nobody ever went to mcdonald's because it's "good" but because it was cheap and fast

now it's none of those 3 things. no reason to go there at all. that applies to most other fast food shit too.

I won't go back until hash browns are 2 for $1.

Fuck outta here with this $2.00 hash brown bullshit.

I miss cheap fast food. Feels like it will never come back anywhere.

Notice they are too embarrassed to post their prices online. To see the price, you have to put the item in the cart then use some bs 3rd party app. WTF McDs?

Honestly, I’m amazed people still go there to eat. The food was never really good, but at least it used to be fast and cheap. But these days, it’s neither anymore. McDonald’s is now more expensive than the gourmet burger places in my city; that feels insane.

Four McDoubles for 20 bucks. Fuck off!

I'm so glad that I live in a big city, where there are hundreds of awesome small burger joints that sell better quality burgers at a much lower price.

McDonald's whole niche is "cheap but edible", the second you remove cheap from that equation the value proposition is gone.

Oh wow.... Increased prices resulted in people going else where.... Who would have seen that coming 🤔

Scrolled through for a while and didn't see anyone complaining about ditching coupons for their app bullshit. I'm not using an app for fast food

the only fast food that didnt go stupid during covid in my area ... quality, price or service... seemed to be five guys

i think its the simple menu plus it was already quite expensive, and so i assume they are paying a fair wage to keep good people.

Last month, the head of its US operations formally responded to the complaints with an open letter to customers, saying social media was painting an inaccurate picture. He said the average price of a Big Mac in the US, which is now $5.29 (£4.11), was up 21% since 2019 - roughly in line with the pace of inflation - and many items had risen by less.

Sure, place the blame on anyone but themselves.

$5.29 is ridiculous for a Big Mac, which is super tiny.

I think we have two classes of "fast food" now. The higher class places like Five Guys, Poke Bros, Panera are going to cost you more, and you're not going to go there every day (or even every week), but they're pretty damned good.

The OG fast food places - McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Hardee's/Carl's Jr., Arby's, Taco Bell - they're just not good enough to command the higher prices that the new class of fast food can. Not to mention that the quality of all of those chains has declined dramatically in the last decade. Obvious drop in quality plus increase in price, people notice that.

Definitely don’t work to make the “food” better, yeah, just price gouge like every other company now.

No loss for me since I don’t go there anyway. But my childhood weeps a little for the good ole days.

I feel like lately fast food has lost its appeal.

It isn't that fast any more, the service has gone done hill (habbitually checking orders now, because they're often wrong) and the prices are a joke.

they jacked prices as much as they could, had record profits, now they will have to pull back because people don't have money.

My McDonald's boycott is in it's 24th year. There is nothing to miss.

Their solution will be to raise prices by 1% to make up for lost sales.

The bigger reason I don’t go to McDonald’s is because of the self serve kiosks they’ve forced on us instead of paying people to run the registers.

Price is still a reason though, so I’m glad they are at least considering that as well.

How about you guys rethink the food

If you can reconstitute some kind of edible food that maintains some semblance of the low price, I think that'll be enough. People started going to Five Guys and paying $16 because your burgers are clearly made of mouse shit.

I live in Ireland and I like McDonalds occasionally. But there is no doubt that there food is quite expensive and they aren't innovating. Once a month there will be some new burger which is usually just the same as a normal burger but with bacon or bbq sauce or some shit but it's just boring and lazy marketing. What is worse than the food is the entire ordering experience - those bullshit kiosks are very time consuming and aggravating to use and then because they're cutting staff you can look forward to a 5 or 10 minute wait for food to appear. I remember when I worked in McDs at peak periods you'd get your food almost as soon as you ordered it (unless it was a grill item) but not any more.

I stopped understanding McDonald’s when there’s hundreds of homemade-like small burger places everywhere. They are so frikin tasty and cost the same

I still remember eating an especially tasty one and playing Disco Elysium then dying from heart attack in the game. Somehow it has become a permanent memory