“Even though we’re pushing through pricing, the consumer is tolerating it well,” he said in October analyst call.
normal way to talk about ‘fellow’ human beings
Unless pushing back means not shopping at McDonald’s, then it doesn’t matter
Definitely not buying $3 hash browns there when I can go to Kroger and get a 2 lb sack of frozen hash brown patties that are about the same for $3 to $4. They are great in the air fryer
Until all the grocery stores merge, create a monopoly and do their own round of increases. Kroger/Albertsons merger would be awful here in Washington.
Within a couple miles of my house I have: QFC (Kroger), Safeway (Albertsons), Fred Meyer (Kroger).
i dash. Mcdonalds was dead until they came out with free delivery and a bunch of other coupons again 🇺🇸
I haven’t had McDonald’s in over 20 years, the only thing worse than McDonald’s food that I can think of is home delivered cold soggy McDonald’s. Is free delivery really that appealing?
Depends. You live in a city or larger town and there is various options available? Definetely not.
You live in an area where it is that or the canned ravioli and you are drunk/high/sick/an idiot? Maybe.
You live in an area where it is that or the canned ravioli and you are drunk/high/sick/an idiot? Maybe.
Toaster oven makes some damn nice hash browns fast and for cheap. Buy them in bulk from the frozen section in your grocery store.
Burgers are also pretty easy, smoosh your ground beef into a patty, flip for a few min on a stove, put on bun, cheese, tomato, and a green. Maybe add a sauce like thousand island (looking at you big mac), mayo, or ketchup.
You can have both done well before your delivery driver arrives and spend a fraction of the money.
Just think of all the hundreds of millions of people who won’t be affected by this because they refuse to eat at MacDonald’s regardless of their prices.
Someone needs to organize a boycott.
I’d organize one but I don’t ever eat there
Oddly enough you can do things with other people even if you’re not necessarily the same as those people.
Organizing a boycott of one is just not eating there.
Just uh… don’t eat there?
Not many places open when 2nd shift closes.
And yes, there’s food at home or in the lunchbox, but sometimes home is 40 minutes away and you already ate lunch 5 hours prior.
This is my life. Home is 45 minutes away. I pull into McDonald’s praying, “Please let it be fresh, oh lord. Please. I haven’t eaten since 8:00 AM, it’s 10:30 PM now. I don’t want to gag it down. Please Buddha, Krishna, Allah, Jesus of Nazareth! Please!”
I open the wrapper, it’s dry and cold, or it’s fresh but the dude cooking it decided I wanted a whole brick of salt on it, or they decided, “Hey, these onions are better than those! Fuck consistency! They want it like I want it! With different onions and 40 pickles!”
I’m about to try to find tv dinners that taste good or something. I legit starve sometimes because I literally can’t eat it.
It’s the only restaurant that’s open on my way home.
“Please let it be fresh, oh lord. Please. I haven’t eaten since …"
Wow, I really felt that lament.
Hi!! If you live in an area that has trader Joe’s they have some fantastic TV dinners! I’ve enjoyed any pasta I’ve tried and they have various frozen chicken like Kung pow and orange chicken, with sauce on the side so you could also just use it for the protein and mix up seasoning and dishes!
We have a Walmart, that’s it.
Rural hell.
Fuck dude yeah I’m sorry. There are always a few frozen things that can be doable… having an air fryer can make a big difference with some of the frozen type stuff like taquitos, fries, frozen burritos, anything you would be too lazy to put in an oven even though you know it would taste better.
But really the lesson is this shit is fucked up and there shouldn’t some people who have to come up with creative ideas just to feed themselves
You got McD’s but no TB?
Well, I’m sure McDonald’s will give me tuberculosis eventually, but other than that I don’t even know what TB is. I live in Appalachia. We have nothing.
TB is Taco Bell
I’m an idiot haha.
knowing you live somewhere with limited options, rather than yoke your health and well being to a single fast food restaurant, consider that this is the time to learn how to cook, store, and prepare your own food. Even a humble peanut butter and jelly sandwich can come in clutch in this situation, and all you have to do is make it ahead of time. You eat 2-3 meals a day every day. It’s okay to eat simple things, not every meal has to be special.
Yeah but when you are working 12 hour days, not counting the commute, sometimes you don’t want to be constructive at home. You want to enjoy your freedom.
when you are working 12 hour days
You want to enjoy your freedom.
Man, there’s no freedom in working 12 hour days. Hats off to you I guess but that’s not any kind of freedom at all.
I was referring to the time I wasn’t clocked in.
I’m glad you have other options. Not everyone does. My friend who currently works at Ford does so because he took custody of his nephew when his worthless brother went to jail.
He has no choice but to work and provide.
People are a kaleidoscope. There are a multitude of reasons one would take a job, and to so whimsically brush that notion aside is intellectually irresponsible
People are a kaleidoscope.
Yea! This discussion always dives into “oh well you can live off oats and beans!” There’s so many assumptions about space to cook, storage options, time… I quit my full time and my food budget has gone down quite a bit, because I have time to make these things. If you work multiple jobs and live in a tiny space, rice and beans aren’t always that practical.
:(
Ever asked for it fresh / cooked to order? Easier in the restaurant, but in the drive through you can mention you don’t mind parking and waiting. If unsuccessful, you can politely get more elaborate with the request: “I know I’ll have to park since dropping the fries and cooking the burger to order will take some time, but I don’t mind at all. Just as long as it’s fresh, please!”
Fries w/o salt would let you control that variable on your own as well.
Your mileage will certainly vary but cold McD is really barely worth paying for. Scalding hot McD is harder to knock: e.g. they bully suppliers into giving them quality long Russets for their fries.
Order the meat without salt too. They all season on the flattop so it’ll force them to make fresh.
Yes! Make life harder for service workers!!
Soups in a soup thermos (get the steel good ohes, dont cheap out), shit stays warm for 8+ hours. I lived on that shit working security.
What happens if you go 6-hours without food?
I see what you’re trying to do.
Attempt this with physically demanding labor.
Splitting hairs doesn’t Invalide my original point. Being contrarian by default doesn’t make you clever.
Yeah, I get low blood sugar and can’t think or use my limbs properly. Although I always carry food with me for this reason.
When I had that commute I would buy boxes of clifbars and power bars that permanently populated my glovebox. Trail mix in Adams peanut butter jars. Flavored oatmeal with raisins in old jam jars, just grab a cup of boiling water on your way out and pour it in. See also, instant mash potatoes, stuffing, ramen (adding boiling water to ramen and just waiting for it to be ready is the only way I like it now). That was the best idea I ever had before a multi day road trip, please use it.
If anyone has ideas to add to that, I’m all ears. Or any other food-from-home non-shopping ideas (like eating potato salad with Tims salt and vinegar chips, bombdotcom)
From what I’ve seen, clif bars are more expensive than I’d like to frequently pay, and they’re not a very satisfying meal - probably not even so nutritious.
I’m not referring to my current situation. I’m adding context to their question.
I’m fully aware that someone can put stuff like that in their car.
However, when I was working in a factory til 11 pm, I don’t want cliff bars and peanut butter.
I understand what you’re saying. Not everyone has those options, whether you want to believe it or not.
People are a kaleidoscope. There is no single way to live or fix your problems. This is information I hope you too can use.
It’s the most convenient restaurant around the corner from my home but I stopped going there.
Don’t mind the prices as long as the quality is there. All of the fast food chains in my area have tanked in quality. Except for Five Guys.
The first 5 guys in our area was great quality and cheap! Then a couple years later the quality has been way down and prices about 4x. Just insane and disappointing.
the taco bell near me is always on point. but the CEO is a fucking moron. constantly removing great items for no good reason, like the quesarito and beefy melt burrito. i can even still order those, for cheaper, with item adding
What?!??? How do you stil let quesaritos?!? That was the only thing I ever got from tbell
beefy 5 layer, remove beans, add rice, add chipotle sauce, and make it grilled. boom. quesarito for like a 1.50 cheaper
It’s a good thing we haven’t raised the Minimum Wage! Otherwise they may have Raised their prices!
The legal minimum wage hasn’t risen, but the real minimum wage has. Around here, in a poor little redneck town, you’re getting $10-$12 to start at McDonalds.
That’s actually even more depressing. The legal minimum wage is so low that it’s not even lifting up the wages of the most modest jobs in the lowest COL areas. It functionally doesn’t exist.
It’s easy to tolerate price increases on products when you don’t buy that product. The thing that concerns me though, is that if people stop buying McDonald’s and instead buy canned beans… is my chili going to get more expensive because McDonald’s wants 3 dollar hash browns? I’m pretty sure the answer is yes.
Pro tip, if you have access to a stove and several hours of free time to spare for cooking-- dry beans are super cheap!
Getting an Instant Pot was my game changer for dry beans.
Extra pro tip: put them in a bowl or pan of boiling water the night before to make them cook quicker the next day. Extra extra pro tip put bicarbonate of soda in the water to make them cook quicker.
You can also soak them in the fridge for 24 hours to rehydrate them if you want a more passive way to prep them.
An InstantPot (or other pressure cooker) can cut that time down quite a bit. I set mine on 40 minutes, but it takes a little while to get up to temp/pressure at the start and at least 15 minutes to slow/natural release the pressure at the end.
Still, dry beans to food in about an hour is great! Also much easier to control your sodium intake, it that’s a concern.
Not sure what I would do or how I made it before I got my Instant pot. Amazing little kitchen gadget.
It’s truuuuee. I actually cooked my first pot of dry beans in a crock pot over the course of like 8 hours the other week, and it was very satisfying.
They won’t tho. If these people could just buy other things they would have already imo. I stopped going to McD’s when their prices got to high for me. That’s why they’re making a big stink about it, because they still want McD’s but don’t want to pay so much.
I used to take my kids out to McDonald’s for a quick bite - it was easy, food-allergy safe, and cheap – but now it’s the same price as the local burger place so fuck mcd
No Macdonalds is making a stink because it’s now cheaper to make foods at home for their core demographic -poor people. The article says they will drop some food prices accordingly.
They’re not talking about human beings.
They said “consumer.” Which they don’t see as human, only as meat with eyes.
We’re just money cattle
Many other chain restaurants have increased their prices too.
Even smaller ones here, have gone crazy:
16" pepperoni pizza, 26.99
I went to Burger King a couple months back and got me, a friend helping me and my wife each a #1. Nothing special, just basic whopper meal
$51.
When did a number one start costing $17 each? Fuuuuuuck that. I paid it knowing full well that that was the last time I’m ever eating fast food, unless its a pair of freshly made deluxes from Dick’s in Seattle.
Fools trying to charge sit down pricing for their cut rate food, poverty wages and phenolic benches. Fucking, never. I’m all for millennials killing the fast food industry, c’mon guys, let’s get on that.
Yeah totally, I swore off mcds (even though I only eat it once every 6 months, hate myself, then crave it again) once I saw that a single big-mac went up to $8.99 (just the burger!) And it has just increased since
It’s fucking madness
What I hate most is that they removed the mcchicken biscuit… makes no sense for me to go there for breakfast now
That’s the McConomy
(badum tsst)
McDs is one of a handful of optuons I have so I cant really boycott; however, today I found a dastardly trick: the order kiosks suddenly switched medium and large so you will accidentally order the large size. Almost got me, but not quite
I heard about this and lmao no deal mcdicks.
Has brown is 99 cents. Figure it out. We can see your market value.
I vow to not buy a McDonald’s has brown until it is below $1
Honestly where I live I can get a ni e pub meal for about the same price as one of their burger meals.
It is so sickening how capitalism normalizes stripping people of their humanity
People are just wallets that cry sometimes
Poke poke C’mon… Quit crying! I want some money!
I think it’s even more disturbing how people can continue funneling support into capitalism then turn around and think they’ve got a leg to stand on by complaining about it.
Breathing doesn’t strip me of the right to complain about the bad air.
So I assume you mean you don’t complain about capitalism at all? Think its an amazing system?
I actually don’t hate the burgers McDonald’s has now. They are hot, and often hit the spot for me.
HOWEVER, a double quarter pounder meal is now like $10, and it’s just not worth it when I have other options next door or across the street that sell better for about the same price.
Same, my daughter wanted their fries recently and we caved and bought it, and it was actually quite juicy and tasty.
Ironically the fries were undercooked soggy potatoes, so win some lose some I guess.
It’s very location dependent. It was the only place to stop that was open on a recent road trip that I took. The bun was stale and the patties were overcooked. The pickles were fine I guess.
