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?

Thank god we didnt raise minimum wage, otheriwse the price of big macs would have sky rocketed!!!!

Who the fuck pays $18 to eat at McDonalds?

As if they weren't the ones setting the price so high. They're actually paying attention because people are finally starting to not pay them.

Just don't go there anymore. If we all got on the same page and normalize boycotting corporations for the slightest reason we could hit them where it hurts; their profits. It's the only way we can fight back against corporate greed.. Use the capitalist system they have used to divide and conquer against them. Make them fear us.

So smaller portions. Got it

Translation: shrinkflation incoming

Our family was priced out of fast food in the US about two years ago. It's both too expensive and much worse than it was in the past. We got generally priced out of family dining before that, so this was just the natural progression.

I work harder than ever and we just keep sliding down the economic scale. We lost the class war.

Whatever, don't care. Won't be lured in to eat their crappy food. I could gather more sustenance from sunlight more cheaply and with better service. Bagged lunches unite!

It better get much further than spitting distance from what carryout at a local pub buys me price-wise. Currently it's essentially the same price whether I go get a hand-formed burger and fries with actual fresh lettuce and tomato from the local pub as it is if I get a meal from McD.

They were only ever winning on cost and speed, and now they can't even compete there.

Greedflation strikes again.

I can get a bison burger at a halfway respectable restaurant that actually tastes like food a person would eat for that price. What a scam, but then again, I haven't seen anything close to that in any McDs near me.

That's more expensive than me going to "better" fast food places like Chipotle, Panda Express, etc. Which is silly because McD's is only a choice for me when there's nearly nothing else I trust to eat.

Anybody get past the paywall to see where it's with $18? I just pulled up the menu for nearest McD and a medium Big Mac meal is $8.98 where I live. Which now seems like a heck of a deal.

Even here in Seattle, you can get one or two real burgers for that price.

Geez, and I thought our 11 euro meal was expensive here in the Netherlands…

The company really has lost track of why people went there in the first place. They used to be cheap and fast; that’s what mattered. Nobody gave a shit that the food was just OK or that you ate it off a plastic tray while sitting in a plastic bench seat.

But in the 90’s, things went downhill. They made the restaurants ‘fancy’ and added a lot to the menu. Which meant you were now paying more for food and waiting longer to get it. Before the self order kiosks were installed, the staff also couldn’t keep up with menu changes, which meant more order errors as well.

They also invested more in things like healthy options and added specific McCafe coffee corners to sell better coffee. As if that was something we went to McD’s for…

They really need to get back to basics. A ten item menu, sold cheap, in a who-gives-a-shit what it looks like restaurant.

Next month they're releasing the Smellinator. For $6.99 you get a napkin that smells like a Burger... Enjoy!

Where on earth is a Big Mac $18? I’m not paying to read that article.

Every day I thank the gods I learned how to cook at home

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Prices at McDonald’s are still expected to increase—albeit at a slower pace of 2% to 3%, versus last year’s 10%

Yea that's not gonna help them any.

My guess to what they'll do? Hit all the menu items with the Shrinkflation™ Ray®.

I had no idea it got so expensive. It's been ages since I had any interest eating there.

I had a crazy-busy day about 2-months ago and found myself hitting up a McDonald’s drive-thru for an order of fries just to tide me over for the drive home.

I didn’t pay attention to the pricing—it was only fries—and when I got to the window I handed them a five, fully expecting a couple of bucks in change.

The attendant just looked at me. I laughed as I realized a regular order of fries was more than five-bucks.

And yet, I STILL am hard pressed to believe a Big Mac meal is currently $18…

The price of fast food is basically tied to how well the economy is doing, so I think they’re saying they’re going to donate to Republicans so that they can destroy the economy again.

I don't believe that a Big Mac meal hit $18, except maybe at one or two locations that are outliers. I can't read the article though because it's paywalled.

Introducing the new McCardboard, made out of 100% recycled cardboard!

This is happening outside the US as well.

Fast food places aren’t fast or cheap anymore. Big Mac and Whopper meals are about 10€

For 2€ more I can get a real burger at an actual restaurant.

Big Mac combo should cost $6.99 imho