Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase

Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Azal@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I remember the last time I ate at mcds. Summer 2020, middle of move, wrapping up about 2am. mcds is the only thing close that’s open, don’t want to have to drive anywhere. I remember their dollar menu used to be tolerable.

  Cost me $10 for the “value meal” of the two tiny wimpy cheeseburgers that used to be a dollar, small fries and small drink. And I had to get the meal because it was cheaper than buying separately like I used to do. That is more than double the price I used to have to pay for that meal.

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• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Im in Canada and it’s crazy that a Big Mac meal now costs close to $20. In a great competitive move, Burger King now has a whopper jr meal for $5 which honestly is enough for me. I’ve been taking advantage of it. The thing is, with prices what they are, instead of bringing back the value Menus, these fast food chains need to keep only the value menu, because that was their whole point. Over time the burgers got bigger and crazier and more costly. I just want to go back to getting a regular burger with a normal, non fat person amount of fries and a small drink and not break the bank.

  Remember original McDonald’s only really had the small hamburger and cheeseburger and fries, not all these other burgers

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  • ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s interesting to me, I always thought it was more of an American thing. I’m in Canada and a Big Mac meal is 11.49. Breakfast with chicken McMuffin, hash brown, and coffee is $5. Obviously not super cheap like it used to be but it doesn’t seem unreasonable to me.

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• crystalmerchant@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I haven’t been inside a McDonald’s in… 15 years? 20 maybe? When I stopped it was because I realized it’s disgusting food. Since then I’ve added the whole fuck-corpos thing to that.

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  • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, I used to eat the occasional burger there years ago but it got way too expensive for food that is basically poisoning me.

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• CaptPretentious@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The last time I was there the dollar menu meal still existed I think. Fairly certain the last time I was there was probably around 2011/2012, to pick up some chicken nuggets for some kids.

  The last time I went there regularly, you could buy two full meals for less than 5 bucks (or at least really close to it). And even that was overpriced. This is a place that has insane profit margins, but will yell at employee for putting an extra pickle slice on anything. And there’s some low quality pickles to be honest.

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• PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can get a large pizza from Dominos for less than 10 bucks with a coupon if I pick it up myself.

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  • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Agreed, I almost exclusively go to dominos for that carryout deal. I can get 3 meals worth for < 10 or one meals worth for twice the price. It’s a no brainer.

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• LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Curious what your meal is. Where I’m at, you can get a large fry and drink for $1.50, then after that it’s just the cost of the sandwich

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  • _g_be@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re describing an elaborate maneuver to get a meal at the price it used to be without “app exclusive deals” etc. The turn to app-ification is shit.

    McDonald’s has traded “cheap” and “convenient” for gamification. They’re not the only ones, either

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    • Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      100% I know the app is cheaper. I refuse to download the app and accept binding arbitration for if their food kills me somehow. Fuck your app, I’m just not eating there.

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    • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ? A deal for a drink and fry for $1.50 if you’re using the app anyway isn’t elaborate, you can order your regular sandwich with that and still only pay $8. So exactly what is going on with the $22 order, I want to know.

      Being given virtual coupons daily so you can afford a large double QP with cheese meal for $6.50, which is like 2005 prices, is not gamification. I agree that all of their prices should be less, fuck, I’d have free food offices like the post office where anyone can pick up pre-made hot or cold meals.

      But you sound like a boomer or child who can’t take two seconds to think and order, $22 is some nonsense

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      • frostysauce@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Having to use an app to order from a drive through restaurant to get the food down to semi-affordable is bullshit and you know it. What about people (for whatever reason) don’t have access to a smartphone with the McDonald’s app?

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  • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Sorry I havent been on lemmy as often so delayed reply.

    My standard order is 2 bacon mcdoubles(currently $4.89 a piece), a large fry($4.99) and a lemonade($2.49) or a Mcafe($5.99), so it ends up being $17.29 for my food or 18.64 after tax, or if I wanted a cafe it would be 19.76 or 21.34 after tax.

    Just 5 years ago I could get 2 bacon mcdoubles, 2 large fries, a 20 piece nugget and a lemonade for about 18$ (granted that was with a deal).

    Back in 2016 I could get that same bacon burger meal above for a little over 12. I can’t warrent it.

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    • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      There’s a 20% off orders over $15 deal you qualify for. Making it $15.08 before tax

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      • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I use that coupon every once and awhile, but that still makes it 3$ more than what it used to be, and requires me to use a coupon when I could redeem for points or use something else. And thats also forcing me to use their app. Which the app itself is actual trash now. They removed the search bar for items, they added point expiration(ok this was awhile ago) they now charge you immediately upon placing the order, despite not actually starting the order until your GPS detects you are at the establishment. Theres no ability to cancel and order once placed, regardless if its started being made. Their FAQ page intentionally lies to you telling you that every purchase is final, despite the fact that if they haven’t started making the order, it will eventually refund the purchase. They added a waiver for class actions to the apps TOS meaning if you want to sue you must use third party attribution. It massively harvests data. All for the benefit of paying more for something that I used to be able to spend 12$ not even 10 years ago on.

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  • hotdogcharmer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why would you buy two orders when you only want one? Wouldn’t that literally double the cost, too?

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    • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The app limits you to one deal per order every 15 minutes. The 15 minute timer starts when the order is placed, however, and they may make your food early but not usually for fries and a drink. So you place the 2nd order so you can use another deal to order the sandwich, once the timer expired.

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      • hotdogcharmer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh I see, you order fries and a drink using a deal to get $1.50, wait fifteen minutes, and then order a burger with another deal?

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• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Their cheeseburgers were literally called “dollar cheeseburgers”

  I would go and get 8 fucking cheeseburgers for like $10 after tax

  I stopped going when I noticed my dollar cheeseburger cost me 2 dollars each. I don’t make double my income now McDonald’s, why do you think you deserve double price?

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i remember several years ago as a kid thinking “hey why’d they raise the cost of a cheeseburger from 10 SEK to 13 SEK? isn’t the whole point that you can just fish out a single coin to buy a burger?”

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