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.
Well, their “food” now costs as much or more than a nice sit-down meal. And, in my opinion, it’s terrible.
I guess Trump doesn’t help, but it’s also easy to point the finger. If eating at a fast food chain is no longer fast, cheap nor food (let’s be honest). Is it then strange that sales are declining?
I support all the Trump-bashing in the world, but let’s not allow crappy big businesses to just blame everything on him. McDonald’s has a responsibility and they haven’t lived up to it. Blaming Trump for consumers not choosing your overpriced, shitty product is not reasonable.
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.
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.
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!
…how about blaming trashy
fastslow 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.
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.
Maybe McDonalds shouldn’t have endorsed a fucking dictator during the election?
Right? It’s absolutely part of why I don’t spend money there. The other part being shit food that’s too expensive, but letting this assclown promote your brand turned about half the country off of your products hard.
I actually forgot about the endorsement until i read the article. Fuck mcd
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
Dear McDonald’s,
A big mac is not a $7 burger. It’s not even a $4 burger.
That’s all
It’s not even a real burger
I doubt it’s even a real Big Mac (as in using the original, unaltered recipe)
If anyone wants the recipe, all of the old school McDonald’s recipies are here: https://archive.org/details/mcmenu
U don’t like bread sandwiches?
As a centrist dem I have to point out that a bread sandwhich (even if it has a little spit inside) is a lot better than a no-bread sandwhich, and if you dont support bread sandwiches then you automatically are to blame for whatever comes after this-- mcdonalds is blameless. Dont let perfect be the enemy of the good.
/s
Such a stupid take. It’s fine if you don’t like it but it’s obviously a burger.
I’ll invite you over and make you a burger, then I’ll put a big mac next to it and you can be the judge haha.
If dried road kill for burger meat between two barely reheated frozen buns is a burger then you’re right.
You’ll invite him over for a better burger, no doubt. Because yeah, Big Macs suck.
But by the very definition of the word, a Big Mac IS a burger whether you want it to be or not. Actual facts don’t generally give a shit about your opinion on the matter. A burger patty between two sides of a bun is a burger. Doesn’t matter if the meat is half cardboard and the buns are reheated frozen pieces of shit, it’s still very much the technical definition of a burger.
So please give the pretentious twat persona a rest, thanks.
People like you are exhausting.
A roadkill burger is still a burger
People that are technically correct? The best kind?
I’d absolutely love to hear you explain how a Big Mac isn’t technically a burger.
big mac is a sandwhich at best. you can’t call that shit between it a patty
This is really how you want to spend your time? Arguing that a 1/6 pound hamburger patty is not a hamburger patty? Come on dude, give it up.
You were wrong, just move on.
Why insist on being right tho? You wasted so much time arguing yourself just so you can point your finger and claim yourself as victorious in your amazing internet battle.
This is why the internet sucks.
McDonald’s should fucking stfu
Why? Even though greed is the real reason, the more big corporations speak out against Trump, the better. Doesn’t matter if they’re not doing it for altruistic reasons, so long as it pisses off the fat man.
They should get Targeted
After McDonald’s dumbass trump stunt during the election, the only reason that I’ll ever go there again is to take a dump in their bathroom on a road trip.
This is only half bullshit. Quality is through the bottom level of hell on every metric at McDonalds. The ONLY reason I go is because they have a kids playplace. The app is essentially required, but sucks ass for usability. They took the soda machines out of most of them so free refills are basically gone, the prices are rediculous and the food sucks. Also, people are tightening belts because Trump (WHO MCDONALDS SUPPORTED) is an idiot.
All of that gripe and you still go there instead of a public park?
At least here in Los Angeles, many of the parks are unsafe for children. I found a knife in the playground last year.
Defund public spaces, then increase the cost of private spaces. Neoliberalism, everybody.
Go help clean them up, then.
Done that plenty, it makes a huge difference and as people notice they come and help out too.
Ya know how many toilets I’ve helped dragged out of local streams and creeks? Way too fucking many.
I did, I still have the knife.
Sick. Free knife, yo.
If your kids are playground aged, you probably don’t have a ton of free time/babysitter money to be doing that. You could bring the kids, but I’d rather not have my small children handling used needles and condoms (just a few of the delights I’ve found on my local playground)…
I can think of a million completely valid reasons that may prevent someone from helping improve their community.
But still something that we need to find the time to help improve our community and that time needs to come from our jobs, not our family, so steal as much time from your employer as you can.
Toilets? Like ceramic? The home appliance that you shit into everyday? People throw those into streams and rivers??
…(Shatner.gif)But why?
That’s just how people are sometimes.
I’ve also helped fished out:
- enormous dildos
- car engines
- stoves
- tires
- a coffin (it was empty, we reported it to the cops)
Define “enormous”
It was like three inches in diameter, the length of a forearm, & covered in algae.
At first I thought it was a wolf eel or something, but then I saw the balls.
I don’t mind cleaning up garbage. But I’m not usually prepared to safely handle sharps.
Nobody is. Kinda heartbreaking.
What we usually do is find an empty milk jug or soda bottle to collect them in, and we have a method where rake and spread out garbage out before we pick it up in order to spot any sharps and avoid injuries.
After I sent that I was worried that would be the answer. I am so sorry your kids can’t just go to a park.
Stop going there.
Do not teach your kids to compromise on their values.
Plus those indoor play places are so hard to clean properly and unhygienic, you may inadvertently expose your kids to the measles virus or something.
Take them to the YMCA or something.
Heh. McDonald’s here in Canada (at least the ones near me) is generally pretty good as far as fast food goes, my only gripe was the shitty app. Of course, we’ve already stopped eating there anyways; dumbest trade war in history
What do you mean the quality is bad?
I have no idea what I’m looking at here.
That’s the new 1/32nd pound patty.
the cool thing is you can spray it onto a bun, right out of a can.
That’s supposed to be a patty?! Goddamn, I thought they put a slice of beef jerky in it or something.
You bent the knee.
Suffer the consequences.
Exactly. Maybe they should ask the president to do another PR stunt to help sales. I hear advertising on the white house lawn worked great for Tesla’s stock price. He should serve McDonald’s on the white house lawn next. /s
Nah, install a franchise next to the oval office.
Last time I went, waited 20 min for ‘fast food’, then got hit with a large bill. Yeah, no shit sales are down. Haven’t gone back in years.
if i’m paying culver’s prices. i’m going next door to culvers. service can be a little slow but they cook to order (not ‘assemble and reheat to order’) and is always a ‘10’, food is usually too–and unlike mcdonalds’ perpetually-‘broken’ ice cream machine, culver’s never runs out of custard, ever.
mcdonalds’ only attraction was a low price–and that advantage has been gone for at least a decade.
Culvers’ burgers are top tier for fast food. So good.
Fake story. You get hit with the large bill before you wait for 20 minutes.
You can get real food for the same cost now. Just no reason to go there
Yep, at least in my area McDonalds is slow, expensive and the foods is consistently crappy. About the fast food place I have a lower opinion of is the local Wendys, because they haven’t mastered the skill of “Let the buns from the fridge reach room temperature before serving them to customers.” A lukewarm patty on a refrigerator cold bun isn’t very appealing.
You got lucky. Last time for me I waited 1hour+. Why? Because I ordered inside the restaurant instead of the drive-through. Apparently they have incentives to keep the drive-through queue small and fast.
And I’m not even in car land (America). It was in Spain. I cannot even imagine what ordering in car land from inside the restaurant will take.
EDIT:
Fast food still exists though, it just doesn’t come in the form of the usual American corporations. My local kebab fulfills the order in 5-10 minutes.
honestly its bumpin now I dont spend more than $5
