When Will Fast Food Recover From This?
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- čas přidán 3. 11. 2023
- In today's video I shared a few thoughts on the state of Fast Food in 2023 and I asked a question to everyone watching as well!
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1000+ Viewers in the first 6 mins! Great work Brah ❤
You could make videos on how to make home made, self made "fast food", fast food cooking, imo many people would love to see that.
Good morning Vampire Brah. Sooo..., does this mean that you are giving up fast food and going back to devouring the souls of the young to maintain your youthful appearance?
When “Fuddruckers” changes its name to “Buttfuckers” we’ll truly know that we’ve become an idiocracy. The pandemic accelerated corporate greed and unaccountability for increased prices and product degradation.
The quality of fast food products and service has definitely gone down and the prices have gone up. 😅
I love your stuff.
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@reportoftheweek you would cry if you tasted original McDonalds vs what it is now.
"Pay More for Less" is the glorious future we have to look forward to.
I feel like I just sat down for a poor performance review with my boss 😭
I feel like I just lost a few brains cells trying to watch this
Do better, Gilly.
we’re gonna need you to come in on saturday Gilly
@@TheRealWattLifethat's pretty bad. Especially since you probably didn't have too much to lose in the first place!😆
He wishes you luck in your future endeavors.
I have noticed the quality going down but also the prices have gotten ridiculously high. Where I'm at, if I want to go eat at a Wendy's or something similar, a basic combo meal is gonna cost me like $12-15. For that same price, I can just go to an actual restaurant and get something nice. So I have honestly stopped going to fast food places years back and only go very sparingly.
That's the crazy part. I can pay the same amount and get and an absolutely spectacular meal at any of one of my local small business restaurants. I just got a burrito that was bigger than my head with a mix of chicken and beef, and fresh vegetables with guac, rice, pico and chips. It was delicious. I can have good ramen for the same price as fast food, I can splurge a little bit more and get some pretty decent sushi.
I recently stayed in Tokyo for a month and it was crazy how quality Japanese fast food was. You can eat a very decent meal for very cheap. I had a reverse culture coming back to America as the fast food here keeps getting worse and worse.
The people of Japan are cleaner and very structured too!
Fast food jobs pay enough to live on in Japan. Housing is orders of magnitude cheaper there.
@@brittanyb5942 Well-they-are-a-cohesive-society-who-all-share-the-same-values...On-the-other-hand-the-USA-is-a-multi-cultural-soup...The-truth-is-Diversity-IS-NOT-our-strength.
For better or worse, Japan strongly encourages hard work, dedication, cleanliness, etc. In America we don't. In America people feel entitled. The fast food workers feel entitled to their paycheck, whether or not they do any good work.
I had McDonald’s in Croatia just because I wanted to see what it would be like and it was so good. It was clean and friendly too.
I think the problem for me is that fast food is no longer cheap. I used to be a lot more forgiving of fast food when it was cheaper than any other option, but now I can go get a frozen meal or even premade food from the grocery store for cheaper than fast food. Now that fast food is no longer the cheapest option, there's no real reason to buy it anymore, other than to satisfy the occasional craving.
This allows small markets like food trucks, street corner food vendors, and small town food stores to take advantage with higher quality and lower prices
Also this is to tackle the problem of getting the people that over save into spending when its forcing us at the bottom to figure how to bypass inflation
In my area, food trucks charge the same as sit-down restaurant prices
@@Chelzortrue. In NY food trucks ain’t cheap.
I never expect fast food from any chain to be better than just a baseline "ok to good." But the prices are out of control. Just today I went to KFC - hadn't been there in about a year - and it was $12 before tax for a 3-piece tender combo. I'm not a huge fan of McD's, but I was only too happy to slide in there and get the QPC meal for $7 instead.
The fact that a Big Mac at a McDonald's joint costs as much as a burger at a sit down restaurant with waiters is insane to me.
And the restaurant burger is now $16 dollars now!
I just got a Big Mac last night it was only like 6 bucks, and I don't live in a cheap area either I'm less than 15 miles outside of NYC.
The sit down restaurant pays their waiters $2.50 an hour. That’s why you have to tip 15% of the cost of the meal. McDonald’s pays their employees $18 an hour which is why you don’t have to leave them a tip. At the end of the day.. people need to get paid.
It's ridiculous, I paid $6 for a cheeseburger McDonalds Happy Meal last week & I live in West Virginia, this is freakin' ridiculous. I also spent $108 at Kroger's for like 5 half-full bags of groceries...it's not just inflation or "supply chain issues" anymore, it's flat out price gouging--dont know if the store is doing it or the brands, but it has to stop
The burger at the restaurant I work at is $24
I've gone to Chick fil A about six times total and I can think of three times I did not receive everything I ordered. It also has happened at McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King and Arby's and Taco Bell.
yeah they gave me a completely incorrect burger from dairy queen the other day
Calling BS on this.
😊 This happened to me 5 minutes ago I didn't get my hashbrown at McDonalds and had to crawl back in disgust to the counter.😞
I always walk in for my food. I check for the drivethru/counter lines; food production, and even the bathroom. That all tells me what to expect of my order.
Uh uh let me tell you one of the order takers waved her hands to hurry me along then when I got to her I said don't be shaking your head and waving at me like that I didn't even see you. Y'all she acted like I didn't say anything and continued taking order. Never again Chick-fil-A 😊
I've also noticed the severe dropoff in quality. It really began to surface, for me, during covid, when, with many restaurants closed, I went to fast food places more often, because many of them around me were still open (so I had a chance to sample more). In my opinion, I can't help feeling that a big part of it is fast food corporate buyers beginning to push the use of lower quality and probably cheaper ingredients as a way to offset the loss of revenue from sales. If it doesn't cost as much to produce, you can make up for some of the lost revenue from sales. And now, with more business coming back, why go back to better quality ingredients, when you can now make even more sales and retain a larger part of the profits from sales? I mean, if they can sell still you a 2 dollar burger for 10 dollars when they used to sell you a 5 dollar burger for 10 dollars, why wouldn't they? As an aside, I've also noticed this in the area of frozen meals. A prime example. Stouffer's Macaroni and Beef. The beef, legitimately, used to taste like seasoned fresh ground beef. It was my go to lunch meal for work. Now? The meat tastes like the ultra-processed meat you get if you buy Chef Boyardee. It glaringly obvious that they've shifted to a cheaper ingredient.
I agree Covid was a "game changer" I've also noticed this trend in supermarkets, with companies and suppliers who sell there too.
My biggest issue is the price. It is really hard to justify spending over $10 per meal on very low quality food.
At this one Starbucks kiosk at work... A large flavored latte.... Say a large PSL would EASILY cost me 7 dollars. 7 dollars. A gallon of milk barely breaks 2 dollars at the grocery store. If I spent 60 bucks on PSL sauce and 30 dollars on a shitty espresso machine; I would be able to make easily over 100 PSL lattes.... Literally dimes on the dollar.
My husband got 2 sausage egg McMuffins the other day, just those, not even a drink to go with them, and paid $8.50. On top of it, he said they weren’t even that good. In our city if you drive 5 minutes more you can get a much higher quality and truly delicious plate of biscuits and gravy from a local cafe for only $1.25 more served in about the same amount of time it takes to go through the McDonald’s drive thru. The choice of where to spend our money from now on seems fairly obvious to me.
@@stephanie4718I wish they had Waffle House in my area. My wife and I can have a decent breakfast there for like $12. My buddy just spent $15 for a few items at McDonald’s for breakfast.
@@stephanie4718 gravy and biscuits sounds amazing right now.
Better to eat at home if that's an option
I noticed a combined decline in quality and a massive increase in price around the same time. I think the problem is that large conglomerates and investment firms using fast food chains as short term investments. These groups are HAPPY to burn employees and customers for a few bucks in the register right now. If it all fails in a year who cares they can just buy up another chain.
They just load the debt onto the company they bought (like what happened to Toys R' Us), and jump out with their golden parachute. As for all the employees and customers? Who cares, nothing matters except making money.
We need to wean off investor based capitalism, and just go to regular top down business stuctures. The investors demand for even more profit each year is not sustainable, and they know that, they burn the company and get what they can and move on to the next.
It shouldn't be understated how bad the supply chain issues were around COVID and those issues continue to this day. There's still shortages which increase the prices but also might reduce the quality of the products restaurants use.
Absolutely this. Modern MBA did a video recently about "The Popeyes curse" which highlights exactly what's happening.
It’s like that because we are living in a modern-day Weimar Republic run by various special interests. I think we all remember how the story ended last time when the man with the chic uniform and the funny mustache came to “fix” it. I can’t see our current situation resolving any better.
A few years back my daughter and I got food poisoning from a McDonald's. We complained and they took it very seriously even having the restaurant owner call us to reassure us and talk about all the safety protocols they follow. Thing is, if a sick employee doesn't wash his hands, etc , all that goes out the window
Maybe if they gave enough paid sick leave, and had enough staff on that people felt comfortable calling out sick, then they wouldn’t even have to worry about sick employees infecting the food.
The problem with counting on sick service workers to wash their hands is that sometimes there just isn’t enough time to wash your hands in between blowing your nose every couple of minutes.
Have been eating fast food for 60 years; never got sick. Hey, it happens. Sorry it happened to you.
It wouldn't shock you if you got food poisoning from gas station food. Why are you suprised here?
You should have sued.
@@GoogleyedGoon especially when the industry urges people to come in no matter how sick they are or what they have. have to agree this is 100% a workplace issue.
I completely agree. The quality of food and service have gone down significantly, yet the prices keep rising. Not too long ago you could get a decent meal for a couple bucks at McDonald's. Now nothing on the menu even costs a dollar
You're absolutely right, the food keeps getting worse and the prices keep getting higher, the entire point of fast food is that it's a fast and cheap way to eat something quick that tastes good. But it's pointless if it's not enjoyable and it's not cheap.
Been done for awhile. For the price I can get a better burger, or tacos, basically anything at a local non-chain local restaurant for pickup, heck maybe even cheaper.
More processed
It is neither cheap nor tasty anymore.
And in some ways it isn't fast anymore either... I have been to some fast food places I literally could have fried myself a burger faster than they could make it.
yea thank joe biden for this
This is the kind of top-tier journalism I expect from this channel. But on a serious note, yes I've noticed a big decline here in the northeastern U.S. over the past couple of years. It's to the point where I just don't get fast food at all anymore. When I was still ordering it, I encountered rancid ingredients, burned or dry bread, and other issues. I think the cause is probably 2 primary things: 1) companies cutting costs by purchasing inferior ingredients and directing employees to cut corners by doing things like not changing out the fry oil as much as they should, etc., and 2) employees are burnt out and more likely to make mistakes during food prep. The whole country...hell, the whole world is burnt out. People are tired of working for pennies and feeling like they can never get their head above water. And before you say "it's always been this way,"' don't mistake my comments for some idea that we've ever had a workers' utopia. I realize we haven't. But everything has gotten progressively worse as time has passed. 2005 was worse than 2000, 2010 was worse than 2005, 2015 was worse than 2010, and so on. We're on a collective downward spiral. And when your workforce comes from a depressed population, you're not going to get top-tier production. You're going to get mistakes. I work in a very different industry with much higher standards of performance and high salaries to match, and even we are seeing a huge increase in burnout, mistakes on the job, and people filing for medical leave and early retirement because they just can't take it anymore. IMO the fast food issue is a symptom of a larger problem.
Spot on analysis.
There's a lack of meaning in most people's lives.
Unrelated industr, but relevant nonetheless. A friend of mine worked in a large company, that due to financial reasons, fired 300 people overnight (it was 1/3 of all employers in the industrial complex, from office workers to machine operators). The productivity fell, of course, but not by 1/3; the workers were overworked to partially cover up the loss of workforce. They put up with it because it was supposedly only temporary until the company rebounded. A year later, not a single new employee was hired; the company realized that the workers' productivity in general increased (of course, they were being overworked) so they didnt need to hire anyone else even if they had recovered financially. That was over 5 years ago now, and that friend isnt working there anymore, but most of his work colleagues are still there, and there is a very important case here, companies have been getting more and more complacent to law and we are riding the line of seeing the return of indentured labor.
Context: he and his colleagues are all college students. They have to work to pay tuition.
You're seeing the bean counters putting maximized profits above all else. Above quality, above consistency above well being of the people who work there.
There is also a new attitude that lies to the customer, and employees are ok. If we promise something and don't deliver, it's fine because the share price increased 2%
Then, you have a population that has been traumatized over the last 24 years with school shootings, terrorism, and war all shoved in their face 24/7. Families are breaking apart. The only people that get ahead are the narcissists and sociopaths these days, and poeples morale is in the dirt. Nearly everyone is barely hanging on.
ain’t reading all that
One trend I've noticed especially since Covid19 occurred is the concentration on the Drive through business. The service is far better and faster at the window then coming inside. You are practically ignored at the counter and left waiting ten minutes or more as all hands are concentrating on the drive through. It tells me they don't care about indoor dining anymore. They are moving toward becoming a drive through establishment only. I really do think that's where it's all heading to.
Well said. The quality of the ENTIRE fast food industry has gotten significantly worse in recent years. The places I used to love I cant even stomach going to anymore because its consistently terrible and not worth the money. Sad.
It’s definitely not just you. My wife and I had almost this exact same conversation last week. It seem like maybe 2-3 out of 10 times we get fast food that the food is “decent”. Every other time it’s terrible. I think it’s gotten to the point now where these establishments know that regardless of the quality of food they give us, we’ll still show up. The reason mostly being, we’re overworked, lazy, need something quick and convenient, and since we’ve had good food from them before, that we’ll be back for more. Almost like chasing a drug high. But the food quality is ABSOLUTELY on the decline. There’s no doubt about it.
this
fun fact : fast food was never good , you muricans have to learn to cook
Yup I eat mchickens a few times a week and it’s crazy how different the taste and texture can be. I’ve had it piping hot but it will have a mushy almost fish filet texture or it won’t be fresh at all lmao
@@user-vz4sh7sx1qyou do realize a healthy portion of us do cook? Some of us are in positions where we need convenient food. I had a theatre rehearsal the day before showtime and it was from 10:30am to 5pm, and we had a call time at 6pm. Do you expect me to cook or to grab something and rush back? Other times, we're too depressed or have a day of being overworked that we resort to unhealthy, lax manner and grab quick food.
Yall so right. Rip
This is very true. I find myself very rarely getting fast food these days because the value for what you get (if it's even edible) is just not there anymore.
There used to be good deals, now I need 10 apps just to get a fair price.
My local McDonald's used to let me get two mcchickens and a basket of fries for $5, in 2021, now a mcchicken itself is almost $3?? It's really sad to see.
Switch to making sandwiches and things from places like Kroger and you'll eat healthier, better tasting, and could be cheaper overall.
It used to cost me $5.00 for egg mcmuffin meal, now it costs just under $10.00. Hell no! Up yours McDonalds.
One reason alternative protein sources are being pushed is that in the next decade or so meat of any quality level will move outside the realm of affordability for common people. Look at how much a decent piece of prepared meat will cost you these days. It's never going to go lower and income are definitely not going to get higher with our Fed currently saying workers are being paid too much.
@@Charok1 I cook almost all my meals regardless, but I wish that in the cases I have to have fast food, that it were better.
Husband and I got Taco Bell the first time in 5 years yesterday and it was pretty sad. Paid a crazy amount for one of their craving meals and they use smaller sizes of each item 😂 felt scammed and hungry after. The prices are insane and it’s just better to go to a sit down restaurant!
I agree with you Bruh. Since 2020 fastfood has gotten worse. Less new products and less deals, but they keep raising prices
Weird I noticed it before 2020
It was definitely because of "events" in 2020. All the great little restaurants and independently owned fast food places didn't have as much savings and closed because of 2020 meanwhile all the places owned by major corporations getting bailout money from taxpayer dollars and cutting costs through lower and lower quality were the ONLY places that stayed open, unless you're very lucky and the community made sure to support a good restaurant in your area. It was absolutely 2020 and the government's fault that everything is garbage and it's now expensive garbage. 😅
I was a fast food junkie. Always on the road for work, and being an emotional eater, it was not uncommon for me to have fast food for three meals a day. That was until on a more frequent basis, the qaulity of the service and the quality of the order started to decline. The 10-15 minutes of eating that I would forget about all my internal stress, turned into me being pissed that they got the order wrong, or the quality was terrible, or (the much more frequent issue) that I had to wait in line significantly longer than normal. I finally said enough is enough. I should have stopped eating fast food for health reasons, but the poor service and quality of food finally got to me. I just passed two years without eating at a fast food spot. I'm significatnly happier for it.
A blessing in disguise.
Let's go, you deserve more recognition for this. I had Cane's a bit when my wife was pregnant two years ago and had cravings, and prior to that, I went several years without fast food because as I got into my mid twenties, it made me feel worse for longer than it did when I was a teenager. Cane's sandwich, fries and drink was $5.99 back in 2021. Even with the exorbitant 11% tax in my area for restaurants, that's less than $14 for a meal for two. That same sandwich is $9.99 now. With tax, imagine paying over $22 for a meal for two for FAST FOOD of all things.
@@jakrol yea thats what we get in the usa when the government sends all money to ukraine. ukraine fast food still 2$ for a meal
@@TempoMontages Woah woah woah, let's not forget how much money we're spending at home too - about about trillions for "infrastructure" (a.k.a. slush funds)?
thanks klaus schwab@@spookytanooky
THIS finally describes what I've been noticing for the last few years. The outrageous prices and inconsistent quality are what finally got me into cooking good meals at home (not really healthy, just consistently good-tasting).
There's no psychological reward when you get that craving for a fast food experience and immediately feel ripped off and disgusted by what is presented. No reason to return. Also a huge contrast to the newfound motivation to make something that I KNOW will be good.
I’ve never had to throw a fast food item in the trash bc of how bad it was until recently. For me it’s been almost every time I go to jack in the box I ordered the chicken sandwich and it was inedible. I returned a few months later and again I couldn’t even finish my food from how bad it was.
I agree, the decline has been happening for a while imo. Especially after covid.
I usually order McDonalds in the time it takes to forget just how bad was the last time I ordered, and instead I remember childhood memories of wanting my parents to afford me a happy meal.
Fast food isn't food it's an edible chemical-ridden product that tastes like food. Even still calling it edible is a stretch. It's not really fit for consumption, you're just ABLE to consume it.
actually, while mcdonalds prices have annoyingly gone up, have actually increased their food quality unlike taco bell, burger king, and pizza hut
Same.
@@dynamicdave2647every time I eat mc donalds I notice a massive drop off of energy, makes me wonder if it's all just sauces and comdiments and no real food in there...
@@dynamicdave2647wouldn't say that. They might have a little more quality but it's not as good as pre pandemic or pre 2008 McDonald's. A lot of fast food is condiment drenched and dripping oversalted meals for almost 20$
It's not just you! My fast food experiences were consistently getting worse and worse to the point of me silently brewing in anger after just about every order. Finally, after receiving a basically uncooked and incorrectly made hamburger that I spent way too much money on, I vowed to just stop eating fast food. In my opinion it seemed to boil down to a general carelessness in most fast food restaurants seeming to grow and grow. Imagine my delight when I saw your video. You, sir, have made my day. I genuinely hope the state of fast food recovers and that I will one day happily pull through a drive through line again, but I have my doubts. Thank you for your video.
Same thing happening to me. The carelessness is due to companies being too greedy to pay workers an actual wage that makes them give a damn. They don't get paid enough to care and also aren't ever really fired or punished because it's so hard to find people who will work at fast food places. So you can see the problem and how paying them better would not only make them treat their job with more care but making sure they actually stay with the job longer thus improving the quality and speed of fast food. Employee retention at these places is abysmal and it's the fault the companies being greedy.
Not only have i noticed a decline in food, but ive noticed any container ( mainly plastic) has an awful stench to it. Like if i drink from a plastic cup it smells awful. Like it sat in a swamp for a month before it got to the restaurant.
in my experience, the quality has not necessarily dropped, but prices have increased by over 100% in some instances with NO increase in quality. And the price increases are happening *so* rapidly, too. I have literally seen the same item be $2.99 one week and $3.49 the next. Same exact item, no differences, but suddenly $0.50 more expensive. These places are very nearly reaching the point of not worth it.
the bigger burgers at Mcdonalds canada are almost 10$, 2x quarter pounder is 9.5
You’re not alone in thinking this, and thank you for talking about it. I’m in Chicago, been noticing this gradual decrease in fast food quality and increase in price for years. It’s rampant and it’s everywhere.
There’s a lot of fast food variety around here and yet I don’t think a single establishment has been spared this disappointing fate. It costs my family just as much to eat at Portillos or Culver’s as it would to go out somewhere like Giordanos yet the quality is significantly worse, even more so than it used to be.
To be fair, there's been a gradual decrease in the quality of LIFE in Chicago. I'd think crappy fast food is about the 27th biggest problem you guys have there.
It’s caused my Diversity Equity and Inclusions becoming more important to these companies than meritocracy
Companies are just seeing how much they can get away with at this point. We've gotten complacent as consumers and given them no reason to actually try. I've been feeling this way about a lot of stuff lately including entertainment.
I lived in Chicago during the 3 peat repeat days with the Bulls. I miss the popcorn. Went to order some a few months ago, I couldn’t believe the prices for a tin of popcorn.
@@1984isnotamanual yeah, THAT's the problem, not cutting corners
take your meds, grandpa
I live in British Columbia and can confirm that every single fast food place across the board has become far inferior; more expensive; and served in significantly smaller portions here over the past few years.
Only a year ago Burger King in Canada had a 10 piece nuggs for 2.99 with two dipping sauces; it was never fresh and luke warm at best.. but edible and cheap./ fast forward to now and they reduced the quantity to 8 pieces while also raising the price to 3.99; and you guessed it - only a single sauce.
A year ago BK also had the "King Meal Deal" which was two individual cheeseburgers, a small fries and a medium drink for 4.99.. that costs 7.99 now; to add insult to injury they are removing Cherry Coke from their soda pop dispensers here now as well.
Surely it cannot cost more than a dollar or two above the other flavors per bag of syrup if anything? Being somewhat of a rare treat in Canada it was the go-to for almost everyone I know personally..
It's got to the point where we can skip two fast-food meals and afford to eat in a proper sit-down restaurant that comes with bottomless sides and drinks; including a generous tip.
Heck, local All-You-Can-Eat Buffets are the same price as a cold, small "regular sized" meal at any individual establishment.
It's to the point now we've been so insulted by every local fast food establishment 9/10 times that we would have previously been patrons we now dine elsewhere.
An entire roast chicken here is about ten Canadian Dollars; in contrast a Big-Mac combo comes to almost 20 - &I'm not being hyperbolic.
Thank you for bringing attention to this erosion of reasonable standards in North America, Review Brah - I would be happy to expand on these instances and also have more examples to share if it would be beneficial to your video expose series on the subject.
I feel you on this. BK used to do the 2 chicken sandwiches or fish for 5$, then 7$ and i think now its like 11? When i discovered that a few months back by surprise I thought Oh, i guess im done coming to BK if its now low quality AND high prices?
Same here in the USA. It’s so so bad. This will not stand.
My guy, a 6 piece nugget combo from McDonald's is $11.49. It's net calories is less than 700. I can get 3 thin crust pizzas at Wal-Mart or Superstore than are 600 calories each. Each pizza is $3.99
It seems as if the people working the kitchen seem to have spite for the customer. The food is haphazardly slopped together and continues to go down in quality as the price goes up. Not to mention that we pay fast food workers relatively well, I wonder why this is all happening? The system is falling apart, the more you *notice*, the more you see it everywhere. It is not relegated to just fast food.
You can lose a McDonald's cheese burger under a french fry these days. They used to be at least an inch bigger across.
New Mexico here. I don't even eat McDonald's anymore because its gotten worse and become more expensive. My order is wrong maybe a 25% of the time. I think the reason this is happening because of really bad employee turn-over. Inexperienced cooks and people taking orders.
There’s def something more to it, every time I go to a fast food restaurant, any fast food chain,it feels like I’m rolling the dice. It’s either decent or it’s so gross I can’t even eat it. This happens more time then not.
I understand time is money but, if you're disgusted with your purchase, GET YOUR MONEY BACK!
Feels bad, man. You’re absolutely right. These chains are absolutely horrible, are far more expensive than they used to be and the quality has taken a nosedive over the last decade. You hit the nail on the head when you asked, “What’s the motivation for going to these places? There is none.” It’s just throwing your money away for horrible food. It’s just not worth it; not for your hip pocket and not for your health. God bless you ReviewBrah.
Where I live,the wait times for fast food are often around 30-40 minutes. And it is a drive to get there and back. I can cook faster. No motivation to eat there
They have to keep profits high, so keep wages low. And thanks to the pandemic they can blame worker shortage, even though it's been shown that they don't hire people.
My sister worked at a domino's during the pandemic, the owner got over 1 million if covid money. She got a shitty face mask, and $50. He turned around and sold the stores after the government forgave the covid loans.
Horrible working conditions(mostly stress from not enough people on staff) and horrible wages are killing people’s ability to perform the most basic necessities to keep quality up.
I feel so bad for people working these jobs. There’s only three fast food places in my area that won’t give you an absolutely horrible experience. And one of those has hit or miss food(over salted).
Basically it’s KFC or Chick-fil-a for me. I don’t eat a lot of fast food, but it’s not even convenient anymore for the most part when compared to cooking at home.
The problem is lazy, overpaid worthless employees that don't want to work.
Unless you are traveling or need a quick bite, it just isn't worth it. Never without a coupon if you can manage it.
Finally someone talking about the REAL issues in the world. This is REAL JOURNALISM.
when you have to pay someone a managers salary to do the most basic tasks when they are completely inept , this is what happens.
@perry92964 what?
I was in Tokyo in June, and I had Burger King while I was there. I was taken aback at how good it was. Their Whopper tasted the way they used to here in the US. I knew the quality of most chains has been declining here for awhile now, but it took eating some in another country to really hammer it home.
this is a little saddening...sigh...
I miss the teriyaki burger so bad, best whopper of my life.
I’ve traveled all over the country in the past couple years and quality has dropped across the board. Orders wrong, employees high (or can’t speak English), “fast” means 15-20 minutes, food is often cold.
It’s horrible, and they charge more for it.
You're absolutely right, fast food and sit down restaurant chains have gone down significantly in quality and in portion sizes. While prices are at an all time high, they seem content with charging a premium while serving you a less than subpar product. I'd say the tipping point was the pandemic. Everything seemed to get worse after that and they haven't been able to recover.
Not to mention the extra tipping that doesn’t even always go to the staff.
I went to popeyes yesterday and they had a bunch white people working..never seen more than a couple in a popeyes kitchen. Go figure they screwed up red beans and rice. A few dry beans in a whole cup of rice. Lack of workers that belong in that kitchen is a problem.
@@chandranapier2259 hate tipping because they made me go from generous to cheap. $5 was my go-to tip. I feel like $5 is the perfect amount, I don't do percentages unless it's a fancy restaurant where there's a genuine expectation of a percentage.
Now? $5 is considered rude. I'm not tipping $10-12 in a restaurant that already costs $13-$15 a plate.
@kilbert666 then you don't have the funds to actually pay for someone to cook and serve your food.
I know you still want it at slave labor costs but it is what it is. Prices for actual people to cook you food at living wage is more than you're willing to pay. Much less get any sort of service.
Lockdowns not pandemic. The year prior had more deaths than the lockdown year
I've noticed this lately. Even sit-down restaurants are pumping out worse food for higher prices. You can't go anywhere for a good burger, let alone one for a good price.
Jaggers is pretty good, though I don't know if they've expanded out of Kentucky yet
We have Pick Quick burgers in Seattle. I'm absolutely amazed that they only charge $3 for a cheeseburger that comes with pickles, onion, ketchup and mustard. They are small but very tasty.
So make one at home for less money 😊
@@LyubovBoychukyou do realize this channel is for reviews on fast food quality? Im sure they could google how to make the best burger at home but this is for fast food reviews…
Town Topic in KCMO
I barely eat out to save money but Ive noticed all food products impacted lately. Even the bottom of the barrel generic products are expensive and mediocre
Corporate cost cutting to maximize profits: smaller food portions and less quality, employee stagnant wages, understaffing, poor management, lower quality containers and bags, post Covid cutting of store hours, poor cooking consistency over time. Endless list, really.
I work at a McDonalds in Australia and the price of like every menu item has skyrocketed. Hash browns in particular used to be $1.80 and are now $3.20. For the same greasy cold potato infused cardboard. It’s a global decline in fast food quality 😔
speaking of cardboard, i notice the meat patties at burger king taste like cardboard.
@@SlumberBear2k those patties arent meat
@@SlumberBear2k I'm not sure if they're legally allowed to call them meat, they might be legally required to refer to them as "meat flavored product" or something like that. Just like how Kraft singles can't be legally called "Cheese" so they are called "Pasteurized Prepared Cheese Product"
Sympathies, though worldwide food scarcity hits everyone.
Remember a year or so ago when over 50 farms and food plants in America mysteriously burned down? There's your answer. Totally not related but Bill Gates has a LOT of farm land.
You nailed it brah. 👏👏👏 I cook at home now. Experiences we overlooked cannot be tolerated at the prices we are paying today.
you eat at home for good reason,, why have someone else cook bad food when you can do it at home? lol
I've absolutely noticed this, 10 years ago there was still some decent fast food, but in the last 4 years or so everything has gone downhill so fast. I totally stopped eating at certain places that USED to be my absolute favourites that I ate multiple times a week for lunch at work. And like you said, it's fundamental issues, like stale bread; rotten, brown lettuce; an "off" taste to the meats and sauces.. something is very wrong across the entire food prep industry. And that's all to say nothing about the skyrocketing prices.
I have definitely noticed it. It’s so annoying and disappointing. It feels like it has started about 2-3 years ago. I think that covid ruined fast food. Every time I order something there is something wrong with it. We always have to check our bags before we leave. 😢 there is nothing worse than getting bad/wrong food.
I'd suggest the conflict in Israel is one example of something worse
@@sn1000k that conflict is a conflict of isreal's own making. it's completely expected. Paying unreasonable amounts for bad food is not expected
@@sn1000kOut of pocket
not only fast food, all the stuff. all the service sector.
its not merely the poor service...the quality of mass produced chicken has changed, you may get the "frankenchicken"......stringy and tasteless....
It's definitely NOT just you, ReviewBrah, You're speaking out to a very troubling trend that a lot of us are dealing with. Keep on speaking out!!
Make food at home, it's not that deep 😂
@@ampulsion for sure! That's always a great strat. But it would be great if fast food didn't suck when you needed a quick bite 🤷
@@ampulsion
That doesn’t excuse the crappy quality of fast food if they’re trying to sell…
They need improvements
Fast food establishments lost their best workers during the Pandemic.
Speak out against what? Npc. People hate their 9-5 slave jobs and after Covid lockdown people realized even more just how sh*t their jobs refuse to put in the work and service to just barley pay rent and survive
Ive noticed this too, thanks for talking about it!
I love your style, bruh. So refreshing. Keep fighting the good fight. Everything has gone downhill in the last 3 years. ❤
Fast food almost doesn't even seem like an option to me anymore, because I always get the feeling that my food had been made with actual malice
it likely is, thanks to immigration
Yes especially at Popeyes😂😂. I love Popeyes though. I rarely get fast food anymore. I mostly eat at home.
@@user-cg6fd4in1dI’ve steered clear of Popeyes for years after the chicken sandwich. It was good when it’s good but I don’t trust the employees and they always f up the one thing I order
As someone who works in fast food, I certainly don't make the food with love, lol...
same bro. literally sometimes i feel like they rather not have customers for hours and dead lobby just to go home and get a check. the entitlement of some of these fast food employees has gone to their head. god forbid you have 2 cars show up 2 hours before closing. the horror.
My wife and I once went to Burger king and both bought a burger, fries, and soda, and it was over $19. Over $19, but just under $20. We were both amazed that our favorite local burger place would have only been $6 more for our usual order. Fast food is too damn expensive!
It cost me a min of $14 to feel satisfied at BK now… was $10 two years ago
It wasn't even that long ago that $20 was what you paid a steakhouse to sit down and have entree, sides, and drink refills. Now we're paying steakhouse prices for a Whopper that falls apart the second you lift it to your mouth. What is even going on? How is this real life?
@Gimil38 lol thanks. No idea how I put "bot" for "bought"
A crunchwrap Supreme and two soft tacos came to 18 dollars for me yesterday in Canada
Was10 nuggies for 1.00....now 2.49 for 8. They are tiny little shits too. Sad.
THANK YOU. Yes, have been noticing and complaining mainly to my wife. Everything is garbage now and price keeps going up. Locally I think my Taco Bell has suffered the worst and McDonalds has suffered the least. I have a photo of a Cheesy Gordita Crunch from Taco Bell that had only 1 Tablespoon of ground beef in it.
I've experienced this- my family and I got Wendy's about a year back, and we all felt ill after eating it. Another experience I had was at Burger King- I got a chicken sandwich and it was like, dripping wet? And extremely salty, like someone dumped a pound of salt onto the patty. It was awful. I haven't had Wendy's or Burger King since.
I'm up in Western Canada and I can't say I've noticed a huge difference in the food itself recently, what I have noticed is a huge decline in the quality of service, fewer staff on shift at a time, longer wait times, higher prices.
Fast food is now in an awkward place where it is no longer the cheap option nor the fast option. So it's more like just volunteering for lower quality food
This is my experience as well.
"volunteering for lower quality food" -- this is a very good way to state this problem.
I couldn't have said it better myself. Same experience in southern Ontario
i agree, the employees are ultimately the last line of defense for any terrible quality and/or orders that are bad or incorrect. The food itself is usually about what I expect, but the service on its own has taken a massive tumble downhill and lack of care from the employees
@@SkeleTonHammerI think he means cheaper then eating at a restaurant.
I think there’s a huge collective effort where people are just not eating fast food anymore. When you’re spending money on a meal that’s absolute garbage all I can think about is how I could’ve gone to the store and made an actually good meal at home. You made a lot of great points brah.
I agree. I know this is anecdotal but I haven't eaten fast food in a couple months. It's all garbage these days.
Dude I can’t go to a single fast food place and just get something close to what I’m expecting. Its just not worth the cost let alone the higher prices.
Exactly. It's worse and more expensive than something you could make in 10 minutes
@@aguy446 and how hard is it to put chilli on a hot dog and 1) actually put it on the hotdog and 2) put it in the bag chilli side up. How hard is that?
@@josephdavis1087 They just don't care. I've worked fast food and it's not enough pay for what you deal with. You're better off going into a walmart or something and buying from the deli.
Feel the exact way review brah. Feels like with these delivery apps the companies felt they got a free pass to just do whatever they felt like and cut corners. After all, are people gonna send food they ordered back? No. They'll ask for a refund at most.
Complete truth! 90% of the time it’s borderline to fully inedible. It has to be a generally careless society at large. Employees don’t care about the Fast food restaurants and consumers are indifferent or oblivious.
It's not just you. Me and my friend have had this conversation before. It really started 2020 in my opinion. Thank you for making this video!
I think it started around the pandemic
Bingo. It's because there's no customer interaction for quality control. Delivery has made it so there are no repercussions to making bad food. People just deal with it now. You can't complain to anyone but the deliver service. Try calling a MacDonald's that they screwed up an order. It's the most impossible task on the planet. They've offloaded all the grievances of the bad customer service to the deliver service and they can't do anything about it
@@eternalrewind2190 Yes, exactly - when the restaurant and hospitality business as a whole went to hell.
@@juliangrant9718 That's a good point. It makes me wonder whether the food delivery business is something of a bubble. Aside from the disconnection with the people making the food, ordering fast food from Door Dash or Uber Eats just drives up the cost to an insane level, with the fees and such. I've almost given up on using those services for delivery, I just use pickup.
"It really started 2020 in my opinion." You are so right.
I have noticed this for the last 3 years. It was stark in the covid times and has progressively gotten worse. I think it'll get worse and many places will shut down. I think the thinning of the herd will make restaurants try harder on quality control
Bidenomics
I think covid potentiated the quality issues, but I trace back the origins of this “fast food fiasco” to around mid-late 2018. Something happened then. My theory is that social media made people realize how badly they’re fked financially, so they don’t give a sh*t about their “measly” jobs anymore. They think they’re better than it. No pride, no craftsmanship, no attention to detail. But to be frank, with how badly the lower and middle classes have been getting screwed for the last 40 years, I seriously can’t even blame them.
I don’t think restaurants will try harder as the years go on. I hate to say it but I think the restaurants will go in the other direction. We as a people have become so stupid we will accept any piece of crap they call food at us. Companies will decrease quality, raise prices, provide terrible service and they will still get the profits they want.
never worked fast food myself but i gotta imagine the frantic arms race for viral limited-time offerings is hell for the employees. nobody really wants to be doing that job, so making the process as simple & streamlined as possible is kinda the entire reason fast food exists
So glad you're talking about this..Unfortunatly this is 100% true..
That is entirely the reason I started cooking all my own meals. The price alone will instantly make me not lazy, but yesterday I had 2 3 oz American Wagyu filet Mignon medallions and mashed potatoes for ~12 dollars total, more expensive than a meal I typically make. And it was enough food for 2 people, so I had leftovers. You can easily spend that much at a McDonald’s now and you’re definitely not getting filet mignon.
I look at the price of McDonald's and I never really eat the fries or anything but value meals for $14 and the only thing of any value is the meat and I can buy hamburger over $3 a pound I'm in the Boston area. I can't believe
aint nobody got time to cook their own meals. i wouldnt be caught dead wasting my time on such a task lol
American wagyu doesn't exist. It's a label for Japanese beef ONLY🇯🇵🎌
@@tjhall1000🚨you’re regarded 🚨
Living within the vicinity of Eataly's grace bestows no excuse to ever eat fast food again.@@WhatsCookingTime
It’s not just fast food, ReviewBrah. It’s the food industry as a whole. Covid decimated the workforce and the quality of individuals in kitchens has dramatically dropped. Standards are at an all-time low
Because people got paid to sit at home and they realized these bullshit jobs ain't worth it.
Agreed.
During Covid I was a long-standing employee at a fast food place with eight years under my belt and a proven work ethic, often pulling 60 or more work hours in a week. In desperation they hired a fat anger-prone narcissist who had (formerly) been a manager at another restaurant, he threatened to harm me physically because I was following the actual boss's orders to train new people instead of obeying _him_ as if he was a manager, then the managers took his side and punished me. I put in my two weeks and lived off my savings for a year while looking for a new job, which was extremely worth it.
You get what you pay for, and reap what you sow in terms of how you treat your quality workers vs. your cheap workers with a known history of leaving jobs.
Totally agree. It has been so much worse...
This is about as accurate as it gets. Fast food employees are paid minimum wage and there is a very small supply of people that take those jobs these days and they know it. Get fired and get a new job in a week or 2. If I was a teenager or in my early 20s, I'd do retail before I even think twice about working fast food. Hell I would do a gig job like delivery if I had access to a car. I guess that is the big divider. Have car, do uber and grubhub, otherwise you're making the grub...hub lol
Definitely agree. I don't blame workers. 1000% a result of corporate greed in trying times. They are testing every boundary, every limit, every tolerance of their customers.
I ALWAYS expect a poor experience at any fast food establishment now. I still can't even count on them to be open in the middle of their posted hours.
I actually dread going to a fast food restaurant now. To begin with the tables are never cleaned and the restaurants are over priced, poor quality, and sub-standard employees. I mostly eat at home now
I'm so glad you're talking about this. It's not just where you live. Prices are up and quality is down across the board. Fast food restaurants aren't paying enough, so they can't get workers. Yet, they keep increasing capacity, trying to serve more customers than ever. This isn't sustainable. Something's gotta give
at least there's no more mean tweets from trump
@@jonasmartin6332he was part of the problem you doughnut
@@jonasmartin6332a lot of this is economic fall out from how the pandemic was handled, but go off.
McDonald's in my area is paying $18 per hour. That's a lot of money for an entry level job.
@@jonasmartin6332 im sure the people in europe and aus could care less about trumps tweets. they care about their mcdonalds being super expensive still, though
My observations of decline:
1. Randomly locked front doors
2. No dining room cleaning
3. No cashier
4. No trays or no liners in trays
5. Using takeout bags for dine-in
8. Napkins/condiments hidden
9. Building maintenance neglect
Seriously, this is the strangest bit to me. Places where if you _can_ walk inside it seems like it's closed, because they're so understaffed and overworked that they can hardly keep the drive-through managed and just ignore the counter to survive.
Same. Low staff. Insides closed when they should be open. Reno NV here
The worst is when there is no soap in the dispenser in the bathroom. How are the employees washing their hands?
@@wrongwaysecurityuuuhhhh... Kitchens have sinks you know. They don't go to bathroom to wash their hands before doing cooking
@@wrongwaysecuritywhen I worked at McDonalds we used a bathroom in the back behind the break room, not the customer bathroom
I can tell you exactly what happened. During and after the pandemic, employee retention was a major issue for restaurants. Therefore they had to, one, start paying more money to keep people (your prices go up) and 2, companies started to allow more bad behavior at work. They aren’t going to reprimand them any longer because they can’t afford to lose them (hence why service and quality suck). It’s now just a race to the bottom.
Expired food sourced from grocery outlets. It’s cheaper and you can hide its flaws with salt and sauces.
That’s the game.
You are 100% correct, Reviewbrah. The service and food is at an all time low in quality. And every fast food establishment I have been to lately has been absolutely filthy inside. Tables and floors that haven't been cleaned all day, etc. Yet everything is at an all time high price wise. Fast food was supposed to provide value and it just doesn't anymore, yet the quality is not there to justify that.
The hospitals are covered in bloody bandages pools of blood and people falling over during their 18 hour wait why would fast food be any better
And it’s supposed to provide value as opposed to what what else is there to eat I don’t even know I never was able to afford anything else
The prices are absurd now! I can order a quarter pounder at McDonald's, or I could pay 30 cents more at my pub down town for a REAL burger that you can barely fit in your mouth and looks like came off a grill. And as a former employee, I can assure you the workers aren't seeing more in their checks from the price increases.
100% agree. Between the quality getting worse and the cost getting higher, I cook more and more at home.
Since covid, I've noticed that the wait time for fast food has gone up a TON if you decide to order inside. Especially during high traffic hours. 3 times in the last 2 months I waited 15-20 mins, all different chains. For $3 more, I could go to olive garden or something and wait the same amount of time.
I've had a similar experience; Some of it is bad luck, but alot of management shifted around during 2020. Places had to trim staff the rehire or they had buffed pay rates to attract new workers. I feel like a lot of places Ive gone to took a hit but some have also recovered.
You are ABSOLUTELY correct. All of the mainstream fast food places have gone down hill. McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, Whataburger, etc. The food tastes horrible and looks thrown together. There are no standards for quality and the prices keep getting higher and higher.
I stopped eating fast food about 7 years ago or so. Man I’m not sure how bad it could really be if it’s went downhill since I’ve eaten it because it was pretty damn bad when I stopped. Mc Donald’s was the worst!
I get take out now from restaurants. Its pretty much the same price as fast food but way better
@Shiskabobber1 Omg seriously!!! The other week I got a McDonald's meal and thought, "Why am I even buying food from here when I can get some GOOD pad thai down the road for nearly the same price?"
I work at McDonald's in the UK and I have. We have so many families where I say the total and they're in shock. It's genuinely gut-wrenching when I give out food. Our franchise is all about looking good, we have to keep the numbers down, including staff, including orders, including waiting time. We order so many cheese slices and yet we ran out of chicken nugget boxes and straws. Everyone is expected to do 5 jobs at once because there isn't the staff, and yet they still want to cut as many people as possible. Serious policies are being ignored.
It's greed, plain and simple. And the franchises have found ways to cut corners as quickly as possible, and the pandemic has made it easier. I've seen it firsthand, the managers work with us but the people that actually own it only care about the bottom line, including serving subpar food.
It won't stop, I think franchise ghost kitchens are going to become more common, and the brick-and-mortar stores we see now are going to be seen as less profitable so they're going to go. There'll be 3 people doing everything, that's already happening in short bursts, the kitchen will get filthy and there will be more health concerns. Everything will get a whole lot more expensive, but there'll be more ways for regular customers to get the prices down, like the point system and the Monopoly promotion. Quality is going to keep getting worse as the ingredients are going to get cheaper and cheaper.
Former McDonald's employee from the US. You described my location to a T. Not only are we expected to do 5 jobs at once, but our pay checks are a fifth of other jobs too. I worked the cash register at drive through and they expected me to do dishes and trash as well. It was SO awkward wiping my hands right before taking peoples cards.
AI and robotics is on standby to replace fast food workers.
@@thinkchair96not if unionization and collective bargaining have anything to do about it 😎
I do not believe that it is merely greed, but the natural, unanticipated results of progressive schemes like, say, the "living wage." They assume that if the government orders businesses to pay low-skilled workers more than the market deems them to be worth, there will be a lot of workers without jobs and without prospects of jobs, AND the still inflated cost of labour will be paid in the price and quality of the food and service. It is not greed, but economic reality punching progressives in the face.
@@jesualdocortez6426How smug thou art! Meanwhile unionization and collective bargaining are precisely the things driving companies to replace workers with robots.
You are not alone. Its a combo of inflation leading to lower quality ingredients and shitty quality control from the restaurant it's self...
I remember you from the GEICO commercial. 🦎
I have gotten to the point that I don't even eat fast food anymore. I used to eat wendy's, steak n shake, and a few others all the time. But you have hit the nail on the head: it's worse, less consistent, and more expensive. It's gotten to the point that I am shopping local and finding more delicious, varied food for MUCH cheaper. Now is the time to find your new favorite hole in the wall, they need you as much as you them.
Same in my country Australia, mcdonalds and kfc used to be actually decent now they are just slop, especially mcdonalds the burgers have shrunk so much its not funny
Facts. People shouldn’t be supporting these shitty global chains anyway. Find a small business to support fuck McDonald’s
Fast food got too big and now it's failing, the small businesses will thrive in the fall of these companies.
Yep. That's been my experience. The local bar and grill or pizza place has reasonable prices and good chow.
Me and my neighbor have had this same conversation. Fast food quality has dropped significantly while the price has increased dramatically. I'm sad to hear about your Culver's experience. I went to In-And-Out last week and the burger was dry and the fries were pale and soggy. Slim Chickens quality has remained high, but their portion sizes have shrunk at least 33% over the last couple of years. I'm now spending most of my dining-out money at non-chain, locally owned restaurants.
We've also been eating more at local places, so silver lining there at least!
In-And-Out fries have always been soggy...freshly cut potatoes are not better
learn to cook
@@DianaRussia531Yes! Much cheaper and FAR healthier!!
Shrinkflation is real!
It definitely has. I regularly get food from popeyes that either tastes passable or borderline expired. It got so bad, that I drive past like 6 popeyes establishments to go to the one that has good food handling
Enshittification is touching everything, not just online but also in the real world.
Thank you for bring this up. The quality has consistently been decreasing while the prices keep going up across nearly all fast food businesses. The worst offender is McDonalds, where the prices have SKYROCKETED. In my area, it’s cheaper to get a Double-Double from In n Out than to get a QPC, like how does that even make sense?
Now, I’ve cut my fast food consumption down to nearly zero. It’s just not worth it anymore.
Good on you, boycott those assholes, learn skills, outsmart them, save money live and prosper
I have always lived in a poor area. From my perspective, the decline of the fast food restaurant has affected all fast food joints equally. Work output will reflect pay and work environment. Most fast food places I visit ALWAYS have new staff. Turnover is ridiculous. But at our local Hardee’s, everyone there is a manager or supervisor, and the food is always good or at least decent (for Hardee’s). It’s because they’ve been there for a long time, so they’ve built more loyalty with their clientele, and they make considerably more than a starting cook.
I liked Carl's Jr (Hardees) more than Burgerville and would rank Carl's near/at the top of fast food
But the only way they ever could have achieved that was by either producing the best product or by being the only game in town. There are people, even young people, who give a damn, and there are others who just don't. That applies to owners, managers, and line workers alike. Having pride in what you do or produce is basically the key to everything. But there are those times when corporations simply get greedy because management constantly needs to show growth to investors. Fast food corporations don't really seek to be blue chip stocks even after their size might happen to drop them there. McDonald's hasn't really had a GREAT fry since they stopped cutting their own potatoes in the local restaurants, and stopped cooking them in animal fat. It's taken over twenty years just to get back to decent.
@@jklmn101 that’s a problem with corporations and the stock market. There can only be so much growth, but when the inevitable decline hits, shareholders tend to back out. So corporations find ways to cut corners and create artificial growth to report. That’s when you get rewards programs, store credit cards, layoffs, changing to cheaper ingredients. These corps aren’t evil, but they are willing to do anything to keep their numbers looking good, and the livelihood a lowly cashier or the health of their consumers doesn’t factor into their moral compass at all.
I feel like fast food restaurants will recovered this when they get alot of backlash from not making their food healthy or somebody is going to come in change it and thanks for being this up and great video man :]
I totally agree. It seems like, as others have pointed out the reduction of staffing has caused a lot of employees to either not care about the quality of the food or be so busy that they don't have time to. I've also noticed that any time I order food using delivery apps its worse more often, my guess as to why is there isn't any fear of consequences for messing up. These coupled with continually rising prices has caused me to basically stop eating fast food altogether unless I have no other options
Yep at this point I get it when I’m out and about and it’d be an inconvenience to go home. But I’ll get a basic value sandwich and soda for 4 bucks or so. I won’t bother getting more
They refuse to hire people. I am not a fast food employee but a retail one in a meat department for a wholesale club. We need two more guys, at least, and they refuse to let my manager hire.
People at fast food want more money and work with crappy lazy attitudes 😊
I think two things happened: 1. People more and more started to see the reality that they were working their lives away and barely able to pay the bills and so they lost any semblance of pride in their work. 2: The corporations saw during the pandemic that they could raise prices, run their stores with a skeleton crew, pay their employees almost nothing and still turn a profit. Where a single company accelerating their greed model may have become apparent and hurt their business these places were able to benefit from the pandemic and the expectation that this is just how things are everywhere now.
Great point and I agree 100%.
Ultimately, quantity and efficiency is held much higher than quality.
As someone else pointed out, the quality of a certain product is not the selling point anymore, the brand name is the selling point but attached to the name is the quality that it used to represent.
I completely agree with you. Well said. I've been noticing the decline for about three years and it's getting worse every day.
This is spot on what I was thinking, well said!
Totally.
Yup agreed. Working has never been so difficult. Can't find many people who want to work anymore. But him doing youtube and making profit might also be the reason.
Hi, you are 100% right. I have stopped buying fast food like that. I have been trying out food from grocery store has fast food and various gas stations. Another thing maybe refuse to eat at some of the fast food stores. I'm very interested in your ideas. You really do a great job with this and you are honest. ❤
this is his path to enlightenment. And we thought he was already a king.
I don’t eat fast food - I do watch this channel because I love hearing people review and discuss something they know a lot about. I do, however, eat out at fine dining restaurants quite a bit. I live in a renowned wine region where there’s no shortage of great places. Post-COVID, my experience at every single restaurant has felt not worth it - especially with prices as high as they are. I’ve been disappointed so many times that I’ve stopped going out. I haven’t eaten at a restaurant in months, and hearing people talk about their recent experiences lets me know I’m not missing anything. These were highly respected places, and it’s a shame. The food industry is broken. From fast food to fine dining.
Fast Food portions have been getting smaller as well. I have been going out to get Fast Food ever since I got my Driver's License with my friends late at night. Now in the recent years, I noticed in the drop of taste and the portion size. Not even $20 can fill my empty stomach. I have been going to diner's now and I'm amazed at how much bigger the food is compared to fast foods.
Todays fast food costs as much as a meal at a sit down restaurant with half of the quality
Diners are so expensive now! $20 for a cheese omelette and quality has gone downhill as well sadly
@@derek2297I went to McAllisters deli and the amount of meat on the sandwich is probably half what it used to be
I agree with you 100%
Few things I have noticed.
For taco bell, the food is usually not as hot, which is strange because I've seen the back and know they use a time to keep consistency. Also the food that i remember, like the mexican pizza, does not have the same flavor, sometimes soggy.
Wendys, there is a change in their bbq flavor that makes in no longer worth getting. Their frosty is a hit or miss on how icy it is, and the burger is also lacking taste, but not soggy.
McDonalds. I have, no clue what they are spending the billions of dollars on, but their new products are abyssal, their menu on ordering a specific burger is complicated, and some items, like the mcribs, should be off the menu and be used as a case study on what not to do.
when I want fast food, I just go with in-n-out, because I have no gauge on how bad it was in the past, and it taste good now.
The quality has gotten really bad. The prices are ridiculous now. $25 for two people to eat at most fast food places is insane. It's not like we're ordering anything extra or getting a larger size combo meal. It's not even fast service either now, the drive through is slow AF everywhere now. I can make better quality food for a lot less at home.
Since the Pandemic food quality and everyone in the service industry has stopped caring. I know it’s hard to say “CARE” when they are getting paid like crap and have other problems but the general lack of human empathy in our generation has lead to non caring food workers
And won’t get worse forever, they’ll simply replace fast food workers with robots who do it perfectly. People will protest that but the people were the ones who put themselves out of a job in the end :p
In my area, quality has gone down, price has spiked, and more and more of the "please pull up and wait so we can stop the timer and look like we are doing better than we are." I think there are few people willing to do that work after how the pandemic went. I think it will be like this for a while longer until they are able to automate the entire shop. I remember $5 footlongs from Subway, now they have subs that are almost $15! Insane!
Love your videos. They have an early 2000s feel to them. No background music or gimmicks. Just a man behind a camera.
It makes me smile every time a viewer issues a compliment to content creators for not using music. I fully agree!
CZcams began in 2007.
@@inthefade you're a bit slow aren't ya
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@@inthefade no it didnt, it started in 2005. Zoomer doesn't remember anything past a couple of years.
I wish you could try fast food of the 70's, 80's, and early 90's. So good. It was still real food. But alas, it's time to cook at home and eat simple ingredients. I even went plant based. Feels good.
Same problem everywhere
I actually wondered when you were going to rant about all fast food. It really seems like it's very rare that you're genuinely pleased with something, which I love to see. It's funny to see you roast the items, sure, but also, it's just wholesome to see you surprised and relieved by something actually tasty. I hope you have better experiences in the future, we love to see you happy! ❤️
It’s been this way since the middle of 2020. Quality and customer service have gone steadily downhill. Even regular restaurants.
@sog6841
You are correct and precise in your assessment. That’s exactly when I noticed it. Have you noticed that more frequently there are no “adults” working in the restaurant? My worst experiences have been when there was nobody above the chronological age of 18 on site. Out of control children operating somebody else’s business.
Yes i’ve noticed a decline of just decent customer service in all places, grocery stores etc. If you bring up a complaint to a store manager now, they’ll likely tell you to go somewhere else if you don’t like it!
everywhere is short staffed and high turnover rates
@@blfzhn7716 no. It’s not the kids fault. It’s the companies. Adults can’t afford to work there. It doesn’t pay enough. Those poor children are underpaid, undertrained, and understaffed.
The companies run exactly how they want to. To underpay in every way possible, and this is the result.
@@squashforsale8466 i couldn't care less if the kids are not paid enough . I go there to eat , not to worry woth humanitary issues that are already part of my mind everyday . I am paying them to get good food , not to be a sociologist and of they are gonna act like barbarians that cant cook i will go to a regular restaurant . i have can afford it
It comes down to lack of employees and those who have been there a long time and see so many people come and go. Being overworked, having the restaurant be open way longer than it should be, low pay, no help and having to deal with a bunch of stuff on your own. It never used to be that way back in the 80's and 90's to early 2000's.
Well said !!!