But investors are skeptical that the value meals will drive meaningful sales growth without eroding profits.
Won’t somebody think of the red line?
I used to frequent McDonald’s out of sheer laziness. When combos started running $8-$14, I started packing my lunches.
Same! I’ve lost a good bit of weight from that and soda being so expensive now. It sucks I was forced into it but at least I’m eating better!
im a fast food junkie. i love the shit. covid completely changed the landscape and subsequently my habits. my blacklist is getting longer and longer. quality across the board has plummeted while prices increased.
before covid i only had one entry; wafflehouse
You blacklisted Waffle House?!?
i totally did not want to hate waffle house. i eat garbage all the time. i fight the dog for food. i did not see it coming…
after a few decades of wanting to try it i finally go to waffle house. first of all, no pancakes?! they are fucking strict on that waffle thing. and then what i did order was just barely edible food. just awful.
i grew up haunting dennys, which is now quite expensive for no reason.
In your defense, my wife calls them Awful House, because every single time she’s gone there, there’s been something in her food (hair, bugs, bandaid).
Your wife… she is quite the tolerant lady
It really depends on the establishment. I went to one in the Atlanta area that was just disgusting, but then you hit one in a small town in the Florida panhandle and suddenly you get the best harsh browns you have had in your entire life with some eggs and bacon cooked to perfection. Thankfully the Atlanta suburb experience was my only bad experience. Most of the time it was very good with the occasional amazing.
IMHO, small town Waffle House tend to be a safe bet.
BANDAID??? I can see how a stray hair, or an airborn bug might land on your food.
But a BANDAID??? How does that even happen??? Was it used?
I just asked, and she presumes yes. I’m assuming someone was touching the food without gloves, and it came off.
The bandaid was holding the… BUGS… on…?
Okay listen. I get where you’re coming from. I can understand having shitty food. But no pancakes? They are called the waffle house for a reason :P
It’s been an actual decade since I’ve seen this face in the wild unironically.
Waffle House, Denny’s, IHOP, aren’t even fast food… They’re just bad food. I still don’t understand why people eat at these places. It’s not like it’s ever the only option, or the cheapest option.
Also I love this picture.
Your list is obviously wrong if Waffle House is on there
Trust me it is not…
I ate there at the request of a family friend in the last few years…
Ew. Oh God ew… the greasiest saltiest overcooked hash brown crisp ever topped with flavourless meat and cheese that chewed like gristle.
I don’t know how it’s not on there for more people. Not when Diners literally exist.
it’s for ratchet drunk people to hang out after everything else closes and get on world star hip hop for 15 minutes of internet fame
that being said I did enjoy their hash browns. yes it’s been over 15 years since I was a poor student patron of their establishment
"Rosé for dinner. Waffle House for breakfast. " – Rick Ross
Y’all have not been to a Waffle House in this decade…
Me, hungry with $10 in my pocket
Open McDonald’s app
See ad for $5 meals
Click it
All meals are $6 or more
Close app
Make a sandwich
This is becoming a common thing with McDonald’s. The 1,2,3 menu is all $4.50 or more here, too.
The value proposition straight up is not there anymore. The coupons suck now too.
Not only did the prices go up but the portions shrank. The whopper is hardly a whopper anymore, its a regular sized patty in a wide bun.
This is the main reason i dont really eat it anymore.
Shrinkflation is real.
In any event, it only works if folks go often enough to not notice small shrinks. If you’d go twice a year or something you’d be amazed at how and why these fuckers get away with it. Vote with your wallets, people!
Kinda to your point have you seen that preserved mcDs big mac from the 70s?
That things still looks better than what i can buy at a mcDs today
I’m not supposed to eat beef much anymore, and with McDonalds shrinking their food so much it’s hardly even tempting.
But THIS??? I might be a weak man if McDonalds offered THIS Big Mac at a reasonable price.
That has more meat in one of those patties than the current Big Mac has in the whole burger. The patties are so thin now that they’re going to be transparent soon. Some lady made a video recently where here pickles were thicker than the beef patties on Big Mac.
Good. Fuck ‘em.
Small, privately owned delis and pizzerias need your money more than shareholders, and the food is better too.
They are also using this as an excuse to get customers on their data hoovering apps to get access to any of the best deals.
The McDonalds app explicitly stated they will measure your intelligence. Needless to say, I deleted my account and uninstalled.
Plot twist: time to uninstall is the intelligence test.
But like, how?
Same as every other corp. A combination of every data point they can get their hands on to build a “consumer” profile on you.
It’s that last point, “Inferences”, that you should focus on.
The captchas to log in are all logic puzzles (I have no idea this is just the first thing that popped into my head)
A lot of captchas normally help train AI models, but I would not be surprised if Google and other captcha providers have tracked your intelligence using captchas
Nah that would imply they have good deals. The dollar menus are still basically done even on the apps and it feels like because they decided they are doing cheaper combos the deals needed to go. Haven’t seen good deals on the apps since they were clawing back customers.
Someone with a spreadsheet is finding the exact profit margins they want and the answer is more than they are currently getting.
After getting ripped off by McDonald’s and then seeing how much they raised prices above inflation compared to the rest of the industrly, I’ll never eat there again. Rip me off, fuck you, your food is shit anyways.
It was $15 even the other day for a burger and fries. I won’t be back.
That should be 3 meals.
I could buy a large bag of dumplings for slightly more than $15 and get four meals out of it.
It’s been good, pushed me to shop more local.
used to be national chain fast food was cheap, buy a meal for ~$3-6, and local chains / restaurants where more expensive, $7-15.
Now I can go to a sit down local chain for $7-20 or get a fast food for 15-20
Yeah 5$ for a drop of Coca-Cola and a memory of a hamburger between two playing cards that takes an hour to get to you
I used to eat fast food every day after work. If I had a side hustle, I would eat fast food after my side hustle. But I stopped when I would go through the drive thru, pay $15, then sit for 10 minutes in the parking lot for old, cold, shitty food. Fast food isn’t fast. Fast food isn’t cheap. And fast food doesn’t taste good. It’s been over 3 years since I voluntarily ate fast food and I’m never going back.
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…I’m unclear on context. Why did you punch him?
Meant to be a fist bump.
Oh. Ok.
…so why did you fist bump him in the face at a high speed velocity?
…it was an ordinary fistbump between two people, homie. I was there and saw the whole thing.
This guys over here admitting to taking part in a gang beatdown! You’d think he’d go to jail!
Oh, right. People named Don don’t go to jail. Even if they get convicted.
“Just park around the corner and we’ll bring it out. Eventually.”
Wtf? $6 is now a value for a shitty McDonalds hamburger?
fast food companies can go fuck themselves. i used to get fast food at least a few times a week. since the things i ordered went from ~$11 to ~$18 i now get fast food maybe once every few months. it’s almost august and i think i’ve gotten it 3 times this year when there was no other option, and each time was a disappointment. even though i always expect shitty garbage from it
Same, some arbitrary point between $8-$14 felt like robbery and I decided I didn’t need fast food anymore. Or at least very infrequently. 4-5 times a year instead of that much monthly.
For me it was when meal combos hit double digits. I understand prices in western economies will always increase due to inflation, but just seeing two digits reminded me that fast food is overpriced for what it is and it isn’t even fast anymore.
For nearly the same price I can get take home from a regular restaurant that will end up being three meals that will taste better and pick it up faster than going through a drive through.
Granted where I live there are tons of food options, but that’s the part that gets me, how much they’ve gone up in price compared to other places. I probably would have glossed over the price increase as just inflation if they didn’t start costing as much as local spots but you get worse food
Anybody old enough to remember Burger King’s $1 Whopper?
My four heart stents remember.
There was a 2 for $2 Big Mac deal in the 90s on Sundays… That was cool.
I remember when Arby’s had a 5 for $5 deal. So much roast beef.
They have 4 for $10 now
I remember, but can’t stand Arby’s so 5 for $5 was still too expensive.
People learned how to cook again during the Pandemic … found out it wasn’t hard, and some even found it enjoyable. Tacking on a period of inflation right after that, and fast food is no longer anywhere near the economic staple it was in the Before Times.
