McDonalds has a multinational presence, along with taking regional pricing into account (meaning the prices of food items differ and adjusted based on GDP per capita), like a Big Mac is $6 before tax while the same is $2 in another country.
The menu is different by country (certain menu items are only available in that region, like how Japan has burgers with teriyaki sauce or rice buns) along with the menu being around ¥1500 for a tray while the same is $40 in the US.
I mean, have you tried McDonalds overseas? If so, is it cheaper when you consider regional pricing and what item do you wish was available at US McDonalds but only remains in that country? Is McDonalds in other countries better or worse?
McDonald’s used to be cheap decent food here in the U.S. but over the last decade or so the prices have kept going up while the quality has gone down.
To be fair no one has ever considered McDonald’s to be gorumet food but it didn’t matter because it was cheap and it was still pretty good.
Now they are neither cheap nor good. You could get a real burger at a much better restaurant for about the same price.
Since they’ve converted all of their restaurants into soulless little bland shoeboxes no one even stays there to eat anymore. The building is basically just a hub for drive through orders and DoorDash pickup.
It’s pretty depressing. I hardly ever go there anymore. A Whataburger just opened down the street where the food is much better and everything is at least 25% cheaper depending on what you order.
True for literally every fucking thing.
I’m so sick of it.
i cant understand this…
I used to eat mcdonalds a lot… i’m talking about $1 value menu items, a long time ago… now its 3x more expensive, and way shittier…
And now people are paying these 3x, prices, for shittier food AND paying delivery and tip on uber eats…
I have young genZ coworkers who get a box of McDds fries delivered on a whim… and its $10… i do not understand… i’m such an old boomer
They didn’t have cheap and decent mcdonald’s to compare too. At the tail end of it their parents were buying it if they had any. You and I are basically the crotchety old people who used to say “You used to get a burger and a drink for a quarter!”. I mean shit, fries and a drink used to be an after thought, now they basically double the price of a meal. The cheaper items like a regular cheeseburger, with pickup selected are 2.99 each at my local mcdonald’s. If you select the meal it makes it two cheeseburgers (so $6) and fries and drink for 11.89 for medium. Medium is barely any fries and drinks still cost them almost nothing yet it’s just about double.
my gf’s gen z-son and his gf order a fries and a sundae each regularly from McD via Ubereats here in Aus. I am “but wot now” to myself. I don’t see them often but my gf does and she tells me its a bi weekly thing
I am old (Gen x) i don’t understand.
this is the inevitable fate of every publicly traded company. they all enshittify eventually.
The funky colours in the 90’s were exactly meant to make ppl leave quickly again. This is no new development. Regarding the food itself, i’d avoid it like a plaque. There’s a reason mc donalds burgers dont rot compared to burger king.
The old colorful designs were meant to entice people into the restaurant, the hard uncomfortable seats were meant to ensure you didn’t hang around all day once you were done eating. They always wanted people to go there before. Now the interior is so depressing that it’s clear they don’t want people to eat there at all
They always wanted people in the building, that’s why they had a freaking playground in there
I thought the funky colours were to lure in the children. Same as the happy meal toys and ball pit play area and the cartoon mascots everywhere.