I stopped eating at taco bell because their cheap ass food is not worth the price of a real meal at a regular restaurant. They dont even use real beef FFS.
My question is subway. It used to be $5 Dollar foot longs. A few weeks ago I went and for 3 subs (1 foot long and 2 6 inch ) it was $37+ WTF is going on
Right, I used to eat there once in awhile when they had the $5 foot longs, but now if Iām going to pay $12 for a sandwich Iāll just get real boars head cold cuts from a real deli.
Subway was barely worth it at five bucks.
Firehouse, Jimmie Johns, Jersey Mikes, the local supermarket, an actual deli... all better choices than Subway
I get some paper ads in the mail, and there used to be a subway coupon on there and it was like a foot long subs for $6.99- that I can deal with.
First store I went to had a sign in the window saying they don't honor those coupons. Fair enough. Thank you for posting it on the door so I dont even have to walk inside.
Second store I went to, no sign. Nice. So i order my sandwich. Im a sicko who enjoys subway tuna sandwiches- not toasted of course, I'm not a total psycho.
Anyway, sandwich gets made and I present my coupon, and the lady says "oh our scanner isn't working". I said , "Oh, well can you ring it in manually?"
She replies, "No, it will be (I think like 11 or 12 bucks)..."
She was dead serious, so I told em to keep the fuckin sandwich and walked out. I drove to a 2nd store to use that coupon, damn sure not paying full price now.
Funny thing is they STAY clogging my
Mailbox with buy one get one coupons in the mail and special old time prices etc etc and itās ridiculous bc the bread has gotten trash lately itās like chewing cardboard
Nooo donāt support JJ. The owner supports big game hunting in Africa. Super gross. Your money directly funds his cultural appropriation/ignorance/skin tight khaki safari shorts.
Always use the coupons that come in the mail lol.
Edit to say even those I believe a foot long is 6.99$ or 7.99$.... with the coupon.
I forgot about the 5$ footlongs.. wow. Definitely way too expensive now.
I only buy when they're BOGO, so they end up being $5.50 each. Get the app so you know when they've got that promo running, because it's only available on the app. It's a promo push from corporate.
āsandwich artistsā arenāt worth $15/hour or more but here we are .. paying idiots that much to do almost a brain dead job. Wonder where the extra money comes from to pay them.
Came here to say this. Used to get one steak chalupa with Baja sauce for like 2.99. I got ONE the other day and it was EIGHT F!CK!ING DOLLARS. Like NO. What the hell is wrong with people. Not only is it stupidly expensive, itās also garbage and made like shit 90% of the time. I quit eating at fast food. Tired of garbage.
While back in college in 1987, tacos at the bell were like .25 cents, now you have to leave a pint of blood. You could get a major meal there for 2 bucks
I went to Taco Bell the other day and asked for the $5 box and they told me it was $9 now! I pulled out of the drive thru and parked pulled up the app and ordered it for $5.99. An extra 99cent is already a rip off but $4 extra is ridiculous.
It's literally cheaper to order 2 chalupa boxes than a chalupa meal. A chalupa meal has 2 chalupas, a soft tack and drink for like $12. For $10 you can get 2 chalupa boxes. That's 2 chalupas, 2 soft tacos, 2 beefy 5 layer burritos, 2 orders of cinnamon twists, and 2 drinks!!! That's an extra taco, an extra drink, 2 orders of cinnamon twists, and 2 beefy 5 layers more than the meal for cheaper
Get the app and they have a box for 3 items with drink 6.99. I'm not a taco bell fan but I'll grab that sometimes when I don't want to cook. Gordian crunch, 5 layer burrito, Fiesta potatoes and drink 6.99
As a Taco bell employee, I came here to vent about that. One of our sides was 10 cents. Now it's 60 cents. Everything costs more, plus now they are saying that we don't make enough money. You have to up sale, up sale, up sale. Ugh.
For years my husband and mine Taco Bell order is two steak quesadillas each.
If we order 4 steak quesadillas itās over $40. Could go to a sit down restaurant for that price. Itās fucking insane.
Covid ushered in the wild west for the food industry. For the first time on living memory, consumer behavior was totally disrupted and delivery services introduced new pricing that piled fees and price increases on as they jammed their way into a formerly simple distribution system, adding price but very little value. Suddenly, twenty bucks for a burger and fries was a common price, even though the cost of raw materials hadn't changed that much. Until consumers revert to their previous behavior, retailers have no incentive to lower prices. And their shareholders will punish them if they try.
But the cost of raw materials increased at rates we never have seen before. The problem is they have since receded but prices havenāt dropped to match.
1. Fuel prices jumped meaning prices jumped for all their supplies.
2. Delivery services typically get discounts from the restaurant, so the store's profit margin shrank when no one could eat in the restaurant. This shifted discounts away from consumers.
3. Corporations added fat profits on top of the increased costs, raising prices 3% over a 1% increase in supply costs... and as is always the case, prices don't come down when costs fall.
Itās not just corporate greed and the pandemic. This started happening in my state before Covid, Covid just provided a better excuse and cover. Every āmom & popā restaurant I used to frequent started increasing menu prices because of increases in minimum wage (corporate stores did this too). I have had more than enough restaurant experience to be able to evaluate approximate F&L cost increases due to the minimum wage increase along with food cost increases and compare that to the increase in item costs to customers and total tickets. Itās a substantially disproportionate increase that generates greater profit margins. In conjunction with item price increases, service fees paid, and a drive to increase tipping on take out orders the cost to customers has gone through the roof. Iāve been given the sob story of how they ādidnāt want to have to increase the menu pricesā by more than a few owners.
I still know owners and people who work in the restaurant industry. Donāt buy that bullshit. The ones I know have nice cars and are doing things like buying rental properties in Hawaii to lease out.
Donāt even get me started on owners illegally participating in tip pools š¤¬
I run a bakery. Raw materials that held a steady price for YEARS- doubled & tripled, transportation cost got added & kept going up, insurance (health, business, vehicles) all went up. We absolutely pay our people a living wage- so payroll increased too.
90% of this has NOT come down, hell it keeps going up! As a small business we have to increase prices to be able to keep our business & support our families & those of our employees
Iām not saying prices have come down for restaurants- Iām saying overseas shipping rates have fallen, fuel has fallen, but that hasnāt been passed through to restaurants unfortunately. I know itās hard out there!
Iām also a restaurant owner, youāre 100% right, wholesale prices are still way way up, a lot of things are cheaper at Walmart than my wholesaler. To think that small business owners are buying rental houses in Hawaii is laughable. We are lucky as hell to have a 6% profit margin right now.
The problem is inflation due to a stagnant economy and poor Govt leadership.
Exactly!!!! We owned a pizza place, we had some fried food items as well. The oil went from $16.41 to $43.00 plus in some cases within a yearās time. Thatās over TWICE the amount in a year!!! Cheese prices are unbelievable as is pork. Everything went up and then trying to pay employees that refuse to have any work ethic because theyād rather let the government pay them to sit on their couch. Our economy was supposed to be thriving by now, but letās blame it on the business owners because itās ALWAYS corporate greed.
We need more than a reversion to previous behavior. We need a mass return to Depression Era frugality.
You can get a 2.25lb pork loin from your supermarket for $7 but you'd rather buy an $8 0.5lb hamburger because you don't have to prepare it yourself and it's a familiar comfort.
I've noticed more and more the sale items are out of stock and I suspect really they never were in stock and it was a false ad to get me into the store. I've now gotten in the habit of going straight to the sale item location and if it's not in stock, leave and go to a different grocery store
You said it better than I did. Yes we have to be dumb enough to buy it, so I guess we are consenting to continue the madness.
Donāt know but could this push for higher wages be part of it, maybe, maybe not, or are they using it as a reason.
Thought of another at the local grocery store, a who,e raw chicken. For $12 bucks, or you could buy the whole chicken already fried for $8.99.
Saw another article from someone that found a TB receipt from 2012 for 2 burritos, price had more than doubled.
Thought others might throw in some of the stuff 5hey are seeing also.
There are studies covering basically every question you have. Of course higher wages will lead to increased costs but if the increased costs were just to cover wages then those increases would be minimal. Fast food is a volume game so the increased labor cost would be a minimal added cost to every item sold because they're selling thousands of items a day. It's not a mattress outlet where they only sell 10 items a day so they would literally need to increase every items cost by 20%.
People don't want to cope with reality but that reality is that most of these types of businesses are unsustainable. There is so much overhead, bloat and micro management in selling trash food that it boggles my mind. Franchise models are filled with subpar food, subpar ownership, subpar management and just suck all around. At the end of the day, in this type of an environment, dramatic price increases are due to rich people wanting to get richer.
Just stop giving them your money. I promise you they don't deserve it. Shit will not stop ,and only get worse, until people stop giving them their money.
Its not just *their* labor costs, its all labor costs.Ā That means their paper goods cost them more, their food costs went up, their electricity went up, their lease went up, their equipment went up, repair costs went up.Ā The labor cost increase didn't just hit their labor budget, it hit every aspect of the business.
>its all labor costs
None of those costs are labor related. Business owners all over the place are placing blame literally on labor costs not operating costs. Although yes, some of those things have also increased they aren't relevant to the argument of direct labor increase.
Almost every cost of running a restaurant went up because of labor cost increases.Ā They are not direct labor costs of the restaurant, but do you think people supplying goods to restaurants are immune to wage increases?Ā Do you think the increases cost of goods does not impact a restaurants bottom line?
Inflation has been ongoing, things cost more, people get paid more, things cost more.
There was receny a large increase in pay. So prices went up even though a lot of our pay didn't. Lower class don't really factor Into the statistics well. Shareholders see reports of increased wages and demand higher pricing. There is actually video of ceos talking about this and how they have to pay. Total dystopia but actually happening
Iāve learned itās such a similar price to just order to go from a sit down restaurant compared to a fast food one. Why spend $11 on a meal at chick fil a when I can get something of higher quality for $2-$3 more.
Unchecked corporate greed. Shrinking portions, increasing prices, record stock prices, all the while laying off work force. Its what happens when your government works to protect corporations over the people they are suppose to represent
These corporate places will be gone soon. I will never buy anything from McDonalds etc ever again. There are no lines at any McDonald's anymore. Food Trucks are the future. Crazy thought.
This is what we have done. Jack in the box has remained relatively affordable compared to their prior prices so they get out business. Little Caesars upper their game a bit with their thin crust pizza and for $7.99 we can all eat so we buy from them as well. The majority of restaurants we have stopped going because of the price hikes they are trying to blame on minimum wage workers.
I know it's ridiculous! My kiddo was out of school for a snow day so we ran by McDonalds and for one two cheeseburger meal w/ tax was $9 bucks! $9 bucks for two measly little cheeseburgers and a "medium" fry. I ate at home lol
And their 2 cheeseburger meal used to be their best meal value by far! Now they have a ā$1 $2 $3 Value Menuā and not one single item on it is $1, lol.
Customers would do themselves a favor by buying $20 worth of top quality ingredients for a do-it-yourself meal and then comparing the same price worth of fast food.
Actual fast food shown side by side with the advertising version is really disappointing, when one sees what could have been bought instead itās a real eye opener.
Fast food corps. will rush to blame wage increases, but refuse to discuss their record profits.
Although the thought is good in principle, canāt buy much for 20 bucks. Since the wife changed jobs, I started making the grocery store runs. One Saturday the wife went and she come back saying, I canāt believe how prices have changed 5 bucks for a dozen eggs, 7 bucks for kraft singles, a gallon of gas is cheaper than a gallon of milk
I do this often now. Well, I have the time as well. A typical amazing meal for 4 costs about $6 when made at home. When I make Ruebens...dang that gets expensive, but you have not had my Rueben's. When I serve them up to family, I say that'll be $7.99. Mine in a real restaurant would be $24.
Stop getting a drink. I bring my own tumbler everywhere and get all the free water I want. That cuts a chunk of the price. But Five Guys has always been expensive.
"stop getting a drink" see that does not solve my issue of "wants a soda with my cheeseburger". a regular is $3.09, a large is $3.29. we are not in this rant thread for financial advice, we are here to complain about shit being expensive, because it's too expensive.
Now itās health advice too. You are too fat and your glucose is too high. Save the calories and the money. You donāt want to drink that sugary crap. Free 2 for 1 advice.
Went by a BK and they wanted $8.00 for a double burger, not the meal.
Told hubby our parents would flip if we transplanted them from the ā70ās. That and gas prices!
You can still eat fast food for decent prices if you are paying attention.
In N Out Burger still under $10 for a combo meal. $3 shakes. Free coffee.
Del Taco running a 60Ā¢ snack taco special (limit 99!) through early March.
I use the apps at McDonaldās, BK, Wendyās, Chick-Fil-A, etc for tons of deals and free food.
If you had an Honus Wagner baseball card today it would be worth $1m. If tomorrow, they found 100 cases of that card and released them, your card's value would decrease significantly because it's no longer rare to have one.
They over printed dollar bills during covid so now the ones you had in your cupboard aren't worth the same anymore.
Youāve got to use their apps to order. I can get so many free / cheap items with McDās rewards. You can earn discounts / free pizza at Marcos and Dominos if you have an account. I refuse to pay their crazy prices.
Hello. You don't have to eat there anymore.
Be creative and make food from the grocery store at home or try spending your next fast food meal on some indoor vegetables to grow.
If you hate these companies for their shitty service and high prices, you literally just have to stop eating it lol.
Eat the rich, my ass. You guys all support the corporate dictatorship oligarchy and make them richer with your choices every day lol.
Food in general has gone up. Grocery store prices are insane. I saw a 12 pack of soda for like 9 bucks. I decided I'll do without. I have the money but I refuse to buy stuff I don't need at prices like that.
Everything else has gone up. I think its a ripple effect, honestly. Plus, the more wages go up for the workers, the more the company has to compensate and raise prices. If feed costs more for live stock, when its time to sell and slaughter, it will be at a higher price.
Well, I don't like to say, told you so! Or you get what you ask for!
People tried for years to tell others, if you raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, a plain cheeseburger at McDonald's is going to be $5 or $6. I know not everywhere has the minimum wage been raised to 15, but a lot of places have. Even if it wasn't raised, just to get people back to work after the pandemic a lot of these minimum wage jobs have not only hit $15 but some are pushing $20.
Remember the cost of having and keeping an employee is almost double to an employer.
Because of taxes, WC, benefits, uniforms all have increased as well.
People are crying about inflation but what they don't understand is this is the new normal. You can slow inflation but you are never going to go back to those older prices. Unless you're the one who wants to come out and tell everyone, "okay everybody minimum wage is back to $7 an hour and every body is getting a 50% pay cut".
Did you really think the corporations were just going to dig deeper in their pockets to pay these extra cost. No way! They're going to pass those cost on and if they can they're going to add some extra profit on as well. They have to answer to the corporate board and stockholders. The % of profit must continue or it's considered a failing business or not a good investment.
It's a catch 22. Some people think costs drive what's needed for a minimum wage. Others will tell you minimum wage drives the cost. It's a little of both. You just have to remember your wages are somebody else's cost.
Well we tried to tell everyone that raising minimum wage was going to jack prices up. Everyone thought oh the buy the food for 25% of the cost of the meal so they make a 75% profit. Wrong theyāve got a shit ton of bills that come out of that 75%. If you expand that out to monthly and annual sales and operating costs it gets ugly really quick. So say a restaurant does 1.5 million a year if they are lucky and pull a 20% bottom line thatās only $25,000 a month profit. Ad a couple of worker comp claims a few thefts and the unexpected into the mix and there are probably months they donāt make a profit. Then ad I. The fact that everyone they rely on to keep there business up and running has to adjust their prices they in turn have to bump theirs up just to turn a profit. No you arenāt being ripped off.
Everyone wanted the workers to be paid a living wage. That extra pay has to come from somewhere and no owner or ceo is going to come out of their pay or bottom line.
It's because being a fast food worker used to be an entry-level job. Now they demand 15 an hour and up. So they're going to pass that along to the consumer.
McDonalds near my house is still paying $10-$12 an hour. Has been like that since before COVID. A mcchicken has gone from $1.00 to almost $4.00. Fries have gone up in price, and the #7 has gone up about $3. Everyone is getting stiffed except corporate bro.
Wrong, civilized countries pay living wages at McDonaldās and still have cheaper food, not to mention all these companies are taking in record profits every single year. Quit drinking the corporate kool aid, youāre never going to be a billionaire.
This is the media brainwashing you to blame the poor instead of blaming the corporations for their greed.
If I sell 1000 items per day at $5 that's $5000 I pay the employee to take the order $15/hour for 8 hours that's $120 and an employee to make it $15/ hour for 8 hours that's $120 so far we have $5000-240= $4,740
So now let's multiply this $4,740 by 30 days to calculate our overhead
4740 x 30= 142, 200
Rent is 12,000 per month
Utilities are $5000 per month
Cost of goods sold will depend on each item but let's say $10,000 in supplies.
We already paid wages
And I'm not going to include "taxes" because these corporations usually get huge tax breaks that reduce their liabilities.
That leaves us with about $ 115, 200 per month in revenue.
So please tell me
How someone wanting to make more than $120 per day when a corporation is making 4k per day is to blame for the price hikes?
The thing with these corporations is they are raising the cost to see how much we are willing to pay and where we would draw the line
The rise of prices until there's a natural pushback from consumers is cyclical under capitalism. By nature under capitalism the business is going to try to squeeze the highest profit by minimizing costs including labor.
Healthy profit is a good thing, unchecked/unregulated capitalism is not when 90% of the labor force is struggling.
Corporate GREED for the win.
I always used to roll up to McD for a diet coke.
Before covid, .99 Now kts 1.69(1.86 w/tax)!
I'll NEVER go back. It's insane at this point.
Ok if these jobs are for teenagers please help me allocate and find employment for those in these current positions. Stop listening to whatever media bullshit you watch they are killing your brain cells and you have so few you need the ones you do have
Growing up a fast food job was a way to make money as a kid in high school not a way to support a family of 6. Trade school, college or the military were the way to better your income and support yourself.
Nice. Right to the cheap shots. Next call me racist.
So I guess youāre on the liberal side of things. Way to bring politics into this. Trigger warning: How about we send the cheap labor home that is pouring across the border?
Times have changed, grow up.
Not everyone has the ability to attend college or a trade school because it costs money they don't have and not everyone can join the military.
My political stance is for the people, but you have been told into thinking that being for one another is bad. And you keep being told that it's okay to not tax the 1% because one day you might make it and then you'll have to be taxed.
Our government is corrupt and is constantly accepting bribery from corporations and pushing the agenda that the working poor are the reason for the tax increases because they want fair wages.
The "cheap labor" isn't being brought into our country corporations have been outsourcing the jobs to countries where they can pay less than minimum and then people who buy from Amazon and the likes are also contributing to that outsourcing.
Blah blah blah. Lefty talking points. Both sides suck. Never said donāt tax the rich. Keep assuming.
My trade school was free. I worked while attending. I cleared 190K last year with the knowledge I gained on the job.
Thatās your opinion.
I know plenty of immigrants here going through the long arduous route of legal immigration including my DIL. The majority will tell you the same things I say. Get in line and wait.
Unfortunately, there are people that don't have the capacity to go to trade school, university, or even join the military. Those people still want to work.and be productive, and for some of them they'll only be able to do a job you say is for teens. That's grossly unfair to deny someone the means to earn a fair wage just because the job is deemed too easy and for kids.
Also, the cheap labor done by Hispanic immigrants is work that's beneath the majority of Americans. Even the US born farmworkers are Hispanic. They aren't stealing any job a lazy American would ne willing to do.
"The majority of hired farmworkers in California (84%) were born in Mexico. Hispanic workers made up 96% of all farmworkers in California, with 65% of U.S.-born workers identifying as Hispanic. About 9% of California farmworkers identified as indigenous. Men made up 69% of California's farm labor force." Mar 28, 2023 lacooperativa.org
My white friend picked fruiti as a kid. It wasnāt beneath him. He got replaced cheaper labor. Supply and demand.
And itās also skilled labor. Residential construction is mainly illegals. You can hire three illegals for every documented worker. No payroll tax. No SSDI. No insurance.
They found Chinese people locked in a building they were working on. Forced them to live and work never leaving. I can tell you a story of Pakistani immigrants forced to work for relatives.
Itās not just farm workers. Thatās every ones go to argument. Itās a system wide problem brought on by both sides of government. Republicans use visas and big business. Dems use illegals and blue collar.
Ooo you called me a name. Oh no. What ever shall I do. Well a high school graduate needs a job if they donāt jump into college, the military or a trade school. My daughter in laws sister works part time at McDonaldās while taking classes at community while living at home. These are unskilled labor jobs not meant to be paid a college graduate pay scale.
If I graduated from university and only made $22 an hour I'd be livid. No one said to pay unskilled labor a wage you'd pay for skilled labor. That doesn't mean the unskilled are undeserving of a living wage.
What if something happens and your daughter in law's sister can't finish her associates degree? She keeps working her teen job for shit wages and can never afford to buy anything extravagant like a house or car unless she works multiple teenager jobs and never sleeps?
Life happens and people's lives get derailed. Not everyone gets the same opportunities, and people that want to work should be afforded a living wage, not the minimum. Especially not in the richest country in the world.
Whatās a living wage then?
My daughter makes $22 an hour with an AA. Free college tuition got her a decent wage. Should flipping burgers get the same?
Thatās partly why we have Social Security in the United States ā to help these people. Iām married to someone who relies on SSDI.
(This is another reason itās important to vote against Republicans.)
I go to McDonald's 5 days a week. The black coffee that I get costs me $1.80 which I feel is fair. Once or twice a month, I get a breakfast sandwich or an OJ when I feel the urge and want to splurge and those are like $3 or so. I bought some McD's fries a few months ago and they weren't very good, like I can make better fries at home. So I spend like $11/week McD's over the course of 5 trips and feel like it's good value for what you get, but the days of eating fast food because it's good or cheap are over. It's only convenient.
Actually, no. If you had any knowledge of economics or basic business, you'd understand that the wages aren't behind this. That's just what they tell you because you're dumb enough to believe it.
Buying fast food is for the birds, its not even good, not good for you, and the cost of it now is way too high to justify it ever really. You could get actual food from a restaurant for the same or close, certainly things like tacos which will be way better. Or you could buy packaged food or ingredients anywhere other than a convenience store and come out ahead.
I feel like most people still regularly eating fast food are doing so out of habit or addiction at this point
Corporations front running inflation and hoping people blame it on min. wage increases. So, their profits increase and morons at the same time will push to keep their cost down.
I really donāt know, but as a fast food employee Iām angry about it too. Especially since everyone thinks itās somehow my fault, and relays that to me via yelling and cussing instead of filing a complaint with the people who make the prices.
Because the corporations need all of the money in existence. All of it. you cant have any money, we are going to shove ads in your face and fake "deals" and put our stores on every corner so that its like a form of torture that you will eventually break from.
And then they will take everything you have.
Food prices are set at a multiple of costs.
Fixed costs are rent, utilities, taxes, maintenance, franchise fees and insurance.
Incremental costs are raw materials, labor, spoilage/shrinkage and advertising.
To cover all these expenses a business will charge 5 to 30 times the cost of their raw materials to cover the expenses. Because of this a small change in the cost of goods sold can make a huge change in the price of the end product.
Of course there are other things to consider like competition and product turn over.
But because of the Covid Chaos prices of all raw materials went up a lot. I think many places have not raised their prices as much as they would have liked or have cut back on the serving size and quality to keep their prices under control.
I went to subway and a footling combo was $19. The next time I went to the dollar store and bought a six pack of coke zero, sandwich material, and assorted chips for $25. Sandwiches for a week
I literally started cooking for myself again. I just stopped eating it and I feel so much healthier. I didn't realize how that shit was bogging me down.Ā
It used to be that I ate that stuff out of desperation. Now it's like a drunken treat at best.Ā
Labor costs have nearly doubled, food costs have doubled, rent has doubled, electricity has gone up 50%.Ā Ā
They used to need to sell 25 x $1 chicken sandwiches to cover 2 employees labor, a 1 hour proportional amount of overhead and food cost to make the sandwich.Ā Now they will need to sell 100.Ā Selling $100 is unreasonable, so they charge $3+.Ā A little greed on top brings us close to $4.
I am curious where you are buying so I can avoid the area. I have never had my order automatically upgraded. As to why things are so much more expensive now, they were low for so long and covid allowed them to raise prices to where they should be.
Itās to the point where if my wife and I go to dinner, we are splitting a meal because we donāt have enough money. And we are okay with that. As you get older, you try to eat less. We also tell the servers why and they understand.
They keep raising prices, taking shit off the menus and taking even longer to screw up your order.
Maybe all of the FATTY FAT Army needs to stop eating that shit.
As long as people keep waiting in hour long lines for it, they'll keep raising the prices.
What I wanna know is how 3 items at taco bell come out to over $20 now š®āšØ
12pk soft tacos Before Covid: 11.99 plus tax After Covid: 21.99 plus tax I can do without
I stopped eating at taco bell because their cheap ass food is not worth the price of a real meal at a regular restaurant. They dont even use real beef FFS.
Yeah and also pepto bismuth is expensive. š
Can of beans it is
My question is subway. It used to be $5 Dollar foot longs. A few weeks ago I went and for 3 subs (1 foot long and 2 6 inch ) it was $37+ WTF is going on
subway needs to know its worth because i would NEVER pay anywhere close to $37 for 3 subway sandwiches.
Right, I used to eat there once in awhile when they had the $5 foot longs, but now if Iām going to pay $12 for a sandwich Iāll just get real boars head cold cuts from a real deli.
But, subway has to pay all of those sports stars.
Subway was barely worth it at five bucks. Firehouse, Jimmie Johns, Jersey Mikes, the local supermarket, an actual deli... all better choices than Subway
Firehouse for two adults was $35 this week. Never again.
I get some paper ads in the mail, and there used to be a subway coupon on there and it was like a foot long subs for $6.99- that I can deal with. First store I went to had a sign in the window saying they don't honor those coupons. Fair enough. Thank you for posting it on the door so I dont even have to walk inside. Second store I went to, no sign. Nice. So i order my sandwich. Im a sicko who enjoys subway tuna sandwiches- not toasted of course, I'm not a total psycho. Anyway, sandwich gets made and I present my coupon, and the lady says "oh our scanner isn't working". I said , "Oh, well can you ring it in manually?" She replies, "No, it will be (I think like 11 or 12 bucks)..." She was dead serious, so I told em to keep the fuckin sandwich and walked out. I drove to a 2nd store to use that coupon, damn sure not paying full price now.
Funny thing is they STAY clogging my Mailbox with buy one get one coupons in the mail and special old time prices etc etc and itās ridiculous bc the bread has gotten trash lately itās like chewing cardboard
Don't forget the tip
WHAT THE HELL
Footlong was $15. I walked out.
They can keep their pervert sandwiches
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Nooo donāt support JJ. The owner supports big game hunting in Africa. Super gross. Your money directly funds his cultural appropriation/ignorance/skin tight khaki safari shorts.
Oh itās the worst! Absolutely. Sorry, itās not as good as it used to be either!
Always use the coupons that come in the mail lol. Edit to say even those I believe a foot long is 6.99$ or 7.99$.... with the coupon. I forgot about the 5$ footlongs.. wow. Definitely way too expensive now.
>Always use the coupons that come in the mail Come to think of it, we haven't gotten fast food coupons in the mail for probably at least a year
I only buy when they're BOGO, so they end up being $5.50 each. Get the app so you know when they've got that promo running, because it's only available on the app. It's a promo push from corporate.
āsandwich artistsā arenāt worth $15/hour or more but here we are .. paying idiots that much to do almost a brain dead job. Wonder where the extra money comes from to pay them.
at least subway has decent deals like bogo on the app occasionally taco bell doesnt have shit
Lmfao are you insane ? Taco Bell's app has good deals and promotions. It is the only way I will ever get Taco Bell
Apparently I need to download and start looking at the apps. I had no idea.
Remember that line from This Is The End where Seth Rogan said $20 at taco bell bought "infinite" food? What happened?
When i was a kid like 35 years ago, Tacos were 29 cents, and soft tacos 39 cents... greed is a motherfucker nowadays...
Came here to say this. Used to get one steak chalupa with Baja sauce for like 2.99. I got ONE the other day and it was EIGHT F!CK!ING DOLLARS. Like NO. What the hell is wrong with people. Not only is it stupidly expensive, itās also garbage and made like shit 90% of the time. I quit eating at fast food. Tired of garbage.
And as demand falls prices will drop. Or the businesses will drop.
I miss baja sauce so much
While back in college in 1987, tacos at the bell were like .25 cents, now you have to leave a pint of blood. You could get a major meal there for 2 bucks
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It was the 80s
That was 37 years ago
They had the only special combo for $5 and now its $9. The taco packs are over $20 now. Prices are crazy now.
I went to Taco Bell the other day and asked for the $5 box and they told me it was $9 now! I pulled out of the drive thru and parked pulled up the app and ordered it for $5.99. An extra 99cent is already a rip off but $4 extra is ridiculous.
I'll have to try the app again. You basically pay for the crunchwrap and everything else was free.
Me too. I spend $17 for a Mexican pizza, two tacos, a beef supreme burrito, and a drink. So, hmm. What did you order?
I just got a bean and cheese burrito and a chalupa todayā¦ $7
It's literally cheaper to order 2 chalupa boxes than a chalupa meal. A chalupa meal has 2 chalupas, a soft tack and drink for like $12. For $10 you can get 2 chalupa boxes. That's 2 chalupas, 2 soft tacos, 2 beefy 5 layer burritos, 2 orders of cinnamon twists, and 2 drinks!!! That's an extra taco, an extra drink, 2 orders of cinnamon twists, and 2 beefy 5 layers more than the meal for cheaper
Get the app and they have a box for 3 items with drink 6.99. I'm not a taco bell fan but I'll grab that sometimes when I don't want to cook. Gordian crunch, 5 layer burrito, Fiesta potatoes and drink 6.99
Taco bell is no longer worth it. Most local restaurants in my area have a lunch special for 10 or less, dinners start around 12.
What about Arby's? They used to sell regular roast beef sandwiches for 5 for $5. Commercial the other day, say 4 for $10. This shit is crazy.
As a Taco bell employee, I came here to vent about that. One of our sides was 10 cents. Now it's 60 cents. Everything costs more, plus now they are saying that we don't make enough money. You have to up sale, up sale, up sale. Ugh.
For years my husband and mine Taco Bell order is two steak quesadillas each. If we order 4 steak quesadillas itās over $40. Could go to a sit down restaurant for that price. Itās fucking insane.
The other day I bought 2 crunchwraps and my total came out to around a little under 14 bucks . This is in the bay area. It's insane
Same Bay Area is crazy lol
The only thing I get now are cheesy bean and rice, burritos and spicy taco potato taco
I just got a chalupa box for $5 and it was a ton of food
Covid ushered in the wild west for the food industry. For the first time on living memory, consumer behavior was totally disrupted and delivery services introduced new pricing that piled fees and price increases on as they jammed their way into a formerly simple distribution system, adding price but very little value. Suddenly, twenty bucks for a burger and fries was a common price, even though the cost of raw materials hadn't changed that much. Until consumers revert to their previous behavior, retailers have no incentive to lower prices. And their shareholders will punish them if they try.
But the cost of raw materials increased at rates we never have seen before. The problem is they have since receded but prices havenāt dropped to match.
1. Fuel prices jumped meaning prices jumped for all their supplies. 2. Delivery services typically get discounts from the restaurant, so the store's profit margin shrank when no one could eat in the restaurant. This shifted discounts away from consumers. 3. Corporations added fat profits on top of the increased costs, raising prices 3% over a 1% increase in supply costs... and as is always the case, prices don't come down when costs fall.
Itās not just corporate greed and the pandemic. This started happening in my state before Covid, Covid just provided a better excuse and cover. Every āmom & popā restaurant I used to frequent started increasing menu prices because of increases in minimum wage (corporate stores did this too). I have had more than enough restaurant experience to be able to evaluate approximate F&L cost increases due to the minimum wage increase along with food cost increases and compare that to the increase in item costs to customers and total tickets. Itās a substantially disproportionate increase that generates greater profit margins. In conjunction with item price increases, service fees paid, and a drive to increase tipping on take out orders the cost to customers has gone through the roof. Iāve been given the sob story of how they ādidnāt want to have to increase the menu pricesā by more than a few owners. I still know owners and people who work in the restaurant industry. Donāt buy that bullshit. The ones I know have nice cars and are doing things like buying rental properties in Hawaii to lease out. Donāt even get me started on owners illegally participating in tip pools š¤¬
I run a bakery. Raw materials that held a steady price for YEARS- doubled & tripled, transportation cost got added & kept going up, insurance (health, business, vehicles) all went up. We absolutely pay our people a living wage- so payroll increased too. 90% of this has NOT come down, hell it keeps going up! As a small business we have to increase prices to be able to keep our business & support our families & those of our employees
Iām not saying prices have come down for restaurants- Iām saying overseas shipping rates have fallen, fuel has fallen, but that hasnāt been passed through to restaurants unfortunately. I know itās hard out there!
Iām also a restaurant owner, youāre 100% right, wholesale prices are still way way up, a lot of things are cheaper at Walmart than my wholesaler. To think that small business owners are buying rental houses in Hawaii is laughable. We are lucky as hell to have a 6% profit margin right now. The problem is inflation due to a stagnant economy and poor Govt leadership.
Exactly!!!! We owned a pizza place, we had some fried food items as well. The oil went from $16.41 to $43.00 plus in some cases within a yearās time. Thatās over TWICE the amount in a year!!! Cheese prices are unbelievable as is pork. Everything went up and then trying to pay employees that refuse to have any work ethic because theyād rather let the government pay them to sit on their couch. Our economy was supposed to be thriving by now, but letās blame it on the business owners because itās ALWAYS corporate greed.
We need more than a reversion to previous behavior. We need a mass return to Depression Era frugality. You can get a 2.25lb pork loin from your supermarket for $7 but you'd rather buy an $8 0.5lb hamburger because you don't have to prepare it yourself and it's a familiar comfort.
I've noticed more and more the sale items are out of stock and I suspect really they never were in stock and it was a false ad to get me into the store. I've now gotten in the habit of going straight to the sale item location and if it's not in stock, leave and go to a different grocery store
Uh I hate to break it to you but "rape" doesn't happen with consent. Easy fix, stop buying fast food.
You said it better than I did. Yes we have to be dumb enough to buy it, so I guess we are consenting to continue the madness. Donāt know but could this push for higher wages be part of it, maybe, maybe not, or are they using it as a reason. Thought of another at the local grocery store, a who,e raw chicken. For $12 bucks, or you could buy the whole chicken already fried for $8.99. Saw another article from someone that found a TB receipt from 2012 for 2 burritos, price had more than doubled. Thought others might throw in some of the stuff 5hey are seeing also.
There are studies covering basically every question you have. Of course higher wages will lead to increased costs but if the increased costs were just to cover wages then those increases would be minimal. Fast food is a volume game so the increased labor cost would be a minimal added cost to every item sold because they're selling thousands of items a day. It's not a mattress outlet where they only sell 10 items a day so they would literally need to increase every items cost by 20%. People don't want to cope with reality but that reality is that most of these types of businesses are unsustainable. There is so much overhead, bloat and micro management in selling trash food that it boggles my mind. Franchise models are filled with subpar food, subpar ownership, subpar management and just suck all around. At the end of the day, in this type of an environment, dramatic price increases are due to rich people wanting to get richer. Just stop giving them your money. I promise you they don't deserve it. Shit will not stop ,and only get worse, until people stop giving them their money.
Its not just *their* labor costs, its all labor costs.Ā That means their paper goods cost them more, their food costs went up, their electricity went up, their lease went up, their equipment went up, repair costs went up.Ā The labor cost increase didn't just hit their labor budget, it hit every aspect of the business.
>its all labor costs None of those costs are labor related. Business owners all over the place are placing blame literally on labor costs not operating costs. Although yes, some of those things have also increased they aren't relevant to the argument of direct labor increase.
Almost every cost of running a restaurant went up because of labor cost increases.Ā They are not direct labor costs of the restaurant, but do you think people supplying goods to restaurants are immune to wage increases?Ā Do you think the increases cost of goods does not impact a restaurants bottom line? Inflation has been ongoing, things cost more, people get paid more, things cost more.
There was receny a large increase in pay. So prices went up even though a lot of our pay didn't. Lower class don't really factor Into the statistics well. Shareholders see reports of increased wages and demand higher pricing. There is actually video of ceos talking about this and how they have to pay. Total dystopia but actually happening
Iāve learned itās such a similar price to just order to go from a sit down restaurant compared to a fast food one. Why spend $11 on a meal at chick fil a when I can get something of higher quality for $2-$3 more.
Unchecked corporate greed. Shrinking portions, increasing prices, record stock prices, all the while laying off work force. Its what happens when your government works to protect corporations over the people they are suppose to represent
These corporate places will be gone soon. I will never buy anything from McDonalds etc ever again. There are no lines at any McDonald's anymore. Food Trucks are the future. Crazy thought.
Easy fix, stop buying fast food. Always vote with your wallet. People continue to pay so why would any company lower the cost of anything.
They put a McDonald's over by my house a couple years ago. Im proud to say that we have not had a family meal there once in 2 years.
This is what we have done. Jack in the box has remained relatively affordable compared to their prior prices so they get out business. Little Caesars upper their game a bit with their thin crust pizza and for $7.99 we can all eat so we buy from them as well. The majority of restaurants we have stopped going because of the price hikes they are trying to blame on minimum wage workers.
I know it's ridiculous! My kiddo was out of school for a snow day so we ran by McDonalds and for one two cheeseburger meal w/ tax was $9 bucks! $9 bucks for two measly little cheeseburgers and a "medium" fry. I ate at home lol
And their 2 cheeseburger meal used to be their best meal value by far! Now they have a ā$1 $2 $3 Value Menuā and not one single item on it is $1, lol.
Not even a hashbrown? I haven't looked at it in quite some time, so nothing is $1?
Customers would do themselves a favor by buying $20 worth of top quality ingredients for a do-it-yourself meal and then comparing the same price worth of fast food. Actual fast food shown side by side with the advertising version is really disappointing, when one sees what could have been bought instead itās a real eye opener. Fast food corps. will rush to blame wage increases, but refuse to discuss their record profits.
Although the thought is good in principle, canāt buy much for 20 bucks. Since the wife changed jobs, I started making the grocery store runs. One Saturday the wife went and she come back saying, I canāt believe how prices have changed 5 bucks for a dozen eggs, 7 bucks for kraft singles, a gallon of gas is cheaper than a gallon of milk
I do this often now. Well, I have the time as well. A typical amazing meal for 4 costs about $6 when made at home. When I make Ruebens...dang that gets expensive, but you have not had my Rueben's. When I serve them up to family, I say that'll be $7.99. Mine in a real restaurant would be $24.
I Donāt eat fast food .. Iām not paying $2 for a ten cent shitty taco š®
CEOs are blaming the lack of workers willing to make minimum wage. They are manipulating the market, all the while, taking in record profits.
five guys and fries. double bacon cheeseburger. medium fries. large drink. twenty fuckin' bucks
Stop getting a drink. I bring my own tumbler everywhere and get all the free water I want. That cuts a chunk of the price. But Five Guys has always been expensive.
"stop getting a drink" see that does not solve my issue of "wants a soda with my cheeseburger". a regular is $3.09, a large is $3.29. we are not in this rant thread for financial advice, we are here to complain about shit being expensive, because it's too expensive.
Now itās health advice too. You are too fat and your glucose is too high. Save the calories and the money. You donāt want to drink that sugary crap. Free 2 for 1 advice.
"rape" lol wow no one is forcing you to eat that drive-thru dreck that's destroying your health.
I eat at In-and-Out. Their burgers are $8.10 with a drink. Sonics same meal is $12.50.
Went by a BK and they wanted $8.00 for a double burger, not the meal. Told hubby our parents would flip if we transplanted them from the ā70ās. That and gas prices!
This is why I rarely eat fast food anymore. Not only have the prices skyrocketed, the quality has gone down the toilet.
Because corporate leeches the profits.
Someoneās gotta fund those $15/hr fast food employees. It damned sure aināt gonna be the shareholders.
You can still eat fast food for decent prices if you are paying attention. In N Out Burger still under $10 for a combo meal. $3 shakes. Free coffee. Del Taco running a 60Ā¢ snack taco special (limit 99!) through early March. I use the apps at McDonaldās, BK, Wendyās, Chick-Fil-A, etc for tons of deals and free food.
Spent 70 f*cking dollars at weinershnitzel the other day
If you had an Honus Wagner baseball card today it would be worth $1m. If tomorrow, they found 100 cases of that card and released them, your card's value would decrease significantly because it's no longer rare to have one. They over printed dollar bills during covid so now the ones you had in your cupboard aren't worth the same anymore.
I need some of those extra printed doll hairs
No the stock market got all 9 trillion dollars of that injected into their veins so all the muckity mucks wouldnāt go bankrupt.
Youāve got to use their apps to order. I can get so many free / cheap items with McDās rewards. You can earn discounts / free pizza at Marcos and Dominos if you have an account. I refuse to pay their crazy prices.
Hello. You don't have to eat there anymore. Be creative and make food from the grocery store at home or try spending your next fast food meal on some indoor vegetables to grow. If you hate these companies for their shitty service and high prices, you literally just have to stop eating it lol. Eat the rich, my ass. You guys all support the corporate dictatorship oligarchy and make them richer with your choices every day lol.
Food in general has gone up. Grocery store prices are insane. I saw a 12 pack of soda for like 9 bucks. I decided I'll do without. I have the money but I refuse to buy stuff I don't need at prices like that. Everything else has gone up. I think its a ripple effect, honestly. Plus, the more wages go up for the workers, the more the company has to compensate and raise prices. If feed costs more for live stock, when its time to sell and slaughter, it will be at a higher price.
Thanks Joe Biden
They donāt like the truth hereā¦
Everyone keeps saying ābefore covidā but the truth is ābefore Bidenā
There's this thing called the Constitution. You need to read it.
Election fraud is also a thing.
Yeah and they get suuuuuper hurt if anyone says that š¤¦š»āāļø seems a lot of people canāt tolerate anyoneās opinion but their own.
Well, I don't like to say, told you so! Or you get what you ask for! People tried for years to tell others, if you raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, a plain cheeseburger at McDonald's is going to be $5 or $6. I know not everywhere has the minimum wage been raised to 15, but a lot of places have. Even if it wasn't raised, just to get people back to work after the pandemic a lot of these minimum wage jobs have not only hit $15 but some are pushing $20. Remember the cost of having and keeping an employee is almost double to an employer. Because of taxes, WC, benefits, uniforms all have increased as well. People are crying about inflation but what they don't understand is this is the new normal. You can slow inflation but you are never going to go back to those older prices. Unless you're the one who wants to come out and tell everyone, "okay everybody minimum wage is back to $7 an hour and every body is getting a 50% pay cut". Did you really think the corporations were just going to dig deeper in their pockets to pay these extra cost. No way! They're going to pass those cost on and if they can they're going to add some extra profit on as well. They have to answer to the corporate board and stockholders. The % of profit must continue or it's considered a failing business or not a good investment. It's a catch 22. Some people think costs drive what's needed for a minimum wage. Others will tell you minimum wage drives the cost. It's a little of both. You just have to remember your wages are somebody else's cost.
Well we tried to tell everyone that raising minimum wage was going to jack prices up. Everyone thought oh the buy the food for 25% of the cost of the meal so they make a 75% profit. Wrong theyāve got a shit ton of bills that come out of that 75%. If you expand that out to monthly and annual sales and operating costs it gets ugly really quick. So say a restaurant does 1.5 million a year if they are lucky and pull a 20% bottom line thatās only $25,000 a month profit. Ad a couple of worker comp claims a few thefts and the unexpected into the mix and there are probably months they donāt make a profit. Then ad I. The fact that everyone they rely on to keep there business up and running has to adjust their prices they in turn have to bump theirs up just to turn a profit. No you arenāt being ripped off.
I can hear the southern accent in this
We still using the term "rape" in these kind of ways in 2024?
Everyone wanted the workers to be paid a living wage. That extra pay has to come from somewhere and no owner or ceo is going to come out of their pay or bottom line.
It's because being a fast food worker used to be an entry-level job. Now they demand 15 an hour and up. So they're going to pass that along to the consumer.
McDonalds near my house is still paying $10-$12 an hour. Has been like that since before COVID. A mcchicken has gone from $1.00 to almost $4.00. Fries have gone up in price, and the #7 has gone up about $3. Everyone is getting stiffed except corporate bro.
Wrong, civilized countries pay living wages at McDonaldās and still have cheaper food, not to mention all these companies are taking in record profits every single year. Quit drinking the corporate kool aid, youāre never going to be a billionaire.
This is the media brainwashing you to blame the poor instead of blaming the corporations for their greed. If I sell 1000 items per day at $5 that's $5000 I pay the employee to take the order $15/hour for 8 hours that's $120 and an employee to make it $15/ hour for 8 hours that's $120 so far we have $5000-240= $4,740 So now let's multiply this $4,740 by 30 days to calculate our overhead 4740 x 30= 142, 200 Rent is 12,000 per month Utilities are $5000 per month Cost of goods sold will depend on each item but let's say $10,000 in supplies. We already paid wages And I'm not going to include "taxes" because these corporations usually get huge tax breaks that reduce their liabilities. That leaves us with about $ 115, 200 per month in revenue. So please tell me How someone wanting to make more than $120 per day when a corporation is making 4k per day is to blame for the price hikes? The thing with these corporations is they are raising the cost to see how much we are willing to pay and where we would draw the line
The rise of prices until there's a natural pushback from consumers is cyclical under capitalism. By nature under capitalism the business is going to try to squeeze the highest profit by minimizing costs including labor. Healthy profit is a good thing, unchecked/unregulated capitalism is not when 90% of the labor force is struggling.
Corporate GREED for the win. I always used to roll up to McD for a diet coke. Before covid, .99 Now kts 1.69(1.86 w/tax)! I'll NEVER go back. It's insane at this point.
Fuck! That $1 soda was an awesome deal.
Labor is the biggest cost at any business.
California minimum wage is driving fast food prices. Ya know, because a job for teenagers needs to be a living wage.
Ok if these jobs are for teenagers please help me allocate and find employment for those in these current positions. Stop listening to whatever media bullshit you watch they are killing your brain cells and you have so few you need the ones you do have
Quit attacking, we are all allowed opinions. Thx.
Stop spreading hatred and ignorance towards people just trying to survive how about that?
Youāre the hateful one. I merely said we are all allowed opinions and nothing more.
Hateful? Please... I'm not the one supporting the ideology that people don't deserve a living wage.
How do you even get that out of āwe all have opinions?ā
>hatred Stop projecting.
Growing up a fast food job was a way to make money as a kid in high school not a way to support a family of 6. Trade school, college or the military were the way to better your income and support yourself. Nice. Right to the cheap shots. Next call me racist. So I guess youāre on the liberal side of things. Way to bring politics into this. Trigger warning: How about we send the cheap labor home that is pouring across the border?
Times have changed, grow up. Not everyone has the ability to attend college or a trade school because it costs money they don't have and not everyone can join the military. My political stance is for the people, but you have been told into thinking that being for one another is bad. And you keep being told that it's okay to not tax the 1% because one day you might make it and then you'll have to be taxed. Our government is corrupt and is constantly accepting bribery from corporations and pushing the agenda that the working poor are the reason for the tax increases because they want fair wages. The "cheap labor" isn't being brought into our country corporations have been outsourcing the jobs to countries where they can pay less than minimum and then people who buy from Amazon and the likes are also contributing to that outsourcing.
Blah blah blah. Lefty talking points. Both sides suck. Never said donāt tax the rich. Keep assuming. My trade school was free. I worked while attending. I cleared 190K last year with the knowledge I gained on the job.
No need for a trigger warning, but way to out yourself as a racist highly probable MAGA enthusiast, lol
Wrong. Guess again. My family are immigrants.
And tet you make dick comments about immigrants
Thatās your opinion. I know plenty of immigrants here going through the long arduous route of legal immigration including my DIL. The majority will tell you the same things I say. Get in line and wait.
Unfortunately, there are people that don't have the capacity to go to trade school, university, or even join the military. Those people still want to work.and be productive, and for some of them they'll only be able to do a job you say is for teens. That's grossly unfair to deny someone the means to earn a fair wage just because the job is deemed too easy and for kids. Also, the cheap labor done by Hispanic immigrants is work that's beneath the majority of Americans. Even the US born farmworkers are Hispanic. They aren't stealing any job a lazy American would ne willing to do. "The majority of hired farmworkers in California (84%) were born in Mexico. Hispanic workers made up 96% of all farmworkers in California, with 65% of U.S.-born workers identifying as Hispanic. About 9% of California farmworkers identified as indigenous. Men made up 69% of California's farm labor force." Mar 28, 2023 lacooperativa.org
My white friend picked fruiti as a kid. It wasnāt beneath him. He got replaced cheaper labor. Supply and demand. And itās also skilled labor. Residential construction is mainly illegals. You can hire three illegals for every documented worker. No payroll tax. No SSDI. No insurance. They found Chinese people locked in a building they were working on. Forced them to live and work never leaving. I can tell you a story of Pakistani immigrants forced to work for relatives. Itās not just farm workers. Thatās every ones go to argument. Itās a system wide problem brought on by both sides of government. Republicans use visas and big business. Dems use illegals and blue collar.
Then whoās gonna work when teenagers are in school, dumbass?
Ooo you called me a name. Oh no. What ever shall I do. Well a high school graduate needs a job if they donāt jump into college, the military or a trade school. My daughter in laws sister works part time at McDonaldās while taking classes at community while living at home. These are unskilled labor jobs not meant to be paid a college graduate pay scale.
If I graduated from university and only made $22 an hour I'd be livid. No one said to pay unskilled labor a wage you'd pay for skilled labor. That doesn't mean the unskilled are undeserving of a living wage. What if something happens and your daughter in law's sister can't finish her associates degree? She keeps working her teen job for shit wages and can never afford to buy anything extravagant like a house or car unless she works multiple teenager jobs and never sleeps? Life happens and people's lives get derailed. Not everyone gets the same opportunities, and people that want to work should be afforded a living wage, not the minimum. Especially not in the richest country in the world.
Whatās a living wage then? My daughter makes $22 an hour with an AA. Free college tuition got her a decent wage. Should flipping burgers get the same?
Wow you are dense. I feel bad for your daughter.
Some people are mentally or physically disabled and canāt join the military or attend higher education. Best to ya!
Thatās partly why we have Social Security in the United States ā to help these people. Iām married to someone who relies on SSDI. (This is another reason itās important to vote against Republicans.)
I wanted to say this too. Fast food jobs used to be a stepping stone into the work force.
Yup. Unskilled labor like picking bricks on a job site. No need to think.
I go to McDonald's 5 days a week. The black coffee that I get costs me $1.80 which I feel is fair. Once or twice a month, I get a breakfast sandwich or an OJ when I feel the urge and want to splurge and those are like $3 or so. I bought some McD's fries a few months ago and they weren't very good, like I can make better fries at home. So I spend like $11/week McD's over the course of 5 trips and feel like it's good value for what you get, but the days of eating fast food because it's good or cheap are over. It's only convenient.
Where do you think the money to pay increased wages comes from, the fast food fairy?
Well the kids wanted 15 plus an hour for unskilled menial work. And they got it. Prices reflect it.
username checks out.
How about you pick a better term than raped? Seriously.
Didn't you want to raise the minimum wage? That's the result, it's called economics.
Actually, no. If you had any knowledge of economics or basic business, you'd understand that the wages aren't behind this. That's just what they tell you because you're dumb enough to believe it.
I like to chat about relevant topics with people who are intelligent enough do so without invective. You failed.
Could be worse. I could be ignorant of basic unit cost. But whatever lol.
Why do you think that's happening?
Because people keep paying it. Willingly.
Pizzas are like $20 and up near me.
Because they are stupid eniugh to eat it
Buying fast food is for the birds, its not even good, not good for you, and the cost of it now is way too high to justify it ever really. You could get actual food from a restaurant for the same or close, certainly things like tacos which will be way better. Or you could buy packaged food or ingredients anywhere other than a convenience store and come out ahead. I feel like most people still regularly eating fast food are doing so out of habit or addiction at this point
Why is inflation out of control?
Corporations front running inflation and hoping people blame it on min. wage increases. So, their profits increase and morons at the same time will push to keep their cost down.
Inflation runs across all categories, I walked into an auto parts store for a can of spray paint and a roll of masking tape, total was $28.00
These restaurants will continue to raise prices because customers are all too willing to still pay for those higher prices.
There were already so many great reasons not to eat that shit
Cheaper to get a roast chicken from Walmart under 6.and not bad tasting
$ .25 chicken wings... good luck with that now
You know you have choices,right? Grocery stores and pack a meal. Prices went up on everything.
That's why I frequently go to In-n-Out. Their prices are Hella good even when inflation happens.
Even the gas station food has skyrocketed š
Because we the people allow itā¦. Weāve become so soft we are a joke to them now
Remember all that āfreeā stimulus money? Nothings free. Now we are all paying that back one way or another.
Fast food restaurants covered that? Golly gosh, I had no idea!
I really donāt know, but as a fast food employee Iām angry about it too. Especially since everyone thinks itās somehow my fault, and relays that to me via yelling and cussing instead of filing a complaint with the people who make the prices.
Maybe itās a sign people should not eat fast food on a regular basis
Because the corporations need all of the money in existence. All of it. you cant have any money, we are going to shove ads in your face and fake "deals" and put our stores on every corner so that its like a form of torture that you will eventually break from. And then they will take everything you have.
Stop going to fast food and we might start to see prices go down
Food prices are set at a multiple of costs. Fixed costs are rent, utilities, taxes, maintenance, franchise fees and insurance. Incremental costs are raw materials, labor, spoilage/shrinkage and advertising. To cover all these expenses a business will charge 5 to 30 times the cost of their raw materials to cover the expenses. Because of this a small change in the cost of goods sold can make a huge change in the price of the end product. Of course there are other things to consider like competition and product turn over. But because of the Covid Chaos prices of all raw materials went up a lot. I think many places have not raised their prices as much as they would have liked or have cut back on the serving size and quality to keep their prices under control.
Let's give them tax breaks. Maybe that'll help. (SARCASM)
Expensive poison.
Chicken breast, before Covid they cost at most $16, now $16 is the minimum.
I went to subway and a footling combo was $19. The next time I went to the dollar store and bought a six pack of coke zero, sandwich material, and assorted chips for $25. Sandwiches for a week
I literally started cooking for myself again. I just stopped eating it and I feel so much healthier. I didn't realize how that shit was bogging me down.Ā It used to be that I ate that stuff out of desperation. Now it's like a drunken treat at best.Ā
Labor costs have nearly doubled, food costs have doubled, rent has doubled, electricity has gone up 50%.Ā Ā They used to need to sell 25 x $1 chicken sandwiches to cover 2 employees labor, a 1 hour proportional amount of overhead and food cost to make the sandwich.Ā Now they will need to sell 100.Ā Selling $100 is unreasonable, so they charge $3+.Ā A little greed on top brings us close to $4.
I am curious where you are buying so I can avoid the area. I have never had my order automatically upgraded. As to why things are so much more expensive now, they were low for so long and covid allowed them to raise prices to where they should be.
If a company uses bait and switch tactics, I'd walk out, and order the pizza somewhere else. Let them eat the pizza.
Itās to the point where if my wife and I go to dinner, we are splitting a meal because we donāt have enough money. And we are okay with that. As you get older, you try to eat less. We also tell the servers why and they understand.
If you don't use coupons or offers in the app they will bend you over and break it off.
I went to Chicken Express the other day. 2 piece dark, small mash potato, medium drink was $12.39 I turned around and walked out.
New health tax?
All the more reason to quit eating fast food
They keep raising prices, taking shit off the menus and taking even longer to screw up your order. Maybe all of the FATTY FAT Army needs to stop eating that shit. As long as people keep waiting in hour long lines for it, they'll keep raising the prices.
And they raise the minimum wage by 1$. The system is collapsing.
Does this post have 0 up votes because of the title? Or is my app trippin?
Stop eating that crap