Could have something to do with it costing as much as a sit down restaurant used to while tasting like it came from back water gas stations.
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Shocking idea it may perhaps be because
- McDonalds "food" tastes like shit
- McDonalds "food" costs a ton of money
- There are burger spots (especially local ones) that can match or beat McDonalds pricing for significantly better burgers
- People can not afford to spend obscene amounts of money of food
In Canada, teen burgers are 5$ right now where I'm at. I'll take a Canadian teen burger for 5$ over the more expensive shit burgers from McDonalds.
What is a teen burger? Is it made from the meat of teens? Sounds exotic lol
I haven't eaten at a Mcdonalds since I was in elementary school because my entire family agrees that their food sucks.
The anti-American sentiment is true but that's not the reason why sales are declining for them. It's the rising price.
QPC with medium fry went up to $13.89 here. Insanity for a garbage burger (for the price.) I could see it for possibly $7 but even then, not worth it.
I can only speak for myself, but the reason I don't eat at McDonald's is because their food is just very low quality. Their coffee is good, but everything else is just crap.
If I have a good session in the gym, I'll hit McDonald's for a couple mcdoubles and a coke. Shit hits so hard post-workout
Finally when we cut quality so much it hurts the amount of quantity you can sell. This is what people talk about when they say balance too bad piece of shit greedy pigs cant comprehend this humanity.
mcdonalds is shit food, if you're charging more than a dollar for a sandwich, then it's way too much.
Shouldn't have supported nazis
Wait, nobody ever told me about the 'find out' phase.
If this had been made clear I would never have fucked around!?!
Well, McDonald's let Trump do a photo op there. Oh well.
There's anti-American sentiment at home too
Nah, that’s anti-fascism sentiment.
It’s the fact we love what America was and can be again that sets us apart from them.
Yes but I think it's that cost of goods increase and income doesn't. It takes over an hour of work to feed one person with these prices.
When I first started working at minimum wage, you could buy 3 packs of decent cigarettes for an hour’s worth of labor
For the last few years the places I have lived, one pack of cigarettes is about $17. So over 2 hours worth of work at the minimum wage just for one pack of smokes
Now, this may sound like an old fogey story, but perhaps the point is that I entered the workforce when minimum wage was like $7.35 an hour less than 15 years ago, and I already have old fogey economic stories
Fast food is a similar story. It’s something bad for our health but was more excusable back when it was cheaper relative to wages. The fuck would I work myself to death just to be able to smoke a dart or eat a garbage hamburger?
I don’t know I’m a pretty anti-American American. Though that’s the least of my problems with Mackers
Maccas with a hard r? Where are you from?
America, unfortunately
I don’t know how we call ourselves free when we still have a Burger King
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I grew up with and worked at McDs in high school and college. It used to be a family place (play places, fun colors) it used to be a friendly place (you could have birthdays there, cashiers were nice, you'd run into people you know), it used to have prices that were reasonable/cheap.
It is none of those things anymore. Why on earth would I go there when there's a burger place right across the road thar costs maybe $1 or $2 more and is actually good?
I think that has to do with them not being able to advertise to children anymore
Right? The McDs I remember growing up was a themed one. It was trying to be like a 50s soda shop. They had a model (or actual?) grill for a retro 50s car coming out of the wall. There were neon light decorations around the place and pictures of Elvis. They played rockabilly music instead of top 50 recent hits or whatever.
McDs these days reminds me of airport bathrooms.
As on old fart living down under, I am not anti American. I am anti current American government and toxic big corporation. Hating McDonald’s does not equal broadly hating the American people.
Thanks friend! I promise there are still some good ones left here 🥲
*Maccas
Also they eagerly price gouged people for their crap food, so no one is really hankering to go there anymore
A little over a decade ago I was a pizza dude. I remember getting off work at about 11pm and craving pretty much anything but pizza, so every so often I'd stop through McDonald's on my way home since they were pretty much the only place open, fork over about 5 bucks from my night's tips, and get a couple McChicken and/or mcdoubles, fries, and a drink, and get change back.
That same order now costs over $10.
I think I remember back then that I averaged out to a bit over $10/hour after figuring in tips. I'm no longer a pizza dude and I'm making a bit over $30, so I've beaten the McDonald's inflation rate by a bit and can afford to spring for it if I find myself really craving it, but everything else has also gotten more expensive and $10 isn't as easy to justify for some junk food.
But your average pizza dude today probably hasn't beaten that rate. They're tipped employees so all the bullshit that comes with that means they're probably still only making around $10/hour. I think there's been a bit of a delivery boom since then so maybe they're doing a little better than that but I doubt many are making the over $20/hour they'd need to be able to afford a late night McDonald's snack with the same ease I used to be able to.
Also, at least around me, they're not even open late anymore since COVID. I still work a weird night shift so that's something else I'm up against. My only options when I get off work if I want a snack is gas station/convenience store food.
I did food delivery as a second job for about 20 years. In the late 90s and early 00s I averaged $20 an hour thanks to tips. I finally quit in the mid 10s because the tips had been steadily dropping, and I was only averaging $12 an hour. Given your experience, I would guess that delivery drivers are making less than $10 an hour these days.
For a while I practically lived off $5 at mcdicks. I would get 2 double cheese burgers, 2 mcchickens, and a large drink. $1 each. That's was 10 years ago.
Then they started giving away free food just for using the app.
Then they had really good deals on the app.
Then they got rid of the dollar menu.
Then the only way to get cheap food was through the app.
Now even the prices and "deals" from the app are a scam for such shit food.
Now I make my own smash burgers in cast iron that are so much better you can't even compare them to McShit and still cost half the price.
Quick tip that you may or may not remember. The "diced onion" is actually dried onion flakes, they dump them into a bucket and fill the bucket with water. You can do the same thing with onion flakes and a bowl in your kitchen, and that avoids having to cut fresh onions.
Maybe we should look at their corporate donations and tell them to go fuck themselves when we see who they donated to.
Yup. Am canukian, avoiding American however and wherever possible. Including McDonald's
'Anti-American sentiment'...
You stupid fuckers, the bigger problem is the Anti-McDonalds sentiment that's everywhere, because your food is shit, your prices are outrageous, your restaurants are fake and ugly, and you don't give a flying fuck about your customers or your employees!
I like to get my burgers and milkshakes from the small, locally-owned, independent, place near where I live. It is real food, cheaper than mcdonalds, a much wider selection, and just as fast. It is also a cozy, relaxed, and welcoming environment; rather than sterile, corporate, hostile, and rushed.
Love the way the local places tend not to have employees that have been so abused they lost all the light behind their eyes.
Sure, blame anyone but yourself, Ronnie.
Have you seen the price of McDonalds recently? I’d rather miss a meal than get scammed like that. Fuck them.
Ain’t worth the squeeze. The food is real cheap and real expensive. Like, just get some ready-made meal at the grocery store it’s a better value and better for you.
Maybe they shouldn't have let a fascist use their brand image to appear similar to the working class?
They've had a fucking decade to distance themselves from trump, but they loved having him serve their trash in the White House...
Now they're shocked people don't like fascists?
Someone on Lemmy mentioned that he eats McD's on the regs mainly because he's less likely to get poisoned. If there's millions burgers at the ready, more chance of catching a good one than a bad one
The ironic part of that is, the more you consume fast food, especially McD's, the faster it poisons your body. If we could only convince him to eat 3x more of it, the world could be happier soon.
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Don't worry, they'll increase prices and cut quality even more to make up for the difference in lost profit.
They are seeing "what the market will support."
You can bet McDonald's is doing horribly whenever they bring out a limited product or do a celebrity deal.
They've done mcrib, celeb deal, Minecraft movie promo, and now chicken strips are back.
Yeah. Red flags. They're desperate.
Their current '2nd item for $1' is an ok deal right now. But this makes me think that won't last.
2 sausage muffins and 2 hash browns for like $7. Throw some hot picante salsa on there and you have deal. Without that deal? It's like $13.
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