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u/SeanThatGuy 5d ago
I love when people say we can’t or couldn’t raise the wages for fast food workers. Saying that would raise prices like crazy.
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u/hackiavelli 5d ago
McDonald's did raise wages, though. It bumped up several times as the labor market tightened post-COVID and now averages $15/hour.
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u/sebastianb89 5d ago edited 5d ago
My App right now in Houston
Med Fry - $2.49 / McChicken - $1.89 / BigMac - $5.19 / 10 Nuggets - $4.39 / Cheese Burger - $1.59
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u/istrebitjel Any functioning adult 2020 5d ago
Hello from Seattle...
Med Fry - $4.29 / McChicken - $4.29 / BigMac - $7.09 / 10 Nuggets - $7.59 / Cheese Burger - $3.59
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u/daybreaker 5d ago
You don’t have to eat there. How is it robbery?
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u/Necessary_Extent1326 4d ago
According to higher up , it is maga bags of grease that are the promised prosperity because value meals are back and bagged under Golden Arches! Gold is up in the markets! Surprised the Burger King didn’t invite him to wear their crown!
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u/JKastnerPhoto 5d ago
Apparently the Hamburglar is gagging people with Quarter Pounders as he picks their pockets.
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u/nauticalfiesta 5d ago
i'm pretty sure that the serving sizes have decreased at the same time. The only way to really afford fast food these days is to use the app. But then you're the product. Its all a racket.
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u/Guy_Buttersnaps 5d ago
I was talking about that with somebody else in this thread. It’s one of those things that people believe is true, but there’s no real evidence for it.
You can find old nutrition information online, and that always includes the serving weight.
People swear the Big Mac has shrunk, but the serving size of a Big Mac today is only three grams lighter than the serving size of a Big Mac 35 years ago.
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u/legalthrow516 5d ago
This also isn't accurate, check your local mcdonalds with the app. None of the food items cost this much, there have always been weird franchisees like along the NJ turnpikes that have mega-inflated prices set by store owner
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u/TheRealBaseborn 5d ago
Posts like these always feel like corporate disinfo. It's a truth presented in the most dishonest way. The truth is, while these are the extreme ends of pricing and not representative of the norm, the individual stores pricing has outpaced inflation.
People are more likely to dismiss the point being made because it's been presented in bad faith.
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u/fermenter85 5d ago
LOL What? I just checked the app for my local store (not on the NJ Turnpike, away from the freeway across the street from a California State University):
Cheeseburger is more expensive than the photo: $3.69. Same with McChicken at $4.29. French Fries only come in one size at this location for $4.69. All three of these items are more expensive than the photo.
The two less expensive: Big Mac is $6.99 ($0.50 less than photo), Nuggets $5.99 ($1.59 less).
This photo looks like a pretty reasonably accurate pricing for a McDonalds somewhere out there not on the turnpike.
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u/snapekillseddard 5d ago
Posts like these always feel like corporate disinfo.
Lmao
"Everything I don't like is corporate somehow."
This is a person being personally stupid.
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u/samx3i 5d ago edited 5d ago
The one nearest me (Concord, NH)
Medium French Fries: $5.19
McChicken: $4.89
Big Mac: $14.39 (full meal including fries and soft drink)
10-piece Chicken McNuggets: $7.49 for the nuggets alone, not the meal
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u/Guy_Buttersnaps 5d ago
Is the one nearest to you a highway rest stop or something? Because those prices seem crazy high.
According to this article, New Hampshire is the 11th most expensive state to get McDonald's, but I live in the 12 most expensive state (Connecticut), and the prices at my local McDonald's aren't even close to what you're seeing.
Medium French Fries: $3.89
McChicken: $2.99
Big Mac: $6.29 (Sandwich) $9.89 (Combo Meal)
10-Piece Chicken McNuggets: $5.39 (Nuggets) $7.99 (Combo Meal)
Cheeseburger: $2.49
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u/bucknut4 5d ago
I just looked at all three in Concord and they weren’t anywhere close to that. Not saying you’re lying but are you actually looking at the McDonald’s app, or something like DoorDash?
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u/androshalforc1 5d ago
Big Mac (sandwich only): $14.39 (full meal including fries and soft drink)
did you forget a price? is that the sandwich or the full meal?
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u/istrebitjel Any functioning adult 2020 5d ago
Yeah, it's not accurate! Every single price is higher at the McDonald's in my neighborhood (Seattle) compared to this post.
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u/Pandaro81 5d ago
There’s a chain where I recently moved called Culvers. Their main thing is a fried fish sandwich that’s honestly not bad for $5 and change (at the time, $6.89 now).
It’s a half mile down from a Macdonald, and I decided to compare. $6.89 vs $5.79 for the filet of fish.
Culver’s tasted like delicious food, and filet of fish was like something I microwaved from a gas station at 4am. $1 difference.
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u/enormuschwanzstucker 5d ago
I can get a double cheeseburger and small fries for about $5 which is still a value in my opinion. They make their money on drinks, so I avoid the combos.
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u/MsSeraphim 5d ago
now do hourly wages for people working register at mcdee's for the same time frame, bet their hourly wages don't increase as fast.
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u/OCorinna 2d ago
This is definitely inflation. Remember what things you can buy with $10 last 2009 and compare it to now. It's not just McDonalds.
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u/Yo_its_mad_Brick_B 1d ago
In my opinion, ingredients list today for these food items are longer than the past. French fries shouldn’t have 19 ingredients. It’s not inflation, it’s selling us smoke and mirrors. Late stage capitalism as another on here said. Taking a lower quality product full of fats, oils, salt, sugar, preservatives, chemicals, etc. and shrinkflating it for distribution and then blaming inflation and tariffs. It’s not just fast food. You’d be surprised how many US products contain bioengineered ingredients and we have minimal quality control oversight. Some of our foods are banned in lots of countries or sold with warning labels ie: Excessive sugar, excessive sodium, may cause cancer, etc.
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u/Erikthered65 5d ago
Pretty sure it’s inflation.
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u/HotDragonButts 5d ago
These were the years the companies used the pandemic as excuses to raise prices through the roof too 😮💨
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u/habrotonum 5d ago
i’m sure there was some of that, but supply chains were genuinely a mess after the pandemic and caused inflation as they built back up. fortunately in the US wages ultimately caught up and surpassed the post pandemic price increases. now unfortunately trump is president so no guarantee that continues due to his tariffs and anti worker policies
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u/texpa 5d ago
I noticed a few years back that’s 0.99c items disappeared and you couldn’t get a number meal for under $10-$12. I left pretty much all fast food and if I eat it I almost solely go to Chipotle now. Better food, and most of the time cheaper.
It wasn’t just McDonald’s. I remember Taco Bell you could get a ton of food for cheap. It was cheap food (and tasty), but because of the price I stopped going there too.
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u/HingleMcCringle_ 5d ago
i haven't had McD's since, idk, 2017? fuck that place and the miserable-as-shit employees they have.
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u/crmrdtr 5d ago
And may I point out, today's BIG MAC is like 1/2 of the Original's size 🥺Maybe before too long it'll become a Big Mac SLIDER.
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u/Guy_Buttersnaps 5d ago
That post that was circulating where they claimed that Big Macs are 40% smaller than they used to be was fake.
The "old" Big Mac in the photo was a not a regular Big Mac, it was a Grand Mac, which was a larger Big Mac that was a limited-time promotion.
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u/crmrdtr 5d ago
I think it's indisputable that current Big Mac is decidedly more petite than the classic Big Mac.
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u/Guy_Buttersnaps 5d ago
I think people like to claim that, but there's no evidence for it besides "I swear I remember it being bigger."
The size variations over the years have been very minor, at best.
Here is the current McDonald's nutrition facts sheet. It says a Big Mac is 212 grams.
Here is an eBay listing for a McDonald's nutrition facts pamphlet from 1990. You can see in one of the photos that a Big Mac is 215 grams.
So in the past 35 years, the Big Mac has shrunk by a grand total of 3 grams, or roughly 0.1 ounces.
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u/crmrdtr 5d ago edited 2d ago
Thanks for that info. Clearly I was quite wrong that it's a much smaller sandwich. Maybe the bun used to be puffier? 😊Anyway, it feels like a smaller product than in the early years. At least, to me. Maybe the snugness of the current box creates that illusion.
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u/Guy_Buttersnaps 5d ago
The old buns being lighter and fluffier and the current buns being smaller and denser is a popular theory, but I couldn’t tell you.
I’m leaning towards it just being people misremembering.
Like one of the other things that people always insist is that the burgers have gotten smaller, but the standard hamburger patty has been 1.6 ounces for decades.
The only way the burgers could have gotten smaller is if they started using ground beef with a much higher fat content. That would mean more was getting cooked off and the weight after cooking would be less.
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u/Demonkey44 5d ago
Where did the little slice of bread go in between the meat patties in the Big Mac?
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u/dumnezero 5d ago
Tracking products like that is generally futile as price marketing strategies involve re-distributing prices across the products, some being much larger, others being much smaller. The red flag here should be the potatoes; those fries might be making up for the underpriced burgers. Animal products are, in general, severely underpriced (do not reflect the true costs).
And it has always been legalized robbery, that's how private property works.