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During Seattle's busiest tourism season, coffee giant Starbucks abruptly closed the doors to its 1st and Pike location. Just blocks away from the Pike Place Market, this Starbucks location is jam-packed. Starbucks would not confirm why they closed the store but said it was temporary despite any plans to re-open the storefront. Starbucks spokesperson Sam Jefferies would not confirm if the closure was due to safety concerns. Thursday afternoon, the Starbucks signs had been removed, and the windows were covered. The 1st and Pike closure comes just weeks after Starbucks announced they would permanently close its Alki location.
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I don’t know why everyone doesn’t notice. Their coffee is no good, so they roast the beans to the point of burning to deceive unknowledgeable people into thinking it’s flavorful. With they are really selling is all those drinks that are full of fat and sugar. They have big cartons of drink mix that’s manufactured off-site, and they fill pitchers from it.
I had an 'overpriced' & burnt Starbucks coffee, only once in my life & wouldn't make that mistake, again! p.s They just opened a new Starbucks, formerly a Friendly's, a few blocks away & wouldn't consider going to it!
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No sympathy for Starbucks at all. In the UK they paid absolutely no business tax between 2009 and 2013, despite making about £95m profit a year, cooked the books to make it appear they were making no money. I boycotted them in 2013 when the news broke and haven’t given them a penny since. Will never buy a Starbucks for the rest of my natural born life.
From day 1 SB opened door 'till now I bought "one" cup of coffee. My tight budget spent on son's college. I didn't like their price from the beginning.
@@vulc1 If you think this is just the Tories, you're delusional. To remind you, the Tories when in power this time stopped all the self employed tax diddles that Blair and Brown had turned a blind eye to. In short, many of you have very short memories or are kids - I saw Labour in power in 1997 through to 2008, they enabled big business to dictate to them also.
I bought a ice coffee maker and single pod coffee maker. Because my wife likes a coffee in the morning. Now it costs like 50 cents for her morning coffee.
I don't eat out at all anymore, and not just because prices are ridiculous. It's because of tipping culture that tells me I have to tip everybody. Forget that.
Exactly. So sick of that Square payment terminal asking me to tip while the cashier stares at me like a hungry dog and I'm the steak. I buy my own food and cook at home
Agree. Getting past the guilt of not tipping a cashier who just hands you your food takes some real effort. It’s the tough social pressure that’s hard to get past.
Stopped eating fast-food and drinking soda in 1988. My wife and I recently cut back on luxuries like eating out or getting coffee even though we can afford it. Don't live outside your means and eat healthy.
Fast food has to do with the division of labor. There's nothing wrong with paying someone else to cook your food, especially if they can do it faster and cheaper than you. You could be going to pita taco or burrito places, those are real food without poisonous chemicals also. Or any local sandwich shop actually, they used to sell them for $2.50 here...
We ate at a McDonalds the other day, for the first time in 12 years. I ordered a Big Mac combo meal. When the meal arrived I looked at the tiny little box and thought they must have accidently given me a kiddie meal. NOPE, it was the expensive full size Big Mac that had been seriously downsized. I left hungry and vowed to never eat at McDonalds again...!!! 😢
Honestly accurate I love chick til a chicken But for the price of $15-$20 for one meal I can buy a pack of chicken breast at Walmart for like $10-$12 and have a bunch of meals
@@BREEZYM6015 One way is to make stuff in batches & freeze portions in foil , then inside a freezer bag so the foil won't scratch & also put a label in the bag to ID the food.
The best thing was already in America. It’s called choice. This is just the best thing for obese and unhealthy people who say it’s everyone else fault but their own. Calling fast food a luxury is funny to me.
Took my 16-year-old to McDonald’s the other day. It was $17. $17 for a sandwich, a large fry, and a medium drink. I told him no more. I’d rather take him out to a restaurant, sit down with a real server serving you and he could get a meal for less than $15 and we could both enjoy it. Going out to a restaurant is an experience, I can’t just see handing over almost $20 for one stupid meal to McDonald’s anymore. It’s not that I can’t afford it. I just choose to put my money elsewhere but I think about those families with young kids, and several of them and mom and dad struggling to get by. How the heck are they supposed to afford it ? When my kids were little, I remember the dollar menu and if we were in a rush, I would take them and get a four piece nugget for a dollar and a small fry for a dollar. I feel bad for families nowadays that can’t afford it. 😪 honestly, the demise of McDonald’s would not be a terrible thing. We all know it’s highly processed, high sodium, deep fried food that is terrible for your health.
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Next time take him to Texas Roadhouse amazingly good and great service.
I am old enough to remember when McDonald's hamburger was 15 cents and fries were 10 cents!! Those were the days before credit and debit cards. Everything was cash or check. 1950s
Husband and I had KFC last weekend. $75. No joke. 8 piece bucket, fries, 4 apple tart bites, and 3 sides. We never spend on stuff like that so we treated ourselves. We did have it delivered for about $6. We’re not rich by any stretch. Won’t happen again in the near future. This past week my husband was laid off after 26 years in the tech industry. You can’t make this stuff up.
Boy you guys are rich. Too bad I wasn't with you cause I would have suggested let's see what's further down the street that could possible be alot cheaper.😊
@@AngstG hell yeah! I can get an 8 piece fried chicken, 4 count deli biscuits, hot potato wedges, potato salad, liter soda and pack of cookies for around $20-25 dollars (Kroger Houston TX)
But everyone wants to believe they must raise prices to pay a decent wage. These corporations pay welfare wages and expect the taxpayer to pick up the difference.
Fast food, prices skyrocketed and portions & services tanked. Fck that, we stopped eating out. They blame inflation, yet all these corporations are having record profits! Pure greed!
I recall as a kid in the 1970’s my parents saying that “eating out was for rich people.” They cooked every day. My sisters and I were taught to cook for ourselves around age 7 or so. Not kidding here, I never went to a sit down restaurant until after I graduated high school in late 80’s. I also never had a “real” haircut until after high school when I was on my own. My sister cut my hair when I was growing up for free. We never went to any restaurants when I was a kid. My parents were not broke, but both grew up dirt poor. All they did was save money. They never bought a new car in their entire lives. My Dad built the house we grew up in, so they never had a mortgage. It’s crazy seeing how average people blow money on such senseless things as fast food and expensive coffee.
Exactly- a local deli around the corner from McDs here does huge custom salads made to order for about that, or for the same price insanely good quality and volume sandwiches with about 20 menu choices and 5 bread types as well as customized changes easily. And they are fast, friendly, and accurate. Why would anyone go to FF when for the same prices a much better option is probably within a few blocks or so and likely locally owned too?
Honestly, when I was a kid in the 70s going to any fast food restaurant was a luxury for my family and rarely happened. Also, rarely seen were morbidly obese people compared to today. Mom, gave us Kool-aid full of sugar but kicked us out of the house to play until the street lights came on. Today we feed our kids high fructose corn syrup and they stay inside and only exercise their thumbs.
That’s how it was back then moms didn’t work at stayed home and cooked and cleaned… once women had to go to work also so parents could live comfortably is when fast food took off and obesity as well…
@christopherpalmer4243 I graduated high school in 1970 in Lapeer, Michigan. Those WERE good years but I remember the riots in the Detroit area in the late 60's. We were about 60 miles our of Detroit in a rural area but I was still afraid.
Then, we paid for those good years as young adults. 13.5% interest rates, huge inflation. Jobs were impossible to find. Gas prices and shortages had us lining up around the block to get gas. Then came Jimmy Carter, yikes. By contrast, this isn't horrible yet, but it sure might get there soon.
@@coolbreezelb5023 Stop eating processes food for a couple of months then try some again your body will get it out of your body real quick if you get my meaning lol
Finally four years ago I gave up Starbucks. They kept jacking up the price, but around the pandemic they really got ridiculous. Trust me you will save money, hope more people stop spending their money with these crooks.
Just went to Culver's and bought 2 butter burgers and had to split a medium order of French fries (no drinks) with my 7 year old granddaughter (who just finished gymnastics lessons) ...and it cost me over 12 bucks...and I am still hungry right after eating my burger and that measly serving of French fries. I'm done with fast food, so now it's time to start making Grammy's knockoff butter burgers at home. 😅
McDonald's about two weeks ago, two sausage egg biscuits NO CHEESE, OVER 14 dollars, WON'T happen again.... DOUBLE the PRICE used to be.... Bye McDonald's
Yesterday I got diner at a local pub. I got 2 meals which were both huge in portions. They were a buffalo chicken cheese steak with onion rings and a steak bugger patty with fries. The whole meal was 24 dollars. Why would I eat at McDonalds?
It's not the just the prices, but service sucks as well. I'm traditional at prefer making my order at the counter. Now when you walk in, they expect you to use the kiosk or they will ignore you. The last time I waited five minutes just for a coffee. That's was my last visit to McDonald's
My friend, who NEVER used to worry about money, stopped ordering 3 times a day from Starbucks. She would get a specialty iced coffee 2-3 times a day, plus get fast food 90% of her and her families meals per day. She stopped buying from any of them.
Your friend wasn't tracking her expenses while the prices were rising over the past 5 years. I know alot of people like that. All of the sudden, they found themselves in quite a bit of credit card debt, with high interest rates and it was just off of day to day expenses, not furniture, cars or anything big.
Im confused isn’t this how we reduce inflation? These companies got greedy and raised prices. Now people are refusing to pay those prices for fast food and they need to drop them.
A lot of people blame these companies either way. If its cheap, people eat it everyday instead of cooking, then blame the company for their obesity. Fast food was never meant to be a full time diet.
I'm eating the healthiest I've ever eaten. 9 dollar bags of chips, 20 dollar McDonald's burger meals have made it easy for me to cook all my own food and eat nuts and trail mix for snacks. When prices get ridiculous I quit buying so keep it up junk food and trash companies, pretty soon you wont exist at all!
Ohhh, so fast food (which I worked for) got soo greedy they are pricing themselves out of business. They blamed workers but when I started there were three shifts of 8 people each, excluding managers. That went down to two shift of 6 people with managers. When I left they had two morning people, one being a manager, and four and a manager for afternoon and evenings closing early at 10. Every year our boss got a wage hike, Managers got a small raise and workers got Nada. When things got rough they even let go of older workers at a higher rate and hired younger people. I had a rate cut in 2008 and never got that back. When healthcare was imposed they cut hours and no worker could work over the 28-30 hrs. Yet every year the prices went up and my boss got BONUSES!! Corporate GREED!
It doesn't matter what you think about McDonald's or Starbucks. Who thought two years ago that McDonald's would be UNAFFORDABLE or that people would stop going to Starbucks for a cup a week with a sit-down and their computer?
@@Victorseafog So, two years ago, you knew McDonald's would be too expensive to eat at in June 2024? Where is your RUclips channel? You are obviously clairvoyant.
@@Victorseafog Reports of McDonald's meals costing over $16 began circulating prominently in December 2022, when a TikTok video by Topher Olive showcased a $16.10 receipt for a Smoky Double Quarter Pounder meal, sparking discussions about fast food prices. This video went viral again in late 2023 amid ongoing inflation concerns, highlighting perceptions of rising costs at fast-food chains, even though the average Big Mac was reported at $5.58 during that summer.
Pizza Hut 1 large cheese pizza, 10 breadsticks, 2 liter pepsi and a $5 tip for delivery is $49.63. 🤦♂ Just a matter of time before they have to bring back the 2 Medium 2 toping pizzas for $10.99 boycott everything overpriced is the only way to stop this
McDonald's is the largest buyer or one of the largest buyers of beef, chicken, pork, potatoes, tomatoes and lettuce. They're buying these ingredients for pennies on the dollar to what we buy it for. There is no reason for regular cheeseburgers should cost almost $2.50 and hash browns to cost almost $3 other than just greed.
It's like the $20 minimum wage, the cost of labor is still less than a dollar per meal. The real reason for the price hike is that they want to make the same money with less customers
I've adopted my parent's idea of fast food. When we were out in the car, they'd buy fresh bread and butcher cold cuts and we had the best sandwiches you could imagine and they were so good I can still remember them all these years later. It's cheaper, it's better and you can put on as much meat as you want in your sandwich because you don't have to fret over corporate profit margins.
According to federal securities filings, McDonald's CEO and chairman Chris Kempczinski's total compensation in 2023 was $1.4 million in salary, plus over $4 million in bonuses, about $13 million in stock and option awards, and around $700,000 in other compensation. This other compensation includes life insurance, retirement plan contributions, and use of the corporate jet. Kempczinski's total compensation in 2023 was an 8% increase from 2022, but slightly less than his 2021 compensation of around $20 million. In 2022, Kempczinski's compensation was equivalent to a typical McDonald's worker working for more than 1,200 years, or 344 times the average pay of a typical worker at one of the largest 350 publicly-owned firms in the U.S.. And...the stock market is at an all time high because of record earnings...hmmm...poor McDonald's and Starbucks. This is what it will take to stop the price gouging.
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US is becoming third world country slowly. Fast food is luxury. New Cars becoming luxury. Management in the company becoming toxic. Small business owner thinks that they own their employees. Buying a house in a decent neighborhood becoming Luxury. I feel it because I have spent 28 years of life in 3rd world country, and rest in the US at 41.
Even the 1950s era communist countries built housing and roads and buildings for the public. Good ....this resembles a third world military dictatorship where nothing good Comes out of the system
Coffee shops have some of the best margins. You are literally paying for some beans, water, and a bit of milk (textured with a steam frother). $10 coffee is absurd. You can get a decent quality 250g bag of single origin & fresh roasted beans for that and just DIY at home.
Crock pot meal prep for work: 1 package 15 bean soup, 2 onions, garlic, stewed tomatoes, 8 cups water w/ beef bullion cubes and 2 lbs pork sausage, beef or turkey. That's enough for lunches for a whole week plus leftovers. It's also less money than what you'd pay for 1 fast food meal. 😉
@TheJillybean13 One bullion cube has less sodium than a single Big Mac. The suggested recipe with onions, tomatoes and 2 pounds of meat... is at least a 75% reduction in sodium compared to fast food.
@@bfree6197 Well, that makes sense. I don't eat McDonald's (since 2009 when I was in ND and desperately hungry and that's all there was). You DID say (I mean this in a cute way, not argumentative) bouillion CUBES plural but among two pounds of meat, yeah, I can see how it's not the worst thing you can eat. I have had stuff with bouillion cubes and all I could taste was the salt; same with soy sauce, but I haven't had YOUR recipe (again, smiley).
I was recently on the road for a few days. We stopped at fast food places a number of times for lunch. Everything cost more, and the stores were not busy. Crap food at high prices. Who needs it?
On the interminable drive to and back from Sacramento in nasty heat and traffic I took the exit with the farm produce tamales signs on impulse a few weeks back- And discovered not only the produce expected but 3 kinds of individual wrapped real tamales AND 2 sizes of a local homemade ice cream in half a dozen flavors! Best part was the prices were equal to going to the grocery store and getting mass produced versions. I stopped in next required trip and got a dozen tamales, a large container of local fresh salsa verde, and an ice cream for the road- for only about the cost of TWO FF meals these days.
Starbucks baristas are busy making coffee desserts; it’s hardly coffee in the traditional sense. Maybe once a year I resort to buying a cup of plain black coffee and yes, it’s a 5-10 minute wait.
@@mph5896There’s way too much sugar in our foods in the U.S.A.. Although I don’t travel there, I am aware that Mexico bans the use of corn syrup and lists right in the front of any food packaging if the food is considered a high fat, high sugar item and listed the grams in each respective category. Why it’s not mandatory here, I don’t know…I guess to keep the pharmaceutical industry in business..
Whenever we went to McDonalds, we were allowed a small burger and a small French fry with a cup of water. We were not allowed to order a Big Mac or a cheeseburger or a soft drink. Money was tight in those days. My mother worked weekends to pay for school clothes and Christmas presents.
Sounds like vintage classic McDonald's in the 1960's into very early 1970's. I know as I paid 20¢ for McDonald's hamburgers in the groovy hippie 1960's. And it was all 100% real meat, buns, pickles, ketchup in the mix. Real unadulterated fast food back then, imagine that. It's all junk and trash now. Garbage. Fake phoney artificial puke!!!!🍔🧟🤢🤮🤒
@@truelies3690 Dollars were linked to gold prior to 1971. That's why your dollars bought so much then. After the US abandoned the gold standard post 1971, the dollar started its relative decline in value.
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Realized real time inflation I stopped going to McDonald’s when they stopped the $1 breakfast sandwich moved To Dunkin I use to get a medium coffee and croissant for $7 they’ve up their prices now to $12 in less than month . Dropped both like a hot rock .
Right. Immigrant adults work at fast food places, and now they have demanded adult career pay and benefits for it. These jobs were never intended for adults supporting a household. People are obviously unwilling and unable to pay the outrageous prices needed to support that.
Seems like the great shakedown begins. Most fast food places will go out of business. Frankly as more and more people make less money and unemployment sky rockets only stores that sell food and other serious necessities will survive. Businesses catering to the rich will survive also.
That’s wishing for a lot of people to lose jobs. Fast food has a place. The problem is people became too reliant on it and are now obese and sick, people can’t cook a simple meal for themselves.
The food quality is so deteriorated now that it has been nauseating me lately. Overcooked, old, greasy, etc. Not sure how much longer fast food will be "safe".
True, no one needs to drink coffee, but if they LIKE to drink coffee, they can make it at HOME without Starbucks' help. You can put all the nifty flavors in yourself. The coffee aisle in the grocery store also has flavored syrups, a variety of sweeteners and creamers.
Cook those fries in tallow. You'll have an authentic 1950s McDonalds french fry: potaotes, salt fried in tallow. Which is from cows, which is healthy and shockingly delicious!
Don't feel bad, Starbucks gave up on quality for profits. The food is lowest quality and the drinks are mostly overpriced sugar drinks. Mcdonalds been in this for years
Agreed. Starbucks 20-25 years ago was the best. Everything was aromatic and full of flavor. Then they started diluting the coffee and using flavored syrups and it was meh.
@goyam2981 throughout nyc, starbucks completely removed all the seating. So they wonder why they doing less sales when all they have is overpriced drinks, long wait times and no seating or restroom. Ill go with a local coffee shop
@@WhyteHorse2023 They still make good bagged coffee particularly the dark roast like Sumatra, Italian, etc. though. It's just what they serve in their stores.
They were relying on these people paying the higher prices ,but they are tapped out and slowly falling away;I know a few of them personally and yes now they can't even afford the $5 meal deals.
Newsflash!......if McDs would be losing money on the 5.00 meal they wouldn't be offering it....just imagine how much they would be making on the 12.00 big mac meal!
You can't package and sell subpar quality, it's cheaper to buy a 10 lb tube of 93% lean ground round for around $40 the quality is so much better indeed.
@@CMBBmc-jd6urikr just get a pack of 16 oz canning jars and overnight oats can be made for the week for about 50 cents a serving (depending on your mix-ins)
Sausage egg McMuffin with cheese is $4 at McD's nowadays. I can make the exact same thing at home for $1.50 so yeah...why does anyone bother with McD's? Just wasting a ton of money.
Had a breakfast meal deal at McD's the other morning. Had not eaten there in 6 months. Dining in area was empty and only a few cars in the drive-thru at 7 am. Was shocked at how little food I got for the money paid. Portions have shrunk considerably along with steep price increases. Won't do that again. Moral of the story: eat at home, dine out only when you're traveling or you when you have no other choice. The only Starbucks in our town closed down 2 months ago.
Exactly. It takes me literally less than 5 minutes to fry 2 eggs and ham and make some toast. Add 2 minutes if I make a cup of coffee. Save time, gas and money eating at home.
Pack a cooler for the road. In a pinch, go to a convenience store and get string cheese, hard boiled, egg, baby carrots, crackers or chips, and a drink instead of fast food.
@@miriamseidel8463 Starbucks closing doesn’t necessarily mean things are bad. They over-expanded. They opened too many stores, too close to existing stores. Subway and McDonald’s are notorious for doing the same thing. They open new franchises too close between existing stores, and they pressure the owners of those stores to buy and operate the new location. The owners don’t. want to. It. will not increase profits, but they are under duress because the new location will take business away from their existing location. It is absolutely sickening.
I go to McDonald's for breakfast 2-3 times per year mainly to see how the economy is doing. I went two weeks ago, saw the prices and walked out. There was one customer and one homeless person in the store.
Just had dinner with my wife. Smothered beef burrito total cost of around 10 buck with top notch ingredients. And we have enough leftovers for one more night. 😊
We have had fast food a total of 6 times in the past 7 years. Before that we had it all the time. Once you break loose from it, it really kind of makes you feel ill just thinking about it.
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I shop at Aldi because we’re poor, I’m seeing people that drive Mercedes, Lexus and BMW shopping there now. Even the rich are feeling the squeeze. These rich people stick out like a sore thumb. Welcome to poverty, enjoy!
You would be surprised with how many of those people driving those cars have no cash flow. They may make more money but all goes out to payments bc of their debt.
Absolutely. I second this. You nailed. Look rich, but totally broke. I saw a short documentary about food banks in California and it was insane to see people in line for food pickup in luxury cars. If they sold their cars and bought a beater, they’d be able to feed their families. I read that Americans are paying on average over $600/month in car payments. That’s insane.
@@UnCoolDadAgreed. While visiting Miami recently, we went grocery shopping at two different Aldi stores. Very nice, and with unbeatable prices. Regards from 🇳🇴
I was on a road trip with my family recently and decided to stop for McDonald's. We used to go as kids so it has a bit of nostalgia but rarely go now. We got those $5 meals and they were terrible. It was disappointing. Won't be back for a long time.
Jimmy Johns 21.50 for Lg coke, 2/#16 sandwiches, bag of BBQ chips, waited twenty minutes, got my food, drove 5 miles from there to a park across the bridge, only to find I got the wrong order,.. they acted like they didn't make a mistake even after I showed them my receipt, then I still got screwed cause they took the tuna fish off of the same bread and added the correct ingredients, but it still tasted like tuna, and they changed me for a chocolate chip cookie for which I did not order in the first place,.... So, wonder if it is just the prices, or all of the other shit we are expected to put up with.!!!😡🇺🇸💯%✔️
Jobless Claims SPIKE! UNEMPLOYMENT CONTINUES TO RISE... ruclips.net/video/U_wPi-RmGWM/видео.html
I just did a door dash delivery for a $16$ salad.
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Happy Saturday Lisi 💜💙🧡💚💛
During Seattle's busiest tourism season, coffee giant Starbucks abruptly closed the doors to its 1st and Pike location.
Just blocks away from the Pike Place Market, this Starbucks location is jam-packed.
Starbucks would not confirm why they closed the store but said it was temporary despite any plans to re-open the storefront. Starbucks spokesperson Sam Jefferies would not confirm if the closure was due to safety concerns.
Thursday afternoon, the Starbucks signs had been removed, and the windows were covered.
The 1st and Pike closure comes just weeks after Starbucks announced they would permanently close its Alki location.
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Funny thing is; we can live without McDonald's and Starbucks....but they can't live without us.
For money they've generated they and their families can live next 200 years
They will do just fine without the customers that quit coming. They have the ability to rapidly grow and shrink their footprints.
I think that they are realizing that now !!
So true. True of big corporations and big government. 😉
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When was Starbucks cheap? It was always overpriced.
EVERYTHING was much cheaper, back in the olden times.
when i go to starbucks i only ask for water lol
And their sandwiches are flavorless.😝
You got that right !!
But their customer service is great. You get what you pay for.
Starbucks is nothing more than - overpriced burnt🔥coffee ☕ . 👎👎
I don’t know why everyone doesn’t notice. Their coffee is no good, so they roast the beans to the point of burning to deceive unknowledgeable people into thinking it’s flavorful. With they are really selling is all those drinks that are full of fat and sugar. They have big cartons of drink mix that’s manufactured off-site, and they fill pitchers from it.
But it’s served by a PROFESSIONAL Barista. Complete with a bull ring in their nose.
@@mycowboyways915 yeah. Piercings, nose, rings and tattoos look really sanitary, like they planned that hygienic career.
@@jayr9948 totally agrees with you!!!!! U r awesome 😀😀😀😀
I had an 'overpriced' & burnt Starbucks coffee, only once in my life & wouldn't
make that mistake, again! p.s They just opened a new Starbucks, formerly a
Friendly's, a few blocks away & wouldn't consider going to it!
Coffee is now a luxury, just confirm my fears. I knew a recession was coming that would last 2-3 years, and if inflation continues to surge, the Federal Reserve will likely raise interest rates soon. Inflation is causing various issues worldwide, such as food shortages, scarcities of diesel and heating fuel, and significant spikes in housing prices, leading to a potential financial market crash. This global downturn could have long-lasting repercussions. Given the current inflation rate of approximately 9%, my main worry is how to optimize my savings and retirement fund, which has remained stagnant at around $300,000, yielding almost no gains for quite some time.
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No sympathy for Starbucks at all. In the UK they paid absolutely no business tax between 2009 and 2013, despite making about £95m profit a year, cooked the books to make it appear they were making no money. I boycotted them in 2013 when the news broke and haven’t given them a penny since. Will never buy a Starbucks for the rest of my natural born life.
Exactly what I did. Not one coffee since.
Every big business in the UK pay little or no tax. We're fked.
From day 1 SB opened door 'till now I bought "one" cup of coffee. My tight budget spent on son's college. I didn't like their price from the beginning.
@@FinnMcCool1916 That's Tories running the government for you.
@@vulc1 If you think this is just the Tories, you're delusional. To remind you, the Tories when in power this time stopped all the self employed tax diddles that Blair and Brown had turned a blind eye to. In short, many of you have very short memories or are kids - I saw Labour in power in 1997 through to 2008, they enabled big business to dictate to them also.
Starbucks has always been a waste of money.
Terribly bitter as well.
I bought a ice coffee maker and single pod coffee maker. Because my wife likes a coffee in the morning.
Now it costs like 50 cents for her morning coffee.
The aroma of coffee should permeate throughout your kitchen.🎉
@@melissasmess2773 A bitter brew! I don’t understand it.
Star sux
I don't eat out at all anymore, and not just because prices are ridiculous. It's because of tipping culture that tells me I have to tip everybody. Forget that.
Exactly. So sick of that Square payment terminal asking me to tip while the cashier stares at me like a hungry dog and I'm the steak. I buy my own food and cook at home
True! I heard we now are required to tip 20%
wtf? How about good service to get a tip of my choice?
Agree. Getting past the guilt of not tipping a cashier who just hands you your food takes some real effort. It’s the tough social pressure that’s hard to get past.
@@DioChavezwe don’t tip at a fast food place not to mention we might only go out 2 times a month not worth 25$ for burgers and fries
Someone posted a while back that if he orders standing up, he does not tip. Sounds like a great rule of thumb.
Stopped eating fast-food and drinking soda in 1988. My wife and I recently cut back on luxuries like eating out or getting coffee even though we can afford it. Don't live outside your means and eat healthy.
Tell that to Yellen.
Fast food has to do with the division of labor. There's nothing wrong with paying someone else to cook your food, especially if they can do it faster and cheaper than you.
You could be going to pita taco or burrito places, those are real food without poisonous chemicals also. Or any local sandwich shop actually, they used to sell them for $2.50 here...
Debt is just numbers on a screen ..
People are sick of paying top dollar for poisoned garbage.
We ate at a McDonalds the other day, for the first time in 12 years. I ordered a Big Mac combo meal. When the meal arrived I looked at the tiny little box and thought they
must have accidently given me a kiddie meal. NOPE, it was the expensive full size Big Mac that had been seriously downsized. I left hungry and vowed to never eat at McDonalds again...!!! 😢
The shrinkflation is really insulting. Like we are idiots or something.
Even before then you weren't missing out on anything man, fire up the grill and make yourselves real hamburgers and with natural ingredients.
Just go to in n out , double double and an animal fry is 10.60$
Fast food is not a requirement. We need to cook more.
But what if people so fat they can't get out of the SUV? They NEED a drive through!
@user-ol5rj8qn9o Chick-fil-A just built a drive-thru-only location in Atlanta
Yeah I don’t see the big deal.
I think I eaten fast food about a dozen times since 2000 and no fast food at all since 2019.
People need to know where their food comes from...even organic crap at wallmart and Kroger is laden with poison.
Speak for yourself.
Fast food - the price of the food you get is about 10% of what you pay for it in the menu. Cook at home, eat healthy, do meal preps.
Honestly accurate I love chick til a chicken
But for the price of $15-$20 for one meal
I can buy a pack of chicken breast at Walmart for like $10-$12 and have a bunch of meals
I never ate it when it's cheap.. I won't eat it now. Skyrocket the price.. than maybe people will actually eat healthier
@@Tailionis nope you expect too much from “the general population”
Will still eat unhealthy
How do I meal prep?
@@BREEZYM6015 One way is to make stuff in batches & freeze portions in foil , then inside a freezer bag so the foil won't scratch & also put a label in the bag to ID the food.
This is one of the best things that could ever happen to America.
Health will increase, nice.
Silver lining
😂 I agree
The best thing was already in America.
It’s called choice.
This is just the best thing for obese and unhealthy people who say it’s everyone else fault but their own.
Calling fast food a luxury is funny to me.
@@blackworldtraveler3711 Everyone STILL has a choice. Laziness VS Cheapness
MCD is the poster child for corporate greed at the expense of the world's health.
Its a good thing because poor people will start to cook more.
Took my 16-year-old to McDonald’s the other day. It was $17. $17 for a sandwich, a large fry, and a medium drink. I told him no more. I’d rather take him out to a restaurant, sit down with a real server serving you and he could get a meal for less than $15 and we could both enjoy it. Going out to a restaurant is an experience, I can’t just see handing over almost $20 for one stupid meal to McDonald’s anymore. It’s not that I can’t afford it. I just choose to put my money elsewhere but I think about those families with young kids, and several of them and mom and dad struggling to get by. How the heck are they supposed to afford it ? When my kids were little, I remember the dollar menu and if we were in a rush, I would take them and get a four piece nugget for a dollar and a small fry for a dollar. I feel bad for families nowadays that can’t afford it. 😪 honestly, the demise of McDonald’s would not be a terrible thing. We all know it’s highly processed, high sodium, deep fried food that is terrible for your health.
Next time take him to Texas Roadhouse amazingly good and great service.
McDonalds is so bad for your health. It isn't even food. I hope they go out of business.
Haha. So true.
Right it’s Frankenfood
I am old enough to remember when McDonald's hamburger was 15 cents and fries were 10 cents!! Those were the days before credit and debit cards. Everything was cash or check. 1950s
Right, now ppl will be slightly less diseased/poisoned
@@celticfiddle7605 i'm sure the food wasn't over processed, created in a lab either. 😅
It's an insult to the consumer to sell a $20 hamburger meal for nasty food it took 75 cents to produce.
It costs more than that if you take all overall franchise expenses, advertising, and franchise fees.
I noticed the sarcasm. It takes more than 75 cents to prepare a $20 hamburger. 😂
Bugger King is next, if WHO gets its fantasy dream rest...of bug-based human cattle feed.
Just buy burger patties and put in non stick skillet. Easy peasy. Much better quality meat.
Consumer makes the choice to eat that burger or avoid it.
Husband and I had KFC last weekend. $75. No joke. 8 piece bucket, fries, 4 apple tart bites, and 3 sides. We never spend on stuff like that so we treated ourselves. We did have it delivered for about $6. We’re not rich by any stretch. Won’t happen again in the near future. This past week my husband was laid off after 26 years in the tech industry. You can’t make this stuff up.
Boy you guys are rich. Too bad I wasn't with you cause I would have suggested let's see what's further down the street that could possible be alot cheaper.😊
yea I wudda walked away before paying that price. Any supermarket deli has equally good tasting but less expensive frawed chicken...
@@AngstG hell yeah! I can get an 8 piece fried chicken, 4 count deli biscuits, hot potato wedges, potato salad, liter soda and pack of cookies for around $20-25 dollars (Kroger Houston TX)
Why?! Why did you pay that much? I would have just said, "nah" and left rather than pay that much for KFC.
I have been getting awesome recipes online. I have been making awesome, delicious food that makes you feel satisfied like you have eaten real food!
So sick of being gaslighted by the Government.
I'm glad you believe in yourself now instead. I have always believed in myself.
Then vote for Trump
Then stop allowing them to impact you.
Tired of people using the word gaslighted …
@@jesseurizar7146 Almost as worn out as misogynistic
Starbucks is like dishwashing water. 🤮 Worst “coffee” EVER
The $20.00 combo meal generates $14.00 profit for McDonals.
Screw them...let them eat the shit they are selling to the public‼️
Their fries are horrible. The double whopper very small
It's very poisonous
But everyone wants to believe they must raise prices to pay a decent wage. These corporations pay welfare wages and expect the taxpayer to pick up the difference.
@@mejiado You get a double whopper in McDonalds?
Now i know why you pay that much
Right, you'd think someone at the top of that organization might know about the economic law of diminishing returns.
I’m 63 retired and doing good financially. I can’t afford McDonald’s
You can be sure the medical industry will also be in a panic as fast food is one of its greatest customer makers
Fast food, prices skyrocketed and portions & services tanked. Fck that, we stopped eating out.
They blame inflation, yet all these corporations are having record profits! Pure greed!
I recall as a kid in the 1970’s my parents saying that “eating out was for rich people.” They cooked every day. My sisters and I were taught to cook for ourselves around age 7 or so. Not kidding here, I never went to a sit down restaurant until after I graduated high school in late 80’s. I also never had a “real” haircut until after high school when I was on my own. My sister cut my hair when I was growing up for free. We never went to any restaurants when I was a kid. My parents were not broke, but both grew up dirt poor. All they did was save money. They never bought a new car in their entire lives. My Dad built the house we grew up in, so they never had a mortgage. It’s crazy seeing how average people blow money on such senseless things as fast food and expensive coffee.
When I was a child in the 1960s and 1970s "fast food" and all restaurant meals were luxury items.
✔️ absolutely!
A QUART milkshake with a spoon and u needed it 19 cents 1962..HaHa
Yep! When I was a kid FF was a rare treat.
therefore society has regressed 60 years instead of progressed.
Boomers had it EASY!
We here in Europe do not understand Starbucks’ hype. We drink everything short and unsweetened mostly for 1/5 of the price and 0 kcal instead of 500😂
It's the caffeine high that keeps people coming to starbucks, not the crappy coffee. 200 to 300mg of caffeine in a single serving...crazy!
Mostly leftards
I can afford McDs but refuse to pay high prices for junk food. For $14, I can get a great salad at our local eatery instead of a Big Mac meal.
$14 for salad?
Hope they at least toss it for free
Exactly- a local deli around the corner from McDs here does huge custom salads made to order for about that, or for the same price insanely good quality and volume sandwiches with about 20 menu choices and 5 bread types as well as customized changes easily.
And they are fast, friendly, and accurate.
Why would anyone go to FF when for the same prices a much better option is probably within a few blocks or so and likely locally owned too?
@@seaneendelong8065still a ripoff….
$14 "salad bar" or $14 for 1 salad? If it's $14 for only 1 salad that's expensive.
Here in Canada a meal at McDonald's is $17-20 now..Thats ridiculous for terrible food..
Honestly, when I was a kid in the 70s going to any fast food restaurant was a luxury for my family and rarely happened. Also, rarely seen were morbidly obese people compared to today. Mom, gave us Kool-aid full of sugar but kicked us out of the house to play until the street lights came on. Today we feed our kids high fructose corn syrup and they stay inside and only exercise their thumbs.
There was mo mass open border immigration then better times ..
When i was a child, I had 4 siblings. Dad had a good job with GM but still we NEVER ate out, anywhere.i was a child in the 50's and 60's.
That’s how it was back then moms didn’t work at stayed home and cooked and cleaned… once women had to go to work also so parents could live comfortably is when fast food took off and obesity as well…
1950-70 dream years
@christopherpalmer4243 I graduated high school in 1970
in Lapeer, Michigan. Those WERE good years but I remember the riots in the Detroit area in the late 60's. We were about 60 miles our of Detroit in a rural area but I was still afraid.
Then, we paid for those good years as young adults. 13.5% interest rates, huge inflation. Jobs were impossible to find. Gas prices and shortages had us lining up around the block to get gas. Then came Jimmy Carter, yikes. By contrast, this isn't horrible yet, but it sure might get there soon.
Yes, born in ‘61
Fast food is so unhealthy. I’m glad I stopped eating that junk.
Stop buying fast food months ago, trying to lose weight
Hell yea. Bad for your wallet and body. Less processed food is gold. Whole food is the way.
go carnivore, amazing life changing health benefits against heart attack, dementia, diabetes etc
@@coolbreezelb5023 Stop eating processes food for a couple of months then try some again your body will get it out of your body real quick if you get my meaning lol
Bought a case of Robert Irvines fitness crunch; has just the right amount of calories to hold me over til
Supper. All his flavors are good.
Great, healthy food is the way
It’s returning to how it once was. As a boy in 1968-70 we got McDonald’s once a month as a treat on my dad’s payday.
Same. McDs was a treat as a kid. And Disneyland or another theme park was something you went to once in your childhood. Now people have season passes.
What an awesome dad!
Once a year for your birthday was often the case too
Finally four years ago I gave up Starbucks. They kept jacking up the price, but around the pandemic they really got ridiculous. Trust me you will save money, hope more people stop spending their money with these crooks.
Just went to Culver's and bought 2 butter burgers and had to split a medium order of French fries (no drinks) with my 7 year old granddaughter (who just finished gymnastics lessons) ...and it cost me over 12 bucks...and I am still hungry right after eating my burger and that measly serving of French fries. I'm done with fast food, so now it's time to start making Grammy's knockoff butter burgers at home. 😅
Grammy’s knockoff butter burgers sound like an upgrade to me
I don't go to mcdonalds anymore because I don't believe in paying more than 6-7$ for a big mac that will kill you..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These companies get us sick and big pharma runs in with the solution😂
Exactly! It is all about the diet.
Agree 👍💯
And big medical funnels the administration of big pharma's products via big insurance...
Right on the money.
They are fully aware of it. Processed food conglomerates have invested in the pharmaceutical companies.
McDonald's about two weeks ago, two sausage egg biscuits NO CHEESE, OVER 14 dollars, WON'T happen again.... DOUBLE the PRICE used to be.... Bye McDonald's
Yesterday I got diner at a local pub. I got 2 meals which were both huge in portions. They were a buffalo chicken cheese steak with onion rings and a steak bugger patty with fries. The whole meal was 24 dollars. Why would I eat at McDonalds?
“Not doing well,” “Suffering.” 1%. Poor McDonalds. Like the guy who is making 99 million dollars instead of 100 millions. World’s tiniest violin.🎻
And if it went to 76 million the dude would probably jump out of a sky scraper
💯💯💯
Don't forget all those hard working stockholders. You know they deserve every cent.
Look into how much a person has to have already in the bank before you can get approved to be part of a franchise.
@@WeekendsOutsideFL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's not the just the prices, but service sucks as well. I'm traditional at prefer making my order at the counter. Now when you walk in, they expect you to use the kiosk or they will ignore you. The last time I waited five minutes just for a coffee. That's was my last visit to McDonald's
Yup, and no way so they clean up. I guess we have to clean our own tables.
I won't use those kiosks. If they won't take my order at the register, I walk out.
Machine Restaurants.....not my place to go
@@rpbajb
❤
Get with the times grandpa
I gave up fast food 2 decades ago ... most of it is poison anyway
My friend, who NEVER used to worry about money, stopped ordering 3 times a day from Starbucks. She would get a specialty iced coffee 2-3 times a day, plus get fast food 90% of her and her families meals per day. She stopped buying from any of them.
Your friend wasn't tracking her expenses while the prices were rising over the past 5 years.
I know alot of people like that. All of the sudden, they found themselves in quite a bit of credit card debt, with high interest rates and it was just off of day to day expenses, not furniture, cars or anything big.
Im confused isn’t this how we reduce inflation? These companies got greedy and raised prices. Now people are refusing to pay those prices for fast food and they need to drop them.
They can't because their food and delivery fees have risen too along with utilities.
A lot of people blame these companies either way. If its cheap, people eat it everyday instead of cooking, then blame the company for their obesity. Fast food was never meant to be a full time diet.
I'm eating the healthiest I've ever eaten. 9 dollar bags of chips, 20 dollar McDonald's burger meals have made it easy for me to cook all my own food and eat nuts and trail mix for snacks. When prices get ridiculous I quit buying so keep it up junk food and trash companies, pretty soon you wont exist at all!
Exactly, and once people grow accustomed to eating better and cooking themselves, they aren't likely to go back.
"Raisins and lightly salted peanuts" my go to snack! A great combination . . .
The bags of chips that I buy cost $1.99. I don't know what brand you were buying. 😂
@@BREEZYM6015 you probably don't live in California. Enjoy your chips!
@@BREEZYM6015 Right, because all chips come in the same size bag, genius.
Fast food used to be real food until the 70's when they added all the chemicals.
go carnivore, amazing life changing health benefits against heart attack, dementia, diabetes etc
same as farm food, you have to grow your own food
@@jeffreybaier5312 no it wasn’t God the bullshit you people come up with.
Gluing maltodextrin and processed grains together with seed oils is not food.
I bought protein powder with maltodextrin until someone mentioned it's bad
Correct ✅
Ohhh, so fast food (which I worked for) got soo greedy they are pricing themselves out of business. They blamed workers but when I started there were three shifts of 8 people each, excluding managers. That went down to two shift of 6 people with managers. When I left they had two morning people, one being a manager, and four and a manager for afternoon and evenings closing early at 10. Every year our boss got a wage hike, Managers got a small raise and workers got Nada. When things got rough they even let go of older workers at a higher rate and hired younger people. I had a rate cut in 2008 and never got that back. When healthcare was imposed they cut hours and no worker could work over the 28-30 hrs. Yet every year the prices went up and my boss got BONUSES!! Corporate GREED!
It doesn't matter what you think about McDonald's or Starbucks. Who thought two years ago that McDonald's would be UNAFFORDABLE or that people would stop going to Starbucks for a cup a week with a sit-down and their computer?
That was 4 years ago not 2. Remember when there was no toilet paper or flour, and building supplies like lumber sky rocketed in price.
@@Victorseafog So, two years ago, you knew McDonald's would be too expensive to eat at in June 2024? Where is your RUclips channel? You are obviously clairvoyant.
@@Victorseafog Reports of McDonald's meals costing over $16 began circulating prominently in December 2022, when a TikTok video by Topher Olive showcased a $16.10 receipt for a Smoky Double Quarter Pounder meal, sparking discussions about fast food prices. This video went viral again in late 2023 amid ongoing inflation concerns, highlighting perceptions of rising costs at fast-food chains, even though the average Big Mac was reported at $5.58 during that summer.
I did. Their product is shitty and prices too high for said shit
@@smujer1 Prove your forecast.
2% - 6% drop off traffic is nothing when 250% increase in prices. They're laughing all the way to the bank.
A roast with carrots and potatoes in a crock pot is awesome.
That sounds so good. Add a steak or some chicken mmmm
If you can afford the roast😢
Pizza Hut 1 large cheese pizza, 10 breadsticks, 2 liter pepsi and a $5 tip for delivery is $49.63. 🤦♂
Just a matter of time before they have to bring back the 2 Medium 2 toping pizzas for $10.99
boycott everything overpriced is the only way to stop this
Make your own pizza.
Wow, that's expensive.
@@EvelinHolmes Soon they will pass a law that prohibits pizza making at home
Costco pizza is $10.99 a pie.
@@KS0102and they are Huge!
McDonald's is the largest buyer or one of the largest buyers of beef, chicken, pork, potatoes, tomatoes and lettuce. They're buying these ingredients for pennies on the dollar to what we buy it for. There is no reason for regular cheeseburgers should cost almost $2.50 and hash browns to cost almost $3 other than just greed.
It's like the $20 minimum wage, the cost of labor is still less than a dollar per meal. The real reason for the price hike is that they want to make the same money with less customers
Read Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
I've adopted my parent's idea of fast food. When we were out in the car, they'd buy fresh bread and butcher cold cuts and we had the best sandwiches you could imagine and they were so good I can still remember them all these years later. It's cheaper, it's better and you can put on as much meat as you want in your sandwich because you don't have to fret over corporate profit margins.
Two people can't eat a meal at Taco Fricking Bell for less than 30 bucks. It's insane.
Wendys as well. Very expensive
According to federal securities filings, McDonald's CEO and chairman Chris Kempczinski's total compensation in 2023 was $1.4 million in salary, plus over $4 million in bonuses, about $13 million in stock and option awards, and around $700,000 in other compensation. This other compensation includes life insurance, retirement plan contributions, and use of the corporate jet. Kempczinski's total compensation in 2023 was an 8% increase from 2022, but slightly less than his 2021 compensation of around $20 million. In 2022, Kempczinski's compensation was equivalent to a typical McDonald's worker working for more than 1,200 years, or 344 times the average pay of a typical worker at one of the largest 350 publicly-owned firms in the U.S..
And...the stock market is at an all time high because of record earnings...hmmm...poor McDonald's and Starbucks. This is what it will take to stop the price gouging.
Exactly. Corporate greed. The Bigs get bigger. 🤦🤦😫
When people can’t bring in enough income to survive you’re going to see people sell everything that isn’t nailed down.
Yeah but no one will be able to afford it
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It's not just the price. The quality everywhere is crap and the workers could care less
Every week where I live, closing down restaurants, Pharmacies, retail etc
Good, It means we ain't buyin' their overinflated crap.😂
Great! Let these companies see how it feels to lose "their" money too!
US is becoming third world country slowly. Fast food is luxury. New Cars becoming luxury. Management in the company becoming toxic. Small business owner thinks that they own their employees. Buying a house in a decent neighborhood becoming Luxury. I feel it because I have spent 28 years of life in 3rd world country, and rest in the US at 41.
go carnivore, amazing life changing health benefits against heart attack, dementia, diabetes etc
I was a kid in the 80’s and 90’s, definitely middle class. Fast food was always a luxury.
Many "first world countries" have been like that for decades. US is just catching up to the rest of the world
I feel less alone knowing someone else sees this.
Even the 1950s era communist countries built housing and roads and buildings for the public. Good ....this resembles a third world military dictatorship where nothing good Comes out of the system
Fast food is not healthy. Starbucks is a joke. The prices for both are ludicrous!
Much better to prepare your own meals.
I’ve said no to Starbucks, McDonald’s and others for years. Such waste of money for low quality junk!
Coffee shops have some of the best margins. You are literally paying for some beans, water, and a bit of milk (textured with a steam frother). $10 coffee is absurd. You can get a decent quality 250g bag of single origin & fresh roasted beans for that and just DIY at home.
McDonald's= dirty tables and bad food
Crock pot meal prep for work: 1 package 15 bean soup, 2 onions, garlic, stewed tomatoes, 8 cups water w/ beef bullion cubes and 2 lbs pork sausage, beef or turkey. That's enough for lunches for a whole week plus leftovers. It's also less money than what you'd pay for 1 fast food meal. 😉
🎯👏👏👏💯
Too much salt, especially in the bouilliion
Sounds delicious!
@TheJillybean13 One bullion cube has less sodium than a single Big Mac.
The suggested recipe with onions, tomatoes and 2 pounds of meat... is at least a 75% reduction in sodium compared to fast food.
@@bfree6197 Well, that makes sense. I don't eat McDonald's (since 2009 when I was in ND and desperately hungry and that's all there was). You DID say (I mean this in a cute way, not argumentative) bouillion CUBES plural but among two pounds of meat, yeah, I can see how it's not the worst thing you can eat. I have had stuff with bouillion cubes and all I could taste was the salt; same with soy sauce, but I haven't had YOUR recipe (again, smiley).
I was recently on the road for a few days. We stopped at fast food places a number of times for lunch.
Everything cost more, and the stores were not busy.
Crap food at high prices. Who needs it?
Yes! I pack sandwiches now when I have long days, What a burger and foo sackleys used to be my favorite
On the interminable drive to and back from Sacramento in nasty heat and traffic I took the exit with the farm produce tamales signs on impulse a few weeks back-
And discovered not only the produce expected but 3 kinds of individual wrapped real tamales AND 2 sizes of a local homemade ice cream in half a dozen flavors!
Best part was the prices were equal to going to the grocery store and getting mass produced versions.
I stopped in next required trip and got a dozen tamales, a large container of local fresh salsa verde, and an ice cream for the road- for only about the cost of TWO FF meals these days.
I find it funny that the nation's health has now literally improved since they've stopped eating fast food regularly.
Starbucks baristas are busy making coffee desserts; it’s hardly coffee in the traditional sense. Maybe once a year I resort to buying a cup of plain black coffee and yes, it’s a 5-10 minute wait.
And a bunch of Americans are slurping it up and packing on the pounds. I said that in the nicest way possible 😂
@@mph5896There’s way too much sugar in our foods in the U.S.A.. Although I don’t travel there, I am aware that Mexico
bans the use of corn syrup and lists right in the front of any food packaging if the food is considered a high fat, high sugar item and listed the grams in each respective category. Why it’s not mandatory here, I don’t know…I guess to keep the pharmaceutical industry in business..
wages have not kept up with inflation for at least the last 50 years.
I remember my Mother taking us to McDonald's and getting 5 burgers for a dollar.
Whenever we went to McDonalds, we were allowed a small burger and a small French fry with a cup of water. We were not allowed to order a Big Mac or a cheeseburger or a soft drink. Money was tight in those days. My mother worked weekends to pay for school clothes and Christmas presents.
Sounds like vintage classic McDonald's in the 1960's into very early 1970's. I know as I paid 20¢ for McDonald's hamburgers in the groovy hippie 1960's. And it was all 100% real meat, buns, pickles, ketchup in the mix. Real unadulterated fast food back then, imagine that. It's all junk and trash now. Garbage. Fake phoney artificial puke!!!!🍔🧟🤢🤮🤒
@@truelies3690
Dollars were linked to gold prior to 1971. That's why your dollars bought so much then.
After the US abandoned the gold standard post 1971, the dollar started its relative decline in value.
@@mtrest4,
Ok you explained why consumers got more bang for their buck. Now what about the quality they had back in 1971💁🏽🤔🎯
If I can get accustomed to streaming vs cable. I would like to believed that I can figure out Tesla. I am the one that think Tesla is a Prius 2.0. Everyone that could afford the technology jump on Elon bandwagon. And lastly he is to far into sharing his politics. Who cares .
With the amount of health knowledge we have today, I don’t understand why people still get fast food regardless of price
Because for many the food taste good, or at least tolerable.
One pay check 8 people 🥵🥵🥵🥵
@@shrimpboy944 is this your chance to be perfect?
Convenience
Addicts
I stopped eating fast food 3 years ago. One if the best discussions I've made
I haven't patronized Starbucks since 2016, when they said that they would rather support the Middle Eastern population than the US veterans.
Realized real time inflation I stopped going to McDonald’s when they stopped the $1 breakfast sandwich moved
To Dunkin I use to get a medium coffee and croissant for $7 they’ve up their prices now to $12 in less than month . Dropped both like a hot rock .
Fast food employees used to be students living at home
Today people depend on these jobs to survive
Prices rise, fewer customers, catch-22
@SportsAutodidactAnd CEO’s will be laughing to the bank!!
Right. Immigrant adults work at fast food places, and now they have demanded adult career pay and benefits for it. These jobs were never intended for adults supporting a household. People are obviously unwilling and unable to pay the outrageous prices needed to support that.
Seems like the great shakedown begins. Most fast food places will go out of business. Frankly as more and more people make less money and unemployment sky rockets only stores that sell food and other serious necessities will survive. Businesses catering to the rich will survive also.
I hope these fast food restaurants go out of business
That’s wishing for a lot of people to lose jobs. Fast food has a place. The problem is people became too reliant on it and are now obese and sick, people can’t cook a simple meal for themselves.
@@rebeccaa2433 If that happens and they lose their dream job at the fast-food place that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make lol.
Same bro same.
The food quality is so deteriorated now that it has been nauseating me lately. Overcooked, old, greasy, etc. Not sure how much longer fast food will be "safe".
I hate both of these places, bad service worse products. Forget about it 🤮
And don't forget their common areas or tables and floors are filthy nasty and their bathrooms. It speaks for itself
True, no one needs to drink coffee, but if they LIKE to drink coffee, they can make it at HOME without Starbucks' help. You can put all the nifty flavors in yourself. The coffee aisle in the grocery store also has flavored syrups, a variety of sweeteners and creamers.
Visited the butcher counter and bought ground steak patties and a bag of fries and cooked them myself. Saved big time.
Cook those fries in tallow. You'll have an authentic 1950s McDonalds french fry: potaotes, salt fried in tallow. Which is from cows, which is healthy and shockingly delicious!
@@itsallperfectlynormal9805healthy 😂😂
@timhanser1943 absolutely! If you're still buying the crap health advice the gubmints been selling for decades, sorry for your predictable diagnoses.
Don't feel bad, Starbucks gave up on quality for profits. The food is lowest quality and the drinks are mostly overpriced sugar drinks. Mcdonalds been in this for years
Agreed. Starbucks 20-25 years ago was the best. Everything was aromatic and full of flavor. Then they started diluting the coffee and using flavored syrups and it was meh.
@goyam2981 throughout nyc, starbucks completely removed all the seating. So they wonder why they doing less sales when all they have is overpriced drinks, long wait times and no seating or restroom. Ill go with a local coffee shop
I thought starbucks was the same instant coffee as at the gas station when I tried for the first and last time 4 years ago...
@@WhyteHorse2023 They still make good bagged coffee particularly the dark roast like Sumatra, Italian, etc. though. It's just what they serve in their stores.
@@Smart_Think Yeah with no seating there's nothing left to attract customers. Better make your own coffee in a moka pot at home and use a tumbler.
They were relying on these people paying the higher prices ,but they are tapped out and slowly falling away;I know a few of them personally and yes now they can't even afford the $5 meal deals.
Newsflash!......if McDs would be losing money on the 5.00 meal they wouldn't be offering it....just imagine how much they would be making on the 12.00 big mac meal!
Doesn't even come close to the quality of food they sold in the 70's
go carnivore, amazing life changing health benefits against heart attack, dementia, diabetes etc
Imagine their prices if they had to actually make the food at the level of quality back in the 1970s lol.
It's absolutely so true it is absolute garbage ,the taste /quality has went way down and overpriced
You can't package and sell subpar quality, it's cheaper to buy a 10 lb tube of 93% lean ground round for around $40 the quality is so much better indeed.
@@DanGilliland-pi4vh go carnivore, amazing life changing health benefits against heart attack, dementia, diabetes etc
I use to get the oatmeal at Mcdonald's for $1.89 about a year and half ago. Fast forward today - $4.89
Same and I loved that oatmeal
If you make it yourself it’s.5 cents.
oatmeal is too easy to make in the microwave at home.
@@CMBBmc-jd6urikr just get a pack of 16 oz canning jars and overnight oats can be made for the week for about 50 cents a serving (depending on your mix-ins)
Sausage egg McMuffin with cheese is $4 at McD's nowadays. I can make the exact same thing at home for $1.50 so yeah...why does anyone bother with McD's? Just wasting a ton of money.
Had a breakfast meal deal at McD's the other morning. Had not eaten there in 6 months.
Dining in area was empty and only a few cars in the drive-thru at 7 am. Was shocked at how little food I got for the money paid. Portions have shrunk considerably along with steep price increases.
Won't do that again.
Moral of the story: eat at home, dine out only when you're traveling or you when you have no other choice.
The only Starbucks in our town closed down 2 months ago.
Exactly. It takes me literally less than 5 minutes to fry 2 eggs and ham and make some toast. Add 2 minutes if I make a cup of coffee. Save time, gas and money eating at home.
Pack a cooler for the road. In a pinch, go to a convenience store and get string cheese, hard boiled, egg, baby carrots, crackers or chips, and a drink instead of fast food.
Wow, ya know things are bad, if a Starbucks closed.
Our IHOP just closed 😢
@@miriamseidel8463 Starbucks closing doesn’t necessarily mean things are bad. They over-expanded. They opened too many stores, too close to existing stores. Subway and McDonald’s are notorious for doing the same thing. They open new franchises too close between existing stores, and they pressure the owners of those stores to buy and operate the new location. The owners don’t. want to. It. will not increase profits, but they are under duress because the new location will take business away from their existing location. It is absolutely sickening.
I go to McDonald's for breakfast 2-3 times per year mainly to see how the economy is doing. I went two weeks ago, saw the prices and walked out. There was one customer and one homeless person in the store.
Just had dinner with my wife. Smothered beef burrito total cost of around 10 buck with top notch ingredients.
And we have enough leftovers for one more night. 😊
Ok 👍🏽
We have had fast food a total of 6 times in the past 7 years. Before that we had it all the time. Once you break loose from it, it really kind of makes you feel ill just thinking about it.
That sign is 100% correct. ‘“Everything will be OK”. Too many people love to dwell on the negative instead of dealing with the issues in their own lives. No one is responsible for what happens in your life but you.
Hey, 100%
No such thing as an act of God eh?
HHAHAHAH IF ONLY
I work as an RN..32 years. I got a whopping $1.61/hr raise. WTF is that going to do in this economy?😡 I can’t even eat at McDs for that…🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
RN?
Kind of the same with groceries. The low cost basic stuff is priced like 50% higher while the luxury stuff tends to be the same or about 20% higher.
I shop at Aldi because we’re poor, I’m seeing people that drive Mercedes, Lexus and BMW shopping there now. Even the rich are feeling the squeeze. These rich people stick out like a sore thumb. Welcome to poverty, enjoy!
You would be surprised with how many of those people driving those cars have no cash flow. They may make more money but all goes out to payments bc of their debt.
Absolutely. I second this. You nailed. Look rich, but totally broke. I saw a short documentary about food banks in California and it was insane to see people in line for food pickup in luxury cars. If they sold their cars and bought a beater, they’d be able to feed their families. I read that Americans are paying on average over $600/month in car payments. That’s insane.
ALDI isn't for the poor - it is for those who want value for money.
@@UnCoolDadAgreed. While visiting Miami recently, we went grocery shopping at two different Aldi stores. Very nice, and with unbeatable prices. Regards from 🇳🇴
There’s lay offs in Ohio in the fast food industry! Cutting staff by 30 plus percent!!
It's all black
I was on a road trip with my family recently and decided to stop for McDonald's. We used to go as kids so it has a bit of nostalgia but rarely go now. We got those $5 meals and they were terrible. It was disappointing. Won't be back for a long time.
Jimmy Johns 21.50 for Lg coke, 2/#16 sandwiches, bag of BBQ chips, waited twenty minutes, got my food, drove 5 miles from there to a park across the bridge, only to find I got the wrong order,.. they acted like they didn't make a mistake even after I showed them my receipt, then I still got screwed cause they took the tuna fish off of the same bread and added the correct ingredients, but it still tasted like tuna, and they changed me for a chocolate chip cookie for which I did not order in the first place,....
So, wonder if it is just the prices, or all of the other shit we are expected to put up with.!!!😡🇺🇸💯%✔️
Food and tipping are out of hand. People can't afford it anymore. Keeping a roof over your head is a struggle.