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We all know, in the end, it will be Taco Bell that wins the fast food wars.
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Submitted 1 year ago by Jezebelley@lemmy.zip to videos@lemmy.world
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Thrawne@lemmy.world 1 year ago
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Dude Taco Bell is one of the worst offenders. I don’t eat there anymore but I know they’re charging up the ass for rice, beans, and what can only be described as meat product that barely meets the legal definition of “beef.”
KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Charging you up the ass so you can blow it right back out!
ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Can you believe that all these people don’t know how to use the three shells!?
Psaldorn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
HONK John Spartan, you are fined 10 credits for violation of the verbal morality statute.
Twofacetony@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pizza hit to the rest of the world.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Have you had it recently? When I was a teenager there was a “taxi bell challenge” to see if you could eat 20 dollars of taco bell. It would be impossible to eat that much food. Now it’s like 2.5 things off the menu.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 year ago
RIP cheese bean and rice burritos…now they’re $2 or more depending on the store…such a rip off.
tacosplease@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They’re fucking up right now, but I’m hoping they pull through as the great prophecy has show.
systemglitch@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve never had it in my life.
theragu40@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s worth trying if you’re interested, IMO.
Morning mind-blowing (except the morning crunch wrap, which is mind-blowing). But they are pretty consistent, and have a lot more options than most fast food places when it comes to healthy-ish options.
It’s not Mexican food, it’s not even tex-mex. It’s just taco bell. It’s its own category of food. Go in without preconceived ideas of what it should be and you might find that you enjoy it.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Honestly the only thing you’re missing out on is the Mexican Pizza. That’s the only thing the Bell has that I cannot find at any Mexican restaurant, and I live in San Diego, where you can throw pocket sand in any direction and 3/4 of the time you’ll hit an authentic Mexican food truck/ restaurant.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The pandemic has raised and leveled prices of pretty much all restaurants. This has two results:
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Everything is expensive
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There is no reason to eat at fast-food joints, because the final bill will be almost identical to a much better tasting local restaurant or burger joint.
APassenger@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is what I’m seeing too. If I want food out, I might as well go to a place where the napkin may belong on my lap.
Decent Italian restaurant entree is close to the same as a fast food combo. About as filling and more healthy (depending on choices).
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And, as a bonus, rhe wait time in rhe local restaraunt won’t be any longer.
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DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Fries from fast casual local joint: $3.99.
Fries from McDonald’s: 4.39
Local joint fills the bag like Five Guys. McDonald’s barely has fries in the fries sleeve.
It’s just not worth going there unless I use the app and that’s only for when it’s got one person.
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 1 year ago
It’s just not worth going there unless I use the app and that’s only for when it’s got one person.
You look at the privacy policy or app permissions for the McDonalds app? The thing is datamining your life.
spader312@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Also waive your rights to class action law suit against McDonald’s
jimbo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Have you looked at the privacy policy and permissions? They’re pretty tame and about what you’d expect for any app that handles purchases: play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=com.mcdo…
Personal info - Name, Email address, User IDs, and Address
Financial info - User payment info and Purchase history
Messages - Emails and Other in-app messages
App activity - >App interactions, In-app search history, and Other actions
App info and performance - Crash logs, Diagnostics, and Other app performance data
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 1 year ago
True, but on Android you can turn permissions off.
BigTrout75@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Online people hate McDonalds. Crap food and shit pay. Yet everyday there’s a big lines at the McDonald’s down the street. The world is odd.
Maalus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The world isn’t odd - it’s just that people on forums don’t represent the wider public, especially on a site like lemmy. That’s why boycots don’t work too - most often than not it’s a loud minority screaming into the void.
LazyBane@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cheap and convenient is too good to pass up for a overworked and underpaid population.
theragu40@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I like McDonald’s. I know, wrong opinion.
Maybe it’s because it was an occasional treat when I was a kid, but there is something nostalgic about it.
But it’s definitely hard when eating at McDonald’s with our family of 4 is equivalent to eating at a fast casual place, and starting to approach the cost of a sit-down restaurant. The big happy meals are over 6 bucks now, and that’s starting not to be enough food as our kids get older. If we get a value meal it’s $8-10 each for me and my wife. So even if we go minimal, which usually results in people still being hungry, we are already at ~$30.
Remember the dollar menu?? I mean if we break each of those meals down to their components of sandwich/fry/drink, if we stayed on the dollar menu what now costs $30 could have been bought for $12. Obviously inflation comes into play a little bit but I’m not sure prices needed to nearly triple.
Diplomjodler@feddit.de 1 year ago
Only a few percent of people who use social media apps ever contribute anything at all. What you read here or anywhere are not the views of the majority.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I read a paper that suggested that the rule of thumb would be 90/9/1. 90% lurk, 9% comment, 1% generate content.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I dont eat McDonalds or Burger King anymore.
They price their food as the minimum wage is a living wage. Shouldnt have to work for an hour or more just to afford a big mac or whopper.
WashedOver@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Locally Wendy’s is the only one really still doing a value menu. A couple of junior cheese burgers with some veggies and I’m getting close to the price of 1 burger elsewhere. That’s a decent quick meal for me on the go. The worst pricing is A&W. They are the most expensive around now. They do have the upsell with the 100 grass fed no antibiotics line but it’s still a fast food joint. A single burger shouldn’t be costing almost a 10 spot with taxes.
Then I think I’m getting old as I recall the outrage of my parents and grandparents about how much the cost of everything was out of control while things were shrinking.
chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I stopped eating burger king because the burger patty was becoming noticably smaller. Like absurdly so. Supposed to home of the whopper and the burger patty is becoming regular size. I stopped eating itbout of principle
MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s because most of their money comes from real estate, not selling food.
shasta@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What does that have to do with long lines of people going to McDonald’s? They are just there to admire the real estate?
Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Corporations realized a few years ago that as long as they have a recognizable brand that they don’t have to actually have a good or affordable product anymore. You see this with chips and other luxury foods like pop.
Nothing will change until their bottom line gets utterly destroyedLook at it this way. When the minimum wage was RAISED from 5.15 to 7.25 an hour the 2 cheeseburger meal was $2.99. That’s less than half of an hours work.
Now minimum is still 7.25 and that combo is easily over $7.25
XEAL@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This realization keeps pissing me off so much:
Big companies don’t want to make a living, they want to make themselves rich.
ZzyzxRoad@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It was $11 and change the other day for two of those little cheeseburgers and medium fry, no drink. Which, the medium fry is now a small. It’s tiny.
There’s one day a week where I work late and I just don’t feel like cooking and I’m starving, and I just wanted to grab something quickly. I could have gotten a whole rotisserie chicken at the grocery store for $10. Except those are also tiny now, come in bags that leak grease instead of the cartons they used to come in, and the last two times I’ve gotten them have had several feathers fried to the wing. Which is why I didn’t stop and get one ffs. Every goddamn thing is a rip off.
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Drink water, cook at home, the healthiest for your body and your wallet
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Well looking at how much the price of all staples in the grocery store has gone up in the last decade, I would say it is neither now.
Junk is still cheap though…
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Drink water
Flavor can be nice sometimes…
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Remember when McDonalds and Taco Bell had dollar menus?
Ozone63@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Don’t even get me started ok taco bell. I ordered food for me and my GF, it was $29. I was so fucking shocked, I literally said “nevermind”, dipped out if the drive-through, and we went and sat down at an authentic Mexican restaurant and had 2 drinks for 35 bucks.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I remember when a soft taco was 39 cents.
FARTYSHARTBLAST@kbin.social 1 year ago
Yeah, I can't remember the last time I went to McDonalds: Progressively shitty food, progressively higher prices, and increasingly lengthy wait times.
It's not fast, it's not good, it's not cheap, and it's not convenient.
Arin@kbin.social 1 year ago
I miss the times when fast food was fast, you place your order and pickup your meal right after without waiting more than 10 seconds
Marin_Rider@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I actually miss when maccas used to make the stuff in bulk and chuck on a rack. you’d order, they’d grab your burger and stuff bag it and your done. now it’s “made to order” and while it’s admittedly pretty quick, during peak times you’ll be waiting a while.
there was never an issue with the bulk system cause everything moved so quick anyway
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There’s better places for much less $$ nowadays.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I got McDonald’s today for my kids (as a treat), and it cost over $15 for two quarter pounders with cheese (one with bacon) and two small fries. That’s it. No drinks. Nothing else.
Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The last time I went to McDonald’s I got two regular hamburgers and a medium fry, no drink. It was almost $10 after tax, the fries were cold and I had to pull out of the drive-through and wait for it.
I didn’t eat McDonald’s a lot to begin with, but it’s just not worth it to eat there anymore. It was always crap food, but it was at least fast and cheap. Now that it’s crap, slow, and expensive, there’s absolutely no reason to go there. The entire time I was sitting in my car eating my sad little mostly-bun burgers and cold fries, I was looking at the Costco across the street thinking about how, for the same $10, I could have gotten a huge slice of pizza, a soda, two churros, and an entire rotisserie chicken.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Shout out to taco bell, I can get over 1,000 calories for like $3.25
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Inflation this quickly isnt real. It’s what happens when you come off a global pandemic with millions dead and corporations see they can freely abuse you by exploiting the public zeitgeist that prices are going up due to inflation.
I agree that McDonald’s sucks and I don’t ever go there but this isn’t how economics works. The current inflation isn’t an illusionary public perception thing it’s a real and tangible transfer of wealth and erosion of the value of labor of regular people. We are heading towards a future where society’s resources are no longer being allocated to us.
jaschen@lemm.ee 1 year ago
A bag of rice, soy sauce, sugar, some cabbage and some chicken will make you more and better food than any fast food restaurant.
When I was struggling, I made meals, mostly from the microwave. Make Chinese food in bulk homie. Freeze some of it in packs so you don’t have to eat the same meals every meal.
Going to a fast food restaurant is not saving you money, even before McDonald’s raised their prices.
athos77@kbin.social 1 year ago
The things that fast food had going for it is that it was ready quickly, was cheap, and was standardized across the country. It's no longer cheap; between the waits to order, to pay, and to get your food, it's no longer fast; and my tastes have evolved beyond that if a five year old so I'm more willing to accept variety in my diet.
Nowadays, I only stop at fast food if I'm on a road trip and I don't want to get out of the car.
blazera@kbin.social 1 year ago
So stop eating there
Gekoloniseerd@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Omg that guy is annoying.
justaveg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“people who are struggling still need a burger”
and that right there is why they raised their prices.
MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I was rushed one morning and stopped by McDonald’s for breakfast on my way to work and got the 2 breakfast burrito meal. It cost almost $11. I will pretty much never be getting McDonald’s again since that should be one of the cheapest things on the menus.
willis936@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They dropped the double cheeseburger meal. That was the most American meal they offered and they just dropped it.
hark@lemmy.world 1 year ago
McDonalds had remodeled their places to pretend they’re fancier, but the food is still shit fare and the service has a lot gotten worse since they decided to have like two employees maximum per location. Portions have also gotten smaller, not sure if their excuse is that it’s “healthier” or it’s simply what fancier places do, but either way it’s a rip-off and the only way the trend is going to change is if their precious stock price is threatened, which is only about 10% off its all-time high.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 year ago
I made a personal rule that if I’m hungry and want McDonald’s, that either I need to get in the car and go to a local burger place that isn’t a corporate chain, or I’m not actually that hungry. It’s been a good life choice. Much better burgers that while slightly more expensive, go to the local owners rather than mcdonalds
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There’s no such thing as price gouging for unnecessary goods or services.
If you don’t think the good is worth that price, don’t buy it plain and simple. McDonald’s is not a necessity. They’re going to price their product according to what they believe the market will bear.
guyrocket@kbin.social 1 year ago
Fast food prices have become silly, I agree. I go to "sit down" restaurants more often now because they're only a little more expensive.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Thanks to corporate greed they “inflated” themselves out of their own market
Nougat@kbin.social 1 year ago
Lots of fast food chains' menus are way smaller than they used to be, including McD's. Outside of breakfast, they have burgers, chicken sandwiches, fries, drinks. Taco Bell even, famous for having five ingredients in different order and proportion, has somehow figured out how to have fewer menu items. And the quality of ingredients at all of them seem to be on a race to the bottom.
SirToxicAvenger@lemm.ee 1 year ago
it’s honestly cheaper to DIY from home. then you have absolute control over ingredients, portion sizes, etc. I made a tasty double gorgonzola burger earlier in the week w/ home made pretzel buns and it cost all of $4 for a 1/2 lb burger with exactly what I wanted.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
They have a $1, $2, $3 menu; and everything on it is more than $3.
MinusPi@yiffit.net 1 year ago
And yet people keep buying it. It’s not going to change until people stop buying it.
pascal@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Oh boy, think of the poor Swiss that pay $8 for a big Mac burger since forever.
popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Jordan, the YouTuber, is a really great follow.
www.youtube.com/@jordan_the_stallion8
He’s the president of the “fast food secrets club” and has taught the world a lot about everything secret in fast food recipes.
His non food content is great too.
Krudler@lemmy.world 1 year ago
McDonalds is basically hot candy for hot candy addicts.
That’s why people keep paying, keep bitching, but keep paying.
Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Stopped going there when it was over $10 a meal. What the fuck? Plus, my orders wrong 60% of the time. Nope
TurboDiesel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And it’s always wrong in the weirdest, someone-has-to-be-fucking-with-me ways. I ordered a sausage, egg, and cheese McMuffin for breakfast the other day. I hate their cheese, so I ordered just sausage and egg.
I opened the wrapper to my sandwich, and I had a sausage patty and 3 slices of cheese. It was rung up correctly, so I truly have no clue what was going on in the back.
saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 1 year ago
“Hate cheese do we?! The Netherlands send their regards!!!”
dxsteel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve had weird mess ups like that too. I ordered a crispy chicken sandwich and discovered they forgot the chicken part.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Everytime I go the order is either wrong or they need me to park by the door and my order isn’t ready for like 5-10 minutes. Completely negates the entire point of “fast food”.
Only ever go there now if I need a coffee on the road.
ma11en@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In the UK there’s is probably the worst coffee available.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I stopped going there after eating my first BigMac. How can people eat that vile stuff?
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I mean it’s a burger, it’s not that bad
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Most don’t know how to cook for themselves properly
ultratiem@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Haven’t eaten a meal there in a decade now. Go for ice cream like once every two years. Went this summer. $6 for 2 cones. Bruh. What!
justhach@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Whaaat? Their “dollar cones” are like a whole thing in the summer, even up here in Canada, the land of “just because” price gouging.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I stopped going there when they discontinued the Arch Deluxe. Fuck the haters, that shit was delicious.
tacosplease@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My all time favorite as well
roo@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Was about to say this. The best way to handle this is break their economic projections.
WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Same. Price is ridiculous and last time I waited 40mins for my order. Fuck this place.
Look at the bright side - you’re gonna be more heatlhy by not going there!😅