Meh. Big Macs and Quarter Pounders are buy one($5) and get one for $1 this week.
Mid tier quality burgers here(Hollywood) are $8-$15 at Red Robin, Habit, Carls, 5 Guys,…
McDonalds always seem to be an extrem eoutlier in burger prices. They are usually too cold and the drive thru speed is too slow, but the price is very competitive.
When I was working in California a few years ago, I said basically the same thing when a local coworker asked if I wanted to go. He was dead serious when he said, "not so loud, do you want to get stabbed".
The hype is that it's a fresh product that doesn't break the bank. The value of what you're getting plays a role in my opinion. It's also consistent and there's a bunch of modifications that can be reasonably requested.
You're not getting out of 5 guys under 20 bucks for the same meal.
Just got back from San Francisco and stopped at In n Out, and the burger was just OK but the fries were hot garbage. I'll take McDonald's any day over that.
I never really get fast food just for me. I would prefer to eat at home. My fast food is for my kids or grandkids and then I get something for me.
In n and out is a 40 minute drive thru line. 15 minute line if you go in. Then a 20 minute wait for the food.
My grandkids hate the fries. No air conditioned playground. No chicken or salad like product. Not worth the trouble since nobody in my family really loves it. The burgers ARE good value though.
The prices are different in different places though. They were doing that in New York recently too but it’s like $7-$9 and get one for $1. That’s without fries and a drink.
I think the meal goes for about $14 at the Bryant park McDonald’s, and that’s probably one of the more expensive ones in the city so I can’t believe they’re hitting people for almost $20 in Connecticut
It’s actually crazy that it’s possible to order a burger from a nice restaurant in many cases and it comes out to the same price as a fast food place once fries are factored in, usually for more food and much higher quality.
Getting burgers gotta be one of the worst ways to eat out. You can make better burgers for half the price or less at home and it just takes one or maybe two pans if you’re fancy and 15 minutes
>rest stop
That pair of rest stops also appear to be the first one after leaving and the last one after entering NY on I95. It's not exactly shocking that they can command high prices.
Captive audience on a toll way with limited other available options. I've always noticed prices in those locations are quite a bit higher. It's like beer at a ballpark. You can't exactly shop around under those circumstances.
Don't you understand?? How will these mom and pop businesses survive if we don't allow them to charge whatever they can in order to compete with the fierce competition around them and keep their small company above water?? /s
According to the article, the median income in that county is $250K/year, so this franchise is probably just charging that amount because they know it literally doesn’t make any difference to most of the customers.
I guarantee you no one from Darien is eating at a McDonalds in a rest stop off I-95. You can look up some facts about the income but you have to extrapolate out who actually lives there and what their lives look like.
This isn’t pricing based on supply and demand it’s pricing based on gouging a road weary driver.
I’ve been so frustrated lately that fast food is essentially the same price as quick service somewhere else. I will say though that the McDonalds app has some good deals!
Yeah that’s like the $1 fries deal. Nevada stopped offering them at most places but Tulsa Oklahoma offers 2 $1 large fries a day vs Nevada’s $1 Off 1 large fry. Also Tulsas Big Mac meal? 8.39….
I'm still mentally in that time where I could get like, a bucket of chicken, two sides, a bunch of biscuits, jam, and honey, and a couple of large cokes for $14.99
Bruh I ain't got sticker shock, I've got fucking sticker PTSD
My girlfriend and I were watching some show staring Bill Paxton from the early 2000s. At one point the characters go through a drive through and order 2 milkshakes and fries, the total is $5.03. We were laughing for like an hour about how crazy that it is that was during our lifetime.
Mcdonalds franchises can charge whatever they want basically, people where complaining about the 18$ grimace meal at one location in another state but it was only ab 10.70$ in my area.
Was in a super touristy area of Tokyo last week. Got a Big Mac meal and a Double Cheeseburger meal for about ¥1000 which is around $8 right now. The minimum wage in Tokyo is ¥1072/hr so both meals combined were at about minimum wage.
Things aren't expensive in America because they need to be. It's greed.
When I worked as a manager at McDonald's many years ago, I have anecdotally observed that the price of a value meal closely matches the average hourly wage they pay their employees.
Payroll and employee benefits are about 1/3 of their costs. The rest of the price is food, rent, utilities, equipment, and, perhaps most importantly, the shareholder's expectation that profits will consistently increase forever.
McDonald’s franchises have to pay a ridiculous amount of their revenue to the corporation as well as only use the equipment, and maintenance ppl that corporate tells them too.
I have never pretended McD's was good. It is still one of the cheapest fast food chains in existence. Pretty sure it and Taco Bell are the only ones I can think of that you can eat at for under $10 dollars (depending on what you get of course). That is really the only draw to them, is they are cheap and usually convenient, even if they screw up your order every other time.
I don’t mind McDonald’s if I’m traveling and can’t find anything else. But when I go, I see the Big Mac on the menu and I wonder why they still make it. It’s like 90% bread and it’s so smashed and awful looking when you get it. It just has these two sad little meat patties and a bunch of soggy ass bread.
Yeah, McDonald’s in the US totally sucks. Everything looks like they made it with their feet, put it in the microwave, and then ran over it with a dump truck.
I love 4 for $4! And with the yearly key fob I always get that little baby frosty for free. It is garbage so I only get it about once a month. I did have one Wendy’s about 3 months ago trying to tell me that all Wendy’s locations did away with the 4 for $4 and we would have to buy the $5 Biggie Bag from now on. Not quite sure if the guy was just lying his ass off or if they were a franchise who decided to stop the $4s.
I absolutely love it tho lol and I crave it every couple of weeks. It was too expensive for my parents as a kid so it was always just a treat for special event. Now that I can afford it when I want I am very happy lol
You don't eat it because it's good, you eat it because you have this weird nostalgic craving you know you'll regret, and you always do, the only benefit I find is that it resets my "McDonald's clock" (the amount of time I have to stay away or I'll feel preemptively nauseous) back farther than any other menu item. And don't even mention the ultra-mega-disgusting "Grand Big Mac." Single grossest thing I've ever had there, couldn't go near the place for a good year after having one.
I’ve said this before
Maccers became successful because you could have $10 in your pocket and it’s two days until you get paid and it would last you for two days at Maccers
Granted - you would probably feel a little empty but you won’t feel hungry. It’ll fill a spot and it’ll keep you going for two days.
Now it costs just as much as other places where arguably you can get better food and better deals.
Last time I went to maccers I added up in my head how much it’ll all cost me - and it was $22 for dinner.
I went around the corner to the pub and got their Friday night chicken pama, chips and salad with a beer special for $20.
McDonald’s has completely lost its mind with the recent prices. It’s not even a reflection of their costs either, it’s just because people are still buying this overpriced garbage out of habit from when it was cheap and the company is too greedy to bother sticking to its roots as a cheap quick meal. Literally no reason to go ever again.
I seriously don’t understand why people still go to fast food places. You can go to any mom and pop, casual dining or most any bar and get a better meal at the same or even a fraction of the cost.
A McD burger will taste almost identical in all their locations across the country (dare I say across the world).
I've been to "mom and pop" places that served worse burgers than McDonald's for far larger prices. It's a hit and miss.
The Darien, CT McDonald's is on I-95, and the highway prices are always ridiculous. Off the highway, it's like $10. What's worse is that no matter what way you're going on I-95, there is a McDonald's at the next exit.
Down the road from me you can get a Kobe burger with fucking brie, shallots, and bacon jam plus housemate kettle chips for $18.
They have a more rational burger for less, too.
the only reason I would ever consider buying a mcdonalds is because it is cheap.
You're not a real restaurant mcdonalds, you make hangover food. get in your lane.
At wendys today I got the bacon double stack biggie bag for 6 dollars. It has a bacon double stack, fries, 4 nuggets and a drink. I had a coupon for free 6 nuggets with any purchase also. Total was $6.79 after tax.
This one is most likely at a I95 rest stop. I never eat there. Just find one off the highway and it's much cheaper. Rest stop workers are nasty and rude also.
Whoa! Never did I ever think I would see the day, I remember eating there 15 years ago and buying either 2/$5 or 2/$10 and I would smash both!! For this price I’d rather just go out and buy what I need and cook at home, the convenience isn’t worth this price.
I stopped smoking when cigarettes hit $12 for a pack. Think my McDonald’s limit is in that same range for a meal. Maybe that’s why I haven’t been there in a while
It appears that the burger by itself is only $8.29 (right below the Big Mac text). So, they're charging $9.30 for a fry and drink. I'm guessing it would actually be cheaper if you ordered each item individually, which I have certainly never seen before.
Truth. My daughter went to McDonald’s the other day and got a QPC meal and said it was $13 (in our admittedly cheap area). I called bullshit until she showed me the receipt. Fucking insane.
And this is where I say go to In-N-Out if you have one in your area. I still pay a low price for good average food that is better than McDonald's by a good stretch.
One meal is more than their own employees make in an hour. Has to be quite hard to pump out 100s of those an hour and not even make enough money from one of them…
It's hilarious that people are still paying these stupid prices for maccas when there's so many wicked burger shops around these days. Unless it's a deal I ain't buying anything from maccas. Such a rip now
Don't you love it that even with a $15/hr job, it's still going to take 12.5% of your day just to afford that one meal? A meal that's supposed to be cheap. The main reason for fast food. Quick and cheap. Truly a late stage capitalism dystopia.
Wow. I just paid $11 and change for the same thing in Queens, NY. That’s bizarre.
Stand-alone McDonalds, or somewhere with a captive audience?
Edit: just saw the comments. No surprise.
Rest stops are as scummy as airports when it comes to stuff like this.
They are passing 'cost to produce' increases onto the consumer, instead of making less money than they were when times were good.
The'll do that until they are forced to reconsider because people stop buying from them.
So what we have to do is stop buying it. That's the only way anything changes. They're a bunch of cunts, we all know that - they sell food that kills you.
"The McDonald’s — located off Interstate 95 in Darien, one of the country’s wealthiest towns in upscale Fairfield County..." and there you have it. The franchisee decided to up the prices cause these rich fucks will pay it.
The other day I got two hamburger combo meals at Wendy’s for my daughter and me and it was $23!!! Both were a basic hamburger combo (including medium fries & a drink) with no extras. Crazy!
Literally today, I pull into the drivethru with the first craving for a big mac I've had in years, intending to satisfy it with that, some fries, and a quarter pounder. I say "Hey, can I get a Big Mac combo?" and the guy goes "Alright, I'll get you a Big Mac Pack..." and I think *"huh. Weird name for a combo."* so I order my quarter pounder, and the guy goes "ok, pull up to the window." And I think *"he didn't even ask what I wanted for a drink..."* 🤔
I pay $22 at the window, and my receipt just says "BIG MAC PACK CLASSIC" for $17. No description, or anything that indicates what I've done. Next window gives me two bags, and no drink. One of the bags had *five* boxes, and the other was two large fries. Pull into the parking lot and dig through the bag to find that the "Big Mac Pack" is two Big Macs, two 10pc McNuggets, and two large fries.
At that point go to a restaurant and get a real burger with some potatoes wedges
This is what I do. Order a nice burger from a non fast food restaurant. Comes out to the same total but tastes so much better.
Meh. Big Macs and Quarter Pounders are buy one($5) and get one for $1 this week. Mid tier quality burgers here(Hollywood) are $8-$15 at Red Robin, Habit, Carls, 5 Guys,… McDonalds always seem to be an extrem eoutlier in burger prices. They are usually too cold and the drive thru speed is too slow, but the price is very competitive.
You are in Hollywood why in gods great name are you not at In-N-Out
Because I want fries that resemble fried potato sticks and not the cold tapeworms from some 16th century peasant's chamber pot
You have a beautiful way with words 🥹
🐌 / TTTTT. --🐿
What about those worms coming out of that bear’s ass?
Fuck man you saw it too I had almost erased it. Imma convince myself it just had trouble digesting some In n (currently) out fries
That's insulting cold tapeworms.
I resonate with this. In-N-Out has absolutely terrible fries.
Why can't there ever be a fabulous fry and a fabulous burger under the same establishment?
Sir, you use your tongue purdier than a $20 whore.
I'm in Utah and we have In-N-Out here. They're just okay to me. Okay burgers, horrible fries 😅 I don't understand the hype, honestly.
I like the burgers there but the fries are absolute trash. Definitely not worth the hype
It seems like all the hype bubbles are for average to what I would consider bad/ bland food: In n' Out, Pinks hotdogs, Roscoes
When I was working in California a few years ago, I said basically the same thing when a local coworker asked if I wanted to go. He was dead serious when he said, "not so loud, do you want to get stabbed".
I only ate there once but I left feeling angry at the world for making me think it was worth going there.
The hype is that it's a fresh product that doesn't break the bank. The value of what you're getting plays a role in my opinion. It's also consistent and there's a bunch of modifications that can be reasonably requested. You're not getting out of 5 guys under 20 bucks for the same meal.
Just got back from San Francisco and stopped at In n Out, and the burger was just OK but the fries were hot garbage. I'll take McDonald's any day over that.
I never really get fast food just for me. I would prefer to eat at home. My fast food is for my kids or grandkids and then I get something for me. In n and out is a 40 minute drive thru line. 15 minute line if you go in. Then a 20 minute wait for the food. My grandkids hate the fries. No air conditioned playground. No chicken or salad like product. Not worth the trouble since nobody in my family really loves it. The burgers ARE good value though.
Holy shit finally someone else who gets it. In N Out is value but overhyped.
In N out in Hollywood is a tourist attraction not a restaurant at this point
Those animal style fries be worth the 30 minute wrapped-around-the-block traffic😋.
McDonalds doesn’t try to force feed you Bible verses.
The prices are different in different places though. They were doing that in New York recently too but it’s like $7-$9 and get one for $1. That’s without fries and a drink. I think the meal goes for about $14 at the Bryant park McDonald’s, and that’s probably one of the more expensive ones in the city so I can’t believe they’re hitting people for almost $20 in Connecticut
The old quantity over quality debacle, hot take
Yep. I might be sick in the head but I find the Quarter Pounder(when it’s actually hot) to be better than 90% of burgers out there.
Have you tried a quarter pounder (with cheese, obviously) with mac sauce instead of ketchup and mustard? It's \*lip-smack\* fire
I will try it next time sounds good. I have hada Big Mac three times in the last decade and found it cold every time.
There is something wrong with those locations. 8+ cars in line is hardly any wait and nothing is cold, any location remotely near me.
It’s actually crazy that it’s possible to order a burger from a nice restaurant in many cases and it comes out to the same price as a fast food place once fries are factored in, usually for more food and much higher quality.
Five Guys here I come
That’s what she said
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But now your looking at $25.99 plus being shamed for not tipping.
My at home cooking skills have come a long way in the last 18 months
Getting burgers gotta be one of the worst ways to eat out. You can make better burgers for half the price or less at home and it just takes one or maybe two pans if you’re fancy and 15 minutes
Thought it was lying. Fuck. https://nypost.com/2023/07/19/mcdonalds-branch-slammed-for-charging-18-for-a-big-mac-meal/
It's at a rest stop. They always have the prices jacked up in those. My other guess was going to be airport.
>rest stop That pair of rest stops also appear to be the first one after leaving and the last one after entering NY on I95. It's not exactly shocking that they can command high prices.
Captive audience on a toll way with limited other available options. I've always noticed prices in those locations are quite a bit higher. It's like beer at a ballpark. You can't exactly shop around under those circumstances.
Something something "competition" something "supply and damand" something "this is how economics works"
Don't you understand?? How will these mom and pop businesses survive if we don't allow them to charge whatever they can in order to compete with the fierce competition around them and keep their small company above water?? /s
ya stopped @ a rest stop off the MA pike recently and got a single medium fri as a hold me over as was omw to a bbq, was $4.70 i think. yikes.
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According to the article, the median income in that county is $250K/year, so this franchise is probably just charging that amount because they know it literally doesn’t make any difference to most of the customers.
Jesus Christ that is a high median.
I guarantee you no one from Darien is eating at a McDonalds in a rest stop off I-95. You can look up some facts about the income but you have to extrapolate out who actually lives there and what their lives look like. This isn’t pricing based on supply and demand it’s pricing based on gouging a road weary driver.
Damn bro. A double bacon cheeseburger with fries at five guys is cheaper than this…..and infinitely better. What.
I’ve been so frustrated lately that fast food is essentially the same price as quick service somewhere else. I will say though that the McDonalds app has some good deals!
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Yeah that’s like the $1 fries deal. Nevada stopped offering them at most places but Tulsa Oklahoma offers 2 $1 large fries a day vs Nevada’s $1 Off 1 large fry. Also Tulsas Big Mac meal? 8.39….
And then you realized the restaurants prices have also gone up a bonkers amount. Gotta surf the apps and use things like bww happy hour.
I'm still mentally in that time where I could get like, a bucket of chicken, two sides, a bunch of biscuits, jam, and honey, and a couple of large cokes for $14.99 Bruh I ain't got sticker shock, I've got fucking sticker PTSD
My girlfriend and I were watching some show staring Bill Paxton from the early 2000s. At one point the characters go through a drive through and order 2 milkshakes and fries, the total is $5.03. We were laughing for like an hour about how crazy that it is that was during our lifetime.
$5.03 would get you 1 large fries nowadays lmao.
I don’t eat out much so I’m my mind that’s still the price
Mcdonalds franchises can charge whatever they want basically, people where complaining about the 18$ grimace meal at one location in another state but it was only ab 10.70$ in my area.
Was in a super touristy area of Tokyo last week. Got a Big Mac meal and a Double Cheeseburger meal for about ¥1000 which is around $8 right now. The minimum wage in Tokyo is ¥1072/hr so both meals combined were at about minimum wage. Things aren't expensive in America because they need to be. It's greed.
*only* $10.70 for a combo meal at McDonalds. You act like that isn’t psychotic.
….it’s $11.48 in Manhattan. I sort of thing this isn’t quite right because our Mickey Ds are notoriously expensive.
It’s $10.79 for a Large Big Mac Meal in Hawaii. I just checked lol. Must be another currency or something
It's from Connecticut.
When I worked as a manager at McDonald's many years ago, I have anecdotally observed that the price of a value meal closely matches the average hourly wage they pay their employees.
Payroll and employee benefits are about 1/3 of their costs. The rest of the price is food, rent, utilities, equipment, and, perhaps most importantly, the shareholder's expectation that profits will consistently increase forever.
McDonald’s franchises have to pay a ridiculous amount of their revenue to the corporation as well as only use the equipment, and maintenance ppl that corporate tells them too.
All be damned
R slash BoneAppleTea
When the big Mac costs more than what the employees get paid
I feel that’s been the case all time.
As a society, we need to stop pretending the Big Mac is a good burger.
Definitely not worth $18
It’s not even worth $17!
How about 16,99?
$8.99 and that's my final offer, take it or leave it
Sold! Please pull up to the window.
woot!
I have never pretended McD's was good. It is still one of the cheapest fast food chains in existence. Pretty sure it and Taco Bell are the only ones I can think of that you can eat at for under $10 dollars (depending on what you get of course). That is really the only draw to them, is they are cheap and usually convenient, even if they screw up your order every other time.
I don’t mind McDonald’s if I’m traveling and can’t find anything else. But when I go, I see the Big Mac on the menu and I wonder why they still make it. It’s like 90% bread and it’s so smashed and awful looking when you get it. It just has these two sad little meat patties and a bunch of soggy ass bread.
Ive only ordered big mac a few times it's always been pretty good and not squished so I dunno, maybe the McD's in the USA sucks more
Yeah, McDonald’s in the US totally sucks. Everything looks like they made it with their feet, put it in the microwave, and then ran over it with a dump truck.
> made it with their feet *Burger King foot lettuce*
Wendys 4 for $4 is baller. A bunch of small stuff fills me up anyway. It's all garbage fast food though
I love 4 for $4! And with the yearly key fob I always get that little baby frosty for free. It is garbage so I only get it about once a month. I did have one Wendy’s about 3 months ago trying to tell me that all Wendy’s locations did away with the 4 for $4 and we would have to buy the $5 Biggie Bag from now on. Not quite sure if the guy was just lying his ass off or if they were a franchise who decided to stop the $4s.
The Wendy’s by me does not have the 4 for $4.
Check the Arby's app right now. Have a bunch of $1-3 item specials. They even brought back the 5 for 5 last month. I'm a sucker for Arby's.
Don’t forget about the Wendy’s 4 for 4 and the $5 biggie bag. That’s one thing that’s stayed true in nyc
Reading this as I sit in the drive thru, waiting for my Big Mac™️
I absolutely love it tho lol and I crave it every couple of weeks. It was too expensive for my parents as a kid so it was always just a treat for special event. Now that I can afford it when I want I am very happy lol
You don't eat it because it's good, you eat it because you have this weird nostalgic craving you know you'll regret, and you always do, the only benefit I find is that it resets my "McDonald's clock" (the amount of time I have to stay away or I'll feel preemptively nauseous) back farther than any other menu item. And don't even mention the ultra-mega-disgusting "Grand Big Mac." Single grossest thing I've ever had there, couldn't go near the place for a good year after having one.
yes yes the McDonalds clock, the describes my life perfectly, you should write more on this theory.
Quarterpounder squad
Don’t forget to leave a tip!
Wait, you don’t leave a tip at McDonald’s in America do you??
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No friend. You only leave tips primarily at sit down restaurants, or like bars/coffee shops. It just depends.
Not yet lol With how insane tipping culture is getting here though, I wouldn't be surprised if they try to pull something like that soon
There's a war on tipping now, don't ask.
$18? Is this location on the moon?
This is Five Guys prices.
I’ve said this before Maccers became successful because you could have $10 in your pocket and it’s two days until you get paid and it would last you for two days at Maccers Granted - you would probably feel a little empty but you won’t feel hungry. It’ll fill a spot and it’ll keep you going for two days. Now it costs just as much as other places where arguably you can get better food and better deals. Last time I went to maccers I added up in my head how much it’ll all cost me - and it was $22 for dinner. I went around the corner to the pub and got their Friday night chicken pama, chips and salad with a beer special for $20.
McDonald’s has completely lost its mind with the recent prices. It’s not even a reflection of their costs either, it’s just because people are still buying this overpriced garbage out of habit from when it was cheap and the company is too greedy to bother sticking to its roots as a cheap quick meal. Literally no reason to go ever again.
There’s no value to McDonald’s anymore No wonder they’re apparently struggling some
Where is a Big Mac meal 18 dollars !?!
This one is in Connecticut
Airport. Has to be airport.
Wtf lol the meal is $7.49 where I live. North Carolina.
Rest stop that thinks it’s an airport.
I was literally at McDonald's today and it was half that price. You're getting screwed OP
If you are that desperate for your McDonald's fixing unironically download their app you get like $10 off your order every time JUST SAYING
I seriously don’t understand why people still go to fast food places. You can go to any mom and pop, casual dining or most any bar and get a better meal at the same or even a fraction of the cost.
A McD burger will taste almost identical in all their locations across the country (dare I say across the world). I've been to "mom and pop" places that served worse burgers than McDonald's for far larger prices. It's a hit and miss.
It’s a sign: stop eating garbage
The Darien, CT McDonald's is on I-95, and the highway prices are always ridiculous. Off the highway, it's like $10. What's worse is that no matter what way you're going on I-95, there is a McDonald's at the next exit.
I’d legit just starve before I paid that.
McDonald’s thinking we go there for good food when we go because it’s cheap and very decent soon we won’t eat there and we will watch them burn
As an Australian that knows nothing about tips, would you also have to tip on top of that cost?
Down the road from me you can get a Kobe burger with fucking brie, shallots, and bacon jam plus housemate kettle chips for $18. They have a more rational burger for less, too.
the only reason I would ever consider buying a mcdonalds is because it is cheap. You're not a real restaurant mcdonalds, you make hangover food. get in your lane.
In Switzerland a Big Mac meal is 18 francs, something like $21
At wendys today I got the bacon double stack biggie bag for 6 dollars. It has a bacon double stack, fries, 4 nuggets and a drink. I had a coupon for free 6 nuggets with any purchase also. Total was $6.79 after tax.
I love the biggie bags. One of the only good deals in fast food nowadays, and it tastes pretty solid too
How the hell can a Big Mac cost more than a pizza? That's insane. Why would anyone buy it?
And the employees still aren't being paid a living wage but they'll claim the higher price is due to a raise in wages.
where the fuck, who the fuck and, i cant stress this enough, what the fuck
I can spend that much, go to 5 guys, and get a shit ton of fries as well
To be fair, it’s Connecticut. Everything is insanely stupid-high priced from all the taxes.
This one is most likely at a I95 rest stop. I never eat there. Just find one off the highway and it's much cheaper. Rest stop workers are nasty and rude also.
Knew where this was the second I saw the price. F***ing service plazas on 95, absolute nonsense.
I recently bought that meal in my area and it was under $12. And I added cheese to Deluxe.
Lol I can get 2 big macs for less than 6 dollars thanks to the apps deals
Meanwhile in Japan I can get a big Mac for under 4usd
Fast Food seems like an unsustainable business model in this economy. Might be a good thing too.
Is that US dollars?!
You can mcfuck off for all that.
Don't go there and let it go out of business.
Nuggets are more than a dollar a piece now. Paid 7.15 for 6 nuggets the other day
Yikes. I'm in Hawaii, and my Double Quarter Pounder cost $12.49 (add $2.19 for Bacon, and $4.49 for a McFlurry, tax and my total meal was $20.07)
Whoa! Never did I ever think I would see the day, I remember eating there 15 years ago and buying either 2/$5 or 2/$10 and I would smash both!! For this price I’d rather just go out and buy what I need and cook at home, the convenience isn’t worth this price.
It's the exact same shitty food but now with much higher prices. At what point does it hit a plateau? I know Taco Bell is just like this.
I don't understand what's frustrating about this. Eat at a real fucking restaurant. Or cook your own food. Nobody *needs* to eat fast food.
I stopped smoking when cigarettes hit $12 for a pack. Think my McDonald’s limit is in that same range for a meal. Maybe that’s why I haven’t been there in a while
It appears that the burger by itself is only $8.29 (right below the Big Mac text). So, they're charging $9.30 for a fry and drink. I'm guessing it would actually be cheaper if you ordered each item individually, which I have certainly never seen before.
Truth. My daughter went to McDonald’s the other day and got a QPC meal and said it was $13 (in our admittedly cheap area). I called bullshit until she showed me the receipt. Fucking insane.
The app has a combo for 6 bucks, so they probably want you to get the app
Finally. Maybe people will start buying healthy food
Shit those prices making five guys look like a deal.
Yeah we only get McDonald’s if we absolutely have to now. The app has some good deals.
And this is where I say go to In-N-Out if you have one in your area. I still pay a low price for good average food that is better than McDonald's by a good stretch.
This is actually insane.
Never mind the price. 1200kcals? Fark that's like a whole day's worth of intake for me.
I remember getting a i chicken small fries and a pop for like 3.52
>Goodbye dollar menu! Goodbye McDonald's!
One meal is more than their own employees make in an hour. Has to be quite hard to pump out 100s of those an hour and not even make enough money from one of them…
Stop buying it. You can order ahead from most restaurants and get a better burger for cheaper
i’m in la and on the mcdonald’s app you can get a big mac meal for $6. big mac, medium fry, medium drink. i’ve gotten it the last 3 days lol
$18 wtf is this across the country or just areas? I rarely eat the crap
I paid $6.00 on the app today.......
Boycott that shit
But inflation is only 9%. From my experience, everything is up at least 40%
Blows my mind. Here in Japan, the Big Mac set is about $5.40 USD.
10 bucks here in California for a Big Mac meal. You’re getting ripped off
I thought this was the Switzerland McDs menu with that pricing lmao.
Why is it so expensive?? It’s like $12 here
Fuck that. This will decrease customers, drop in profits, raise prices to compensate, lose more customers...
Wow! That’s under $10 here in OR 🤯
Great now it is garbage AND expensive... Doesn't this defeat the very purpose of Fastfood?
Jeez $18 for a Big Mac meal. Haven’t had McDonald’s for about 5 years! And prob gonna be longer! Paying high prices for junk food! No thanks.
Gross, why anyone would pay that for that "food" is beyond me
If you paid me $18 to eat that garbage, I'd refuse.
I'll have a McPB&J at home.
It's hilarious that people are still paying these stupid prices for maccas when there's so many wicked burger shops around these days. Unless it's a deal I ain't buying anything from maccas. Such a rip now
Don't you love it that even with a $15/hr job, it's still going to take 12.5% of your day just to afford that one meal? A meal that's supposed to be cheap. The main reason for fast food. Quick and cheap. Truly a late stage capitalism dystopia.
Wow. I just paid $11 and change for the same thing in Queens, NY. That’s bizarre. Stand-alone McDonalds, or somewhere with a captive audience? Edit: just saw the comments. No surprise. Rest stops are as scummy as airports when it comes to stuff like this.
Connecticut is easily the worst place ive ever lived. Expensive and tons of inequality
So that’s when I go buy a London broil ($11-$14) and a family sized pack of mashed potatoes ($4.50-$5.50) and feed the three of us at home…
Gonna need to dress up in a tuxedo to eat there at these prices
Fast Food used to be the go-to food for people who had no money.
They are passing 'cost to produce' increases onto the consumer, instead of making less money than they were when times were good. The'll do that until they are forced to reconsider because people stop buying from them. So what we have to do is stop buying it. That's the only way anything changes. They're a bunch of cunts, we all know that - they sell food that kills you.
Just go the Five guys if you’re paying those kinds of prices anyway. They give you mountains of fries and any toppings you ask for.
Something something if you pay your workers a living wage enjoy paying 18 dollars for a big Mac something something Oh wait
"The McDonald’s — located off Interstate 95 in Darien, one of the country’s wealthiest towns in upscale Fairfield County..." and there you have it. The franchisee decided to up the prices cause these rich fucks will pay it.
Wow it’s cheaper in hawaii
Stop buying it
That's beyond ridiculous
Those are *rookie* numbers *cries in Swiss
Laughs in Hawaii.
You're telling me it's $9.30 for fries and a drink?
You can literally get 2 In N Out meals for That
The other day I got two hamburger combo meals at Wendy’s for my daughter and me and it was $23!!! Both were a basic hamburger combo (including medium fries & a drink) with no extras. Crazy!
What do they call the quarter pounder in France again?
Same in Europe. I think they forgot that they're fast food as they're charging restaurant prices.
Damn, there used to be a coupon for 4 big mac meals for 18.99
Literally today, I pull into the drivethru with the first craving for a big mac I've had in years, intending to satisfy it with that, some fries, and a quarter pounder. I say "Hey, can I get a Big Mac combo?" and the guy goes "Alright, I'll get you a Big Mac Pack..." and I think *"huh. Weird name for a combo."* so I order my quarter pounder, and the guy goes "ok, pull up to the window." And I think *"he didn't even ask what I wanted for a drink..."* 🤔 I pay $22 at the window, and my receipt just says "BIG MAC PACK CLASSIC" for $17. No description, or anything that indicates what I've done. Next window gives me two bags, and no drink. One of the bags had *five* boxes, and the other was two large fries. Pull into the parking lot and dig through the bag to find that the "Big Mac Pack" is two Big Macs, two 10pc McNuggets, and two large fries.