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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.
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.
Fake story. You get hit with the large bill before you wait for 20 minutes.
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
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
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.
People that are technically correct? The best kind?
I stopped eating there a year ago when I found out they were charging me about 50% more for not using their app.
the one here remodeled awhile back to basically a drive-thru, door dash, and mobile app kitchen. dine-in and take-out is a nuisance to them. 10-15 minutes to get an order taken, that long again to get it. the counter and dining room have been designed to absolutely discourage those customers from even wanting to come inside at all.
Yep. I don’t go often anyhow but won’t anymore as they don’t even seem to take orders. You gotta use a kiosk and I refuse to waste my time doing that when a cashier could ring me out in 15 seconds. And definitely never installing an app.
I hadn’t been to a McD in ages, but I took my niece and her friend to an event and they wanted to stop there. It was the most dystopian eating experience I ever had.
The interior was all off white and sterile (emotionally). There was no counter service, you ordered through a gigantic kiosk. Food took forever. As you said, the drive in and DoorDash seemed to be dominating the customer base. There were maybe 2 other tables in use during dinner rush.
The funniest/saddest part to me, was it sounded like there was maybe just 1 employee in the kitchen, and at any given time, either a manager was yelling at them or a machine was beeping out orders, I’m assuming from the kitchen timers going or orders coming through. So the whole time we’re waiting, which was a decent amount of time, I’m picturing this lone teenager being yelled out by a lineup of a middle age dude and a parade of machines.
Food came out cold and not great, but about what I expect from McD’s, which is why I don’t like to go there. The kids just each got a Sprite and fries, which we could have gotten anywhere else…
I honestly don’t care all that much that the food is standardized to such a degree, that’s it’s made out of strange industrial processes, or even that it’s always cold when all the other fast food places seem to at least have warm food. It’s that no matter what I get, I always feel like I’ve never actually eaten anything. My stomach always feels as empty after I’ve eaten there. I eat a decent amount of not great for me foods, but McDonalds is the only thing that consistently feels so devoid of any nutritional value whatsoever. It just blows my mind every time.
Aside from it already being shit to eat at a McDonalds to begin with, what sad life must one lead to order McDonalds home, when they could order anything else from the local burger, pizza, asian, kebap, etc. place for the same price in better quality and quantity.
Yeah, I would always cringe whenever I saw people ordering food in person and not using the app.
It just shows front-and-center how abusive the relationship between businesses and customers is. Like, all of the employees knew you were getting ripped off but none of them told you anything about it.
It’s fucked.
Most national/international fast food places seem to have looked at the “good, fast, cheap” principle and decided the answer is D) None of the above.
Have they been getting by on inertia and nostalgia in recent history? I could be an incredibly unlucky person, but all my experiences with these places have just been bad, bad in the past 5 or so years. I excused it a bit during the height of covid, but there’s been time to work things out and they just haven’t even bothered.
I’m not exactly their target audience, since I rarely get food at fast food places, but as it stands, if I were going to get fast food, the whole Trump McDonald’s circus show has turned me off to that brand entirely. Burger King is a no-go after getting incredibly sick from their food. Taco Bell just completely gave up on themselves. Wendy’s is so expensive now that I can’t justify it anymore even as a guilty treat while traveling. I’d rather pack some ham sandwiches in a mini-cooler and make do with that.
Not only is the food bad, expensive, and slow, but it’s also unhealthy. They fuck up orders constantly and the dining area in unpleasant to be in due to the incessant beeping. That business has literally no redeeming qualities.
These exact reasons are why places like Buc-ees, Sheets, and Chick-fil-A are doing so damn well. People actually feel like they are getting something they want (good, fast, and/or cheap), when compared to McDs which somehow provides none of them.
Sheets is no longer all that cheap. Chicken tenders and a drink (no fries) are now close to $11. Still fast and tasty though.
Well not familiar with sheets but you certainly aren’t getting cheap on the other two. Fast though yeah.
Chick-fil-a is good and fast, but not cheap.
I’d argue it is the same price point as many fast food places.
You’d lose that argument.
Chick Fil A Chicken Sandwich: $4.99
McCrispy: $5.59
You are wrong.
Great, now how much is a McChicken and what can you buy from Chick-fil-a for a similar price?
What kind of deals does each restaurant offer?
Right now you’re just telling me Mcdonald’s is the same price as Chick-fil-a because you don’t know how to order cheap food.
Nah, you can go do that work and try to prove your point, I’m not doing it for you. You said Chick Fil A is NOT cheap, but I just proved that their chicken sandwich is cheaper than McDonald’s.
Fuck, you’re so right.
I didn’t even realize how slow fast food as become over the years. Literally waiting on average 20 minutes in a drive-thru is not fast.
Perhaps that’s a local problem as I’ve never had to wait more than 5m for a drive through.
With Wendy’s, if you’re looking for cheap, gotta skip their premium meals and go to their Meal Deals, Sandwich, nuggets, fries, drink for $5, more if you want extra meat/bacon.
Not that I plan on going back to Wendy’s, certainly not any time soon, but is that $5 deal a relatively new thing and/or a national thing?
When I was a poor college student working multiple jobs and having to do a lot of driving to get from one place to another, Wendy’s was one of my go-to places. For about $4 I could get 2 burgers that had real, fresh lettuce, tomato, onion, plus a drink. I went to Wendy’s a year or two ago and the same exact thing was a bit over $11. For what it’s worth, if they had some kind of $5 special, I didn’t see it on the menu.
Taco Bell was the same way. Back in my college days, I could get a couple 5-layer burritos and a drink for $3 and some change. Last time I went and got that order, it was $9 or $10 and the burritos were missing a few layers, not to mention just absolutely gross.
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 don’t mind cleaning up garbage. But I’m not usually prepared to safely handle sharps.
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.
What do you mean the quality is bad?
Maybe McDonalds shouldn’t have endorsed a fucking dictator during the election?
It’s ok we shouldn’t be eating that garbage anyway
We need to educate the next generation on how to feed themselves easily on a budget.
Right now, most of them don’t bother making their own meals because they’ve been conditioned to treat food as an adventure that they can brag to their friends about every time.
I’m in Canada.
A&W Canada (a Canadian owned company) provides higher quality food for cheaper prices.
Their breakfast beats McDonald’s by a lot — the hash browns are almost twice as thick. They also have not messed up my order once.
The McDonald’s nearby ducks up 50% of the time, takes forever, and costs more.
Why would I go there?
A&W is cheaper than McDonald’s now?
It’s similar
Correct me if I’m wrong here - Canadian A&W is a different company than American A&W, right?
Yes they are different companies.
I haven’t had American A&W in years but it’s not very good compared to the Canadian one.
Yeah, American A&W kinda sucks. Shame, too. I’d love to hit up a Canadian A&W, but i doubt I’ll be going to Canada any time soon…
Their Nashville chicken burger is decent.
Having to use a stupid fucking phone app to get less astronomical prices for bad food, poor service and rude/flippant employees is what tanked their sales.
I love the idea of blaming trump anyway because fuck that asshole.
Lower your price gouged menu prices. I quit them a few years ago. I eat out about twice a month now.
It certainly isn’t going to be their nasty tasting cardboard food.
I’m in need of a meme involving a certain type of feline and the regrettable mutilation of faces, but it escapes me at present. Any assistance would be gratefully appreciate. Thank you kindly beforehand.
Eye-gouging cougars? Lip-nibbling jaguars? Cheek scratching Pallas’s cat? meowth? What’re you getting at?
Mountain lions devoured my visage?
Cheek eating cheetah?
Cougars masticating my countenance?
I’m sorry Jon?
No, I don’t think that’s it.
No self-respecting leopard would deign to eat McDonald’s.
McD’s has been expensive as fuck for years now. I can feed my entire family of 7 for under $20 at the Costco food court. That’s something for McD’s to aspire to.
Costcos food court isn’t their primary business, it’s a loss leader.
But it did result in the best CEO quote ever:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/547020/costco-150-hot-dog-soda-combo-enigma
"When longtime Costco president W. Craig Jelinek once complained to Costco co-founder and former CEO Jim Sinegal that their monolithic warehouse business was losing money on their famously cheap $1.50 hot dog and soda package, Sinegal listened, nodded, and then did his best to make his take on the situation perfectly clear.
“If you raise [the price of] the effing hot dog, I will kill you,” Sinegal said. “Figure it out.”"
Their hot dog is a loss leader. But yes, you’re not wrong. Still. Feeding my whole family for under $20 is a feat.
“If you raise [the price of] the effing hot dog, I will kill you,” Sinegal said. “Figure it out.”"
Loved that about him. I hope Costco continues that. The fact that they didn’t “bend the knee” the Trump and kept their diversity and inclusion policies says a lot.
Womp womp
Burger king in the Whitehouse for the next leader summit then
Burger King
Careful, Trump might take that as a threat to his singular power
From Hark a Vagrant!
Whitehouse already has a clown I guess. More than one actually.
