I stopped going there ever since they cause the capture of Luigi.
I realized how far they go for anything.
this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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I haven't been to McGenocide in a long while
As a Canadian in Japan, McDonald's is one brand I had a difficult time saying goodbye to after your Shit president threatened our sovereignty, because I genuinely used to have a good experience everytime I went. Clean store, polite staff, decently cheap food, and cool collabs with Japanese IP like Pokemon and Mario.
I'm sad my kids don't get to enjoy a treat there every now and then, but fuck the USA right now and anybody who supports the shitty administration.
Why would you subject yourself to living in Japan as a Canadian with kids though?
Have they tried SUING People who ARENT eating there?
That, maybe. But hear me out:
A Double Quarter Pounder meal is now roughly $11-12 dollars. They don't put the prices on the menu half the time, and the people in the drive-through never give you the price. They just say "pull around."
Maybe don't run a shitty business that's overpriced.
A couple of weeks ago I was moving to a new house. I woke up early to move a load of things, and on the way was a McDonald's. I stopped in because it was convenient and got an Egg McMuffin with a hash brown and an OJ. It was $9. $9!
You can't charge outrageous prices and then go, "Man, why aren't people showing up?"
I can get a burger and fries from several local shops for less than McDonalds. The quality is better and there is more food in the bag.
Tariffs make baby Ronald cry.
It's nice to hear some good news.
"Consumers today are grappling with uncertainty," McDonald's Chairman and CEO Chris Kempczinski said.
"Grappling with uncertainty." Predictably a writhing scumbag running this gross American company. What we're forced to deal with, is the extremely blatant certainty of the fascist rapist Chris here probably voted for, being a repugnant disaster. Fuck you, Chris.
"Consumers today are grappling with uncertainty,"
such a eerily polite way to say that the country is going to shit.
Incoming White House briefing calling McDonaldโs commie traitors
Good
I'm still going to eat burger king, it still has Belgians being employed there and our minimum wage is quite high. The food is good so I support it.
It's American owned, but the business I eat at pays Belgian taxes, Belgian wages, invested in Belgian real estate, ...
I support that.
It's not the same as importing USA goods and services produced within their country.
I highly advice you people to reconsider your purchases when it's based on buying imported goods Vs foreign owned locally produced goods/services.
It's not the same thing. We WANT foreigners to pour their capital into our areas. That's good for us. Just trust me on this one.
It might not pay any Belgian taxes, claiming it makes no profit (because of fees paid to the US).
Hmmmmm, we don't really aim at having them pay corporate taxes. They invest their capital, which increases the labour's value here. The higher wages cause for more labour taxes or consumption taxes. Hence our tax revenue increases.
If they do transfer pricing, they would have to be insane to send it to USA. They'd rather send it to tax havens.
The EU does their effort to counter transfer pricing.
Even if it fails, their capital investment causes our country to gain profit.
I don't think burger King creates new jobs or invest a lot of capital in the country.
For example this place: they have to rent this area in the center of the capital. That's not cheap for them. There's plenty of employees inside the restaurant.
Any profit is sent back to the US. Whereas if I get my food in my local burger joint, all the money stays in my country. They are also nice burgers. I understand what you are saying but right now, and maybe the next few years, we do have to remind the US, you aren't an empire on your own. This for their brands AND their Tech services industry.
My local restaurant's hamburgers >>> that local hot-dog stand's hamburgers >>> McDonalds
don't think I've ever had a burger that was worse than the McDonald's ones.
I'm baffled by why it's it popular at all. their quality is the worse (or at the same level of other junk food franchises).
Drive thrus and brand recgonition
I can get a burger and fries from most places in my area for just a few bucks more. Totally worth it.
Keep up the good work, boycott all fascist american brands.
Anti-American does good to your health!
Elbows Up ๐ฆพ
After McDonaldโs dumbass trump stunt during the election, the only reason that Iโll ever go there again is to take a dump in their bathroom on a road trip.
Finally some good news!
mcdonalds is currently a BDS target for their complicity in the "israeli" settler genocide on the Palestinian people
McDonald's is a real estate business, that just happens to specialize in generic burgers as a brand. It isn't a surprise that the company doesn't care about a quality dining experience, when repairing icecream machines was a money maker for them.
Well earned hate.
They really had to go above and beyond. From their insane price hikes to their genocide apologia. They earned what is happening to them. They pursued this outcome.
Expensive and slow. I don't mind waiting for the food to be cooked if it reduces waste, but the "restaurant" experience is now awful in the UK. Most of the offers on the app are for delivery only. Then have to wait alongside a queue of uber drivers with giant boxes.
I feel Mcdonalds have given up on the restaurant sit down experience. I believe they may end up with a subscription based home delivery service, where they don't need to worry about front of house staff and can just send out like warm boxes while raising the monthly price. We seen what happened when Disney gave up everything and tried to go all in with Disney Plus.
Mcdonalds was never about quality, but a fun cheap fast place to grab a bite. It's a shame because I do have some fun memories, yet another example of late stage capitalism.
Yep, any time I've been inside a Maccy's since covid has been a long wait while countless delivery drivers walk past and pick up online orders. I've tried delivery and it's been shit every time, lukewarm food with soggy fries. I don't think their food is suited to delivery, IMO it's only popular because of momentum.
Its insane to me people have fast food delivered... like if you gonna spend the money in high delivery feees, atleast order from good food places.
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