Yep. The last time I went to Macca's was a couple of years ago, and they slugged me $14..95 for a medium Quarter pounder meal. It was barely bigger than a cheeseburger and the concave shape on the base of the chip (fries) container means you get less of them. The coke was 50% ice. NEVER AGAIN!!
They better get a Salad Bar STAT, the veggie burger wiil NOT save them. There are too many of them around anyway. One on nearly every corner is way too much😅
The problem in my opinion is what I call the "Sears CEO Problem". Put someone in charge of a company who doesn't use their product, isn't part of the demographic who would use the product, and is too busy looking like a CEO , but is all shine, no substance.
I love when a corporation hires a fresh and new, still wet behind the ears, CEO and pays the new one more than the old one who had been there 10 plus years was getting paid when they left. A new person who has no experience gets paid less than the person who left, that's how it works for front-line workers.
You can instantly tell the burgers didnt get the protocol seasoning. It made the burgers taste alot different. The whole oil and gmo movement destroyed them awhile ago. Once they stopped using beef tallow and dropped the pies from the lineup, they were doomed.
I used to go there when I was out on the road doing home visits. The food wasn't bad, but the last two times I went in the past year, the food was dry and tasteless, the cheese was cold, the order was completely wrong, and the servers were totally confused. What a zoo. I cannot even think of going there, and now just always eat at home from scratch. Occasionally I get Chinese takeout in the strip mall next door to them. They're not great, either. Seems everyone has gotten worse.
If you're used to drive-thru, take a peek inside the store: Employees eating while working the counter, trash everywhere, nasty bathrooms... Just say no.
as long as the burgers are still coming, i dont mind if they start smoking...... but there should be a non-smoking section for employees under 12. you dont want kids with smoking related stunted growth who might sue when they 'grow up' LOL
Hadn't been to McD's in years, but hubby and I stopped at one last week. A Big Mac meal and a fish sandwich (tiny little square of petrified fried fish) meal was a few cents shy of $20. THAT's why they're going under. Nasty overpriced junk. Never again.
When fast food becomes as expensive as sit down restaurants there's definitely something wrong, it's helping me stop my fast food addiction though, so that's a plus!
Not hardly, There really was no pay hike. See everyone's been freaking out for 7 years over the proverbial $15 an hour the problem is every moron who freaks out about it doesn't bother to go see exactly how many hours these people get standardly and fast food for well over 15 years you're looking at 13 to 20 hours a week perhaps a shift manager otherwise known as the third manager may be able to receive somewhere between 25 and 30 hours a week but commonly they're going to be capped at 28. Furthermore no one hired off the street ever gets the $15 an hour they're going to use every reason and or excuse in the book not to pay you $15 an hour. So there's technically been no real wage hike simply because back when they were paying 7 and 1/4 and it was possible to get 36 hours versus now there's a mere threat of paying $15 an hour with most of the personnel making under $13 so the vast majority topping out probably around $12 an hour across the board and they're lucky if they get 20 hours a week they're actually making less money especially by the time you minus taxes out all they've done is move these people up into a higher tax bracket that's really all that's happened they're not making any more money than they did 15 years ago.
Well I can say the large portion of the price hikes over at McDonald's stems from the fact that they've been trend chasing. I mean once they came up with the McCafe and the $4 coffees if not $7 copies and they've attempted to move upscale frankly I think that's cost them some business let's face it they're putting more emphasis on the coffee drinks than they are their core offerings. And then anytime they do shift focus back to their core offerings the last time around specifically they tried to shit where they were going to talk about gourmet burgers and they wanted $8 for them. I laughed 17 or 18 years ago when Ruby Tuesday talked about how they're doing gourmet burgers and they're moving most of their menu over to a gourmet format I had to crack up laughing because a chain restaurant I'm sorry is not gourmet I don't give a shit if you are a sit-down establishment. But that's sad I think if I'm willing to pay $8 for hamburger I would probably assume to go to an establishment like Ruby Tuesday over McDonald's. the difference of course by the time you're done at Ruby Tuesday is literally $35 because you're going to have about 50 bucks in it especially for two people plus of course you had the tips so no matter what you spend you might as well throw 10 or 20 dollars on to that amount whereas McDonald's I guess you can grab your $8 hamburger and go and you don't really have to tip anybody.
For years they had the $1 soda/teas. I don't eat McDonalds but my family does like it. So about once a week while going shopping I would grab myself an ice tea and food for my family. Now the price of unsweetened iced tea is $3 so I completely stopped going. I make my own tea for a few cents a gallon. So a family of 4 will pay $12 in soda/tea, plus the food. Nope, not this mom!
It’s been more than one year since McDonald’s removed the beverage section so customers could fill & refill their beverages. The “red flags” have been flying for some time…we see sizes shrink both in food portions and packaging. Sad but true.
Yeah they are burning the patty is rly tough and the bun is inedible now. They "improved". it's dumb decisions like that that ruin a brand forever. Dumb ass greedy CEO.
Red lobster was also in trouble when they offered all you can eat shrimp for 19.99 during the beginning of this quiet recession. Fast forward 18 months & they lost 20 million
Inflation, bank collapse, severe drought in the agricultural belt, recession, food shortages, diesel fuel and heating oil shortages, baby formula shortages, available automobile shortages and prices, the price of living place.
Government policy has thrown the future under the bus for decades. The day of judgment is near. I predict an 80% drop in the stock market. Investors will abandon stocks in favor of real estate. There will be no money in banks... You must devise a strategy for survival
I agree. I have pulled in more than $435k since 2020 through my advisor. It pays off more in the long run to just pick quality stocks and ride with those stocks.
@@philipr1759 I really don't like making such recommendations, because everybody's situation is unique. But there are many freelance wealth managers you could check out. I have been working with Christine Jane Mclean for about four years now, and she's really, really good. If she meets your discretion, then you could go ahead with her. I endorse her.
4 main reasons I stopped. 1) Covid shutdown. Since all locations shut down for months, I got out of the habit completely. 2) Interior shutdown. This is pt2. Even after reopening they kept the insides shut down for a year or more. Before Covid I met with my folks at a McDonald's 1-2x a week just to chat with a cheap meal. Now I do it elsewhere. Because of this, they lost another substantial portion of their customers. 3) No longer family friendly. All McDonald's are aiming for adults with their themes, coloring, and removal of play areas. You hardly ever see families in there anymore. This applies for my family as well. 4) COST$!!!! This is ultimately the biggest point. Their prices USE to be 1/3 that (or less) if a sit down restaurant for the same basic amount, now prices are on par. If I'm paying this much, I'll go to a better place or fix it myself.
Culver's is a rapidly-expanding family-friendly chain, and they show a hunger for business that's missing from all the established chains. In Tampa Bay two adult meals at McDonalds runs about $20, while the same at Culvers is $23, and Culver's product quality is two steps above McD's offering. You can figure who's going to win.
It goes deeper than the covid shutdown and higher prices. The iconic businesses and brands are under attack in this country. Communism removes identity. Remove American identity and traditions and whats left of the America. All part of the plan.
The food is disgusting now, the employees by and large at the best indifferent, the restaurants usually dirty and filled with homeless and thugs. It is not the family friendly place my brother and I were ecstatic when we went. Other than getting a few items at the drive thru, I have never taken my kids to eat inside of one.
Really good on you and considering the description there could be a lot more worse things that place is hiding and who knows what others are having those bad situations given the high costs of living now.
@@drscopeify No I'm not in China and considering how bad it is there and all the bans luckily I never will and I identify more with Taiwan not China even though I look like it the country that China doesn't consider it a country and really is in a conflict with them and among other nasty statements I can already imagine modern China saying, "Screw Your Founder Chiang Kai-Shek!" among other profanities.
It’s actually better compared to years before who’s been around long enough to compare. They have very little coupons out unlike Burgerking also on the chopping block.
Mcdonalds raised their prices and eliminated some of the foods on their menu. I feel for the employers who work at mcdonalds. a breakfast burito has double in price. but not the size.
What amazes me still is that it's supposed to be So Unreasonable to actually pay the myriads of workers a living wage...not a wage that affords them the opportunity to buy mansions and drive fancy cars, but hopefully just to pay rent on a 1 or 2 bedroom apartment and feed their families!! Yet, no one ever talks about how unreasonable it is - Which It Clearly IS - to pay the CEOs the millions upon millions of dollars they get, and oftentimes they're even single too! Still trying to "find the right one." I am So Disgusted.
Bc operator did not offer sweeten deal in lieu of toys?? Like extra fries, lesser ice, hmm more nuggets. You got what 3 windows that consist of 3 hours activities that can produce 500 burgers!!! 500 burgers!???
The door dash killed the fast food places for me. I've waited twenty minutes for a simple order because they were busy making door dash orders and struggling to keep up with drive thru . Add in the prices going up and you are going to loose customers . Oh and when I said a simple order took twenty minutes that was a order consisting of one item . A order of large fries to go .
Working for McDonald's; was my very frist job at the age of 15 years, I was gril operator. Back then McDonald's was just about everyone's favorite fast food. I can tell now there has been a big change. McDonald's doesn't toast their hamburger buns anymore. For me that made the difference in McDonald's hamburgers back then.
Oh wow... didn't know they no longer toast their buns... The difference for me was 1) cheaper, smaller meat, 2) switching the fries from healthy tallow to toxic seed oils.
Thankfully the litter,rubbish and trash strewn on our local roadsides will now reduce. Everywhere the cartons,waste food and cups are risgusting. Shows what sorts buy it!
That's a top reason I don't buy fast food takeaways. The waste caused by containers, cartons, packaging, straws, trays, plastic, paper cardboard, etc, etc, etc..........
Don't be silly. The board members are well aware of Ronald & Grimace's roaring meth habit. Hamburgler is making sure they don't try & smoke the ice in the soda. Projected profits over the next Quarter pounder are looking especially saucy. With a side of unemployment
All the fast food joints are in trouble. They cannot sustain their biz by continually charging insanely high prices when a lot of people can no longer afford to pay that much for a fast food meal. They're all having trouble finding employees too. We had 3 Wendys here in my town, now down to one which is packed most of the time, strangely enough. Mickey D's lost one of their 3 stores here, all private franchises. I don't eat there but feel bad for all of to be going away.
As the average American gets poorer these kinds of places will be forced to shut their doors. I remember when McDonalds was seen as unstoppable, those days are long gone.
Fast food forgot what they were. They were a p!ace where teenagers worked to make really cheap food for people in a hurry. Now people are demanding middle class wages which has sky rocketed prices as the quality of the food goes down. I never eat at McD's because the food sucks and the workers look like they escaped from a mental hospital or a prison.
True it use to be just for high school students to make some money on the side....This is what shipping good jobs overseas did for cheap labor! Thank the Govt for letting that happen All I can say at this point! Many mistakes made!
Teenagers are worthless now relative to those that came before them. Their parent's generation was already on the same path... so just wait for the next-gen level of effort, education and capabilities in years to come. The Idiocracy is a real thing.
I went to my butcher yesterday I bought to ground beef hamburger paddies half pound plus 1 pound of the best smoked bacon. $7. Went to the store bought tomatoes, cheese onions 15 eggs and a few other things $11 so I have food for more than two dsys for almost the price of 2 big macs.
The problem with that is if the world economics forum gets they're way the burgers of the future will contain chopped up bug protein like from crickets.
Have you seen how most of the stuff at McDonalds is made? Most of it made in factories then just thrown in to a deep fryer. McDonalds is actually pretty expensive here in Australia but still pretty popular but I think the actual set up cost is like in the hundreds of thousands of millions.
I used to love their Big Mac, but I noticed the last one I had,, was tasteless. All their food has gotten that way. Guess the top executives would rather buy cheap foods than take a pay cut. That’s the problem these days, it’s all corporate greed, and it’s way way outta control
@@momoneyinvesting They have consistently raised prices while shrinking the size of servings to the point that I go to a thai restuarant and get a better meal for less money. Their strength was in their cheapness, a satisfying meal at low cost will always win. They failed that years ago. It is time for them to close.
They deserve to go to business. I walked into one the other day in Oakland, California. They had nobody upfront to take your order. Instead, they had computers I was tired, just finished working all night. I said to hell with that, and I walked out and haven’t been back cents to any McDonald’s and they got too expensive.
They did the same to me in Ohio even though I had cash which meant the nimrods would have to ring it all in anyways. They also got mouthy and insanely rude about just use the kiosk I’ve never been back to a single one and I don’t intend to ever. That was a horrible enough experience. And when I told her off on my way out she looked at me like what your calling me out. I then told her off. That was the end of that
To each their own but I believe this and many other "failing giants" are oversaturated, overrated, and in many ways outdated. No matter how it ends up, there's always alternatives, even if I must use "copycat" recipes at home.
McDonald's didn't get outdated, it got overpriced. They jacked their prices sky high, but kept the same cheap crap quality. McDonald's has been playing a game for some years now, and I consider it a game where they have no competition. They are the only restaurant I know of that is seeing just how high they can jack their prices while maintaining cheap, literally bottom of the barrel quality. They are keeping up and maybe even surpassing the pricing of their competitors, but their quality isn't even half as good.
I've walked out without ordering during my last 3 attempts to eat Mcdonald's. There is no one there to take your order, and I pay cash, so if I use the kiosk, then I just stand there for 10 minutes before any even discovers that I've ordered. The staff are always rude and miserable, and about 80% of the time, they get your order wrong. I don't understand how Mcdonald's survives.
I was at a McDonald's in Augusta, GA that is near a bus transfer point.I bought an apple pie that was overpriced and obviously not fresh. They had covered the outlets in the dining area to avoid people lingering too long to charge their phones: you can read into that cost-containment and trying to prevent loitering by the homeless. I was also harrassed by a wierdo who was in the dining area looking for new women to arrive he could try to hit on and bother, and when I yelled at him to take a hike, none of the management said anything or inquired about my safety. The last time I dined at a McDonald's in a better area, the food was mediocre at best, and the prices were sky-high. I mentioned this to the employee and he sighed and said, "Yeah, the prices have gone way up." I think I am done with McDonald's as well, and an Egg McMuffin combo used to be one of my guilty pleasures in life.
I live in Augusta, born and raised. That sounds like the one on Walton Way in the medical district. Yeah, Augusta's homeless issue is getting terrible, like most places. Their favorite places to be is that particular McDonald's (it's close to the shelter) and the public library downtown on Telfair st.
I am one of the few OG’s that started eating at Mc Donald’s at their Downey, California store when it opened the first day. What happened to that grand idea. I will bet not one person that day would have ever guessed that Fries would one day cost $4.00, or a cone costing $2.00. I can go to Denny’s and get more food than I care to eat for the same money as I pay for a snack at Mickey’s.
Yes, I stopped going to McDonald's Sept 2022 bc of price increases & low food quality, most everything was luke warm at best when it was handed to me & the Crispy Chicken had already had the crust turning dark after sitting over the allowed time. The drive thru is always backed up so I always order on the app in the parking lot & walk inside to pickup my orders, even the fries are luke warm when I get back to my car to try one. Even if you request a special order, you still getting pre cooked food items that's been sitting in the warmer except for the buns, they do toast or steam the buns fresh per order. I always get HOT food items at BK or Wendy's when I order on the app & pickup. All 3 restaurants are within 1.5 miles of my house so no big difference there.
lol not out of nowhere. they shut down businesses for a year, two in some places and then printed 6 trillion dollars. mcdonalds doesn't cost more our money is worth less
McDonalds forgot what it is that they provide - cheap fast food. Consumers arent happy with the price hikes and realize the value is just not there anymore.
Firstly, I can't believe people actually eat the junk they serve at McD's. I shake my head every time I walk the dogs past the long line of cars in the drive thru. The last time I was in one, ( an out of town visitor suggested it), I couldn't believe the prices! And that was 4-5 yrs ago. The success of McD's is beyond my comprehension.
I will say, that I wholly appreciate the clean rest rooms at McD's. If I'm on a road trip, that's where I make my potty stops. The last time I did that, I also ordered my old fav, 1/4 lb'er w/cheese. Man, was I disappointed. If it's up to me, we don't eat there.
I rarely eat at McDonald's anymore.... Not only is the food more expensive than what it's worth, the service is beyond slow and the quality of the food is very poor. Most of the time I end up throwing half or more of it away in the trash were it belongs....
In the past, I have been sickened by McDonald's hamburgers which seem to contain too many flavorings, texturizers etc. Have not been to one in many years. Don't miss the bloat and the fast onset hunger pangs.
See idk why, but everytime I've eaten food there, in five hours I'd be vomiting and having diarrhea for multiple hours afterwards, I thought it was allergies or something, but it didn't matter what it was, even the drinks and Ice cream would cause it, when the grease touches my skin it burns, I have no idea what's going on, but I'll just assume I'm allergic to McDonald's entirely.
@@abigailpena5950 Abigail: I heard that McDonald's has 70 (SEVENTY) ingredients in their burgers. Now, such fast food chains are pushing factory-made veggie burgers and artificial meat. Soon people will be affected, some badly, by such MANUFACTURED FOOD. But, the MDs will love the new business!
Everything has this icky, nasty, gross feel and taste. The place smells like an armpit and the food just has this bizzarre taste and smell. How does something like this stay in business
I stopped eating them four years ago because I felt legit clogged inside. I could actually feel my health declining as I sat there and just hated myself.
Our economy is caught is a vicious cycle right now. Property developers charge outrageous rents and various governments are increasing taxes. It is a fact that government workers are unproductive.
"Struggling with health issues for years, I relied on burgers and fries until doctors warned me about the dangers of fast food. Most said opting for home-cooked meals was the healthier choice, as fast food can lead to thyroid problems and bloating. Shockingly, many fast food workers don't even wash their hands! After years of this cycle and high prices, I've ditched fast food for good. Now, I'm healthy and focused like never before."
I lived next door to one of these things. Good, worst people I have ever had to deal with, one of their burger college graduates even threatened me with their team of lawyers in my own yard, by damage caused by them, more than eight times they had their grease flowing into my yard caused by a grease trap they failed to maintain, if they were failing in that department just think of the sanitary areas they are lacking in. Good Riddance and Ha, Ha, If anyone deserves it you surely do.
Two grandchildren and I went for lunch at McDonald’s in SLC the other day. Bill was $25.00. I ordered a fish sandwich for $7.50 and a water. The sandwich was the size of a child’s biscuit and the water was a 40 cent bottle with no cup for ice. I didn’t realize it was bottle water which I do not drink. Never will be a McDonald’s customer again.
Besides all the inflation and the covid closures. People now want healthy food to eat. That's why Macdonalds and other fast food establishments are failing as well.
I remember stopping at McDonald's with my son in Akron, 1992, went inside to eat. The quarter pounders and fries were hot, coke and ice machines worked. What happened?.
I just refuse to eat ‘fake’ food!!!! I’ll cook at home first! And when I’m traveling, I’ll find a grocery store first for real, fresh food!!!! A fresh green salad is always a welcome dinner!
I don't go to McDonald's simply because I don't like the food, but I'll take my son a couple times a year. Their coffee is actually really good, so I got myself one, and him a mcnuggets meal ... Came to $13.01 which is why I haven't been back. People expect minimum wage to be a lovely livable one, so they shouldn't be shocked when a "value" meal is over $10. I got high quality hamburger patties at the grocery store for the same amount, and when considering bun, ketchup, pickles, etc it comes out to a little under $4 each, for a MUCH better burger.
Last time I got a Big Mac at McDonald's about 5 years ago, it was more bun than burger and overpriced even back then. Never went back to eat at McDonald's after that, except for an occasional chocolate shake....which I have to admit is better than most other fast food shakes.
A few months ago I went to McDonald’s & ordered a cheeseburger w/ Bacon, a small fry & a drink! 🍔🍟🥤All these items at one point were on the dollar menu & would all cost you no more than $4 to $5 tops! I tell you no lie, the McDonald’s employee said “That’ll be $11.40” or something like that, I just immediately pulled off with no explanation & went to get REAL food for the same price & got more food at that! McDonald’s betrayed its core customers when we needed them most! McDonald’s has market cap of $211 Billion at the time of this post! They also have an annual revenue of over $23 billion a year. They make enough money & have enough money! No need to be greedy because you have to pay your workers a livable wage who make you the money day & night! Smh
The #1 reason McDonald’s is in big trouble = people are more health conscious and wiser due to the fact nearly everyone has a smart phone. People can easily research what you are putting in your food. This has caused the birth of competitors completely overlapping McDonald’s by offering high quality fresh 100% beef and high quality chicken and potatoes free of preservatives and filler. I barely ever eat at McDonald’s had one fish filet and cheeseburger while in a rush on vacation after eating there only twice in 13 years and the food tasted fairly good but strange and unusual. I’ve tasted a burger and fries from The Habit burger grill and other similar restaurants and their food is so delicious and tastes natural. To McDonald’s credit the fries was fantastic and no longer had that strange scent that stay in your body for hours on end reminding you what you ate. But McDonald’s can no longer compete with its competitors, they are simply too good.
I haven't dined at McDonalds in the last 7 years, and in my entire life less than a 150 times so this is no surprise. I wont be sorry to see them go bankrupt, I will just be sorry for all of their employee's who will lose their jobs.
A lot of fast food I think is going to collapse in the coming years. I've noticed that a meal at your fast food place isn't much cheaper than a sit down place anymore. I can go to Friday's, Applebees, etc for only a few bucks more than your average fast food place. I go to lunch in a mall almost every day, I patronize a small local chain restaurant and am surprised they survived the lockdowns. Meanwhile, Panera across from them didn't make it' Lots of empty storefronts in this upscale mall.
Applebees sucks here Always has! Fridays went downhill when they changed their Name from TGIF and prices were too high there and They closed down 2 yrs ago here.
They human flesh. Did you know that? I realized it quite a few years ago when I saw strange meat in a burger I was eating one day. It was just strange looking and into my mind as I sat there staring at that meat came the thought, This is human meat. I go with my gut to this day and do not eat McDonald's food.
The big companies are racing each other to the bottom! Bud Lite and Target are prime examples. Harley Davidson and Ford are also jumping off a cliff. PUZZLING but entertaining.
What did Harley Davidson do? Let me guess Go Woke with Rainbows and Unicorns? I guess blackrock owns them too if that's the case Worse thing to ever happen to America!
It's just not worth it anymore for me and my family. Im not going to pay $40 for Mcdonald's for my family. Im not gonna pay $12.48 for one Big Mac Meal. In 2004, as a kid my father used to hand me one $5 bill, and i would buy a Super Size Big Mac Meal for $4.52. I used to depend on fast food. Now im searching for new options. I cook, but even grocerie prices are scary.
Sounds just like Sears in the early 1990s when 4300 independent store owners told Sears the same thing. Out of touch upper management. Sears CEO Arthur C. Martinez did same things and we know how that went.
I'll never understand how Arthur Martinez got as much credit as he did with Sears. Allstate grew into the number two insurer about ten years after he spun it off. Had one good year in 96 with that Softer side of Sears stuff and it went down into hell the very next. Target, Old Navy, GAP, etc..really started eating Sears lunch by the late nineties and he REFUSED to take advantage of the internet and e-commerce when Amazon was showcasing the rewards RIGHT THEN.
@@Yehuz In 1993 he closed the catalog division and 4300+ catalog stores which at the time would of been the 5th largest national retailer if standing alone. Sears had the distribution system in place and a huge customer base and should of updated and transitioned into a Amazon like system. Jeff Bezos had the vision to expoit that abandon demand. Martinez wanted to turn Sears into a high class women's store. Even in the retail stores he put in furs and perfume counters and cut back on hardware like Diehard Batteries, Craftsman tools, weather-beater paints, Road Handler tires etc. No high class woman was going to go to her friends and say "Look at the dress I got at Sears" He then starting selling and spinning off profitable things like Allstate, Discover, Dean Whitter, H & R Block, etc, etc hen spent the money on one failed bad idea after another. No he didn't turn Sears around but took the control of a huge diversified company and crashed it into ground. History is repeating with several other huge companies who have forgotten who their customers are. Death by WOKE.
@@rogueecnomist Everything that you say is true, too. Pure arrogant dumbness at the top and no one with enough sense to fire this wrecking ball before it was too late.
sears. kodak. jcpenny . macys. hardees. chrysler. blockbuster...pizza hut....howard johnsons. krystals...toysrus .. and most of all ..GE...wonderful once ..ruined by greedy management. cant wait to see whole wallet foods go the way of the dodo next.
@@rogueecnomistRemember when Sears owned Western Auto? They owned it from the 1970’s into the early nineties and when Allstate Insurance was spun off Western Auto was spun off to Advance Auto with Allstate Insurance. Allstate Insurance is still owned by the shareholders who own Advance Auto.
Three days ago, I went to a new McDs here in Colorado Springs. Turns out, it had virtually no visible staff, only kiosks, and those had pretty badly designed screens. I ordered breakfast, and thankfully chose to pay when the items were delivered to my table (few tables, stark interior, and virtually no one else eating there). After waiting 15 minutes and finding no one either serving me or even contactable, I left. Screw them, and never again. I don't mind fast food, but no service is a tipping point.
I live in Australia. I recently (May 2023) drove thru a McDonalds to get a sausage and cheese McMuffin meal combo- (with apple juice and hashbrown) and it cost me $10.00 AUD. I can't afford to do that anymore. The size of the hash brown was the same size but the muffin and sausage sizes appear to have shrunk in size. It is only about 5 bites and it is gone! I am also very ticked off as now they are asking people to download an app and get "cheaper food" They order on line and everything now takes longer! They are also asking people to order on in store kiosks. You can tell me what you want to but going to the counter and ordering with with a real person now takes less time than ordering on an app or on a kiosk.
Well yes of course the late '60s however I lost her say that they sold in massive volume. The menu was also a lot simpler cheese or no cheese there was options like hold the pickles hold the Mayo hold the onion hold the lettuce perhaps add a little extra onion etc stuff like that that was the customizations at the time so it was a simpler operation that still was able to maintain quality and speed. Thus they could sell in high volume whereas time has went on they've complicated the menu and then of course the public itself has become more and more picky so you have more and more jackasses standing at the counter and or in the Drive-Thru holding the line up while they request 55 different sauces and they order a number one but they don't really want a number one they want to customize the shit out of the number one that's holding up the line confusing personnel and screwing up the general flow of things. Of course you have management particularly upper but definitely district management pushing for speed speed they're constantly preaching at the personnel screaming at them basically the store managers in many cases are fucking drill sergeants they drag down morale and they're not exactly encouraging people and I'm not saying hold the workers hand or any Mickey mouse horseshit I'm just saying they make a miserable work and fire and it doesn't matter if the personnel is somewhere in their thirties or teenagers it's miserable to work under micromanagement that's always up your ass screaming. So it isn't just one single thing that I have listed off it's most likely a combination of all of these things that play into the drop of quality speed and of course the prices every time volume sales go down the only way to combat that is to jack up the prices at least as far as they can tell because they're too stupid to thin out the menu they're starting to do that there are some people complaining that they have dropped a lot of items off the menu of course the reason people complain is because those were specialty items that they themselves like the problem is simply there was enough of them to justify keeping the item not to mention it shifted focus from their core offerings.
They raised their prices and shrunk their food. When I was young their Big Mac and Quarter pounder were bigger and a thick patty, now the burger are smaller and patty is paper thin, I thought when someone bought me a McDonald burger, that all I got was a hamburger bun, I saw super small piece of meat in it. After seeing that I'm glad that I quit eating at McDonald's years ago.
9:42 McDonald's exec Joe Erlinger makes $5 million/yr and the CEO Mr Kempczinski makes $20 MILLION/yr.... but a hard-working employee who actually produces the surplus value for the company, makes about $23k/yr... yet the execs are complaining that paying their employees a living wage will result in destroying the business? Have you ever heard of anything more ridiculous than that??!! PULEEZ!
Epic, no need to use the scary music on this one. People arent eating as much at Mcdonalds because the food costs as much as a steak dinner in many places. It also it tastes like microwable TV dinners.
No Steak dinners are over 20 bucks a person Almost 30 in places here! Beef has gone up and I can see why with the Dictator that's in charge of destroying farmers!
I like the scary doom bass note at the beginning. Keep it. Catches your attention. Especially, those who never pay attention to what's happening around them in the economy.
Back then many of these restaurants used to be cheaper for one reason because women used to cook at home more. Now less at home meals meant eating out dependency
Actually that's not true, I would say that that was true back in the '90s maybe even perhaps the mid-2000s but to be honest for the past 15 years or 16, it's been sad that most of the under 50 but definitely under 40 crowd would prefer to cook a meal and stay at home which is why a lot of boomers and gen xers have been bitching and blaming millennials for some of their favorite restaurants closing down because we don't want to overpay and eat that shit.
I mean for me it's more of the overpaying factor I'm 38 so yes I am a millennial but I've always known how to cook I grew up learning so I was taught not only by my parents but of course my grandmother was a big help in that education and I just naturally had an interest in it. So I'm not one of these health food yuppies I mean I love my potatoes and gravy but I would much rather make that myself especially because a lot of restaurants have pussied out and you can't get gravy anymore. I guess you would say that my grandmother also helped drill in my head that you can technically save a lot of money by eating at home now that said I will say that there was a point in time somewhere between the early 2000s and mid-2000s that in many cases depending upon what you were seeking to eat that it was actually cheaper to go to a restaurant than it really was to cook at home and or it was about the same price I remember in the mid 2000s between 05 and 7 there is a lot of restaurants where it was actually cheaper to go pay their price for the plate of food and or especially buffet then it was to buy all the ingredients and make it at home. To a small degree we're kind of headed back that direction I mean by the time I buy enough hamburger to make hamburgers for a family of four and especially if I make anything to go with the hamburgers honestly I'd probably just as well run down to Mickey D's and buy the cheap ass cheeseburger and forget it. On the other hand if I want to make a lasagna part of the reason why it would probably cost me in the neighborhood of $25 to make the lasagna as well you have the cost of the hamburger and of course the cheese the sauce and the pasta itself are the two cheapest ingredients but I'm also not just making a small lasagna that's going to feed us that night no I'm plotting to have leftovers for the next day at the very least so it's basically getting two to three meals out of one cooking session. It's all about making money go farther and to be honest that's really caught on I think what we're discovering is much like me you have a lot of folks either below the age of 40 or slightly over the age of 40 that it turns out they actually did listen to their grandmother and or even parents about you know cooking at home versus eating out and trying to save money. you know it's like once in awhile I don't mind throwing down and going over to Applebee's for steak but to be quite honest I could get a much bigger steak and have it at home and I can cook that 50 different ways the technically I could have more variety furthermore to a degree it can be cheaper it's not always cheaper but it can be cheaper especially if any of the stores in the area are running a meat sale which you can get periodically. Sometimes I don't really like anything super fancy I just seriously like a good old-fashioned pepper steak you know serve a vegetable on the side to go with it have some potatoes and gravy in the hell with it you know that's really all you need whereas if you go to Applebee's today you're not going to get gravy you get potatoes but you're not getting gravy a lot of restaurants are like that and I don't know what the hell it is with the anti-gravy I take it that they used to make up huge pots of it and very few people ordered it they got tired of throwing it away so it's a cost cutting measure. But I don't know the way in which they allow picky people to alter the fucking menu to be honest why not offer gravy on demand I mean how hard is it to take a gravy mix put it in some hot water and whisk the shit out of it just like they do over at the Chicken shack!
You mean when Donald J. Trump was president? The current moron-n-Chief Is destroying this country. All those who voted for sleepy joe, I hope you enjoy the higher food, and gas prices, the supply chain shortages of supply chain issues, etc.! Maybe next time you vote you will be better informed, that is if we have another election…
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I haven't had McDonald's in 15 years last time I ate at one I got food poisoning , never ever again will I eat out at any fast food restaurant . I hope they go bankrupt .
Longer than that for me and I am 62 , sure use to love it as a child when I was lucky enough to go there ! And the food was delicious to me then . . . . . . But once I grew up and became aware of the ish it was made of which has gotten 10 x worse the health impacts, never ate it again.! 😵💫 👵🏾🙏🏾☮️
Mcdonalds collapse is the least of our worries.
Indeed
They are just another barometer of how dangerous a state we are in.
So goes mcd’s so goes the USA
Should be celebrated not mourned
@@WDLC1911 They poison us so why is it a big deal? They are just another mega corporation who destroys the little guy anyway. Good riddance.
Not only is McDonald's getting more expensive here in Australia the meals are getting smaller as well.
That, my friend is what they call shrink-flation!😂
Fries are only half filled, alot less than the picture shows.
Yep. The last time I went to Macca's was a couple of years ago, and they slugged me $14..95 for a medium Quarter pounder meal. It was barely bigger than a cheeseburger and the concave shape on the base of the chip (fries) container means you get less of them. The coke was 50% ice. NEVER AGAIN!!
It's been like that since 2011 or just before.
Mc mcdouble was smaller than a white castle slider😅edit: and 3 times the price
Americans are now speaking with their wallets. These insane prices for value meals are completely unacceptable.
boycotts are the most powerful tool in the working class pocket.
I got so ripped off last year at Subway that I didn't return for many months. Fake Flesh apparently.
Agreed 🤝
I can also agree with that statement the cost of living now really went through the roof.
They better get a Salad Bar STAT, the veggie burger wiil NOT save them. There are too many of them around anyway. One on nearly every corner is way too much😅
The problem in my opinion is what I call the "Sears CEO Problem". Put someone in charge of a company who doesn't use their product, isn't part of the demographic who would use the product, and is too busy looking like a CEO , but is all shine, no substance.
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Lol, like my ex
I love when a corporation hires a fresh and new, still wet behind the ears, CEO and pays the new one more than the old one who had been there 10 plus years was getting paid when they left. A new person who has no experience gets paid less than the person who left, that's how it works for front-line workers.
Sounds like the management of Bud Light.
They lost me in the 80s when they stopped making their fries in beef tallow.
Frankly the food doesn't taste all that good anymore. That is why I no longer patronize McDonald's.
You can instantly tell the burgers didnt get the protocol seasoning. It made the burgers taste alot different. The whole oil and gmo movement destroyed them awhile ago. Once they stopped using beef tallow and dropped the pies from the lineup, they were doomed.
I've eaten McYD's only a handful of times in the last 20 years. Every time I pass one though, I want to.
I used to go there when I was out on the road doing home visits. The food wasn't bad, but the last two times I went in the past year, the food was dry and tasteless, the cheese was cold, the order was completely wrong, and the servers were totally confused. What a zoo. I cannot even think of going there, and now just always eat at home from scratch. Occasionally I get Chinese takeout in the strip mall next door to them. They're not great, either. Seems everyone has gotten worse.
@Lynn Proctor I think alot of it is the workers too.but your so right the food isn't much anymore .
I agree . Also , service is usually lousy , at least the ones in the location where I live . It's not worth wasting money on .
If you're used to drive-thru, take a peek inside the store: Employees eating while working the counter, trash everywhere, nasty bathrooms... Just say no.
agree, they all have dirty in common.
Everyone attached to he ear by their cell phone. Texting.
as long as the burgers are still coming, i dont mind if they start smoking......
but there should be a non-smoking section for employees under 12. you dont want kids with smoking related stunted growth who might sue when they 'grow up' LOL
Boogie nights, aint no doubt about it, boogie nights, make it right, got to keep on booging, dance with the boogie get down!
@@sniggitty "Dim your light saber, it will!" ~Yoda
Hadn't been to McD's in years, but hubby and I stopped at one last week. A Big Mac meal and a fish sandwich (tiny little square of petrified fried fish) meal was a few cents shy of $20. THAT's why they're going under. Nasty overpriced junk. Never again.
Thats to offst the feelgood pay hikes
When fast food becomes as expensive as sit down restaurants there's definitely something wrong, it's helping me stop my fast food addiction though, so that's a plus!
@@abigailpena5950 sit down restaurants also doubled their prices.
Not hardly,
There really was no pay hike.
See everyone's been freaking out for 7 years over the proverbial $15 an hour the problem is every moron who freaks out about it doesn't bother to go see exactly how many hours these people get standardly and fast food for well over 15 years you're looking at 13 to 20 hours a week perhaps a shift manager otherwise known as the third manager may be able to receive somewhere between 25 and 30 hours a week but commonly they're going to be capped at 28.
Furthermore no one hired off the street ever gets the $15 an hour they're going to use every reason and or excuse in the book not to pay you $15 an hour.
So there's technically been no real wage hike simply because back when they were paying 7 and 1/4 and it was possible to get 36 hours versus now there's a mere threat of paying $15 an hour with most of the personnel making under $13 so the vast majority topping out probably around $12 an hour across the board and they're lucky if they get 20 hours a week they're actually making less money especially by the time you minus taxes out all they've done is move these people up into a higher tax bracket that's really all that's happened they're not making any more money than they did 15 years ago.
Well I can say the large portion of the price hikes over at McDonald's stems from the fact that they've been trend chasing.
I mean once they came up with the McCafe and the $4 coffees if not $7 copies and they've attempted to move upscale frankly I think that's cost them some business let's face it they're putting more emphasis on the coffee drinks than they are their core offerings.
And then anytime they do shift focus back to their core offerings the last time around specifically they tried to shit where they were going to talk about gourmet burgers and they wanted $8 for them.
I laughed 17 or 18 years ago when Ruby Tuesday talked about how they're doing gourmet burgers and they're moving most of their menu over to a gourmet format I had to crack up laughing because a chain restaurant I'm sorry is not gourmet I don't give a shit if you are a sit-down establishment.
But that's sad I think if I'm willing to pay $8 for hamburger I would probably assume to go to an establishment like Ruby Tuesday over McDonald's.
the difference of course by the time you're done at Ruby Tuesday is literally $35 because you're going to have about 50 bucks in it especially for two people plus of course you had the tips so no matter what you spend you might as well throw 10 or 20 dollars on to that amount whereas McDonald's I guess you can grab your $8 hamburger and go and you don't really have to tip anybody.
I've been praying for McDonalds to go out of business for 10 years.
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Make that 20 years for me.
Not gonna lie, I'd be celebrating that.
Well it seems your prayers are coming true, they are literally pricing themselves out of existence
Hahaha, 11, a tiny bit misanthropic no? places l8ke this deserve to go out of business
For years they had the $1 soda/teas. I don't eat McDonalds but my family does like it. So about once a week while going shopping I would grab myself an ice tea and food for my family. Now the price of unsweetened iced tea is $3 so I completely stopped going. I make my own tea for a few cents a gallon. So a family of 4 will pay $12 in soda/tea, plus the food. Nope, not this mom!
Good decision, Mom!!!
for 4 people ? that is cheap!
Yeah my mom used to be obsessed with those, but when they first raised the prices she also stopped going entirely
$12 just for the beverages at a fast food joint is not cheap.
I find Del Taco a better value than Mickey-Ds.
It’s been more than one year since McDonald’s removed the beverage section so customers could fill & refill their beverages. The “red flags” have been flying for some time…we see sizes shrink both in food portions and packaging. Sad but true.
The food is not the same and the prices are insane! If I’m going to pay that much, I will either eat at home or go to a nice restaurant!!!
Exactly red lobster and olive garden would be worth it. I cant it all i can take some food home
I'd just go to a local family owner restaurant. It's not that much more than Mc, and the food is WAY better
Yeah they are burning the patty is rly tough and the bun is inedible now. They "improved". it's dumb decisions like that that ruin a brand forever. Dumb ass greedy CEO.
Red lobster was also in trouble when they offered all you can eat shrimp for 19.99 during the beginning of this quiet recession.
Fast forward 18 months & they lost 20 million
Inflation, bank collapse, severe drought in the agricultural belt, recession, food shortages, diesel fuel and heating oil shortages, baby formula shortages, available automobile shortages and prices, the price of living place.
Government policy has thrown the future under the bus for decades. The day of judgment is near. I predict an 80% drop in the stock market. Investors will abandon stocks in favor of real estate. There will be no money in banks... You must devise a strategy for survival
I agree. I have pulled in more than $435k since 2020 through my advisor. It pays off more in the long run to just pick quality stocks and ride with those stocks.
@@DavidRiggs-dc7jk please who is the consultant that assist you with your investment and if you don't mind, how do I get in touch with them?
@@philipr1759 I really don't like making such recommendations, because everybody's situation is unique. But there are many freelance wealth managers you could check out. I have been working with Christine Jane Mclean for about four years now, and she's really, really good. If she meets your discretion, then you could go ahead with her. I endorse her.
@@DavidRiggs-dc7jk Interesting. I am on her site doing my due diligence. She seems proficient. I wrote her an email and scheduled a phone call.
4 main reasons I stopped.
1) Covid shutdown. Since all locations shut down for months, I got out of the habit completely.
2) Interior shutdown. This is pt2. Even after reopening they kept the insides shut down for a year or more. Before Covid I met with my folks at a McDonald's 1-2x a week just to chat with a cheap meal. Now I do it elsewhere. Because of this, they lost another substantial portion of their customers.
3) No longer family friendly. All McDonald's are aiming for adults with their themes, coloring, and removal of play areas. You hardly ever see families in there anymore. This applies for my family as well.
4) COST$!!!! This is ultimately the biggest point. Their prices USE to be 1/3 that (or less) if a sit down restaurant for the same basic amount, now prices are on par. If I'm paying this much, I'll go to a better place or fix it myself.
Culver's is a rapidly-expanding family-friendly chain, and they show a hunger for business that's missing from all the established chains. In Tampa Bay two adult meals at McDonalds runs about $20, while the same at Culvers is $23, and Culver's product quality is two steps above McD's offering. You can figure who's going to win.
I just paid $30 for drinks and fries what a rip off…nobody had a meal… just 1 frappe ,fries drinks and 2 happy meals for $30
It goes deeper than the covid shutdown and higher prices. The iconic businesses and brands are under attack in this country. Communism removes identity. Remove American identity and traditions and whats left of the America. All part of the plan.
Culver’s all the Way!!!!
They took out the play area during a remodel at the one closest to me, now it looks more like a prison.
The food is disgusting now, the employees by and large at the best indifferent, the restaurants usually dirty and filled with homeless and thugs. It is not the family friendly place my brother and I were ecstatic when we went. Other than getting a few items at the drive thru, I have never taken my kids to eat inside of one.
Really good on you and considering the description there could be a lot more worse things that place is hiding and who knows what others are having those bad situations given the high costs of living now.
There is a lot of truth to this statement!!
@@bradleypollack5658 Oh yeah since these times are troubled and businesses are going right and left with the recent retail apocalypse.
@@kellychuang8373 Are you in China? I heard businesses are failing very bad there not seeing any of that in the US at all.
@@drscopeify No I'm not in China and considering how bad it is there and all the bans luckily I never will and I identify more with Taiwan not China even though I look like it the country that China doesn't consider it a country and really is in a conflict with them and among other nasty statements I can already imagine modern China saying, "Screw Your Founder Chiang Kai-Shek!" among other profanities.
oversaturation we don't need 5 McDonalds in a mile radius.
They're franchises
Yep especially you got delivery now nasty stuff anyway
Radioso as Dora would say
AnhYeuEmMaiMai69 or Starbucks for that matter.
It's all about the land .
I have not eaten McDonald’s in six years. And I haven’t missed it at all!!
The food don't even taste the same no more.
The food doesn't taste the same anymore.
It’s actually better compared to years before who’s been around long enough to compare. They have very little coupons out unlike Burgerking also on the chopping block.
Exactly
@@glaxayswirl2836 word bro.
YOu mean they're worse now? I haven't eaten McDonalds food for over 25 years because they were not good even back then.
This makes me want to go out and create my own fast casual place that has all the magic McDonald's used to have 30-40 years ago!!
Mcdonalds raised their prices and eliminated some of the foods on their menu. I feel for the employers who work at mcdonalds. a breakfast burito has double in price. but not the size.
They make you sick too
😂 yep I noticed all restaurants portions got smaller, quality went down, and prices went up
What amazes me still is that it's supposed to be So Unreasonable to actually pay the myriads of workers a living wage...not a wage that affords them the opportunity to buy mansions and drive fancy cars, but hopefully just to pay rent on a 1 or 2 bedroom apartment and feed their families!! Yet, no one ever talks about how unreasonable it is - Which It Clearly IS - to pay the CEOs the millions upon millions of dollars they get, and oftentimes they're even single too! Still trying to "find the right one." I am So Disgusted.
I don't know if they are in a destructive path, but when you have to pay minimally $9 for their cheapest combo meal, that is beyond not good.
Today, you only need to be 'famous' to be an expert in pretty much everything.
Bc operator did not offer sweeten deal in lieu of toys?? Like extra fries, lesser ice, hmm more nuggets.
You got what 3 windows that consist of 3 hours activities that can produce 500 burgers!!! 500 burgers!???
Especially when there is absolutely no nutritional value-which is the whole PURPOSE for eating to begin with. That big Mack costs them $1.
The door dash killed the fast food places for me. I've waited twenty minutes for a simple order because they were busy making door dash orders and struggling to keep up with drive thru . Add in the prices going up and you are going to loose customers . Oh and when I said a simple order took twenty minutes that was a order consisting of one item . A order of large fries to go .
Working for McDonald's; was my very frist job at the age of 15 years, I was gril operator. Back then McDonald's was just about everyone's favorite fast food. I can tell now there has been a big change. McDonald's doesn't toast their hamburger buns anymore. For me that made the difference in McDonald's hamburgers back then.
Burger King stopped toasting their buns, too.
I liked it when Ronald & Hamburglar use to mix the special sauce to order while the buns toasted.
It made my meal happier somehow.....
You bring back memories with that comment. I remember those days as a teenager.
Oh wow... didn't know they no longer toast their buns... The difference for me was 1) cheaper, smaller meat, 2) switching the fries from healthy tallow to toxic seed oils.
@@swannoir7949 What happened to their motto? "Have it YOUR WAY at Burger King"?
Thankfully the litter,rubbish and trash strewn on our local roadsides will now reduce. Everywhere the cartons,waste food and cups are risgusting. Shows what sorts buy it!
That's a top reason I don't buy fast food takeaways. The waste caused by containers, cartons, packaging, straws, trays, plastic, paper cardboard, etc, etc, etc..........
I feel the McDonald's execs would rather raise prices and blame wage increases when really they just refuse to reduce their own pay checks.
Don't be silly.
The board members are well aware of Ronald & Grimace's roaring meth habit.
Hamburgler is making sure they don't try & smoke the ice in the soda.
Projected profits over the next Quarter pounder are looking especially saucy.
With a side of unemployment
@@IvyMay-qn2ys you are cracking me up! Thank you, I needed to laugh today.
Oh but they;'ll blame the min wage workers and exploit child labour!
would you cut your pay check?
@@Charmywoo Overpaid execs should cut their paycheques if they are real company men.
All the fast food joints are in trouble. They cannot sustain their biz by continually charging insanely high prices when a lot of people can no longer afford to pay that much for a fast food meal. They're all having trouble finding employees too. We had 3 Wendys here in my town, now down to one which is packed most of the time, strangely enough. Mickey D's lost one of their 3 stores here, all private franchises. I don't eat there but feel bad for all of to be going away.
They are only factoring in the cost of inflation. And then, the consumer pays the price, whatever it may be.
As the average American gets poorer these kinds of places will be forced to shut their doors. I remember when McDonalds was seen as unstoppable, those days are long gone.
Fast food forgot what they were. They were a p!ace where teenagers worked to make really cheap food for people in a hurry. Now people are demanding middle class wages which has sky rocketed prices as the quality of the food goes down. I never eat at McD's because the food sucks and the workers look like they escaped from a mental hospital or a prison.
Work is more automated regardless if the wages went up. The wages are comparable to the one’s decades ago. Executive compensations are the main reason
True it use to be just for high school students to make some money on the side....This is what shipping good jobs overseas did for cheap labor! Thank the Govt for letting that happen All I can say at this point! Many mistakes made!
Teenagers are worthless now relative to those that came before them. Their parent's generation was already on the same path... so just wait for the next-gen level of effort, education and capabilities in years to come.
The Idiocracy is a real thing.
I really did LOL at the last part of that sentence. Classic😂
Corporate anti-worker propaganda.
If people stop eating fast food and drinking beer they'd be healthier its a God send these companies are going down
I went to my butcher yesterday I bought to ground beef hamburger paddies half pound plus 1 pound of the best smoked bacon. $7. Went to the store bought tomatoes, cheese onions 15 eggs and a few other things $11 so I have food for more than two dsys for almost the price of 2 big macs.
I got ribs and potato salad for 2 days same price fully cooked . No fillers
Exsactly 👌
It’s outrageous prices will never come down so I agree that it will be boycotted.
I make hamburgers at home. At least I know what they contain. 🤗
The problem with that is if the world economics forum gets they're way the burgers of the future will contain chopped up bug protein like from crickets.
Meat from Hamburger Hill? 🪖🪖🪖🫀🩸
No one really knows what’s in hamburger “meat.”
Have you seen how most of the stuff at McDonalds is made? Most of it made in factories then just thrown in to a deep fryer. McDonalds is actually pretty expensive here in Australia but still pretty popular but I think the actual set up cost is like in the hundreds of thousands of millions.
@@MissPriss919 this is why I buy the meat myself at the butcher's. Then spice it as I wish and cook it in fresh oil.
I used to love their Big Mac, but I noticed the last one I had,, was tasteless. All their food has gotten that way. Guess the top executives would rather buy cheap foods than take a pay cut. That’s the problem these days, it’s all corporate greed, and it’s way way outta control
McDonald's is a pride burger away from disaster and collapse. Even if they raise prices another 15%, its over.
Half of their food doubled in price since 2020, if they raise prices anymore they'll just fail sooner
😹 pride burger "away",good one
@@momoneyinvesting They have consistently raised prices while shrinking the size of servings to the point that I go to a thai restuarant and get a better meal for less money.
Their strength was in their cheapness, a satisfying meal at low cost will always win.
They failed that years ago. It is time for them to close.
Lolol
@@momoneyinvesting everything has doubled since the dominion voting machines rigged our election.
They deserve to go to business. I walked into one the other day in Oakland, California. They had nobody upfront to take your order. Instead, they had computers I was tired, just finished working all night. I said to hell with that, and I walked out and haven’t been back cents to any McDonald’s and they got too expensive.
They did the same to me in Ohio even though I had cash which meant the nimrods would have to ring it all in anyways. They also got mouthy and insanely rude about just use the kiosk I’ve never been back to a single one and I don’t intend to ever. That was a horrible enough experience. And when I told her off on my way out she looked at me like what your calling me out. I then told her off. That was the end of that
I hate the computers
To each their own but I believe this and many other "failing giants" are oversaturated, overrated, and in many ways outdated. No matter how it ends up, there's always alternatives, even if I must use "copycat" recipes at home.
im not being told to wear a mask by corporations and so they earned a lifetime boycott off me.
There is not a single copycat recipe from McDonalds I'd remotely deem worth creating. Mom and Dad made awesome hamburgers. I use their recipes.
McDonald's didn't get outdated, it got overpriced. They jacked their prices sky high, but kept the same cheap crap quality. McDonald's has been playing a game for some years now, and I consider it a game where they have no competition. They are the only restaurant I know of that is seeing just how high they can jack their prices while maintaining cheap, literally bottom of the barrel quality. They are keeping up and maybe even surpassing the pricing of their competitors, but their quality isn't even half as good.
I've walked out without ordering during my last 3 attempts to eat Mcdonald's. There is no one there to take your order, and I pay cash, so if I use the kiosk, then I just stand there for 10 minutes before any even discovers that I've ordered. The staff are always rude and miserable, and about 80% of the time, they get your order wrong. I don't understand how Mcdonald's survives.
I paid $12 for fish meal in Miami last week. Thank God my children are adults.
They don't cater to children anymore. Inside the store looks corporate and souless.
Kids: I want MacDonald!!!!
Parents: I'm going to Mack-your-donalds alright.
It's too bad. Before the days of GMO and poisoned food, Mickie D's was a decent place. And affordable too.
Too expensive. I liked two fish sandwich’s for $3. Stupid now.
I was at a McDonald's in Augusta, GA that is near a bus transfer point.I bought an apple pie that was overpriced and obviously not fresh. They had covered the outlets in the dining area to avoid people lingering too long to charge their phones: you can read into that cost-containment and trying to prevent loitering by the homeless. I was also harrassed by a wierdo who was in the dining area looking for new women to arrive he could try to hit on and bother, and when I yelled at him to take a hike, none of the management said anything or inquired about my safety. The last time I dined at a McDonald's in a better area, the food was mediocre at best, and the prices were sky-high. I mentioned this to the employee and he sighed and said, "Yeah, the prices have gone way up." I think I am done with McDonald's as well, and an Egg McMuffin combo used to be one of my guilty pleasures in life.
Ah c'mon, I'm not THAT wierd. Gotta meet women somewhere...LOLOL...
I live in Augusta, born and raised. That sounds like the one on Walton Way in the medical district. Yeah, Augusta's homeless issue is getting terrible, like most places. Their favorite places to be is that particular McDonald's (it's close to the shelter) and the public library downtown on Telfair st.
@@jewelryboxballerina Actually it was the one in the Fort Gordon area.
Remember when Micky Ds had the world's best fries. Well they changed that cooking style and it's been downhill ever since
I used to love their hamburgers back in the day, now you can only get the cheeseburger and it’s been premade hours ago, gross.
Sad for employees but that company is ruthless in every way. The food is the worst
I agree! Serving dead animals is never good for business
The employees are apart of the problem.
@@dennisburdick682 i get that
They hate their jobs, best thing for them
I am one of the few OG’s that started eating at Mc Donald’s at their Downey, California store when it opened the first day. What happened to that grand idea. I will bet not one person that day would have ever guessed that Fries would one day cost $4.00, or a cone costing $2.00. I can go to Denny’s and get more food than I care to eat for the same money as I pay for a snack at Mickey’s.
Yes, I stopped going to McDonald's Sept 2022 bc of price increases & low food quality, most everything was luke warm at best when it was handed to me & the Crispy Chicken had already had the crust turning dark after sitting over the allowed time. The drive thru is always backed up so I always order on the app in the parking lot & walk inside to pickup my orders, even the fries are luke warm when I get back to my car to try one. Even if you request a special order, you still getting pre cooked food items that's been sitting in the warmer except for the buns, they do toast or steam the buns fresh per order. I always get HOT food items at BK or Wendy's when I order on the app & pickup. All 3 restaurants are within 1.5 miles of my house so no big difference there.
The END of Fast Food.....go to Hell with you $18 "value meals".........the people are voting with their feet.....
They just decided to double the price of a cheeseburger , breakfast burrito and probably other things out of nowhere, so not surprised
lol not out of nowhere. they shut down businesses for a year, two in some places and then printed 6 trillion dollars. mcdonalds doesn't cost more our money is worth less
McDonalds forgot what it is that they provide - cheap fast food. Consumers arent happy with the price hikes and realize the value is just not there anymore.
For so long I kept seeing a sign that said, “Dining room closed.” It got to a point that I didn’t even go to the door, still don’t.
Firstly, I can't believe people actually eat the junk they serve at McD's. I shake my head every time I walk the dogs past the long line of cars in the drive thru. The last time I was in one, ( an out of town visitor suggested it), I couldn't believe the prices! And that was 4-5 yrs ago. The success of McD's is beyond my comprehension.
I will say, that I wholly appreciate the clean rest rooms at McD's. If I'm on a road trip, that's where I make my potty stops. The last time I did that, I also ordered my old fav, 1/4 lb'er w/cheese. Man, was I disappointed. If it's up to me, we don't eat there.
Tbh, most of those people are there for the McCafé coffee. I've heard that the drinks are pretty good.
Simple, credit card it,
No prob!
@@stevenkrupka3670 You absolutely miss my point: Why spend money or increase debt to put GARBAGE in my stomach?
I feel sorry dor anyone who has paid for a frachise. That's a ton of money to lose.
To laundry some... It worked for some.
@@1dayUllC English, please.
@@joevarga5982 last time I checked those words are English. Maybe he is referring to money laundering?
@@bk3720
Thank you.
Exactly, that's what I was referring to.
But didn't want to put it as obviously.
See, it's clear above the necessary IQ level.
@@joevarga5982
Education, please.
I rarely eat at McDonald's anymore.... Not only is the food more expensive than what it's worth, the service is beyond slow and the quality of the food is very poor. Most of the time I end up throwing half or more of it away in the trash were it belongs....
Heck, id gladly work at McDonald's for $22 an hour,
ill do it for $35 only. otherwise you are working for rents only.
They cut you down to 15 hours a week its about the same as making 8.79 an hour
How much do you make average weekly?
@@Jaychris_viajes $6000
There are far better places to work to make that kind of money, and you can get full time rather than part time.
Screw McDonald's and corporate America!! I'm tired of them getting ridiculously rich off our backs ! Boycott McDonald's
In the past, I have been sickened by McDonald's hamburgers which seem to contain too many flavorings, texturizers etc. Have not been to one in many years. Don't miss the bloat and the fast onset hunger pangs.
See idk why, but everytime I've eaten food there, in five hours I'd be vomiting and having diarrhea for multiple hours afterwards, I thought it was allergies or something, but it didn't matter what it was, even the drinks and Ice cream would cause it, when the grease touches my skin it burns, I have no idea what's going on, but I'll just assume I'm allergic to McDonald's entirely.
@@abigailpena5950 Abigail: I heard that McDonald's has 70 (SEVENTY) ingredients in their burgers. Now, such fast food chains are pushing factory-made veggie burgers and artificial meat. Soon people will be affected, some badly, by such MANUFACTURED FOOD. But, the MDs will love the new business!
Everything has this icky, nasty, gross feel and taste. The place smells like an armpit and the food just has this bizzarre taste and smell. How does something like this stay in business
I stopped eating them four years ago because I felt legit clogged inside. I could actually feel my health declining as I sat there and just hated myself.
@@abigailpena5950 yup this is why ppl are starting to cook at home rn & I don't blame em, it is wut it is 🤷🏽
Our economy is caught is a vicious cycle right now. Property developers charge outrageous rents and various governments are increasing taxes. It is a fact that government workers are unproductive.
THe last part if part of the big problem! Shrink GOVT NOW!!!!
It’s too expensive now. Too expensive
Yeah they forgot their role to society
yeah - 2 Big Mac's and a Large fries is just too much
Pay now, then pay later with hospital bills...😂
@@mikeyg1776 "fast food", never said "cheap food" 😅
@@EroticOnion23 it was the king of the dollar menu then it all went away
"Struggling with health issues for years, I relied on burgers and fries until doctors warned me about the dangers of fast food. Most said opting for home-cooked meals was the healthier choice, as fast food can lead to thyroid problems and bloating. Shockingly, many fast food workers don't even wash their hands! After years of this cycle and high prices, I've ditched fast food for good. Now, I'm healthy and focused like never before."
GREED HAS AND WILL CAUSE Great need.
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I lived next door to one of these things. Good, worst people I have ever had to deal with, one of their burger college graduates even threatened me with their team of lawyers in my own yard, by damage caused by them, more than eight times they had their grease flowing into my yard caused by a grease trap they failed to maintain, if they were failing in that department just think of the sanitary areas they are lacking in. Good Riddance and Ha, Ha, If anyone deserves it you surely do.
Two grandchildren and I went for lunch at McDonald’s in SLC the other day. Bill was $25.00. I ordered a fish sandwich for $7.50 and a water. The sandwich was the size of a child’s biscuit and the water was a 40 cent bottle with no cup for ice. I didn’t realize it was bottle water which I do not drink. Never will be a McDonald’s customer again.
They could have made it if their ice cream machines weren’t always broken!
The fudge they use for the ice cream is honestly the best tho
The things were designed to break. I asked one employee about it. They said they had to wait till November for a new one.
lol...and their latte machines too. Too funny.
🤣🤣🤣
Corp is getting a cut of the service call on the machine, more profitable if they don’t work.
Besides all the inflation and the covid closures. People now want healthy food to eat. That's why Macdonalds and other fast food establishments are failing as well.
They stayed open for us. Just drive thru.
I remember stopping at McDonald's with my son in Akron, 1992, went inside to eat. The quarter pounders and fries were hot, coke and ice machines worked. What happened?.
no one cares.
Liberals
Corporate greed. But you'll hear red team rant about how the workers are being paid too much (LOL!)
I just refuse to eat ‘fake’ food!!!! I’ll cook at home first! And when I’m traveling, I’ll find a grocery store first for real, fresh food!!!! A fresh green salad is always a welcome dinner!
I don't go to McDonald's simply because I don't like the food, but I'll take my son a couple times a year. Their coffee is actually really good, so I got myself one, and him a mcnuggets meal ... Came to $13.01 which is why I haven't been back. People expect minimum wage to be a lovely livable one, so they shouldn't be shocked when a "value" meal is over $10. I got high quality hamburger patties at the grocery store for the same amount, and when considering bun, ketchup, pickles, etc it comes out to a little under $4 each, for a MUCH better burger.
Last time I got a Big Mac at McDonald's about 5 years ago, it was more bun than burger and overpriced even back then. Never went back to eat at McDonald's after that, except for an occasional chocolate shake....which I have to admit is better than most other fast food shakes.
I only occasionally get a coffee, fry, and fish sandwich. They don't have any cheese but yellow cheese though. Used to get the Carmel ice cream too.
My McDonald’s has a 30 minute wait time. It’s busy as hell. People are paying
It seems some people just dont care and can reward this scam
Serving toxic products that appear like food isn’t a good business model.
They havn't done too bad from it 🔥
Exactly. I was just about to make a similar comment myself.
King of fast food. Maybe you eat spinach every day, but I don't know anyone who hasn't been to McDonalds at least twice.
Nasty vegetable seed oil..fried this and that....bread, sugar, processed dairy makes a no gooder fat and diabetic...
😂😂you think?
A few months ago I went to McDonald’s & ordered a cheeseburger w/ Bacon, a small fry & a drink! 🍔🍟🥤All these items at one point were on the dollar menu & would all cost you no more than $4 to $5 tops! I tell you no lie, the McDonald’s employee said “That’ll be $11.40” or something like that, I just immediately pulled off with no explanation & went to get REAL food for the same price & got more food at that! McDonald’s betrayed its core customers when we needed them most! McDonald’s has market cap of $211 Billion at the time of this post! They also have an annual revenue of over $23 billion a year. They make enough money & have enough money! No need to be greedy because you have to pay your workers a livable wage who make you the money day & night! Smh
Bye bye, McNasty Mcfood. And don't let the door hit you in the butt. Chik-filla FOREVER!
ChicF food comes already cooked from China..... don't eat their either.
You can't even spell it right lol also Chick-Fil-A is a trash company
The #1 reason McDonald’s is in big trouble = people are more health conscious and wiser due to the fact nearly everyone has a smart phone. People can easily research what you are putting in your food. This has caused the birth of competitors completely overlapping McDonald’s by offering high quality fresh 100% beef and high quality chicken and potatoes free of preservatives and filler. I barely ever eat at McDonald’s had one fish filet and cheeseburger while in a rush on vacation after eating there only twice in 13 years and the food tasted fairly good but strange and unusual. I’ve tasted a burger and fries from The Habit burger grill and other similar restaurants and their food is so delicious and tastes natural. To McDonald’s credit the fries was fantastic and no longer had that strange scent that stay in your body for hours on end reminding you what you ate. But McDonald’s can no longer compete with its competitors, they are simply too good.
I haven't dined at McDonalds in the last 7 years, and in my entire life less than a 150 times so this is no surprise.
I wont be sorry to see them go bankrupt, I will just be sorry for all of their employee's who will lose their jobs.
150 times is alot lol
theres plenty of jobs for the rejeckts
There are always better jobs
@@JamesBrown-db9pk Tell me you’re a bigot without telling me you’re a bigot.
A lot of fast food I think is going to collapse in the coming years. I've noticed that a meal at your fast food place isn't much cheaper than a sit down place anymore. I can go to Friday's, Applebees, etc for only a few bucks more than your average fast food place.
I go to lunch in a mall almost every day, I patronize a small local chain restaurant and am surprised they survived the lockdowns. Meanwhile, Panera across from them didn't make it' Lots of empty storefronts in this upscale mall.
Applebees sucks here Always has! Fridays went downhill when they changed their Name from TGIF and prices were too high there and They closed down 2 yrs ago here.
In 1970's, 80's and 90's it was McDonald's. Now it's McDUMPSTERS!
The hamburgers at McDonald's is very Bland and the food has no flavor
They human flesh. Did you know that? I realized it quite a few years ago when I saw strange meat in a burger I was eating one day. It was just strange looking and into my mind as I sat there staring at that meat came the thought, This is human meat. I go with my gut to this day and do not eat McDonald's food.
@@MsAnna47 Human meat would cost a lot more and be a lot harder to find than actual cattle.
@@SC-ut2dn not hobo meat...especially in San Fran, etc...😅
@@proudam3969 that's good to know
I think of it as bland food for white people that don't know to cook and have no taste.😆
I'm a liberal, but $22/hour with over 3% raise every year is ridiculous for unskilled fast food workers, and I'm no fan of the fast food industry.
Hi, you just fly in from stupid town? Cooking food is a skill.
The big companies are racing each other to the bottom! Bud Lite and Target are prime examples. Harley Davidson and Ford are also jumping off a cliff. PUZZLING but entertaining.
the business equivalent of SNL
What happened with Ford & Harley Davidson?
@@svenjorgensen3059 one of them made a 🌈 truck
What did Harley Davidson do? Let me guess Go Woke with Rainbows and Unicorns? I guess blackrock owns them too if that's the case Worse thing to ever happen to America!
@@skyangel6336 . Harley Davison just partnered up with Budweiser to try to save Bud Lite reputation. Lmao.
It's just not worth it anymore for me and my family. Im not going to pay $40 for Mcdonald's for my family. Im not gonna pay $12.48 for one Big Mac Meal.
In 2004, as a kid my father used to hand me one $5 bill, and i would buy a Super Size Big Mac Meal for $4.52.
I used to depend on fast food. Now im searching for new options. I cook, but even grocerie prices are scary.
Not to mention the recent shortage on human flesh 🙄
You know that, too? May be what they use as fillers.
Exactly what I was thinking !
Instead of being a fast food stop, they have tried to take business away from restaurants and be a replacement for eating at home!
Feminism
Sounds just like Sears in the early 1990s when 4300 independent store owners told Sears the same thing. Out of touch upper management. Sears CEO Arthur C. Martinez did same things and we know how that went.
I'll never understand how Arthur Martinez got as much credit as he did with Sears. Allstate grew into the number two insurer about ten years after he spun it off. Had one good year in 96 with that Softer side of Sears stuff and it went down into hell the very next.
Target, Old Navy, GAP, etc..really started eating Sears lunch by the late nineties and he REFUSED to take advantage of the internet and e-commerce when Amazon was showcasing the rewards RIGHT THEN.
@@Yehuz In 1993 he closed the catalog division and 4300+ catalog stores which at the time would of been the 5th largest national retailer if standing alone. Sears had the distribution system in place and a huge customer base and should of updated and transitioned into a Amazon like system. Jeff Bezos had the vision to expoit that abandon demand. Martinez wanted to turn Sears into a high class women's store. Even in the retail stores he put in furs and perfume counters and cut back on hardware like Diehard Batteries, Craftsman tools, weather-beater paints, Road Handler tires etc. No high class woman was going to go to her friends and say "Look at the dress I got at Sears" He then starting selling and spinning off profitable things like Allstate, Discover, Dean Whitter, H & R Block, etc, etc hen spent the money on one failed bad idea after another. No he didn't turn Sears around but took the control of a huge diversified company and crashed it into ground. History is repeating with several other huge companies who have forgotten who their customers are. Death by WOKE.
@@rogueecnomist Everything that you say is true, too.
Pure arrogant dumbness at the top and no one with enough sense to fire this wrecking ball before it was too late.
sears. kodak. jcpenny . macys. hardees. chrysler. blockbuster...pizza hut....howard johnsons. krystals...toysrus .. and most of all ..GE...wonderful once ..ruined by greedy management. cant wait to see whole wallet foods go the way of the dodo next.
@@rogueecnomistRemember when Sears owned Western Auto? They owned it from the 1970’s into the early nineties and when Allstate Insurance was spun off Western Auto was spun off to Advance Auto with Allstate Insurance. Allstate Insurance is still owned by the shareholders who own Advance Auto.
$3 for crappy food was acceptable, $10 for crappy food unacceptable.
Exactly.
Three days ago, I went to a new McDs here in Colorado Springs. Turns out, it had virtually no visible staff, only kiosks, and those had pretty badly designed screens. I ordered breakfast, and thankfully chose to pay when the items were delivered to my table (few tables, stark interior, and virtually no one else eating there). After waiting 15 minutes and finding no one either serving me or even contactable, I left. Screw them, and never again. I don't mind fast food, but no service is a tipping point.
They are probably in trouble because they refuse to make rainbow chicken nuggets and Frenchette Fries in tuck bags. Just a guess.
God help them if they try that!
Oh Geez! They would have closed every store! People are sick of that crap forced in our faces everywhere we go everywhere we look!
Look, kids! It's Rhonda McDonald!
I live in Australia. I recently (May 2023) drove thru a McDonalds to get a sausage and cheese McMuffin meal combo- (with apple juice and hashbrown) and it cost me $10.00 AUD. I can't afford to do that anymore. The size of the hash brown was the same size but the muffin and sausage sizes appear to have shrunk in size. It is only about 5 bites and it is gone!
I am also very ticked off as now they are asking people to download an app and get "cheaper food" They order on line and everything now takes longer! They are also asking people to order on in store kiosks. You can tell me what you want to but going to the counter and ordering with with a real person now takes less time than ordering on an app or on a kiosk.
Somehow, I couldn't care less.
this isn't so serious
McDonald's never give out coupons. Jack in the box is my go to.
Let them ALL go Buh Bye!! They are not REAL food anyways!!! Bio engineered!!!! Employees should start looking for other employment ASAP!!!
if you work at Mcdonalds, you dont have other options
They work there because no one else would hire them
When I was a kid I paid 15 cents for a hamburger...granted it was the 1960s but that is what I paid.
Well yes of course the late '60s however I lost her say that they sold in massive volume.
The menu was also a lot simpler cheese or no cheese there was options like hold the pickles hold the Mayo hold the onion hold the lettuce perhaps add a little extra onion etc stuff like that that was the customizations at the time so it was a simpler operation that still was able to maintain quality and speed.
Thus they could sell in high volume whereas time has went on they've complicated the menu and then of course the public itself has become more and more picky so you have more and more jackasses standing at the counter and or in the Drive-Thru holding the line up while they request 55 different sauces and they order a number one but they don't really want a number one they want to customize the shit out of the number one that's holding up the line confusing personnel and screwing up the general flow of things.
Of course you have management particularly upper but definitely district management pushing for speed speed they're constantly preaching at the personnel screaming at them basically the store managers in many cases are fucking drill sergeants they drag down morale and they're not exactly encouraging people and I'm not saying hold the workers hand or any Mickey mouse horseshit I'm just saying they make a miserable work and fire and it doesn't matter if the personnel is somewhere in their thirties or teenagers it's miserable to work under micromanagement that's always up your ass screaming.
So it isn't just one single thing that I have listed off it's most likely a combination of all of these things that play into the drop of quality speed and of course the prices every time volume sales go down the only way to combat that is to jack up the prices at least as far as they can tell because they're too stupid to thin out the menu they're starting to do that there are some people complaining that they have dropped a lot of items off the menu of course the reason people complain is because those were specialty items that they themselves like the problem is simply there was enough of them to justify keeping the item not to mention it shifted focus from their core offerings.
I used to stop a few times a week for a sausage biscuit meal, now it's almost $12, so I go down the road to whataburger and still pay $6.
They used to have the cheapest breakfast and it was good. Now I rarely get breakfast after their combos went up by $3
They raised their prices and shrunk their food. When I was young their Big Mac and Quarter pounder were bigger and a thick patty, now the burger are smaller and patty is paper thin, I thought when someone bought me a McDonald burger, that all I got was a hamburger bun, I saw super small piece of meat in it. After seeing that I'm glad that I quit eating at McDonald's years ago.
Pay now, then pay later with hospital bills...😂
McDs food is no where close to the volume for price quantity and quality it was 60 years ago
9:42 McDonald's exec Joe Erlinger makes $5 million/yr and the CEO Mr Kempczinski makes $20 MILLION/yr.... but a hard-working employee who actually produces the surplus value for the company, makes about $23k/yr... yet the execs are complaining that paying their employees a living wage will result in destroying the business? Have you ever heard of anything more ridiculous than that??!! PULEEZ!
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fast food work was never meant to be a substitute for a living wage income unless you are management
Epic, no need to use the scary music on this one. People arent eating as much at Mcdonalds because the food costs as much as a steak dinner in many places. It also it tastes like microwable TV dinners.
Not even that good 😕
No Steak dinners are over 20 bucks a person Almost 30 in places here! Beef has gone up and I can see why with the Dictator that's in charge of destroying farmers!
I like the scary doom bass note at the beginning. Keep it. Catches your attention. Especially, those who never pay attention to what's happening around them in the economy.
I am here in Victoria, Australia and was kicked out of a McDonald s for being un vaxed !
To many people and way to many politicians. Politicians who are in over 6 years is a multimillionaire. Surprise surprise
Back then many of these restaurants used to be cheaper for one reason because women used to cook at home more. Now less at home meals meant eating out dependency
Actually that's not true, I would say that that was true back in the '90s maybe even perhaps the mid-2000s but to be honest for the past 15 years or 16, it's been sad that most of the under 50 but definitely under 40 crowd would prefer to cook a meal and stay at home which is why a lot of boomers and gen xers have been bitching and blaming millennials for some of their favorite restaurants closing down because we don't want to overpay and eat that shit.
I mean for me it's more of the overpaying factor I'm 38 so yes I am a millennial but I've always known how to cook I grew up learning so I was taught not only by my parents but of course my grandmother was a big help in that education and I just naturally had an interest in it.
So I'm not one of these health food yuppies I mean I love my potatoes and gravy but I would much rather make that myself especially because a lot of restaurants have pussied out and you can't get gravy anymore.
I guess you would say that my grandmother also helped drill in my head that you can technically save a lot of money by eating at home now that said I will say that there was a point in time somewhere between the early 2000s and mid-2000s that in many cases depending upon what you were seeking to eat that it was actually cheaper to go to a restaurant than it really was to cook at home and or it was about the same price I remember in the mid 2000s between 05 and 7 there is a lot of restaurants where it was actually cheaper to go pay their price for the plate of food and or especially buffet then it was to buy all the ingredients and make it at home.
To a small degree we're kind of headed back that direction I mean by the time I buy enough hamburger to make hamburgers for a family of four and especially if I make anything to go with the hamburgers honestly I'd probably just as well run down to Mickey D's and buy the cheap ass cheeseburger and forget it.
On the other hand if I want to make a lasagna part of the reason why it would probably cost me in the neighborhood of $25 to make the lasagna as well you have the cost of the hamburger and of course the cheese the sauce and the pasta itself are the two cheapest ingredients but I'm also not just making a small lasagna that's going to feed us that night no I'm plotting to have leftovers for the next day at the very least so it's basically getting two to three meals out of one cooking session.
It's all about making money go farther and to be honest that's really caught on I think what we're discovering is much like me you have a lot of folks either below the age of 40 or slightly over the age of 40 that it turns out they actually did listen to their grandmother and or even parents about you know cooking at home versus eating out and trying to save money.
you know it's like once in awhile I don't mind throwing down and going over to Applebee's for steak but to be quite honest I could get a much bigger steak and have it at home and I can cook that 50 different ways the technically I could have more variety furthermore to a degree it can be cheaper it's not always cheaper but it can be cheaper especially if any of the stores in the area are running a meat sale which you can get periodically.
Sometimes I don't really like anything super fancy I just seriously like a good old-fashioned pepper steak you know serve a vegetable on the side to go with it have some potatoes and gravy in the hell with it you know that's really all you need whereas if you go to Applebee's today you're not going to get gravy you get potatoes but you're not getting gravy a lot of restaurants are like that and I don't know what the hell it is with the anti-gravy I take it that they used to make up huge pots of it and very few people ordered it they got tired of throwing it away so it's a cost cutting measure.
But I don't know the way in which they allow picky people to alter the fucking menu to be honest why not offer gravy on demand I mean how hard is it to take a gravy mix put it in some hot water and whisk the shit out of it just like they do over at the Chicken shack!
Inflation was almost unheard of before Russia was sanctioned.
You mean when Donald J. Trump was president? The current moron-n-Chief Is destroying this country. All those who voted for sleepy joe, I hope you enjoy the higher food, and gas prices, the supply chain shortages of supply chain issues, etc.! Maybe next time you vote you will be better informed, that is if we have another election…
yeah...because we see so many Russian products on every store shelf
@@Slimedog1963 you can’t really be that obtuse???
For those that have a limited vocabulary, the definition is here:
more obtuse; most obtuse] 1. formal : stupid or unintelligent : not able to think clearly or to understand what is obvious or simple. He is too obtuse to take a hint.
Buying into a franchise is like buying into a cult
I haven't had McDonald's in 15 years last time I ate at one I got food poisoning , never ever again will I eat out at any fast food restaurant . I hope they go bankrupt .
Longer than that for me and I am 62 , sure use to love it as a child when I was lucky enough to go there ! And the food was delicious to me then . . . . . . But once I grew up and became aware of the ish it was made of which has gotten 10 x worse the health impacts, never ate it again.! 😵💫 👵🏾🙏🏾☮️
McDonald's breakfast meals are FAR overpriced. A basic sandwich on an English muffin, hash brown, and small coffee is almost $8 in my area