• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    McDonald’s forgot their place as a cheap fast food burger. It’s almost as expensive as places like Five Guys now, and nowhere near the same level of either flavor or sheer quantity.

    It used to be that their app promos made up the difference but now it’s the same like 4 so coupons for specific items and a generic 15% off that really only covers taxes, not the 50%+ increase in prices in the last 2 years. It’s just not worth it anymore.

    Even ignoring the international portion, I wouldn’t be surprised if Americans started to notice as well.

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      1 day ago

      “If you’re not making a 33% profit, what are you doing it for?” - a quote from the Netherland’s McDonald’s chain owner. He also owns a bright red farari when visiting the drive through. He is a massive leech. Glad to not be working there anymore. The food quality is crap and overpriced.

      You’re way better off eating Taco Mundo. Much better ingredients for the same prices. Even a frozen pizza from ristorante is way better than what Mac has to offer. Or Burger Me who actually rewards loyal customers with free burger coupons rather than McD’s sales app. I genuinely do not understand why people still go there. You can make your own burger with better quality and price at home…

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        1 day ago

        Yeah, for reference, here are all of the deals currently available for me in the McD’s app…

        1. $2 Breakfast sandwich (and they no longer have 24 hours breakfast).
        2. Free medium fries with a $3 purchase.
        3. Buy One Happy Meal get one for $2
        4. 20% off a $15+ purchase

        And that’s it. Meanwhile…

        A Quarter Pounder with Cheese or Big Mac is $7.29, for the sandwich alone. The meals are $13.39 and $13.19 respectively. Why is there a difference? The sandwiches cost the same independently and the fries and drink are the same for the meal.

        Or let’s get into the grift now… they’re ripping you off with some of the meals. A regular basic Cheeseburger is $2.69, and the meal is $10.39. so they’re saying the “discounted” meal bundle price to add a regular drink and fries is $7.70. So they’re saying the fries and a soda are worth nearly 3x as much as the cheeseburger, which is already ridiculous. But let’s ignore that and look at the cost closer… a regular medium fries is $4.99 and a regular medium soda is $1.39 which comes to $6.38… so they’re actually ripping you off for an additional $1.32 if you get the meal versus the items separately. So you’re paying an additional 10% by getting the meal… Isn’t that what the discount should be?

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          The price of a mcflurry is €4,80. You can buy a magnum scoop ice cream (€5) with twice the volume and greater quality. Also, we have a shitty discount play. So rn, you can buy 2 for the price of 1. So that’s way better than a half-melted mcflurry with barely any chocolate chunks in it.

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            22 hours ago

            Magnum pint ice cream is the best I’ve tasted short of some artisanal products. Better than Ben and Jerry or any other mass market.

            Just looked it up and it belongs to Unilever, UK based multinational, so quite okay.