About that $16 McDonalds meal story.

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Arthur_Frain (1,547 posts)

About that $16 McDonalds meal story.
It’s one of the very big reasons that a “booming economy” message isn’t resonating. I stepped into a McDonalds last week with a craving for French fries. Small fries were $2.75. That’s insane, when maybe a decade ago the value menu had them for less than a dollar.

The value menu has disappeared, suspiciously in my view, at the same time that all those self ordering kiosks (that no one uses, and don’t work when I try to use them) were installed.

There was an article awhile back that said the profit margins are all the same to the corporation whether it sells 3000 burgers at $2 each, or 1000 burgers at $6 each, but at the six dollar price point they don’t have to support as many workers, so that’s actually what they’re aiming for.

Or you could go to your local airport where the burger alone now runs about $20.

The optics right now are horrible for that message on the street level.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218486927

More DUmmie economics. 

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Arthur_Frain (1,547 posts)

About that $16 McDonalds meal story.
It’s one of the very big reasons that a “booming economy” message isn’t resonating. I stepped into a McDonalds last week with a craving for French fries. Small fries were $2.75. That’s insane, when maybe a decade ago the value menu had them for less than a dollar.

The value menu has disappeared, suspiciously in my view, at the same time that all those self ordering kiosks (that no one uses, and don’t work when I try to use them) were installed.

There was an article awhile back that said the profit margins are all the same to the corporation whether it sells 3000 burgers at $2 each, or 1000 burgers at $6 each, but at the six dollar price point they don’t have to support as many workers, so that’s actually what they’re aiming for.

Or you could go to your local airport where the burger alone now runs about $20.

The optics right now are horrible for that message on the street level.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218486927

Spoken just like  woman's study PhD graduate. 

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Over on Reddit, someone dropped an old tweet that said if minimum wage went to $15/hr, Taco Bell burritos would be $23 a piece. The original tweet gets a reply that DC has a $13/hr minimum wage and the most expensive burritos are still three bucks and change.  I've seen the meme many times, and felt like poking the bear, so I did a touch of digging.  DC raised their minimum wage to $17/hr this summer, and using good old google, I found the menu for DC Taco Bells, which showed the most expensive burrito currently at $6.29. 

It's almost like the people who understand economics and business are right yet again, while the moonbats who think whatever they are told to think are wrong... again.

The optics right now are horrible for that message on the street level.

Cause the optics are the important part, not the fact that it's hard to put a roof over you and your family's head and food on the table in the Biden economy, and he's (and his string pullers) are not doing the things they can do to help that.   

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The value menu has disappeared, suspiciously in my view, at the same time that all those self ordering kiosks (that no one uses, and don’t work when I try to use them) were installed.

The idea of the kiosks are so the dummy behind the register doesn’t have to deal with the dummy in front of the register 

They aren’t taking into consideration the effects of bidenomics on the equation either..along with labor costs the rise of energy costs adds onto the cost at every step in the process.

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“(An article) said the profit margins are all the same to the corporation whether it sells 3000 burgers at $2 each, or 1000 burgers at $6 each”

Any article that said that should be immediately disregarded and thrown in the trash. Probably some worthless leftist rag like Business Insider or Salon or the like.

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Arthur_Frain (1,547 posts)

About that $16 McDonalds meal story.
It’s one of the very big reasons that a “booming economy” message isn’t resonating. I stepped into a McDonalds last week with a craving for French fries. Small fries were $2.75. That’s insane, when maybe a decade ago the value menu had them for less than a dollar.

The value menu has disappeared, suspiciously in my view, at the same time that all those self ordering kiosks (that no one uses, and don’t work when I try to use them) were installed.

There was an article awhile back that said the profit margins are all the same to the corporation whether it sells 3000 burgers at $2 each, or 1000 burgers at $6 each, but at the six dollar price point they don’t have to support as many workers, so that’s actually what they’re aiming for.

Or you could go to your local airport where the burger alone now runs about $20.

The optics right now are horrible for that message on the street level.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218486927

Thanks Joe!

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Arthur_Frain (1,547 posts)


Four tacos
two sodas at Jack in the Box.


Just over 16.00  last week.


Eat shit.