How's about raking in less cash

To me a $5 "meal deal" with a small crappy burger, small fries and a small drink is not good enough, it's either the actual full-on dollar menu or nothing but unfortunately that sounds like something we will never see again.

Dude... When I worked McDonald's back in 1995 - I was paid 3.85/hour. I could also get two Double Cheeseburgers (not that single cheese McDouble Bullcrap) for $2. Quarter Pounder meal was only $3.99

Holy shit, I wasn't even born then. All this you are telling seems so unheard-of I cannot even comprehend a burger being such a price, a burger that's a lot bigger than today's McDonald's burgers. When it comes to the cost of goods getting more expensive, many people argue it's simply because goods have gotten more expensive to produce but in my view in the case of McDonald's crappy, mass-produced garbage, it's a case of the corporate executives raising the prices at whim just because they can and want to line their pockets even more even though they really don't need to. I mean, I do understand some goods are harder to produce and take more labor and time to produce therefore do have reason to be more expensive to buy but I honestly don't see the reason to charge $8.19 for a crappy, frozen mass-produced, machine-processed burger that is noticeably smaller in portion size. That to me looks purely like arbitrary price gouging when the product isn't really that expensive to produce. I see even less good reason for it to be raised in prices when the food portion is significantly smaller. Some people also like to blame it on workers demanding higher wages and minimum wage laws being raised but the cost of this crappy food has already been going up a long time before the raised minimum wage and like I said, it's obviously greedy executives trying to line their pocket.

It's mostly driven by Wage Increases at the minimum level. Every industry known to the US has minimum wage employees. When the masses complain about wages - the government steps in and raises the minimum wage. That then means that every minimum wage employees will now get more money per hour... Which means you either eat the raises out of your profit... Or you raise your prices to offset the wages.

Multiply that out however many times idiots have called for higher minimum wage... And you have 12.99 Big Mac meals.

I do understand why one wouldn't view flipping a crappy fast food burger as something that deserves a $15/hour wage however I don't necessarily think wage increases are the cause of the high prices, the way I see things it is more likely that is CEOs price-gouging at whim just to line their pockets. Also another reason why I don't think we should blame it solely on minimum wage increase is because CEOs do in fact arbitrarily raise prices without minimum wage increases, they way I see things it's ultimately the elites that are the cause of price-gouging. Also the way I see things, the notion that wage increases are the problem is a narrative to enable division among the lower classes to distract people from the real reason why our quality of life is getting worse, the elites.

Remember how you weren't alive back then...? I've been literally watching it happen since before you were born. You're not wrong about price gouging though... When the opportunity to raise your prices up to offset all the extra money you pay people, CEOs will over inflate the price and make even more money than before. So say they only needed to raise prices by fifteen cents per item to offset the costs... They will raise it 25 cents instead.

Like I said, I do see why making a crappy fast food burger isn't something worth being paid $15/hour and raising prices for crappy fast food isn't worth it just to pay someone a high wage just for a menial task. I also don't want to make this some anti-worker thing, I don't want to dismiss a working person's struggles, I really think a lot of the time a working person does have legit reason to complain about their employer not paying them enough for an honest day's work. I don't think people should be paid a high wage for something as menial as flipping a crappy burger but there are many other cases where workers complain about being overworked and underpaid are a legitimate issue. I also still stand by my stance on price-gouging, CEOs do get greedy and try to fatten up their salary at any opportunity they can, sometimes by raising prices of goods and lower worker's wages. Raising the prices is one thing but when the portion sizes decrease as well, that's when I really draw the line and feel every reason to suspect arbitrary price-gouging. I do believe you when you say the high prices are partly an effect of increased minimum wage but I also feel I have reason to suspect the greed of the executives at the top are also behind the price-gouging and portion shrinkage.

Exactly this !

Ikr

Funny how so many people claim the ice cream machine is never working at McDonald's, surprisingly that actually was never a problem for me, everytime I went to McDonald's (including two days ago at a Walmart) the ice cream machine was always working and I always served an ice cream when I ordered one.

Most people that claim that have had many many many many many interactions where the machine was down. It's had to have happened to me at least 45-50 times in my life.

Mcdonald's was the food of the poor but now it's overpriced garbage, I honestly don't see why they feel they have so much ground to charge $5 or even $3 for a burger so small, crappy and mass-produced: imgflip.com/i/85a0l2

I upvoted that meme 6 months ago lol. I just went to it and it was already Green Arrowed.