Household names like Chipotle and McDonald’s cautioned about flagging purchases among low-income customers.
"Flagging purchases" is an interesting way to phrase "we tripled our prices and cut staffing to the bare minimum and are surprised that it didn't result in infinite money".
I'm so thankful the local halal place around the corner from my house is there... and gyro and fries is only like 9 USD. I commented to the owner about how cheap his food is; he said he's seen a bit of an uptick in business over the summer and he thinks it's because the chain places have gone mad with pricing.
the whole good, fast and cheap, you can only have two at once is true. when this formula is violated things fall apart. fast food is now only fast (it was never good but it used to be cheap).
I would question if it's fast anymore either. In my days of working fast food long ago we had parameters of customer quality and speed we had to meet. I do not see any evidence that any of the chains care about any of that anymore. Why would they? They give shit for shit prices and shit speed, and people keep coming back for more. Capitalism rule, why do better when it's not needed or required?
yeah, I was gonna say that but I live in europe where the whole drive thru scene has never been as fast as how it used to be in the states. I do recall mcdonalds drive through being so quick you were scared of holding up the line. here, you are told to go park in one of the waiting bays 1:3 times, or you just wait 3-4 mins sitting at the window at a minimum.
I was in the states in summer 2021 and things definitely took longer than they once did, but I was so grateful to the kids working those shit jobs when covid was still prominent that I was tipping them $10 in cash at the window, not complaining.
I'll be back over in a few months and will 100% get both Arby's and Wendy's as you cant get those over here, so I guess I'll see what the pace is like.
Just to say though, prices have definitely gone down at the bigger chains, I dont think we're the only two people who feel this way and the companies realized they went past their ceiling in terms of how much they could charge for their mediocre food
Can confirm. In the UK, and a few years back me and my grad school buddies had a habit of going to McD after the bars closed, and it was so chaotic with almost no staff, broken kiosks, and no feasible queue amidst the crowd of people (in the UK) that it felt more like being stuck waiting for an appointment at a government office. We literally had to be drunk out of our minds to even consider it.
Taco Bell was an even worse nightmare. I swear, even drunk that place feels like purgatory. Seen people literally lose their minds waiting lmfao
It's interesting that McDonalds saw increased traffic among higher-income shoppers. Apparently even high income people are feeling the pressure because they're apparently choosing to eat McDonald's over their usual restaurants.
I don't think people are eating at McDs bendy they want it.
We're eating it because we have no time, and little money. We're running behind and trying to get somewhere. If we had the time we would be eating at home.
The only way to get decent prices is if you use their gamified, personal information stealing app. Otherwise you're paying out the ass for trash tier food. They did this to themselves.
Shit, for real?! Now i went from sad to angry. Honestly it was probably just as well though, i was having a hard time justifying the price of their food anyway, stopped eating there a couple years ago... Not that i was a frequent customer to begin with
My hubby refuses to eat there since he gets sick about 65% of the time. Definitely questionable food safety. Probably safer to just lick you cell phone.
Maybe people are realizing how terrible a value it is, you can make the place look as fancy as you want, you're still serving what's supposed to be cheap food for crazy prices. There is no possible way you can justify blaming the consumer when the CEO is making tens of millions of dollars, he doesn't do that fucking much, no one does.
If you've never needed restaurant supplies, that makes sense. There's lots of businesses out there you never hear of because you don't need their services.
As a side topic, that's something that's always fascinated me. Looking around at the various vehicles and shops that most people just see as background noise, there are so many industries that we take for granted unless we need that particular product or service. Lots of things done in the middle of the supply chain that the average consumer never sees. Commerce is an enormous machine with billions of hidden parts to it, and it's amazing it functions like it does even in times of crisis.
You might be interested in this More Perfect Union video about how Sysco is ruining restaurant culture and is about to form a monopoly over the industry.
What does he mean about to? Doesn't everyone know that Sysco provides all the crap for the mediocre restaurants? It's been this way for a very long time.
It should be obvious when you eat at garbage restaurants like olive garden, outback, chili's, probably damn near all hotel restaurants and on and on.
I don't know if this is a regional only thing but there are brick and mortar restaurant supply stores. You usually need a membership to buy from them but you can bulk buy the same food and supplies that restaurants buy.
That's a strange way to say they aren't selling as much as they were expecting to, even a few months ago. How about, "Some restaurant chains are reporting decreased consumer spending"
In the US, wage growth has been above inflation for a long time with the exception of a couple of years. Since 2021, real wages have only shrunk a small amount.
That doesn't mean that individual sectors (e.g. fast food) haven't gone up more than other things, but this is more relevant than asset prices.
Then why is 15/hr still such a hot topic of resistance when that number was a living wage minimum amount decades ago? And what is the federal minimum wage still at? Then there's the issue of underemployment in both lowered expectations of what's available for a person's skill set, and also how many hours are actually available at whatever the rate is offered (i.e., if you give an employee a job at 20/hr but only give them 15 hours a week, that's not a living wage).
There's a lot of problems beyond just wage growth, and I would suggest that even if wages did start increasing faster than inflation for a while now, that just means they're "only" too low a little less. People wouldn't be working multiple jobs for each household member to make ends meet if wages were close to appropriate for cost of living needs.
Tbh I'm not sure what the minimum wage has to do with the overall picture. Obviously it should keep pace with wage increases.
The picture for wages overall is not what you say - annual incomes, not just hourly incomes, are not down over the last ten years. Yes, some people are having to worry multiple jobs or are unable to find enough work or specific costs in their life mean the overall picture doesn't reflect their situation, and there is a need to fix that.
But explaining reduced revenue at fast food places with "everyone is poor now due to inflation" is in contradiction with the facts, and you haven't brought up anything to rescue it.
Are you asking for references on US real wages? I can find em when I'm at a computer but it's pretty easy to search for. (I use image search to find charts usually)
I don’t know why anyone on the west coast would eat this crap when we have legitimate taco shops. That being said we’re definitely at the end of the monopoly game a few of the worst most psychopaths own everything and working people are tapped out completely. Hard to run a consumer based economy without consumers. That’s why they are installing an oppressive facist police state with AI driven mass surveillance. A feudal dictatorship is what comes next and mass killings of anyone inconvenient to this new system. Anyway that’s why you can’t afford to buy subpar burritos
Near me, they just opened up a Chipotle not too far from a Mexican grocer that sells everything to make your own tacos, and even has a carniceria/taqueria that puts Chipotle's taco/burrito bar to shame. Not to mention the half a dozen or so authentic Mexican restaurants and taco trucks within a few blocks.
Chipotle Mexican Grill, which operates thousands of U.S.-based stores, faulted consumer weakness for disappointing sales…
There ya go. Blame the very people for something that’s not their fault that you depend on for your overpriced luxury foods, clothing, houses, and yachts.
That sounds like a good strategy to win them back.
Yeah for what I'd pay for a burrito at Chipotle I can go get a burrito at a local place instead. I am not a chain restaurant person anyway, but the prices are equivalent now, there's kind of no point to them.
I do actually go to Panera sometimes because it's across the street from my work, it's so expensive but do feel like I get some nutrition at least. And there is no local bagel place so I get those there sometimes too. But my kids who used to eat more junk food from chains are meal prepping their lunches now to save money, with no input from me they just got tired of it. I don't think they'd go back now they are used to making food that they like.
The other day, the marketing team in my office were talking about the new McDonald's range that's out at the moment. Garlic chicken nuggets, pineapple on a burger, something like that.
I asked them about the price of a maccies nowadays. Mate, I almost lost my fucking mind when they told me it was like a tenner for a burger and fries. £10??? Are fucking mental??
£10 is what a burger costs in like, a proper sit-down restaurant. How the FUCK is maccies charging that much money and getting away with it? I can't imagine the food is suddenly not atrocious cardboard shit.
When I reacted with genuine shock and confusion, one of the guys agreed with me. He said "yeah, it's mad. It's getting to be Burger King prices". Honestly. What the fuck.
Better get politicians to pressure local businesses i to forcing their employees back into the office, I'm sure that'll make more people want to eat at your restaurant during their lunch break
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Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 178 pts · 292d
"Flagging purchases" is an interesting way to phrase "we tripled our prices and cut staffing to the bare minimum and are surprised that it didn't result in infinite money".
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 58 pts · 292d
Right? A burrito is $10+ and they wonder why people don't go there as often.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 291d
I'm so thankful the local halal place around the corner from my house is there... and gyro and fries is only like 9 USD. I commented to the owner about how cheap his food is; he said he's seen a bit of an uptick in business over the summer and he thinks it's because the chain places have gone mad with pricing.
Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 291d
Businesses: How can we pay our staff as little as humanly possible?
Also businesses: Why don’t people have any money to spend in my store?
It would be comical if it wasn’t so absurd.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 291d
But the M.B.A. told us to focus on our high dollar customers...
Skyline969@lemmy.ca · 151 pts · 292d
Fast food is too expensive and people aren’t willing to pay top dollar for shit quality. Who knew?
sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org · 30 pts · 292d
the whole good, fast and cheap, you can only have two at once is true. when this formula is violated things fall apart. fast food is now only fast (it was never good but it used to be cheap).
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 27 pts · 291d
I would question if it's fast anymore either. In my days of working fast food long ago we had parameters of customer quality and speed we had to meet. I do not see any evidence that any of the chains care about any of that anymore. Why would they? They give shit for shit prices and shit speed, and people keep coming back for more. Capitalism rule, why do better when it's not needed or required?
sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org · 5 pts · 291d
yeah, I was gonna say that but I live in europe where the whole drive thru scene has never been as fast as how it used to be in the states. I do recall mcdonalds drive through being so quick you were scared of holding up the line. here, you are told to go park in one of the waiting bays 1:3 times, or you just wait 3-4 mins sitting at the window at a minimum.
I was in the states in summer 2021 and things definitely took longer than they once did, but I was so grateful to the kids working those shit jobs when covid was still prominent that I was tipping them $10 in cash at the window, not complaining.
I'll be back over in a few months and will 100% get both Arby's and Wendy's as you cant get those over here, so I guess I'll see what the pace is like.
Just to say though, prices have definitely gone down at the bigger chains, I dont think we're the only two people who feel this way and the companies realized they went past their ceiling in terms of how much they could charge for their mediocre food
theoneandonlyeggboi@lemmings.world · 18 pts · 291d
Fast food isn't even fast anymore.
It's a humiliation ritual for all involved, except the people making the decisions.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 8 pts · 291d
Can confirm. In the UK, and a few years back me and my grad school buddies had a habit of going to McD after the bars closed, and it was so chaotic with almost no staff, broken kiosks, and no feasible queue amidst the crowd of people (in the UK) that it felt more like being stuck waiting for an appointment at a government office. We literally had to be drunk out of our minds to even consider it.
Taco Bell was an even worse nightmare. I swear, even drunk that place feels like purgatory. Seen people literally lose their minds waiting lmfao
Ancalagon@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 292d
They cut costs as much as possible and now they think it's the consumer because their food is shite. See the cost cutting.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 292d
They may have cut costs, but they also raised prices
Rooty@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 291d
If you're in the business of selling slop, it has to be cheap and readily available. Nobody is paying restaurant prices for warmed over garbage.
Manjushri@piefed.social · 48 pts · 292d
It's interesting that McDonalds saw increased traffic among higher-income shoppers. Apparently even high income people are feeling the pressure because they're apparently choosing to eat McDonald's over their usual restaurants.
YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca · 45 pts · 292d
I’d rather eat at home than eat at McDonalds.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 292d
Maybe they're not used to cooking.
But sometimes you just want a sloppy, shitty burger that you didn't have to cook.
shiroininja@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 292d
Fast food is like a nasty lay that you are ashamed of the morning after, but you were feeling feral and wanted to get dirty.
Ersatz86@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 292d
Das some funny shit
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 291d
Then I'll spend the same amount at a local place instead and get something that's actually edible
ChexMax@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 291d
I don't think people are eating at McDs bendy they want it.
We're eating it because we have no time, and little money. We're running behind and trying to get somewhere. If we had the time we would be eating at home.
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 291d
The only way to get decent prices is if you use their gamified, personal information stealing app. Otherwise you're paying out the ass for trash tier food. They did this to themselves.
aceshigh@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 292d
Mcds is so expensive now. You might as well get actual food.
Tujio@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 291d
I went to Taco Bell the other week and spent $20 on processed crap.
I went to a local burger joint and spent $16 on a damn good burger and fries.
Soggy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 291d
You can also go to Taco Bell and get the $5 meal box, it's one of the last fast food chains that still has a reasonably priced option.
theoneandonlyeggboi@lemmings.world · 5 pts · 291d
Taco bell died when they got rid of the $1 beef burrito a few years ago.
frunch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 291d
Also when they discontinued the Verde sauce 🫠
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 291d
You can still get it around me
frunch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 291d
Shit, for real?! Now i went from sad to angry. Honestly it was probably just as well though, i was having a hard time justifying the price of their food anyway, stopped eating there a couple years ago... Not that i was a frequent customer to begin with
Ougie@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 291d
And the portions are half of what they used to be. Shrinkflation is insane, a burger is the size of a slider these days.
ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 45 pts · 292d
Yes Chipotle, consumer demand is the issue, not the fact that your food safety track record reads like a Chinese bio lab
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 292d
My hubby refuses to eat there since he gets sick about 65% of the time. Definitely questionable food safety. Probably safer to just lick you cell phone.
...
Reminder: disinfect your cell phones often!
osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org · 5 pts · 292d
Reminder, licking your cell phone is free level ups for your immune system
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 292d
I've never gotten sick from then, but doubling the prices while halving the serving sizes made it pointless to go there any more
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 291d
These restaurant g suite idiots just can't figure out how they tripled prices and people are staying away.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 291d
I haven't ate McDonald's in over a year and I don't plan on it ever again. Doing my part!
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -1 pts · 291d
They must be desperate since they're rolling out the McRob nationwide in a few days. NGL it's tempting...
YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 291d
https://www.theawl.com/2011/11/a-conspiracy-of-hogs-the-mcrib-as-arbitrage/
Not necessarily fascinating, but an interesting article.
piepants2001@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 291d
McRibs are disgusting, I stopped eating them like a decade ago after every other one I bought had a big chunk of cartilage in it.
spearz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 291d
McRob is how they rob banks in Scotland
etherphon@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 292d
Maybe people are realizing how terrible a value it is, you can make the place look as fancy as you want, you're still serving what's supposed to be cheap food for crazy prices. There is no possible way you can justify blaming the consumer when the CEO is making tens of millions of dollars, he doesn't do that fucking much, no one does.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 291d
this is a recession indicator
etherphon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 291d
Woe is me if all these fast casual places go under.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 292d
If you're housed you can buy the exact same shit they heat up from frozen at a restaurant supply store and heat it yourself.
shiroininja@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 292d
I’ve never seen a restaurant supply store in my life. What?
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 292d
Use a search engine, you'll find one near you.
Best prices on cookware, frozen food, bdsm gear ..
frongt@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 291d
No, that last one you get at the hardware store. Best rates on ropes, chains, lumber, and eye bolts.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 291d
They're like 1 and 1a in some order for sure.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 292d
If you've never needed restaurant supplies, that makes sense. There's lots of businesses out there you never hear of because you don't need their services.
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 9 pts · 291d
As a side topic, that's something that's always fascinated me. Looking around at the various vehicles and shops that most people just see as background noise, there are so many industries that we take for granted unless we need that particular product or service. Lots of things done in the middle of the supply chain that the average consumer never sees. Commerce is an enormous machine with billions of hidden parts to it, and it's amazing it functions like it does even in times of crisis.
morriscox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 291d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_It%27s_Made is about how everyday items are made and it's surprising what goes into things that we take for granted.
Peffse@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 292d
https://foodie.sysco.com/sysco-products/
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 291d
You might be interested in this More Perfect Union video about how Sysco is ruining restaurant culture and is about to form a monopoly over the industry.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 291d
What does he mean about to? Doesn't everyone know that Sysco provides all the crap for the mediocre restaurants? It's been this way for a very long time.
It should be obvious when you eat at garbage restaurants like olive garden, outback, chili's, probably damn near all hotel restaurants and on and on.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 291d
Right now it exists as an oligopoly as oppose to a monopoly.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 291d
The giveaway is how they all have the same base flavor and they give you very distinctive burps.
shiroininja@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 292d
Oh I thought you meant a literal store
sharkteethsandwich@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 292d
https://www.restaurantdepot.com/
I don't know if this is a regional only thing but there are brick and mortar restaurant supply stores. You usually need a membership to buy from them but you can bulk buy the same food and supplies that restaurants buy.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 292d
There are also literal stores. I regularly visit a nearby US Foods "Chef'store"
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 291d
So they are failing their customers expectations, and all they know to do is cry for help?
Ougie@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 291d
Wait that's communism! They should calm down, the market will regulate itself /s
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 291d
Success! It actually does!
Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 291d
It hurt itself in confusion...
HarneyToker@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 290d
That’s literally what is happening, this is just capitalism at work. No fish is too big to be eaten at the end of the day.
lka1988@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 291d
That's just code for "the
sheepcustomers will pay this price eventually"Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 28 pts · 292d
That's a strange way to say they aren't selling as much as they were expecting to, even a few months ago. How about, "Some restaurant chains are reporting decreased consumer spending"
9point6@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 292d
Wages basically stopped rising (compared to asset prices) a couple of decades or so ago
Funny that people without any more money, aren't able to buy as much stuff now it's more expensive
FishFace@piefed.social · -11 pts · 292d
In the US, wage growth has been above inflation for a long time with the exception of a couple of years. Since 2021, real wages have only shrunk a small amount.
That doesn't mean that individual sectors (e.g. fast food) haven't gone up more than other things, but this is more relevant than asset prices.
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 15 pts · 291d
Then why is 15/hr still such a hot topic of resistance when that number was a living wage minimum amount decades ago? And what is the federal minimum wage still at? Then there's the issue of underemployment in both lowered expectations of what's available for a person's skill set, and also how many hours are actually available at whatever the rate is offered (i.e., if you give an employee a job at 20/hr but only give them 15 hours a week, that's not a living wage).
There's a lot of problems beyond just wage growth, and I would suggest that even if wages did start increasing faster than inflation for a while now, that just means they're "only" too low a little less. People wouldn't be working multiple jobs for each household member to make ends meet if wages were close to appropriate for cost of living needs.
FishFace@piefed.social · -4 pts · 291d
Tbh I'm not sure what the minimum wage has to do with the overall picture. Obviously it should keep pace with wage increases.
The picture for wages overall is not what you say - annual incomes, not just hourly incomes, are not down over the last ten years. Yes, some people are having to worry multiple jobs or are unable to find enough work or specific costs in their life mean the overall picture doesn't reflect their situation, and there is a need to fix that.
But explaining reduced revenue at fast food places with "everyone is poor now due to inflation" is in contradiction with the facts, and you haven't brought up anything to rescue it.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 291d
Why are you any different? I haven't seen you back up a single claim you've made in response.
FishFace@piefed.social · -2 pts · 291d
Are you asking for references on US real wages? I can find em when I'm at a computer but it's pretty easy to search for. (I use image search to find charts usually)
CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one · 15 pts · 291d
Chipotle: Increases price of a burrito from $6.99 to $12.00.
Customers: eat elsewhere.
Chipotle: Pickachu Face!
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 292d
I don’t know why anyone on the west coast would eat this crap when we have legitimate taco shops. That being said we’re definitely at the end of the monopoly game a few of the worst most psychopaths own everything and working people are tapped out completely. Hard to run a consumer based economy without consumers. That’s why they are installing an oppressive facist police state with AI driven mass surveillance. A feudal dictatorship is what comes next and mass killings of anyone inconvenient to this new system. Anyway that’s why you can’t afford to buy subpar burritos
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 5 pts · 292d
Near me, they just opened up a Chipotle not too far from a Mexican grocer that sells everything to make your own tacos, and even has a carniceria/taqueria that puts Chipotle's taco/burrito bar to shame. Not to mention the half a dozen or so authentic Mexican restaurants and taco trucks within a few blocks.
ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 291d
Nah, Ukraine proved you can stand up and win against even the biggest bullies with the Maidan Revolution.
tired_n_bored@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 292d
Can I say something? Fuck fast food, embrace slow, healthy food
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 292d
Where's all this time coming from when people need to work more jobs?
treadful@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 291d
It's all about priorities.
tired_n_bored@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 291d
Of course in this case there's no other option, just saying that if you can choose, choose to prepare things at home.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 292d
There ya go. Blame the very people for something that’s not their fault that you depend on for your overpriced luxury foods, clothing, houses, and yachts.
That sounds like a good strategy to win them back.balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one · 9 pts · 291d
Interesting phrasing
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 291d
Consumer weakness.
It's not that you've failed to offer a product that's a good value proposition for the consumer no..
It's their weakness. If they were stronger they'd buy your overpriced trash. The problem certainly is not that you're selling trash. It can't be.
RBWells@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 291d
Yeah for what I'd pay for a burrito at Chipotle I can go get a burrito at a local place instead. I am not a chain restaurant person anyway, but the prices are equivalent now, there's kind of no point to them.
I do actually go to Panera sometimes because it's across the street from my work, it's so expensive but do feel like I get some nutrition at least. And there is no local bagel place so I get those there sometimes too. But my kids who used to eat more junk food from chains are meal prepping their lunches now to save money, with no input from me they just got tired of it. I don't think they'd go back now they are used to making food that they like.
hotdogcharmer@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 291d
The other day, the marketing team in my office were talking about the new McDonald's range that's out at the moment. Garlic chicken nuggets, pineapple on a burger, something like that.
I asked them about the price of a maccies nowadays. Mate, I almost lost my fucking mind when they told me it was like a tenner for a burger and fries. £10??? Are fucking mental??
£10 is what a burger costs in like, a proper sit-down restaurant. How the FUCK is maccies charging that much money and getting away with it? I can't imagine the food is suddenly not atrocious cardboard shit.
When I reacted with genuine shock and confusion, one of the guys agreed with me. He said "yeah, it's mad. It's getting to be Burger King prices". Honestly. What the fuck.
sunbytes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 289d
"Consumer weakness"
Wow way to pass responsibility for your own failing to adapt to a changing market!
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 291d
Better get politicians to pressure local businesses i to forcing their employees back into the office, I'm sure that'll make more people want to eat at your restaurant during their lunch break