Bottom tier food. Bottom tier company. I don’t know why anyone eats this level of trash anymore. Inflation has hit fast food harder than other types of restaurants, or groceries. It doesn’t make sense justifying paying these prices for this when you can get better food for comparable prices now. There used to be an expectation that this food would at least be cheap.
This food was never cheap tbh
The point was convenience - a hot and ready to eat meal that you can grab at any time and don’t have to prepare yourself.
They had a thing called the dollar menu for decades.
During the 90s-2000s, they’d have hamburger Tuesdays where you can buy a hamburger for like $0.29 cents.
They had ads where families would come with “a few bucks” and feed everyone.
I survived on one meal a day at McDonald’s when I was stuck doing day labor in Seattle around the 2002 crash.
Back then it was actually cheap to get enough food to survive on for under 5 bucks. I remember the 20 cheeseburger and hamburger deals they had twice a week.
The price increases to cheeseburgers really hurts, when that was usually my main dollar menu deal.
during that time, you could get whopper or jumbo jack or big 'n tasty, etc. for 99c just about everywhere. 3 bucks was all it took to eat lunch…
even less if you ordered the ‘all american meal’ at mcdonalds: small hamburger or cheeseburger, small fries, small drink. was only $1.79 or $1.89. wasn’t always on the menu board, but i never encountered a store that didn’t sell it even if it wasn’t.
its almost 12 bucks just to get a whopper ‘meal’ here now.
It used to be cheap. It wasn’t that long ago there was a dollar menu. Now a cheeseburger is $2.79.
You could always make a cheaper burger yourself. Yeah a pack of buns and and pound of burger would cost more, but per burger it was always cheaper.
I used to get 3 double cheeseburgers and a large tea for $4.20 including tax. McDonald’s and Little Caesars were by far the cheapest meals I could buy unless you want to count ramen noodle packs. Groceries were way more expensive. Now both are expensive LOL.
You could get a pound of ground beef and a pack of burger buns and I think the one time I did the math it came out to 80 cents a burger.
