Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years.

k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fast food sales have plummeted since covid.

  We have stopped going.

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  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Surely another price increase will make up for our terrible products not selling!

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Few things made me feel more depressed that seeing cars backed up for what must have been an hour long queue trying to get McDonald’s at the drive through, since that’s the only bit that was open.

    I don’t really want to wait an hour for good food, let alone some hyper processed slop.

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  • Rothe@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You haven’t stopped enough though. Plummeting is not the same as them crashing and burning.

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• BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So many reasons to not eat out and especially where that sandwich is likely from. Better to make a good meal with chicken, rice, and veggies for pennies compared.

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  • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or go to a local shop and get a decent sandwich.

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  • TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Okay but what if you don’t have the time/energy to do that? Still need to eat every day

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    • krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Then acknowledge you’re making a conscious choice to accept the sandwich someone else made

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      • TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I do? Doesn’t mean I have to be happy about the fact that portion sizes are shrinking, the cost per sandwich is growing, and the contents of my paychecks remain… let’s call it “aggressively stagnant”

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    • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Try to eat local then if possible. While they’re not immune to this, if I had to eat out I’d rather it go to my local sandwich shop instead of Subway.

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      • TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Valid

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    • Rothe@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You do have both though, you just prioritise not to.

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• Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wendy’s and Arby’s know what stop going means. Here’s hoping McDonalds enjoys it just as much next year.

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• bookmeat@fedinsfw.app ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You guys think the suppliers don’t hold both you and the restaurants by the balls? They raise your prices just as much as they do the restaurants. You still gotta eat. Voting with your wallet isn’t political action and this problem requires a political solution.

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  • Crozekiel@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Unfortunately, bookmeat has a point… There is a monopoly brewing on food supply chains and it is only getting worse as the largest restaurant supply company is trying to buy the number 3 (I think) company. Basically, even local hole-in-the-wall type places are being squeezed by one of the 3 options to have food supplied. We need anti-trust and consumer protection laws to start being enforced in this country ASAP.

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