Go to McDonald’s about every 4 years because of some external circumstance
“Yup, still garbage”
Have one in 5 minute walking distance ever since I moved here 5 years ago. Never bought anything there. They’d need to pay me to eat their offerings.
But in fairness shoutouts to the McDonald’s in Madrid airport terminal 4 outside of security. The only place in there not trying to rip you off. Had my share of salads there
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
burrito i used to get from a local chain used to be busting and i would get annoyed sometimes because it would become unwrapped. Now, it looks like half the old burrito and it looks like they wrapped the burrito twice with how much tortilla is left
It was $15 even the other day for a burger and fries. I won’t be back.
That should be 3 meals.
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.
They literally making you work to get a coupon and then prolly collect too much data from the app.
Eshitifoed dystopia… There was a time where working man could just go in get a cheap sandwich, get it fast and consistent.
It ain’t fast and it sure as fuck ain’t consistent well besides being const shite.
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
I don’t understand this in context what’s going on here?
Actual successful fast food:
Pretzels
Wtf? $6 is now a value for a shitty McDonalds hamburger?
This makes me glad that I have celiac’s disease; as in I can’t eat fast food even if I wanted to.
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!
They kept pushing the prices, became more expensive than restaurants in my area. I ate at a diner. 13 per person. Eat at McDonald’s, 11 per person for the cheap stuff. The patty from the diner was as big as their fucking $3.5 Mcdouble. Then they overwork their employees and pay them like shit so you’re lucky if they even give 2 shits about you or your food. There’s just no point in going to fast food anymore. It ain’t fast, it being food is questionable, and it’s not even cheap.
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.
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.
It’s the same with supermarkets, and every single website.
It’s insane, people are like “who cares if they know I buy milk” not realising that actually all the data you’re providing is combined in aggregate and they likely have a very complete profile of everything about you.
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?
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
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.
I would consider myself a fast food connoisseur, despite having what I would call above average cooking skills.
The likes of McDonald’s and KFC have never been in the same leagues as proper burgers/chicken. No one is comparing a Big Mac to a normal burger from home or a restaurant, so many of the comparisons here are unfair at best, and detached from reality at worst. You have McD because you want McD, not because you want a burger.
The fundamental problem is that fast food needs to be both fast and cheap. It’s neither, because companies skimped on staff post-pandemic, and prices are just too high. Now, that cheap treat that you enjoy has to be worth both the price and the wait - and these restaurants are finding that it’s just not justifiable any more.
They lost the battle the second you made it about low-income diners. These restaurants were about spectacle for the kids, and about value at speed for the families. When you market your food as “poor people food” people aren’t going to want it, especially if someone with a good income still balks at the price tag.
I don’t really know how many of them are going to survive, outside of revisiting what make them great places for kids and families. That’s harder to do today than it was, but they really need to revisit who their customer actually is - because if your value proposition is “you’ll be less surprised at how expensive the food the poors eat” then you’re going to see fewer customers. Ultimately, that’s probably what some execs want, because that real estate is probably worth a ton…
I used to get a bic mac large menu for me and my friend for roughly €10, now it’s around €12 for one if i’m not mistaken (haven’t been to the place for quite some years now).
The food was never worth the money, we went there for the friendship and low barrier of entry. We could just do what we wanted and enjoy ourselves for as long as we wanted. Watch some video’s, have a laugh, maybe get a cheap icecream or milkshake after a while.
Where any regular coffee place would start trying to get you to order more or let you know they needed to “free up the table” for other guests.
Maccers never gave a shit and it felt good to be there, so that’s what we did…we hung out as it was affordable, especially when the weather was bad.
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
Your list is obviously wrong if Waffle House is on there
Y’all have not been to a Waffle House in this decade…
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
You blacklisted Waffle House?
It’s been an actual decade since I’ve seen this face in the wild unironically.
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).
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?
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.
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
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.
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
