McDonald's is a waste of time
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2024
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There's faster food for less and better food for the same price. There's no point unless you're traveling.
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They're not talking about human beings.
They said "consumer." Which they don't see as human, only as meat with eyes.
We're just money cattle
As someone who works in a mom and pop restaurant, I understand this. McDonalds is huge and buys/manufactures in bulk, sure, so their prices are gonna be cheaper, but their costs are still going up like the rest of us. It kills me to keep seeing our menu updates, but food is fucking expensive now. I'm not saying that McDonalds isn't pulling down a tidy profit, and if food costs dropped they probably wouldn't drop their price, but I don't put the price increase solely on them. Food costs are rising all over, and it's killing the business. I have a spreadsheet from 6 years ago when I first started analyzing our costs, and my most recent sheet shows anywhere between 150 and 200% increase across the board. That's absurd. So, blame McDonalds for whatever you want, I won't stop you, but make sure to aim some hate at the production side of things as well.
The end solution is still the same. If we stop buying it, McDonald's stops ordering it which gives the production companies shockedpikachu.gif
It's gotta start somewhere.
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This is how supply and demand and inflation are supposed to work. Prices get inflated because the supply is low and the demand is high. We’re now at the tipping point where the market is saying it’s too much. We should have been saying it was too much, via our wallets, years ago.
Cry all you want about corporate greed but it’s largely unregulated so the supply for their wallet still counts as supply. If you’re still paying for it, they’re going to keep raising the prices. What’s something worth? What someone will pay for it.
Why is beef still expensive? Because people keep buying it. https://www.marketplace.org/2024/01/10/if-inflation-slowed-down-in-2023-why-is-my-grocery-bill-so-high/
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I’m so mad about it I haven’t been there in a decade.
McDs is one of a handful of optuons I have so I cant really boycott; however, today I found a dastardly trick: the order kiosks suddenly switched medium and large so you will accidentally order the large size. Almost got me, but not quite
I stopped eating fast food, oh… shit, almost 20 years ago.
these things, though. CRACK. these and sausage egg McMuffins. once a year on my birthday. I’ll pay whatever for them.
edit: before you even… I’ve tried finding the ingredients elsewhere and replicating them— it’s impossible!
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Not for me. My fast food intake has drastically shrank. Better for my health anyway
My favorite Korean restaurant raised prices twice in a year. It went from $16 to $19 to $22 for a box of Korean fried chicken.
Where the big companies can handle it (and at times, are the ones doing it), mom and pop shops are getting fucked and have to raise prices too.
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