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Think about people working there.
They want a living wage at least.Is that why you think prices went up?
Would be nice to see a graph of inflation-adjusted wages at McDonalds between 2014 and now.
I don’t have the data, but I doubt much of this price increase is going into worker’s pockets. It’s profit for CEOs and shareholders.
Is that little girl in the picture to blame?
Don’t eat fast food, make your own.
If you’re already at home it’s faster too.
These figures should be inflation adjusted
Also why no big Mac?
2014 $5.39 inflation adjusted to 2024 $7.18
Agreed, but only if wages and especialy minimum wage was inflation adjusted
They should also compare shrinkflation. If a burger price rises by 25% but it’s size shrinks by 10%, the cost is much higher as you’re paying more for less.
Sooooo, stop eating there? It’s expensive enough bowing to the grocery cartels, who can afford to eat out?
Beat meat to it.
Also nice username.
Yet another reason to stop eating there
You mean providing a photo opportunity for a billionaire to roleplay being a poor to help him get elected wasn’t enough to get progressive to boycott them? I think that’s much more actively politically involved than Hobby Lobby or Chic Fil A.
I can blame McDonald’s for a lot of things, but not this. They didn’t really get a choice.
God I wish that plane went down
The two inflation calculators that I found said that a dollar in 2014 should be worth $1.33 in 2025. That’s significantly lower than the lowest price increase in this infographic.
Also most of that inflation was the last few years, driven mostly by corporate greed. Not from rising company expenses.
I don’t see anyone mentioning the proportions of the bars. For example, on the 1st item for example, $1 vs $2.99 is not even double the size…
At first, I was assaulted by the percentage representation. Then I cooled down and thought, it’s not the percentage, but those bars are the absolute height of the price! Me smart, until I took a look again and now my hate is burning so, so hard for this graph. It is designed to enrage.
They’re not. The $3 bar is not 3x the height of the $1 bar next to it. The $2.99 bar on the right is higher than the $2.99 bar on the left. Someone just free drew the bars and it’s extremely noticeable and annoying.
They borked their graph to make room for the picture of the girl for some reason
I think they scaled them in proportion to their group.
Remove one entire group (e.g. 2014) and I think you will see it.
Not sure what you mean. The McChicken bars are not showing a 200% increase regardless of how you slice it.
Hah! That’s a very good point. Why make a bar chart if it’s not even showcasing the correct values, which in this case actually helps the message?
What’s actually infuriating are those bar charts.
Fast food is supposed to be trash and cheap. It now is just trash.
Last time, I was at McDonald’s, they got my order wrong, it took forever and on my way back home, I got a speeding ticket.
How did they make sure you got a speeding ticket? Seems like an over-reach even for a multi national corporation.
I see it as karma for being stupid enough to go to McDick’s
He fit the description of the Hamburglar.
And McDonald’s countered with a statement Pricing Myths vs Facts where they compared 2019-2024 prices where the original study the infographic is based on compared 2014-2024 prices. A little FUD seasoning if your will to make it all look less bad.
That’s the same company that countered their wages being too low to live on by producing an example budget to show how you can survive with only a McDonald’s job. The first line in the budget is income from the first and second job. They costs are even more laughable today.
This is also the same company that put out a sample “budget” to show how you can live off a McDs salary. Oh, assuming you didn’t turn the heat on.
Plenty small restaurants have not seen price increases this stark over this period of time. Eat there instead.
Mildly infuriating is +122% being the largest bar graph and +199% is the smallest.
Except for the left side, the bars are proportionate to price in dollars. The percent increase that amounts to is marked above the bars, and that number should match up to the visual difference between the 2014 price and the 2024 price, compared to the 2014 price alone.
The 3 yellow bars on the left are nonsense and seem to have been drawn like that just to fit that picture of the girl in.
Did the UK Lib Dems make this bar chart?
I don’t understand the insinuation you’re going for. Care to explain?
The Liberal Democrats in the UK are infamous for their dodgy bar charts in election leaflets, where the percentages don’t match up with the bars at all.
Similar to this:
It’s a running joke in the UK.
IMO, it might be a good idea to compare those prices against relative purchasing power of a dollar. I don’t know how those prices stack up to the overall rate of inflation or CPI, or even the cost of the specific ingredients. I would have less of an issue with price increases if a) McDonald’s profit margin–as a percentage of cost–remained steady, and b) the cost held steady against the relative value of the dollar overall. If it’s just arbitrarily raising prices because they can, then that’s bullshit.
McDonald’s profit margin–as a percentage of cost–remained steady
It’s cute you think a publicly traded company would allow for that, especially for a leader in a market as fully saturated as fast-food. When you’ve reached every person, there’s not much left to do but increase profit margins by cutting costs and raising prices.
If that line stops going up, executives can be voted out by the shareholders and lose their generous pay packages and bonuses! Last year’s billions in profit just isn’t good enough when there’s quarterly earnings reports to be made and shareholder wealth to be maximized!
That’s one of the major issues that I have with corporations; there’s very little interest in sustainable profitability, and a laser-like focus on growth for the sake of growth. And sometimes the product that a company makes isn’t even “sustainable” per se. That is, if you make certain durable goods, eventually you should be reaching a point where demand will slow to a trickle as the market becomes saturated, and that’s okay.
From a quick googlebthe dollar inflation is up 33% since 2014. The lowest increase is 67%.
To compare, inflation from 2014 to 2025 has been about 33%
