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A damning letter. Something new. Just saw my first bottle of Coke Spiced. Not gonna do it.
1 posted on 05/21/2024 6:53:00 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Wendy’s Biggie Bag is $5.

Bacon/cheese burger, fries, drink and 6 nuggets.


2 posted on 05/21/2024 6:56:59 PM PDT by TexasGator
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I cannot even get the mcd app to work on my phone

originally annoying but not a big loss.

I remember when they had 500,000 served and that was a super big deal.

Years later when the little town my grandparents lived in got one, and everyone was all excited about it, and the kids wanted to work there.


4 posted on 05/21/2024 7:01:29 PM PDT by algore
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McDonald’s is a real estate company that sells burgers.


5 posted on 05/21/2024 7:02:06 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I remember buying double cheeseburgers for $1.

I remember buying Wendy’s chicken sandwiches for 99 cents.

I remember buying Burger King Big Fishes for $1.89.

I pretty much have given up on restaurants.


6 posted on 05/21/2024 7:10:39 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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They’re good as long as they stay away from an all-you-can-eat shrimp special.


7 posted on 05/21/2024 7:13:34 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: Libloather

Coming back from the airport I noticed the Outback Steakhouse went out.

A few other places also went out.

I feel sorry for the restaurant operators and their employees, but my bank calculates debits correctly.


8 posted on 05/21/2024 7:13:54 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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So the current $3 bundle (by me anyway) is a double cheese and small fry

This offers the cheaper to make McDouble and small fries and adds a drink and 4 piece for $2.

The cost of that piece of cheese missing on the McDouble probably covers or damn close to covers the raw cost of the drink.

So $2 more dollars for 4 McNuggets. Seems if the $3 deal is viable this $5 should be viable.

No it’s a low margin, but I don’t see this as a money loser if the current $3 meal
Is viable which it clears is at least in some markets.

Methinks the real issue is, unlike the $3 bundle which gets zero promotion, this will be heavily promoted and folks are afraid a lot of folks buying the full price stuff will buy the deal instead


9 posted on 05/21/2024 7:15:15 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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My local Aldi sells 29 ounces of nuggets for $4.84.


10 posted on 05/21/2024 7:15:52 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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At least they aren’t charging for the spit.


12 posted on 05/21/2024 7:18:38 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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I typically paid 1.5Euros for a McDouble in Spain.


13 posted on 05/21/2024 7:22:34 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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They’re trying to please the franchisees who are complaining about being stuck with skimpy profits. I would imagine most franchisees are now owned by Muslims, people from India, the cartels etc..

We quit going to restaurants and McWhopper slop joint$. They want way too much money. Ya see the bill and quickly feel you’ve just been robbed at gun point. It’s not all bad, as I do enjoy all the videos of people going ape sh*t in these places.


15 posted on 05/21/2024 7:29:10 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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I stopped doing fast food when the lockdowns went out of fashion. Nowadays I buy my usual 97/3 ground beef, a bag of potatoes, all the fixings, and make my own burgers and fries for nowhere near the cost of fast food (so called “because it speeds you to your grave” lol). If I’m really jonesing for nuggets, there are a lot of “taste-alikes” out there, all still cheaper than a food-racketeer.


16 posted on 05/21/2024 7:31:03 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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McD has priced itself almost completely outside of its core patronage constituency....families

the dollar menu is GONE
the prices on the (mostly quite tiny) burgers are doubled
the kiddie packs (whatever they were called, the boxes with grub and a toy inside) are GONE
the kiddie playlands are GONE

so who is gonna spend $12 or $15 on a little low-quality burger, fries, and soda? The people who can afford this are mostly not people who want to eat McD grub in the first place

just saying, the company’s marketing focus used to be quite effective and now they’ve flushed it down the toilet

I sure wouldn’t buy any McD stock


18 posted on 05/21/2024 7:38:50 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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think endless shrimp...


22 posted on 05/21/2024 7:43:16 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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Well, their loss. I hope McDonalds can put out a $5 meal so they can compete with Taco Bell and Burger King.


25 posted on 05/21/2024 7:49:59 PM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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They artificially push the hourly to $20, they continuously restrict water and grazing use rights for farmers and ranchers, they allow punitive lawsuits for hot coffee and burdensome labor contracts disallowing machines to be fixed or software to be used and they of course never stop adding restrictions to fuel, pesticides and fertilizers. Then they scratch their heads why it doesn’t work anymore or falsely blame various boogie men of “corporate greed”.


30 posted on 05/21/2024 7:58:23 PM PDT by Dragonspirit (CNN is the enemy. Ashli Babbitt is the hero.)
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The problem is not McDonalds. The problem is our overall economy. Joe Biden's policies, Obama's third term, have trashed a great economy that he inherited from Trump. Food, Fuel, Housing prices and Interest rates are all at at double or more than under Trump.

Government policies that not a single American voted for are the cause of much this exoritant pricing.

31 posted on 05/21/2024 8:01:05 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk
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Maybe they should give everyone a raise.


42 posted on 05/21/2024 8:31:34 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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“ Just saw my first bottle of Coke Spiced.”

Local grocery had a sale - 4 12-packs of Coke for $12 - but one had to be a Coke Spiced. I bit, and I was pretty disappointed. It’s just cherry Coke with some minor spice, so subtle that I couldn’t really tell what it was, maybe cinnamon and cardamom, but don’t know. It was bad enough so that I wouldn’t buy any more.


50 posted on 05/21/2024 8:48:24 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.)
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I’ll keep going to the mom & pop Greek and Italian eateries.


51 posted on 05/21/2024 8:50:36 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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