• aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The Big Mac set in Japan is ¥750 right now. Which converts to $5.07.

    Does McDonald’s America think each restaurant is a theme park or something?

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      9 months ago

      The Big Mac set in Japan is ¥750 right now.

      And Burger King is even cheaper.

      It baffles my mind that people would pay $18 USD for that shit. I visited the US last year and while prices in general had definitely gone up since the last time I was there, there is absolutely no justification to pay $18 for McDonald’s. It’s crazy.

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        9 months ago

        It is insane that a meal at Red Robin with bottomless fries is actually less expensive than McDonald’s… I literally don’t go to these types of restaurants unless there is some app deal because fastfood retail prices have gone insane.

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          I don’t know where they’re getting this $18 price from as my local McDonalds aren’t charging anywhere near that much for any of their meals.

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              Someone was able to bypass the paywall and said it’s some McDonalds at a rest stop in Connecticut, which is just an outlier like any gas station charging $1.50/gal more because they’re right off a busy freeway exit.

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          9 months ago

          I live in Texas and had a sweet potato hash with pulled pork, kale, and a poached egg for lunch yesterday for $15. If $18 for a McDonald’s meal is true, people would be crazy to go there, there are a ton of more affordable and way better options.

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          9 months ago

          Same in America. You can at least get a decent lunch that was made in a proper kitchen, with good ingredients. Maybe not dinner.

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      9 months ago

      In Australia it is $12.80 AUD for a large Big Mac meal which is $8.36 USD. For $18.5 USD I can get a much better burger and still a meal deal at either Five Guys or Grilld.

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          9 months ago

          Been a while since I have been now that kids are not interested in it, but that still translates to about to half the price of the US prices.

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      9 months ago

      They kind of used to be. The big old play areas are mostly gone. One in my area even had an N64 in one of those bubble kiosks. Gone. I can’t imagine why kids these days still give a shit about Micky D.

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      I think they are/were trying to rebrand away from being a place to get cheap low quality burgers.

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      9 months ago

      Can’t read the article without effort, but I very much doubt numbers and the context is missing. Every one I’ve been to here on the East Coast USA has been about $12.