Posted on 05/10/2024 1:02:56 PM PDT by Baladas
McDonald’s is working to introduce a value meal in U.S. stores to help offset an increasingly challenging environment for consumers, two people familiar with the matter told CNBC.
The people said the $5 meal could include four items: a McChicken or McDouble, four-piece chicken nuggets, fries and a drink. The value meal was first reported by Bloomberg News.
The potential new offering comes at a time when low-income consumers are beginning to pull back on spending, particularly at fast-food brands. Mentions of low-income consumers on company earnings calls are at their highest levels in nearly two years, according to data from Bank of America. Executives from McDonald’s to Wendy’s to Dave and Buster’s have all noted the restraint in spending.
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When McDonald’s had the Tiny Beenie Happy Meals, Dad would line up and get all the grandkids a box.
He’d give the nuggets ro the dogs. After while, the dogs would just sniff them and walk away.
Dad referred to them as Crappy Meals.
The cicada burger? 😏
Might be. They said they were working on it.
They mentioned the cricket flour? Is this a way of training for people to eat the bugs?
Why would any low income consumer-like most everyone out here right now-be going to a fast food drive-thru for a franken meal, spending extra money, including gas for the trip?
Since it has barely any useful nutrition, it isn’t a “value meal” at any price-just more unhealthy processed food. You can make a value meal at home with real, fresh and organic veggies and meat in less than 1/2 hour-and for less than $5.00 unless the meat is steak...
My local McD has the regular Hamburger for $1.39, I get the Double Cheese bundle with small fries for $3.50, add a large drink for $1.79 and there is your five dollar meal. $5.29 but who’s counting.
Rising wages are a LAGGING indicator of an inflationary cycle.
The cicada burger probably has more useful nutrition than what McDonald’s is offering now...
To people in their 60s and 70s $20/hr sounds like a lot of money. It’s not.
Remember, Cricket Flour is also called “Acheta Flour” if you check ingredients lists
“sounds like a lot of money”-not unless they are living under a rock or well-to-do and living on a golf course-most of us real people are running a business and understand money and how it works-duh...
Running a business? Labor is not really that big of deal if you do the math. A dishwasher at Mom and Pops Pasteria washes 300 dish per hour a $15.00. It comes out to $.05/dish. Now that greedy little bastard wants $20.00 hr!!! At tha rate It comes out to $.07/dish. My God it is the end of the world!!!!
Wendy’s $5 biggie bag is a great deal.
I ask them if they’d like to round down to support my favorite charity: Me.
“A nickel and dime will get
French fried potatoes, thick thick shakes
or the finest 15 cent hamburger yet”
Or at least that’s how I remember their jingle
To us, it is a lot. We're in our 70s. When we started dating in our late teens, cheeseburgers were 24 cents. Fries were 17 cents, milkshakes 19 cents. One of my jobs was work at a gas station, gas being 22 cents a gallon. My salary was about $1.60/hour at 18 ($1.20 when I worked at 16), about 12-1/2 times that minimum wage of $20/hour now. To us, that is a lot. Minimum wage jobs are not meant to be lifelong career jobs. For me, it served me well as a teen, and my salary soon grew in my early 20s. We improved our job prospects as we got older and raised a family. That should be the goal of young people.
I’ll save them the trouble.
Dave Ramsey’s recipe:
RICE AND BEANS
OR
BEANS AND RICE!
“I DID THAT!!!”
That picture of the p_resident is fitting to be hanged in the White Hut after he is sent to prison. Biden has done enough and must be stopped and then reversed.
Although I don’t go to McDonalds I do have their app on my phone. Currently $6.50 for a Big Mac with med. Fries and drink and in Kalifornia. I don’t get these supposed claims of $12 Big Macs and $20 combos. Sure an Airport or some $hit hole off some NJ Turnpike otherwise I don’t know what to think.
Spending 35 bucks taking the wife to Taco Bell sounds like a lot of money. It is. My first good entry level job was $2.77 an hour. Sounds like a lot of money but it wasn’t. I busted my ass as a laborer for that money. Of course, I didn’t need a 1000.00 cellphone.
Since I manage a tiny construction/fire safety operation, I have no idea about the labor cost of dishwashers. But I do not think $20.00 is a lot of money for most things and never did. But it is too much for a meal of unhealthy, processed frankenfood that contains probably less than $1-$2 dollars worth of ingredients at most...
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