McDonald’s is one of many fast food giants that have been raising their menu prices in recent years, and customers are quite angry about it. In 2022, McDonald’s reported that their menu prices went up 10%, and in 2023, they reported the same statistic, at the same time recording record profits. Outraged customers have reported paying $16 and $18 at their local McDonald’s for a combo meal, and others have called for a boycott.
Many of these angry customers have taken to social media to share their thoughts, and some dedicate whole videos to the cause. User @SideMoneyTom made a video about inflation at McDonald’s, saying that the price of some menu items have gone up 350% over the past couple years. Keep reading for more information.
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McDonald’s Continues Raising Prices
In the video that @SideMoneyTom posted, he’s standing in the McDonald’s drive thru filming the menu and the prices of different items, especially the $1 $2 $3 Dollar Menu. “If you look at the menu here,” he says, “what’s notable is that they have a 1, 2, 3 Dollar Menu, and if you look, none of the items are even a dollar anymore.”
On the menu, the closest things to $1 are soft drinks for $1.39 and iced coffees for $2. Other items like the Sausage McMuffin and the Sausage Biscuit are buy one, get one for $1, but are priced at $3.79 and $2.89.
“A bunch of these items that are on here like McChicken, McDouble, that sort of thing, I used to order them all the time back when I was in high school, and that was only a couple years ago and they were always a dollar,” @SideMoneyTom said. “Nowadays, their McChicken is $3.19, McDouble is $3.59. That is literally 320% to 350% inflation in three to four years.”
“If this trend continues,” he says, “It’s reasonable to think a McChicken in three years could be $6, and a McDouble, $7.”
Customer Reactions
The video now has over 22K views, over 1,000 likes, and over 100 comments. Most users have taken to the comment section to express their thoughts on how much more expensive McDonald's is now, with some even saying that it's just not worth it anymore.
"In the late 90's hamburgers were $0.30," one person reminisced. "We would go and see who could eat the most."
"Inflation is legal price fixing," another user wrote.
"I won't go there anymore," a third user commented, "Once they took out refills it wasn't worth it anymore."
"It's not inflation," one person disagreed. "They are having record profits as per their CEO."
"Corporate greed," one user agreed. "And people will still buy. I stopped buying from them."
"As some others have said, this isn't inflation but companies raising prices simply because they can," one person wrote.
"I can wrap my head around increased prices due to inflation, but don't sacrifice quality," a final customer wrote. "So many things have increased their price but decreased their quality."
