But investors are skeptical that the value meals will drive meaningful sales growth without eroding profits.

Won't somebody think of the red line?

im a fast food junkie. i love the shit. covid completely changed the landscape and subsequently my habits. my blacklist is getting longer and longer. quality across the board has plummeted while prices increased.

before covid i only had one entry; wafflehouse

Me, hungry with $10 in my pocket

Open McDonald's app

See ad for $5 meals

Click it

All meals are $6 or more

Close app

Make a sandwich

This is becoming a common thing with McDonald's. The 1,2,3 menu is all $4.50 or more here, too.

Not only did the prices go up but the portions shrank. The whopper is hardly a whopper anymore, its a regular sized patty in a wide bun.

This is the main reason i dont really eat it anymore.

Good. Fuck ‘em.

Small, privately owned delis and pizzerias need your money more than shareholders, and the food is better too.

They are also using this as an excuse to get customers on their data hoovering apps to get access to any of the best deals.

After getting ripped off by McDonald's and then seeing how much they raised prices above inflation compared to the rest of the industrly, I'll never eat there again. Rip me off, fuck you, your food is shit anyways.

It was $15 even the other day for a burger and fries. I won't be back.

It's been good, pushed me to shop more local.

used to be national chain fast food was cheap, buy a meal for ~$3-6, and local chains / restaurants where more expensive, $7-15.

Now I can go to a sit down local chain for $7-20 or get a fast food for 15-20

Yeah 5$ for a drop of Coca-Cola and a memory of a hamburger between two playing cards that takes an hour to get to you

I used to eat fast food every day after work. If I had a side hustle, I would eat fast food after my side hustle. But I stopped when I would go through the drive thru, pay $15, then sit for 10 minutes in the parking lot for old, cold, shitty food. Fast food isn't fast. Fast food isn't cheap. And fast food doesn't taste good. It's been over 3 years since I voluntarily ate fast food and I'm never going back.

Wtf? $6 is now a value for a shitty McDonalds hamburger?

fast food companies can go fuck themselves. i used to get fast food at least a few times a week. since the things i ordered went from ~$11 to ~$18 i now get fast food maybe once every few months. it's almost august and i think i've gotten it 3 times this year when there was no other option, and each time was a disappointment. even though i always expect shitty garbage from it

Anybody old enough to remember Burger King's $1 Whopper?

My four heart stents remember.

People learned how to cook again during the Pandemic ... found out it wasn't hard, and some even found it enjoyable. Tacking on a period of inflation right after that, and fast food is no longer anywhere near the economic staple it was in the Before Times.

Here McDonald's "lowered their prices" by automatically making it small fries and a small drink.

Go to McDonald's about every 4 years because of some external circumstance

"Yup, still garbage"

Have one in 5 minute walking distance ever since I moved here 5 years ago. Never bought anything there. They'd need to pay me to eat their offerings.

But in fairness shoutouts to the McDonald's in Madrid airport terminal 4 outside of security. The only place in there not trying to rip you off. Had my share of salads there

Note that McD’s no longer shows their pricing on their website. You have to add the item to the cart and log into a delivery service to see. Asinine.

Right? "Local spots have better quality, better prices and better interactions" ™

Fast food chains can suck a rotting dick and die. Nothing of value will be lost.

I used to get a bic mac large menu for me and my friend for roughly €10, now it's around €12 for one if i'm not mistaken (haven't been to the place for quite some years now).

The food was never worth the money, we went there for the friendship and low barrier of entry. We could just do what we wanted and enjoy ourselves for as long as we wanted. Watch some video's, have a laugh, maybe get a cheap icecream or milkshake after a while.

Where any regular coffee place would start trying to get you to order more or let you know they needed to "free up the table" for other guests.

Maccers never gave a shit and it felt good to be there, so that's what we did...we hung out as it was affordable, especially when the weather was bad.