Stop going.
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2026
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Fast food sales have plummeted since covid.
We have stopped going.
Surely another price increase will make up for our terrible products not selling!
Accurate. They had less customers.
Yet they also had more profits. By 2024 the profits were way up compared to 2018.
2024 was the year people had enough and now there is a decline.
Not arguing with your point at all, just adding some context because I find it interesting.
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I have, and recommend anyone to do the same.
Wendy's and Arby's know what stop going means. Here's hoping McDonalds enjoys it just as much next year.
So many reasons to not eat out and especially where that sandwich is likely from. Better to make a good meal with chicken, rice, and veggies for pennies compared.
Or go to a local shop and get a decent sandwich.
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I live in Taiwan and the food market here is INTENSE.
My kid loves chicken nuggets from McDonald's. So when I was visiting America, I noticed that the size of the nuggets are about 20% thinner and noticeably shorter than what we have locally. It wasn't always like this. I still lived in the US during early pandemic.
In Taiwan, there are so many restaurants and food stalls and online delivery and Line messaging app group buys that everyone is trying to get a tiny slice of the consumers food budget. It's because the barrier to entry is so low. Less than 1500USD, you can get a food stall and materials to start a food cart.
What that means is that restaurants who pull this shit gets quickly found out and the restaurant is gone pretty quickly.
Yeah the Taiwan food scene is incredibly competitive and everything tastes so amazing. If the good is not good, then you get priced out. There are even Michelin Stared street vendors, although it may not be indicative of the quality.
I had a full meal at a night market for 6 USD including desert.
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The price must be lower, right?! right?!
Actually...
Don't you love how not only is everything so expensive, but they're also all worse quality 😁
ordinary fast food tacos are probably the worst. 'crispy' by name, hardly so once you open the bag and take a bite.
the shells are so thin now, they get soggy in mere seconds. the sad thing is, part of you is actually hoping for that outcome because the alternative is a shell that's already splintered into numerous pieces just from being wrapped-up and put into the bag.
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I don’t get Chick-fil-A.
It’s as expensive as takeout from a real restaurant, for a sandwich with plain dry bread.
The chicken is… fine. Consistent, other than shrinking over the years. Tomato and lettuce are fresh; that’s the highest praise I have.
Shakes are runny. But fine.
Yet people queue like it’s Disney World. Why?
I just don’t get it. Why wouldn’t I go to, like, Raising Cane’s or Chicken Express or Steak and Shake for a better sandwich for less? Or some other place (or my own homemade sandwich) for something actually healthy?
There's like 3 places within a half mile of my Chick-fil-a I can go to and get a REAL chicken sandwich for the same or less cost.
Real as in slab of chicken and it has that grill taste to it.
And I'm not giving my money to an anti-LGBTQ organization.
Whenever I've been in a Chic-fil-a I feel like I'm at some church social event. And there's cars wrapping around the building and jamming up traffic out into the street. It's some cult shit.
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Me neither. I heard the hype so I went, I love me a good chicken sandwich. It was fine. But I don't think I've gone again. Might if I was hungry and it was nearby. But it always has a line up the door and was packed. These people must see something that I don't in it.
You were with me until the latter part. People aren't hitting up a sit down restaurant when they want fast food because they want to get in and get out without having to leave their car.
I have a Chick Fil A literally a 2 minute walk from me. I go often because of convenience. I don't have to wait in a long line in my car and because it's one of the few fast food joints that offers healthier alternatives like grilled chicken nuggets, salads, fruit, sides of kale, etc. It's not a common occurrence to have options like that at a fast food place. The Chick Fil A and Taco Bell are right next to each other, but I end up going to the Chick Fil A 9 times out of 10 over Taco Bell because of this.
I agree that it's not worth going out of your way over. But it does have some big perks over other fast food joints.
My brother actually likes it there because they are one of the few fast food places that still have a play place for kids.
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Before Chick-fil-A built a restaurant in this area, they had a food truck that passed through every week. It was fantastic. Delicious, hot, efficient, and the employees all seemed pretty happy.
After they built a location here, and after the long lines died down, I tried it. The sandwich was barely warm. I spent the weekend with food poisoning, unable to leave the house because I was pooping constantly.
I tried again at a location in California, on a road trip. I again got a sandwich that felt like it had been sitting out, cooling for a long time. No food poisoning that time, but that's the last time I went. Now I buy a few bottles of their sauce when it's on sale and make my own chicken sandwiches.
The chicken is not fine. It's soggy and rubbery.
Also on a moral ground, the CEO is extremely anti-lgbtq and still every lgbtq person i know is addicted for some reason (mainly G's, some L's and a T)
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I agree with you but that first pic is a bit deceiving. Like it's pushing the meat towards the camera more while squeezing the back to make it look bigger. Trust me, I'm an expert and making meat look bigger in a picture than it actually is!
Lol you're a good one, BeUnique
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Your life will be far better if you just decide to stop fast food 😂
It's a good thing tbh. The world used to laugh at America for our portion sizes
It still does. Except now because the portions are tiny, for a price higher than ever. And they somehow maintain the calorie count!
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There's a non-chain burger place in my town that explicitly states that they are not fast food at the order counter.
Best burgers I've ever had in my life.
They are pretty massive burgers!
Promote that shit. Where and name?
Seriously! OP, we talking smash burgers? How close is that place to your house!? Where's your house.
Maximum stakeholder value!
If you dig through archive.org and retireve the nutritional information PDFs over time, you can see the kj levels dropping.
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Have you considered that your hand has just grown larger?
This is probably a good thing honestly. Track your calories for a few weeks and you realize super quick how out of control portion sizes are.
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Just order a "big mac" and you will see, it should be called a "mini-mac" now, but is just big in the price sense.
Funnily enough, the "small" fries you get at McDonald's in Germany are the same size as the US medium ones.
What gets me is less fast food and more the middle ground food, frozen stuff you throw in the oven that's not quite processed to hell and back but definetaly not as healthy as cooking completely from fresh. It's been getting smaller over the years but the increasing replacement of every ingrediant under the sun with slightly different variations of palm oil means that despite the decrease in size the calorie count has either remained the same or actually gone up. More expensive, less filling yet somehow more fattening.
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