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: "Hmmm....I want more money, what if I made my slop into a luxury product for the rich?"
: "WHAT, WHADDYA mean rich people don't buy this kind of stuff? WHADDYA mean rich people prefer saving every last penny and sitting on their piles of wealth?"
Aren't they rich? Shouldn't they have known this?
Within my lifetime we went from McDonald's being poor people food...to rich people food, and now even the rich can't afford it. Best economic system ever.
To be fair rich people probably don’t buy it cause it’s shit and they can afford other things.
i mean, not for nothing, but taco bell apparently bumped up sales volume by 9% in the same period.
McDs, BK and the others all shot up their prices big time in the last 5 years. everything that was 99 cents became >$1.50. the various combos all went from maybe $10 to like $15+. all that popped off during COVID seems like, and seems like fast food started going up before prices on everything else went up.
at the exact same time, all those places gutted their staff and shuttered everything but the drive thrus. many places where i used to live clearly only had 1 or 2 people running the entire place, sometimes just 1! it was a profit bonanza. and as things began opening back up, those staffing levels never really recovered, the wages were dogshit, while the food prices kept climbing. i remember realizing that i could legit just go to some local joint with much better food for the same cost, or even cheaper. and that was it for me.... it was no longer the faster or cheaper option.
while i'm sure taco bell has bumped up some prices, they've always been the actual cheap fast food drive through option. there's always some bean burrito situation that's like 59 cents or some other menu hack where you can get a bunch of hot carbs+protein for $2-3. not to mention, a lot of them are open weirdly late.
just another case of demand destruction: the other guys raised their prices so high people started thinking critically about the value proposition and ended up making structural adjustments to their behavior. when the goal is to get something quick and not be hungry, why pay a premium price for garbage coming out of an understaffed operation?
you can tell they realized they were overplaying their hand by introducing those apps with the crazy deals and those weirder value meals that are not numbered/not part of the standard sandwich+fries+drink formula. instead it's like two small sandwiches, or substitute a side for a sandwich, the "buy one add one" or the "meal deals" where you gotta do some kind of algebra problem to figure out how to get the most while paying the least because if they can overwhelm you with choices, it overrides your executive function to figure out the best option... or realize it's a shit deal.
for someone who hasn't had fast food in like probably 10 months, i probably obsess about this shit way too much. but i do believe the cheapest, most convenient food option is a major factor in the material conditions of the working class, especially those in the margins minimal disposable income and tight schedules.
during the first 3 or so years of covid we basically never went out to eat, unless it was take-out.. and we had no real reason to go to fast food since my partner suddenly had so much more time on her hands and decided to get really into cooking. Then out of the blue one day I had a craving for Jack in the Box which is something that is super rare for me, but we hopped in the car and headed out there. I ordered a burger, fries, and a drink, and my partner wanted a small side of jalapeno poppers or whatever it was, and it ended up like $24.
That was the last time we did fast food. That was at least a year ago, but probably 2 years ago now.
you can tell they realized they were overplaying their hand by introducing those apps with the crazy deals and those weirder value meals that are not numbered/not part of the standard sandwich+fries+drink formula.
Pretty sure this is why Taco Bell did slightly better - they don't have any weird "deals" on their app but you can get a combo meal for like $5. Far more straightforward imo
Capitalist thunderdome where treats CEO fights landlord over who gets the money
I honestly feel that we're underserved in this department. They get to be nakedly cruel. They take an ever larger percent of the profit. People suffer poverty, exploitation, and war. The people like us have their voices distorted by the media. The people in charge try their hardest to make hell on Earth for what appears to be no benefit and we have no recourse.
The LEAST that we could get in return is to laugh at them. Hunter Biden vs Trump Jr debate and Elon vs Zucc MMA fight never happened.
Trump should take a citizenship test. Priests should tell congresspeople they're going to hell to their face. Elon should keep streaming. They should start following senators into bathrooms like they did 
and the other jerkoff again. It would be a fairer trade if they at least made clear that "yes, I am endlessly cruel, but I am also a wretched, stupid, pathetic loser who's ready to cry and shit my pants at any given moment."
And then at the end, the winner is dropped into a pit full of snakes and alligators
Communism is when no burger. America is almost communism now 😔
Explaining the economy to a usian: So a recession is when fewer people buy burgers
whoever came up with this headline should be killed
Give us more monopoly fiat 
will buy maor consume.
cw for cadaver please
First they came for the burgers, but I'm a freedom eagle so I didn't do anything.
From Westphalia to west's failure
