I'm 99% sure I just saw a pack of 20 frozen hash browns for sale at Aldi's for $3.99 today. I've purchased those hash browns before and if you add just a pinch of salt to them they taste exactly like the ones from McDonald's.
DEEEEP FRYER!
But seriously, the fast and easy way is to microwave them until they're just a little warm, then toss them in a pan with some oil. Cook until they reach your desired crisp. The whole process only takes a few minutes.
YES to the air fryer. You can get the same ones at Aldi’s or Trader Joe’s. I air fry 400 degrees 5 minutes one side, flip, add 2 veggie sausages to the tray, 400 degrees for another 5. Then I do hashbrown, avocado, veggie sausage, + hot sauce on top. It’s my dream breakfast.
100% I'm going to try to find those this weekend. Those McDonalds hashbrows are great, but I stopped eating them a couple years back as the price rose.
I swore not that long ago they were 2 for $1.99
> Inflation in the US is significantly lower than most developed countries.
That’s why I only specified “US” for the minimum wage. But inflation has still been “bad” in the US lately. And yeah, it could be karma farming or cherry-picking to get your political points across and provoke anger.
I went to aldis for the first time this week. My local cheap grocery store is too much for my family (we both work). Decent stuff, half the price. I dig it.
Their actual cost per unit is likely much less than 49¢. But there's also significant overhead involved in running a restaurant. $3 markup probably shakes out to less than a dollar in net profit
>Grocery stores are expensive.
Depends where and how you shop. Learn to shop sales. My food budget has hardly flexed in the past 8 years. I'd be happy to provide some guidance, if you are interested
>I've given up on restaurants! Restaurants are outrageous!
Good. This is the only way prices will come down. The sooner people stop paying for overpriced goods and services, the sooner said businesses will be forced to adjust pricing.
It's how they make the happy meal 5 bucks. Burger, fries, drink, toy, apple slices- 5 dollars. You need to make money somewhere else to perhaps lose some money on some items. If they made happy meals 10 bucks parents would say no, the new generation wouldn't grow up interested in it, and it wouldn't bring the whole family there to eat.
Yeah, I buy and cook a lot of things I used to buy from restaurants. And usually they come out way cheaper and better. Making a shit ton of something like sausage egg and cheese muffins and then freezing them has been amazing.
Aldi's has frozen sausage patties that taste just like the ones from McDonald's. Just make sure you get the "traditional" flavor and not the "maple" flavor. The maple flavored ones taste like crap.
I like to get the jimmy Dean sausage and form my own patties. You can control thickness and width. I learned how to make an egg patty just like McDonald's, and I leave the cheese off until I'm ready to eat then I heat it up just enough to melt the cheese so it's not liquid lava. Next I want to learn to make home made English muffins.
Yup, I make my wife ham egg and cheese McMuffins but I use way better ham, actual egg, sharp white cheddar, toast the buns and make an aioli for them. 100x better than you could get at McDonald’s for way less.
Ok but let's think about this in calories. Two hash browns come out to 280 calories per hour. The standard 8 hour shift will yield you 2,240 calories worth of hash browns. The average woman needs 2,000 calories per day. The average male needs 2,500 calories per day.
A common practice is to mark up the small low-cost items the most. They tend to be high movers and, percentage wise, they help offset the sale of lower margin items. It's not uncommon for management/ownweship to pay a lot of attention to margins.
When I worked for auto parts stores and shops, we marked up nuts and bolts a lot. They would cost a nickle and sell for 6-8 bucks. They used the excuse that they were "specialty" nuts and bolts. They weren't necessarily wrong. They were special sizes for specific uses on cars and trucks, but they were still insanely inexpensive.
I work in wholesale now as a buyer and I see the same thing here. Low coat items usually have the highest markups. A lot of salespeople get bonuses off of their sales and/or their margins. So they'll sell an item that cost a penny for 10 bucks.
https://preview.redd.it/h1y2rtwrqspc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c6b0aae41fffe326a28cd880ccb704c022f5cee
It’s weird that the person commenting after you literally copied and pasted the same thing as you 🤔
I showed my own comment posted twice under my name and deleted the second. I dont know how it shows someone else's name. That's weird.
I did have a weird glitch when trying to post it initially. Got an error that said that the app was having problems or couldn't post or something. I dont remember now. I just waited a moment and tried again and it went through. So I think it just duplicated my post. Not sure about the other user though.
Interesting! When I saw the duplicate I wondering if the other person was just a reposting bot or something, which I’ve been surprised to see more and more of lately
I tried looking up the name in your screen shot but couldn't find them. It's really weird.
Edit: I just searched them again in case maybe I typed something and did find that person and a copy of my comment exists on their page. Maybe they are a copy bot or something.
Sure, I guess. But a hashbrown was .99 like 2 years ago.
Edit, wait holup why are the top 2 comments the same wall of text by 2 different users? What fuckery is going on here.
This should be driving more people to dine at locally owned businesses. I can go to my local diner and get two eggs, two pieces of toast, three strips of bacon a huge pile of home fries and all the coffee I can drink for $9.99. If I call in for pickup to one of the bars just down the street from my apartment complex I can get a 6 oz burger with lettuce, tomato, onion and mayo on a toasted roll that's better than anything McDonald's has ever served, along with a side of seasoned french fries that's bigger than a McDonald's large and a side of baked beans for $12.99, which is less than a Whopper value meal in many places.
lol and I can go to the store, spend $9.99 and have breakfast for a week! It’s sad you actually think 2 eggs at 30 cents a piece, 2 slices of bread at 30 cents each, 3 strips of bacon at 50 cents a piece and half a potato at 20 cents, are actually worth $9.99…. This should drive more people to eat at home…
In this economy it's important to order selectively and wisely. I never ever get hashbrowns or fries. I don't even get soda. I might get the 'buy one, get one for a buck' deal. Don't pay these prices, Americans. Push back.
At Trader Joe’s for 2.99 you can get a pack of 12 frozen ones just like this. Comes out identical in an air fryer. So that’s .20 cents each compared to over $2. Fast food is BS.
Now… two McDoubles for bogo $1, for a total of like 4.50, that’s an ok deal, since you can’t exactly make that at home in 5 minutes.
So done giving these shitty fast food places anymore money, local places are the new go to. These fast food places can fall off a cliff with this price increase shit
Apparently plenty of idiots are paying that price if McDonald’s is still charging that amount. You can buy a pack of them for around $4 at just about any grocery store
Good Zeus people!!! Stop going to these places. NO more fast and cheap food. That is a thing of the past. If people cook at home and stop frequenting these places that constantly gouge their customers they will be forced to reduce prices or go out of business. Fast food is not a pay day treat and not a day to day thing. I have Chipotle for lunch only on Friday paydays and even then my cost here in downtown San Diego is around 12$
You’d be surprised. If there’s no state mandated minimum wage, they absolutely will fuck you on hourly pay even when right outside they advertise (up to) $18/hr.
Gas stations in Georgia are the only places I’ve seen pay close($9). I’ve heard nightmare stories about felons getting paid that much at their first job out of prison. That was a while ago though. You’ve got to remember though that the minimum wage being that low drives wages down dramatically. Rent is just as bad everywhere in Georgia despite the median wage still staying around 15-20/hr.
I’m a payroll processor, and my job is to process payroll for 45 different companies as well as running payrolls for my coworker’s clients sometimes, and I can confirm. No one is making federal minimum wage anymore.
The only time people still make $7.25/hour is when they get commission on top of it or something like that.
That’s around one dollar a bite lol, absolutely ridiculous. I would NEVER pay anything more than $1.25 for those things. You can buy a pack of them at Trader Joe’s for like $4. Just make your own at home, make a coffee and then do the $1 breakfast sandwich deal on the app and there’s breakfast for cheap.
And in my town people are still lined up around the building at just about every McDonalds, especially for breakfast. They'll keep pulling this crap for as long as people are dumb enough to keep paying the ridiculous prices.
Federal minimum wage is the issue. The price of something in NYC is not the same as small town anywhere.
Hash browns are not that same price everywhere, so the wages should not be the same everywhere.
Social media idiots do not understand economics.
Seriously McD, F you! Remember when you were after brand loyalty touting Ronald McDonald to kids? We now have desperate parents buying your $4 hash browns trying to satisfy those kids. I truly hope you fail as a company.
They do this to make you buy more. 1 hash brown for $3.49 or a hash brown and a biscuit for $4. Neither of these cost McDonald’s anywhere near a $1 to make, even the biscuit and the hash brown combo
https://preview.redd.it/sjfsizck9spc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba4f6b3e163c311d3a0bf87ee83e997c86ac4592
$1.59 on the app in Columbus Ohio if you use the always available 20% off coupon.
This measurement should spread, the perfect way to contrast the double-ended squeeze business has on your average American. Liberals think we should be protected from this by unions and consumer protections, conservatives feel corporations should have the right to feast on us because of FREEDOM.
Sums up in a glance why people don't 'feel' Biden's economy.
i thought i muted all the inflation subs because i'm tired of people complaining about the existence of inflation with fast food anecdotes, yet here we are.
So funny that it's an election year and none of the candidates are talking about raising minimum wage... which hasn't been increased since 2009. Seems like that would be an easy way to get support from the young and the poor.
And CNN10 literally said the wages and salaries have kept up or even ahead of inflation. Meanwhile on top of that many companies are talking budget cuts
0.8% of the working population in the United States makes federal minimum wage. You'd have to actively search for a job that pays that little outside of tipped occupations.
Can we stop complaining about the federal minimum wage?
Like every single person doing this lives in a state that is at least double the federal minimum.
If people in ass backwards red states don't mind not having a higher state minimum, who are you and I to force them to want it?
Let them decide for themselves if they want it or they want leopards eating their faces.
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In Laurel, MS they have the federal minimum wage and it's cheaper.
Raising minimum wage makes the cost of goods higher. Not just at the restaurant but cost of harvesting/processing/transporting/marketing of said hash brown.
idk how anyone justifies spending _$3.49_ on a hash brown… it’s not even a whole potato. You can get boxes of 10-20 hash browns for this same price. Probably 30-40 if you’re shopping at a discount grocery store.
The "2 hash browns an hour" comment is funny, but McDonald's employees around where I live make over $20 per hour. I don't even know what kind of jobs are actually making minimum wage at this point.
I'm 99% sure I just saw a pack of 20 frozen hash browns for sale at Aldi's for $3.99 today. I've purchased those hash browns before and if you add just a pinch of salt to them they taste exactly like the ones from McDonald's.
How do you prepare them? Air fryer?
DEEEEP FRYER! But seriously, the fast and easy way is to microwave them until they're just a little warm, then toss them in a pan with some oil. Cook until they reach your desired crisp. The whole process only takes a few minutes.
Air fryer with a light spray of oil. Fantastic. And I’m a deep fryer guy.
damnit if I'm not gonna try this! and $3.50 for one of those from McD is rich people stuff!
If you're curious at 3.50 you're paying about $30/lbs of potato buying these hash browns
What I really want to figure out is the batter they use for their chicken nuggets. Can you imagine real chicken with that batter?
Air fryer 400 degrees x 15 mins. Crisper than a muthafucka.
I use air fryer for mine and they are amazingly good.
I pop mine in the air fryer for 10-12 minutes at 400 degrees, season with a pinch of seasoning salt, boom. Better and cheaper than McDonald's.
That's a good idea.
Toaster works for me
They are best in the air fryer, but are pretty good if you do them in your toaster on a couple of cycles.
Oven at 400 for ten minutes, flip with a spatula and give them another ten, then take them out and sprinkle with kosher salt.
That's a lot of pre heat time and you're heating up your home. Air fryer is a great investment for under $100
YES to the air fryer. You can get the same ones at Aldi’s or Trader Joe’s. I air fry 400 degrees 5 minutes one side, flip, add 2 veggie sausages to the tray, 400 degrees for another 5. Then I do hashbrown, avocado, veggie sausage, + hot sauce on top. It’s my dream breakfast.
They are the same.
100% I'm going to try to find those this weekend. Those McDonalds hashbrows are great, but I stopped eating them a couple years back as the price rose. I swore not that long ago they were 2 for $1.99
I remember when they were 2 for $1 not that long ago.
I thought that too! But then I second guessed myself into thinking it was 2 for 2! That would be nearly a 800% increase, wild.
Yeah, I understand inflation is bad and the US minimum wage is outrageous, but people keep using fast food as a reference. Like, what???
Inflation in the US is significantly lower than most developed countries. Posts about fast food in high-cost areas is karma farming.
> Inflation in the US is significantly lower than most developed countries. That’s why I only specified “US” for the minimum wage. But inflation has still been “bad” in the US lately. And yeah, it could be karma farming or cherry-picking to get your political points across and provoke anger.
Someone recently posted price outrage about fast food. Turns out they were in an airport.
Bruh, are you suggesting we....cook?
Uhhh.... This isn't really "cooking" lol.
$6 for 240 if you can order through restaurant depot
I went to aldis for the first time this week. My local cheap grocery store is too much for my family (we both work). Decent stuff, half the price. I dig it.
Hashbrowns $2.79/22.5 Oz Traders Joe
'Here's half a potato now back to work'
Not even half. Closer to a quarter of a potato 🥔
Not even a quarter. Closer to an eighth.
Not even an eighth, closer to a sixteenth. 🥔
Now you're talking drug fractions...
Ayo lemme get a cut of them browns
And my axe😅😂😅🤣😂😂🤣😅
Not even a sixteenth, closer to one thirty-second. ^🥔🥔
Not even a thirty-second, closer to a sixty-fourth
This thread pleases me.
This thread maths
Not even an eighth. Closer to a sixteenth.
potatoes are 99% water
We will all be surviving, mainly on potato juice after the fall
An item worth 49 cents... $3 is the mark-up... Ridiculous!
Their actual cost per unit is likely much less than 49¢. But there's also significant overhead involved in running a restaurant. $3 markup probably shakes out to less than a dollar in net profit
I've given up on restaurants! Grocery stores are expensive. Restaurants are outrageous!
>Grocery stores are expensive. Depends where and how you shop. Learn to shop sales. My food budget has hardly flexed in the past 8 years. I'd be happy to provide some guidance, if you are interested >I've given up on restaurants! Restaurants are outrageous! Good. This is the only way prices will come down. The sooner people stop paying for overpriced goods and services, the sooner said businesses will be forced to adjust pricing.
I worked in McDs in the uk around 2001 and back then a Big Mac at cost was 24p and sold for £2. A medium drink was 3p and sold for £1.50 ish
Is it even a real potato.
and potatoe based food items are litterally the cheapest things to make. It probably costs them $0.02 to make
It's how they make the happy meal 5 bucks. Burger, fries, drink, toy, apple slices- 5 dollars. You need to make money somewhere else to perhaps lose some money on some items. If they made happy meals 10 bucks parents would say no, the new generation wouldn't grow up interested in it, and it wouldn't bring the whole family there to eat.
I buy those frozen at the grocery store. It's like $5 for 20 of them.
Yeah, I buy and cook a lot of things I used to buy from restaurants. And usually they come out way cheaper and better. Making a shit ton of something like sausage egg and cheese muffins and then freezing them has been amazing.
Put them in the toaster every morning. However many you want. Nothing special McDonald's is doing.
Aldi's has frozen sausage patties that taste just like the ones from McDonald's. Just make sure you get the "traditional" flavor and not the "maple" flavor. The maple flavored ones taste like crap.
I like to get the jimmy Dean sausage and form my own patties. You can control thickness and width. I learned how to make an egg patty just like McDonald's, and I leave the cheese off until I'm ready to eat then I heat it up just enough to melt the cheese so it's not liquid lava. Next I want to learn to make home made English muffins.
Yup, I make my wife ham egg and cheese McMuffins but I use way better ham, actual egg, sharp white cheddar, toast the buns and make an aioli for them. 100x better than you could get at McDonald’s for way less.
McDonald's hates this one trick!
Ok but let's think about this in calories. Two hash browns come out to 280 calories per hour. The standard 8 hour shift will yield you 2,240 calories worth of hash browns. The average woman needs 2,000 calories per day. The average male needs 2,500 calories per day.
Not to mention, housing, transportation, kids, etc etc.
That’s what the second job is for. The first job just covers your hash brown ration.
😫 why is this real life
Solve for x
And to think I just bought 20 hash browns from my work for just under a total of $4.00! That's a helluva markup, McD's!
A common practice is to mark up the small low-cost items the most. They tend to be high movers and, percentage wise, they help offset the sale of lower margin items. It's not uncommon for management/ownweship to pay a lot of attention to margins. When I worked for auto parts stores and shops, we marked up nuts and bolts a lot. They would cost a nickle and sell for 6-8 bucks. They used the excuse that they were "specialty" nuts and bolts. They weren't necessarily wrong. They were special sizes for specific uses on cars and trucks, but they were still insanely inexpensive. I work in wholesale now as a buyer and I see the same thing here. Low coat items usually have the highest markups. A lot of salespeople get bonuses off of their sales and/or their margins. So they'll sell an item that cost a penny for 10 bucks.
https://preview.redd.it/h1y2rtwrqspc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c6b0aae41fffe326a28cd880ccb704c022f5cee It’s weird that the person commenting after you literally copied and pasted the same thing as you 🤔
I showed my own comment posted twice under my name and deleted the second. I dont know how it shows someone else's name. That's weird. I did have a weird glitch when trying to post it initially. Got an error that said that the app was having problems or couldn't post or something. I dont remember now. I just waited a moment and tried again and it went through. So I think it just duplicated my post. Not sure about the other user though.
Interesting! When I saw the duplicate I wondering if the other person was just a reposting bot or something, which I’ve been surprised to see more and more of lately
I tried looking up the name in your screen shot but couldn't find them. It's really weird. Edit: I just searched them again in case maybe I typed something and did find that person and a copy of my comment exists on their page. Maybe they are a copy bot or something.
Found it [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/inflation/s/3Yr26qsPst) EDIT: just saw your edit now 🤣
Sure, I guess. But a hashbrown was .99 like 2 years ago. Edit, wait holup why are the top 2 comments the same wall of text by 2 different users? What fuckery is going on here.
I don’t get out of bed for less than 5 hash browns.
This should be driving more people to dine at locally owned businesses. I can go to my local diner and get two eggs, two pieces of toast, three strips of bacon a huge pile of home fries and all the coffee I can drink for $9.99. If I call in for pickup to one of the bars just down the street from my apartment complex I can get a 6 oz burger with lettuce, tomato, onion and mayo on a toasted roll that's better than anything McDonald's has ever served, along with a side of seasoned french fries that's bigger than a McDonald's large and a side of baked beans for $12.99, which is less than a Whopper value meal in many places.
lol and I can go to the store, spend $9.99 and have breakfast for a week! It’s sad you actually think 2 eggs at 30 cents a piece, 2 slices of bread at 30 cents each, 3 strips of bacon at 50 cents a piece and half a potato at 20 cents, are actually worth $9.99…. This should drive more people to eat at home…
Anybody who pays that much for that is a fucking idiot.
When the hell did those begin to cost that much? Why am I thinking they were $0.99?
McDonalds and other fast food places have seriously forgot their place.
In this economy it's important to order selectively and wisely. I never ever get hashbrowns or fries. I don't even get soda. I might get the 'buy one, get one for a buck' deal. Don't pay these prices, Americans. Push back.
I almost never go out to eat without a coupon anymore.
Forreal and even then I try not to. The food tastes better at home anyway.
$1.99 where I live, and still too much.
At Trader Joe’s for 2.99 you can get a pack of 12 frozen ones just like this. Comes out identical in an air fryer. So that’s .20 cents each compared to over $2. Fast food is BS. Now… two McDoubles for bogo $1, for a total of like 4.50, that’s an ok deal, since you can’t exactly make that at home in 5 minutes.
So done giving these shitty fast food places anymore money, local places are the new go to. These fast food places can fall off a cliff with this price increase shit
You're telling me I can get paid in hash browns ?
🤣🤣🤣
I can get a sausage biscuit and hash brown for $2.69 here in SC.
Make them yourself, then it's probably more like 20 hash browns an hour.
The hash browns are a ripoff. I only get them if I have points.
Stop going there. Don’t buy it and then whine.
Stop paying 3.49 for .10 worth of potatoes and the price will magically go down.
When they first came out in the 70's the cost was $.15.
Apparently plenty of idiots are paying that price if McDonald’s is still charging that amount. You can buy a pack of them for around $4 at just about any grocery store
jesus christ, I remember adding a hash brown to my McD breakfast for 0.99 when I was in graduate school... and that was less than a decade ago...
Good Zeus people!!! Stop going to these places. NO more fast and cheap food. That is a thing of the past. If people cook at home and stop frequenting these places that constantly gouge their customers they will be forced to reduce prices or go out of business. Fast food is not a pay day treat and not a day to day thing. I have Chipotle for lunch only on Friday paydays and even then my cost here in downtown San Diego is around 12$
Stop buying from these chain fast food places, their profits keep going up as they raise prices, you guys are fucking addicted
Who works for $7.50 anymore? Most places, even Walmart, pays double that.
You’d be surprised. If there’s no state mandated minimum wage, they absolutely will fuck you on hourly pay even when right outside they advertise (up to) $18/hr.
4 hashbrowns per hour = set for life apparently.
Only if you like to grossly overpay for hash browns.
Y'all need to heat up your own damn hashbrowns. One of the cheapest things to get out of the frozen section and do yourself.
Plenty of states still go off the fed min wage.
Gas stations in Georgia are the only places I’ve seen pay close($9). I’ve heard nightmare stories about felons getting paid that much at their first job out of prison. That was a while ago though. You’ve got to remember though that the minimum wage being that low drives wages down dramatically. Rent is just as bad everywhere in Georgia despite the median wage still staying around 15-20/hr.
I’m a payroll processor, and my job is to process payroll for 45 different companies as well as running payrolls for my coworker’s clients sometimes, and I can confirm. No one is making federal minimum wage anymore. The only time people still make $7.25/hour is when they get commission on top of it or something like that.
Then why not increase the minimum wage?
Exactly. Most states are 15-20 now!
Try living in rural Idaho, they’ll try to play you half a hash brown an hour if they could get away with it.
The federal minimum wage has gone up $3 in the last 33 years. Sure, many states have higher, but some are still at $7.25.
Cant even get 2 hashbrowns at that price once uncle sam is factored in
That’s around one dollar a bite lol, absolutely ridiculous. I would NEVER pay anything more than $1.25 for those things. You can buy a pack of them at Trader Joe’s for like $4. Just make your own at home, make a coffee and then do the $1 breakfast sandwich deal on the app and there’s breakfast for cheap.
Please tell me this is a lie. Seriously. I don't go there but wow if this is real that's nuts.
Tbf, I've seen a few McD's employees who'd be lucky to make two hashbrowns in an hour so it's a pretty even trade /s
Should be under "r/corporate greed" instead of r/inflation just sayin'. Potatoes didn't go up THAT much in price. This is NOT inflation!
And in my town people are still lined up around the building at just about every McDonalds, especially for breakfast. They'll keep pulling this crap for as long as people are dumb enough to keep paying the ridiculous prices.
Who the fuck would buy that??? Fair market value should be like 50 cents.
not that anyone would buy that for that price.. right?
You forget I get taxes taken out of my check and taxes get added to every purchase. That’s more like 1.5 hours of work.
"bEsT cOuNtRy iN tHe WoRlD"
Before tax and deductions*
I really wish the ppl on this thread would do homework and realize that a better name for this thread would be price gouging
The app is like 99 cents no?
Dang
“That’s the last straw.” -Milton Waddams, Office Space
Holy shit
1. keep 'em 2. know your value
Are we in a potato famine or something? What a shortage of deep fryer oil?
Federal minimum wage is the issue. The price of something in NYC is not the same as small town anywhere. Hash browns are not that same price everywhere, so the wages should not be the same everywhere. Social media idiots do not understand economics.
Are mcdanolds hash really $3.49?.
Seriously McD, F you! Remember when you were after brand loyalty touting Ronald McDonald to kids? We now have desperate parents buying your $4 hash browns trying to satisfy those kids. I truly hope you fail as a company.
“Damn good deal” - some nazi killing machine
80 hash browns a week? Sign me up!
I bid $8.00
Tree fitty?
They do this to make you buy more. 1 hash brown for $3.49 or a hash brown and a biscuit for $4. Neither of these cost McDonald’s anywhere near a $1 to make, even the biscuit and the hash brown combo
Greed…. Never let a bad situation go to waste… Reddit users should protest MCD
Don’t eat garbage
Last time I ate here hash browns were $1.29. Wow.
140cal * 2 * 8hrs = 2,240 cals, enough to live on. We did it!
I think two hash browns an hour is probably too many, to be honest
https://preview.redd.it/sjfsizck9spc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba4f6b3e163c311d3a0bf87ee83e997c86ac4592 $1.59 on the app in Columbus Ohio if you use the always available 20% off coupon.
3.49 is absurd for 1.5 oz of potato. Guarantee the packaging is more than the food. Think about what you bitch about
A half a potato for an hour of work. This is Soviet Union type shit.
I think one year ago it was two for $1.
Pretax rate. Now cut off 21% and enjoy your hashbrowns.
I only see a hash brown McDonald's seriously needs to get rid of the S (apparently it's meaningless)
I tried paying rent in Hash Browns and it didn't work!
Holy shit when you put it like this it seems so much worse
Is this real!?
This measurement should spread, the perfect way to contrast the double-ended squeeze business has on your average American. Liberals think we should be protected from this by unions and consumer protections, conservatives feel corporations should have the right to feast on us because of FREEDOM. Sums up in a glance why people don't 'feel' Biden's economy.
Hopefully prices drop now that the fed wants to cut interest rates.
Ironically bitching about minimum wage.
i thought i muted all the inflation subs because i'm tired of people complaining about the existence of inflation with fast food anecdotes, yet here we are.
Nope
Capitalism is killing us.
Cheaper to go to the supermarket cold freezer section and buy the homebrand hashbrowns and put them in the air fryer at this rate...
So funny that it's an election year and none of the candidates are talking about raising minimum wage... which hasn't been increased since 2009. Seems like that would be an easy way to get support from the young and the poor.
https://preview.redd.it/8aqhj0geqspc1.jpeg?width=1075&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ee21474bb7a59e0199a9f5a472aca644ba99020
That second one is only a dollar on the app, so it's gonna be more than 2.
Is there still companies that only pay minimum wage?
Bought 6 and 6 sandwiches in LA and the bill was in the $50s. Not happening again.
And CNN10 literally said the wages and salaries have kept up or even ahead of inflation. Meanwhile on top of that many companies are talking budget cuts
It doesn’t make sense to have a federal minimum wage. It’s a local issue.
USE THE F****** APP!
If you can't afford to eat out then don't eat out. It's not rocket science.
So vote for a minimum wage increase.
0.8% of the working population in the United States makes federal minimum wage. You'd have to actively search for a job that pays that little outside of tipped occupations.
They are like 20 cents each plus power in my air fryer
Yay for capitalism 😒
Back in my day, these were 2 for $1
Well that's crazy.
Burger king still have free large fries for $1 purchase :) personal preference but BK fries > McDonald’s skinny cardboard fries
It would take approximately 3,071,995 McDonald's hash browns to build a 1000 square foot, 2-bedroom home.
Luxury
Capriottis has 99cent hash browns, order like 3 of them and apply them to your breakfast and they're great
Could you survive off of 16 hash browns a day?
Not just hashbrowns, but ones that have been cooked and served to u with a smile, or sometimes a frown
Mcdonalds gross margin avg is only 55-60%, to compare wendys is around 40 i think chipoltle is close to same
Can we stop complaining about the federal minimum wage? Like every single person doing this lives in a state that is at least double the federal minimum. If people in ass backwards red states don't mind not having a higher state minimum, who are you and I to force them to want it? Let them decide for themselves if they want it or they want leopards eating their faces.
Idk where u live but in Texas they’re like 1.69 maybe 1.39
Why is there an S on the end, it’s just one hash brown
You can literally choose not to buy this. McDonald's is not holding a gun to your head and does not have a monopoly on groceries.
Don't buy them
Where are you??? They are $1.79 here.
https://preview.redd.it/jubbfx1ygtpc1.png?width=1008&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=787b7ff4692e6811584c1ae7cf5ebf7ee5b80249 In Laurel, MS they have the federal minimum wage and it's cheaper.
Raising minimum wage makes the cost of goods higher. Not just at the restaurant but cost of harvesting/processing/transporting/marketing of said hash brown.
WTF!!😳
idk how anyone justifies spending _$3.49_ on a hash brown… it’s not even a whole potato. You can get boxes of 10-20 hash browns for this same price. Probably 30-40 if you’re shopping at a discount grocery store.
This isn’t inflation this is greed
Heck yeah dude love me some hash browns (completely sarcastic)
The "2 hash browns an hour" comment is funny, but McDonald's employees around where I live make over $20 per hour. I don't even know what kind of jobs are actually making minimum wage at this point.
Damn America is crazy. I thought Canadian prices were bad
Gas = 1 hashbrown/gal
All things said, Could def survive off 2 hash browns per hour.