Someone actually figured out that a service company competing with a shit ton of other service companies in a service economy needs people that work service jobs to be able to afford their services. They won’t raise wages themselves alone because it’s not like McDonald’s workers will spend the raised wages solely at McDonald’s. They have other essentials and non-Mcdonalds services to pay for. They need every place to have their minimum wage increased and then McDonald’s try to capture a larger portion of everyone’s higher income that exceeds their higher labor cost. Stagnant incomes means non-essential services like McDonald’s get squeezed out
i read that in the calm and convincing voice of cardamon, the 8 y.o. landlord of Bee and Puppycat, who’s the most reasonable character in the entire show.
this has nothing to do with what you said; i just find it amazing how i associate certain voices to certain written pieces of text.
It’s expensive. It’s shitty, even for fast food. They let a rapist felon use one of their locations for a photoshoot to improve his image.
Yeah, I’m good on McD’s.
Get fucked fascist burger “oh no leopards are eating our faces instead of our burgers” hahaha
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“skipping breakfast or eating at home”
Look, McDonald’s breakfast is pretty damn good, and is super nostalgic. But holy fuck 1030 cutoff and like $6 for a mass produced, frozen sausage patty, English muffin, and a Kraft single is insane.
Also, I just meal prepped us an awesome breakfast for the next two weeks. Like 15lbs of chunked potatoes, mushrooms, onions, hot sausage slices, and bell peppers, seasoned with Chile powder and garlic butter, oven roasty-toasted to golden brown, and tossed into containers in the fridge.
Then in the morning, I plate a big scoop or so of that and microwave it until it’s hot, and fry two eggs with runny yolks, topped with salt and fresh ground black pepper and some hot sauce (like valentina) on the plate. Fork, toast, glass of milk or coffee.
Fuck you, McDonald’s. Like 30 meals-worth was only like $35 bucks, and kicks the shit out of most things.
I look forwards to breakfast everyday now.
my local bagel shop sells a fresh bagel on a fresh egg with cheese for $7.
My god that sounds amazing. We don’t have bagel places around here and I’d fucking kill for something like that. Also now I’m hungry.
You shouldn’t be keeping food in the fridge for 2 weeks. 4-5 days max. You should immediately freeze it when you cook it. Don’t wait a few days before freezing it.
…might let it cool first, then freeze it!
I was always told mushrooms have a limited shelf life after being cooked, 3-4 days.
Good point. I should freeze it all in portions, soon, maybe tomorrow.
how do you know when someone abuses animals don’t worry they never stop telling you
The irony here, lol. I think you know that the joke usually is told about vegans. In your attempt to flip the script, you end up playing your part perfectly.
Comes into the conversation not looking to participate, makes sure that everyone knows that they are vegan. Doesn’t elaborate. Hilarious 10/10 vegan satire. I love vegans, but man are some of you ever easy to laugh at.
If there’s a point you’re trying to make I, can’t tell what it is
The point they were trying to make is meat bad and you should feel bad for eating it. Notice how they took the typical 'how do you know someones a vegan because they tell you" schtick they undoubtedly got hit with and reflect it back on others.
Some people have no sense of pragmatic reality and need some cause to feel good about themselves. The solution for some is to force everyone around them to watch food inc and virtue signal to fill in the void of where a real unique personality + opinion set should be. According to vegans agriculture as a whole is evil and everyone who eats a hamburger is equivalent to a sociopath who tortures animals for fun.
Unfortunately they would have a point about cruelty and inhumane industrial farming practices, which is completely undercut by obnoxious high-horsing and blaming people for buying the hamburgers instead of the industry and lack of even the most basic rights for non-human animals. Fruits and veggie diet is good for you definitely, its a shame that people cant resist the urge to be smug pricks about it.
Go off, king.
I would, but im too busy getting the grill fired up ;)
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The closest McDonald’s to me has a local BBQ joint right next to it at about the same price point. There’s zero value prop, but these dumb-dumbs had to realize it after they lost a shitload of customers.
They only take the money printer off autopilot when it stops printing money.
Literally the only thing I’ll go there for is a happy meal for the kids on very rare occasion if I’m in a pinch.
fast food as a whole is just baffling to me at this point, especially since frozen meals that taste good and are of perfectly decent quality exist.
Why the fuck would i spend at least 8€ on a burger meal when i could buy literally a fucking kilogram of food for that same price? And it’s not like fast food is faster, that 1kg bag of hash takes 10 minutes in a skillet, even with mcdonald’s being 500 fucking meters from my house it’s faster and more convenient for me to just cook the hash than it is to travel to mcdonalds, wait for the food, and take it back home (which is annoying anyways and means the food will have gone slightly cold).
And no, cleaning the dishes isn’t some ardous task, get one of those sponges with a hollow handle you fill with soap, it takes 30 seconds to rub down the skillet, plate, and cutlery and it’s not even remotely messy.
Lmao “the poors can’t afford our shit… maybe now is the time to advocate for higher minimum wage” fuck off corpo dickheads
The guy probably donates to the republicans that help him suppress wages and give him massive tax breaks but offers up this nugget of wisdom the rest of us have lived with for decades now?
There’s always room in the CEO budget - George Bluth
Americans tried to escape Fordism, but eventually you need someone to buy the thing you’re trying to sell.
I haven’t gone to a mcdonald’s by choice in almost 4 years now. When my meal rose from 12-13$ to 17-18$ I stopped going. Just for the chuckle I put that same meal into the app, it’s now 22$ after tax. yea no I’ll just go to apple bees or dominos and get more food for less.
Im in Canada and it’s crazy that a Big Mac meal now costs close to $20. In a great competitive move, Burger King now has a whopper jr meal for $5 which honestly is enough for me. I’ve been taking advantage of it. The thing is, with prices what they are, instead of bringing back the value Menus, these fast food chains need to keep only the value menu, because that was their whole point. Over time the burgers got bigger and crazier and more costly. I just want to go back to getting a regular burger with a normal, non fat person amount of fries and a small drink and not break the bank.
Remember original McDonald’s only really had the small hamburger and cheeseburger and fries, not all these other burgers and that was enough, and kept your fast food meal cheap
I can get a large pizza from Dominos for less than 10 bucks with a coupon if I pick it up myself.
I remember the last time I ate at mcds. Summer 2020, middle of move, wrapping up about 2am. mcds is the only thing close that’s open, don’t want to have to drive anywhere. I remember their dollar menu used to be tolerable.
Cost me $10 for the “value meal” of the two tiny wimpy cheeseburgers that used to be a dollar, small fries and small drink. And I had to get the meal because it was cheaper than buying separately like I used to do. That is more than double the price I used to have to pay for that meal.
Their cheeseburgers were literally called “dollar cheeseburgers”
I would go and get 8 fucking cheeseburgers for like $10 after tax
I stopped going when I noticed my dollar cheeseburger cost me 2 dollars each. I don’t make double my income now McDonald’s, why do you think you deserve double price?
i remember several years ago as a kid thinking “hey why’d they raise the cost of a cheeseburger from 10 SEK to 13 SEK? isn’t the whole point that you can just fish out a single coin to buy a burger?”
Curious what your meal is. Where I’m at, you can get a large fry and drink for $1.50 altogether, then after that it’s just the cost of the sandwich. If you order 15min ahead of time, you can immediately place another order after you pick up the first for another deal for the sandwich also, so you can get away with a double quarter pounder with cheese, large fry, large drink for $6.50.
You’re describing an elaborate maneuver to get a meal at the price it used to be without “app exclusive deals” etc. The turn to app-ification is shit.
McDonald’s has traded “cheap” and “convenient” for gamification. They’re not the only ones, either
I haven’t been inside a McDonald’s in… 15 years? 20 maybe? When I stopped it was because I realized it’s disgusting food. Since then I’ve added the whole fuck-corpos thing to that.
I guess capitalism isn’t always perfectly dead set on breaking itself.
Sooner or later, reality teaches it’s lessons.
This reads like the wealthy realizing, in real-time, that the poor can’t spend money they don’t have, more than anything else. Like, no shit, dude.
Use your privileged position to make actual change if you care so much. He doesn’t though, so he’s not going to. Instead, he’ll make sure we all know that we can get an entire combo for only $5. Wow! Truly a hero of the down-trodden, this fucking guy. I’d love to be proved wrong, but we all know where this is headed. His virtue signaling doesn’t change that, just like it doesn’t change that stunt he pulled with potus and all that it so clearly represented. Just more mealy-mouthed lies from another worm in a suit’s all it is.
Yeah, Ford was horrible, but that’s one thing that’s reasonable about Fordism. He knew that if he payed his employees well enough then they’d have money to spend. I don’t know how the idiots who are wealthy today don’t get that, but they assume their wealth is infinite and comes from nothing.
Seriously, this is Economics 101 shit and everyone in a position of power just pretends it doesn’t apply for some dumb ass excuse.
The more money people have, the more they will spend.
The more money spent in an economy, the more things are bought, the more opportunities for others to start businesses and make profit present themselves.
The system works better for everyone when money keeps circulating. That’s why UBI is becoming a popular solution to this problem.
The majority of money is stagnant in the US.
It has been siphoned from the working class and is currently kept in the assets of the rich.
And it needs to be redistributed for the system to work well again.
It’s like the prisoners dilemma. We were top left. Some companies thought they could pay less and still reap the benefits of other employers paying well, now everyone does that we’re bottom right
Hey let’s spend 20 million to market a ‘deal’ that will actually end up making us $100 million due to the increase in patronage. Remember, we can’t survive as a company if we don’t double shareholder earnings every fucking year in perpetuity
This reads like the wealthy realizing, in real-time, that the poor can’t spend money they don’t have, more than anything else.
If only someone warned them about this!
Yeah, that’s like, the most classic of Marxism
Gone are the days of well educated elites. Now we have the scourge that is the putrified remains of ruling class’s shit.
Enlightened self interest? How about unchecked greed and moral bankruptcy instead?
Pretty sure Adam Smith and Karl Marx both understood that one
Even Henry fucking Ford understood that
And he was a goddamned Nazi.
If you’re upper-income, earning over $100,000, things are good … What we see with middle- and lower-income consumers, it’s actually a different story.
When had this ever not been true? What a windbag.
Over $100K ain’t chump change, but that also isn’t the line where “upper income” starts.
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/heres-minimum-salary-required-be-considered-upper-class-2025
The Pew Research Center defines upper-income households as having incomes greater than $169,800, based on three-person households. For a household with a single earner and no additional income, that $169,800 is the minimum salary required to be upper class. With two earners, each with the same salary, that minimum would be $84,900 each.
uh there are still loads of people living on like 30k/yr. you 100k people will fucking live
I never suggested otherwise. I was pointing out how disconnected from reality the really “upper income” CEO is.
More basic dishonesty from McDonald’s and from Fortune. If he really wanted to raise the lowest hourly wages for his salaries, he could have done so already. There’s no need to wait for a minimum wage increase.
I’m really quite sure that nobody is working mcdonalds for (edit: federal) minimum wage. Who would take that job? These stats are online and easy to see, fast food is hiring much closer to 18/hr than 8. (Edit: that said, there are apparently still a few states with average starting pay closer to $10. So I’m no longer so sure about everybody. Still pretty sure it’s rare.)
This makes sense. A ceo endorses this policy when it hurts his company less and others companies more.
I literally worked a few months at McDonald’s two years ago at $8/hr.
