74 points

There’s plenty affordable fast food out there, just not at McDonalds. McDonalds and other publicly traded fast food companies have jacked up prices to pay their shareholders while simultaneously decreasing quality and service across the board. Meanwhile, I’ve got a regional burger chain near me where I can get a double cheeseburger with fries for $5 that’s way more substantial than anything McDonalds offers.

This isn’t “a boring dystopia,” this is just people dumping McDonalds, which is a good thing.

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How is stuff getting shittier while prices go up not a boring dystopia? Like sure, publicly traded and all that, but isn’t that what we are here to comment on?

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16 points

I worked at mcdonald’s. And the guy who owns the restaurants of mcdonalds in my country likes to race his ferari down the drive through. He is an arrogant swine. Said to my restaurant manager that “if you don’t make a 30% profit, why do it at all?” In response to the jacked up prices.

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3 points

That $5 double cheeseburger sounds good.

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I wonder what the impact of weight loss drugs will be once they hit the mainstream. Those things are just normal (but very effective) appetite suppressants. Combine 20+ years of bad PR with a real way for people to curb their very real psychological addictions to fast food and I can actually see a future where we look back on today’s fast food like we do to whatever the fuck the 1970s thought about jell-o

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Ngl that “tomato aspic” jello mold intrigues me. I could see spreading that on a saltine with some oysters on the half shell. Many of the others frighten and confuse me

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6 points

The 1970s was a frightening and confusing time.

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I kinda feel like EVERY time period is its own special kind of frightning and confusing. Name a decade, and I can name some horrific shit that was scarring to a generation…and then someone else can counter me with all the good things about that time period. Doesn’t mean the 70s didn’t have a bunch of cults, and car bombings, and oil shortages, and hostage situations.

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2 points

You mean my grandma’s world-famous Lime Jell-O Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise?

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3 points

I don’t like surprises in my food. I want my edibles to be very well documented the contents of said food!

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whatever the fuck the 1970s thought about jell-o

So that’s why Rugrats had an episode involving a potluck with lots of weird Jell-O recipes!

Edit: fairly odd parents had one with a weird Jell-O too

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47 points

Yeah traditional fast food is expensive now, much more bang for your buck going to local chinese, mexican, and indian restaurants where I am. Even a subway sandwich has inched above the prices of local sandwich places (and it’s by far the lowest quality).

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No no. It’s not that we can’t afford it. It’s the fact that food quality has diminished, portions have been shrunk, and now prices have risen to that of a sit down resteraunt.

So logically speaking it makes more sense to get bigger portions, of better quality food, for the same price.

Mcdonslds has priced themselves out of their own market. Stop trying to blame consumers for not buying, and start selling something consumers want to buy.

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8 points

The problem is more that the price doesn’t make sense for the amount and quality of the food.

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36 points

I don’t agree with the conclusion. Mcdonalds has gotten more expensive than many high end burgers, and mcdonalds is not a high end burger.

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That’s the main reason I never get food there. I realized a few years ago that I can get better food for about the same price by going to Culver’s, or if I want I can even go to a sit down restaurant for not much more. I don’t even know what their prices are like now because it’s been a few years since I last stepped foot in McDonalds

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