Thank god we didnt raise minimum wage, otheriwse the price of big macs would have sky rocketed!!!
Chipotle posted a few years back that raising the minimum wage to $15 (more than double current minimum wage) would increase the price of a burrito by about 30 cents.
I live in Denmark, Europe. One Bic Mac meal is 9.39 USD incl taxes.
The minimum salary in McDonals is around 3500 USD per month for a standard 37 hr/week, including pension.
This is every month, not affected by holidays, sick leave, paid vacation… It comes with 5 or 6 weeks of paid vacation per year, and virtually unlimited sick leave.
Yeah, I also don’t understand why McDonald’s says they can’t raise salaries or improve working conditions, because it will make the price go up. So why is it expensive now?
(Yes, taxes are high here. But we also have a lot of stuff that is tax paid, that evens it out somewhat.)
I think the idea that minimum wage hikes contributed to this is silly given that they’ve mostly eliminated cashier positions. Everything is a kiosk now. Also, McDonald’s workers in Europe make a decent wage, have sick and vacation time, and other decent benefits and the prices there are lower than in the US.
The Big Mac set in Japan is ¥750 right now. Which converts to $5.07.
Does McDonald’s America think each restaurant is a theme park or something?
They kind of used to be. The big old play areas are mostly gone. One in my area even had an N64 in one of those bubble kiosks. Gone. I can’t imagine why kids these days still give a shit about Micky D.
I think they are/were trying to rebrand away from being a place to get cheap low quality burgers.
Now they’re a place to get overpriced low quality burgers.
Can’t read the article without effort, but I very much doubt numbers and the context is missing. Every one I’ve been to here on the East Coast USA has been about $12.
Which is still way too much for fucking McDonald’s.
Not really a big Mac will feed ya for a half day and it’s a great quick snack meal if you are on the run. I make it a point to hit them up every once in a while for breakfast too. People hate on McDonald’s way too much.
A big Mac will not feed anyone for half a day. It’s all bun.
🤷♂️ gets me there
Translation: shrinkflation incoming
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Whatever, don’t care. Won’t be lured in to eat their crappy food. I could gather more sustenance from sunlight more cheaply and with better service. Bagged lunches unite!
I can get a bison burger at a halfway respectable restaurant that actually tastes like food a person would eat for that price. What a scam, but then again, I haven’t seen anything close to that in any McDs near me.
It’s all the fast food joints. I’m in Canada and I took my wife and daughter to burger king the other day. 3 whopper meals and a couple of apple pies later and it comes out to almost $60 with tax, shit is insane
Greedflation strikes again.
Geez, and I thought our 11 euro meal was expensive here in the Netherlands…
The company really has lost track of why people went there in the first place. They used to be cheap and fast; that’s what mattered. Nobody gave a shit that the food was just OK or that you ate it off a plastic tray while sitting in a plastic bench seat.
But in the 90’s, things went downhill. They made the restaurants ‘fancy’ and added a lot to the menu. Which meant you were now paying more for food and waiting longer to get it. Before the self order kiosks were installed, the staff also couldn’t keep up with menu changes, which meant more order errors as well.
They also invested more in things like healthy options and added specific McCafe coffee corners to sell better coffee. As if that was something we went to McD’s for…
They really need to get back to basics. A ten item menu, sold cheap, in a who-gives-a-shit what it looks like restaurant.
They didn’t lose track. People are now addicted to the salt and sugar bomb. They know it and capitalize on it.
In what hell is a big Mac meal $18.
I bought a triple quarter pounder meal + happy meal for $17 2 days ago.
I remember when what you ordered would have been around $7 total. Wasn’t that long ago either.
Next month they’re releasing the Smellinator. For $6.99 you get a napkin that smells like a Burger… Enjoy!
I had no idea it got so expensive. It’s been ages since I had any interest eating there.
I can’t read the article because of the paywall and don’t care enough to circumvent it or look into it more, so I don’t know if they accounted for it, but prices actually vary from one McDonald’s location to another, a big Mac doesn’t cost the same around the country.
I haven’t done an exhaustive comparison, again I don’t care that much, but I was curious enough to check online ordering at the only McDonalds that’s open around me right now (it’s 1 AM and almost nothing is 24/7 around here since the pandemic, which is a real bummer for night shifters like me, but I digress)
A large big Mac meal from there would cost me 10.39, a medium meal 9.49 (I guess small doesn’t exist anymore because those are the only 2 options)
I don’t live in a super expensive are, but it’s not the cheapest either, so I suspect probably around that $10 mark for a big Mac meal is probably a more realistic average.
I have a feeling they’re cherry picking that $18 big Mac from a swanky neighborhood in NYC or someth.
It’s not. This article is just tossing in random numbers and quotes take something out of context.
The vast majority of customers are paying about $12 for the big burger meals.
They’re might be a McDonald’s charging$18 but it’s an edge case.
I had a crazy-busy day about 2-months ago and found myself hitting up a McDonald’s drive-thru for an order of fries just to tide me over for the drive home.
I didn’t pay attention to the pricing—it was only fries—and when I got to the window I handed them a five, fully expecting a couple of bucks in change.
The attendant just looked at me. I laughed as I realized a regular order of fries was more than five-bucks.
And yet, I STILL am hard pressed to believe a Big Mac meal is currently $18…
This is happening outside the US as well.
Fast food places aren’t fast or cheap anymore. Big Mac and Whopper meals are about 10€
For 2€ more I can get a real burger at an actual restaurant.
In-N-Out is what McDonalds was 40 years ago.
They would be if their fries stayed hot and crispy for more than 35 seconds.
I’m not familiar with in n out. Most chain burger places cost their fries in chemicals to make them crunchy longer. A natural cut fry becomes unappetizing like 10 minutes after it’s out if the fryer.
There are trade offs with each way.
One is “cleaner” or maybe purer One has a better customer experience
They soak them in sugar water to keep them crunchy when deepfried It’s an old practice.
This is a podcast transcript. I listened to it years ago. It’s what I’m basing my ideas on.
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/772775254
It was a fascinating listen.
So a second-rate burger joint instead of a third-rate joint?
I’ll just get my four for $4 from Wendy’s thanks.
