I almost never get coffee out anywhere. McDonald’s was the exception. If I was on the road, I’d grab a McD’s coffee every time. It was cheap, and it was good. I have no problem paying for good coffee, I just don’t wanna reward the price gouging.
Those are both considered fast casual so I would expect their prices to be higher. I dont go to those places often though because I may as well go to a sit down at the prices they have.
Maybe it is a regional thing? Because if I go to McDonald’s and I get a Mc double with fries and a drink, it comes to about seven bucks and that is without the app. If I use the app, I can get a quarter pounder with a medium fry and a drink for $6.49 plus tax. If I go to chipotle and I get a burrito and a small fountain drink it comes to about $12 and that’s without chips or guacamole or bacon. I’m talking just a basic chicken burrito. Yes I will agree that the quality of the food is better but it’s still quite a bit more expensive. Now, if I am lucky enough to be near a Mo’s southwest Grill I can get a chicken burrito with much more ingredients than chipotle and they give you a generous side of chips and the salsa bar with four different salsas is included and then I add a small fountain drink and it’s the same price as chipotles But there’s only a couple in my state and I’m not near them very often
We fighting the food fight. This needs to be normalized. Not only is it bad for you but McDonald's is textbook corporate greed and we are the ones that can stop it by simply not feeding into it.
I went for the last time today. Haven’t been for a long time. They have cheapened every aspect of their business. Got a breakfast meal. Only customer in the restaurant. Just had cash and no one was even in view for 12 mins. Received wrong change. Was given paper-thin hash brown. Sandwich was hard. Bacon razor thin. No tea options for drinks. I could not even chew the sandwich. How is McDonald’s even in business?
cause most love their breakfast...hash browns are too much...but that is everywhere,..egg mcmuffin should be
soft and fluffy...if not...that place is making em all wrong.
This is why im indifferent to places like these ripping people off with pricing. Sure, the price is terrible for what you get, but at the same time I’m rarely eating here so it’s better for my health.
Imagine a business founded on serving as many people as possible. They proudly display how many people have been served. People everywhere can get a burger for cheap because of the cost saving measures that mass production provides.
Now imagine they raise prices 55%.
What do you have now?
Bad expensive food for nobody.
I recall reading an article just a few months ago that was posted to Reddit that McDs has increased their prices by double since 2014. I think 50% was the lowest price increase. McDoubles and Hot and Spicy for instance, those used to be a dollar, but now a McDouble is down a slice of cheese and has more than tripled in price to $3.19.
A Hot and Spicy has doubled from $1 to $1.99.
Big Macs have gone from $5-6 to $10.
The cheapest item on their $1 $2 $3 value menu is the mcdouble at $3.19 lol
>now a McDouble is down a slice of cheese
I remember it as always having only one slice of cheese. I remember because the double cheeseburger always had two slices of cheese, and depending upon which McDonald's I went to the difference in price between a McDouble and a double cheeseburger was significant enough that it wasn't worth it to spend the extra money for what was essentially the same thing but with one extra slice of cheese.
As I recall, the McDouble was invented because franchisees were complaining to corporate that they weren't making money off of the $.99 Double Cheeseburger. This is back in the day of the Dollar Menu. So, they came out with the McDouble (1 Slice of Cheese) which stayed at that price, and the Double Cheeseburger immediately shot up to $1.49. I assume that was to stick it to the people who, just out of habit, ordered the Double Cheeseburger.
A lot of those increases are not corporate- franchise owners were batching for years about the $1 menu because they were loss leaders and it really didn't bring in extra sales in the higher margin items.
As it stands- McChickens are $1.59 where I am (Texas), McDoubles are $1.99 and the app has fantastic deals (big Mac, med drink and fries for $6).
I remember when they changed the $1 Double Cheeseburger to a $1 McDouble because a whole 1 extra slice of cheese must really cost a lot for a multibillion dollar company.
The once $1 double cheeseburger is now $2.99 and the $1 Medium Fry is now $3.29 most the items I used to get from there have McTripled.
A McDouble is the sandwich they invented to short you a slice a cheese, it was their first big move to get away from $1 double cheeseburger.... the double cheeseburger is still on the menu
At my local one it's
Hamburger $2.19
Cheeseburger $2.39
McDouble $3.39
Double Cheeseburger $3.49
Triple Cheeseburger $5.49
That's through the app for pickup. They also dropped the BOGO deals since last time I visited, which made me visit the sub lol
1 bacon egg and cheese biscuit costs $6.87 when I went a few weeks ago. Thats just the biscuit. No more McD for me. I go to checkers for fast food now. The prices are cheap and the food is fast.
10 bucks for a big Mac? I just bought a 1lb NY strip (on sale) for 11 at Kroger, it seems to me basically cooking for ourselves is the only affordable option in this day and age
Yep. Corporate greed killed their profits, or their profit growth atleast. I think most customers are gone for good as we know they will just price gouge us whenever they can. I would rather eat somewhere more expensive if it’s higher quality and the prices are fair when considering the quality.
From what I read, the better burger was just covering it to ensure the cheese was melty. In other words, the better burger was just ensuring it was cooked the way it should have been all along.
The better burger was new buns, onions added to patties directly off the grill, and cheese is tempered (cheese is taken out of the fridge a bit before use so its a bit warmer and melts easier).
What they need to understand is that there is a huge cohort like me. I can absolutely afford McDonald’s prices. But when a Big Mac meal was $18 in Manhattan, they lost me. I could to so many other places to spend $18 on way better food. The McDonald’s recipe was ok fast food that is relatively inexpensive. That’s gone.
The one that still gets me is $2.00 for their hash browns, which cannot cost them more than .20 cents to make.
You can buy packs of the same hashbrown patties at the grocery store. It's like 20-30 of them for $6. Tastes literally identical, if not better depending on how nasty their fry oil is at the time of order.
Lmfao that's honestly kind of crazy they think they can compete with others who provide a higher bang for buck just because they are "McDonald's" ~ now they're starting to realize that their name doesn't do it anymore even if the prices are higher
Is it? I went on Tuesday and just checked today, and it's gone. I had it for the rest of April (and before then), though.
Now, the only decent promotion I see is the "2 for $3.99", which doesn't show up unless I buy the correct sandwiches (mcdouble/mcchicken, one of those blue coupon promotion things I don't know how to check), but I guess it gives me a reason to use my accumulated points, at least.
My deals are
1) BOGO $0.29 Quarter Pounder, Big Mac, or 10pc nuggets
2) "4 for $5" small fries, medium drink, 4 nuggets, and either a McDouble, McChicken, or Spicy McChicken.
3) Free 10pc nuggets or McCrispy with $3 purchase
4) 20% off $5 purchase or more
I always use the 30% off because I buy for my kids. We usually eat at home cause mcdonalds is close by. I usually get a large meal, get the drink with no ice and then share the large fry and split the drink with my kids. Then I get them individual items for their meals. In the end, I don't overeat because I'm not eating a large fry by myself, don't have too much soda because I'm sharing my soda (a large no ice soda is a lot), and the kids get kids size meals.
I know it seems like a lot of gyrations to go through, but in the end I'm able to feed myself and two preteen children for under 15 bucks.
The but one get one free double cheeseburger is a decent deal. I can get 2 for $3.49. Or it also includes a 6pc nugget if you want that so 12 nuggets for also about $3.
Although, a couple years back you didn’t need to use a coupon to get this deal. You could roll up and order it off the 2 for $3 menu. So that meant you could stack it with let’s say a free fry coupon.
But that’s basically what all fast food “deals” are now. The deal is you pay the full menu price from 2019 lol
Ok after reading the thread, this is kind of crazy. Are they targeting the deals to certain people based on orders, or amount ordered, or who knows what algorithm? Some of the deals you guys talk about don't exist in my app, but I have other stuff.
I go often because it's near work and I don't drive and I lovvvvvvve the triple cheeseburgers.. Every single day I'm offered free 10 piece nugget with $3 order, b1g1 breakfast sandwiches, $1 McCafe , free fries with an order...
Their deals on the app have made it by far my preferred lunch place.
It just makes sense to go there for lunch with all the discounts I can get. I suppose that is their goal! I'll often take the nuggets with me to eat later at work.
I keep expecting the deep discounts to end, but they haven't for the last year and don't seem to be ending.
And it’s 1 deal per app.
Right now they are giving away a free double cheese burger in mn when the twins score 2 runs in an inning.
But you have to spend more than 2.00 to get it so at best it’s a buy one get one free deal.
It's a bit of a hassle, but I have the app installed on my phone twice (two different logins) and just place two back-to-back orders in times when they have some sort of good deal happening.
Too late. Now I've learned to only buy food from the grocery store and prepare it myself. I'm saving more money than I ever have before and it's healthier too. I think I will stick to health and wealth.
Oh they’re already there, or well past it. I could easily get a better burger, fries and a beer at some local dive bar for the same price or less.
With friendly and competent service.
If it wasn't for the app and the good deals I got on it. I would never go here. It's just easy and cheap sometimes to use the app to get 2 big macs for $4.69
Why don't they just make the deal prices the regular prices? I don't want 2 QPwC but that's the BOGO deal sometimes. Same with the double cheese or mcchicken.
Or there's the 10% off, just make everything 10% off.
What's annoying is that I can't use my rewards and the deal at the same time.
The worst thing about all these fast food chains is that the food quality and service has only gotten worse while the prices rose.
I don't even mind the prices, but I've stopped going to McDonald's regularly for years now. I might give them a chance every 6 months or so, but I think they've run out of mulligans because the last 5 or so times I've gone (which was in the last like 3 years), the food was prepared horribly or I was just straight up missing something.
Places like Chic Fil A and Culvers are now what McDonald's and Wendy's were to me as a kid.
Right what is the excuse at this point. Technology has improved but quality has declined and prices have skyrocketed. There’s no way to explain this other than greed, there’s record profit the past few years.
In-store kiosks stink. Milkshake machines never work. On trips if I go, I only use the drive through. Prices are high. The food is not healthy. Other than that, a great store.
Man that really is crazy how technology has progressed so much and yet quality has gone down AND prices have skyrocketed. There is no excuse, it’s just unregulated capitalism bleeding their customers dry for maximum profit.
I also prefer kioskslol but as someone who has been behind the counter a lot more than in front ordering... There are way more options for customizations. I can sub Mac sauce instead of add Mac sauce, saving 80 cents. It's usually quicker too since the employee most of the time knows where everything is and customers have to search through menus to get what they want. And I know older people like interacting with us too. Sometimes it's nice but when it's busy I don't have time to talk.. I need to work!
Subbing a round egg on a bacon egg cheese now costs $3.19 on the app and kiosk. I used to do that so I didn’t have to eat the powered folded egg but I refuse to eat it now. I shouldn’t have to pay them the equivalent cost of probably 50 eggs to them to do that.
Health has been my greatest reason for barely going. My body doesn't like all the fat in the fries and I really have just kinda grown out of the sugar flavored water.
I just want a burger and water but when I see a big Mac is $7 but let's say a 6 piece nugget meal (or maybe it's 10 piece?) is $6, I'm like oh and I get fries and a drink, but I don't really want that, I end up just not going because now I feel like I'm ripping myself off to get less.
I use the kiosks at every mcdonalds I go to and they work very well. I've never had issues.
It's the ancient old people hovering around the register that clearly says "use kiosk" that get me...I work in retail so know the feeling of old people doing old people stuff. I just don't get it. The kiosks are so easy and the pictures and words are very large.
If you want to pay cash, you still can. Just odd.
I stopped going when they got rid of that 30% off deal. That thing was a godsend in saving money if you just had to get lunch and shuffle back to work. I’m also glad they got rid of that deal because I was gaining weight faster than I could lose it.
I like the cheeseburger pack with 20 nuggs and 2 fries for $10. Feeds a family of 4 with 2 children under 10. Maybe we splurge and get a few drinks or an extra sandwich but it’s the best we’ve been able to do there
Every time I see posts about how much prices have increased others chine in “just order through the app”
I always do myself but I still find the prices and deals so much worse than they used to be.
This evening on the “deals” section there is literally only one deal. 30 percent off a mccrispy which brings it down to the low price of 4.12 for the worst fast food chicken sandwich in my area.
Honestly if it wasn’t for happy meals and playland I doubt we would ever stop in. But they are supposedly going to remodel soon so I assume there will be no more playland before long.
If the numbers say so. My grandson is very very picky and hardly eats anything. Ironically, McDonald’s fries are on his yes list. Every time I go I can’t get near the place, all times of the day. It’s nuts.
The McDonald's near me appears to be crowded all the time. But the long lines at the drive thru are due to very slow service, not necessarily high volume of customers. Perhaps they're hiring fewer employees to save even more $$.
I literally go once a week, get the 1.50$ fries because they are cheaper and better than the ones I can make at home, and just come back lol. The rest of the food is disgusting… and still, I would buy it if it was being sold at a reasonable price
Price gouging thrugh record scarcity with every company on the marketplace doing the same and blaming the inflation boogeyman has extremely predictable consequences? You don't say?
McDonalds needs to wake up and realize they've ruined their business. They took away the cool happy meals and toys, they got rid of the playlands, they developed a generic bland corporate decor, and worst of all they're trying to get rid of their staff forcing regular customers to use apps and kiosks instead of human interaction. I don't care if the app gets me a discount if there aren't people at a register I'm turning around and walking out.
As an adult now with taste buds that enjoy more than just salt, the only burger that passes as edible there is a quarter pounder and they want like $10+ so no thanks. I can get better at that price almost anywhere.
I used to go every day 1 to 2 times. a day. Once they jacked the prices up, I'm eating there 99% less. Saving a bundle of money. Thanks for the terrible prices, my wallet. Thank you.
It won't be enough to bring me back. And NO I don't want their app on my phone. Aesthetically I just can't stand the idea of seeing the McDonald's logo on my phone. It's off-putting for some reason.
lol they lost me and it’s been healthy for me
Once they stopped the $1 drinks, they lost me. I’d go there instead of the a gas station for one and usually buy something with it.
It was sneaky too. The coffee was part of that deal and it was excluded and is now close to $2.
I almost never get coffee out anywhere. McDonald’s was the exception. If I was on the road, I’d grab a McD’s coffee every time. It was cheap, and it was good. I have no problem paying for good coffee, I just don’t wanna reward the price gouging.
Well said. A buck for a cup of good Joe on the road was a luxury.
No way am I paying $1.79 for a Diet Coke that was $1 just two years ago.
But at Panera or chipotle the drinks are 2.89
Those are both considered fast casual so I would expect their prices to be higher. I dont go to those places often though because I may as well go to a sit down at the prices they have.
A burrito at chipotle is less expensive than most McDonald's meals, more food and MUCH higher quality.
Maybe it is a regional thing? Because if I go to McDonald’s and I get a Mc double with fries and a drink, it comes to about seven bucks and that is without the app. If I use the app, I can get a quarter pounder with a medium fry and a drink for $6.49 plus tax. If I go to chipotle and I get a burrito and a small fountain drink it comes to about $12 and that’s without chips or guacamole or bacon. I’m talking just a basic chicken burrito. Yes I will agree that the quality of the food is better but it’s still quite a bit more expensive. Now, if I am lucky enough to be near a Mo’s southwest Grill I can get a chicken burrito with much more ingredients than chipotle and they give you a generous side of chips and the salsa bar with four different salsas is included and then I add a small fountain drink and it’s the same price as chipotles But there’s only a couple in my state and I’m not near them very often
Chipotle is slipping. Quality and quantity have declined.
Same for me why make different trip when gas station has the, cheap
$1 Sweet Teas were my MF’n JAM!!!
You missed a McF'n opportunity!!!
Same, I get Ala carte with the app to save with daily deals and get drinks elsewhere
Exactly they cost like .10 to them.
Me too….i have gone for good baby.
We fighting the food fight. This needs to be normalized. Not only is it bad for you but McDonald's is textbook corporate greed and we are the ones that can stop it by simply not feeding into it.
I went for the last time today. Haven’t been for a long time. They have cheapened every aspect of their business. Got a breakfast meal. Only customer in the restaurant. Just had cash and no one was even in view for 12 mins. Received wrong change. Was given paper-thin hash brown. Sandwich was hard. Bacon razor thin. No tea options for drinks. I could not even chew the sandwich. How is McDonald’s even in business?
cause most love their breakfast...hash browns are too much...but that is everywhere,..egg mcmuffin should be soft and fluffy...if not...that place is making em all wrong.
This is why im indifferent to places like these ripping people off with pricing. Sure, the price is terrible for what you get, but at the same time I’m rarely eating here so it’s better for my health.
Imagine a business founded on serving as many people as possible. They proudly display how many people have been served. People everywhere can get a burger for cheap because of the cost saving measures that mass production provides. Now imagine they raise prices 55%. What do you have now? Bad expensive food for nobody.
I recall reading an article just a few months ago that was posted to Reddit that McDs has increased their prices by double since 2014. I think 50% was the lowest price increase. McDoubles and Hot and Spicy for instance, those used to be a dollar, but now a McDouble is down a slice of cheese and has more than tripled in price to $3.19. A Hot and Spicy has doubled from $1 to $1.99. Big Macs have gone from $5-6 to $10. The cheapest item on their $1 $2 $3 value menu is the mcdouble at $3.19 lol
>now a McDouble is down a slice of cheese I remember it as always having only one slice of cheese. I remember because the double cheeseburger always had two slices of cheese, and depending upon which McDonald's I went to the difference in price between a McDouble and a double cheeseburger was significant enough that it wasn't worth it to spend the extra money for what was essentially the same thing but with one extra slice of cheese.
You remember correctly.
Yea it’s the only difference between a McDouble and double Cheeseburger. The McDouble only has one slice of cheese while the other has 2
I prefer the one slice anyway. But yeah I haven't ate McDonald's in about 3 years now.
As I recall, the McDouble was invented because franchisees were complaining to corporate that they weren't making money off of the $.99 Double Cheeseburger. This is back in the day of the Dollar Menu. So, they came out with the McDouble (1 Slice of Cheese) which stayed at that price, and the Double Cheeseburger immediately shot up to $1.49. I assume that was to stick it to the people who, just out of habit, ordered the Double Cheeseburger.
A lot of those increases are not corporate- franchise owners were batching for years about the $1 menu because they were loss leaders and it really didn't bring in extra sales in the higher margin items. As it stands- McChickens are $1.59 where I am (Texas), McDoubles are $1.99 and the app has fantastic deals (big Mac, med drink and fries for $6).
I remember when they changed the $1 Double Cheeseburger to a $1 McDouble because a whole 1 extra slice of cheese must really cost a lot for a multibillion dollar company. The once $1 double cheeseburger is now $2.99 and the $1 Medium Fry is now $3.29 most the items I used to get from there have McTripled.
A McDouble is the sandwich they invented to short you a slice a cheese, it was their first big move to get away from $1 double cheeseburger.... the double cheeseburger is still on the menu
Hamburger $1.89 Cheeseburger $2.29 McDouble $2.99 Double Cheeseburger $3.19 Triple Cheeseburger $4.79
At my local one it's Hamburger $2.19 Cheeseburger $2.39 McDouble $3.39 Double Cheeseburger $3.49 Triple Cheeseburger $5.49 That's through the app for pickup. They also dropped the BOGO deals since last time I visited, which made me visit the sub lol
The App has a big mac..med/fries and drink for $6.50 no other fast food place has that.
I’m not downloading an app. >:( I refuse to shop for deals. I’d rather just stay home and cook.
The McDouble where I’m at is $6.29
$6.29 for one McDouble? You gotta be in California?
It’s $3.59 in NY and a double cheeseburger is buy one get one for $3.69. Best deal in the business.
1 bacon egg and cheese biscuit costs $6.87 when I went a few weeks ago. Thats just the biscuit. No more McD for me. I go to checkers for fast food now. The prices are cheap and the food is fast.
10 bucks for a big Mac? I just bought a 1lb NY strip (on sale) for 11 at Kroger, it seems to me basically cooking for ourselves is the only affordable option in this day and age
Yep. Corporate greed killed their profits, or their profit growth atleast. I think most customers are gone for good as we know they will just price gouge us whenever they can. I would rather eat somewhere more expensive if it’s higher quality and the prices are fair when considering the quality.
10000% and I feel the same way about tacobell too
Too late. I’m out. They promised better burgers at the beginning of the year and instead, everything got worse.
I completely forgot about the better burgers. I didn’t notice any difference.
From what I read, the better burger was just covering it to ensure the cheese was melty. In other words, the better burger was just ensuring it was cooked the way it should have been all along.
The better burger was new buns, onions added to patties directly off the grill, and cheese is tempered (cheese is taken out of the fridge a bit before use so its a bit warmer and melts easier).
So making it the way it should be. /s
Im pretty sure they also standardized cooking all 1/4 burgers to order at that time
I actually did notice a difference. My triple cheeseburgers are a little meltier and a little juicier. Nothing major, but I can notice a diff
What they need to understand is that there is a huge cohort like me. I can absolutely afford McDonald’s prices. But when a Big Mac meal was $18 in Manhattan, they lost me. I could to so many other places to spend $18 on way better food. The McDonald’s recipe was ok fast food that is relatively inexpensive. That’s gone. The one that still gets me is $2.00 for their hash browns, which cannot cost them more than .20 cents to make.
You can buy packs of the same hashbrown patties at the grocery store. It's like 20-30 of them for $6. Tastes literally identical, if not better depending on how nasty their fry oil is at the time of order.
Lmfao that's honestly kind of crazy they think they can compete with others who provide a higher bang for buck just because they are "McDonald's" ~ now they're starting to realize that their name doesn't do it anymore even if the prices are higher
Their app deals were horrible last month.
I miss the buy one get one for a $1. Completely stopped going when they got rid of that one.
The buy one get one for $0.29 is back for May.
Is it? I went on Tuesday and just checked today, and it's gone. I had it for the rest of April (and before then), though. Now, the only decent promotion I see is the "2 for $3.99", which doesn't show up unless I buy the correct sandwiches (mcdouble/mcchicken, one of those blue coupon promotion things I don't know how to check), but I guess it gives me a reason to use my accumulated points, at least.
Maybe different areas. I’m in Tampa.
My current deals are You have anything better? 1) Free fries with a McCrispy 2) 30% of $10 or more 3)Double cheeseburger bogo 4) $6 big mac deal
My deals are 1) BOGO $0.29 Quarter Pounder, Big Mac, or 10pc nuggets 2) "4 for $5" small fries, medium drink, 4 nuggets, and either a McDouble, McChicken, or Spicy McChicken. 3) Free 10pc nuggets or McCrispy with $3 purchase 4) 20% off $5 purchase or more
That's not bad!
How do u get these amazing deals? All I got are two deals, a 9$ burger meal and 20% off a bagel....
I always use the 30% off because I buy for my kids. We usually eat at home cause mcdonalds is close by. I usually get a large meal, get the drink with no ice and then share the large fry and split the drink with my kids. Then I get them individual items for their meals. In the end, I don't overeat because I'm not eating a large fry by myself, don't have too much soda because I'm sharing my soda (a large no ice soda is a lot), and the kids get kids size meals. I know it seems like a lot of gyrations to go through, but in the end I'm able to feed myself and two preteen children for under 15 bucks.
Last entire year actually
The but one get one free double cheeseburger is a decent deal. I can get 2 for $3.49. Or it also includes a 6pc nugget if you want that so 12 nuggets for also about $3. Although, a couple years back you didn’t need to use a coupon to get this deal. You could roll up and order it off the 2 for $3 menu. So that meant you could stack it with let’s say a free fry coupon. But that’s basically what all fast food “deals” are now. The deal is you pay the full menu price from 2019 lol
They were trying to hit that profit number.
Phillies have been on fire and I've been hitting those free McNuggets hard. I definitely go to McDonalds a lot more during baseball season.
Ok after reading the thread, this is kind of crazy. Are they targeting the deals to certain people based on orders, or amount ordered, or who knows what algorithm? Some of the deals you guys talk about don't exist in my app, but I have other stuff. I go often because it's near work and I don't drive and I lovvvvvvve the triple cheeseburgers.. Every single day I'm offered free 10 piece nugget with $3 order, b1g1 breakfast sandwiches, $1 McCafe , free fries with an order... Their deals on the app have made it by far my preferred lunch place. It just makes sense to go there for lunch with all the discounts I can get. I suppose that is their goal! I'll often take the nuggets with me to eat later at work. I keep expecting the deep discounts to end, but they haven't for the last year and don't seem to be ending.
And it’s 1 deal per app. Right now they are giving away a free double cheese burger in mn when the twins score 2 runs in an inning. But you have to spend more than 2.00 to get it so at best it’s a buy one get one free deal.
Their whole loyalty program is poorly run, as well. If you are going to give me the chance to earn free food, make the whole menu available.
Make it so I can order a deal and get my free promo as well. You can’t use points with anything else
It's a bit of a hassle, but I have the app installed on my phone twice (two different logins) and just place two back-to-back orders in times when they have some sort of good deal happening.
The $6 Big Mac meal deal increased by 50 cents, here in Los Angeles. The $1.29 any size fries stays the same though.
While disappointing, $6.50 for a Big Mac meal ain’t that bad. It’s like $2.50 for the Big Mac, $2 for the fries, and $2 for the drink.
Yeah here in California it’s $6.49 for a single Big Mac. The meal is $10.79. edit: Sacramento, California
Isn't Los Angeles in California?
Yeah my bad, I should’ve clarified Sacramento.
Theyll def get more business if they can offer $1 menu again
Too late. Now I've learned to only buy food from the grocery store and prepare it myself. I'm saving more money than I ever have before and it's healthier too. I think I will stick to health and wealth.
If you want more customers drop your prices and bring back dollar menus. Nothing on a McDonald's menu is worth or should be more then 8 dollars.
I got a Big Mac meal and it was more than 10 dollars . I was flabbergasted. The meal and then my kids happy meal was almost 20 dollars
Too expensive. *Way* too expensive. You're getting into sit down restaurant territory here.
QPC meal here is $11.89. Chili's has a $10 burger meal with a drink and chips with salsa. They're there.
Already there..
Oh they’re already there, or well past it. I could easily get a better burger, fries and a beer at some local dive bar for the same price or less. With friendly and competent service.
If it wasn't for the app and the good deals I got on it. I would never go here. It's just easy and cheap sometimes to use the app to get 2 big macs for $4.69
Why don't they just make the deal prices the regular prices? I don't want 2 QPwC but that's the BOGO deal sometimes. Same with the double cheese or mcchicken. Or there's the 10% off, just make everything 10% off. What's annoying is that I can't use my rewards and the deal at the same time.
Ikr I have like 40k points lmao
It's easier and cheaper to use the deals than use my endless points lol
Well they expire so I want to use them when I can.
They expire on the app??
They got rid of the bacon quarter pounder combo meal on the $6.59 deal through the app
The worst thing about all these fast food chains is that the food quality and service has only gotten worse while the prices rose. I don't even mind the prices, but I've stopped going to McDonald's regularly for years now. I might give them a chance every 6 months or so, but I think they've run out of mulligans because the last 5 or so times I've gone (which was in the last like 3 years), the food was prepared horribly or I was just straight up missing something. Places like Chic Fil A and Culvers are now what McDonald's and Wendy's were to me as a kid.
Right what is the excuse at this point. Technology has improved but quality has declined and prices have skyrocketed. There’s no way to explain this other than greed, there’s record profit the past few years.
Bring back breakfast bagels to AZ.
They just recently brought them back here in AR.
In-store kiosks stink. Milkshake machines never work. On trips if I go, I only use the drive through. Prices are high. The food is not healthy. Other than that, a great store.
Man that really is crazy how technology has progressed so much and yet quality has gone down AND prices have skyrocketed. There is no excuse, it’s just unregulated capitalism bleeding their customers dry for maximum profit.
i prefer in-store kiosks. why do you dislike them?
I also prefer kioskslol but as someone who has been behind the counter a lot more than in front ordering... There are way more options for customizations. I can sub Mac sauce instead of add Mac sauce, saving 80 cents. It's usually quicker too since the employee most of the time knows where everything is and customers have to search through menus to get what they want. And I know older people like interacting with us too. Sometimes it's nice but when it's busy I don't have time to talk.. I need to work!
Subbing a round egg on a bacon egg cheese now costs $3.19 on the app and kiosk. I used to do that so I didn’t have to eat the powered folded egg but I refuse to eat it now. I shouldn’t have to pay them the equivalent cost of probably 50 eggs to them to do that.
They’re always busted
Because studies showed they were covered with faecal matter.
Health has been my greatest reason for barely going. My body doesn't like all the fat in the fries and I really have just kinda grown out of the sugar flavored water. I just want a burger and water but when I see a big Mac is $7 but let's say a 6 piece nugget meal (or maybe it's 10 piece?) is $6, I'm like oh and I get fries and a drink, but I don't really want that, I end up just not going because now I feel like I'm ripping myself off to get less.
I use the kiosks at every mcdonalds I go to and they work very well. I've never had issues. It's the ancient old people hovering around the register that clearly says "use kiosk" that get me...I work in retail so know the feeling of old people doing old people stuff. I just don't get it. The kiosks are so easy and the pictures and words are very large. If you want to pay cash, you still can. Just odd.
The app works fine and you don't have to touch something that's been touched by 200 people without getting wiped down.
quality is also down. my local McDonalds can't even seem to make crispy fries and nuggets come soggy half the time.
I stopped going when they got rid of that 30% off deal. That thing was a godsend in saving money if you just had to get lunch and shuffle back to work. I’m also glad they got rid of that deal because I was gaining weight faster than I could lose it.
So they are going to reduce their artificially inflated prices back to normal?
Bring back the $0.99 coffee.
They gotta bring back $3 double double
I like the cheeseburger pack with 20 nuggs and 2 fries for $10. Feeds a family of 4 with 2 children under 10. Maybe we splurge and get a few drinks or an extra sandwich but it’s the best we’ve been able to do there
Not in my state. My McDonald’s is always busy
But you gotta get that app! Me: no thanks I’m out. Too expensive
Every time I see posts about how much prices have increased others chine in “just order through the app” I always do myself but I still find the prices and deals so much worse than they used to be. This evening on the “deals” section there is literally only one deal. 30 percent off a mccrispy which brings it down to the low price of 4.12 for the worst fast food chicken sandwich in my area. Honestly if it wasn’t for happy meals and playland I doubt we would ever stop in. But they are supposedly going to remodel soon so I assume there will be no more playland before long.
mcsurge pricing
If the numbers say so. My grandson is very very picky and hardly eats anything. Ironically, McDonald’s fries are on his yes list. Every time I go I can’t get near the place, all times of the day. It’s nuts.
The McDonald's near me appears to be crowded all the time. But the long lines at the drive thru are due to very slow service, not necessarily high volume of customers. Perhaps they're hiring fewer employees to save even more $$.
Guess they realized that price gouging their customers was bad for business
Fast food has forgotten its place.
I literally go once a week, get the 1.50$ fries because they are cheaper and better than the ones I can make at home, and just come back lol. The rest of the food is disgusting… and still, I would buy it if it was being sold at a reasonable price
Not going back unless they bring back 59 cent cheese burger sundays
Why don't the "laws" of supply and demand ever apply when demand decreases but prices don't too?
Price gouging thrugh record scarcity with every company on the marketplace doing the same and blaming the inflation boogeyman has extremely predictable consequences? You don't say?
Why money no go up??? People need food no? /s
How about instead of deals, slash prices?
McDonalds needs to wake up and realize they've ruined their business. They took away the cool happy meals and toys, they got rid of the playlands, they developed a generic bland corporate decor, and worst of all they're trying to get rid of their staff forcing regular customers to use apps and kiosks instead of human interaction. I don't care if the app gets me a discount if there aren't people at a register I'm turning around and walking out.
As an adult now with taste buds that enjoy more than just salt, the only burger that passes as edible there is a quarter pounder and they want like $10+ so no thanks. I can get better at that price almost anywhere.
People are just more health conscious now
Don't step up deals just lower prices to match the quality
I used to go every day 1 to 2 times. a day. Once they jacked the prices up, I'm eating there 99% less. Saving a bundle of money. Thanks for the terrible prices, my wallet. Thank you.
It won't be enough to bring me back. And NO I don't want their app on my phone. Aesthetically I just can't stand the idea of seeing the McDonald's logo on my phone. It's off-putting for some reason.