• Malfeasant@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I can feed my family at a sit down restaurant for about the same price as fast food, and the food is better on top of it…

    • Entertainmeonly
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      5 months ago

      I keep hearing this sentiment but I’ve yet to find a single real world example.

      • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        So I have to use doordash to look at pricing cuz I’m not installing the McDonald’s app.

        The quarter pounder with cheese it is $10.59 for the combo meal. It used to be just over $2 when I was a teenager.

        Using DoorDash still but for a local restaurant called muddy cow, the cheeseburger meal there is $13.

        So I can go to McDonald’s and will cost me $11 or I can go to the sit down restaurant and it’ll cost me $13. And the sit down restaurant the burger was fresh cooked, I get way more fries (and frankly better fries), and I don’t act like pickles are the most valuable thing on the planet.

        I don’t know just open up door dash and start looking at prices around you that’s what I did.

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          5 months ago

          So, to try and prove your point, you’re looking at a third party delivery service, who is known to change prices to maximize said third parties bottom line? 🤔

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            5 months ago

            Feel free to get in a car and go drive around tonight look at prices. You said you didn’t see proof I provided proof and then you complaining cuz you don’t like it cuz it’s not in the context that you wanted. This is on you.

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              5 months ago

              “go spend your time and money to prove me right because I wasn’t able to prove myself right about a stranger spending 2 dollars more than I would” 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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          5 months ago

          Hey, guess what - not everyone is able to go out to eat (not only due to physical disability, but lack of time and energy, and lets not forget a pandemic is still raging out there, and some people can’t just ignore it like the rest of you).

          The fact that you’re getting all high and mighty over a poster whose life you know nothing about, for the sake of 2 dollars says a lot more about you than spending 30 bucks on fast food says about well, anyone.

          • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
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            5 months ago

            What is your actual malfunction!?

            I have two words of advice. One take your own advice, because everything you just yelled at me about applies to you.

            Two context, I have no idea what you’re talking about. The conversation was about is fast food price similar to sit down restaurant price. It was 11:00 p.m. so I used an app where I could see multiple restaurant pricings in one central location. You’re over here getting on your goddamn high horse. You need to go reevaluate your priorities.