Honestly. I’ve started replacing my “fast food cravings” with a box of sushi from WHOLE FOODS for the same price. SUSHI FROM WHOLE FOODS If I’m already accepting a $16 meal to get quickly anyways, I might as well have something better for me Will walk it back to something cheaper later. For now, I’m at least “treating myself” to healthier alternatives without spending any more than McDonalds woulda expected for a meal Already lost 2lbs and it’s only been a few weeks with no other lifestyle changes. Glorious.
Exactly. I used to go if I was hungry and it was around and cheap, not because it’s something great. For the prices they charge now I would rather get something better.
but, it's still cheaper than in Belgium. I'm srr, but McDo is a company, it isn't something like a service provided by the state like an O.C.M.W. It's a business and like all businesses they can set the price like they want. As long as they don't do illegal practices, like setting the price lower than the actual cost to buy/produce a product to outcompete the competition in a really evil way, I see no problems.
It's absurd that a company has the gall to offer junk food for $15+ and advertises it as a VALUE MEAL. I look forward to watching the fast food industry collapse; America's waistline will certainly benefit from it.
Absolutely...its a fukkn happy meal without the toy....plus now you can't get the unlimited refill...so your gonna get two nice sips of drink before your sucking Ice.
Basically. I think for fun when their drive-thru line in small I'm going to pull up to the speaker, wait awhile, then say "Man, this is way too expensive." and then drive off.
I don’t think a kid could eat all that. As an adult I’d probably only buy another burger. I don’t like McDonalds but if we start levying invalid criticisms, people are going to write us off which mean McDonalds will be able to get away with more.
I cook 99% of meals these days at home. Ive became addicted to cooking once i got good at it. I eat really good everysingle day now. Steak 3x a week and my burgers are so good and juicy it puts fast food to shame. Learn to cook people, you will never regret it.
Blame the alcoholic Morgan Sperlock for that. Recently people have figured out he destroyed his liver from years of alcohol abuse, but then he ate McDonald's for 30 days and said "it was Ronald that ruined my liver."
@@catholiccontriversy yeah I was shocked when I saw he was a raging alcoholic. Obviously severe alcoholism is gonna wreck your health just as badly if not more so than fast food.
@@carriecollinsmusic2894 Of course it was. The quality now is horrible. Look in to all the additives they put in it. Back then they fried stuff in beef tallow. Now it is a horrible mix of chemicals and seed oils.
You've seen the documentaries about food photography, right? It legally has to be the actual food products being photographed, but they're allowed to airbrush colour onto raw meat and untoasted buns, frame things in an impossible way, prop things up out of shot, etc.
@@harbl99and as a former photographer myself, of friggin course that’s how it’s done. it always makes me laugh when people think that joe shmoe teenager is gonna take the time to present them with a burger that is made like the commercials. it IS all real McDonalds food in the ads, it’s just the best buns, meat, cheese, lettuce out of literal THOUSANDS. as in, the photo assistant will sit there going through each individual bun to find the most photogenic one, and then with the meat, cheese, etc, etc. and yeah, the position all the ingredients in a way that makes them look bigger and the sandwiches look fuller. and guess what? the only restaurants that don’t do that? chinese food places. and those pictures of the food always look like CRAP. don’t try to tell me they dont, we all KNOW they do. but literally any restaurant that has a commercial on TV does the exact same thing, but people give McDonalds all the shit for this just cuz it’s the biggest. but yeah, the food is not plastic in the ads, it’s not fake, it’s just made by someone who makes food look good for a living instead of some teen who made it without paying attention and then smashed it as he shoved it into a bag. “it doesn’t look exactly like the commercial!” honestly such a tiresome, low brow, stupid ass, whiney complaint at this point. that’s like someone complaining that you don’t look as nice as you do in your family photo the rest of the time, and trying to call it “false advertising.” showing yourself at your best is not false advertising.
@@bosssavage3325yeah, what they record with should be actual food from the establishment. Not using glue as cheese or metal rods to hold everything in place, decieving ppl. I don't see how it isn't considered false advertisement
When the article states that RENT and labor are the highest costs for the franchise owners, please remember that Corporate McDonald's owns 98% of the buildings and land. McDonald's Corporation makes most of their money from being a landlord and not a restaurant chain.
I keep trying to point this out to people. Most of these exorbitant corporate profits, whether its retail, hospitality or whatever, doesn't actually come from the money consumers spend, but rather the assets they own. I work for a Loblaw's company in Canada, and we have people protesting stores here this month. These people don't realize that most of these stores aren't even profitable, they're just places for Loblaw's to sell shelf space to vendors and park their in-house brands which stores are forced to buy.
They Literally copied Wendy's 4 for 4 deal, which is now the $5 grab bag. Double Cheese Burger, 4 nuggets, Sml Fries, Sml Drink. Wendy's has had this on their menu for almost 10 years.
Trim the fat at corporations… Get rid of all dei/diversity depts. Then dramatic pay cuts for CEO’s and upper mgt. Let them subsidize the lower prices passed to consumers.
Lunch specials at the local chinese place is 6.50 for gens chicken meal. Cumberland farms has 2 chicken sandwiches for 6 bucks. Better than Mcd's. Local Pizza joint has hamburger with fries for 6.50.
Mid-level restaurants are the same or worse... much of it is frozen/microwaved cheap ingredient food warmed-up behind the scenes. You are being over-charged for frozen slop... many are clueless.
in 2005, at my first job, i'd go to mcdonalds across the street and spend $3 and be full. 1 McDouble, 1 Value menu fry, and one large soda. If i was extra hungry i'd spend $4 and get two mcdoubles. The prices have far outpaced inflation, what we're seeing is pure corporate greed. we have to fight back.
@@mateobaysa2055 never thought about it that way, but conversely wouldn't the government want obesity? unhealthy people = constant money source for big pharma and health care
They keep saying "record profits" trying to push the idea that its corporate greed instead of record inflation causing higher profit numbers even the profit value has gone down.
The video actually mentioned that profit MARGINS (which aren't 'tipped' by inflation in that manner) have actually increased in recent years. Inflation is real, but the problem is that these record profits are increasing well in excess of inflation. Stay informed.
Let's say a business buys a product to sell .... It cost 10.00 and they mark it up 5.00 to 15.00 Lets say that product goes up to 12.00. the company keeps its margin and adds 6.00 making it 18.00. therefore they make more profit on each one sold. They benefit when things go up.... To a point. When the product goes to high then the amount of sold units goes down. Effecting sales then profits... Prices won't go down until ya stop buying the crap! Period!
Agree 100%. I eat steak 3x a week . Each steak costs LESS than the average McDonald's "value" meal. That is Filet Mignon steak too! I got 2 in the fridge right now. Cost me less than 20 bucks for both. Close to 1lb in weight.
Cooked me a pot full of spaghetti with a half a pound of meat for meatballs. Filled up a entire family all for 2 dollars. And still more for dinner later.
@@JD-773You can probably make potatoes Romanoff for ridiculously cheap too. Or serve those steaks with green peppers and onions, or with asparagus or nicely caramelised Brussels sprouts or green beans. Show the steak proper respect by having some kind of vegetable with it, if only for presentation purposes.
Its 1.65 ounce Beef Patty. Basically if Ground Beef is like $4.79 a pound for you to make the cheeseburger the same way they do cost $1 ... that is with a quality slice of cheddar that cost as much as the beef haha! So let's say 85 cents is what it cost if you went cheap.
All these mega monopoly-lite companies wont reduce prices, wont pay staff wage increases, yet brag quarter to quarter about profit. Time for consumers to stop spending at any of these soleless ESG affiliated companies.
We turned off our cable in 2009. It was $72.00 a month back then. When the wife and I have our movie night every Saturday night, we find something to watch on TH-cam, the Roku stick (both free with ads) or a DVD from the shelf.
And that's why they haven't been hit quite as hard as franchisees. The corporation always gets their buck unless people stop becoming franchise owners.
Yep. Retail price if high as franchisee has to pay rent, advertising, franchise fee, supplies bought from McDonald' official suppliers, plus utilities, salaries, business taxes, insurance, and several other costs and fees associated with the business. Need those high prices to the franchise owner can make a few bucks at the end of the month.
And their hamburger patty and the bun are now smaller, which they have denied over and over again. What does that mean, that we are all imagining that their hamburger is smaller than it used to be?
They even pulled the same kind of stunt in the Netherlands. A 'special stunt' meal which boiled down to a medium menu for the price of..... a medium menu.
Plenty of Scowling Wonder Women for me to hand out like candy. Imagine if a Karen demands to speak to the manager over the prices of Timmy's "Happy" Meal. Whoever the CEO of Micky D's is deserves the Frowning Amazon for jacking up the prices.
Don't get me started on the ever decreasing package sizes . My local changed all their shelves around over March break ... removing the 200g jars of instant coffee to replace them with the "new" 150 g size ....for the same price ....and it's every product !!
@@doctorlolchicken7478 12 years ago, I had a momentary lapse of food choices, I blame it on being pregnant lol. Before that, it had been around 10 years since I've been there as a broke college student. Back when fast food was affordable.
@@heyitsdazy There's a joke that can help you remember that one... teacher is tired of a student saying, "I have went..." all the time, so she has him write, "I have gone," 100 times on the blackboard. When he gets done, she's out of the room, so he leaves her a note. "I have wrote, 'I have gone,' 100 times and now I have went home." (Bonus points if you know it should be, "I have written...")
They don't seem to understand that, if it's not dirt cheap, there is no reason to go there.... It's garbage for desperate people. There's no room for any price increases.
_It's garbage for desperate people._ Funny. It never used to be. It used to be sold on speed, consistency, and cleanliness. Guess there's not a lot of room left to cut costs when you go as far downmarket as McDs has though.
@jeffy1862 McDonald's don't make their profit from food sales. They are primarily a property business. It's the franchise owners that suffer from lower food sales. Clearly all is not well there... or they wouldn't be talking about how to win back customers.
@@Astro1554 ain't mad just let down with the govt and their inflation creation. Also not going to comply with World eco forum and their satanic founder king charles. Go look at his new portrait before u reply😉
I'll take my business to Chick-fil-A. Good food, great service, the ice cream machine actually works, and every time they make a sale, a leftist-liberal cries.
Yeap and they close on Sundays so their employees can have a day of rest. But mostly I just like carrying the cups around to create liberal tears. Cuz Murica!
Hick-Fil-A...their food is crap to...not gross...but not great...you can get a WAY better Chicken Sandwich at a lot of places...and Raising Cains chicken fingers kick the shit out the bland ones at fil-a
@@Minecraft-gw1jv You missed the point. The point is that Chick-fil-A is cheaper and tastier than McDonald's, not healthier. You're not going to healthy food regardless of what fast food place you go to, so if you're going to get some, you can get better stuff for cheaper than McD's.
How does promoting sadness help those kids? McDonald's already made their buildings look depressing. I want our government gone and everyone in this chain of greed and frauds. Im sick of it
They want them to be depressed and mentally ill. That's how drug manufacturers make money selling anti depressants and therapy. They're all in kahoots to capitalize death and despair.
Thank you, McDonald's for making my quest to lose weight all the easier. I will never eat there again on my own dime until they start listening to their customers.
True but their holdings are the stores that they lease to their restaurants. People stop going to eat at the restaurants eventually the franchise owners won't be able to pay the rent and fees and then just say screw it and close. It's a delayed hit to corporate but they'll feel the pain in a year or so.
You're assuming they will stop eating it. Americans are way to lazy to cook, yes they will complain but they will still buy it and Mac Donalds knows it. Yes they may get 10% less customers but profits per customers increased by 100% so who cares.
I don’t think many people are eating less fast food. I think they’re just complaining but still eating the stuff. All the fast food places I pass every day seem to be packed. Sad.
@@stephanieyvonne9436 At this point a person has to be nuts to spend the kind of money being expected for fast food. I quit fast food, restaurants, processed food, going to the coffee shop, the pub, and smoking. None of it is remotely worth it anymore.
I'm just done, in general, of billion dollar companies thinking they can just give us less and charge us more with EVERYTHING. Sony, Microsoft, Amazon , Netflix all of them. As if their profits weren't public information. They give us the middle-finger and expect us to thank them for it.
I was born in 1980. This company was trash by the early 90's. How in the hell are they even still alive if the food has gotten worse since the EARLY 90's? Is it you? It certainly isn't me.
I remember when Hardees used to sell giant chocolate chip cookies, and when McDonalds sold chicken nuggets with actual packs of honey, not just this barbecue crap. 👋😔 Btw, Mickey D's chicken nuggies are the BEST when dipped in honey. 😋👍
I remember when I was a kid you could smell the burgers and fries a half mile away. You could smell the pickles, the cheese, the salty fries. I was on a field trip once and they took us to McD's for lunch and everyone got excited when you could smell it from far away. Now, you go by there and it smells like nothing or chemicals. I haven't had it in years and I don't miss it.
@@Anarchist86edyeah Farmer Boys is Better at least the one near me smells Great although I have to admit the prices are steep at Farmer Boys too but it's more worth it
And the worst part about this whole thing is that corporate not even gonna be the one that suffers because of this, it’s gonna be the franchisees that are gonna lose everything
Somebody on TikTok complained about the thickness of the Big Mac patties. She said they were no thicker than the pickles. A streamer (Asmongold) purchased three of them and showed the sizes. That was 6 patties and yes, they were all about the same thickness as the pickles.
You could SEE through the patties. Beef lace. It was probably the absolute minimum amount of meat required to create a 3" patty. The pickles were **noticeably** thicker.
I eat a lot of fast food because it's quick and convenient and used to be affordable. Now I refused to go to any of these places. Inflation is hitting everyone, and yet these greedy executives and shareholders want to make more profits amid a severely dwindling economy.
@@Wickedous Or don't go to restaurants that you rip you off while serving junk food. That is an obvious answer. I stopped going to fast food places a couple years ago.
McDonalds is a REAL ESTATE company, that is their core business and where the record profits are coming from, and not from their food business. This needs to be clarified.
It's an important point. When you hear the "McDonald's" is reaping record profits, that does not reflect what the guy who operates your local franchise is earning.
Franchises are a parasite on anyone who takes a chance at buying into one. They charge you upfront for the initial buy in and then you have to pay again and again. They also charge you on every single food item that comes from corporate. They even make money on renovations they force you to do constantly. If that was not enough they make money again on fines they hand out if you don't meet their store specs. There are other grifts to juice you as well. The franchise does not need you to make good money, they just need to you make enough money that you'll keep paying them to own a business.
@@Tim_the_Enchanter Exactly, because at the end of the day, McDonald's collects rent from the franchise owner even when they have a less than profitable month. However, if enough franchise owners go belly up, McDonald's properties will have a lot less value effecting their so called record profits. Frankly, it's just a matter of time.
@@Tim_the_Enchanter Not its not. The fact remains, you, as a customer, are getting gouged on food prices. Focus on that, everything else is a distraction.
@@CubicIronPyrite You're being gouged at McDonald's. You're being gouged at the grocery store. You're being gouged at the gas pump. If you're being gouged everywhere you go, are you being gouged, or is your money worthless?
The product of bad education in the last thirty years. That’s why Econ is not taught in public schools. Dumb down the masses in order to pull this type of stuff…
that might be part of it, but most of it is they can raise the price as much as they want and just blame inflation on the prices. They are still raking in 14 billion in profit - its double what it used to be and their profit margin has gone from 20% to 33% Corporate greed
@comment_deleted bingo. Instead of taking a hit to their own pockets, they put the cost upon the customers. I will jump for how the day the company crumbles due to corporate greed amd they end up with NOTHING!
Great, they’ve suckered you into blaming the minimum wage worker; instead of the corporate bloat and fatcat CEO’s raking in millions. Yeah, it’s those pesky wage increases, not the jacked up prices and record profits. Don’t fall for Their scam.
@comment_deleted the pure revenue isn't what you need to be looking at. The real question is what is their *net* profit in terms of percentages. Inflation makes all the numbers go higher no matter what they are, and I'd like to see what their operating expenses look like now compared to four years ago.
It's true though. Little kids can't have an off day, can't ever have a day where they're stuck in 1st gear like we are from time to time, they always have to meet the adult standard of behaving perfectly 100% of the time, no outbursts, no lagging, no being tired; meanwhile we can sleep in, call off of work, have a soda if we want. Spare a kid a cheese stick after a shit day at school and it's "gonna spoil their dinner" or some other earth-shattering consequence.
*act happy Pretty sure that's what they meant. Y'know, while they're being both tormented and neglected, ACT like they are enjoying it. Plus, not be heard.
If they want kids to be happier in the UK, let them be bloody kids and stop trying to tell them what they should be based on what's politically appealing at the time.
People still eat at McDonald's? That blows my mind. For $13 dollars you can make the exact same meal...for 4 people. Mcdonalds gonna f around and find out.
@jackieellis7186 I really didn't. Must just be where I'm at cause every time I drive by one, they are always empty. 5 years ago was my last visit, fries aren't supposed to taste like bleach, and I ran into that issue at everyone I went to. It's the food lion and walmart debacle all over again. They spray their food with watered-down bleach so they could sell food past its expiration date.
@jackieellis7186 I really didn't. Must just be in my area. Every time I drive by one it's empty. My last visit was five years ago, fries aren't supposed to taste like bleach, and I ran into that issue at every location I went to. It's the food lion and walmart debacle again. They'd spray their food with watered-down bleach so they could sell food past its expiration date.
@KB_____ That’s… logic that only a moron would think work. Not only would that probably have the opposite effect, as food is still soft and dissolvable, but no matter how watered down, that’s still deadly to humans. Basically, any store trying that is doing the equivalent of manifesting because they think it works, except it’s lethal.
Fast food restaurants like McDonald's need to be boycotted for their expensive crappy food.
Addictive and poisonous would be more accurate.
Boicott
Lmao just don't eat there. People can make their own decisions I stopped eating fast food back when they still had a dollar menu
Honestly. I’ve started replacing my “fast food cravings” with a box of sushi from WHOLE FOODS for the same price. SUSHI FROM WHOLE FOODS
If I’m already accepting a $16 meal to get quickly anyways, I might as well have something better for me
Will walk it back to something cheaper later. For now, I’m at least “treating myself” to healthier alternatives without spending any more than McDonalds woulda expected for a meal
Already lost 2lbs and it’s only been a few weeks with no other lifestyle changes. Glorious.
@@Timithos I wish I lived to experience the OG McDonald’s when it was real food and not sprayed with poison
McCrap was only bearable because it was cheap. Now that it's expensive, I have absolutely no desire to go.
Exactly. I used to go if I was hungry and it was around and cheap, not because it’s something great. For the prices they charge now I would rather get something better.
Good. You'll be healthier and leaner for it.
I can drive down the road at the McDonalds here and go down the road to an actual restaurant and get actual food,not the s**t they peddled as such ……
but, it's still cheaper than in Belgium.
I'm srr, but McDo is a company,
it isn't something like a service provided by the state like an O.C.M.W.
It's a business and like all businesses they can set the price like they want.
As long as they don't do illegal practices, like setting the price lower than the actual cost to buy/produce a product to outcompete the competition in a really evil way, I see no problems.
Absolutely, the disgusting to cheap ratio makes it no longer an option. AND it’s bad for you in every way.
Corporate greed doesn't bother me. You can opt out of going to McDonalds. You can stop giving them your money.
The government on the other hand...
I stopped fast food on April 1st when minimum wage went to $20. FGN FJB and those who voted for them.
I literally stopped eating fast food in 2020. Feel alot better and save way more money especially nowadays
It's absurd that a company has the gall to offer junk food for $15+ and advertises it as a VALUE MEAL. I look forward to watching the fast food industry collapse; America's waistline will certainly benefit from it.
It is a good thing but the reason it is happening is the destruction of America
I have rarely eaten fast food for a while, I thought it was getting too expensive about 3 years ago. Now it's just a huge nope for me.
big pharma awaits their customers.
I heard there was a McDonald's logo underneath the Georgia Guidestones.
@@ishoulduserumble lol
That McDonald's meal deal that they're trying to boast is literally a glorified kids meal how fucking ridiculous is that
Ya it's the wealthy spitting in the face of the poor. I hope this causes more people to quit going.
Absolutely...its a fukkn happy meal without the toy....plus now you can't get the unlimited refill...so your gonna get two nice sips of drink before your sucking Ice.
Basically. I think for fun when their drive-thru line in small I'm going to pull up to the speaker, wait awhile, then say "Man, this is way too expensive." and then drive off.
I don’t think a kid could eat all that. As an adult I’d probably only buy another burger. I don’t like McDonalds but if we start levying invalid criticisms, people are going to write us off which mean McDonalds will be able to get away with more.
Yep a 3 dollar kids meal minus the toy and box.
Perfect reason to never go there again, their food is poisoned crap anyway
McNuggets reportedly contains particles of the same clay used in cat litter.
Meow.
"Mmmmmmm, cat litter." -Homer Simpson
If They closed every McDonalds in the world , I would never noticed!!
Fast food is 🤮🤮
You wouldn't notice all the unemployed people
Boycott fast food, I am. Pizza is now cheaper. It’s insanity.
Chipotle is cheaper, cafe Rio is the same price as McDonald’s. Why go eat McDonalds if there’s better food.
$32 for a large pizza is not cheap bro.
I know a Little Caesars near my neck of the woods. Cheaper than the rest of the fast food places in my neighborhood.
Dominoes California Chicken Ranch has entered the chat.
I cook 99% of meals these days at home. Ive became addicted to cooking once i got good at it. I eat really good everysingle day now. Steak 3x a week and my burgers are so good and juicy it puts fast food to shame. Learn to cook people, you will never regret it.
I miss the 90s when the cashier behind the register would ask, "Would you like to Supersize that for $1?"...and I would be like, "Hell Yes!"
Blame the alcoholic Morgan Sperlock for that. Recently people have figured out he destroyed his liver from years of alcohol abuse, but then he ate McDonald's for 30 days and said "it was Ronald that ruined my liver."
@@catholiccontriversy yeah I was shocked when I saw he was a raging alcoholic. Obviously severe alcoholism is gonna wreck your health just as badly if not more so than fast food.
And is it just me, or were the quarter pounders w cheese way better in the 90’s??
@@carriecollinsmusic2894 Of course it was. The quality now is horrible. Look in to all the additives they put in it. Back then they fried stuff in beef tallow. Now it is a horrible mix of chemicals and seed oils.
How much to Supersize these days? Ten dollars?
They are trying to replicate the 5 dollar biggie bag from Wendy’s
McDoggie Bag, Aarf!
I stopped eating McDonald's a few years back. Price increases, less food...and worse tasting food at that. Garbage that's bad for the health.
Should be illegal to show fake pictures of their food on advertisements.
You've seen the documentaries about food photography, right? It legally has to be the actual food products being photographed, but they're allowed to airbrush colour onto raw meat and untoasted buns, frame things in an impossible way, prop things up out of shot, etc.
@@harbl99 well…. Should be ILLEGAL to touch up too.
@@harbl99and as a former photographer myself, of friggin course that’s how it’s done. it always makes me laugh when people think that joe shmoe teenager is gonna take the time to present them with a burger that is made like the commercials. it IS all real McDonalds food in the ads, it’s just the best buns, meat, cheese, lettuce out of literal THOUSANDS. as in, the photo assistant will sit there going through each individual bun to find the most photogenic one, and then with the meat, cheese, etc, etc. and yeah, the position all the ingredients in a way that makes them look bigger and the sandwiches look fuller. and guess what? the only restaurants that don’t do that? chinese food places. and those pictures of the food always look like CRAP. don’t try to tell me they dont, we all KNOW they do. but literally any restaurant that has a commercial on TV does the exact same thing, but people give McDonalds all the shit for this just cuz it’s the biggest.
but yeah, the food is not plastic in the ads, it’s not fake, it’s just made by someone who makes food look good for a living instead of some teen who made it without paying attention and then smashed it as he shoved it into a bag. “it doesn’t look exactly like the commercial!” honestly such a tiresome, low brow, stupid ass, whiney complaint at this point. that’s like someone complaining that you don’t look as nice as you do in your family photo the rest of the time, and trying to call it “false advertising.” showing yourself at your best is not false advertising.
@@bosssavage3325yeah, what they record with should be actual food from the establishment. Not using glue as cheese or metal rods to hold everything in place, decieving ppl. I don't see how it isn't considered false advertisement
It is lol
When the article states that RENT and labor are the highest costs for the franchise owners, please remember that Corporate McDonald's owns 98% of the buildings and land. McDonald's Corporation makes most of their money from being a landlord and not a restaurant chain.
Disney will buy it
I keep trying to point this out to people. Most of these exorbitant corporate profits, whether its retail, hospitality or whatever, doesn't actually come from the money consumers spend, but rather the assets they own. I work for a Loblaw's company in Canada, and we have people protesting stores here this month. These people don't realize that most of these stores aren't even profitable, they're just places for Loblaw's to sell shelf space to vendors and park their in-house brands which stores are forced to buy.
Before Covid, I would go out to eat once a week. Now I do it once a month. The prices have essentially doubled for food.
Before Covid, I would go out to eat once a year. Now I also eat out once a year.
@@chrisheard5727 that's how I am with movies. I might see one every year or two in the theater. 😆
They Literally copied Wendy's 4 for 4 deal, which is now the $5 grab bag. Double Cheese Burger, 4 nuggets, Sml Fries, Sml Drink. Wendy's has had this on their menu for almost 10 years.
Anyone else starting to feel patronized by these mega corporations?
well at least you're starting.....welcome
Starting to?
You just noticed huh!?
Trim the fat at corporations… Get rid of all dei/diversity depts. Then dramatic pay cuts for CEO’s and upper mgt. Let them subsidize the lower prices passed to consumers.
They always had your best interest at heart.
Bring back the Mom and Pop places, and shove fast food into the dumpster of history.
Lunch specials at the local chinese place is 6.50 for gens chicken meal. Cumberland farms has 2 chicken sandwiches for 6 bucks. Better than Mcd's. Local Pizza joint has hamburger with fries for 6.50.
@@DogSpeakyou sound like a true person of girth
@@slimshady6359 Get in ma belly!
Fast food is one of a few major reasons why there is a health crisis!
Stop eating at fast food restaurants! PERIOD!
Mid-level restaurants are the same or worse... much of it is frozen/microwaved cheap ingredient food warmed-up behind the scenes.
You are being over-charged for frozen slop... many are clueless.
"You will own nothing and you will not be expected to be happy."
We buy but nothing, they will be bankrupt.
Bidenomics sure is working
in 2005, at my first job, i'd go to mcdonalds across the street and spend $3 and be full. 1 McDouble, 1 Value menu fry, and one large soda. If i was extra hungry i'd spend $4 and get two mcdoubles. The prices have far outpaced inflation, what we're seeing is pure corporate greed. we have to fight back.
It’s being done to curb obesity in this country.
@@mateobaysa2055 never thought about it that way, but conversely wouldn't the government want obesity? unhealthy people = constant money source for big pharma and health care
@@mateobaysa2055def not why the price has gone up 💀
Totally, 5 years ago I could get two Mcdoubles for under $3...all these young people don't realize how terrible things are now
@@GaryOaksEgo aside from that, the days of Uncle Sam and his empire are numbered.
As much as I deplore McDonald's I have to acknowledge that earth- shattering money printing is a big problem too. Thank you Bidenomics!
They keep saying "record profits" trying to push the idea that its corporate greed instead of record inflation causing higher profit numbers even the profit value has gone down.
The video actually mentioned that profit MARGINS (which aren't 'tipped' by inflation in that manner) have actually increased in recent years.
Inflation is real, but the problem is that these record profits are increasing well in excess of inflation. Stay informed.
McDonald’s is ripping you off and killing you at the same time! 🗑️
Yup, it’s literal poison. It’s not even real meat. They are mixing fake meat with real meat and people are eating it up…
They can suck my McNugs.
Let's say a business buys a product to sell ....
It cost 10.00 and they mark it up 5.00 to 15.00
Lets say that product goes up to 12.00. the company keeps its margin and adds 6.00 making it 18.00. therefore they make more profit on each one sold. They benefit when things go up.... To a point. When the product goes to high then the amount of sold units goes down. Effecting sales then profits... Prices won't go down until ya stop buying the crap! Period!
Not too much longer....lol. They are McFukkn themselves
yes. u r right.
Cook at home it is so much more healthier. Going out to eat should be a treat
Agree 100%. I eat steak 3x a week . Each steak costs LESS than the average McDonald's "value" meal. That is Filet Mignon steak too! I got 2 in the fridge right now. Cost me less than 20 bucks for both. Close to 1lb in weight.
Fairplay has the best steaks for a great price, if you live in the Chicago area.
Cooked me a pot full of spaghetti with a half a pound of meat for meatballs. Filled up a entire family all for 2 dollars. And still more for dinner later.
My burgers are worth 10 mcdonald's ones anyway 😂 crappy, garbage food
@@JD-773You can probably make potatoes Romanoff for ridiculously cheap too. Or serve those steaks with green peppers and onions, or with asparagus or nicely caramelised Brussels sprouts or green beans. Show the steak proper respect by having some kind of vegetable with it, if only for presentation purposes.
This just looks like they're copying what Wendy's has been doing for years now.
Only Wendy's $5 biggie bag is better quality food.
And mcdonald's will do it for 4 weeks lol
People should realize that every corporation is making insane profits while charging consumers exorbitant prices.
That "Where's the beef?" commercial couldn't be more true today upon seeing the size of the burger patty at McDonalds.
Its 1.65 ounce Beef Patty.
Basically if Ground Beef is like $4.79 a pound for you to make the cheeseburger the same way they do cost $1
... that is with a quality slice of cheddar that cost as much as the beef haha! So let's say 85 cents is what it cost if you went cheap.
McDonalds thinks we're all stupid, and we're proving them right all the time. The solution is clear.
Yea very clear don't vote for Democrats anymore
All these mega monopoly-lite companies wont reduce prices, wont pay staff wage increases, yet brag quarter to quarter about profit. Time for consumers to stop spending at any of these soleless ESG affiliated companies.
A Happy Meal for babies...KEEP YOUR $ IN YOUR POCKET...YOU CAN COOK BETTER.😮
Dont buy fast food and don't pay tv subscriptions
That's where half my income goes.
Already did it! ✌😁
We turned off our cable in 2009. It was $72.00 a month back then. When the wife and I have our movie night every Saturday night, we find something to watch on TH-cam, the Roku stick (both free with ads) or a DVD from the shelf.
Who the f**k are you to tell me what to do?!
@@Cl0ne66 Apparently someone with more sense.
McDonald's is franchise owned.
The McDonald's corporation sell real estate and rights to sell burgers
And that's why they haven't been hit quite as hard as franchisees. The corporation always gets their buck unless people stop becoming franchise owners.
Yep. Retail price if high as franchisee has to pay rent, advertising, franchise fee, supplies bought from McDonald' official suppliers, plus utilities, salaries, business taxes, insurance, and several other costs and fees associated with the business. Need those high prices to the franchise owner can make a few bucks at the end of the month.
You have to buy all of your food and supplies from McDonald’s too
I think they RENT their real estate, not sell it. Franchisees are tenants, not land owners.
@@worms919 Yes. They pay rent to McDees plus franchise fees and all business expenses. McDees is just one big landlord.
And their hamburger patty and the bun are now smaller, which they have denied over and over again. What does that mean, that we are all imagining that their hamburger is smaller than it used to be?
Before it closed, the Little Caesars we had here didn't do the $5 pizzas. They made them $6.
THE HAMBURGLER IS LITERALLY REAL NOW!!!! 😂🤣😂🤣🤣
Always has been.
There couldn't be corporate greed without public stupidity.
Agree but our government is pushing the WEF agenda along with these major FF who are also members of the WEF.
that's literally just a repackaged kids meal without the toy 😒
They even pulled the same kind of stunt in the Netherlands.
A 'special stunt' meal which boiled down to a medium menu for the price of..... a medium menu.
Paying the cost for a “Happy” Meal would make me sad too.
Plenty of Scowling Wonder Women for me to hand out like candy. Imagine if a Karen demands to speak to the manager over the prices of Timmy's "Happy" Meal. Whoever the CEO of Micky D's is deserves the Frowning Amazon for jacking up the prices.
Best thing ever is fast food costs skyrocketing. This might finally force people into spending that same dough on real food.
People really don’t understand that they have all the power when it comes to. Ring a consumer of products.
Don't get me started on the ever decreasing package sizes .
My local changed all their shelves around over March break ... removing the 200g jars of instant coffee to replace them with the "new" 150 g size ....for the same price ....and it's every product !!
The MacD's food is low quality crap.
It always was but at least it was cheap but 15-18 for a meal...hell naw
The did improve some methods, but it's always been crap.
Gee really? I don’t think I’ve ever heard that perspective before.
You’ve really given me something to think about…
It's been over 12 years since I've went to McDonald's. They sell overpriced garbage, not sure how they're still in business.
35 years here. I went once and that was one time too many.
@@doctorlolchicken7478 12 years ago, I had a momentary lapse of food choices, I blame it on being pregnant lol. Before that, it had been around 10 years since I've been there as a broke college student. Back when fast food was affordable.
*have gone
@@anonygent Thanks English major! My mom corrects me on that all the time.
@@heyitsdazy There's a joke that can help you remember that one... teacher is tired of a student saying, "I have went..." all the time, so she has him write, "I have gone," 100 times on the blackboard. When he gets done, she's out of the room, so he leaves her a note. "I have wrote, 'I have gone,' 100 times and now I have went home." (Bonus points if you know it should be, "I have written...")
It's unbelievable that people need to be taught that they can cook their own food instead of buying McDonald's.
They think we're too stupid to see what they are doing and how much they are gouging us. Shame on them for doing it, shame on us for allowing it.
They don't seem to understand that, if it's not dirt cheap, there is no reason to go there....
It's garbage for desperate people. There's no room for any price increases.
Exactly. Even in 2024 I can get better food at a mom and pop restaurant for the same money!
Clearly there’s a mass of sheeple that feel different, cause they’re still turning a profit by this point.
_It's garbage for desperate people._
Funny. It never used to be. It used to be sold on speed, consistency, and cleanliness.
Guess there's not a lot of room left to cut costs when you go as far downmarket as McDs has though.
@jeffy1862 McDonald's don't make their profit from food sales. They are primarily a property business. It's the franchise owners that suffer from lower food sales.
Clearly all is not well there... or they wouldn't be talking about how to win back customers.
I remember when the "extra value meals " started. If I remember correctly, it's was $3.99 for a Big Mac meals. Now, it's over $10.00. Ridiculous.
A kids happy meal for the poor starving working adults....sad times!!!
Not many starving adults here in the US. 50% obesity.
it might fill a full size midget, anyone larger will still be hungry.
@@ohsweetmystery yes half of ppl really fat🤣half of them are starving😪
Don't be mad most of you voted for this so sut up and enjoy
@@Astro1554 ain't mad just let down with the govt and their inflation creation. Also not going to comply with World eco forum and their satanic founder king charles. Go look at his new portrait before u reply😉
For the price of a family outing at McDonald's you can buy a whole packer brisket and sides at WalMart and eat like kings for a week.
If they are getting rid of the free refill, then bring back the any size for a $1
I'll take my business to Chick-fil-A. Good food, great service, the ice cream machine actually works, and every time they make a sale, a leftist-liberal cries.
and its actually cheaper. I noticed that a few months ago
Yeap and they close on Sundays so their employees can have a day of rest. But mostly I just like carrying the cups around to create liberal tears. Cuz Murica!
They are just as bad if not worse.. look at their ingredients
Hick-Fil-A...their food is crap to...not gross...but not great...you can get a WAY better Chicken Sandwich at a lot of places...and Raising Cains chicken fingers kick the shit out the bland ones at fil-a
@@Minecraft-gw1jv You missed the point. The point is that Chick-fil-A is cheaper and tastier than McDonald's, not healthier. You're not going to healthy food regardless of what fast food place you go to, so if you're going to get some, you can get better stuff for cheaper than McD's.
How does promoting sadness help those kids? McDonald's already made their buildings look depressing.
I want our government gone and everyone in this chain of greed and frauds. Im sick of it
Anarchy, power to the people, away with the human over human system.
And law and order is still active.
They want them to be depressed and mentally ill. That's how drug manufacturers make money selling anti depressants and therapy. They're all in kahoots to capitalize death and despair.
Honestly I actually see this as a win, more lower income housing is saying no to fast food, and actually turning to a healthier alternative
Billions in profit doesn’t mean anything when McDonalds is 52.72 Billion in debt.
I started my own personal boycott on McDs six months ago and not eating that stuff makes me feel better.
At this point, all meals should be labeled The Depression Meal.
Thank you, McDonald's for making my quest to lose weight all the easier. I will never eat there again on my own dime until they start listening to their customers.
The 5 dollar deal isn't even a good deal! Boycott McDonald's!
What most people don't realize is that McDonalds makes way more money from it's Real Estate holdings than it does on all it's food combined.
True but their holdings are the stores that they lease to their restaurants. People stop going to eat at the restaurants eventually the franchise owners won't be able to pay the rent and fees and then just say screw it and close.
It's a delayed hit to corporate but they'll feel the pain in a year or so.
@@SerfinBirdJust like with disney's parks.
I wonder how much healthier Americans are becoming by eating less overpriced fast food garbage 🤔
Not much. Half the food in the grocery store is effectively slow poison that is banned in many countries.
You're assuming they will stop eating it. Americans are way to lazy to cook, yes they will complain but they will still buy it and Mac Donalds knows it. Yes they may get 10% less customers but profits per customers increased by 100% so who cares.
I don’t think many people are eating less fast food. I think they’re just complaining but still eating the stuff. All the fast food places I pass every day seem to be packed. Sad.
@@stephanieyvonne9436 At this point a person has to be nuts to spend the kind of money being expected for fast food.
I quit fast food, restaurants, processed food, going to the coffee shop, the pub, and smoking.
None of it is remotely worth it anymore.
Q
They'll just migrate over to
Jack in the Box!
Q❤
Adults rediscover cooking.
What a sad state of the world.
Having worked at a McDonald’s for 5 years, every meal was an unhappy meal
Oh, great: The Depression Meal. Rushing right out the door for that...
Also known as the Scowly Meal.
I'm just done, in general, of billion dollar companies thinking they can just give us less and charge us more with EVERYTHING. Sony, Microsoft, Amazon , Netflix all of them. As if their profits weren't public information. They give us the middle-finger and expect us to thank them for it.
McDonald's profit is not from food but property
The big problem with McDonalds prices is way too many adults trying to turn entry level teenager jobs into a career.
They’re just copying Wendy’s “4for$4 Deal”
*Biggie Bag
Yea, that's what I thought too, and the Biggie Bag has been on the menu for a while.
Yeah but Wendy’s beef is WAY better
Yeah, they don't have the 4 for 4 now. It's a biggie bag and they start at 5 and goes up to 7 depending on the sandwich you want.
I was born in 1980. This company was trash by the early 90's. How in the hell are they even still alive if the food has gotten worse since the EARLY 90's? Is it you? It certainly isn't me.
I remember when Hardees used to sell giant chocolate chip cookies, and when McDonalds sold chicken nuggets with actual packs of honey, not just this barbecue crap. 👋😔 Btw, Mickey D's chicken nuggies are the BEST when dipped in honey.
😋👍
Dark meat nuggets were so good
I remember when I was a kid you could smell the burgers and fries a half mile away. You could smell the pickles, the cheese, the salty fries. I was on a field trip once and they took us to McD's for lunch and everyone got excited when you could smell it from far away. Now, you go by there and it smells like nothing or chemicals. I haven't had it in years and I don't miss it.
But, they are having record profits.
@@Anarchist86edyeah Farmer Boys is Better at least the one near me smells Great although I have to admit the prices are steep at Farmer Boys too but it's more worth it
It’s a $5 biggie bag from Wendy’s but they’re like 5 years behind
And the worst part about this whole thing is that corporate not even gonna be the one that suffers because of this, it’s gonna be the franchisees that are gonna lose everything
That deal is nothing special. A small fry has like 20 fries in it and a small drink that you can't even get a free refill with, Nice, what a value!
The leases are too high, in the hospitality industry, nationwide.
I haven't eaten in any fast food restaurant in 1 year and 8 months now, My biggest motivation was when McDonalds removed the $1 menu. 💯
McDonald's is exactly what is wrong with the US, overcharge for a product that's garbage and expect people to pay for it.
Dude, you got this whole thing wrong. Corporate tried to push this on franchises, who couldn't afford it.
Shop, cook at home with your family and save America.
Somebody on TikTok complained about the thickness of the Big Mac patties. She said they were no thicker than the pickles. A streamer (Asmongold) purchased three of them and showed the sizes. That was 6 patties and yes, they were all about the same thickness as the pickles.
You could SEE through the patties. Beef lace. It was probably the absolute minimum amount of meat required to create a 3" patty. The pickles were **noticeably** thicker.
It's been rumored that the meat of missing people ends up in those patties. I don't know if it's true, but I'm not taking any chances.
Soylent green for real@@gargamel3393
I stopped eating McDonald's years ago the food it's real God knows what's really in it
I eat a lot of fast food because it's quick and convenient and used to be affordable. Now I refused to go to any of these places. Inflation is hitting everyone, and yet these greedy executives and shareholders want to make more profits amid a severely dwindling economy.
It's not a restaurant business but a real estate business.
Ah, a man of culture
Should not be eating that crap anyways.
Ah yeah go to another restaurant that also serves overly processed bullshit just looks nicer.
@@Wickedous you gotta go to Mexican restaurants, they give you real food.
@@Wickedous Here's the difference: McDonald's stuff doesn't rot. Other chains' food _does_ rot.
Not the point
@@Wickedous Or don't go to restaurants that you rip you off while serving junk food. That is an obvious answer. I stopped going to fast food places a couple years ago.
McDonalds normalizing being unhappy, because things will only get worse for another decade at least.
You hit the nail on the head. If it’s too expensive for you, don’t go there. When they see in-store sales plummet, they’ll lower their prices.
It's like all these big companies are trying to torpedo their brand.
There is always a local mom & pop type place that deserves your business much more than a massive franchise.
If everyone stopped going to McDonald’s for a month, the company would go bankrupt.
Those four items combined are probably STILL around a thousand calories. Who still eats this crap?!
The $5 OVERvalued meal McMilking it.
This one wins the comment wars ☝️
McDonalds is a REAL ESTATE company, that is their core business and where the record profits are coming from, and not from their food business. This needs to be clarified.
It's an important point. When you hear the "McDonald's" is reaping record profits, that does not reflect what the guy who operates your local franchise is earning.
Franchises are a parasite on anyone who takes a chance at buying into one. They charge you upfront for the initial buy in and then you have to pay again and again. They also charge you on every single food item that comes from corporate. They even make money on renovations they force you to do constantly. If that was not enough they make money again on fines they hand out if you don't meet their store specs. There are other grifts to juice you as well. The franchise does not need you to make good money, they just need to you make enough money that you'll keep paying them to own a business.
@@Tim_the_Enchanter Exactly, because at the end of the day, McDonald's collects rent from the franchise owner even when they have a less than profitable month.
However, if enough franchise owners go belly up, McDonald's properties will have a lot less value effecting their so called record profits. Frankly, it's just a matter of time.
@@Tim_the_Enchanter Not its not. The fact remains, you, as a customer, are getting gouged on food prices. Focus on that, everything else is a distraction.
@@CubicIronPyrite You're being gouged at McDonald's. You're being gouged at the grocery store. You're being gouged at the gas pump. If you're being gouged everywhere you go, are you being gouged, or is your money worthless?
it's okay not to be happy all the time... sounds depressing af
What is insane is the fact people are more mad at McDonald’s than the government for raising minimum wage.
The product of bad education in the last thirty years. That’s why Econ is not taught in public schools. Dumb down the masses in order to pull this type of stuff…
Thank Newsom for raising minimum wage!
"but they changed the converwsation"
that might be part of it, but most of it is they can raise the price as much as they want and just blame inflation on the prices.
They are still raking in 14 billion in profit - its double what it used to be and their profit margin has gone from 20% to 33%
Corporate greed
@comment_deleted bingo. Instead of taking a hit to their own pockets, they put the cost upon the customers. I will jump for how the day the company crumbles due to corporate greed amd they end up with NOTHING!
Great, they’ve suckered you into blaming the minimum wage worker; instead of the corporate bloat and fatcat CEO’s raking in millions.
Yeah, it’s those pesky wage increases, not the jacked up prices and record profits. Don’t fall for
Their scam.
@comment_deleted the pure revenue isn't what you need to be looking at.
The real question is what is their *net* profit in terms of percentages. Inflation makes all the numbers go higher no matter what they are, and I'd like to see what their operating expenses look like now compared to four years ago.
"Kids feel pressured to feel happy all the time" That is the single dumbest thing I think I have EVER heard.
It's true though. Little kids can't have an off day, can't ever have a day where they're stuck in 1st gear like we are from time to time, they always have to meet the adult standard of behaving perfectly 100% of the time, no outbursts, no lagging, no being tired; meanwhile we can sleep in, call off of work, have a soda if we want. Spare a kid a cheese stick after a shit day at school and it's "gonna spoil their dinner" or some other earth-shattering consequence.
@@medicbabe2ID yeah, but if I throw a tantrum at work, I get arrested instead of put into a corner for 5 minutes..
*act happy
Pretty sure that's what they meant. Y'know, while they're being both tormented and neglected, ACT like they are enjoying it. Plus, not be heard.
if a kid was feeling sad, a happy meal is a quick way to flip that.
If they want kids to be happier in the UK, let them be bloody kids and stop trying to tell them what they should be based on what's politically appealing at the time.
What happens when a company values shareholders than customers? Customers will find ways to value their money
People still eat at McDonald's? That blows my mind. For $13 dollars you can make the exact same meal...for 4 people. Mcdonalds gonna f around and find out.
You know very well that people still eat at McDonald’s. The place is always packed especially in the morning.
@jackieellis7186 I really didn't. Must just be where I'm at cause every time I drive by one, they are always empty. 5 years ago was my last visit, fries aren't supposed to taste like bleach, and I ran into that issue at everyone I went to. It's the food lion and walmart debacle all over again. They spray their food with watered-down bleach so they could sell food past its expiration date.
@jackieellis7186 I really didn't. Must just be in my area. Every time I drive by one it's empty. My last visit was five years ago, fries aren't supposed to taste like bleach, and I ran into that issue at every location I went to. It's the food lion and walmart debacle again. They'd spray their food with watered-down bleach so they could sell food past its expiration date.
@KB_____
That’s… logic that only a moron would think work.
Not only would that probably have the opposite effect, as food is still soft and dissolvable, but no matter how watered down, that’s still deadly to humans.
Basically, any store trying that is doing the equivalent of manifesting because they think it works, except it’s lethal.
Hasn't Wendy's had this deal for years.
yes, the biggie bag. And it sucks, and has sucked since the $ menu jumped anywhere over $0.99
Yes, the biggie bag
It used to be the 4 for $4. Back then it was actually a really good deal. I don't think the "value" of what it is today even compares.
The silver lining to all this is that people will stop buying garbage fast food and will save money by learning how to cook for themselves
Jesus Christ its a happy meal for kids, not an emotional security blanket for emotionally stunted adults.