McDonald's reported a surprise drop in sales worldwide on Monday (Jul 29), its first decline in 13 quarters, as deal-seeking consumers shy away from higher-priced menu items, including Big Macs. Persistent inflation has forced lower-income consumers to shift to more affordable food options at home. That ha
  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Its 18 dollars for a combo meal the local McD’s right now. Across the street is a Puerto Rican place, where I can get a steak sandwich for $21 (or shrimp for $20, or chicken for $18) and it comes with a side of gandules rice or tostones.

    Its not that complicated.

  • filister@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Someone had posted recently the price inflation of different fast food chains and if I am not wrong McDonald’s was having one of the steepest price hikes. So hardly surprising.

    • rothaine@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      $3.50 for a McDouble, the item they used to replace the double cheeseburger on the dollar menu…

  • coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The prices went up drastically. And the taste stayed behind dramatically. I can’t even describe the taste of the burger patty’s, so damn tasteless.

  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    They can’t grow anymore, so they had to ramp up the prices to continue to please shareholders.

    Next will be a certain decline in quality, like more air in bread (“fluffier bread”) and nuggets and more water in the meat (“juicier”) and shakes, maybe they’ll even remove the free refill stuff.

    • Revan343@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      shakes

      Lol, McDonald’s doesn’t have shakes. Sure, it’s on the menu, but you need ice cream for shakes, and the ice cream machine is broken

      • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        Boy! Just imagine some super fluffy ice-cream! (You make it fluffier by - you guessed it - pockets of air)

        Look at old labels of your favourite ice cream tray. The amount of liquid is the same, but it sure as heck is lighter.

    • tristan@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      There’s already a noticeable drop in quality. I bought a big Mac meal recently for the first time in a while, the fries were like toothpicks, and the large fries seemed much smaller than I recall.

      The burger had the tiniest dollop of sauce and the patties were so thin they barely held their shape.

      I know it’s all purely anecdotal, but for years I was hooked on their hash browns until they changed the recipe… And now I can’t stand them but at least I’m losing weight so that’s good haha

  • SomeGuy69@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Good. I usually go only once a month but have since refrained because Burger King, Subway and Döner are much cheaper alternatives. All McDonald’s does is being a inflation driver, driving other greedy companies to eventually also increase their prices as McDonald’s established a new normal.

  • tamagotchicowboy [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    McDonald’s has been too expensive for years, and it takes too long since they refuse to hire enough people and its usually a child doing the job of 5 grown adults. Fast food my fat ass, I can cook my own food for a fraction of the price faster than McDonald’s.