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[–] 137 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's anti-American sentiment at home too

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes but I think it's that cost of goods increase and income doesn't. It takes over an hour of work to feed one person with these prices.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don’t know I’m a pretty anti-American American. Though that’s the least of my problems with Mackers

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Maccas with a hard r? Where are you from?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    When I first started working at minimum wage, you could buy 3 packs of decent cigarettes for an hour’s worth of labor

    For the last few years the places I have lived, one pack of cigarettes is about $17. So over 2 hours worth of work at the minimum wage just for one pack of smokes

    Now, this may sound like an old fogey story, but perhaps the point is that I entered the workforce when minimum wage was like $7.35 an hour less than 15 years ago, and I already have old fogey economic stories

    Fast food is a similar story. It’s something bad for our health but was more excusable back when it was cheaper relative to wages. The fuck would I work myself to death just to be able to smoke a dart or eat a garbage hamburger?

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  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Also they eagerly price gouged people for their crap food, so no one is really hankering to go there anymore

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A little over a decade ago I was a pizza dude. I remember getting off work at about 11pm and craving pretty much anything but pizza, so every so often I'd stop through McDonald's on my way home since they were pretty much the only place open, fork over about 5 bucks from my night's tips, and get a couple McChicken and/or mcdoubles, fries, and a drink, and get change back.

    That same order now costs over $10.

    I think I remember back then that I averaged out to a bit over $10/hour after figuring in tips. I'm no longer a pizza dude and I'm making a bit over $30, so I've beaten the McDonald's inflation rate by a bit and can afford to spring for it if I find myself really craving it, but everything else has also gotten more expensive and $10 isn't as easy to justify for some junk food.

    But your average pizza dude today probably hasn't beaten that rate. They're tipped employees so all the bullshit that comes with that means they're probably still only making around $10/hour. I think there's been a bit of a delivery boom since then so maybe they're doing a little better than that but I doubt many are making the over $20/hour they'd need to be able to afford a late night McDonald's snack with the same ease I used to be able to.

    Also, at least around me, they're not even open late anymore since COVID. I still work a weird night shift so that's something else I'm up against. My only options when I get off work if I want a snack is gas station/convenience store food.

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  • [+] 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    'Anti-American sentiment'...

    You stupid fuckers, the bigger problem is the Anti-McDonalds sentiment that's everywhere, because your food is shit, your prices are outrageous, your restaurants are fake and ugly, and you don't give a flying fuck about your customers or your employees!

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I like to get my burgers and milkshakes from the small, locally-owned, independent, place near where I live. It is real food, cheaper than mcdonalds, a much wider selection, and just as fast. It is also a cozy, relaxed, and welcoming environment; rather than sterile, corporate, hostile, and rushed.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I grew up with and worked at McDs in high school and college. It used to be a family place (play places, fun colors) it used to be a friendly place (you could have birthdays there, cashiers were nice, you'd run into people you know), it used to have prices that were reasonable/cheap.

    It is none of those things anymore. Why on earth would I go there when there's a burger place right across the road thar costs maybe $1 or $2 more and is actually good?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Right? The McDs I remember growing up was a themed one. It was trying to be like a 50s soda shop. They had a model (or actual?) grill for a retro 50s car coming out of the wall. There were neon light decorations around the place and pictures of Elvis. They played rockabilly music instead of top 50 recent hits or whatever.

    McDs these days reminds me of airport bathrooms.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Shocking idea it may perhaps be because

    1. McDonalds "food" tastes like shit
    2. McDonalds "food" costs a ton of money
    3. There are burger spots (especially local ones) that can match or beat McDonalds pricing for significantly better burgers
    4. People can not afford to spend obscene amounts of money of food
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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Maybe we should look at their corporate donations and tell them to go fuck themselves when we see who they donated to.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Maybe they shouldn't have let a fascist use their brand image to appear similar to the working class?

    They've had a fucking decade to distance themselves from trump, but they loved having him serve their trash in the White House...

    Now they're shocked people don't like fascists?

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  • [+] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Have you seen the price of McDonalds recently? I’d rather miss a meal than get scammed like that. Fuck them.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    For a while I practically lived off $5 at mcdicks. I would get 2 double cheese burgers, 2 mcchickens, and a large drink. $1 each. That's was 10 years ago.

    Then they started giving away free food just for using the app.

    Then they had really good deals on the app.

    Then they got rid of the dollar menu.

    Then the only way to get cheap food was through the app.

    Now even the prices and "deals" from the app are a scam for such shit food.

    Now I make my own smash burgers in cast iron that are so much better you can't even compare them to McShit and still cost half the price.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Quick tip that you may or may not remember. The "diced onion" is actually dried onion flakes, they dump them into a bucket and fill the bucket with water. You can do the same thing with onion flakes and a bowl in your kitchen, and that avoids having to cut fresh onions.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago

    Well, McDonald's let Trump do a photo op there. Oh well.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Shouldn't have supported nazis

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago*

    Could have something to do with it costing as much as a sit down restaurant used to while tasting like it came from back water gas stations.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The anti-American sentiment is true but that's not the reason why sales are declining for them. It's the rising price.

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  • I haven't eaten at a Mcdonalds since I was in elementary school because my entire family agrees that their food sucks.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Don't worry, they'll increase prices and cut quality even more to make up for the difference in lost profit.

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Sure, blame anyone but yourself, Ronnie.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    You can bet McDonald's is doing horribly whenever they bring out a limited product or do a celebrity deal.

    They've done mcrib, celeb deal, Minecraft movie promo, and now chicken strips are back.

    Yeah. Red flags. They're desperate.

    Their current '2nd item for $1' is an ok deal right now. But this makes me think that won't last.

    2 sausage muffins and 2 hash browns for like $7. Throw some hot picante salsa on there and you have deal. Without that deal? It's like $13.

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I can only speak for myself, but the reason I don't eat at McDonald's is because their food is just very low quality. Their coffee is good, but everything else is just crap.

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    mcdonalds is shit food, if you're charging more than a dollar for a sandwich, then it's way too much.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Boo-fuckin-hoo. You vote and support like a fucking idiot then you should suffer the consequences.

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