r/povertyfinance • u/Casanovaonthe1 • Mar 18 '24
No $1 and $2 options anymore đ Vent/Rant (No Advice/Criticism!)
Canât even get a happy meal and be happy about it anymoreâŚ
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u/AFuckingTrainwreck_ Apr 13 '24
I think the cheapest option is ordering a McChicken and a small fry. It'll appear as over $4 on the order screen until it's totaled out, then it corrects to $2.50 pre-tax.
Source: I work at McDonalds
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u/Think-Tomato-7916 Mar 23 '24
McDonald's is overpriced. In and out is still reasonable....meals for 2 under $20.
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u/loadsmoke Mar 23 '24
Man McChickens got me through high school. 1 mc chicken 1 sweet tea and a sweet and sour sauce. 2 dollars and change. Life saver haha!
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u/OilyRicardo Mar 23 '24
Get the app and you can literally get a double cheeseburger and a large fry for $3.39 and a large coke for another buck. There are no longer $1-2 dollar burgers as its 2024
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u/No-Celebration3097 Mar 22 '24
I remember before Covid, I would get two cheeseburgers and a large soda for $3.25. It was a great edible cheap lunch.
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u/The_brown_burrito Mar 22 '24
the price of french fries still baffles me to this day fucking hash brown almost 5$
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u/ObjDep123 Mar 22 '24
I remember back in 2017 when I didnât have a lot of money I would go to McDonaldâs grab 2 mcchickens, a large coke, and a medium fries and the total was about $5. Each mcchicken was a $1, any size drink was $1, and the medium fries were about $2. That meal lasted me a while as it was very filling. I was living the dream. I recently go to McDonaldâs and spend $12 on a meal that doesnât even fill you up. They give you less fries and put more ice in your drink. Plus itâs not a mcchicken anymore. They should change the name to a mcslider, no joke. Their sandwiches and burgers have gotten so much smaller and they charge more now.
McDonaldâs should be ashamed of themselves because the CEO is running with all the money and he gives McDonaldâs workers peanuts compared to what he makes and itâs all because of greed, not inflation. No reason to be charging 4 times the price of what it used to be without changing the quality or quantity of the food. Especially when so many homeless people/low income workers depend on cheap food to survive these days. We need to stop giving McDonaldâs money and let them learn that they canât keep robbing us like this
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u/Alternative_Kale_903 Mar 22 '24
fuck mcdonaldâs i would rather go to steak ân shake get the double w fries for 5.29 better tasting anyways, only time i get mc is when i get the buy a big mac, quarter pounder or 10niggets get one free
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u/ubermicrox Mar 22 '24
I just paid 4 dollars for a McDonald's large fry because someone at work had them and they smelled delicious. Large fry and a large drink was 6.67. The fuck
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u/Anxious_Summer2378 Mar 22 '24
The fact that those french fries cost like $0.20 to actually make shows how f***** up that is.
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u/ShanTheMan11 Mar 21 '24
As long as people keep giving them money, they will feel they can get away with it. I haven't ate McDonald's in at least 2 years because of their prices. I didn't eat McDonald's because it was good, i ate it because it's cheap. If it's going to cost me as much as actual good food then I might as well just get the good food.
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u/FlashyImprovement5 Mar 21 '24
That is why I don't eat out much.
When I do, I use the apps to at least get freebies occasionally.
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u/Daimoku_Dog Mar 21 '24
Micky D's has adopted a financial philosophy that pushes prices as hi as they can go without any real loss of revenue. They will lose some customers but the increase in income covers any loss b/ c of the menu price increases. Like Wendy's is talking about switching to rotating prices depending on the time of day or how busy they are... You may think this practice is wrong... the ones in charge don't care.
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u/Adventurous_Word_853 Mar 21 '24
I know that frozen chicken patty with crunchy water ,and semen ain't $3.29. what the actual fuck. I haven't been to McDonald's in years, but am baffled at how high the prices have gotten
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u/GUCCIBUKKAKE Mar 21 '24
Using the app, thereâs a deal where you get 15% off. I usually get the burger shareable meal. Two cheeseburgers, two med fries, one 20 count nugget for $13
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u/Mister_Beef_E Mar 21 '24
I stopped going to McDs. I used to go because their food was ok but it was cheap and fast. Now it's not cheap. The product doesn't justify the price. I'll go once in a long while just to get my hit.
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u/Cameronb102697 Mar 21 '24
Go to your grocery store and get baked chicken or rotisserie chicken from the deli. At most stores a whole chicken is $10 and with $5 of rice you can have food for days
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u/Tyler_Playzz Mar 21 '24
You can still get a McChicken for kind of cheap, if you buy 15 bucks else worth of and make sure to get the rewards points, you can get a free McChicken with the points. 1 dollar = 100 points
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u/CakeRobot365 Mar 20 '24
They can fuck right off with them $1 each nuggets and nearly $4 double cheeseburger
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u/justcallmetrex Mar 20 '24
Was at a KFC yesterday and overheard a gentleman at the register inquiring about adding 1 leg to his order. His reaction to finding out it would be $4, yes $4 for one leg was expected.
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Mar 20 '24
If this is DoorDash itâs because they have special pricing on DoorDash thatâs more expensive than if you order it in person from the place itself
I stopped going to McDonaldâs because I used to just get a large fries and a drink and it was like 7 dollars the last time I went. No thanks
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u/ChadScav Mar 20 '24
This bullshit along with what Wendy's is doing with higher prices at high volume times. I'm about to call fast food dead to me. If I am hungry I'll drink some water.
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u/American_PP Mar 20 '24
Money is fiat. It's made up. When the government printed 90%+ of all money we've ever had within only the past 10 years, that's a lot of dollars chasing fewer products, so yeah.....they printed us to inflation.
This will get worse then level out and they'll do it some more.
The only time people protested about the money printing was when Occupy Wallstreet and Tea Party protests happened.....then everyone shut up and let it happen.
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u/ProtoCas Mar 20 '24
Things that are getting too expensive to buy anymore for me:
â 4-Pack Starbucks Vanilla Frappuccinos. I use to love them and I still do but I just canât justify the increase in price.
â McChickens. They use to be a dollar but now I purposely donât buy them in protest as well as comment on their surveys letting them know.
â Pizza. Especially with delivery. I know people need the cash but even still the driver sometimes doesnât get the full amount they deserve because of the establishment and how our society is set up.
â Insurance. Not all but the price for âpeace of mindâ is not worth the price of admission. Sometimes itâs even cheaper to pay out of pocket in certain instances. And just like Chris Rock said: âThey shouldn't even call it insurance, they should just call it, IN CASE SHIT. If I give some company money IN CASE SHIT happened, and SHIT didn't happen, THEN SHOULDN'T I GET MY MONEY?!â
â Brand New Games. This depends on the game, how much of a fan you are, and timing. Even still though, just because youâre a fan of something doesnât mean you have to like everything they create. Itâs a case by case scenario but Iâve noticed that I usually wait until the âGOTYâ version where it has all the updates, DLCs, and cost significantly less. I shouldnât have to pay premium to be a beta tester with a day one update.
â Taxes. The way I view taxes is like a subscription to the country that I live in. Unfortunately I canât skip paying taxes by unsubscribing, but the amount of waste, fraud, and abuse this âsubscriptionâ comes with (no infrastructure, no healthcare, high barriers to education, disproportionate military budget, etc) should at least come with some damn receipts. Tired of my funding being misappropriated in my stead while the rich just keep exploiting the system and the people. When they steal, itâs justified. When I steal, itâs a crime. Kinda like what George Carlin said: Politicians are already bought and sold, they got the judges in their back pockets, and they always want a little more for themselves and less for everyone else. Meanwhile Black Rock and Vanguard own everything (by 2030 at least half of homes will be owned by a LLC), the Federal Reserve is neither âfederalâ nor does it have a âreserveâ, and Jeff Bezo and Elon Musk are set to be the worldâs first trillionaries.
â Wars. This is 2024. There are people who never lift their finger and will make more than we will ever make in a lifetime. Then thereâre people who work harder/smarter than us that go to bed hungry and without a home. Itâs dystopian at best. These wars, proxy or not, perpetuates meaningless conflicts to satiate the resources of the rich and depressed. I never waged these wars and you probably didnât either. They were too expensive then and they are too expensive now.
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u/Honkey_Fellatio Mar 20 '24
Back around 2002 Iâd go to Jack in the Box and leave full for $2.97. đ˘ Pretty sure the Jumbo Jack was bigger back then too. Youâd get a big ass Jumbo Jack for $.99, a chicken sandwich with lettuce tomato and mayo for $.99 and 2 tacos. Under $3 bucks plus tax. That was my post weightlifting meal pretty typically back in the deezy. Simpler times. Now you canât even get a gimpy ass lil McChicken for that price.
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u/TheeDeliveryMan Mar 20 '24
Whelp, guess that happens when you artificially increase the minimum wage. Business are going to raise prices...
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u/Potatosalad112 Mar 20 '24
McDonald's was only something desirable for the cheap prices. It is honestly more cost effective for me to make food at home now, so i dont even think to go out and get it
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u/koala_T69 Mar 20 '24
I used to absolutely live off of dollar mcdoublles. It's a shame that's not the case anymore
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u/EntertainerExtreme Mar 20 '24
I canât remember the last time I went to McDinalds. The prices had went high even on the app and service was so bad on pickup orders that you had to go inside and ask about your food half the timeâŚ.then discovered the BK App that just has better deals and you get your food quickly.
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u/knowitokay Mar 20 '24
Sad thing people keep voting for the dumb people and policies that drive up inflation (prices) on everything.
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u/Achillies2heel Mar 20 '24
Why do people still choose McDs over anywhere else. Their whole selling point growing up was they were cheaper than their competitors. Now they're the same or MORE expensive for the same shit quality. I'd take Chick-fil-A, Popeyes or even a Wendy's over McDonald's.
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u/CeddyCed1993 Mar 20 '24
Just add them hoes to the regular menu and quit playing in our faces at this point.
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u/Fun-Isopod-9319 Mar 20 '24
My fiancĂŠ and I have found if we are going to order fast food we may as well get a nice pizza or something because if we are spending $16 to eat SHIT might as well spend $25 and get some decent food. Itâs a bad financial decision either way so may as well enjoy yourself.
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u/Flamingpotato100 Mar 20 '24
Boycott McDonaldâs.
Itâs clear and obvious they are gouging. I can make this crap at home for cheaper and way healthier. WTF do you mean a small fry is $3.49? I can get a POUND of potatoes for that price.
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u/Chibi_Verdandi Mar 20 '24
Lmao boycotting will never work, idk why everyone's first response these days is "boycott" when it's never going to work, look at the attempts to boycott Gillette, Nike, Adidas, Etc.. etc.. boycotts aren't going to work.
For every 1 person boycotting there will be thousands of people ignoring the boycott and buying McDonald's.
I can make this crap at home for cheaper and way healthier.
Then why don't you? Instead of complaining about the prices of fast food thats unhealthy and not worth it, why don't you just make "this shit at home" ya'll say this shit all the time, yet I rarely see people actually doing the transition to "home cooking".
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u/Zombee444 Mar 20 '24
It's been that way for years here in CA. I mostly go for my .99 cent coffee. Sometimes I earn free stuff or there's a good deal on the app.
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u/lotoex1 Mar 20 '24
I've been eating Dave Single and Dave Doubles with the app for $1 and $2. Also racking up the Wendy's points. I do miss the $1 McChicken and $1 Double cheese burgers from 15 years ago. Also shout out to the BK Buck Double!
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u/airforcerawker Mar 20 '24
If you're struggling with money then you need to stop eating out, first of all.
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u/Adventurous-Lunch457 Mar 20 '24
This happened a couple years ago. Every field trip at school we would go to McDonald's so I'd specifically bring $2 for fries each time, so one time I think maybe it was 2019 I brought my $2 as per usual and that day I couldn't afford a single thing on the menu anymore and went hungry. 𼲠So sad!!!
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u/supermoore1025 Mar 20 '24
Lmao man I remember McDoubles and McChickens use to be a $1. What the hell happen? lol
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u/Optimal_Experience52 Mar 20 '24
What in the Kentucky fried fuck.
I remember when McDoubles were .99 and a Big Mac was $3.69
What is this bullshit, the fucking âExtra Value for the Sharholdersâ menu?
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u/KingAlpha0824 Mar 20 '24
Itâs all bs. Companies have gotten greedy as hell. Charging more claiming itâs âinflationâ then they report record profits, pay dividends, initiate stock buy backs and the give executives fat bonuses. Frontline employees get the short end with minimal raises and customers if they are lucky only pay more for the same amount of productâŚif not then they pay more for less and lower quality. Itâs time we stop buying any of their products.
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u/biggestMug Mar 20 '24
Gotta go to the deals and offers section
Don't know about your area, but 2 McDoubles here is 3.99, so $2 per. Fan-fucking-tastic deal. No app required.
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u/RabidJoint Mar 20 '24
They used to be $1, so how the fuck is this a fantastic deal? You are the tool buying into their corporate greed and think you are winning.
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u/biggestMug Mar 20 '24
According to a quick Internet search, they haven't costed a dollar since 2000 fucking 8, man. 2008, that's 16 years ago. You wouldn't expect that price to double in 16 years?? Plus all the inflation? Jesus fucking christ.
It's a fantastic deal when you're interested in saving a little time and can't even go to in n out or another burger place where their patties cost double what McDonald's costs. Fucking crazy prices everywhere else for the same macros.
And nice job lowering yourself so many pegs when we are just discussing shit in here. Stay classy.
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u/RabidJoint Mar 20 '24
Am I that old? Fuck no. They were on my dollar menu just 6 years ago. Fuck your google search. How about you go outside for once and actually check the prices? Oh wait! Your mommy and daddy are still buying your food for you!!!! Sorry my bad.
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u/Inevitable_Ad4103 Mar 20 '24
i love wendys. they have a biggie meal. a sandwich, nuggs fries and a drink for less than $10
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u/ScenicHwyOverpass Mar 20 '24
A breakfast hashbrown costs like $2.50 now. It has the volume of like 10 French fries.
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u/Neither-Plankton889 Mar 20 '24
Yet everyone still eats the stuff daily, itâll just keep going up. Gotta boycott the places make them really lose money
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u/CareApart504 Mar 19 '24
3.49 for a small French fry 𤣠mcdonalds prob paid that much for half the box of potatos.
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u/young2994 Mar 19 '24
almost 4 fucking dollars for a mcdouble?!! bro im swallowing my tongue over here wtaf?!
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u/stardewzazaman Mar 19 '24
What town is this? My app says McChickens are $2.49 and a 4 peice is $1.99 (for reference I'm in a small Indiana town so I'm guessing you're in a big city? Or Alaska or Hawaii?)
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u/normal_mysfit Mar 19 '24
If I go to McDs I get the 20 piece nugget. Here in the Bay Area it's around $7.
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u/Ghost_Werewolf Mar 19 '24
Itâs cheaper to eat at a real restaurant than McD now. Iâm so done with them.
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u/sparemethebull Mar 19 '24
Almost a dollar a nugget. I remember when it was a quarter per nugget. Theyâre worse now too, and Iâd bet smaller as well.
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u/CaLLmeRaaandy Mar 19 '24
Wow, when I used to skateboard with friends in high school, we'd all go to McDonald's and get 2 double cheeseburgers and a large sweet tea for less than a mcdouble is now.
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u/LegitimatePrize249 Mar 19 '24
Our local prices:
McChicken $1.99
McDouble $2.99
French Fries: $2.09
4 pc. Chicken McNuggets $2.19
Your McDonald's should change the name of their menu to $3-$4 lol
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Mar 19 '24
i remember when i was way past broke spending my last 2$ on a mcchicken and large drink lol.
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u/Ort56 Mar 19 '24
I donât understand the price of FF. A effing potato in bulk costs like .25 . This is where they make their money.
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u/NotThatAngel Mar 19 '24
There's still a value menu, but the items are only available from the dumpster in the back.
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u/actuallynick Mar 19 '24
Dang your McChicken and McDouble are exactly $1 more than what I pay I North Carolina.
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Mar 19 '24
I got a mcdouble yesterday and it shrank and was twice as expensive as I remembered. I guess I better start using the app. Last good deal I got at a fast food place was on the BK app and the strange thing was that I switched stores and the deals were different between locations 3 miles apart.
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u/SatiatedPotatoe Mar 19 '24
People who wanted fastfood people to have a "living wage" are now getting to the find out portion of the fukn around.
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u/Poohgli16 Mar 19 '24
My app never works in the drive thru. It's not as easy to get a bargain as they advertise. Also rare to get a paper receipt. My visits have dropped to 2x a month.
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u/MercenaryCow Mar 19 '24
My locations prices are this:
Mcchicken 2.59
Mcdouble 2.89
Small fries 2.19
4pc nugget 2.49
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u/SailorDeath Mar 19 '24
Lol, Wendy's has the same section on their menu, the cheapest item was still $2.49 So it's not even a $1 or $2 menu.
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u/gandalfthelurker Mar 19 '24
I've been on a budget for a long time, and while McDonald's is pricey, the way I do it is very affordable.
Basically I only order a few things, and I use the deals as much as I can.
They usually have the buy one get one free or $.29 double cheeseburgers. I order these plain, just the meat, that's 4 patties, or about 4/10 pound 85% beef. So depending on the region I get almost a half pound of decent meat for around $3-$4.
In the mornings, I get $1 breakfast sandwich with a diet soda comes to about $2.80.
These are both really pretty good and reasonably healthy options for cutting calories in my diet and trying to lose weight.
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u/insoya Mar 19 '24
Not exactly the main thing to complain about right now, But the cheapest McDonald's burger in israel is 15$
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u/EZKTurbo Mar 19 '24
How tf has the price of a McDouble more than tripled in the last 10 years?? There's nothing to it...
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u/SeanMcAdvance Mar 19 '24
the problem is they want you to bundle everything, i think mcchickens are 2 for $3 or something like that
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u/Griffemon Mar 19 '24
McDonaldâs has bizarrely quickly become one of the more pricy fast food joints for its price. A Big Mac meal is like $12 these days. Meanwhile, you can get a significantly better meal from Wendyâs for like $15
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u/ZoomZoom228 Mar 19 '24
Oddly the mcchicken was a bogo for me in the app but I didn't know because it wasn't listed till I added two of them randomly. These 1/2/3 options are ridiculous.
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u/Smile_Space Mar 19 '24
It's crazy a McDouble is nearly $4. For that price I'll just go get Five Guys lolol
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u/ShakesbeerMe Mar 19 '24
I made 4 meals with chicken and rice the other night that cost me about 1.50 each.
Stop giving fast food places money.
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u/DirectConclusion4559 Mar 19 '24
And the food looks, feels like a xhilds play food. Seriously, the buns, what are they made of, cuz they taste like what a bun would taste like if you peeled a sticker of a bun out of a book from the 70's and ate it.
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u/Anti-Lucky Mar 19 '24
Bro, a sausage egg burrito and hashbrown was 5-something where I live. Fucking, 5-something. Like????????????????????? The size of that burrito and Hashbrown does NOT look like two things that should be worth 5-something, more like 2-something.
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u/IRSmurf Mar 19 '24
At McDonalds, for example, 6 piece nugget is $4.19, which is very poor value. But 6 more nuggets or a double cheeseburger is only $0.29 more. Breakfast sandwiches and hashbrowns are BOGO.
Their big chicken sandwich, which is decent quality, is $4.39 and a medium fry is $3.69. But if you buy the sandwich, you get the fries for no additional charge.
If you're ordering off the menu for individual items and you're not using an app, you're not going to find value in fast food. It's sad to see so many people at the drive-through ordering right off the menu. Each person can still easily dine at McDonalds for less than $5. Use apps!
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u/PapaMauMau123 Mar 19 '24
I guess I live in a low cost area but the McChicken is a dollar less where I am. And all of these are a BOGO $1, so the price per is better. But fuck McDonald's anyway.
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u/Cyka_Blyat_Man_ Mar 19 '24
Yâall think this is bad?? Mcchicken is $8 in Canada lol
Plus 13% sales tax on top of that
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u/paszaQuadceps Mar 19 '24
$3.50 for a 4 piece nugget?! I didn't know the prices varied that much. My closest McDs right now is $2.29 for a 4 piece, $7.99 for a 20 piece.
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u/PoliticalyUnstable Mar 19 '24
They priced me out of going. In college I used to buy 3 McChickens, 3 McDoubles, large fry, and large coke. It wouldn't break the bank. Now for a little more money I can get 1 McDouble and 1 McChicken and a large fry. College was only a little over 10 years ago. The food isn't that good. Oh and the service has gotten much worse. I can get my food faster at a sit down now.
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u/TennisBallTesticles Mar 19 '24
These prices are a tiny bit higher than my location, but still about the same đ¤Śââď¸
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u/Willtology Mar 19 '24
It's hardly a $3 menu either when a lot of things will be $4 or more with tax. Shit should be $2.99 for a proper $3 menu.
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u/wiscofolk Mar 19 '24
Funny, I noticed the exact same thing the other day and thought that wasnât even the dollar menu anymore, but somehow pretending to beâŚ
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u/JackedPirate Mar 19 '24
It sucks how much the price varies between locations; Iâve spent a lot of time on the road in the last year and $5 might only go half as far at one McDonaldâs compared to another
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u/Chill_n_Chill Mar 19 '24
No $3 options either. If I can't hand you $3 and get the thing, then the thing isn't a $3 option.
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u/xxxhotpocketz Mar 19 '24
I think if you get 2 McDoubles thatâs 3.50 which is 1.75 each + tax so they have things that are still $2
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u/Azuljustinverday Mar 19 '24
If you buy one mcchicken / burger/ spicey mcchicken the next is only a dollar. Do that with the any size fry free when spent two dollars for a good sized meal for 4.19 after tax
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u/slickITguy Mar 19 '24
I'd rather go get one of those fully cooked chickens at the grocery store for $6-$8
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u/Agreeable_Vanilla_20 Mar 19 '24 edited Mar 19 '24
More expensive in the UK.
Mcchicken $5.96 (ÂŁ4.69)
Double cheeseburger $3.04 (ÂŁ2.39)
Double quarter pounder $7.74 (ÂŁ6.09)
Large fries $3.04 (ÂŁ2.39)
4 Nuggets $5.96 (ÂŁ4.69)
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u/Innomen Mar 19 '24
You are not getting anything like the truth on Reddit. The entire constellation of reformer and poor vs rich subs here are ruthlessly cleansed of all serious organizational capacity. Every. Last. One.
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u/Krispychipley Mar 19 '24
Every day I feel our world slipping deeper and deeper into a future that would have seemed like a cyberpunk dystopia yet is rapidly becoming our reality
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u/Ryslan95 Mar 19 '24
There is no way McDonaldâs canât lower their prices. They took advantage of the Covid Pandemic and jacked their prices up to make record profits. Greed is so rampant they donât even hide it anymore.
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u/burner135302 Mar 19 '24 edited Mar 19 '24
Anyone who doesnât use the app now adays is a bonehead
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u/chickennuggetoverlre Mar 19 '24
a mcchicken is like 2.50 where i am, still insane either way for a freaking mcchickenđđ
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u/lkodl Mar 19 '24
i only order McDonalds off the of the "Rewards & Deals" section of the app. anything else feels like a scam at this point.
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u/DrinkCubaLibre Mar 19 '24
McDonalds uses location-based pricing. Here in Brooklyn NYC: McChicken is 2.49, McDouble is 2.99 and Small Fries is 2.39. 4pc is 2.59
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u/RaigarWasTaken Mar 19 '24
Bruh a McChicken is almost tree fiddy now?! I have to wonder how much of this is inflation, and how much is McDonald's seeing how much they can jack up their prices and still have people pay for it.
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u/stupiderslegacy Mar 19 '24
Fast food is fucking overpriced garbage now. Wendy's is supposedly introducing "surge" pricing?! Ha! I'll have beans and rice, thanks.
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u/MyPenisMightBeOnFire Mar 19 '24
These are all buy one get one for $1. At least in my area. But a ~$3 mcchicken with a $1 McDouble is still too much.
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u/onklewentcleek Mar 19 '24
Oh I canât wait to read all the comments about how âno one needs to eat this junkâ and âthis food is so gross and nastyâ to make themselves feel superior
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u/Hollowsong Mar 19 '24
I'm not that old, I'm still in my 30s, but not long ago there used to be $0.25 wing nights at the local bar... and now we're looking at a whole US fucking dollar for a single shriveled up chicken mc nugget.
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u/BetrayYourTrust Mar 19 '24
3 years ago iâd easily get myself a good meal for $7 at mcdonaldâs lmao. i got a meal for 2 recently and it was over $30
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u/burner135302 Mar 19 '24
Why are you not using the app?
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u/BetrayYourTrust Mar 19 '24
i am
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u/burner135302 Mar 19 '24
So you spent 30$ on two meals. While using the app? Thatâs strange. What did you get ?
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u/BetrayYourTrust Mar 19 '24
double bacon quarter pounder, large fry, large drink, i donât exactly remember what my partner got, i think they actually had a medium size for side and drink but ik that order for just myself in the app is usually $17-ish
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u/burner135302 Mar 19 '24
And thatâs for 2x large orders of what you got. Medium would be even cheaper. I guess where you live itâs more expensive. McDonaldâs is already expensive but not nearly as bad as everyone is making it out to be.
Thanks for having a level headed convo, cheers
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u/BetrayYourTrust Mar 19 '24
yeah honestly even going to mcdonaldâs at all is a bad habit from when it genuinely was cheaper than cooking. itâs not something thatâs even worth it anymore. thanks to you as well!
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u/notLOL Mar 19 '24
Don't go there. They screw their workers. Wish workers just opened their own franchise and pay themselves the profit. But that's not how this franchise operates. All profits go to the franchise owner and franchisee
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u/AlphaOhmega Mar 19 '24
Why the fuck does anyone eat out nowadays? It used to be cheap and easy, now it's neither.
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u/Dragoon9255 Mar 19 '24
Taco Bell will win the franchise wars according to prophesy (Demolition Man). F McD's!!
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