Low-income Americans being priced out of McDonald’s and wider fast-food industry by soaring prices
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mcdonalds-dollar-menu-raising-prices-b2867013.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mcdonalds-dollar-menu-raising-prices-b2867013.html
25 Comments
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 30 pts · 296d
It's getting to the point where 'upscale' fast food is cheaper than McDonald's.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 296d
The Mexican restaurant down the street is cheaper than Taco Bell, minus the tip. I'm fine dropping an extra $5.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 6 pts · 296d
There's a taco truck a few miles from me that has $0.75 tacos, and they are 50 times better than Taco Bell tacos. Plus they give you hella raddishes and carrots on the side for nothing extra.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 4 pts · 296d
Man there are taco trucks all around me, but nobody sells tacos for under $4.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 296d
The "deluxe" is $3.50 here! And this is not an upscale town.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 295d
We have a local chain called hothead burritos, they're brick and mortar similar to Chipotle but they usually sell tacos for $3.50, but they do taco Tuesdays for $2.50. I get those fairly often, it is by FAR the best deal on tacos around here.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 295d
yeah where i live a single taco is like $6. a three taco plate is $15.
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social · 3 pts · 296d
I have found recently that I'm perfectly satisfied with a single cheeseburger and a diet soda. Still costs $4. 3.50 with the free drink, or $2 with a free cheeseburger coupon using points. Both require the app.
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 296d
The day I download an app to patron a physical building.
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 296d
Yeah, it sucks and I have 30 dang apps, but you really do get some decent discounts that bring the price back down to pre-pandemic prices.
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 296d
I have simple rules. No rewards programs, apps, or free trials.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 295d
I couldn't afford to eat out if it wasn't for apps and rewards. I hate it but the choice is between never going to a restaurant, or using their app. I usually save at least 30-50%. Sometimes it's free. I have 3 1/2 kids to feed though too, so saving is essential.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 295d
I refuse. When anything says "just install out app" I'm out right then, no further reading required. It's even to the point where whenever someone tells me about X service or Y store or Z product, I specifically ask if there's an app since many (products, mostly) are starting to hide the app dependency until you open the box and there's some bullshit little card with a QR code.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 24 pts · 296d
But it's okay, you can get what is effectively a tiny kids meal, sans toy, at the same price you could get a regular sized meal a decade ago! Or, in the case of their snack wraps, they will take them away for 5 years then triple the price when they bring them back! McEconomics!
vateso5074@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 296d
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 296d
That is some glass-is-half-full energy, if I've ever seen it
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 295d
Sure, blame restaurants for people eating like pigs.
Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 296d
I’d like to hear from all the finance bros who used the price of a Big Mac as the standard for inflation
paraphrand@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 296d
Divination.
recentSlinky@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 296d
So how do all those "business geniuses" think they can make any money if no one can buy their shit anymore? 🤔
imrighthere@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 296d
According to mcds, it's fine since there has been an uptick in wealthy people eating that slop to make up the difference.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 296d
Mcdonalds doesn't care. They are a landlord and franchise business not a fast food company. Mcdonalds makes money on every open store regardless how well that store does. The only thing that hits the actual company is closed stores.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 296d
Been screaming for a couple of years now, stop whining about prices and refuse to buy. That's kinda core to how capitalism works?
Lemmy: "Down with capitalism!"
Me: "Maybe stop buying their shit?"
Went to Dollar General for some goods, balked at the coffee prices. No way in hell I'm paying $17 for a can of coffee! Fuck right off I'll do without. Older guy was bitching with me in line today, same store, "$2.50 for a candy bar!" "I simply won't pay it, fuck all that."
I could take any one of you around our house and spend two hours showing you how little we spend. My outfit today? Casual, yet sharp, $10 for all of it. Under Armour sweatshirt $1, shoes $3, new button-up T-shirt $1, form-fitting scrubs $3, haircut free in the mirror, bracelet home-made from scraps, you get it.
My wife was trying on new outfits last night, woman's a total clothes horse. Every dress she showed me was $1 or free, all new or new enough you can't tell. I had to quit buying shoes from the thrift because I have an unreasonable amount.
She sells at the flea market most weekends. I put out some free goods, couple of toaster ovens, kids bows, etc. No one even glanced. Sold seeds that go for $5 on eBay for $.50. Sold one pack.
Not even starting on what all we've dug out of the neighbor's trash. OK, I'll start. Got a brand new toaster oven (big!), band new wine fridge (huge!) and a solid wood desk, free, one stop. One night we got a whole set of new Tupperware, pots and pans and the guy gave us a brand new bike for my daughter, tags still on it! And this is in a lower-middle class hood on the edge of town in the American South.
Lemmy: "Go on strike against capitalism!"
Me: "Uh, been on strike for years now?"
OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 295d
The only place in town that sells shirts for a dollar and shoes for three is the salvation army, and let me tell you, they don't have much for the Big and Tall.
I, too, wear things until they're broken. I have shirts I've been wearing since hogh school. I don't shop at dollar general, but that's because it's an evil conglomerate with the intent to drive out other businesses with their extremely low quality goods sourced from cheap/slave labor across the seas. That, and they don't have my sizes
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 295d
Maybe people are just waking up to the fact that McDonalds was never cheap food.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 295d
what are you smoking.
i used to go to mcd/wendy all the time because you could get a meal for $5 or less. we used to get high, drive to mcdonalds and eat 2-3 hamburgers each and split a large fry for like $10 for three people. it was very cheap and it was open late.
now to feed three people at mcdonalds it's 30-40 bucks.