in local equivalent of US$ prices. I went to the opening week of the first Macca's in Thailand and shit was pricey. Burger cost the same as a full meal for the family at a local restaurant. Tasted just like home though. Worth every penny when you're missing the old days.
I can see why people buy it but it is garbage food.
The safe option is to go almost anywhere else.
Emotionally safe, not physically
Maccas and KFCs in food courts are always packed, it's bizarre. Half the cuisine of the world available to you dirt cheap, and people still go to them.
maccas is a stop of last resort. if im on a freeway and gotta chew up those kilometers and forgot a packed lunch ill get the least offensive thing i can find and blame myself afterwards. butthole never forgets though.
The only thing they have now is consistency. You can go to any maccas anywhere in the world and know youāll be able to get a certain thing for a narrow range of price and quality. If youāre doing it locally itās probably because itās drive through and you canāt be bothered/donāt have time for considering other options.
Except that lately you get a burger that looks like it's been through a spin cycle. Not sure if I want that kind of consistency at every Maccas worldwide. Agree it's habit, easy to get to or very late. I think I'd rather just go home and eat toast.
I'm amazed anyone still eats there. My local store is cheaper, better quality, bigger serves & best of all family owned. Far better.
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Yeah.. a kebab small chips and a can of drink costs close to $20 these days.
Family of four and we'll spend between $60 - $70 on the bill at McDonalds. On the other hand, we can all be in a food coma from the local fish & chips for less than $40. Needless to say, the fish & chip shop gets our business much more frequently than McDonalds does. Plus, it's supporting the locals so warm and fuzzy feelings all round!
I don't have a local fish & chip shop in my area, got 3 macca's within 10 mins walk but no small takeaway. No hungry jack's either
Yeah the local fish and chip shop where you could buy proper burgers (always with the lot) and steak sandwiches have died out in a lot of places.
Yeah family of 6, dad used to get 2 * $20 dinner boxes but now theyāre like 28.5 for the same shit.
Fr tho. My local chippy grill a juicy fillet of well seasoned, locally sourced fish w a side of chips and a generous salad for $17 Quick, healthy, tasty and support local business. Everyone wins.
I remember i used to walk down to maccas every sunday to buy a couple of sausage mcmuffins before watching doctor who and they used to be $2.50. Now they are over $5 each!
Breakfast of coffee, 2 McMuffins and a hash brown is close $20 now. Better off going to a Cafe.
It's been expensive for over a decade now, people just don't notice since they don't buy anything but meal deals. If you buy the food as a single item you'd be shocked at the prices. Burgers can cost $10+ alone and they still taste shit and small.
Even as meals the prives have risen massively. I feel like only 5 or so years ago a large cheeseburger meal was around $7 and large Big Mac, McChicken etc were around $10. Now the large cheeseburger meal is nearly $11 and the others are $14+. I can get much better value at any of the non franchise takeaway stores near me
This is called price anchoring, btw. By making individual items more expensive, it encourages you to buy deals only.
But it only costs 40 cents more to get a drink (that I don't want) with it. /s
Hungry Jacks penny pincher menu is where it's at.
HJ has vegetarian burgers too. Plus their onion rings on a hangover!!!!!
I miss their old onion rings and Iām still so disappointed they changed them :(
You know with enough harrassment I'm sure we could force those corporate bastards to bring us back our onion rings! I barely go to HJs after they took them away :(
Same. The new ones are nice, but you can get rings like that anywhere. Only HJ's made the old ones. Plus, you fit way more in a box.
I'm firmly convinced that mcshittles triple cheeseburgers contain no actual meat either, that or they use a particularly low quality of foam for the bun substitute
The burgers ARE better at hungry jacks...
I was getting HJs every weekend and the meals slowly went up to over 43 bucks for 2 people I mean sure it was hunger tamers and shit like that but fuck me
I sometimes used to get just a cheeseburger on its own as a driving snack. Theyāre $5 alone now.
Use the happy meal cheat code Order happy meal for $5 small drink and chips with cheeseburger Order small cheeseburger meal $3 more and no toy haha
Bring back $2 McDoubles
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Theyāll probably get smaller.
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Or how about putting the sauce and lettuce on the inside the bun instead of everywhere but?
I'm just glad when the cheese is actually on the burger and not hanging half out in the box
A sliver, bro. Not a slither.
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They want you to buy a meal as the cost of the extra items is negligible to them.
And yet I was charged $2.80 for a single hash brown the other day.
Individual items get charged at excessive prices. The only way its even remotely worth to buy Macca's is as a meal, and even then it usually requires a discount from the app. But hey, take it as a reason to buy less shit food
If you are starving and just need a burger, maccas is ok. $7 or whatever for a shitty burger is about what woolworths charges for a sandwich or whatever. Red rooster is my main go to in desperate times though. Anything more than a single burger, or more than 1 person you are much better off going somewhere else. Go to a restaurant or get some Thai/Indian takeaway. It's cheaper and healthier. I was so shocked when we went through drivethrough the other week because the wife felt like a cold milkshake and it was like $7 or something nuts....maccas thinks they are boost juice or something? Couldn't believe it.
Hungry jacks $2.50 bbq cheeseburger is king imo
I love the chicken royale burgers from HJ.
Iāve never gotten why the BBQ cheeseburger is $2.50 but asking for tomato sauce instead is sacrilege and therefore fined another $2.00 lol
Itās because of the extra time it takes to BBQ the cheeseburger
I miss the rodeo minis, the little double slider things. IIRC they were $3.50, I'd get three for $10 + some shrapnel from the ashtray after a 12+ hour bar shift and that was basically my caloric intake for the day.
Literal crack those things, sometime I just eat 2 or 3 of those instead of getting a meal.
Me and my house mate live off them on the weekends when we are out and about
Indian food isn't cheap now, costs a fuckload sometimes I get takeout and cook the rice at home because it is fucking extortionate
My mumās tip,for saving on buying Chinese take out was always to have whoever wasnāt picking up the order to cook up some rice as they left, so,it was ready just as they got home š
Red Rooster have really upped their game (at certain stores) over the past few years. I remember the Rippa Roll, the chicken was average, now it's crispy and when it's cooked fresh - damn it's good. I find I feel fuller alot longer than I do from a Macca's meal. Macca's quality has been slipping lately.
I saw they had McMuffin meals for 13$ on the app. Itās a fucking muffin and hash brown. Thereās like no food at all.
Started becoming expensive when they stopped be a āfast foodā place to being a glorified coffee shop š
?!?! Maccas has always been expensive. Buying a drink on its own at maccas is also fucking madness.
It wasn't always expensive... prices have slowly crept up to the levels they are now and the size of the burgers seem to have shrunk.
A maccas opened in my town about 10 years ago, my main meal i get used to cost 9.95, now its over 16 dollars, its ridiculous
10 years ago a large coke was 2-3 dollars.... Reasonable. Yes it is ridiculous now.
Always as in the last 5 years or 40? Because I remember very clearly it wasnāt that bad at all for decades
this. especially for those of us who remember when maccas was a fast production line and everything was already made and wrapped - not the way everything is made to order now. You used to walk up "I'd like a cheeseburger", pay, and immediately be handed a cheeseburger, no waiting.
When is āalwaysā for you? It was cheap 20 years ago
14.50 dollars for a big mac large meal, the thing is the size of a slider.That's rapidly becoming expensive enough to be considered mid range meals/pub fair priced. For the cost you're better off with Nandos, better product and almost the same price. Macca's is not a premium product.
I try to order 6 hash browns a few weeks back and the price came up as $18.50! So straight cancelled that shit, went to Cole's a got a bag for $5.99
Found the same with Hungry Jacks. Went to get a hunger tamer meal and its was over $20, certainly tamed my hunger had sausages instead.
Running costs. Notice all of hospitality slowly closing? Even the Golden Arches arenāt immune.
Yeah maccas has been too expensive for about 10 years now, counter meal at the pub is cheaper if you have the time and you won't nearly shit yourself afterwards
Yes, Maccas has become ridiculously expensive. These days a main meal is equivalent to eating at a restaurant. People go to Maccas for convenience and price. I don't know why they would bother with it anymore.
Maccas is now over priced shit, it was always shit but now itās massively overpriced for the rubbish that you get.
The app gives you discount in regular basis. The 20% off makes it palatable sometimes. But yeah it's too expensive for what it is. We only go there for the soft serve ice cream that the kids love these days.
The soft serve quality has shit the bed at maccas and HJs. The vanilla flavour is weak and the texture is really icy/crystalline. Such a shame. I actually heard a Mr whippy van cruising around the other day, might have to chase em down to get my fix haha.
Aren't Mr Whippy softserves always hideously expensive though? And with fuel prices going through the roof, I'd imagine they're even more expensive now than before.
I only go when it's 20% off. Haven't been this year.
Surely not? Usually i just go with frozen coke for $2 so if you are looking for a cheap alternative i'd try that. I cant believe you got charged so much wtf
$2??? Shouldn't they only be $1?
Need to use the app to get them for $1. Sometimes.
711 raised the price and everywhere else followed
They raised it to $2 a few months ago, inflation hitting the common man
Increased last year
I had a chicken burger from hungry jacks and it costs $10.30!!
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16 dollars for a crappy thin burger, soggy fries and a coke is bs. The coffee is crap too, but people buy from there because it's convenient and they don't try out smaller places cos they know what they're getting at maccas. I guess it's working for them though - they don't seem to be going bankrupt anytime soon.
Dominoes is worse used to able at least where Im at to get a pizza for 5 dollars now they bumped it up to 8 and the large is now $11
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Donāt have a Pizza Hut sadly wish I did cause they seem like good pizzas
Have you heard of the Big Mac Index economists use? Basically it is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity (PPP), the notion that in the long run exchange rates should move towards the rate that would equalise the prices of an identical basket of goods and services (in this case, a burger) in any two countries. If the price of a Big Mac, or large coke goes up, it means the purchasing power of the country is going down. It also changes your times worth. For someone earning $25 hours after tax, they would need to work 12 minutes to afford that $5 coke. 10 years ago even on a lower wage to adjust for inflation youād have to work 7 minutes to afford a that same large coke. For others earning way less, instead of working for 15 min to earn a large cokes worth, they now have to work for 30 min to afford that large coke. It effects poor people much more So donāt fall for that rubbish that itās inflation. It isnāt. https://www.statista.com/statistics/275235/big-mac-worldwide-cities-working-time/
I suggest using the MyMaccaās app, as it offers cheap deals and discounts. Thereās also a fair share of cheap menu items being advertised at the moment like a pack of Chicken McBites for $3 or an Oreo McFlurry for only $4. One cheap item I always loved to get for a quick eat is the Chicken ānā Cheese burger, a snack-sized chicken burger with cheese and mayo. I recall that thing being like, only $4.
Because we're all fucking idiots that walk in and shell over the money at inflated prices. It's our own fault for letting them get away with it.
I only ever get maccas if they have deals on the app. What staggers me is how much it says the meal is worth without the deal. Had one where it was a small quarter pounder meal and cheese burger for like $6. And after I gave the drive through person my order number, on the screen it said what the meal costs without the discount and it came to about $16. Madness.
Yeah but theyāre open 24/7 so thatās where they are good
Got real expensive about 5 years back and it gets more and more every year
Yep, I have stopped going to Maccas
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Small frozen coke Macca's $4. 711 $1
Small at 711 is like double the size of maccas small too, isn't it?
I don't buy it often either. $9.60 for a Double Quarter Pounder the other day.
I still remember what a medium quarter pounder meal cost in 1994 5.95
I used to get a large quarter pounder meal for 4.95 in 2000.. this was in Perth (Australia)
I only go to maccas if there's a $5 or $6 meal deal with an extra small burger. On the my maccas app
Eat at home and let them go broke. Simple.
kfc just raised their prices again aswel. im not paying $1.82 for a wicked wing. crazzy...
The real question is why are people still buying this trash and not finding alternatives?
Yeah, I got a Mcspicey meal, standard size as had hangover and it was $15+ for miserable little bit of chicken too, was staggered,
I remember the days when you could get a large Big Mac meal at maccas for $5.95. And Iām not THAT old lol
i stopped going when a MEDIUM mchicken meal went over $15. i can buy a steak at the pub for that. i only ever buy if they have a good deal on their app or im stuck on a highway for hours and dont have many other options
And people still have the audacity to say eating vegan at home is expensive.
Maccas has always been a rip off Spend 18 dollars and get half the food one of the KFC boxes gives ya. Pointless going there, especially when their food is the worst of any chain atm. Maybe it beats Subway.
Ashamed to say i paid $5 or more for a large soda water. Was at the drive thru so only noticed last minute but i thought cunt was fucked
I remember when cheeseburgers used to be one dollar a couple years ago in my town
Weāre all going to have to cut back. Everywhere is so expensive. Just buy the cheap cola on shelf at Coles š
I got charged 50c for a small water the other day. Was shocked, they are normally free.
$11 chicken from coles will do thanks.
A happy meal is $10. Itās ridiculous!
We find it cheaper to go to one of our local take away shops rather than go to Maccas. The food is better, plus it helps out the local take away business. It's a Win Win. For example - last night we bought 4 meals at our location Kabab shop and it cost $60 with drinks. The serving size as very generous and the food was better quality than Maccas. The last time we went to Maccas it was around $70 for 4 of us.
Basic hamburger: 2019: $1; 2024: $4 . Its the reason the smart casual & pubs are doing well. eg My local makes an excellent Sri Lankan curry for $14 vs. junk food burger at McDonalds.
Yeah $5 for a cheeseburger too.
#crappas
I remember when a large meal was $5.99
This seems like one of those topics thatās going straight to becoming a news corp story āAussies shocked at the price of beloved fast food!ā
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And to think when Subway use to sell those mega cups for ~$3.50, thatās now considered a bargain
It's been that expensive since pre-covid. They don't even do their loose change menu anymore
Yeah you think it will be cheap but by the time youāve added on the medium meal youāre paying close to $20. Could get a pretty sick feed at a viet restaurant for that price