• protist@mander.xyz
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    5 months ago

    There’s plenty affordable fast food out there, just not at McDonalds. McDonalds and other publicly traded fast food companies have jacked up prices to pay their shareholders while simultaneously decreasing quality and service across the board. Meanwhile, I’ve got a regional burger chain near me where I can get a double cheeseburger with fries for $5 that’s way more substantial than anything McDonalds offers.

    This isn’t “a boring dystopia,” this is just people dumping McDonalds, which is a good thing.

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      How is stuff getting shittier while prices go up not a boring dystopia? Like sure, publicly traded and all that, but isn’t that what we are here to comment on?

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        I worked at mcdonald’s. And the guy who owns the restaurants of mcdonalds in my country likes to race his ferari down the drive through. He is an arrogant swine. Said to my restaurant manager that “if you don’t make a 30% profit, why do it at all?” In response to the jacked up prices.

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    No no. It’s not that we can’t afford it. It’s the fact that food quality has diminished, portions have been shrunk, and now prices have risen to that of a sit down resteraunt.

    So logically speaking it makes more sense to get bigger portions, of better quality food, for the same price.

    Mcdonslds has priced themselves out of their own market. Stop trying to blame consumers for not buying, and start selling something consumers want to buy.

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    Yeah traditional fast food is expensive now, much more bang for your buck going to local chinese, mexican, and indian restaurants where I am. Even a subway sandwich has inched above the prices of local sandwich places (and it’s by far the lowest quality).

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    I don’t agree with the conclusion. Mcdonalds has gotten more expensive than many high end burgers, and mcdonalds is not a high end burger.

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      That’s the main reason I never get food there. I realized a few years ago that I can get better food for about the same price by going to Culver’s, or if I want I can even go to a sit down restaurant for not much more. I don’t even know what their prices are like now because it’s been a few years since I last stepped foot in McDonalds

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    5 months ago

    A lot of false conclusions here.

    • Groceries stores are now cheaper than fastfood / restaurants? That was always the case! $50 of food at the grocery store will always go farther than $50 at a restaurant.
    • It isn’t just the higher costs turning people away from McDonald’s. It is how shit the food has always been but now at even smaller sizes.
    • You can find better deals at actual restaurants not just rival fast food chains.
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    It was shit when I ate it for $1 a decade ago while I worked 3 jobs. It’s still shit, but now it costs 2-3x more. I since figured out how to cook stuff that doesn’t taste like shit for the same price or less

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    Im no longer going to mcdonalds because the wait times are insane. The inside staff are low staffed. If you order inside it will most likely take 20 minutes to get your food. If you’re in drive through, they just tell you to pull into one of the numbered spots, and then eventually you might get your food.

    They took the “fast” out of fast food and made it ridiculously expensive. So no, I’m not going to spend $10 on a meal thats going to take half an hour to make when I can just go to a sit down restaurant and get a much better burger for $12

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    5 months ago

    It fell by 1℅ between April and June. Bruh, technically true, but this is really clickbaity to me.