OMG! I stopped at a McDonalds for the first time in years!! $9.46 for a Big Mac and fries!?!?!
I know I'm not normal. I don't watch TV, I don't eat in fast food restaurants, I hang out on the GBer Forums, I mean you get what I'm getting at.
How does a young couple with two kids afford to eat at McDonalds??
Seriously. My concept of McDonalds was always a cheap place to eat that had good fries. As I said I don't do fast food restaurants but I about fell out of my car when I ordered a Big Mac and fries and the girl said "That will be $9.46."
In todays world there are so many people who can't cook and eat out for every meal. How are people affording this??
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Well this probably won't make you feel any better about it, but here in Michigan, they're accepting EBT cards. Isn't that special?
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Stimulus and other free money from the Dem's....
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Yesterday, I bought two Subway 12" subs and a 16 oz Coke. $20.
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In my car mechanic's shop there's a sign that says "We do quick work, good work, and cheap work. You can pick any two."
With fast food, it's exactly the same.
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What we spend (rarely) at fast food places now days, use to buy us a nice sit down steak dinner with the fixins
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I'm old enough to remember the Golden Arches offering a burger, fries, and drink for 88 cents. For the change from a dollar, you could get their hot apple pie turnover for dessert.
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Foot long tuna and chips and a drink was $16 yesterday at subway. I agree
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This is what happens when minimum wages rise.
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MR P nailed it.
Well...........perhaps one of these days people will realize the consequences of Minimum Wage Laws.
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With all the free money the govt. passed out, I don't know why the U.S. isn't like Germany after WWI, when you could not physically carry enough banknotes to buy a pair of shoes. It just amazes me that we have never had hyper-inflation like so many other countries.
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Thanks JOE!
Ain't inflation great. I remember when inflation was near 2%, under a REAL president!
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kannoneer: 30306465771291/comments/30306480612891
With all the free money the govt. passed out, I don't know why the U.S. isn't like Germany after WWI, when you could not physically carry enough banknotes to buy a pair of shoes. It just amazes me that we have never had hyper-inflation like so many other countries.
Just give it a few more months!
That is EXACTLY where we are headed, as fast as we can! Thanks to FJB and the commies and the rhinos........and all the sheeple that keep voting them into office!
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For $2 more I can go to a real restaurant & get quality food.
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I have stopped an eat at McDonalds in the past, but not anymore. The last two times I stopped there at the pay window the person had a stud in their tongue and piercings on their face, I couldn’t understand what they were saying. The one that was handing out the food at the pick up window had nose rings, lip rings and piercing all over her face. I’m sorry but that just takes my appetite away and turns my stomach. Anymore if I stop somewhere and the people waiting on me have more metal in their face than in the bumper of a 57 Buick I leave.
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kannoneer: 30306465771291/comments/30306480612891
With all the free money the govt. passed out, I don't know why the U.S. isn't like Germany after WWI, when you could not physically carry enough banknotes to buy a pair of shoes. It just amazes me that we have never had hyper-inflation like so many other countries.
Patience! It's comin'!
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I know I'm not normal. I don't watch TV, I don't eat in fast food restaurants, I hang out on the GBer Forums, I mean you get what I'm getting at.
How does a young couple with two kids afford to eat at McDonalds??
Seriously. My concept of McDonalds was always a cheap place to eat that had good fries. As I said I don't do fast food restaurants but I about fell out of my car when I ordered a Big Mac and fries and the girl said "That will be $9.46."
In todays world there are so many people who can't cook and eat out for every meal. How are people affording this??
Yeah what happened to the days went I went to McDonalds with 25 cents and got a hamburger and fry. For the reasons you stated and my health I can't remember when I ate at a McDonalds.
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I remember for a couple dollars you got a bag of food going to McDonald's
A couple years back I stopped at a Kentucky fried (pigeon ) chicken
It had been years since I had been to one
For a bucket of chicken and a couple sides it was just shy 40.00 i have not been back
I think back to when I was a kid
On super rare and I mean rare ocassions my parents would take us to a fast food place
One was scotties? 10 cent hamburgers
One place was Clancy s a local fast food place before McDonald's ever hit the area I think there's were 15 cents
We had a friches but must have been too expensive as we never went
I liked Wendy's when they came out but I was already working and buying my own fast food by then I can't remember the last time I was there
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“Cheap” fast food “or grocery food is a thing if the past not ever to return. I eat out far more than most of you and take your pick nothing is under $10 for a combo. Our city tax rate is 10% which doesn’t help.
Living in the old days are gone and so is the economy most likely.
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As I was reading this earlier I happened to be standing in McDonald's.... We rarely eat there, my mom wanted a Mc Double and a Ice Tea. I had a Mc Chicken and a large water. Over 6 bucks. Not to long ago the McDouble and McChicken were a buck and so was a large drink. Even a large coke or ice tea as gone up... Even the coffee is no longer a dollar.
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"We are here to make money, not friends. " My problem is I'm running out of money.
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Rocky Raab: 30306465771291/comments/30306427057179
I'm old enough to remember the Golden Arches offering a burger, fries, and drink for 88 cents. For the change from a dollar, you could get their hot apple pie turnover for dessert.
Rocky Raab: 30306465771291/comments/30306427057179
I'm old enough to remember the Golden Arches offering a burger, fries, and drink for 88 cents. For the change from a dollar, you could get their hot apple pie turnover for dessert.
Rocky, I’m either older than you or you paid too much. 😃
1962 menu ,,,,,,,
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I stopped going to "Fast Food," restaurants about the time time Covid19 (The Wuhan Flu.) Moved in full swing. I love cheap Taco's. (Okay, any Taco's.) I stopped at Taco Bell since I was passing by one and had the craving. Saw the crew who was fixing my Taco's and said to myself, "This is Stupid." Last time for about 2 years.
Fast Forward. Stopped for 6 Loaded/Supreme Taco's, they were around $16-17. I used to be able to buy a 12 pack of Loaded/Supreme Taco's for $18. I asked if it was cheaper to order a 12 pack. Nope, a 12 pack of Loaded/Supreme Taco's was about $28+.
Have not been back since.
I fully agree with the "Minimum Wage," aspect. There are always repercussions to actions like that. A poorly thought out decision, all in all.
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Kannoneer, I remember when my late dad showed me a $1,000,000 mark he brought back over WW-II. It probably wouldn't have bought a loaf of bread back then in Munich.
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And you know those hamburgers that were 39 cents not to long ago? 1.99 now. Wow
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If that hurt your feelings. Don't go into Five Guys. Three burgers and two fries $54.00.
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All these restaurants can raise their rates, all they want.
People like us, will no longer go to them. (Pay their exorbitant prices.)
Guess where that will leave them? 🤔
They'll raise their rates even more, in order to pay their $15/hr minimum wage workers. We, (the American Middle Class.) Will stop going to them.
Bye Felicia.
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One thing about the Kung Flu. I learned how to be a better cook. Not near as good as Ken, but OK.
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When you have an under-educated labor force, that thinks they can actually TELL potential employers what the minimum salary they will accept is...............well...........
Here we are............😖😖
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I last ate in a McDonalds in the spring of 1979. My college Beef Production class took a tour of a beef processing plant and I saw what was being sent to McD's for people to eat. The stuff going to Purina was better. I don't imagine it's gotten any better.
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