Smokehouse Burger*
$13.49
Sautéed mushrooms, onions, BBQ sauce, lettuce, tomato and onion with American and jack cheeses served on a Texas-sized bun with steak fries and a pickle spear
Posted on 11/04/2023 10:53:48 AM PDT by nickcarraway
An enraged McDonald’s customer says the fast food franchise is no longer affordable for ordinary Americans, calling the company’s contemporary prices “crazy.”
“So, I get there’s a labor shortage, I get there’s wage increases and a number of other things,” Idaho man Christopher Olive began in a viral TikTok clip, which has recently resurfaced.
“But $16? $16 for a burger, a large fry and a drink? It’s just crazy!” the flabbergasted content creator complained, panning to his itemized receipt from a McDonald’s restaurant in the city of Post Falls. The video was original posted on social media last December, but has now gone viral again after McDonald’s recently reported an increase in revenue directly influenced by a “strategic” hike in menu prices.
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I hit the "Value" menu at most fast food--less food, better for diet, and cheaper. Well, used to be cheaper.
At Burger King you can use their app and the Offers to save quite a bit. Two days ago I got a Double Cheeseburger and fries for $4.99. Lots of other well-priced choices. If several of us are going, maybe one of the packaged offers work or we all go inside and purchase separately using each of our respective phones since the offers are one-only per person.
McDonald's app doesn't work well, prices are getting excessive. The $16 noted in the article is old, there was an article or report elsewhere saying now $18. We've come to avoid McDonalds as the prices are too much.
Taco Bell as a good Value menu. Still can get a decent (Taco Bell-wise) burrito for $2-3.
Blaze Pizza. Best deal around! Build your own, priced around $10. I usually eat half, save the balance for breakfast.
I guess that could be said about pretty much every business...
5 Guys is overrated. I’ve eaten there once. Have no plans to ever eat there again.
I’m OK with that.
I can make a 8-oz grass fed beef burger with bacon and swiss cheese at home for about $5 in ingredient cost.
We briefly had a Five-Guys open up here more than 7 years ago. Went once. The prices were high then, and the fries were horrible...too much grease and soggy. The place didn't last here a year, and eventually became a Moe's, which is still going, but I hardly ever go there either. I'm not a big fan of Mexican food. I rarely visit any of the fast food places. I can make a better burger and fries at home for less. I stopped going to McDonald's when they ended their 24 hour breakfast during the lockdown. Their sausage, egg and cheese biscuit sandwich, and their hash browns were all I liked. I've been retired for 20 years, and don't get up with the birds to ever get to McDonald's before they end their breakfast. The last time I had their biscuit sandwich was this past January, because I was just coming from having early morning cataract surgery.
Well , the vast majority of people out there are far more liberal than we conservatives here on Free Republic.
So McDonald’s has plenty of customers.
Exactly.
I love Popeye’s chicken but the prices are simply too much.
and some will still go there 3-4 times a day ,LOL
“Well , the vast majority of people out there are far more liberal than we conservatives here on Free Republic. So McDonald’s has plenty of customers.”
Sadly so, but should we just stand by while McDonald’s is POISONING* people with their crap food?
*for you Karens out there, obviously I’m using ‘poisoning’ as a figure of speech.
All depends on what they can find by the side of the road. One day it could be possum. Another day armadillo. If you are lucky you get venison.
Dropping $30 for nothing-special McD’s food takes some getting used-to.
The kids however, don’t care how much is costs.
My favorite fast food chain hamburgers are Culver’s and In N Out. The former’s double burger combo was $12.54 with tax and the latter was $10.02 two weeks ago.
Cursory review online shows that $3.20 in 1989 is equivalent to $7.88 today.
Smokehouse Burger*
$13.49
Sautéed mushrooms, onions, BBQ sauce, lettuce, tomato and onion with American and jack cheeses served on a Texas-sized bun with steak fries and a pickle spear
What do you suggest we do , as opposed to just standing by and letting McDonald’s run their business?
Do you favor some sort of government intervention into their business?
Reminds me of several years ago my client asked me about my expense report wondering about my choices... McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell, Popeyes, Wendy's. I eat 'fast food' during the day when traveling, sit-down restaurants at night for dinner; leftovers for breakfast.
No, you were right, it is poisoning.
But it's not just chemicals. The United States has different versions of many food products=, because they put cheaper and unhealthier ingredients that other countries.
U.S. companies will make versions with cheaper ingredients than those for Canada and Mexico. So, apparently, we are inferior to people from Canada and Mexico.
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