Good fuck McDonalds
this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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"We have seen ... an increase in people in various markets saying theyโre going to be cutting back on purchases of American brands," they said.
i'm lovin' it
It doesnโt help that the prices have increased 142% since 2019
A fucking McDouble should have never gone over a buck fifty. Fuck McDonald's. They're not paying their employees enough to charge that much.
TheStreet reported that Medium French Fries went from $1.79 in 2019 to $4.19 in 2024, a 134.1 percent increase. A McChicken went from $1.29 to $3.89, a 201.6 percent hike.
The price of the beloved Big Mac increased 87.7 percent, from $3.99 to $7.49. An order of 10 McNuggets rose by 68.8 percent, from $4.49 to $7.58. Of the five popular products examined, cheeseburgers saw the largest price increaseโgoing from $1 to $3.15, a 215 percent spike.
These increases exceed the general average for inflation calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which shows that prices went up by about 21.5 percent between the end of 2019 and March 2024.
For at least since the pandemic I can get a better burger and fries from an actual restaurant, with probably three or four different places to choose from, for less. McDonald's is good in a particular way, but the two main things they had going for them were convenience and cost. With cost blown away the convenience isn't really enough to carry the day a lot of the time, even when I'm in a rush.
And they did it them fucking selves.
I can't believe a Big n' Tasty used to be a buck with prices the way they are.
Yeah, not that I used to eat fast food a lot but with prices as high as they've gotten I just can't justify it. It's garbage food that's more expensive than sit-down options. Everyone has a phone, so with 10 minutes of pre planning you can order from anywhere and not have to sit there and wait which makes McDonald's lose ground in convenience too.
Pricing is about the only place McDonald's could win, but they're too greedy and we all know it.
I don't know why I bother with ordering ahead of time because every time I do they haven't done shit when I get there to pick it up.
Yup, they totally kept jacking prices up to get as much as they can from the consumer.
McDonaldโs execs are not featured in this video but you can bet they were not sitting idly by when others were getting โas much as the consumer can absorbโ read: keep increasing prices until sales increases stall.
Nope, just no, screw them.
After that stunt with Trump, they will never get my money again.
There was a Stunt? Only thing I Heard is They sold their food to him (something I wouldnt deem as controversial)
They let Trump do a photo op manning a fryer to mock his opponent that had worked at a McDonald's in her teens. The clown makes burgers. If he wants to play politics, he doesn't get my business.
Oh how the turns have tabled.
It all depends where you live, but I can go to a proper sit-down restaurant, one of the cheaper ones, but still a sit-down restaurant that actually cooks real food, and spend as much or less than I would at McDonald's.
I can even get a pint of beer with a sit down meal for not far off the cost of McDonalds.
fuck the shitty us empire.
we are right in not wanting to be bullied by that shitty country anymore.
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As a Canadian in Japan, McDonald's is one brand I had a difficult time saying goodbye to after your Shit president threatened our sovereignty, because I genuinely used to have a good experience everytime I went. Clean store, polite staff, decently cheap food, and cool collabs with Japanese IP like Pokemon and Mario.
I'm sad my kids don't get to enjoy a treat there every now and then, but fuck the USA right now and anybody who supports the shitty administration.
As an American, yeah I agree with you, fuck the USA
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I stopped going there ever since they cause the capture of Luigi.
I realized how far they go for anything.
I stopped when it became obvious they were price gouging their customers. None of their food is worth the price and it hasn't been for probably close to a decade.
I stopped when they were proudly supporting zionazi scum
Use the Spell Card "Monster Reborn" to ressurect the fucking Dollar Menu
Have they tried SUING People who ARENT eating there?
I haven't been to McGenocide in a long while
That, maybe. But hear me out:
A Double Quarter Pounder meal is now roughly $11-12 dollars. They don't put the prices on the menu half the time, and the people in the drive-through never give you the price. They just say "pull around."
Maybe don't run a shitty business that's overpriced.
A couple of weeks ago I was moving to a new house. I woke up early to move a load of things, and on the way was a McDonald's. I stopped in because it was convenient and got an Egg McMuffin with a hash brown and an OJ. It was $9. $9!
You can't charge outrageous prices and then go, "Man, why aren't people showing up?"
I can get a burger and fries from several local shops for less than McDonalds. The quality is better and there is more food in the bag.
Good
Nothing says "I'm a greedy whiny bitch" like complaining about a 3.6% dip in profits.
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After McDonaldโs dumbass trump stunt during the election, the only reason that Iโll ever go there again is to take a dump in their bathroom on a road trip.
I missed it, what'd they do during the election?
McDonaldโs allowed trump to close a store down for a stupid photo op where trump pretended to work.
It was very โtrump, he just like us!โ
There was talk about how Camilla was a McDonalds worker when she was young, compared to nepo asshole Drumph who never worked a day in his life. So he organized a photo shoot at a local McD's with him wearing an apron and looking confused. The closed the McD's for the occasion and only invited magats to use the drive through.
Trump was doing a McDonalds drive thru gig or something, idk was weird and dumb
Tariffs make baby Ronald cry.
It's nice to hear some good news.
"Consumers today are grappling with uncertainty," McDonald's Chairman and CEO Chris Kempczinski said.
"Grappling with uncertainty." Predictably a writhing scumbag running this gross American company. What we're forced to deal with, is the extremely blatant certainty of the fascist rapist Chris here probably voted for, being a repugnant disaster. Fuck you, Chris.
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