America is too poor to buy burgers now. What do we do?

America is too poor to buy burgers now. What do we do?

Are recession fears the same thing as elevated prices?

They'll be making you eat ze bugz soon

let them eat naan

buy mcmansions instead

No, the slop is just too expensive now.

Starve to death I guess

They had a wicked BOGO deal last week for quarter pounders, fish fillets, big macs, and 10 pc chicken nuggets. I ate like a king

This. Doesn’t anyone take economics anymore? Demand is lower at higher prices

The recession isn't harming fast food, it's fast food turning their beef patties until 1/16 inch shoe leather that's making people stop buying from them.

McDonald's has gotten so small and makes me feel so shitty. i think they are putting the vaxcine in the food too

muh recession

It's too damn fucking expensive. I can go to a diner or restaurant and get a better valued burger there instead. It's like $4 for a fucking McDouble now. A FUCKING MCDOUBLE.

I'm not paying 14 dollars for McSlop. I just go to a diner instead.

Issue tons of currency -> more money chasing the same amount of goods -> prices go up, the currency is basically worth less per unit -> people can't afford stuff because wages FOR MOST PEOPLE never rise as fast as inflation.

Like yeah ok maybe rockstar programmers' wages are keeping up with inflation but average everyday working class people's wages are not so they have to cut out luxuries and they're 99.999% of the population so if your business relies on selling a lot of stuff to ordinary people - like, say, you're running a restaurant - then you're probably going to go out of business because currency debasement has squeezed people so badly.

Economists like to say inflation is good for an economy; it isn't, but it lets you massage the stats by using dishonest inflation metrics so that the "inflation-adjusted" stock market looks like it's growing. In reality you get stagnation and eventually the squeeze gets so bad that it finally collapses. This has happened many times throughout history.

Economics without history is quackery.

they think their customers are too stupid to know that they are being blatantly ripped off, no it's because they are too poor

Yep nobody noticed the prices doubling since covid and tripling since 2012

this.

Mcdonalds is expensive and the quality is worse. I feel like shit after eating that garbage. I can buy grass fed ribeye are aldi for like $8. or a pack of sausage for $4.

and mcondalds is slow as fuck now. I don't know what the fuck happened there. But 15 years ago you would drive straight though. now you need to wait every fucking time.

All fast food is more expensive and not worth it. I went to wendy's for the fist time in years, it was almost $15 for a daves double meal. waste of fucking money.

I have actaully been going to panda express. A double portion of grilled chicken(real meat) and super greens is $10. Real food.

penny pinching

not objectively against dollar menu items being sold for $3+

McDonald's was good because it was cheap. It's not good when it costs the same as a $10 burger place.

Market your slop as fast, cheap and delicious

People buy it despite everyone knowing it isn't healthy

Slop becomes as expensive as full-blown restaurant-class gourmet dish

People don't buy it anymore

Brick-brained special ed journalists see an incoming recession

I dunno.
Someone is responsible for all this mess.
Who controls the banks, government, academia, and entertainment?

rope

and mcondalds is slow as fuck now. I don't know what the fuck happened there.

Brownoids in the kitchen. A McDonald's staffed by Whites and another staffed by niggers is night and day.

It isn't about wealth, though it is a waste of fkn money. It's that you used to go to McDs in the 80s and get a semi-decent meal. Then you went to McDs in the 2000s and you got what you paid for. Now it's at the point that not only has the quality drastically declined, the service is shit (and slow, so much for "fast" food), they are simultaneously raising their prices. People just finally reached their point of "Why the fuck would I pay more for something I barely tolerated in the first place?"
For the amount you spend there now you could actually just go get a burger at a real restaurant. Shitheads get what they deserve, I hope they go out of business

I can buy pork shoulder at about $2 per pound. Pulled pork, sausages, country ham. Why would I pay that much for that McGarbage they pass off as food?

I don't understand the point of "fast food" places. Literally just walk in to your local grocery store and grab a packet of sliced deli meat - that's your protein, bananas or oatmeal packs or sliced bread - that's your garbs. Grab a pack of nuts or sliced cheese if you want to add some fat too.

that's your carbs

fix

This is all true, though I would add that if it would benefit politicians politically to not adopt inflationary policies/budgets, they would. Ultimately the shortsightedness of the people is to blame. I still remember my friends cheering on the Trump and Biden stimulus checks.

This isn't even a poor thing. McDonalds now costs as much as a decent diner while offering the worst quality slop they ever have. The only reason anyone would pick McDonalds over a diner or sit down restaurant now is time.

mcdonalds is literally more expensive than if i go buy steak and sides from the store and spend 10 minutes cooking. I havent lived back home in the states for a few years but it was basically break even pricing with the benefit of not having to interact with people that work at mcdonalds or obnoxious half ruined tablets.

I spend according to my earnings. I don’t eat like a peasant if I’m making a high salary; That’s what cheap kikes do. So you’re not gonna enjoy the finer things in life simply because you want to save a few bucks. How fucking Jewish are you? Your future wife and kids are gonna fucking hate you. Lemme guess, you don’t run the heater during the winter too?

pinching pennies amid "recession fears"

No they are not pinching pennies and saving in case of some recession, they literally can't afford to go eat there anymore.

When I made my first 250 grand, I went to the local subway and stuck the entire sandwich in my ass to assert dominance over my wife and kids. I hope one day I can reach your very high status of eating mcdonalds to really own the kikes.

Americans are getting fleeced, and competitors who will sell you a burger at a fair price are locked out of financing by kikes who control the money supply so they can protect the value of their stocks, which they also bought at your expense through inflation caused by fractional reserve.

the issue is the money isnt worth shit anymore. wtf is some burger + fries + cola for 10 euro? on min wage thats almost an hour of slaving for some shitty low quality meal? you cant ask people to spend ~ 25% of their money on fucking food and then act surprised when thats not happening

the worst offender of all is Taco Bell. OVER TWO DOLLARS for a single one of those shitty skimpy dogmeat tacos, and god forbid getting a supreme taco because they charge the fuck out of you for a squirt of sour cream and 3 tomato cubes. 5-layer burrito went from 89 cents all the way up to 5 dollars now.
literally the only think even slightly economical on the online app is the 6 dollar box where you get the crunchwrap and 5-layer burrito and side and drink. their rewards system is dogshit too

do you not understand the concept of fast food you stupid nigger? the point of fast food is that you dont have to make it yourself.

fast food is still cheaper than home meals anyways because you'd have to buy a lot of individual products to make a hamburger unless you already have everything.

It's more expensive than an actual hamburger now. The Burger King near my house is empty and the locally owned place that sells a way better burger for about the same price is always packed. Fast food joints got greedy. They're charging good food prices for a shit food product.
If I get takeout I usually just order it from an actual restaurant now. Most of them do takeout and I don't have to touch some shit smeared giant touchscreen to order it.

This is true but it's why I haven't eaten there a single time in probably five years. It became not only more expensive than McDonald's, Culver's, and Chipotle, it's even more expensive than an actual sit down Mexican restaurant.

This chart isn't even the full story, McDonald's costs 100% more with 25% of the quality.

The very thought of eating mcslop disgusts me deeply and they are asking real food prices now lmao

The foods trash too. Regular meal at McDonald's will buy you all the ingredients to make 3-5 burgers at home.

POORS CAN NO LONGER PARTICIPATE IN THE CONSOOMING AT PREVIOUS LEVEL

WLP always said the lemmings are too comfortable to revolt. Could this be changing in the near future

$4 for a fucking McDouble

is that supposed to be a lot? i didn't realize americans are this poor

It used to be $1.50 not even 6 years ago.

jeets ruined my fucking burger king here, ironically the kfc that hires africans always has good chicken. GOD I FUCKING HATE INDIANS SO MUCH

McDonald's real problem is the portions have shrunk so small they aren't worth what you pay for them. People know they are getting less, so they don't show up anymore.

Burger patties are still barely more than a dollar, I don't understand how the prices for fast food burgers went up so much.

You're retarded.

get sick because unhygienic mystery meats handled or have spat in your food

I wonder why too.

It was $1 in like 2005, it was only introduced as a cost saving measure from the Double Cheeseburger (two slices of cheese rather than one).

they don't even sell that here, the double cheeseburger was the closest i could find on the menu

I used to get those all the time when they were $2. I thought it was sooo funny when they raised it a little bit and made them cost $2.10 so getting two of them costs $4.20. Now they're like $6 minimum for only one of them it's fucking gay as hell.

Best kfc i had was in Trinidad. Local sourced chickens and they were tasty.

Same here but everyone has a brand new car. Something funny is going on, I'm getting 2007 vibes.

McDonald's is gross but fo $1.00 it was worth it occasionally, it's not one dollar anymore.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

McRecession

I'm not lovin' it :(

Gouge consumers for short term profits

claim inflation but its a lie

people mad at you

wont buy overpriced slop

its a recession guys totally not our greed

jeets are actively buying up every restaurant here and the decline in quality is fucking insane

Gee, who does not want to go to some "minority" owned shithole fast food dump to be treated like shit by the diverse subhumans, who cannot make a hamburger according to instructions. The subhumans also never clean anything, while playing on their cell phones. The kike mega fast food company also charges 3 times what it cost to make at home, while the quality is spic level at best and nigger level at worst.

The economy is only bad for dumb people. 2021 was literally as bad as the great depression and we were fine through that. I hope war doesn't break out and people get pushed even more.