In case you needed another recession-indicator. Same-store sales at McDonald's, KFC, Pizza Hut, Cheesecake Factory, and Starbucks are dropping. While they're still increasing prices. Implying a big decline customer traffic. Wouldn't happen in a healthy economy.
I haven't eaten take-away "food", nor chicken, for 51years. Eggs, bacon & butter are also off the menu. Eat at home and eat healthy. Having a veggie garden is a great starting point, towards good health.
I think something has been overlooked - Maccas never did nor ever will provide 'quality food'. Sugar is king, trans fat is king, obese captive customers are king and the electronic menu board is just another way to commit you to parting with your hard-earned dollars. Quick cash, easy cash and the universal cash gouge making the consumer the dill pickle in the burger deal.
@@jackwilson3121 For sure... there is no way you could live in San Diego on 50 to 60k. Unless you had room mates. But maybe if you live in Kansas it would be fine. Good point.
I live in Canada. My local McDonald's charges $18.00 (taxes in) for a Quarter Pounder combo with cheese, medium fries and a drink. I can make the same thing at home, for $4.00 with stuff bought from a grocery store. With a fraction of the sodium, carbs, and fat. No waiting in the drive-thru line, no waiting in the restaurant. If the weather is crappy, no need to brave the weather to get in my car to drive to a McDonald's restaurant. No hefty delivery fees, either, if I were to order in. It's all good. I'm done with fast food. A couple of months ago, I went to a Subway location to get a footlong steak and cheese sub. It was a whopping $25.00 after taxes, and the quality was poor. Never again. I could make the same thing at home for less. Fast food joints are basically shooting themselves in the head with their greed. A reckoning is coming, and it's going to be ugly.
In Canada...same thing for...$18 for same meal...i cancelled my order and went across the street to a Chinese buffet all uou you can eat for $18....which included even dessert choses....even included breakfast food too.
for 25 bucks i can get some quality meats.. good salad.. have a nice bbq with 4 people.. instead of eating a foot long and be hungry again 2 hours later.
McDonald's has gone down in price since they give free fries and most of the time they have really good deals. I rarely spend more than 5 bucks on combos using their deals on their app.
Agreed. My dad used to get me McChicken sandwiches when I was a teenager (~2006-2011) because back then they were only a dollar. They tasted so much better back then. Nowadays, whenever I get a McChicken, which is now around a whopping $2.99, it's usually made with an old patty, almost never hot, and very bland.
Shrinkflation has always been a method where these corporate pigs rip us off. Boxes of cereal or bags of chips with virtually nothing in them! Numerous other examples as well!
Here is why I stopped going: 1. Customer service, employees are rude and the restaurant is dirty 2. Food taste like microwave food 3. It is too expensive $15-17 for a meal 4. They got rid of the soda fountain. No free refills 5. The ice cream machine is always broken
I think a lot of it is what he described in the end. It feels like a cold institution now, kids don’t wanna go anymore into the lobby because there’s no more characters. no more fun, no more playgrounds. It’s not a welcoming experience.
The ice cream machine being broken is a part of the contractual agreement between McDonald's and the ice cream machine manufacturer, who are the only ones allowed to fix the machines.
I would love a burger and fries. But when I think of the zombie _lost-the-election_ ByeDone-high gasoline prices, that no eating out place is cheap anymore, why not just get some boring whatever-is-in-the-fridge stuff out and make do? Just starting up the car is way too expensive, like we are under "house arrest" under the mismanagement of the evil elitists and the corrupt liar Democrats. Who can really afford to go anywhere, other than to work, like we are under some sort of DUI work-release program? And I do not even drink.
You’re spreading misinformation. Snopes already debunked these lies. I’m old enough to remember when Big Macs arrived on the scene…they are essentially the same now as they were then.
@@northernbohemianrealist they aren't even fast, I'd rather wait the 5 minutes for decent food and a correct order. No point in being fast if they make the customers come back to correct their mistakes...
Ahhhhh..., the downfall of McPoison!!!!! Love it. But when you're paying employees upwards of $20/Hr to flip burgers, and the food prices have gone through the roof.....Bound for fail. And the food they "serve" is not even close to nutritional. Not even for my dog in a pinch. R.i.p. McPoison.
I would never pay $15 for a burger, drink, and fries from McDonalds of all places. I go to my local burger shop and get a big juicy burger (with real meat) and it's $5. Plus, the service is so much better. The reason we all loved McDonalds was that you could get a whole meal for $3. Consumers will never go for these prices. This is just the beginning of their downfall.
There is also a growing number of people across the world 🌎 boycotting these companies profiteering and sending money to support the ongoing 76 year old genocide and Holocaust . Me and all my acquaintances have totally ceased and desisted ever entering these evil corrupting corporations .
Eating garbage was acceptable when it was dirt cheap but if you going to cough up 10-15 bucks for your meal then you better off eating a real burger with real meat, it’s pretty simple and predictable.
@@dreammaker9642 the meat of the quarter pounder and homestyle burgers is real unfrozen beef. However, the oils and sauces used are not good. The bread is bad too.
@@TheBatman777 it’s still garbage quality 😂 you can freeze a real quality steak thats fine it’ll still be good but garbage quality is garbage quality so when you pay 5 bucks for it fine but when you charge 10 bucks for a burger you can get a real burger with a real good beef for that price. Hell you can literally go to your butcher get some good meat have him grinder for you and make your burger in the grill for cheaper than that. 1/4 pounder at McDonald’s tastes like cardboard
@@dreammaker9642 less than $10 for a pound of wagyu buger meat at walmart.... that's around 4-5 wagyu burgers for less than $30 for condiments and bread... some people just like bitching about their laziness, cept they blame mcdonalds for something they can control, which is not going there or worrying about what they're charging.
@@replynotificationsdisabled exactly, same people that will try good beef for the first time and say it tastes like game meat 😂 like no fool, that’s what meat is supposed to taste like you just used to eating cardboard
When they switched the beef tallow for cheap oil, you didn't say anything. When they greenwashed the iconic red roof, you didn't say anything. And when they raised their prices to insane levels, there wasn't anyone left to say anything.
They’ve been making the same junk food for the last 50 years the only change is now I have to wait to pay an overtly inflated price. Mc Donald’s is no longer a fast food restaurant.
When I was a child, me, my mom and her parents would go to McDonalds on Saturday nights. The adults would read the early edition of the Sunday paper (bought from a paper boy on the corner). We'd have "dinner", and then stay there for hours until the paper was finished. No one in my family was overweight. Being a kid, I rode miles on my bicycle and played games in the woods. My mom and grandparents were active doing gardening (like real gardening such as growing vegetables), doing house repairs themselves, but none of them actively "exercised". You exercised by working and doing the things that needed to be done at home. We had no idea back then just how good we had it.
That sounds like how humans SHOULD live. It sounds like a dream. I wish everything was like that. Now, I literally need to use an APP ON MY IPHONE to even access my apartment building
I honestly know what you’re describing. That was when MCDonalds had a real playground and it was treat for the you as a kid. You felt excited to get out in town and Riding your bike was a way of life until the street lights came on. I grew up poor and just accepted it and didn’t know better.
Boycott them all. Many of us working poor people have long carried a cooler to work, as eating out was even back when, too much of a "luxury" unneeded expense. And now you do not even need ice. Gel packs are more convenient. Just pop it out of the freezer, back into the freezer when you get home. Carrying a cooler can save $hundreds even $thousands a year. That is significant for those of us with low wages. Most every break room has a microwave oven.
Companies like McDonald keeps forgetting the core value of their company for profits. McDonald was originally a restaurant that made burgers as cheap as possible to serve as many customers as possible. Now they are selling burgers almost as expensive as a real burger joint, to increase their profits as much as possible.
Eating out has gotten ridiculous. Lunch for 2 at a restaurant is $80 these days. And then they want 20% tips everywhere. I’m avoiding eating out as much as possible.
I can't speak for McDonald's, but for a lot of restaurants it's because wholesale food prices are still sky high as are their energy bills and rent etc.
True story: my 16 year old son worked at two different McDonald’s this summer. After three weeks he was accused of something he never did. So we had him quit. We tried a different one and it’s run by 20-30 something hillbillies that are in a clique and basically bullied him to quit. I was shocked at how bad management is and how they see workers as totally disposable. He just wanted a summer job. The managers were always smoking outside when I picked him up and if he screwed up an order they would send him home. They had no real concern for him at all. Then they wonder why they can’t keep employees.
McDonalds is dead to me. For decades I would go and get two cheeseburgers with fries and end up with that “yuck” feeling every time. Conditioning as a child was very powerful. I shook that and don’t miss it at all. If someone doesn’t start eating there as a child I really doubt they would start as an adult. Soulless, nutritionally bankrupt, and expensive. What a combination. All things come to an end.
Oh yes, maybe just due to getting older, but once when in middle age, driving all over England for my job in the 1980/90s would often pop into McDonald's and KFC. But last year do due to being very tired and no food in my house, took out a McDonald's, could not believe how expensive it was and when getting it home, could not believe how bad it looked and totally tasteless.
McD always gave me the McShits. I’m from the UK but have been to the US many times. The quality difference is night and day. The last one I went to in the US was San Francisco. It was way below average. The service was terrible. The meals looked anaemic. To consider how much you guys are having to cough up now is just insane to me.
The beef alone is 7 bucks. Fries if you don't want to peel and cut the fries are about 6 bucks. Bread is 3 dollars. Cheese is 3 dollars. That's $19 on ingredients just to make 4 burgers. Not including soda , time spent cooking and gas, electricity.
Are you kidding me? You obviously know nothing about the slim margins restaurants operate under. It isn't corporate greed-it's inflation. They have to raise prices to stay in business because the dollar is becoming worthless because the US government printed trillions of dollars it doesn't have. Only an idiot thinks "greedy" restaurants arbitrarily raise prices to put themselves out of business.
They reached complete market saturation. The only way to continue growing from there is to make life worse for their employees and raise the prices. This is the capitalist trap of megacorps. The new buzz word is "enshittification".
I think the CEO is huffing that copium by saying it's only the low-income people that stopped coming. If I made a hundred thousand dollars a year I'd still not want to pay more than ten bucks for a merely passable burger menu.
People used to eat fast food because it was cheap. Everything tripled in price. I remember getting two large 3 topping pizzas from Pizza Hut for like $20 couple years ago. Now two larges with 3 toppings is $60. Fuck that shit!!!
You are NOT lying about $60 for 2 pizzas. The pizza hut in my area is actually still really freaking delicious so when we're buzzed, our dumb asses pay it, but enjoy the hell out of every bite. Lol
Everything has doubled in four years but people will vote for far left wing Kamala because "orange man bad." And we'll end up with four more years of this. Eventually there will only be poor and rich people left in America. Trump being elected won't stop this but it will delay it. And the green car nazi stuff from the far left.
@@rcruzthomas but but but, they do so much work that us mere peasants can only dream of. They deserve every dollar of it, while we need to work harder and complain less.
How much of an impact would that be? If I remember correctly, if Disney’s CEO salary were to be taken away and give to its employees. Everyone would get .50 cent raise.
Just to put things into context if the CEO of McDonald's worked for free then McDonalds could lower the price of every Big Mac by 3 cents. Just the Big Mac sandwich, none of their other menu items. So yeah the CEO makes a lot of money but his salary is hardly even seen in the price you pay. The CEO makes a fraction of a penny per customer.
@@jonathantaylor6926 the problem is not what the CEO make, the problem is that there is no accountability at the top. If they mess up, they will still get a severance pay and be warned in advance that they are going to part way. Meanwhile, if you are an average joe, you will get fired on the spot. And as far as I can tell, if the company is doing poorly, ain't no CEO, CFO, or whatever taking a paycut. However if you are on the bottom tiers you either take a paycut or have your workload doubled simply because your coworker was fired so the company can save on his wages. If the same responsibilities applied to top management as it does to the rest of the company then there would be far less people complaining and there would be way better management. However when you insulate the top management from any consequences them you end up in the situation we are currently in.
I’m in London UK 🇬🇧, These restaurants have became a refuge for the homeless to sleep. Full of Uber delivery bikers who don’t speak English, It’s became a dump
Yes! I don't exactly follow what ingredients, oils, etc. they use but back in the day (honestly, not TOO long ago) I used to go there and although I always knew it wasn't the "healthiest" thing to be eating, it at least tasted decent. Lately, if we stop in and that's if we legitimately feel like being lazy and grabbing something real quick to satisfy the hunger, it tastes horrible and I legitimately feel disgusting afterward. Something within the recipe has definitely changed for the worse.
I bought 1 double quarter pounder, 1 cheese burger, 10 pack nuggets, , ice cream and 1 apples pie, it cost me 38 bucks. It was the first time in years I bought McDonald's, it was the last time I waste my money there.
The “No Loitering” will kill McDonald’s. Mom used to go with other Moms to let the kids play on the playground and visit. Old people would go in groups to have breakfast and visit. It was a cheap weekly escape for many folks. They were regular customers and they spent money. Sounds like Mc Donald’s no longer wants these customers.
Spot on! They want drive through customers only. They're doubling the drive through lanes and now have two lines of cars waiting 20 minutes for a 20 dollar meal with rude employees who expect 20 dollars /hr
Boy do i have a story on this that would blow your mind and is the reason i stopped patronizing them and I was a daily customer, who often ate there 2 times a day!
I knew a group of old men that would go there and drink coffee because you got free coffee and free refills and just visit for a while and every hour they'd buy another bunch of fries so all the men could eat together that would no longer happen plus I think all those guys died from cholesterol😂😂😂😂
Do you understand that you can go to Olive Garden and get their all you can eat salad, soup and breadsticks for $9.99 during the weekday? Why the hell would i pay $10.00 for a stupid Big Mac meal when i could get all the quality food i want for the same price??? McDonald deserves to go out of business. I won't buy from them anymore.
I am from Croatia, and the last Time I was in McDonald's a Month ago I was so shocked! "Big" Fries, that I call "Small" Fries where 4.20€! That Insane! They shoulden't cost more then 1€!
I would buy 30 cheese burgers, put them in the freezer. Defrost and Add lettuce, tomato, pineapple, beetroot, bacon, and sliced steak to make a monster burger. So simple and cheap. Not so much these days.
@@mosheridan7016 My experience: I was getting something quick to eat after having some blood work done, so I stopped at McDs for a double cheeseburger, fries and diet coke. A few hours late, I became ill, and there was no finger to point at but the burger and fries, so I filed a complaint to give them a heads-up of where, when and how. A couple of weeks later I get a call from one of their corporate reps who listened to my story and promesed me some vouchers. I never heard from them again, and no vouchers. F- 'em.
McDonald's gentrified itself. I worked there in 1970. We kept the little store clean. Now, the floors behind the counter are greased over and littered with fries.
I went to burger king and saw a little mouse run across the floor behind the counter. The lady taking my order noticed the mouse as well. It was hilarious 🐁
McDonald's at one time charged 35 cents for a hamburger, coke and fries, they buy these food products at wholesale or below then charge 3 or 4 times the amount at retail... disgusting company.
I worked at MacDonalds way back in the 60's. I think the hamburgers were 15 cents and the cheese burgers 20 cents. When the Big Mac first came out it was like 59 cents. You could get 10 hamburgers for about 1.50.
Thats how it works when you have to pay for the labor of your staff, the building, utilities and everything else. Restaurants all mark up the price of the products in order to make a profit and sustain the business. And because of inflation everything needs to be raised that much more because their costs go up too. This aint brain surgery.
They NEED to find a way to make their food affordable again. There’s a cutoff point to excuses from corporate for raising prices when you’re not improving quality. CostCo has kept the hot dog and soda combo at $1.50 for decades now.
Not yet. We still have the bubbles to pop and the really nasty recession or depression that follows. If that doesn't happen we just hyperinflate into nothingness. Screwed either way now.
@@user-nt1kf6ic9e their fillet o fish is so bad. The fries are OK but not great. Who the hell is still going there? It seems like it's a bunch of really old people from what I have seen in my area. The drive thru is empty now during lunch hour when it used to be a huge line.
Just how dirty? A McDonald's in St. Laurent area of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, had the exact same fecal smears on their walls for so many MONTHS. I used to work as a janitor elsewhere, and I could tell the wall behind the toilet had never been washed. Yes, I brought it up to the staff, repeatedly. No, they never did anything. Run for your life.
Smell the KFC mashed potato the next following day that shit smells like pure shit and if I make mashed potato and gravy and leave it overnight on my stove that shit does not smell like that. Eat my food. The following day KFC is fucking awful.
At the end, your mentioning of the lack of people is spot on. I hate the sterilization of McDonald's. It's so robotic and terribly laid out now. I never like going in them anymore.
I think investors should always put their cash to work, especially In 2024, we'll start to see more market diversification. I'm hoping to invest about $350k of my savings in stocks this year. Hope to make millions in 2024.
There are a lot of strategies to make tongue-wetting profit especially in this down market, but such sophisticated trades can only be carried out by proper market experts
@@MaryLawson874 I think having an investment advisor is the way to go. I've been with one because I lack the expertise for the market. I made over $490K during the recent dip, highlighting that there's more to the market than we average folks know.
@@EdmundEthan093 once you hit a big milestone, the next comes easier.. would you mind dropping info of your invt-advisor please? i'm in dire need of proper asset allocation in order to achieve an optimal portfolio till year end, thanks in advance ..
@@roxdietren Claire Robert’s Durand is the licensed advisor I use. Just research the name. You’d find necessary details to work with a correspondence to set up an appointment.
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I remember in 1959, our family of six got two bags full of burgers and fries for $5 dollars. Also remember Dad getting mad at Mom for spending $25 as we were walking out of the grocery store with four full bags of groceries. Same bags of groceries now would cost around $200/250.
@@nitroneonicmanIn-N-Out is a family run and family controlled business. That's how they offer the quality. Along with that quality, they serve a high number of customers and volume of food daily. They aren't a corporation, like McDonald's.
@@dvader3263 saying In-n-out is family owned is like saying Wal-Mart is family owned. While technically true, it's a misrepresentation. In-n-out is absolutely a corporation, just go to their website and click the link that says "corporate".
In Serbia every store takes cash! 👌👍 If they didn't, they would close soon...😂😂 We don't change our way of life for any corporation! They are the ones who have to adapt to people! 👍
I worked in fast food over 50 years ago and things were very different !!! The manager made sure all the sandwiches were made correct and not just thrown together and stuffed in a wrapper. And the QUALITY of the meat was very different and didn't taste like cardboard like it does today. It's a joke when you go into a McDonalds or a Burger King for that matter the employees are not really interested in serving a good product and all you can hear is laughing and cutting up from the front line to the kitchen area. I guess that's what you get for 14-20 dollars an hour ??? And yes the prices are insane, I stopped eating any of that garbage years ago.
The whole of America is so expensive now. We used to come twice a year. Once to Florida and once to California. In CA hotels are nearly $500 a night. That's just way too expensive. Food, car rental, hotels are off the charts. So until it changes back, we'll be staying away.
Bernie Sanders pay attention, we've been saying this for years you big dummy... when you have to pay unskilled workers 20+ dollars an hour, what do you expect the response to be in order for businesses to stay open? Instead of taking art and cultural anthropology courses in college, how about an Econ 101 class. You have to pay people according to the supply of labor and what that labor is actually worth.
The sign telling customers to limit their time in the store to 30 minutes is a bad idea. They should want customers to stay longer in hopes that customers will buy more, maybe a dessert or another item to take home.
Last time I went to McDonald's I waa disappointed. It was not my hap hap happy place. It was depressing. The manager was rude. The service was poor and slow. The quality was low. The restaurant was dirty. And it was dark and gray. Broke my heart.
I won’t go back to fast food due to their extreme greed during a hardship time of our country. They can go out of business for all I care. Those prices they charged and their complaints of paying people a living wage was disgusting. Especially if you look at the huge profits they were making and using those profits to buy back their own stock. There’s consequences even for big corporations. I hope the future brings better companies that care about their customers and communities they do business in. Goodbye McDonald’s and good riddance.
Honestly, you should stop eating fast food b/c it isn't real food. Especially McDonald's. Expecting for-profit corporations to not be greedy is a bit foolish, don't ya think 🤔 😬
Many businesses are losing touch by removing service from their offering and the younger generation who don't remember what it was like to have service are accepting it. Fast food used to be an occasion meal, something special. It's no longer special.
Agreed! Especially the point that fast food used to be an occasion. I am out on McDonald’s as are many other’s. You get nothing for the ridiculous price they charge. A Big Mac meal is about 13 bucks. Big Macs are basically all bun and some lettuce and sauce now.
@@beltex63 that's actually not true. McDonald's has been having record profit years the last couple years they can easily pay people more they just rather be greedy and give the money to the top.
I used to work at McDonalds in the early 1970s. Was ass't mgr. of a new store. It was a fun time. The food was good and the lobby was packed every night by the younger crowd. I haven't like MD for a long time now. I think their hamburger patties are pre-cooked and steamed hot. They taste horrible. My dog won't even eat them. I went there the other day because of a $5 filet meal promotion I saw. I got there I was lost. There's no menu at the counter. there's no cash registers and nobody working the counter taking orders. I finally got someone to talk to me and was told I had to order at the kiosk over there across the room but the $5 filet meal deal was only available by installing and ordering through the MD app on my phone. This is probably the last time I will ever go into a MD.
You got that right. Shout it from the rooftops. McDonald's is not a restaurant business, it is a REAL ESTATE COMPANY that preys on franchise holders forcing them to renovate etc. The food is NOT the real business
It’s not only in America. Recently I was in Europe and I was shocked to see the fast food prices. Let’s be honest, it’s not even real nutritious food. I am not even sure it’s actually food. Might be filling up your stomach but it’s not food. Younger generations like my 29 year old do not ever want to eat in fast foods. Not only it’s expensive but it’s not healthy. And their generation is very health and planet conscious. Now, looking at developing countries where I spent most my life, when 30 years ago even in a very small paycheck, people could go once a week to a McDo for a what they called a treat. It was the low income outing. Now, in same countries , the McDo are empty. It’s 8$ in a country where the minimum wage is 300$ a month!!! Lastly, McDo had the terrible idea to put self ordering screens. And everyone that has ever used it knows it’s a f*cking trap! You are always going to spend more than what you initially planned to buy and then , you wait once to order and wait again for your order. It’s not fast food anymore. It’s slow and it’s expensive. - bottom line , all restaurants serving sh*t deserve to die! American deserves real nutritious food ! Actual food! Not crap! And everyone else on the planet too.
They got too greedy & raised the price for smaller portions & crappier food quality. McDonald's is a scam. For those prices go eat at an actual restaurant or better yet make food at home
@@yosefmacgruber1920Good idea but I've had same neighbours for decades and know to keep my distance. Although there are some not so close that are ok. In general I am far too busy for much socialising, but I do like your idea.
@@johnharrison2511 I had a neighbor but only a couple blocks away, who sent out flyers inviting everybody to watch an outdoor movie. Everything provided other than to bring our own chairs. He must have done some work to deliver flyers to a several-blocks area. So I brought my chair and watched _National Treasure 2_ I think it was. I was one of only about a half dozen people who showed up. Free movie, free food, get to meet my neighbors. Any reason there that I should not bother to come? Last I heard, they were missionaries and moved to Africa. Maybe I should have asked them if I could join them in their move, getting out of this has-been corrupt country. I was rather disappointed with the very low turnout. As if Americans are overworked, over-stressed, or perhaps anti-sociable? Surely the grass has got to be greener, in some other country. This has-been country is showing so many signs of being has-been. Even _Nomad Capitalist_ says so. In a YT video of much the same Title, he says that Western Countries are Old and Dying. BTW, I am not into grilling, and I wouldn't know much or have much experience in hosting a party. I would rather attend somebody else's.
$3.00 for a hash brown at McDonald’s in Cali. Food is nasty. Customer service is poor. You order in the drive thru and now you have to park your car before you get your food. Weird.
This isn’t inflation, it’s corporate greed. They have every right to make a profit but when they are pulling record profit and continue to raise the prices until people don’t want to eat there, it’s greed and ultimately stupid.
Bullshit. It's inflation, period. You leftists (you're a leftist, I can tell) always think that prices just coincidentally go up when a Democrat is president.
There is something going on besides corporate greed, research the world economic forum and when that has been absorbed then be welcomed to the new world order, one planet religion and the coming mark of the beast.
It's both! The Dollar is approaching hyperinflationary status and, once it does, it won't matter what anybody "makes." The cities will be a living hell with nowhere to go! Helter-skelter is coming down!
Haven’t been to a McDonald’s since prices started getting crazy. Me and my family have also reduced eating out to maybe twice a month if at all. We just can’t afford it anymore!
In case you needed another recession-indicator.
Same-store sales at McDonald's, KFC, Pizza Hut, Cheesecake Factory, and Starbucks are dropping.
While they're still increasing prices. Implying a big decline customer traffic.
Wouldn't happen in a healthy economy.
Healthy*
Coca-Cola had to agree to subsidize their McDonalds franchisees before agreeing to do the $5 meal.
Wold you say this might be related to the economic law of diminishing returns?
Nick, check out Weedon Island in St Pete.
And there is a boycott.
Why are people ignoring this
People used to buy McDonald’s to save money. Now McDonald’s cost is almost the same as a decent restaurant.
What’s a decent restaurant to You?
Truth.
@@mauricioBrunsMdWhat's it to you?
Exactly!
Hungry jacks erk.
From the 1970''s to now. The quality of McDonald's has fallen dramatically. It's now expensive and disgusting. 💯%Facts...
Yes, the Big Mac used to be twice the size and under a dollar.
You should try the McMuffin. They don't even toast the bread. It's totally disgusting. I will never touch McDonald's again ever in my life.
I haven't eaten take-away "food", nor chicken, for 51years. Eggs, bacon & butter are also off the menu. Eat at home and eat healthy. Having a veggie garden is a great starting point, towards good health.
You are absolutely correct! When I worked at Arby’s in 1988 it was still real food.
I think something has been overlooked - Maccas never did nor ever will provide 'quality food'. Sugar is king, trans fat is king, obese captive customers are king and the electronic menu board is just another way to commit you to parting with your hard-earned dollars. Quick cash, easy cash and the universal cash gouge making the consumer the dill pickle in the burger deal.
Sad when 50-60k is considered low income! Just a few years ago it was mid class. Lord help us
And unless we get a really bad recession or depression that does not get fixed.
@@bpb5541 right 🎯
I can't be low income! I just can't!
Depends on where you live
@@jackwilson3121 For sure... there is no way you could live in San Diego on 50 to 60k. Unless you had room mates. But maybe if you live in Kansas it would be fine. Good point.
I live in Canada. My local McDonald's charges $18.00 (taxes in) for a Quarter Pounder combo with cheese, medium fries and a drink. I can make the same thing at home, for $4.00 with stuff bought from a grocery store. With a fraction of the sodium, carbs, and fat.
No waiting in the drive-thru line, no waiting in the restaurant. If the weather is crappy, no need to brave the weather to get in my car to drive to a McDonald's restaurant. No hefty delivery fees, either, if I were to order in. It's all good.
I'm done with fast food. A couple of months ago, I went to a Subway location to get a footlong steak and cheese sub. It was a whopping $25.00 after taxes, and the quality was poor. Never again. I could make the same thing at home for less.
Fast food joints are basically shooting themselves in the head with their greed. A reckoning is coming, and it's going to be ugly.
@@stevestruthers6180 💯
In Canada also. Paid $17 for a chicken sandwich meal at A&W. Never again. What a rip off. Like you will continue to make my own. Less cost.
In Canada...same thing for...$18 for same meal...i cancelled my order and went across the street to a Chinese buffet all uou you can eat for $18....which included even dessert choses....even included breakfast food too.
for 25 bucks i can get some quality meats.. good salad.. have a nice bbq with 4 people.. instead of eating a foot long and be hungry again 2 hours later.
Poor food quality, rude customer service, high prices. recipe for failure.
Thank you. Although I'm sure there are other factors that contributed, this sums up McD's biggest problems and why people are dumping them.
Dirty tables and bathrooms.
Youre not the target market.
@@floridaman7 because mcdonald’s totally intended to lose customers
Disgusting 🤢 all around and the employees treat you like shit 💩
McDonald’s is not worth the prices they have right now
McDonald's has gone down in price since they give free fries and most of the time they have really good deals. I rarely spend more than 5 bucks on combos using their deals on their app.
@@SiouxCityWeather you're experiencing the "illusion of affordability" he talked about it in the video.
Agreed. My dad used to get me McChicken sandwiches when I was a teenager (~2006-2011) because back then they were only a dollar. They tasted so much better back then. Nowadays, whenever I get a McChicken, which is now around a whopping $2.99, it's usually made with an old patty, almost never hot, and very bland.
@@2012Merichy I suggest that places like these be boycotted..
@@2012Merichy The people have SPOKEN !!... MCDONALDS !!!
$5 for large fries now. It's totally insane! Big Mac meal is $15-16 after tax not $10. This is unhealthy food for high prices.
Food sucks
Bad food for quality food prices.
Bidenomics is working
It 12 in Chicago
Wait really? Where's that, San Fran?
I’ve stopped eating at chains, support local, eat REAL food.
Yeah, sure support local restaurants. That pay their waitresses $2 an hour. 😂😂😂 Yeah, no 😊
The burger needs to be called the Little Mac, not Big Mac.
Truth in advertising.
😄😄😄👍
Shrinkflation has always been a method that these corporate pigs rip us off! Bags of chips or cereal with half empty container!
Shrinkflation has always been a method where these corporate pigs rip us off. Boxes of cereal or bags of chips with virtually nothing in them! Numerous other examples as well!
minuscule mac
Little Mac is the name of a Nintendo character.
Premium prices for shit food.
food?! Better research it!
@@markmirche7760 ...Agreed.
Toxic food. End it.
..100%. I know I worked at restaurants all my life and read the ingredients on the boxes & they are filled with tons of chemicals
@@stephenfiore9960 You have truly informed many of us of the toxicity and sickness contribution of Big food.
And addictive 😠
@@marciepreciado4067 ✅ Very true, excellent reminder, thank you.
Correct! Especially when you feel like shit after every time you eat it.
It's also because people don't want all the chemicals in their food.
People are done with these garbage corporate experiences. The employees hate their lives and you.
Facts
That's perfect, bc McDonalds is going to automate everything and relieve all those fast food workers of their duties.
That’s exactly how I felt last time I was in a McDonald for my son
done with corporate nonsense but not with political nonsense, we're screwed
Correct. Entitled generation, 30% food inflation over the last few years, $20 minimum wage laws in some areas. What could possibly go wrong?
Here is why I stopped going:
1. Customer service, employees are rude and the restaurant is dirty
2. Food taste like microwave food
3. It is too expensive $15-17 for a meal
4. They got rid of the soda fountain. No free refills
5. The ice cream machine is always broken
Employees in Germany are foreigners. Most of the time people who dont wash their hands.
I think a lot of it is what he described in the end. It feels like a cold institution now, kids don’t wanna go anymore into the lobby because there’s no more characters. no more fun, no more playgrounds. It’s not a welcoming experience.
SO, it's like, or as if Dollar General was an FFR.
The ice cream machine being broken is a part of the contractual agreement between McDonald's and the ice cream machine manufacturer, who are the only ones allowed to fix the machines.
Ice cream machine is always broken because McD want to fleece the franchisee for exhorbitant contractual repair service.
$4 for medium fries $15 for meal….. I rather eat at sit down restaurant.
Even the vibe is depressing, not the same happy place we knew as kids
I would love a burger and fries. But when I think of the zombie _lost-the-election_ ByeDone-high gasoline prices, that no eating out place is cheap anymore, why not just get some boring whatever-is-in-the-fridge stuff out and make do? Just starting up the car is way too expensive, like we are under "house arrest" under the mismanagement of the evil elitists and the corrupt liar Democrats. Who can really afford to go anywhere, other than to work, like we are under some sort of DUI work-release program? And I do not even drink.
Same. Just go to a family restaurant.
McDouble and McChicken cost $3.89 in my city
@@Telltalesign
Just move to a more affordable country. This country is so over-hyped and over-priced, much like many brands of cars.
This rubbish should never have been allowed into the UK.
Or kebabs houses
From 1980 to 2024, a Big Mac's price increased from $0.50 to $8, yet it lost 40% of its size.
You’re spreading misinformation. Snopes already debunked these lies.
I’m old enough to remember when Big Macs arrived on the scene…they are essentially the same now as they were then.
I can't remember me weighing and measuring Big Macs in the early 80s, but I guess you're right.
@@GregorSass-Ranitz Oh Im right. Thanks for playing
So I give their food 👎🏻👎🏻
They tasted better in 1980, and yes, they were much larger back then. They came in Styrofoam.
Many Americans barely used their kitchen at home. Nice to see the nation rediscovered cooking.
Indubitably
Strongly agree. Let culinary culture begin at home.
Back to home cooking
@@mosheridan7016 Yes please. No need for packaged instant meals.
I haven't been to McDonald's in over 10 years, the food is horrible...
McDonald's sells time, not food. You tasted it. The time isn't worth what they charge anymore.
@@northernbohemianrealist they aren't even fast, I'd rather wait the 5 minutes for decent food and a correct order. No point in being fast if they make the customers come back to correct their mistakes...
It’s not food.
I've, 'been' in McDonald's when I can't find a toilet but not eaten there.
A McShit 😂
Ahhhhh..., the downfall of McPoison!!!!! Love it. But when you're paying employees upwards of $20/Hr to flip burgers, and the food prices have gone through the roof.....Bound for fail. And the food they "serve" is not even close to nutritional. Not even for my dog in a pinch. R.i.p. McPoison.
Yall get paid 20?
I would never pay $15 for a burger, drink, and fries from McDonalds of all places. I go to my local burger shop and get a big juicy burger (with real meat) and it's $5. Plus, the service is so much better. The reason we all loved McDonalds was that you could get a whole meal for $3. Consumers will never go for these prices. This is just the beginning of their downfall.
if they continue onwards with these kinds of Prices and Customer Service there Screwed for
It's more $11...
There is also a growing number of people across the world 🌎 boycotting these companies profiteering and sending money to support the ongoing 76 year old genocide and Holocaust . Me and all my acquaintances have totally ceased and desisted ever entering these evil corrupting corporations .
I remember as kids,.hamburgers were 15 cents.
By the end of 2025 you will not recognize America .
Eating garbage was acceptable when it was dirt cheap but if you going to cough up 10-15 bucks for your meal then you better off eating a real burger with real meat, it’s pretty simple and predictable.
@@dreammaker9642 the meat of the quarter pounder and homestyle burgers is real unfrozen beef. However, the oils and sauces used are not good. The bread is bad too.
@@TheBatman777 it’s still garbage quality 😂 you can freeze a real quality steak thats fine it’ll still be good but garbage quality is garbage quality so when you pay 5 bucks for it fine but when you charge 10 bucks for a burger you can get a real burger with a real good beef for that price. Hell you can literally go to your butcher get some good meat have him grinder for you and make your burger in the grill for cheaper than that. 1/4 pounder at McDonald’s tastes like cardboard
It’s cheaper to buy some pasta and meatballs cost me like $5 and I had two portions. Oh boycott because Israel is evil.
@@dreammaker9642 less than $10 for a pound of wagyu buger meat at walmart.... that's around 4-5 wagyu burgers for less than $30 for condiments and bread... some people just like bitching about their laziness, cept they blame mcdonalds for something they can control, which is not going there or worrying about what they're charging.
@@replynotificationsdisabled exactly, same people that will try good beef for the first time and say it tastes like game meat 😂 like no fool, that’s what meat is supposed to taste like you just used to eating cardboard
When they switched the beef tallow for cheap oil, you didn't say anything.
When they greenwashed the iconic red roof, you didn't say anything.
And when they raised their prices to insane levels, there wasn't anyone left to say anything.
They’ve been making the same junk food for the last 50 years the only change is now I have to wait to pay an overtly inflated price. Mc Donald’s is no longer a fast food restaurant.
Shitty food + premium prices ....what did they expect ?
When I was a child, me, my mom and her parents would go to McDonalds on Saturday nights. The adults would read the early edition of the Sunday paper (bought from a paper boy on the corner). We'd have "dinner", and then stay there for hours until the paper was finished. No one in my family was overweight. Being a kid, I rode miles on my bicycle and played games in the woods. My mom and grandparents were active doing gardening (like real gardening such as growing vegetables), doing house repairs themselves, but none of them actively "exercised". You exercised by working and doing the things that needed to be done at home. We had no idea back then just how good we had it.
You are absolutely right, we had no idea how good it was back then, never know what ya got till it's gone
Man do you have that right.
No need pay for a gym if you just move, walk and work.
That sounds like how humans SHOULD live. It sounds like a dream. I wish everything was like that. Now, I literally need to use an APP ON MY IPHONE to even access my apartment building
I honestly know what you’re describing. That was when MCDonalds had a real playground and it was treat for the you as a kid. You felt excited to get out in town and Riding your bike was a way of life until the street lights came on. I grew up poor and just accepted it and didn’t know better.
I was charged $18 for a foot-long sandwich at Subway the other day. I was floored!
Boycott them all. Many of us working poor people have long carried a cooler to work, as eating out was even back when, too much of a "luxury" unneeded expense. And now you do not even need ice. Gel packs are more convenient. Just pop it out of the freezer, back into the freezer when you get home. Carrying a cooler can save $hundreds even $thousands a year. That is significant for those of us with low wages. Most every break room has a microwave oven.
What!
I go to wawa😂 $6 or 7
Was that a size 15?
Me too, I will not be back
Companies like McDonald keeps forgetting the core value of their company for profits. McDonald was originally a restaurant that made burgers as cheap as possible to serve as many customers as possible. Now they are selling burgers almost as expensive as a real burger joint, to increase their profits as much as possible.
Eating out has gotten ridiculous. Lunch for 2 at a restaurant is $80 these days. And then they want 20% tips everywhere.
I’m avoiding eating out as much as possible.
Same!
I've dined out maybe 4 times in the past 10 years. And that was only with the same friend I rarely see as he and his family moved WTF out.
Cook at home. Nobody needs to eat out 7 times a week
I can't speak for McDonald's, but for a lot of restaurants it's because wholesale food prices are still sky high as are their energy bills and rent etc.
Eat at home. Let greedy fast food places close and former overpaid staff stand on corners as beggars.
True story: my 16 year old son worked at two different McDonald’s this summer. After three weeks he was accused of something he never did. So we had him quit. We tried a different one and it’s run by 20-30 something hillbillies that are in a clique and basically bullied him to quit. I was shocked at how bad management is and how they see workers as totally disposable. He just wanted a summer job. The managers were always smoking outside when I picked him up and if he screwed up an order they would send him home. They had no real concern for him at all.
Then they wonder why they can’t keep employees.
McDonald's is not s great company if this is how it also treats its employees sad
Your kid learned a valuable lesson. He needs to acquire skills to get above crap level jobs.
So sorry your son went through that.
In California, it's not "hillbillies", it's illegals who got to open their business with Democrat money for them to do that. They only hire their own.
@@JoaninFloridaalso called vocational training or a trade yep. Also - don't get cancer
When i can cook up 4 ribeyes and broccoli and potatoes for 25 dollars less than 4 McDonald's meals there is no choice.
Customers are also being more health conscious as well. THERE are more healthy options as well.
McDonalds is dead to me. For decades I would go and get two cheeseburgers with fries and end up with that “yuck” feeling every time. Conditioning as a child was very powerful. I shook that and don’t miss it at all. If someone doesn’t start eating there as a child I really doubt they would start as an adult.
Soulless, nutritionally bankrupt, and expensive. What a combination. All things come to an end.
So relatable💙
Well said 💯 im with ya
Oh yes, maybe just due to getting older, but once when in middle age, driving all over England for my job in the 1980/90s would often pop into McDonald's and KFC. But last year do due to being very tired and no food in my house, took out a McDonald's, could not believe how expensive it was and when getting it home, could not believe how bad it looked and totally tasteless.
I feel like crap after eating McDonald’s. Never again
McD always gave me the McShits. I’m from the UK but have been to the US many times. The quality difference is night and day. The last one I went to in the US was San Francisco. It was way below average. The service was terrible. The meals looked anaemic. To consider how much you guys are having to cough up now is just insane to me.
Why pay 22 dollars for a pair of mcburger combos when you can make your own smashburger/fries homemade for around 7 dollars in ingredients?
Ttue..but you can't when you're not home lol
Because some people need to grab a quick lunch or while traveling and aren't making smash burgers in the car.
@@guyz7777
Carry a cooler. It will save you big money. And now people do not even use ice, as gel packs are more convenient.
It’s real simple. People are lazy and don’t want to learn how to cook for themselves. They would rather have someone else do the cooking for them.
The beef alone is 7 bucks. Fries if you don't want to peel and cut the fries are about 6 bucks. Bread is 3 dollars. Cheese is 3 dollars. That's $19 on ingredients just to make 4 burgers. Not including soda , time spent cooking and gas, electricity.
Their own corporate greed is killing them.
They are trying to automate fast food, which is deplorable as well, considering that people are paying a premium for trash.
Are you kidding me? You obviously know nothing about the slim margins restaurants operate under. It isn't corporate greed-it's inflation. They have to raise prices to stay in business because the dollar is becoming worthless because the US government printed trillions of dollars it doesn't have. Only an idiot thinks "greedy" restaurants arbitrarily raise prices to put themselves out of business.
Ray Kroc's bad karma finally hits back.
Better than them killing us
They reached complete market saturation. The only way to continue growing from there is to make life worse for their employees and raise the prices. This is the capitalist trap of megacorps. The new buzz word is "enshittification".
I think the CEO is huffing that copium by saying it's only the low-income people that stopped coming. If I made a hundred thousand dollars a year I'd still not want to pay more than ten bucks for a merely passable burger menu.
People used to eat fast food because it was cheap. Everything tripled in price. I remember getting two large 3 topping pizzas from Pizza Hut for like $20 couple years ago. Now two larges with 3 toppings is $60. Fuck that shit!!!
Pizza Hut has sucked for well over 20 years now. No idea how that place is still going.
You are NOT lying about $60 for 2 pizzas. The pizza hut in my area is actually still really freaking delicious so when we're buzzed, our dumb asses pay it, but enjoy the hell out of every bite. Lol
Our Pozza Hut closed down.
Everything has doubled in four years but people will vote for far left wing Kamala because "orange man bad." And we'll end up with four more years of this. Eventually there will only be poor and rich people left in America. Trump being elected won't stop this but it will delay it. And the green car nazi stuff from the far left.
Bidenomics
Maybe the CEO and the senior management should take a wage cut.
Hah how else are they going to buy another Lamborghini this year???
@@rcruzthomas but but but, they do so much work that us mere peasants can only dream of. They deserve every dollar of it, while we need to work harder and complain less.
How much of an impact would that be? If I remember correctly, if Disney’s CEO salary were to be taken away and give to its employees. Everyone would get .50 cent raise.
Just to put things into context if the CEO of McDonald's worked for free then McDonalds could lower the price of every Big Mac by 3 cents. Just the Big Mac sandwich, none of their other menu items. So yeah the CEO makes a lot of money but his salary is hardly even seen in the price you pay. The CEO makes a fraction of a penny per customer.
@@jonathantaylor6926 the problem is not what the CEO make, the problem is that there is no accountability at the top.
If they mess up, they will still get a severance pay and be warned in advance that they are going to part way. Meanwhile, if you are an average joe, you will get fired on the spot.
And as far as I can tell, if the company is doing poorly, ain't no CEO, CFO, or whatever taking a paycut. However if you are on the bottom tiers you either take a paycut or have your workload doubled simply because your coworker was fired so the company can save on his wages.
If the same responsibilities applied to top management as it does to the rest of the company then there would be far less people complaining and there would be way better management. However when you insulate the top management from any consequences them you end up in the situation we are currently in.
It's NOT "REAL FOOD"
Ultra Processed Trash
You said it. The Truth.
Yup
An addition to the sickness industry.
Downfall of McDonald's happening now? It happened when they decided to remove Ronald McDonald
I’m in London UK 🇬🇧, These restaurants have became a refuge for the homeless to sleep. Full of Uber delivery bikers who don’t speak English, It’s became a dump
Yep and when you go to the till to order it takes ages as uber orders are prioritised. The food is also way too expensive for what it is
@@kwameofori8947 absolutely correct,,
London? What a 💩hole.
Lol! I'm in Brisbane, Australia. Exactly the same story here, mate.
@@gregchijoff9959 Wow ,, so it’s proper global mate
I don’t know what they’ve done to their food, but it just makes me sick to eat it anymore. And yeah, that trash is way overpriced.
Yes! I don't exactly follow what ingredients, oils, etc. they use but back in the day (honestly, not TOO long ago) I used to go there and although I always knew it wasn't the "healthiest" thing to be eating, it at least tasted decent. Lately, if we stop in and that's if we legitimately feel like being lazy and grabbing something real quick to satisfy the hunger, it tastes horrible and I legitimately feel disgusting afterward. Something within the recipe has definitely changed for the worse.
McDonald’s and other fast food places going out of business would be great for our health
What always got me was that a McDonald's in another country, like Europe, sells better food than what we get in America
As an Italian, why are we eating this crap!! Good riddance McDonald's. They suck!
Boo this man!
Actually compared to the offering in the US, the McDonald's in Rome is really good.
What does being an Italian, have to do with anything..
@@jupiter6647Everyone knows Italian food is pretty good!
@@jupiter6647 you dont know about paninero culture and the fact that Starbucks, with its fake italian wannabe menu is not present in italy
I bought 1 double quarter pounder, 1 cheese burger, 10 pack nuggets, , ice cream and 1 apples pie, it cost me 38 bucks. It was the first time in years I bought McDonald's, it was the last time I waste my money there.
You just bought a bag of expensive garbage. 😮😮😮 what a waste of money.
Dont go back anymore. Encourage everyone not to go and eat healthy! 40 in groceries! Think of that! That's a fat cart full!
For the same price you can go to a decent "sit down" restaurant. It's ridiculous.
@@rods6741 Their is something going on with the meat. It goes beyond prices.. ritual purposes.
@@rods6741 There is also something going on with the meat.
The “No Loitering” will kill McDonald’s. Mom used to go with other Moms to let the kids play on the playground and visit. Old people would go in groups to have breakfast and visit. It was a cheap weekly escape for many folks. They were regular customers and they spent money. Sounds like Mc Donald’s no longer wants these customers.
Spot on! They want drive through customers only. They're doubling the drive through lanes and now have two lines of cars waiting 20 minutes for a 20 dollar meal with rude employees who expect 20 dollars /hr
Boy do i have a story on this that would blow your mind and is the reason i stopped patronizing them and I was a daily customer, who often ate there 2 times a day!
Who? Would loiter or even go in?
I knew a group of old men that would go there and drink coffee because you got free coffee and free refills and just visit for a while and every hour they'd buy another bunch of fries so all the men could eat together that would no longer happen plus I think all those guys died from cholesterol😂😂😂😂
@@thistle76 It's for the homeless.. duh.
Do you understand that you can go to Olive Garden and get their all you can eat salad, soup and breadsticks for $9.99 during the weekday? Why the hell would i pay $10.00 for a stupid Big Mac meal when i could get all the quality food i want for the same price??? McDonald deserves to go out of business. I won't buy from them anymore.
This!!
Do you tip?
Thank you! You can get much better tasting and healthier food for the same price.
@@JuancoPRoFlow Yes but even with a $2.00 tip, it's still cheaper and I'm in a clean sit down restaurant being served. Win win for both parties.
@@ShadyD365 sure does
0:54 Grey sky, grey cars, grey parking lot, grey restaurant. There is little joy in modern life! 😢
Very dystopian!😖😣
Your gray profile avatar
The building design reminds me of a church.
Looks like the 1960's USSR and communist block. Now coming to America. Thanks, Demoscum!
@@TapTwoCounterspell yes 😢
I wouldn't eat McD's food if they gave it to me free.
Last time I got a big mack I threw up, and that was LAST TIME I was at a McDonald’s. Five years ago. GARBAGE!!
I am from Croatia, and the last Time I was in McDonald's a Month ago I was so shocked! "Big" Fries, that I call "Small" Fries where 4.20€! That Insane! They shoulden't cost more then 1€!
McDs started to die when they removed the dollar menu.
For me it was when all their commercials were filled with ghetto creatures.
I would buy 30 cheese burgers, put them in the freezer. Defrost and Add lettuce, tomato, pineapple, beetroot, bacon, and sliced steak to make a monster burger. So simple and cheap. Not so much these days.
Rude service, expensive and horrible food simple boycott forever.
@@mosheridan7016
My experience: I was getting something quick to eat after having some blood work done, so I stopped at McDs for a double cheeseburger, fries and diet coke. A few hours late, I became ill, and there was no finger to point at but the burger and fries, so I filed a complaint to give them a heads-up of where, when and how. A couple of weeks later I get a call from one of their corporate reps who listened to my story and promesed me some vouchers. I never heard from them again, and no vouchers. F- 'em.
It was done when they went ghetto 25 years ago.
McDonald's gentrified itself. I worked there in 1970. We kept the little store clean. Now, the floors behind the counter are greased over and littered with fries.
Find a Caucasian lady, traitor,
@@mitchellrose3620 Gentrified definitely doesn’t mean what you think it means.
That's quite the opposite to gentrification dude lol
I went to burger king and saw a little mouse run across the floor behind the counter. The lady taking my order noticed the mouse as well. It was hilarious 🐁
McDonald's at one time charged 35 cents for a hamburger, coke and fries, they buy these food products at wholesale or below then charge 3 or 4 times the amount at retail... disgusting company.
I worked at MacDonalds way back in the 60's. I think the hamburgers were 15 cents and the cheese burgers 20 cents. When the Big Mac first came out it was like 59 cents. You could get 10 hamburgers for about 1.50.
Thats how it works when you have to pay for the labor of your staff, the building, utilities and everything else. Restaurants all mark up the price of the products in order to make a profit and sustain the business. And because of inflation everything needs to be raised that much more because their costs go up too. This aint brain surgery.
I agree - I grew up in the land of $0.15 Hamburgers - McD's ads for 2 Namburgers, Small Fries, and a Drink for Less than a $1 and Change Back !! :-)
But WAGES were about $1/Hour then -1960's
@chevypreps6417 Yeah but what were wages like?
They NEED to find a way to make their food affordable again. There’s a cutoff point to excuses from corporate for raising prices when you’re not improving quality.
CostCo has kept the hot dog and soda combo at $1.50 for decades now.
Everything in this world has gone to complete shit.
Greed, greed, greed.
@@goyam2981nah
Not yet. We still have the bubbles to pop and the really nasty recession or depression that follows. If that doesn't happen we just hyperinflate into nothingness. Screwed either way now.
And this is exactly why unrestrained capitalism is a bad thing.
@bpb5541 dude, we passed a recession. And are now in depression!
I remember in 1994 big Mack meals cost $2.99. Good bye this time .
Good bye forever.
Not defending maccy ds but that was 30 years ago.
God, I miss the 90s and 2000s.
I haven't dropped a dime there in 2 years
I stopped going when I received a recooked Filet-o-fish and old fries. Trash food. That was 2005.
@@user-nt1kf6ic9e their fillet o fish is so bad. The fries are OK but not great. Who the hell is still going there? It seems like it's a bunch of really old people from what I have seen in my area. The drive thru is empty now during lunch hour when it used to be a huge line.
@@user-nt1kf6ic9e😆😅🤣😂... that's pretty damn bad.
@@user-nt1kf6ic9e"recooked Fillet-o-fish"... I laughed out loud when I read that... that's bad.
@@user-nt1kf6ic9e Phuck Ronaldz
I stopped going to bars, stopped using drugs, stopped eating outside… started saving money and playing video games at home instead.
Dude, McDonalds did this to THEMSELVES. They represent the four horsemen of the fastfoodpocalypse: Expensive, Slow, Rude, and Gross.
LMAO I’ve never heard this before🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great analogy my Man.. I will have to borrow that term from you
@@ousamaabdu794 Heh, do your worst!
Epic comment!!!!
Just how dirty? A McDonald's in St. Laurent area of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, had the exact same fecal smears on their walls for so many MONTHS. I used to work as a janitor elsewhere, and I could tell the wall behind the toilet had never been washed. Yes, I brought it up to the staff, repeatedly. No, they never did anything. Run for your life.
went to a KFC the other day, and I go very seldom to a place like that, saw their prices and walked right out.
They are completely nuts
KFC is the worst offender in terms of pricing. It’s been like 10 years since I’ve patronized a KFC
I did that with a Taco Bell drive through. Haven't been back.
Smell the KFC mashed potato the next following day that shit smells like pure shit and if I make mashed potato and gravy and leave it overnight on my stove that shit does not smell like that. Eat my food. The following day KFC is fucking awful.
I did same thing about a week ago
I did the exact same thing last week at Zaxby's.
At the end, your mentioning of the lack of people is spot on. I hate the sterilization of McDonald's. It's so robotic and terribly laid out now. I never like going in them anymore.
Yeah it was happier in th3 90s and 80s . Now it looks like a Grey corporate prison
I say , dont eat any fast food no matter the price it is nothing but garbage!!!!
KFC has gone so expensive here in the UK now, we can't afford it
KFC is through the roof
YES, KFC prices are crazy. I even noticed that in some areas you can no longer get two sides, just one. But notice how the prices went up for less.
Same in Australia
Same in then US. They're definitely dying out.
I think investors should always put their cash to work, especially In 2024, we'll start to see more market diversification. I'm hoping to invest about $350k of my savings in stocks this year. Hope to make millions in 2024.
There are a lot of strategies to make tongue-wetting profit especially in this down market, but such sophisticated trades can only be carried out by proper market experts
@@MaryLawson874 I think having an investment advisor is the way to go. I've been with one because I lack the expertise for the market. I made over $490K during the recent dip, highlighting that there's more to the market than we average folks know.
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STOP GOING TO THESE FAST FOOD CHAINS..FOR A MONTH....SEE WHAT HAPPENS
I actually stopped 11 years ago. Never felt better. 😊
The movie Super Size Me was also very eye-opening.
Right, for one you'll lose weight you get healthier and you'll have money in your pocket for things you really need good call.
I can't stand the kiosk system, it tries to upsell every order.
I remember in 1959, our family of six got two bags full of burgers and fries for $5 dollars. Also remember Dad getting mad at Mom for spending $25 as we were walking out of the grocery store with four full bags of groceries. Same bags of groceries now would cost around $200/250.
50 half dollars contains 18 troy ounces of silver. Today the spot price for 18 troy ounces is $522.54.
So true. So true. Sad.
More like $200.00 EACH!
The McDonald's by me is across the street from In-N-Out. The quality is far lower and the prices are far higher. It's ridiculous.
In-N-Out is amazing, I don't know how they offer the prices they do for the quality you get.
Oh wow the in and out where I live has a McDonald's right across the street,That In n out has so many customers and McDonald's not so much
We have an In-N-Out and a McDonald's literally across the street from each other. McD's is nearly empty while long lines around the block at In-N-Out.
@@nitroneonicmanIn-N-Out is a family run and family controlled business. That's how they offer the quality. Along with that quality, they serve a high number of customers and volume of food daily.
They aren't a corporation, like McDonald's.
@@dvader3263 saying In-n-out is family owned is like saying Wal-Mart is family owned. While technically true, it's a misrepresentation. In-n-out is absolutely a corporation, just go to their website and click the link that says "corporate".
A meal at Mcgarbage isn't worth 10 cents, is it even real food, tastes like ground up sawdust and salt.
I tasted cardboard in my fries. Hamburger was bland.
Your too generous in your choice of words….
If Americans are getting weaned off of fast food that's a good thing
Junk food. Greedy and uncaring corporate people. Ridiculous prices. Decrease of customer sales. Success. 😂
The fact that McDonald's in Australia won't take cash has stopped me from ever going into there stores again.
Trains and buses don't take cash either. Get used to prepay.
In Serbia every store takes cash! 👌👍 If they didn't, they would close soon...😂😂 We don't change our way of life for any corporation! They are the ones who have to adapt to people! 👍
@@imho2278 never wont go to these places then...fook em
Their
I worked in fast food over 50 years ago and things were very different !!! The manager made sure all the sandwiches were made correct and not just thrown together and stuffed in a wrapper. And the QUALITY of the meat was very different and didn't taste like cardboard like it does today. It's a joke when you go into a McDonalds or a Burger King for that matter the employees are not really interested in serving a good product and all you can hear is laughing and cutting up from the front line to the kitchen area. I guess that's what you get for 14-20 dollars an hour ??? And yes the prices are insane, I stopped eating any of that garbage years ago.
That was back before the country and business became heavily die verse iffied. The good old days before the negative changes.
The whole of America is so expensive now. We used to come twice a year. Once to Florida and once to California. In CA hotels are nearly $500 a night. That's just way too expensive. Food, car rental, hotels are off the charts. So until it changes back, we'll be staying away.
That’s why so many of us travel overseas when we go on holiday/vacation.
Glad I live in BFE. Almost like a campground or state park. No need to travel to get away from it all. LoL
Inflation is out of control in the US. It just doesn't want to admit it.
@@MelissasArt corporate greed. Eat local, screw the chains.
@scherzva I live in Portugal now. Here there are so many family run restaurants. So I do just that. 🙂
I'm in CA, and the average fast food 1 meal is over $15, and the quality of food is poor.
Bernie Sanders pay attention, we've been saying this for years you big dummy... when you have to pay unskilled workers 20+ dollars an hour, what do you expect the response to be in order for businesses to stay open? Instead of taking art and cultural anthropology courses in college, how about an Econ 101 class. You have to pay people according to the supply of labor and what that labor is actually worth.
It's poison anyways. Why do you think we have a high rate of cancer? Eat organic food and shop at the local farmers' market.
Damn
CA is the most overpriced state in the country. What is the average gas price now?
@@Rick-29 It's the greedy politicians making the killing off gasoline. They tax it to death making 5X the profit as the producers.
Here in Canada, two subway 12" subs with two cans of bubbly are over $40 cad. Restaurants are getting way too expensive.
in us 2 foot long subsways are 30 dollers
The new initiative with the five dollar meal from McDonald’s is basically a rip off of the Wendy’s four dollar and five dollar and six dollar meals.
The sign telling customers to limit their time in the store to 30 minutes is a bad idea. They should want customers to stay longer in hopes that customers will buy more, maybe a dessert or another item to take home.
It's for the "guests" the current regime ushered in.
It's to move on the bums.
It's not like having an empty place is going to attract more customers.
@@BrianBrazilHarmonica True, but a restaurant that has even one bum camping in it can ruin it for everybody else. The time limit is for the homeless.
They're hangin out in the store dazed on the not so smart phone.
Doing nothing, taking up seats for those paying also
Last time I went to McDonald's I waa disappointed. It was not my hap hap happy place. It was depressing. The manager was rude. The service was poor and slow. The quality was low. The restaurant was dirty. And it was dark and gray. Broke my heart.
So true ! 👍
Christina 💕 Australia
It's now 1 year for me and I feel much healthier.
Why go to McDonald's when you can go to a Culver's and get something that resembles meat. The food served at McDonald's is disgusting.
Oh yea culvers is king ! My favorite burger
Mcnuggets is all anyone orders.
That's an insult to the word "disgusting"... they are worse.
No wonder they support cancer when they're creating it with their Dead Food
What's Culver's...
Customer service is terrible at these places. Rude is putting it nicely
I won’t go back to fast food due to their extreme greed during a hardship time of our country. They can go out of business for all I care. Those prices they charged and their complaints of paying people a living wage was disgusting. Especially if you look at the huge profits they were making and using those profits to buy back their own stock. There’s consequences even for big corporations. I hope the future brings better companies that care about their customers and communities they do business in. Goodbye McDonald’s and good riddance.
Honestly, you should stop eating fast food b/c it isn't real food. Especially McDonald's. Expecting for-profit corporations to not be greedy is a bit foolish, don't ya think 🤔 😬
@@sbostic08 Whatever, Mr/Ms high and mighty. 👋
Great comment.Profits are huge,same with Grocery chains.Both greedy and run by psychopaths .
FAST FOOD IS GARBAGE. DONT EAT IT, EVEN IF ITS FREE.
PepsiCo too. Raising prices by double digits 6-7 quarters in a row. Too greedy.
You can’t expect people to pay $10 for a burger that shouldn’t cost more than $4.
Is it REALLY a burger
Many businesses are losing touch by removing service from their offering and the younger generation who don't remember what it was like to have service are accepting it. Fast food used to be an occasion meal, something special. It's no longer special.
That “service” in California costs a minimum of $15 per hour. Fast food restaurants aren’t profitable at the “affordable” price level.
Excellent, yes
Agreed! Especially the point that fast food used to be an occasion. I am out on McDonald’s as are many other’s. You get nothing for the ridiculous price they charge. A Big Mac meal is about 13 bucks. Big Macs are basically all bun and some lettuce and sauce now.
@@beltex63 that's actually not true. McDonald's has been having record profit years the last couple years they can easily pay people more they just rather be greedy and give the money to the top.
I used to work at McDonalds in the early 1970s. Was ass't mgr. of a new store. It was a fun time. The food was good and the lobby was packed every night by the younger crowd.
I haven't like MD for a long time now. I think their hamburger patties are pre-cooked and steamed hot. They taste horrible. My dog won't even eat them.
I went there the other day because of a $5 filet meal promotion I saw. I got there I was lost. There's no menu at the counter. there's no cash registers and nobody working the counter taking orders.
I finally got someone to talk to me and was told I had to order at the kiosk over there across the room but the $5 filet meal deal was only available by installing and ordering through the MD app on my phone.
This is probably the last time I will ever go into a MD.
It’s all a big scam!
Just stop eating from these crap factories.
Who eats at McDonalds. It look like a prison and they serve food worse than prison food. McDonalds Corp is a real estate play
So, you've never been to prison, then?
You got that right. Shout it from the rooftops. McDonald's is not a restaurant business, it is a REAL ESTATE COMPANY that preys on franchise holders forcing them to renovate etc. The food is NOT the real business
It’s not only in America. Recently I was in Europe and I was shocked to see the fast food prices. Let’s be honest, it’s not even real nutritious food. I am not even sure it’s actually food. Might be filling up your stomach but it’s not food. Younger generations like my 29 year old do not ever want to eat in fast foods. Not only it’s expensive but it’s not healthy. And their generation is very health and planet conscious. Now, looking at developing countries where I spent most my life, when 30 years ago even in a very small paycheck, people could go once a week to a McDo for a what they called a treat. It was the low income outing. Now, in same countries , the McDo are empty. It’s 8$ in a country where the minimum wage is 300$ a month!!! Lastly, McDo had the terrible idea to put self ordering screens. And everyone that has ever used it knows it’s a f*cking trap! You are always going to spend more than what you initially planned to buy and then , you wait once to order and wait again for your order. It’s not fast food anymore. It’s slow and it’s expensive. - bottom line , all restaurants serving sh*t deserve to die! American deserves real nutritious food ! Actual food! Not crap! And everyone else on the planet too.
I don't think it has anything to do with inflation. It's corporate greed. Their prices are just too high.
Mac Donalds sold food for mainly poor people. Now it is too expensive for this clientele.
The prices have literally doubled since 2020.
The prices for everything skyrocketed while the quality of the product actively got worse and worse.
There’s no reason to eat fast food in 2024.
They got too greedy & raised the price for smaller portions & crappier food quality. McDonald's is a scam. For those prices go eat at an actual restaurant or better yet make food at home
People are still eating out and getting "fast" food, they're just not buying McDonalds.
I agree. Why would I go to McDonalds I if I can go to In and Out ... its way better and way cheaper... but not cheap.
I make my own fast food. Takes actually less time and doesn't seem as fast.
Perception versus Reality.
@@johnharrison2511
Get out the grill and invite the neighbors. Get to know the neighbors.
@@yosefmacgruber1920Good idea but I've had same neighbours for decades and know to keep my distance.
Although there are some not so close that are ok.
In general I am far too busy for much socialising, but I do like your idea.
@@johnharrison2511
I had a neighbor but only a couple blocks away, who sent out flyers inviting everybody to watch an outdoor movie. Everything provided other than to bring our own chairs. He must have done some work to deliver flyers to a several-blocks area. So I brought my chair and watched _National Treasure 2_ I think it was. I was one of only about a half dozen people who showed up. Free movie, free food, get to meet my neighbors. Any reason there that I should not bother to come? Last I heard, they were missionaries and moved to Africa. Maybe I should have asked them if I could join them in their move, getting out of this has-been corrupt country. I was rather disappointed with the very low turnout. As if Americans are overworked, over-stressed, or perhaps anti-sociable?
Surely the grass has got to be greener, in some other country. This has-been country is showing so many signs of being has-been. Even _Nomad Capitalist_ says so. In a YT video of much the same Title, he says that Western Countries are Old and Dying.
BTW, I am not into grilling, and I wouldn't know much or have much experience in hosting a party. I would rather attend somebody else's.
SHUT IT DOWN AND GIVE THE MONEY BACK TO THE SHAREHOLDERS!!!
$3.00 for a hash brown at McDonald’s in Cali. Food is nasty. Customer service is poor. You order in the drive thru and now you have to park your car before you get your food. Weird.
And it tastes like a hot shyt
YES!! I HATE the b park your car, and someone will bring it out to you model. Once in a while, it's OK, but now it's every time.
This isn’t inflation, it’s corporate greed. They have every right to make a profit but when they are pulling record profit and continue to raise the prices until people don’t want to eat there, it’s greed and ultimately stupid.
Bullshit. It's inflation, period. You leftists (you're a leftist, I can tell) always think that prices just coincidentally go up when a Democrat is president.
There is something going on besides corporate greed, research the world economic forum and when that has been absorbed then be welcomed to the new world order, one planet religion and the coming mark of the beast.
It's both! The Dollar is approaching hyperinflationary status and, once it does, it won't matter what anybody "makes." The cities will be a living hell with nowhere to go! Helter-skelter is coming down!
Oh yes
Right, Kamala, you dummy
Haven’t been to a McDonald’s since prices started getting crazy. Me and my family have also reduced eating out to maybe twice a month if at all. We just can’t afford it anymore!