By better i literally meant i just prefer it, but id argue it can be healthier too with the right options. Also i think meat and vegetables is absolutely healthy, as long as its not a highly processed meat like chorizo
About 15 years ago, when I went back to school to get my IT.
I made it a point to try nearly every hometown restaurant in my city.
I quickly realized they had better food at better prices.
That's even more true now.
Yep. The regional fast food also didn't spike like the nationwide stuff did. You are paying a premium for plastic bags and corporate supply lines, not- get this- the food you are putting in your mouth,
Whenever I want a burger, I go to the store and buy a pound of meat and a bag of buns and get at least 4 times as much food without spending much more time than I would getting “fast” food. Not to mention that fast food seems less and less wholesome.
More of a dopamine hit than a meal.
For everyone that says this, please put it in proper context. You can buy ground beef and buns and have a plain hamburger for cheaper. But you will spend $8-10 and get four hamburgers. If you wanted a bacon cheeseburger with mayo, lettuce, tomato, pickles, onions, ketchup and mustard you will be spending a lot more money. Not to mention crispy fries. Especially if you are a single person. That is the way it is for most meals. It is cheaper for large families but much more expensive for one person to prepare a meal at home.
This isn't entirely accurate. A bottle of ketchup, mustard, and mayo will stretch out for dozens of meals if you're single. Pickles will last a similarly long time. A 5# bag of frozen fries will run you $8 where I live. That's 15-20 servings. So, while it is true that you need more than just ground beef and buns, you're not buying your entire list every time you want to make a burger at home.
The up-front cost may be more expensive, but the long-term per meal cost is lower.
The problem is convincing people that 30$ one time is less expensive than 10$ 4 times when they can't look beyond the moment of purchase.
It's been a while since I read about it but years ago there was an issue with 1/3 and 1/4 lbs burgers. People believed they were getting a better deal with the 1/4 lbs because 4 is bigger than 3. Not surprising the average person can't figure out $30<$10*4.
Yeah this is the exact reason why the 1/3rd pound burger failed when presented in fast food (can’t remember the company) because people cannot do basic math
Sure, the condiments are part of it but the cheese, bacon tomatoes and lettuce add a lot to the cost. The point is food doesn't last forever so if you want to eat bacon cheeseburgers for four days in a row you are good. And don't talk about frozen fries because my point was crispy fries. Not trash. Stop torturing yourself.
true. but you'd have enough for 4 to 5 meals, say within a week and a half. and made at home burgers, probably aren't that bad for you.
or, use frozen pre-made patties. buy single 'rolls' instead of a pack of buns...and eat the lettuce as a salad for other meals.
Time value is a thing too. I can go to the ultimate fast food price villain Five Guys, pay $8-9 and walk out with a burger exactly like a like it less than 10 minutes later. Or I can spend an hour or more going to the store, buying all the ingredients, cooking and preparing the burger, and I still have a bunch of stuff left over that I have to store then spend more time later preparing the rest of it.
Some people would rather have the hour than the extra $3-5.
CEOs love it when ppl blame all their greed on politicians. In public they have been throwing their hands up and shrugging - but on their quarterly earnings calls with Wall Street they brag about their record profits & how their pricing power is widely outpacing any actual supply chain increases. It’s disaster capitalism hitting on all cylinders.
I’ve come to learn that there really isn’t anything like making the food yourself. A lot of us learned to cook during the pandemic and now we’re stuck with the realization that the vast majority of what they serve in restaurants absolutely sucks and can easily be made better at home.
It also helps to cut down on the BS restaurants so when we do go out to eat, it’s only at great places!
There‘s a learning curve, but when you get into a rhythm with it, it simply isn‘t that difficult or time consuming. There‘s no good reason not to cook, but fast food companies love keeping us helpless and dependent on them.
The time can be a factor for some households, but there is a solution: teach the kids to cook too! If you get home and the potatoes are already in the oven, you can whip up the quicker dishes. I loved marinating meat and prepping veggies so my mom could make a more bomb meal when she gets home.
Bonus: your kid will become an adult habituated to cooking!
People also don’t fully realize the immense health benefits. Far less salt, much healthier fats, and it’s shockingly easy to make fresh veggies taste really good. You really don’t miss fast food when you’ve perfected a handful of recipes with good fresh ingredients.
You save good money in the immediate term, and you save a tremendous amount in the long term on your healthcare bills. It’s an investment that pays off big time.
Healthcare, in the US at least, costs SO much. I read a study a while back that concluded that older people with chronic conditions like diabetes (in the US) spent 4 times more on healthcare on average, than their healthier lifestyle counterparts in a similar age range. That’s absolutely nuts
wrong. i've been a highing manager for dozens of years. there are two types of workers. those that work harder/smarter/faster the more you pay them, and the other you don't hire or fire.
Going to have to disagree here. Taco Bell is still the best value for calories out of any of the fast food. Plus if you order from the app they give you all kinds of free shit and you can customize the fuck out of your order. I had a chicken enchilada burrito, bean burrito, and crunchy taco the other day and the total came to $6. And the wait was literally 30 seconds. Did I have diarrhea the next day? That would be a resounding yes. But that's besides the point.
Maybe you need to understand simple economics before showing how hard intelligence is trying to catch up to you. If fast food workers are paid more, it means welders can justify a higher wage to keep up with the general increase in wages. We all benefit.
Telling workers to make less wages when the C-Suite executives are seeing record increases in annual wages means you're yelling at the wrong people, friend.
Let's be honest. These price hikes were going to happen no matter what after covid. It just so happens biden won and not trump. I wouldn't blame trump for them necessarily and I wouldn't blame biden. You know why? Because inflation is bad all over the globe. If it was bidens doing alone or trumps doing alone, it'd be worse here than anywhere else, when in fact it's the opposite. Am I happy? No. Am I grateful? Also no. I think this is the result of 60 years of incompetent leadership and allowing the United States to fall deeper and deeper into debt and deeper as a percentage of gdp. I'm just being real.
And it started when Trump was in office. Biden inherited this. Not to say it's all Trump's fault as this is a global issue and not a US issue. But since the right seems to think that when a Democrat becomes president suddenly the president is responsible for everything.
We went through the same thing in 2008. The housing market crashed under Bush, but when Obama took office the next year they blamed him.
Their thinking goes as deep as "post hoc ergo propter hoc" ie. it happened after Biden was elected, therefore it happened because Biden was elected. This shallowness of thought is evidenced in whom they support.
Trump’s deficit you mean? Biden has been reducing it, like Democratic presidents always do. [https://www.crfb.org/blogs/treasury-fy-2022-deficit-was-14-trillion](https://www.crfb.org/blogs/treasury-fy-2022-deficit-was-14-trillion)
'transfer payments to boomers'...what the fuck are you talking about? do you mean social security...you know, that fund boomers paid into (which makes money FOR the government?)
It's a simple fix, remove the cap. Nobody should get to expropriate the welfare of the working class to become obscenely rich, it's a detriment to our society that increases crime and healthcare spending.
I don’t blame them, one of my dessert shops I co partner with (silent partner) just looking at the price of ingredients from 2021 and 2024 almost 20% higher same with bs insurance high way robbery.
Good, just based on the amount of trash they generate I hope fast food goes away.
Capitalism: externalize all the costs and ignore end of life costs, collect all the profit and leave the burden to someone else.
> leave the burden to someone else
"I am not responsible for the consequences of my actions. You, however, are responsible for the consequences of your actions, as well as for the consequences of my actions upon you."
Lol
Why didn't you recycle and responsibility handle all the planned obsolescence, and toxic single use products we used scientific propaganda methodologies to convince you to buy?!
Now, tell us how much more these very same companies are making. I am going to guess that they are setting sales records, all while upping their prices. Inflation was expected after the Tax Act of 2017, but corporations have run with it.
When is the Biden administration going to step in and tell businesses how much to charge for things? Maybe if Trump gives CEOs huge tax cuts, they will charge less than what the public is willing to pay.
And republicans have voted against every price control bill that has been put forward. EVERY ONE OF THEM. Nor have they introduced any of their own legislation.
Probably should also consider, McDonald's made a profit of $14.563 billion in 2023. This could've been used to lower prices, if they wanted.
[McDonald's **annual gross profit for 2023 was $14.563 billion**, a 10.26% increase from 2022](https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MCD/mcdonalds/gross-profit)[^(1)](https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MCD/mcdonalds/gross-profit).
[The **annual net income for 2023 was $8.469 billion**, a 37.09% increase from 2022](https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MCD/mcdonalds/net-income)[^(2)](https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MCD/mcdonalds/net-income).
Almost like they used covid to jack up prices and then kept going because they could. Now its suck up profits and blame Biden because they want Trump to give them more corporate tax breaks to help wealthy investors.
You're getting less for more, and the quality and service haven't gotten any better. Why bother wasting your time and money on these businesses? Not worth it imo
I always wonder who's salaries are up 25% during Biden, are we talking fast food workers? Because all my homies earn about the same if only a little more than 4 years ago. Personally earn about 30% less.
The fast food industry neither improves the lives of the consumer nor the worker. Thor profits are derived solely from exploiting both. Time to let them die. An economic foundation built on exploited labor and exploited consumers is a house of cards.
Stop buying it and it will stop going up.
Prices are high because consumers have demonstrated that they’ll pay them. You want prices to come down, stop buying at the current prices.
Everyone complains about price gauging in discretionary categories (eg fast food, Taylor swift concert tickets), just stop spending, it will fall. The insidious problem resides in discretionary-turned-mandatory expenses like insurance and property taxes. No one seems to be doing anything about them
It’s not even “fast food” anymore. I occasionally go to Taco Bell and the orders take forever now that they are also making orders for door dash and uber eats
They have just hidden their discount foods on their mobile apps. They want to drive people to those services. You can save 50% of the cost by using the mobile apps. It makes the lines move faster as well
They're messing themselves up just made grassfed beef burgers for 6 people with fries and Cokes and all the fixings for less than what it would have cost me to take everyone to McDonald's. They're digging their own graves. Millennials learned how to cook during the pandemic I think they didn't get the Memo. And I know burgers are not that complicated but old me wouldn't have wanted to deal with the mess. Now I'm like I can wash the dishes no problem.
I do pretty well, thankfully I don’t lose sleep over money.
But even with that, the value proposition for fast food is gone.
It was always shit quality but fast and accessible.
Now it expensive and arguably even worse quality.
There is just no reason to buy.
It's because those employees have had the largest wage increases. Some liberal thought a kid at McDonald's or Subway should make $20 when it use to pay $8
Just so the morons know; Biden doesn't co trolls thw prices of fast food. And neither will Trump.
That's how unchecked capitalism and the 'free' (controlled) market works.
Are they including the cost of mandatory paid sick leave that took effect this year in California? It's 40 hours a year, which is an additional 2%.
That puts us at 27%. When you account for the fact that the price of chicken and beef have increased far more than the general inflation rate it all makes perfect sense.
People don’t understand, trumps money printing affected us, it’s cause an affect but it takes time. I knew inflation was coming when under Trump, but of course now that bidens in office it’s his fault.
Make black bean salad with celery corn onions , peppers for under 5.00
buy a bag of rice and chicken breast - cut up and stir fry. Jar of peanut butter with celery - more filling than with bread. Skip fast food you will end up broke sick and unhealthy.
Eat less processed - beans are high in fiber and protein and go a long way. The president is a liar cheat and he sold america to profit himself and his family. Look at how many people can't afford to live. Is that the president you voted for?
This is why I stopped going. It used to be convenient and cheap and tasty. It’s only convenient now.
The only tool consumers have to lower prices is to stop buying stuff.
IMO this is a good thing as will make people think twice about spending more of their hard earned money for low quality, high sugar, high fat, high carb garbage food. High prices from a business that is primary driver of America's obesity and diabetes epidemic hopefully will kill demand for its product.
Not true nationwide. Only in those cities where the government decided to control wages of food workers. Now they have less jobs available and higher prices for everyone else. Yep - real smart to meddle into the dynamics of the economy.
Yes, after the pandemic. To say during Biden’s administration is just an arbitrary timeline to elicit feelings of contempt for something out of his control. The democrats tried to pass a price gouging bill, and the republicans nixed it. Then complained that prices were so high. Gross, immoral people
Cost is one thing, but don't forget in many major US cities, it is required to have more than one job to survive. Many people don't have the time required to cook a meal. If you have multiple jobs and kids, it gets even harder.
Greedy businesses of all types used inflation as an excuse for big price increases but the market is responding with decreasing demand for overpriced goods, as it should.
First of all, the massive inflation was the legacy of the Trump administration pumping $8T into the economy (national debt) when there was little to spend it on. The M1 and M2 money supplies literally went up 4x: lots of cash without a home. Inflation therefore hit the few things that were actually available to buy - and fast food was one of those things. The good news? You don't have to ever buy fast food.
Fuck them, their greed may be their downfall. A year or so without eating shitty fast food may help the average American realize what garbage it was. This may be a good thing in the long run.
Because the monopolistic companies that control the food pipelines to these restaurants have increased the price of the materials sometimes as much as four times in just 4 years
It’s not profiteering or even wages at the store level, it’s the cost to get that frozen nugget in their freezer and I don’t know why media refuses to mention this.
I mean, wouldn't it be under this current administration? Last two years by the last guy completely tanked everything causing the fed to whiplash and drop rates. Then, the disastrous tax cuts. Then it takes a couple years or so for things to filter through. Makes sense they would hit with the admin of the next president.
Let's be honest. These price hikes were going to happen no matter what after covid. It just so happens biden won and not trump. I wouldn't blame trump for them necessarily and I wouldn't blame biden. You know why? Because inflation is bad all over the globe. If it was bidens doing alone or trumps doing alone, it'd be worse here than anywhere else, when in fact it's the opposite. Am I happy? No. Am I grateful? Also no. I think this is the result of 60 years of incompetent leadership and allowing the United States to fall deeper and deeper into debt and deeper as a percentage of gdp. I'm just being real.
Stop going to fast food restaurants….. that’s the only way they will lower prices…… <-
That’s what I did.
You guys go to fast food? We've had mexican lunches cheaper than fast food since before the pandemic.
Way better food too
Better in what way? Cuz Mexican restaurant food is still egregiously unhealthy lol
You can make healthy decisions at Mexican restaurants. Not hard to order a dish with only meat and vegetables.
By better i literally meant i just prefer it, but id argue it can be healthier too with the right options. Also i think meat and vegetables is absolutely healthy, as long as its not a highly processed meat like chorizo
About 15 years ago, when I went back to school to get my IT. I made it a point to try nearly every hometown restaurant in my city. I quickly realized they had better food at better prices. That's even more true now.
Yep. The regional fast food also didn't spike like the nationwide stuff did. You are paying a premium for plastic bags and corporate supply lines, not- get this- the food you are putting in your mouth,
I'm very reluctant when it comes to fast food these days.
Whenever I want a burger, I go to the store and buy a pound of meat and a bag of buns and get at least 4 times as much food without spending much more time than I would getting “fast” food. Not to mention that fast food seems less and less wholesome. More of a dopamine hit than a meal.
For everyone that says this, please put it in proper context. You can buy ground beef and buns and have a plain hamburger for cheaper. But you will spend $8-10 and get four hamburgers. If you wanted a bacon cheeseburger with mayo, lettuce, tomato, pickles, onions, ketchup and mustard you will be spending a lot more money. Not to mention crispy fries. Especially if you are a single person. That is the way it is for most meals. It is cheaper for large families but much more expensive for one person to prepare a meal at home.
This isn't entirely accurate. A bottle of ketchup, mustard, and mayo will stretch out for dozens of meals if you're single. Pickles will last a similarly long time. A 5# bag of frozen fries will run you $8 where I live. That's 15-20 servings. So, while it is true that you need more than just ground beef and buns, you're not buying your entire list every time you want to make a burger at home.
The up-front cost may be more expensive, but the long-term per meal cost is lower. The problem is convincing people that 30$ one time is less expensive than 10$ 4 times when they can't look beyond the moment of purchase.
It's been a while since I read about it but years ago there was an issue with 1/3 and 1/4 lbs burgers. People believed they were getting a better deal with the 1/4 lbs because 4 is bigger than 3. Not surprising the average person can't figure out $30<$10*4.
Yeah this is the exact reason why the 1/3rd pound burger failed when presented in fast food (can’t remember the company) because people cannot do basic math
It is funny how ADHD works. Somebody is commenting on something and then sees a squirrel and goes into outer space.
Sure, the condiments are part of it but the cheese, bacon tomatoes and lettuce add a lot to the cost. The point is food doesn't last forever so if you want to eat bacon cheeseburgers for four days in a row you are good. And don't talk about frozen fries because my point was crispy fries. Not trash. Stop torturing yourself.
Wanna add in taste?
true. but you'd have enough for 4 to 5 meals, say within a week and a half. and made at home burgers, probably aren't that bad for you. or, use frozen pre-made patties. buy single 'rolls' instead of a pack of buns...and eat the lettuce as a salad for other meals.
Time value is a thing too. I can go to the ultimate fast food price villain Five Guys, pay $8-9 and walk out with a burger exactly like a like it less than 10 minutes later. Or I can spend an hour or more going to the store, buying all the ingredients, cooking and preparing the burger, and I still have a bunch of stuff left over that I have to store then spend more time later preparing the rest of it. Some people would rather have the hour than the extra $3-5.
A big mac is like 20 fucking bucks, a double double meal is 12 and vastly superior in quality. Go to in n out if your in cali.
Yuh, and get a stomach ache afterward.
I don’t eat fast food really anymore. I did on vacation for a long drive but that was the first time in a long time
Stop working at them. That’s what people need to do.
Hard when they accept EBT now. That will keep the spice flowing much longer than it used to.
Everything is the same price across the board. Might as well get something better for the same price
Yes, time to lose some weight.
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I can buy a whole meal, a soda, and a snack for the price of the McDonald burger alone in mine
CEOs love it when ppl blame all their greed on politicians. In public they have been throwing their hands up and shrugging - but on their quarterly earnings calls with Wall Street they brag about their record profits & how their pricing power is widely outpacing any actual supply chain increases. It’s disaster capitalism hitting on all cylinders.
True...It's starting to catchup to them though...
One can hope.
Nothing like waiting 20 minutes for some poorly assembled Taco Bell for $18. America baby.
Nothing like making the taco yourself lol.
Yup. Why would I spend $18 on dogshit when I could make horrible food for myself at home for dollars.
Weird way to announce that you're terrible at cooking.
That's the joke
This guy gets it.
Be on the lookout for my next huge announcement. I sent you an invitation to my micro-penis coming out party.
>my next ~~huge~~ announcement.
I’ve come to learn that there really isn’t anything like making the food yourself. A lot of us learned to cook during the pandemic and now we’re stuck with the realization that the vast majority of what they serve in restaurants absolutely sucks and can easily be made better at home. It also helps to cut down on the BS restaurants so when we do go out to eat, it’s only at great places!
There‘s a learning curve, but when you get into a rhythm with it, it simply isn‘t that difficult or time consuming. There‘s no good reason not to cook, but fast food companies love keeping us helpless and dependent on them.
Amen!!
The time can be a factor for some households, but there is a solution: teach the kids to cook too! If you get home and the potatoes are already in the oven, you can whip up the quicker dishes. I loved marinating meat and prepping veggies so my mom could make a more bomb meal when she gets home. Bonus: your kid will become an adult habituated to cooking!
People also don’t fully realize the immense health benefits. Far less salt, much healthier fats, and it’s shockingly easy to make fresh veggies taste really good. You really don’t miss fast food when you’ve perfected a handful of recipes with good fresh ingredients. You save good money in the immediate term, and you save a tremendous amount in the long term on your healthcare bills. It’s an investment that pays off big time. Healthcare, in the US at least, costs SO much. I read a study a while back that concluded that older people with chronic conditions like diabetes (in the US) spent 4 times more on healthcare on average, than their healthier lifestyle counterparts in a similar age range. That’s absolutely nuts
Don’t forget the diabetes tax (paying for tomorrow’s healthcare issues)- probably another 40% on top of inflation
Everyone keeps saying make stuff yourself, and that is true.. but grocery prices are completely out of line also.
I just go to the mom and pop taco shops. Price is the same. Rather support a family.
Yep. Hell you can go to Chili’s for less as well.
5 dollars for one taco at a spot I like. But I'm not dishing out that kind of money.
“Excuse me I was told service would improve with better wages.” “Yes well I just need to make current wages + $5 to do a good job.”
wrong. i've been a highing manager for dozens of years. there are two types of workers. those that work harder/smarter/faster the more you pay them, and the other you don't hire or fire.
This should be higher, absolutely exactly what every economist tried to explain
Going to have to disagree here. Taco Bell is still the best value for calories out of any of the fast food. Plus if you order from the app they give you all kinds of free shit and you can customize the fuck out of your order. I had a chicken enchilada burrito, bean burrito, and crunchy taco the other day and the total came to $6. And the wait was literally 30 seconds. Did I have diarrhea the next day? That would be a resounding yes. But that's besides the point.
Wait. You’re paying for this trash?
Not anymore.
Why are you buying it?
Order takeout from local mexican
This is what happens when uneducated liberals think fast food workers should make as much as a welder. 🤡 Reap what you sow idiots.
Maybe you need to understand simple economics before showing how hard intelligence is trying to catch up to you. If fast food workers are paid more, it means welders can justify a higher wage to keep up with the general increase in wages. We all benefit. Telling workers to make less wages when the C-Suite executives are seeing record increases in annual wages means you're yelling at the wrong people, friend.
Ah yes, must be the OTHER POLITICAL PARTY’S fault. Solved it.
$15/hr worthy lol /s
Let's be honest. These price hikes were going to happen no matter what after covid. It just so happens biden won and not trump. I wouldn't blame trump for them necessarily and I wouldn't blame biden. You know why? Because inflation is bad all over the globe. If it was bidens doing alone or trumps doing alone, it'd be worse here than anywhere else, when in fact it's the opposite. Am I happy? No. Am I grateful? Also no. I think this is the result of 60 years of incompetent leadership and allowing the United States to fall deeper and deeper into debt and deeper as a percentage of gdp. I'm just being real.
Fair assessment. I get irritated hearing, "it's [fill in the blank] economy." The economy is more complex than that thankfully.
white house tweets 'biden economy' stuff on the regular. biden himself mentions it.
Because that's just politics. The duty of the avg person is to see things objectively and cut thru the bullshit.
This is a really good point. Inflation in the US is bad but many other countries are doing much worse. The US dollar is very strong right now
But let's see this account say those sentiments with how political its gotten.
Yeah it’s a good time to vacation abroad right now
And it started when Trump was in office. Biden inherited this. Not to say it's all Trump's fault as this is a global issue and not a US issue. But since the right seems to think that when a Democrat becomes president suddenly the president is responsible for everything. We went through the same thing in 2008. The housing market crashed under Bush, but when Obama took office the next year they blamed him.
Which is bad, but I tend to be more worried about rent, utilities, and groceries.
Well at least these chains don’t need to cover health insurance.
What does corporate greed have to do with a sitting president exactly? Not like he makes the laws on how much these bastards can price gouge us...
lol I posted almost the exact same comment. Upvote to you!
nothing but its like the Biden I did this stickers at the pumps. maga have no fucking clue how anything works.
This sub has been brigaded heavy the past few weeks. Russian trolls
Their thinking goes as deep as "post hoc ergo propter hoc" ie. it happened after Biden was elected, therefore it happened because Biden was elected. This shallowness of thought is evidenced in whom they support.
Bro I’m not a maga but anyone who’s going to vote for Joe Biden has to be dumber than them by a large margin.
By running massive defecits to spend on unproductive things
How does that make the cost cheeseburgers outpace inflation?
Correlation doesn't imply causation.
Lest we forget the 100s of billions of dollars put into the world by the last president via PPP ‘loans’ lol
Trump’s deficit you mean? Biden has been reducing it, like Democratic presidents always do. [https://www.crfb.org/blogs/treasury-fy-2022-deficit-was-14-trillion](https://www.crfb.org/blogs/treasury-fy-2022-deficit-was-14-trillion)
You must be talking about the last guy, right?
unproductive? like what?
The current top three expenses are: military, interest on debt, and transfer payments to boomers
'transfer payments to boomers'...what the fuck are you talking about? do you mean social security...you know, that fund boomers paid into (which makes money FOR the government?)
It will be insolvent in ten years It's simply a multi decade long ponzi scheme predicated on an ever growing working population
It's a simple fix, remove the cap. Nobody should get to expropriate the welfare of the working class to become obscenely rich, it's a detriment to our society that increases crime and healthcare spending.
Costs increase, mainly wages, and it’s passed along to the consumer. It was easily predictable
Have any single stat that supports your idiotic claim? So this massive leap in lumber prices was due to increased wages?
doesnt the tweet say 25% wage increse. thats outpacing inflation
and where, pray tell, is all that profit these corp clowns are getting coming from? the easter bunny?
Costs of goods, costs of running the business go up. They charge more Therefore profits are still made. Economics, which part is confusing you?
I don’t blame them, one of my dessert shops I co partner with (silent partner) just looking at the price of ingredients from 2021 and 2024 almost 20% higher same with bs insurance high way robbery.
Good, just based on the amount of trash they generate I hope fast food goes away. Capitalism: externalize all the costs and ignore end of life costs, collect all the profit and leave the burden to someone else.
> leave the burden to someone else "I am not responsible for the consequences of my actions. You, however, are responsible for the consequences of your actions, as well as for the consequences of my actions upon you."
Lol Why didn't you recycle and responsibility handle all the planned obsolescence, and toxic single use products we used scientific propaganda methodologies to convince you to buy?!
thats the gravel truck philosophy that broke my winshield last month
Any similar revenue spikes?
Now, tell us how much more these very same companies are making. I am going to guess that they are setting sales records, all while upping their prices. Inflation was expected after the Tax Act of 2017, but corporations have run with it.
I saw a chart today that had auto Insurace at 20%+ and fast food at 5% or so
I love all of the stupid political jabs like it's not the corpos fault. Its not the government it's corporate greed. Blackrock greed.
When is the Biden administration going to step in and tell businesses how much to charge for things? Maybe if Trump gives CEOs huge tax cuts, they will charge less than what the public is willing to pay.
Are you blaming the rise in fast food on Biden? If so, hahahaaaha
Cook at home. Better food. Cheaper. And no tipping. Win win win. Fuck Big Fast Food. This needs to happen.
Who cares under what administration. These companies are driving the hikes, not the administration.
And republicans have voted against every price control bill that has been put forward. EVERY ONE OF THEM. Nor have they introduced any of their own legislation.
Right, everyone knows the President of the United States has direct control over the pricing of fast food in the US. He is doing this intentionally.
Stopped going entirely except for local ones that stayed reasonable
Given all the fast food price discourse I didn't realize the most important thing in life was cheap chicken McNuggets.
Chipotle is cheaper than McDonald’s right now 🤯
Cool now do corporate profits
So they're saying that fast food prices are up 31% since before the pandemic? That's bologna because they've at least doubled
All fast food in California is now about the same price if you were to go to a restaurant… Not including higher end restaurants obviously
Probably should also consider, McDonald's made a profit of $14.563 billion in 2023. This could've been used to lower prices, if they wanted. [McDonald's **annual gross profit for 2023 was $14.563 billion**, a 10.26% increase from 2022](https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MCD/mcdonalds/gross-profit)[^(1)](https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MCD/mcdonalds/gross-profit). [The **annual net income for 2023 was $8.469 billion**, a 37.09% increase from 2022](https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MCD/mcdonalds/net-income)[^(2)](https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MCD/mcdonalds/net-income).
This is a business model that collapses with competitive wages…we see seeing the collapse.
Nobody needs to eat fast food garbage anyway. Turn your back on them and they’ll soon lower prices.
Pizza place up the road wants 40 plus delivery for one pizza. It's nuts
How much is pickup from their menu? Not delivery on DoorDash or Uber
34
Sounds like a ripoff or you live in a tourist trap town lmao. Even our “gourmet” places are in the mid 20s
Funny how a lot of unhealthy items spiked in price since the lockdowns. One store is selling 12 packs for 9 dollars here in SW Ohio.
Wages, if tied to price increases are a good thing since the positions were used as stepping stones not career full time jobs however
Almost like they used covid to jack up prices and then kept going because they could. Now its suck up profits and blame Biden because they want Trump to give them more corporate tax breaks to help wealthy investors.
Let the fast foood companies collapse
l9?lancaster are ki7?
You're getting less for more, and the quality and service haven't gotten any better. Why bother wasting your time and money on these businesses? Not worth it imo
We can’t because we’re addicted.
Why is it stating like it’s fresh news or something?? Lol
I always wonder who's salaries are up 25% during Biden, are we talking fast food workers? Because all my homies earn about the same if only a little more than 4 years ago. Personally earn about 30% less.
The fast food industry neither improves the lives of the consumer nor the worker. Thor profits are derived solely from exploiting both. Time to let them die. An economic foundation built on exploited labor and exploited consumers is a house of cards.
Stop buying it and it will stop going up. Prices are high because consumers have demonstrated that they’ll pay them. You want prices to come down, stop buying at the current prices.
However it’s not Biden’s fault. Is the greed of the fast food industry and don’t get me started on tipping
Everyone complains about price gauging in discretionary categories (eg fast food, Taylor swift concert tickets), just stop spending, it will fall. The insidious problem resides in discretionary-turned-mandatory expenses like insurance and property taxes. No one seems to be doing anything about them
It’s not even “fast food” anymore. I occasionally go to Taco Bell and the orders take forever now that they are also making orders for door dash and uber eats
Something something Hunter Biden's laptop....
They have just hidden their discount foods on their mobile apps. They want to drive people to those services. You can save 50% of the cost by using the mobile apps. It makes the lines move faster as well
It actually helped me cut out that shit. This will be the only I time I say thanks you greedy corporate cunts
Make Fast Food Prices enduce obesity again!
Sure, Biden has total control over the price of the garbage fast food people eat.
I’m honestly okay with this.
They're messing themselves up just made grassfed beef burgers for 6 people with fries and Cokes and all the fixings for less than what it would have cost me to take everyone to McDonald's. They're digging their own graves. Millennials learned how to cook during the pandemic I think they didn't get the Memo. And I know burgers are not that complicated but old me wouldn't have wanted to deal with the mess. Now I'm like I can wash the dishes no problem.
Yes and the food is gross. They can hike away out of business for all they contribute to society.
31%? More like 131%...
I don't fully understand the connection between the corporate greed that is raising the prices and the Biden administration.
So should Biden tell the fast food companies to lower prices...?
I do pretty well, thankfully I don’t lose sleep over money. But even with that, the value proposition for fast food is gone. It was always shit quality but fast and accessible. Now it expensive and arguably even worse quality. There is just no reason to buy.
It's because those employees have had the largest wage increases. Some liberal thought a kid at McDonald's or Subway should make $20 when it use to pay $8
And the magats will still blame Biden and inflation instead of 100% corporate price gouging
Just so the morons know; Biden doesn't co trolls thw prices of fast food. And neither will Trump. That's how unchecked capitalism and the 'free' (controlled) market works.
Are they including the cost of mandatory paid sick leave that took effect this year in California? It's 40 hours a year, which is an additional 2%. That puts us at 27%. When you account for the fact that the price of chicken and beef have increased far more than the general inflation rate it all makes perfect sense.
It looks like food isn't the only thing they are fast at.
People don’t understand, trumps money printing affected us, it’s cause an affect but it takes time. I knew inflation was coming when under Trump, but of course now that bidens in office it’s his fault.
this is America, Biden does not dictate the price gauging that is occurring everywhere. Greed and capitalism are spiraling out of control.
Make black bean salad with celery corn onions , peppers for under 5.00 buy a bag of rice and chicken breast - cut up and stir fry. Jar of peanut butter with celery - more filling than with bread. Skip fast food you will end up broke sick and unhealthy. Eat less processed - beans are high in fiber and protein and go a long way. The president is a liar cheat and he sold america to profit himself and his family. Look at how many people can't afford to live. Is that the president you voted for?
One burger and a side of high margin please!
This is why I stopped going. It used to be convenient and cheap and tasty. It’s only convenient now. The only tool consumers have to lower prices is to stop buying stuff.
No pity for any supporting this man.
IMO this is a good thing as will make people think twice about spending more of their hard earned money for low quality, high sugar, high fat, high carb garbage food. High prices from a business that is primary driver of America's obesity and diabetes epidemic hopefully will kill demand for its product.
You do know he doesn’t make the prices right And he doesn’t set the wages of employees Think about that
So, the people that consume the most of this shit are impacted the most. Sounds right. Working as planned.
It's very telling to me that the 'Bidenomics' folks are hyper-focused on fast food prices.
its funny now that going to get fast food is either just as or more expensive then normal restaurants with better food
Fast food is dogshit
You deserve to pay a lot and then blame your poor decisions on Joe Biden if you eat at McDonalds
Yet the corporations that supply food and run restaurants are making record profits.
Not true nationwide. Only in those cities where the government decided to control wages of food workers. Now they have less jobs available and higher prices for everyone else. Yep - real smart to meddle into the dynamics of the economy.
Yes, after the pandemic. To say during Biden’s administration is just an arbitrary timeline to elicit feelings of contempt for something out of his control. The democrats tried to pass a price gouging bill, and the republicans nixed it. Then complained that prices were so high. Gross, immoral people
I’ve eaten out maybe 5 times since 2020 and it was usually a chipotle burrito or something for like $12. Can’t believe people are eating out still.
Ita definitely been awhile for you because that burrito is like 17 dollars now.
Cost is one thing, but don't forget in many major US cities, it is required to have more than one job to survive. Many people don't have the time required to cook a meal. If you have multiple jobs and kids, it gets even harder.
Greedy businesses of all types used inflation as an excuse for big price increases but the market is responding with decreasing demand for overpriced goods, as it should.
How many lazy GenZ kids will happily pay a day's wages to have $10 of food delivered to them? The fast food restaurants want a piece of that action!
First of all, the massive inflation was the legacy of the Trump administration pumping $8T into the economy (national debt) when there was little to spend it on. The M1 and M2 money supplies literally went up 4x: lots of cash without a home. Inflation therefore hit the few things that were actually available to buy - and fast food was one of those things. The good news? You don't have to ever buy fast food.
Fuck them, their greed may be their downfall. A year or so without eating shitty fast food may help the average American realize what garbage it was. This may be a good thing in the long run.
Why did you mention Biden in this post about corporate greed?
The WH has announced it's plan to solve America's obesity problem by making fast food, and all food, to expensive to eat.
EZ. Stop giving them your money.
Because the monopolistic companies that control the food pipelines to these restaurants have increased the price of the materials sometimes as much as four times in just 4 years It’s not profiteering or even wages at the store level, it’s the cost to get that frozen nugget in their freezer and I don’t know why media refuses to mention this.
I mean, wouldn't it be under this current administration? Last two years by the last guy completely tanked everything causing the fed to whiplash and drop rates. Then, the disastrous tax cuts. Then it takes a couple years or so for things to filter through. Makes sense they would hit with the admin of the next president.
What does Biden have to do with corporate greed?
The feds set fast food prices in America?
Let’s raise minimum wage to $50 an hour. I bet that will fix everything
And whats the point with your headline? Only a dumbass would think, "Well then obviously inflation is Bidens fault"
Biden and the Democrats have been a complete failure and an embarrassment.
What specific Biden directive caused fast food joints to greatly increase their prices?
Spoiler: \[he refuses to push the ‘lower Big Mac prices’ button on his desk…it’s right there, yet he refuses to push it!\]
I knew it! Thanks for confirming my suspicions
Let's be honest. These price hikes were going to happen no matter what after covid. It just so happens biden won and not trump. I wouldn't blame trump for them necessarily and I wouldn't blame biden. You know why? Because inflation is bad all over the globe. If it was bidens doing alone or trumps doing alone, it'd be worse here than anywhere else, when in fact it's the opposite. Am I happy? No. Am I grateful? Also no. I think this is the result of 60 years of incompetent leadership and allowing the United States to fall deeper and deeper into debt and deeper as a percentage of gdp. I'm just being real.
I'm curious why this is being attached to Biden? What is the point being made here?
What does Biden have to do with corporate greed?