this pic is a year old. its worse now:
I mean, mcdonalds had to raise prices to make up for all the free food they handed out to the IDF, so I get it.
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Well, their "food" now costs as much or more than a nice sit-down meal. And, in my opinion, it's terrible.
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It’s been well over a decade since I have eaten there. I’d have to be desperate as fuck to ever eat there, like being in the middle of no where and mcd is the only place around.
Never mind that they’ve been seeing a sales decline for longer than just the past 100 days, and their sales declines aren’t limited to just the US.
Here in Australia their burgers have gotten so expensive, and so small - you’d be forgiven for confusing it with one of those gummy burger packets!
At least Hungry Jacks (our version of Burger King) has largely still maintained the same size; the Whopper offers infinitely more value and the Angry variant (spicy fried onions and jalapeños) kicks ass!
Also their food fucking sucks and makes you fat and sick
I used to accept the fat and sick part because of the price. Now it costs just as much to eat at a whole ass sit-down restaurant, why the hell would I go there?
And they doubled the price in the past 10 years
In 2020 I was moving into my house. Late night moving, 3am, I needed food. There's a McDs across the street. A'ight. Gonna have to happen. Get the shitty little cheeseburgers that's always been a dollar... no wait, they're not on the dollar menu... actually there's no dollar menu... fuck it... there's the meal for them.
The two shitty cheeseburgers, small fries, small drink, over $8 plus tax.
I've never been back to one since.
It's mostly this one.
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Lol sure, I don't mind companies blaming trump. But what about the decreasing sales before 2025?
Does the effects of tariffs travel backwards through time? 🤔
(Mcdonalds is so bad, you might as well just get food from your local Chinese restaurant, which cost about the same and is much healthier)
Bidens McDonald's
McBDS
how about: the price of everything has been drastically going up while income has not, so instead of spending $20 for a meal at McDon's, they're buying a dozen eggs?
Nothing to do with feeding genocidal maniacs and boasting about it? Pretty sure that helped the boycott
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You get what you fucking deserve.
McDonald's and other fast food burger chains mostly exist to me for when I'm craving fries and download the app and get some deal where it's like buy the smallest drink and get free large fries. They get like $2 about every 6 months from me
A few years ago I got drive through that wasn't put together properly. They dumped all the stuff into the box. Could have gotten a proper restaurant dining experience for the same price.
McDonalds has gone so far out of touch with what they are as a business.
Sorry, I've been eating better for my health.
Their garbage food and sky high prices, and severe lack of quality operations probably did more damage.
They turned in Luigi, likely by having facial recognition in all stores. This is not justifying what Luigi is charged with, but fuck McDonald's for being a part of that lie. Traitorous lying scum.
They have cameras pointing up at you from the register area when you place an order, apparently "just for QR codes." And all their fucking digital menus have cameras in them. Why exactly is that needed? Fraud prevention for the illicit big Mac?
McDonald's doesn't value privacy and I don't believe for a second a random employee there identified Luigi.
Between them trying to use AI on me to take an order (and likely trying to voiceprint me) and also just not caring about privacy at all, why the fuck would I go there? Nope.
I don't trust them at all. In the US, corporations are legally allowed to lie to you if the government approves so if they do have some program in cahoots with police for facial recognition, we would never know.
I'm not saying it's bad to catch bad guys who are religious radicals, but the government is not exactly trustworthy.
And, on top of this, they fucked everyone over on price, then lowered it slightly when they realized they stepped in dog shit, showing how price increases were partly price gouging.
Fuck McDonalds.
i thought an employee turned in Luigi, not facial recognition...
That's the official explanation, but the employees name was withheld and at the time there was a grainy picture of "Luigi" with only part of the person's face visible. It's possible but hard to believe.
i’ve seen other stuff about how they weren’t paying that employee the reward, the employee got threats and was fired… i dunno, jumping to nationwide facial scans from the app scanning thing isn’t too logical though….
they all have regular security cameras anyways, a cash register underneath view wouldn’t really help them much….
Between them trying to use AI on me to take an order (and likely trying to voiceprint me)
Why do they need an AI to do that? People have been hollering into their ordering system for decades.
...how about blaming trashy ~~fast~~ slow food priced higher than table service at a proper sit-down restaurant?..
You're not wrong, but let's just see where this goes first. I'm not even sure the cheetoh poll higher amongst his fans than McDonald's.