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[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 133 points 2 years ago

The Big Mac set in Japan is ¥750 right now. Which converts to $5.07.

Does McDonald's America think each restaurant is a theme park or something?

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 49 points 2 years ago

The Big Mac set in Japan is ¥750 right now.

And Burger King is even cheaper.

It baffles my mind that people would pay $18 USD for that shit. I visited the US last year and while prices in general had definitely gone up since the last time I was there, there is absolutely no justification to pay $18 for McDonald's. It's crazy.

[-] buzz86us@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

It is insane that a meal at Red Robin with bottomless fries is actually less expensive than McDonald's.. I literally don't go to these types of restaurants unless there is some app deal because fastfood retail prices have gone insane.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 7 points 2 years ago

I don't know where they're getting this $18 price from as my local McDonalds aren't charging anywhere near that much for any of their meals.

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Australia pricing. It's around $12 in the states

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago

Someone was able to bypass the paywall and said it's some McDonalds at a rest stop in Connecticut, which is just an outlier like any gas station charging $1.50/gal more because they're right off a busy freeway exit.

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

You can get some proper good food for that price in a normal restaurant here in Austria.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

I live in Texas and had a sweet potato hash with pulled pork, kale, and a poached egg for lunch yesterday for $15. If $18 for a McDonald's meal is true, people would be crazy to go there, there are a ton of more affordable and way better options.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

They kind of used to be. The big old play areas are mostly gone. One in my area even had an N64 in one of those bubble kiosks. Gone. I can't imagine why kids these days still give a shit about Micky D.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 years ago

They look like this now. Pretty much the most inoffensively hostile environment imaginable.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago
[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

It clearly sends the message, “Come on in, then get the fuck out as quickly as possible.”

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

It looks like a McMansion kitchen/dining.

I guess that's why "Mc" is in the term.

[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Originally mcmansion meant they were like the low quality fast food of houses. But it seems like we have some convergent evolution happening now.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

I don't necessarily blame them as workers would have to go in and hose urine out of the play structure each night.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Nothing worth doing is easy, they say 🤣

[-] Froyn@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

That explains why I married such a difficult woman. lol

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Coming in hot with the boomer jokes over here lmfao go lose a cold war, old ass 🤪

[-] Froyn@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Cold war is what I call losing the fight for blankets to the wife and cat. lol

[-] FireTower@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I think they are/were trying to rebrand away from being a place to get cheap low quality burgers.

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 years ago

Well that does not work if you only increase the price.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Now they're a place to get overpriced low quality burgers.

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