re: Fast food prices are legitimately insane and untenable; corporations panic

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Criminal price increases? How about criminal increases in minimum wages? Morons thinking burger flipping and fryer operating are worth $15- $20/hr. States like California that are driving up the cost of transportation in attempting to regulate diesel trucks out of existence. Companies are going to pass all the costs to the consumers one way or another, consumers should be smarter about who they vote for and their policies. Won't happen though, they'll cry about the prices while still stuffing their mouths...

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This. All of this. I wonder if anyone has done a correlation between companies that have had insane price increases with companies that have had insane pay increases. Or did you people really think McDonald’s was just going to eat paying their people $25/hr?

good maybe it will curb the american obesity epidemic

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Fast food prices are legitimately insane and untenable; corporations panic

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And shrinkflation is legit. As I told a brother the other day, if you can't see the burger meat sticking out the edges the bun is to big. Last time I went to McDs I got my typical snack from there, a couple McDoubles and a small fry. Precovid it was about 3.50 (I know I know though I don't know the inside joke) plus tax and now its up in the 5.50 range, and the patties were barely 65% of the bun. And they were old and dried out

Precovid you could get a couple of Whoppers for 5/6 bucks, I remember the .99 price of my youth though.*tears* Now it's 2 Whopper Jrs for 5bucks, and they have shrunk significantly too. I have a buddy that worked a BK in college and he says the Jrs he got recently are about 20% smaller than when he worked there.

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We didn’t get the cookie, which my daughter was upset, but my son was happy because she forgot to charge us for the bag of chips he got.

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Funny. As if it's the same tradeoff. Your daughter definitely got the bad end of that stick. Did you just forget the cookie or did the girl exclude it to "accept" the coupon?

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Apparently, the fine print on the coupon, which you can’t see, says “at participating franchises “ which the particular franchise has the option not to use coupons.

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This is normal, typically the closest to your mailbox, but if she did say "owner said no more coupons" means they were participating, so can't just stop it midway like that. Especially without posting a sign. Probably an Indian owner too as that move sounds shady ASF.

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Inflation is controlled by the suppliers who are controlled by fast food corporations.

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And this sir, is why we are doomed for financial collapse. You can win elections on slogans like ‘No new taxes!’ or ‘Build that wall!’. You can’t win elections on ‘End the Fed!’, ‘Cut entitlements!’, or ‘Implement austerity!’.

The reality is that the average voter is too stupid to understand inflation, where it comes from, or the fact that we are all basically serfs to an unelected state.

I don’t really give a shite which collection of variables both government legislation created, market created, greed created has led to this.

I am done eating shitty fast food.

Fast food has forgotten their entire value proposition was low cost, shitty quality, food in a hurry


All of them.

If you actually learn to cook at home you realize even the “higher quality” fast food places are truly just mediocre food loaded up with a thousand death causing ultra processed ingredients.

I challenge you. Spend a few months not going out to eat once. Learn to cook. Learn acid, salt, fat, and heat and how they work to make food taste good.


Then go through what was your favorite fast food place. You will 100% be disappointed. Then you will see you paid $25+ for that bullshite and be really disappointed.


Until fast food returns to a couple bucks for the “value menu” shite and $5-6 for a combo meal it will be a business model in conflict with itself.


PS if you don’t believe chick fil a is shite quality food. Go look at the ingredient list of their “healthy” grilled chicken.

Grilled chicken doesn’t need much more than 2-4 ingredients to taste amazing. Meanwhile they have chemistry class going on inside of that damn chicken.

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bullshite. Fatties are still going. Criminal price increases? How about criminal increases in minimum wages? Morons thinking burger flipping and fryer operating are worth $15- $20/hr. States like California that are driving up the cost of transportation in attempting to regulate diesel trucks out of existence. Companies are going to pass all the costs to the consumers one way or another, consumers should be smarter about who they vote for and their policies. Won't happen though, they'll cry about the prices while still stuffing their mouths...

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Solid well placed truth spittin rant brutha.

Sounds like CA may be backtracking on their min wage increases as apparently they are looking to delay the healthcare version they have coming up. Though it's arse backward as healthcare workers are more important that FF workers but we are talking about CA 'tards.

Stop eating that poison. Problem solved.

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The only way any change will actually be done is if people stop buying the stuff altogether.

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Bingo.

Won't happen though. People that are regular fast food eaters are generally lazy and stupid.