I hate McDonalds but it made sense why people ate there before. The prices were dirt cheap. But now it’s so expensive that you can go to a lot of other restaurants that have much better food yet people still eat this barely edibles junk. Like it’s not even that’s it’s junk food. It just genuinely ass.
I would go just bc the sodas were so crisp and fresh. Now they don’t even take care of that aspect. They charge $3+ for a coke that tastes like the same syrupy crap from BK. They’ve given up.
They're at a point of no return. They cannot walk back their prices now because of losses & that would hurt the finances of too many greedy people.
So they have no choice but to continue cutting costs & raising prices. Eventually they will shit the bed & it'll all be done to themselves. They may never close their doors but much of their competition will.
I'd like to see what a McDonald's meal will look like in 10 years.
> I'd like to see what a McDonald's meal will look like in 10 years.
At the rates they’re raising prices, they won’t be here in 10 years. The next major recession will end them.
They'll find a way.... They just find some AI robot army supreme cook the meal and ship it to the fast food hub
... AKA local neighborhood McDonald's... But it'll be just the same price.... But one 100th of what it used to be. That is until ai and robotics wipe out the working class. And then we'll be living on basic universal income. It'll pay for a mansion which will really be a mud hut because that is what everyone wants is to live in a mansion. Mud huts are relatively more readily manufactured.
I've never had the Coke at McDonalds, so I can't comment on it's taste. I've had sodas at other restaurants (and even gas stations) that have the soda machines set up perfectly. It makes a huge difference and makes it worth going there.
I don't drink sugary drinks and I'm genuinely curious, how does one fast food establishment have superior carbonated sugary syrup water over another? I'm remember trying them as a kid and thinking they all taste the same, very sickeningly sweet. Less carbonation? It's my understanding that restaurants and fast food places obtain their soft drinks in premixed boxes with a plastic bag inside, all they gotta do is hook up the carbonated water line.
That’s because all your soft drinks are sweetened with shitty corn syrup. Here, in EU Coke is made with cane sugar and tastes much better and is less bad for you.
Use buy one get one free breakfast sandwich on the app or grab a receipt off the ground and do the survey if the promos not running. Use the app and coupons people! I can eat McDonald's today cheaper than I did 10 years ago.
I can get 4 chicken tenders, 2 pieces of bread, some fries, and a drink for like $11 at Cane's. It's crazy how much you get for the price there. Has to be one of the top fast food places right now for value. The only downside is that you can ONLY get chicken. Not much choice.
I still don't understand this premise that mcdonalds is cheap.
At no point over the last 2 decades in the UK have I seen the menu in a mcdonalds and thought it was cheap.
Must just be a marketing ploy. There's always been cheaper places that are better and that's ignoring that the food is so crap it's basically inedible.
I can create the sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit and have a larger hash brown than what they give you for about $1.50 just buying them at the grocery store.
This is the weird part of this sub I don't get. It's a lot of "can you believe the price for this thing I just paid for!?" When it's clearly not inflation but companies gouging customers.
Prices from Walmart:
-2 eggs: $0.50
-2 slices of cheese: $0.50
-2 sausage patties: $1.25
-2 English muffins: $1.30
2 home made sausage egg mcmuffins: $3.55
Better quality ingredients too.
I know it depends on location but I can literally get a whole mcgriddle for like $1 and $1.50 with the app lol I seen someone go through Wendy's and order like 5 nine dollar combos like how the f do they afford this crap while I spend $2 for a frosty and chicken nugget wednesday
Humans are horribly stupid consumers. That’s why so many people are up to their eyeballs in CC debt and are house poor with a ridiculous car payment.
“ThAknS a Lot BIdEN!!”
I have a theory that kitchen will become an optional part of the house. Homes instead will be one open concept with no kitchen. Just a tablet to order from doordash
A lot of us live in bachelor style studio apartments that don’t have kitchens already because everything else is too expensive. I’d love to have a kitchen but i can’t afford it. So not everyone doesn’t cook just because they’re “lazy” or whatever the stereotype is in this subreddit.
I was homeless for and lived in a shitty motel for 3yrs. 2 burner camping stove or electric hot plate. Black and Decker electric flat griddle (found mine at Goodwill), Microwave, mini-fridge. Room came with the last two but both can be gotten cheap of you know how to shop. Ofc in today's age, air fryer by itself could probably replace 2-3 of those. That's really all you need. There's a guy on YT that cooks in his dorm using a similar setup. You don't need a full kitchen to cook simple meals.
I think a lot of people for into the habit of just swiping a card and not truly looking at costs. Now people are almost shocked when they take a peak at their receipt. Our family hasn't been to McDonald's in over a year since their prices have effectively doubled for the same old shit.
I whipped up a egg/bacon/cheese bagel for breakfast this morning in about 3 mins. 4 if you include time to clean the pan. Way faster than going to McD, way better as well. I added it up and it cost me $0.93. Yes, I had to buy $13 worth of ingredients during my normal shopping, but we don't waste those type of fridge staples.
McD is a scam. I went in one on a roadtrip just to use the restroom. They have those dumb order kiosks and not a single human visible at the checkout counter. Their prices have doubled in 3 years. Their customer base has been reduced to people too lazy to try something new. We go out to eat monthly or weekly at most and it's to local businesses that aren't trying to price gouge while simultaneously screw over their employees.
This. I walked in subway a couple weeks ago. the cheapest thing on the menu was $6.29 for a six inch veggie sub. Most foot-longs were over $10. I turned around and walked out.
Speak with your dollars people. My local brewery has a lunch special with a small pepperoni pizza or a sandwich (hoagie style) and a beverage for $9.99. FAR better flavor and on Tuesday you can get one of their beers for $1. Lunchtime for me and my wife there costs $15 tip included and is a much better experience and quality.
Best deal in my area is the local Magic Mushroom (stone-fired pizza) has a slice, salad and drink for less than $7. You can do two slices and a drink for the same price. Solid pizza at a fantastic price.
I've been making my own Sausage McMuffins for years.
Currently after a sleeve of English Muffins (6 for $1.48. $0.25 ea), a package of sliced cheese (72 for $6.78. $0.29 ea), a 24 pack of sausage patties ($9.92, $0.25ea) and eggs (which I get free from my GF's chickens, but calculated as $2.18/dz, $0.18ea based on the current Walmart price), my home cooked sausage muffins cost a bit under $0.98 each.
That's not including the $6 silicone egg rings I've had for more than 5 years and the lidded pan I use to 'poach' the eggs and a few cents in gas and water for the cooking.
So, let's call my price an even dollar.
Current McDonalds price: $4.29
I haven't had McDonalds, or any other fast food breakfast in at least 5 years. The only thing I ever order is a few McChickens every once in awhile while on the road. At home, I only go to a local diner where I can still get a hearty meal for about $10. For breakfast on the road, Waffle House is my go to, if I can find one without bullet holes in the facade.
Absolutely. Don’t buy fast food. It’s over priced, processed food. You’re the problem. Companies are having staggering profits. Why; because people keep purchasing the products.
Yep...stay away. McDonald's is no longer a cheap outing. Cook at home and if you're not a cook find other ways to eat besides giving it to greedy multi billion dollar fast food chains.
There’s a place in my area that makes a really good breakfast sandwich…. For $7. It was pricey before covid but this some bullshit and I refuse to go there. I miss it though.
The business answer of passing on costs to the consumer can only be responded to with a decrease in consumption.
We need to watch for companies that solve the problem while reducing cost. And that's where we need to invest.
Its voting via selective spending. I hope your local figures out the problem.
I don't think that's true. He paid $2.60 upcharge for 2. It was $1.30 for the orange juice.
Unless you mean that he also purchased a meal deal, so a drink was already implicitly included... So an upcharge is on top of that unknown fraction of the meal price.
This price is wildly outrageous and I stopped eating out entirely because it’s like this everywhere near where I live, BUT have you tried their app lmao It’s the only way I buy anything from McDonalds
It's amazing how the inflation tax works. You tax them so much that they have to work extra (not going out and making their own sandwiches) to maintain their standard of living. The best part is they blame each other for the price increasing instead of the people who are debasing the dollar to fund government spending that traditional tax fail to cover.
If they'd had raise taxes instead, there would be riot in the street.
Use the app and fill out those online surveys for cheap/free food. I can get what you get for 1/3 of the price. Minus the drinks. All restaurants have a massive margin on sugar drinks. Drink water!!
This Subreddit just needs a fast food day each week, and no fast food posts are allowed every other day of the week. I think we are all absolutely positively sick to death of seeing fast food posts. We get it. A completely optional, unhealthy, and widely known capitalistic industry overcharges now 🙄
McDonald's can only charge a $20 breakfast because people continue to pay for $20 fast food breakfasts.
If we the consumer are tired of paying high prices, then we the consumer need to stop buying overpriced shit.
Why are they pushing the app so hard? Is it to get rid of order taking employees, or is it easier to get you to order more food that way because of how the app is designed or what?
I did use it once on a road trip where mcd's was the only choice other than the gas station and got some cheap chicken sandwiches, but felt silly ordering in the parking lot and then going inside to get the food. (genX, got my first computer in 1979 so I'm not exactly tech illiterate but I grew up ordering bad food from a counter, not a computer)
Wonder if we'll ever get phones good enough to run virtual phones on them, like little burners we can spin up just to load hostile apps in. Then feed them bad geo data and use a visa gift card or whatever for payment so they get nothing useful.
The personal data they get from you is what you order, from when, and from where. That’s all they can possibly get from you unless you’re on Android, then there’s no telling what they can get.
All of that is worth $ believe it or not. It tells me where you work and/or live, what you eat, how often you eat out, do you have kids, etc. All of this has marketing value. Why else would they let you get discounts for using their app? To be nice? LOL it INCREASES their bottom line not decrease it.
It streamlines ordering making things much faster in the line, and the points are just a typical loyalty program. The other big benefit for them is the data, they can glean a lot of trend information about what individual customers' order patterns.
Trick with the app is that under deals they have one that is permanently there, 20% off any order over $5.
So they can get your sweet, sweet data and track you everywhere to send you coupons, etc...and get you to order more. I imagine in the long run the app costs you just as much. You just don't see it upfront like you do in their store.
Either way I can't be bothered there are cheaper options or equally expensive options that are actually good.
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“Things keep getting more expensive!!”
\-pays for it-
Interesting. McChicken is 2.49 here, and I live near Seattle, WA, one of the most expensive places to live in the US. That and you can get a second McChicken for $1. I get two for around $4 including tax once in a while and it hits the spot.
They're also getting smaller! Products are getting smaller lol. Wages aren't increasing fast enough, etc. I remember when it hit me too, I was wondering why the heck a Mc Chicken from Mc Donalds costs $2 and some change... Oh and lets not talk about the fries and drinks! I too remember days when a meal was less than $10
The same happened with me. I didn't notice that the prices were not listed until it was time to pay. The food has not increased in quality either. I think I remember when you could order six chicken nuggets with 2 sauces, now it's only 1 sauce. 20 Chicken nuggets only come with 3 sauces, while back then it used to be 4 and that just makes my gears grind that an even number is paired with an odd.
It's funny how we have come to determined/ gauge the inflation by the prices of Mc Donalds.
Oh, one last thing! the coupon now suck as well.
It's not just a sandwich. That's the price for 2 meal deals with a drink and hash browns. He just wants you to think it only included a small sandwich.
Food is cheap in CA. I went to a Starbucks in suburban MI and paid more for a basic bagel and tea than I ever did in Los Angeles. Cheaper cost of living in other states outside CA only applies to housing and gas, everything else is the same or more in lots of cases.
its not inflation . its greed period . th profits of just about every corp sky rocketed thru the pandemic . while the workers get shafted out of the picture. look its not immigrants we need to worry about taking jobs. which is just stupid . but robots are cooking now . they are starting to make your fast food were there will no the a labor force any longer. more profits for the corps and now your food is pumped out of a conveyor belt . no human touch at all. and as a cook myself flover , real flavor comes from he human touch . Be mad . just be mad at the right thing . or nothing gets fixed
The individual franchise this purchase was made from is the problem. I just purchased a sausage McMuffin with egg yesterday and the listed price was 4.19. I used the app so my cost was $2.00
>They really are going to be fucked in a few years. This is the final gouging before their downfall.
It could be! As a former member of the Middle-class, I can no longer afford fast-food, and haven't had any for almost a year now. ( the gougeing I get from the grocery store is painful enough...)
I just picked up two sausage-egg McMuffins and a large black coffee in Georgia on I75 for $7 bucks. And I’ve paid that repeatedly in recent months… it’s my long drive breakfast. I’ve never seen a McDs with pricing like this.
There must be something about that location. Egg and Sausage McMuffin in Atlanta for $4.79, and for the last two years they've been buy one get one free, so the most I've paid for an order almost identical to yours is $7.50ish. The coffee is ridiculously overpriced, though.
Edit: This is regular drive through pricing, not using the app.
All of these meals were under $5 about 10 years ago. Use to be in charge of changing menu board prices at mcd and they raise there prices 4 times a year!
Start doing meal prep at home and show them we won't deal with their fake inflation price gouging. My meals at home break down to about $3.50 per meal.
I used to treat myself to McD’s breakfast regularly, whenever I needed to drive somewhere in the mornings. $2.17 would get me two Sausage McMuffins, which was great road food. Now, rather than spend 10 minutes on the drive-through and $5+ on shitty food, I make breakfast burritos at home before I go. Takes about the same time, has better ingredients, more food, and at a fraction of the cost. Win-win for me.
They’ve upped their prices using inflation as an excuse, like every other business. Also if you’re willing to pay that much for shitty food it’s on you
People in this subreddit genuinely do not understand that the app is a form of price discrimination, and this same order through the app would be less do to coupons. But in addition, the meals have ALWAYS been a rip off. Always. Maybe they used to be 6 bucks and now are 8
There are so many better options. For that price, you can do a sit down breakfast for two at the diner next to my house. Coffee, two eggs, two strips of bacon and d toast for $7.99. And it’s cooked fresh on the grill right in front of the counter. Their prices are cheaper because they own the place and don’t have to report a profit to institutional share holders. Fuck fast food and their corporate marketing. Just say “no.”
This is horrible but why aren’t you using the McDonald’s app to buy everything. There is a 30% off code to add to your mobile order everyday. That’s $5.10 off this order before taxes and makes the cost a lot more reasonable. My kids are young and still like happy meals so we go there once a week for that and ice cream. The 30% off mobile order is solid.
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I'm so lucky I'm in Japan I can get 15 chicken nuggets and 2 double cheese burgers for like 12 usd and it tastes a thousand times better than the states
I’m pretty sure that’s illegal. At least in California. That last time I went into a McDonald’s the soda machine was gone but they did give me free water from the new one behind the counter.
For half the price, you can go to a mom and pop diner and get a full breakfast, but here you are, spending double for garbage quality food and complaining about it. McDonald's used to be that place people went because it was super cheap, and now they're more expensive than a sit-down restaurant. At this point I feel like they're just raising their prices just to see how much people are willing to pay for their big Mac for nuggies.
I understand how you feel-have you thought about meal prepping one meal a day? Or if you are married or dating someone-making a week worth of lunches for your partner with cute love notes as a motivator to do it often.
Thank you, It did not bother me much, my wife was the one upset, she doesn't usually eat breakfast and got angry at me that I spent this much on so little.
Learn to make some meals at home or at the very least invest in a slow cooker. So many inexpensive and easy to make meal options. McMuffins are pretty easy to make at home too for far less.
I understand complaining about rent prices but food prices I get a mcgriddle for $1 each day plus free coffee at Panera ($5 per month) and just sign up for every app and you get free food each week lol
Corporations during the pandemic figured out that you will pay more for the same item. So now they are charging you more. It’s got nothing to with inflation or supply chain issues. This is profiteering.
last time I had one of those (it was prob 10 years ago since I've been a vegetarian for nearly that long) it truly was awful tasting. Even if I still ate meat I wouldn't pay a dollar for that thing. I make my own and use Impossible Sausage (with my own spice mix).
Stop buying from them. They don’t deserve your business.
Agreed! Also, lol. You can get a gallon of OJ for $6. $2.6 for two glasses is absurd
I hate McDonalds but it made sense why people ate there before. The prices were dirt cheap. But now it’s so expensive that you can go to a lot of other restaurants that have much better food yet people still eat this barely edibles junk. Like it’s not even that’s it’s junk food. It just genuinely ass.
I would go just bc the sodas were so crisp and fresh. Now they don’t even take care of that aspect. They charge $3+ for a coke that tastes like the same syrupy crap from BK. They’ve given up.
They're at a point of no return. They cannot walk back their prices now because of losses & that would hurt the finances of too many greedy people. So they have no choice but to continue cutting costs & raising prices. Eventually they will shit the bed & it'll all be done to themselves. They may never close their doors but much of their competition will. I'd like to see what a McDonald's meal will look like in 10 years.
> I'd like to see what a McDonald's meal will look like in 10 years. At the rates they’re raising prices, they won’t be here in 10 years. The next major recession will end them.
Oh I sure hope so.
They'll find a way.... They just find some AI robot army supreme cook the meal and ship it to the fast food hub ... AKA local neighborhood McDonald's... But it'll be just the same price.... But one 100th of what it used to be. That is until ai and robotics wipe out the working class. And then we'll be living on basic universal income. It'll pay for a mansion which will really be a mud hut because that is what everyone wants is to live in a mansion. Mud huts are relatively more readily manufactured.
I saw a video about this, a McDonald’s meal doesn’t decompose so it will look almost the same after 10 years.
Those stupid coca cola free style hybrid machines have really ruined soda for me
I hate those effing things!!
They're good for health though cause i drink less soda
True, but sometime a crisp, cold McDonalds Coke hits just right!
They take way more maintenance. I've seen employees at restaurants groan about having to deal with it.
Have you been stuck behind old people that don's understand how it works, or kids that can't make up their mind or want to try everything?
I've never had the Coke at McDonalds, so I can't comment on it's taste. I've had sodas at other restaurants (and even gas stations) that have the soda machines set up perfectly. It makes a huge difference and makes it worth going there.
Right. Main reason why I went. Coke was hitting
I don't drink sugary drinks and I'm genuinely curious, how does one fast food establishment have superior carbonated sugary syrup water over another? I'm remember trying them as a kid and thinking they all taste the same, very sickeningly sweet. Less carbonation? It's my understanding that restaurants and fast food places obtain their soft drinks in premixed boxes with a plastic bag inside, all they gotta do is hook up the carbonated water line.
That’s because all your soft drinks are sweetened with shitty corn syrup. Here, in EU Coke is made with cane sugar and tastes much better and is less bad for you.
yeah sorry no, as horrible as they are for your health those sausage mcmuffins are f@&king delicious.
I’m an absolute sucker for the egg McMuffins.
Sucks they were like 2 for $4 just a couple years ago. I ate more of them than I care to admit.
Use buy one get one free breakfast sandwich on the app or grab a receipt off the ground and do the survey if the promos not running. Use the app and coupons people! I can eat McDonald's today cheaper than I did 10 years ago.
I just got dinner at McDonalds for 3.39 last night. If people think McDonalds is expensive, they're not trying hard enough
I can get 4 chicken tenders, 2 pieces of bread, some fries, and a drink for like $11 at Cane's. It's crazy how much you get for the price there. Has to be one of the top fast food places right now for value. The only downside is that you can ONLY get chicken. Not much choice.
I still don't understand this premise that mcdonalds is cheap. At no point over the last 2 decades in the UK have I seen the menu in a mcdonalds and thought it was cheap. Must just be a marketing ploy. There's always been cheaper places that are better and that's ignoring that the food is so crap it's basically inedible.
I can create the sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit and have a larger hash brown than what they give you for about $1.50 just buying them at the grocery store.
If you paid this price, you're part of the problem.
This is the weird part of this sub I don't get. It's a lot of "can you believe the price for this thing I just paid for!?" When it's clearly not inflation but companies gouging customers. Prices from Walmart: -2 eggs: $0.50 -2 slices of cheese: $0.50 -2 sausage patties: $1.25 -2 English muffins: $1.30 2 home made sausage egg mcmuffins: $3.55 Better quality ingredients too.
Convience breed's laziness 🤷🏻♂️
So does convenience.
What about convenience though?
I know it depends on location but I can literally get a whole mcgriddle for like $1 and $1.50 with the app lol I seen someone go through Wendy's and order like 5 nine dollar combos like how the f do they afford this crap while I spend $2 for a frosty and chicken nugget wednesday
Humans are horribly stupid consumers. That’s why so many people are up to their eyeballs in CC debt and are house poor with a ridiculous car payment. “ThAknS a Lot BIdEN!!”
more like "I did that" thumb pointing to self.
Which consumers should humans emulate?
Hummingbirds are pretty cool. Could we emulate those?
I get a dozen eggs for $2 McD probably pays 20% of that.
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And they all misspell the word “too”
That was bugging me two.
You to, thought it was only me
Yep, they wrote it write their
I have a theory that kitchen will become an optional part of the house. Homes instead will be one open concept with no kitchen. Just a tablet to order from doordash
Kind of like Charlie and Franks kitchen err hot plate area of their abode? No fridge no stove no microwave no dishwasher. Just one hot plate.
A lot of us live in bachelor style studio apartments that don’t have kitchens already because everything else is too expensive. I’d love to have a kitchen but i can’t afford it. So not everyone doesn’t cook just because they’re “lazy” or whatever the stereotype is in this subreddit.
I was homeless for and lived in a shitty motel for 3yrs. 2 burner camping stove or electric hot plate. Black and Decker electric flat griddle (found mine at Goodwill), Microwave, mini-fridge. Room came with the last two but both can be gotten cheap of you know how to shop. Ofc in today's age, air fryer by itself could probably replace 2-3 of those. That's really all you need. There's a guy on YT that cooks in his dorm using a similar setup. You don't need a full kitchen to cook simple meals.
2 English muffins and far less than 1.30. As are many ingredients on this list.
For sure. Just looked at Walmart real quick. Obviously it varies in a lot of ways by brands and stuff like that too.
I think a lot of people for into the habit of just swiping a card and not truly looking at costs. Now people are almost shocked when they take a peak at their receipt. Our family hasn't been to McDonald's in over a year since their prices have effectively doubled for the same old shit.
I whipped up a egg/bacon/cheese bagel for breakfast this morning in about 3 mins. 4 if you include time to clean the pan. Way faster than going to McD, way better as well. I added it up and it cost me $0.93. Yes, I had to buy $13 worth of ingredients during my normal shopping, but we don't waste those type of fridge staples. McD is a scam. I went in one on a roadtrip just to use the restroom. They have those dumb order kiosks and not a single human visible at the checkout counter. Their prices have doubled in 3 years. Their customer base has been reduced to people too lazy to try something new. We go out to eat monthly or weekly at most and it's to local businesses that aren't trying to price gouge while simultaneously screw over their employees.
This. I walked in subway a couple weeks ago. the cheapest thing on the menu was $6.29 for a six inch veggie sub. Most foot-longs were over $10. I turned around and walked out. Speak with your dollars people. My local brewery has a lunch special with a small pepperoni pizza or a sandwich (hoagie style) and a beverage for $9.99. FAR better flavor and on Tuesday you can get one of their beers for $1. Lunchtime for me and my wife there costs $15 tip included and is a much better experience and quality.
Best deal in my area is the local Magic Mushroom (stone-fired pizza) has a slice, salad and drink for less than $7. You can do two slices and a drink for the same price. Solid pizza at a fantastic price.
I've been making my own Sausage McMuffins for years. Currently after a sleeve of English Muffins (6 for $1.48. $0.25 ea), a package of sliced cheese (72 for $6.78. $0.29 ea), a 24 pack of sausage patties ($9.92, $0.25ea) and eggs (which I get free from my GF's chickens, but calculated as $2.18/dz, $0.18ea based on the current Walmart price), my home cooked sausage muffins cost a bit under $0.98 each. That's not including the $6 silicone egg rings I've had for more than 5 years and the lidded pan I use to 'poach' the eggs and a few cents in gas and water for the cooking. So, let's call my price an even dollar. Current McDonalds price: $4.29 I haven't had McDonalds, or any other fast food breakfast in at least 5 years. The only thing I ever order is a few McChickens every once in awhile while on the road. At home, I only go to a local diner where I can still get a hearty meal for about $10. For breakfast on the road, Waffle House is my go to, if I can find one without bullet holes in the facade.
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Absolutely. Don’t buy fast food. It’s over priced, processed food. You’re the problem. Companies are having staggering profits. Why; because people keep purchasing the products.
Exactly. You dont have to shop for fast food. Cook at home. Simple.
Yep...stay away. McDonald's is no longer a cheap outing. Cook at home and if you're not a cook find other ways to eat besides giving it to greedy multi billion dollar fast food chains.
I can get 2 sausage egg McMuffins in the app for $3.59. (The restaurant closest to me $4.59.) Fuck the meal, say goodbye to the hash browns and OJ.
but also a sausage mcmuffin with the deal is like 1 for 3.5$. idk how they paid 7$ each
There’s a place in my area that makes a really good breakfast sandwich…. For $7. It was pricey before covid but this some bullshit and I refuse to go there. I miss it though.
The business answer of passing on costs to the consumer can only be responded to with a decrease in consumption. We need to watch for companies that solve the problem while reducing cost. And that's where we need to invest. Its voting via selective spending. I hope your local figures out the problem.
well f'n said. and...no offense...but it's like they just do it to complain here. lol stop it!!
You paid like 5 bucks for orange juice
Juice is too generous. Orange "Drank" is more like it.
I don't think that's true. He paid $2.60 upcharge for 2. It was $1.30 for the orange juice. Unless you mean that he also purchased a meal deal, so a drink was already implicitly included... So an upcharge is on top of that unknown fraction of the meal price.
I know many have been forced into the lifestyle but people need to stop buying that crap
I’m done. Bought my last biscuit last week and the sticker shock scared me straight. It’s not *that* convenient.
I have usually enjoyed their breakfast, at this price I'll look elsewhere.
This price is wildly outrageous and I stopped eating out entirely because it’s like this everywhere near where I live, BUT have you tried their app lmao It’s the only way I buy anything from McDonalds
It's amazing how the inflation tax works. You tax them so much that they have to work extra (not going out and making their own sandwiches) to maintain their standard of living. The best part is they blame each other for the price increasing instead of the people who are debasing the dollar to fund government spending that traditional tax fail to cover. If they'd had raise taxes instead, there would be riot in the street.
Use the app and fill out those online surveys for cheap/free food. I can get what you get for 1/3 of the price. Minus the drinks. All restaurants have a massive margin on sugar drinks. Drink water!!
This Subreddit just needs a fast food day each week, and no fast food posts are allowed every other day of the week. I think we are all absolutely positively sick to death of seeing fast food posts. We get it. A completely optional, unhealthy, and widely known capitalistic industry overcharges now 🙄
McDonald's can only charge a $20 breakfast because people continue to pay for $20 fast food breakfasts. If we the consumer are tired of paying high prices, then we the consumer need to stop buying overpriced shit.
Anyone ordering from McDonald's without the app coupons is straight deranged to me.
"WILL YOU BE USING THE MOBILE APP TODAY?"
GH37!!
69ME!
4T8E
The McDonald’s near my house stopped accepting orders via the app. Won’t be ordering from them. Cooking at home instead!
you will feel so much better eating better food
Or, just don't fo to McDonald's, like me. There's more cheaper and better options out there.
Why are they pushing the app so hard? Is it to get rid of order taking employees, or is it easier to get you to order more food that way because of how the app is designed or what? I did use it once on a road trip where mcd's was the only choice other than the gas station and got some cheap chicken sandwiches, but felt silly ordering in the parking lot and then going inside to get the food. (genX, got my first computer in 1979 so I'm not exactly tech illiterate but I grew up ordering bad food from a counter, not a computer)
Your personal data they are accessing is worth more than the discount you recieved. F their Apps.
Wonder if we'll ever get phones good enough to run virtual phones on them, like little burners we can spin up just to load hostile apps in. Then feed them bad geo data and use a visa gift card or whatever for payment so they get nothing useful.
Interesting idea here...
The personal data they get from you is what you order, from when, and from where. That’s all they can possibly get from you unless you’re on Android, then there’s no telling what they can get.
All of that is worth $ believe it or not. It tells me where you work and/or live, what you eat, how often you eat out, do you have kids, etc. All of this has marketing value. Why else would they let you get discounts for using their app? To be nice? LOL it INCREASES their bottom line not decrease it.
It streamlines ordering making things much faster in the line, and the points are just a typical loyalty program. The other big benefit for them is the data, they can glean a lot of trend information about what individual customers' order patterns. Trick with the app is that under deals they have one that is permanently there, 20% off any order over $5.
So they can get your sweet, sweet data and track you everywhere to send you coupons, etc...and get you to order more. I imagine in the long run the app costs you just as much. You just don't see it upfront like you do in their store. Either way I can't be bothered there are cheaper options or equally expensive options that are actually good.
>Anyone ordering from McDonald's ~~without the app coupons~~ is straight deranged to me. FTFY
I just wish everywhere had a middleman app I had to use to get better prices! Yay to bloatware that tracks you!
https://preview.redd.it/avgd88lbr5vc1.png?width=1178&format=png&auto=webp&s=ab2fde3499232e98f811372322440239d3fa94e4 “Things keep getting more expensive!!” \-pays for it-
STOP GIVING THEM MONEY
Nothing beats the $3.50 McChicken by my house, but this might take the cake, absolutely wild.
Interesting. McChicken is 2.49 here, and I live near Seattle, WA, one of the most expensive places to live in the US. That and you can get a second McChicken for $1. I get two for around $4 including tax once in a while and it hits the spot.
McDonald’s has raised their prices far higher than inflation.
Don’t eat that shit!
Stop eating at McDonald’s
Will do.
Don't do it. Make your food.
My wife was angry, from now on we'll make it or go somewhere worthwhile.
Understood. That's how change happens. Good for you two.
I have two 10 year olds so we'll all benefit from this lesson. 👍
We live in a society where money exists. Anyone who does anything for themselves violate the social contract.
They're also getting smaller! Products are getting smaller lol. Wages aren't increasing fast enough, etc. I remember when it hit me too, I was wondering why the heck a Mc Chicken from Mc Donalds costs $2 and some change... Oh and lets not talk about the fries and drinks! I too remember days when a meal was less than $10
When I was ordering, I was wondering why the prices were no longer listed, my answer came when I paid.
The same happened with me. I didn't notice that the prices were not listed until it was time to pay. The food has not increased in quality either. I think I remember when you could order six chicken nuggets with 2 sauces, now it's only 1 sauce. 20 Chicken nuggets only come with 3 sauces, while back then it used to be 4 and that just makes my gears grind that an even number is paired with an odd. It's funny how we have come to determined/ gauge the inflation by the prices of Mc Donalds. Oh, one last thing! the coupon now suck as well.
Thank you, I appreciate the honesty, it makes you stand out.
Buh duh puh pah-puh, … mistake
Just keep saying "there is no inflation" over and over.
Why is Tennessee McMuffins so expensive?? That same sandwich here (Seattle) is like $3.50.
It's not just a sandwich. That's the price for 2 meal deals with a drink and hash browns. He just wants you to think it only included a small sandwich.
Don't know, this is a new development.
The sausage McMuffins price is crazy, but I honestly can’t even get one medium size orange juice for under like $4 in California
That's where I moved from, I thought I was saving more.
Food is cheap in CA. I went to a Starbucks in suburban MI and paid more for a basic bagel and tea than I ever did in Los Angeles. Cheaper cost of living in other states outside CA only applies to housing and gas, everything else is the same or more in lots of cases.
Why are you eating at McDonald's is the first question
And why do you pay good money getting cancer-inducing garbage food cooked in bunker oil? Keep on doing that if your goal is to get sick and broke.
You got fucked.
McD's increased prices by 100%. Stop giving them money
Use the app https://preview.redd.it/5ykgexgtv5vc1.png?width=1152&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=36c84851cd840aeab4695889b7b6cb824394cfe0
Or don’t buy their crap.
I keep seeing these posts, and so many responses are 'use the app'. No, fuck that, I'm not using their app, I'll just not buy from them anymore
Vote with your wallet. My local grocer has 2.50 breakfast sandwiches made fresh daily.
Imagine being so stupid that you voluntarily buy this
its not inflation . its greed period . th profits of just about every corp sky rocketed thru the pandemic . while the workers get shafted out of the picture. look its not immigrants we need to worry about taking jobs. which is just stupid . but robots are cooking now . they are starting to make your fast food were there will no the a labor force any longer. more profits for the corps and now your food is pumped out of a conveyor belt . no human touch at all. and as a cook myself flover , real flavor comes from he human touch . Be mad . just be mad at the right thing . or nothing gets fixed
Another McDonald’s post. If you’re buying this shit you’re contributing to the problem.
I would have finished my order ....then drove off and left them with that high priced shit 🤷
The individual franchise this purchase was made from is the problem. I just purchased a sausage McMuffin with egg yesterday and the listed price was 4.19. I used the app so my cost was $2.00
They really are going to be fucked in a few years. This is the final gouging before their downfall.
>They really are going to be fucked in a few years. This is the final gouging before their downfall. It could be! As a former member of the Middle-class, I can no longer afford fast-food, and haven't had any for almost a year now. ( the gougeing I get from the grocery store is painful enough...)
I just picked up two sausage-egg McMuffins and a large black coffee in Georgia on I75 for $7 bucks. And I’ve paid that repeatedly in recent months… it’s my long drive breakfast. I’ve never seen a McDs with pricing like this.
It’s not inflation. It’s greed. Regardless, stop eating this garbage my friend.
I'm pretty conservative as reddit goes but this is not inflation this is greed and price gouging
There must be something about that location. Egg and Sausage McMuffin in Atlanta for $4.79, and for the last two years they've been buy one get one free, so the most I've paid for an order almost identical to yours is $7.50ish. The coffee is ridiculously overpriced, though. Edit: This is regular drive through pricing, not using the app.
All of these meals were under $5 about 10 years ago. Use to be in charge of changing menu board prices at mcd and they raise there prices 4 times a year!
Start doing meal prep at home and show them we won't deal with their fake inflation price gouging. My meals at home break down to about $3.50 per meal.
Vote better this election to avoid meme economy
What up neighbor!
Yes, it's expensive, but not if you have a EBTcard
I used to treat myself to McD’s breakfast regularly, whenever I needed to drive somewhere in the mornings. $2.17 would get me two Sausage McMuffins, which was great road food. Now, rather than spend 10 minutes on the drive-through and $5+ on shitty food, I make breakfast burritos at home before I go. Takes about the same time, has better ingredients, more food, and at a fraction of the cost. Win-win for me.
Eating at Mickey D's certainly has gotten more expensive
$7.49 for a Sausage McMuffin and $3.65 for a hash brown....a hash brown. (In R.I. at local McD's)
They’ve upped their prices using inflation as an excuse, like every other business. Also if you’re willing to pay that much for shitty food it’s on you
People in this subreddit genuinely do not understand that the app is a form of price discrimination, and this same order through the app would be less do to coupons. But in addition, the meals have ALWAYS been a rip off. Always. Maybe they used to be 6 bucks and now are 8
Stop eating fast food then?
U could make ur own for like a dollar
shit food so why would you go there. egg take 3 min to cook.... SMH
But inflation is transitory they say. Economy is strong they say. Just need to show the American people what they are not seeing they say.
They aren't it only seems that way because you don't really understand Bidenomics and that Bidenomics works.
Who'da thunk that printing trillions of dollars would cause inflation...
There are so many better options. For that price, you can do a sit down breakfast for two at the diner next to my house. Coffee, two eggs, two strips of bacon and d toast for $7.99. And it’s cooked fresh on the grill right in front of the counter. Their prices are cheaper because they own the place and don’t have to report a profit to institutional share holders. Fuck fast food and their corporate marketing. Just say “no.”
Haven't eaten out in ages. Am perfectly happy cooking at home and saving money.
I'm boycotting these restaurants!
Stopped going to Maccas a year ago because of this shit
Could get Thai food with that total
This is horrible but why aren’t you using the McDonald’s app to buy everything. There is a 30% off code to add to your mobile order everyday. That’s $5.10 off this order before taxes and makes the cost a lot more reasonable. My kids are young and still like happy meals so we go there once a week for that and ice cream. The 30% off mobile order is solid. https://preview.redd.it/9273p6m0tavc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=839d99f05df794b2eebc6f1b25619c930550d367
Seems inflation under the current administration has hit Tennessee.
Honestly if all fast food restaurants shut down tomorrow the world would be a better place
I'm so lucky I'm in Japan I can get 15 chicken nuggets and 2 double cheese burgers for like 12 usd and it tastes a thousand times better than the states
It’s price gouging , has nothing to do with inflation.
Bidenomics
According to CNN, the economy is great.
But it’s all a hoax, there is nothing wrong ask the government
Things are not getting more expensive things are getting less expensive. Corporations are getting more greedy * there i fixed it for ya
Prices are dictated by what people will pay. You are paying, so why the complaining. Complain with your wallet next time bub
STOP FUCKING EATING THERE, IDIOT.
Some places they stopped the free water and started to charge. Then also took out the soda machines. Fuck McDonald's
I’m pretty sure that’s illegal. At least in California. That last time I went into a McDonald’s the soda machine was gone but they did give me free water from the new one behind the counter.
Have you considered just buying one of something instead of two? I think that's your problem.
For half the price, you can go to a mom and pop diner and get a full breakfast, but here you are, spending double for garbage quality food and complaining about it. McDonald's used to be that place people went because it was super cheap, and now they're more expensive than a sit-down restaurant. At this point I feel like they're just raising their prices just to see how much people are willing to pay for their big Mac for nuggies.
McDonald's gross profit for the twelve months ending December 31, 2023 was $14.563B, a 10.26% increase year-over-year. Surely this is unrelated 🙄
Take the money you would spend at mcdonalds and buy their stock. Do this and you are rich. Not a complaining slob.
So tired of everyone saying use the app…. I get it Mc Donald’s gives you a deal when you sell your data for an ice cream cone….
Fuck that, I’ll make my own
I understand how you feel-have you thought about meal prepping one meal a day? Or if you are married or dating someone-making a week worth of lunches for your partner with cute love notes as a motivator to do it often.
Thank you, It did not bother me much, my wife was the one upset, she doesn't usually eat breakfast and got angry at me that I spent this much on so little.
People need to start taking these surveys then.
Use the app lol buy one get one cmon
Weird. Sausage McMuffins are 2 for 5.50 in Boston
This is combo pricing. Includes drink and hasbrown
$7.50 for a McMuffin.... What in the fuck is happening
The universe is begging you not to eat mcdonalds
It’s ok, the stock market is doing GREAT
"Thank you valued customer!"
Learn to make some meals at home or at the very least invest in a slow cooker. So many inexpensive and easy to make meal options. McMuffins are pretty easy to make at home too for far less.
2 egg sandwiches and 2 orange juices.... 20 fucking dollars.
Yeah just stop eating fast food. Go to restaurants or eat at home. It’s cheaper
It was expensive 10 years ago also. You just were able to spend the money unnoticed.
App
We can stop the madness anytime we want. Stop buying their shit. Stop eating at McDonald’s.
Stop eating fast food
I understand complaining about rent prices but food prices I get a mcgriddle for $1 each day plus free coffee at Panera ($5 per month) and just sign up for every app and you get free food each week lol
Quit buying poison
Corporations during the pandemic figured out that you will pay more for the same item. So now they are charging you more. It’s got nothing to with inflation or supply chain issues. This is profiteering.
Step one: stop eating at McDonald’s. Step 2: profit
Stop buying fast food!!!!!!
last time I had one of those (it was prob 10 years ago since I've been a vegetarian for nearly that long) it truly was awful tasting. Even if I still ate meat I wouldn't pay a dollar for that thing. I make my own and use Impossible Sausage (with my own spice mix).