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Why Fast Food Got So Expensive

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You notice how billionaires love dynamic pricing for the lower class vs the middle class but hate it for their tax bill?
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A few years ago, I would shrug off cold fries or a wrong order, telling myself, "It's just fast food." Not anymore. Now I double-check the order while still in line, and if the fries aren’t hot, I make a big fuss about it. The food is now expensive and for that money I demand better service.
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@LtHead From YouTube ↗ 21 Jun 2026 36
I'll save everyone 20 minutes, the answer is **Corporate greed**
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@FlyWithMe_666 From YouTube ↗ 21 Jun 2026 1500
As Marie Antoinette famously said when told the starving peasants had no bread: “Let them eat McDonalds”
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I'll always remember 2019, when one of my college professors was noticeably angry finding out that the campus Chick-Fil-A's milkshakes were $4.
Just a few years later, that would be considered the best milkshake deal in town.
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@DJ_Force From YouTube ↗ 21 Jun 2026 12
tldr; Why does McDonald's charge so much? Because they can.
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@MrHav1k From YouTube ↗ 21 Jun 2026 168
Dynamic pricing for FAST FOOD!?!?!? yeah.... they can F right off with that one.
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@5-7Farms From YouTube ↗ 21 Jun 2026 270
I can vouch for In-N-Outs motto: quality you can taste. I used to haul potatoes and veggies to their distrbution centers. They rejected an entire 53 foot refrigerated trailer of potatoes due to 5 bags of potatoes being picked to early, so basically they refused to accept 40,000 pounds of potatoes cause of 5 bad bags, thankfully found a food bank that accepted the load of potatoes.
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$18 for a Big Mac is unacceptable. I'd rather drive to a grocery store and cook my own food.
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Surge pricing at your peril. "Personalized pricing". I nor anyone I know, will ever shop you again, so long as I live. It's called "gouging".
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@hank38822 From YouTube ↗ 21 Jun 2026 523
All of the customer-held-hostage stuff like incomplete menus and requiring the app are reasons for me to never go to a McDonald's again.
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The only reason there is:
People are still buying their food.
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Intentional Enshittification summarizes this entire strategy. Stop buying it, that's the only language mega corporations speak.
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Not only are they getting ever more expensive. The portions are also getting smaller and smaller.
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nothing mcdonalds says will ever convince me $18 meals is not price gouging. i love how they try to blame the employees needing paychecks that keep up with inflation as if the employees are the problem while the executives make 7 figure paychecks.
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@TedLedbetter From YouTube ↗ 21 Jun 2026 2300
I don't need an app to order food, but if I don't use the app I feel like I'm getting ripped off... so I just don't order fast food any more.
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Tldr: McDonald's does literally anything except improve their food
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I think you just helped me understand why I don't eat at McDonald's any more. Thank you
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They started hitting prices of "sit down" restaurants. If I am going to spend that kind of money I can just go there or order and pick up.
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@MrPageplayer From YouTube ↗ 21 Jun 2026 8600
I want to thank all the fast-food chains for raising the prices since covid.
I'm saving a lot of money and I'm a little healthier.