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McDonalds $1 Menu victim of food costs... NOOOOO!!!
Basar
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This is sad sad sad news! But we still have the $1 Whopper Jr., the illest, most futuristic sandwich ever!
Yummm.
So how will this effect your life? Will your marriage survive? How about your job performance? IS EVERYTHING GONNA BE OK?
Yummm.
So how will this effect your life? Will your marriage survive? How about your job performance? IS EVERYTHING GONNA BE OK?
McDonald's Tests Changes
In $1 Burger As Costs Rise
By JANET ADAMY
Oak Brook, Ill. -- McDonald's Corp. is testing modifications to its popular $1 double cheeseburger, and higher prices for the sandwich, as it prepares to change its Dollar Menu by next year.
In an interview, Don Thompson, president of McDonald's U.S. business, said the company has tested ways to make the burger less expensive to make. Some restaurants are selling it with one slice of cheese instead of two, and billing it as a "double hamburger with cheese." Others are offering a double hamburger without cheese. Some are selling the traditional double cheeseburger at prices ranging from $1.09 to $1.19.
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The company is also considering expanding what it considers the middle tier of its menu, items ranging from about $1.30 to $2. "We know customers are facing tough times in this economy," Mr. Thompson said.
Launched in 2003, the Dollar Menu has been a key driver of sales at McDonald's 14,000 U.S. restaurants and has helped it ride out dips in consumer spending. But recently, franchisees have complained that the menu has brought too much unprofitable traffic into their restaurants.
The biggest question for the eight-item menu is what to do with the double cheeseburger, considered its anchor. High dairy prices have pushed up the cost of cheese, and McDonald's predicts more pressure because its beef costs will be higher this year. Mr. Thompson said if McDonald's moves the double cheeseburger off that menu, there would still be some type of $1 burger.
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Internal sales documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show that, as of late June, sales of the chain's lattes, cappuccinos and other espresso drinks were off their peak in several main markets where they're being sold. Mr. Thompson said "the numbers really don't tell the story."
Lower-priced beverages, including $1.89 iced coffee and a $1 fountain-drink and sweet-tea promotion, have pulled some sales away from the espresso drinks, which range from about $2 to $3. That was something the company hadn't anticipated, he said.
McDonald's overall beverage expansion, adding espresso drinks, smoothies, cold tea, bottled drinks and ice-blended coffee beverages at U.S. locations, is on track to exceed the company's goal of adding $125,000 a year in sales per restaurant, even though it doesn't yet have national advertising behind it, Mr. Thompson said. He sees McDonald's target of the drinks adding $1 billion a year to the company's sales as "definitely achievable." The rollout will be complete at the end of 2009.
i live in a country with a batshit crazy president and no, english is not my first language
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More food for less money is a winning recipe for McDonald's prime demographic.
On a more serious note, in Canada the 1$ value meal is like, a dollar twenty NINE. I am seriously pissed now.
My friends insisted on getting food in town today. We went into McD, and the smell made me physically sick. I ended up getting an overpriced cup of diluted coke and spending the endtire time annoying them to finish off their filth. McDonalds is a horrible place and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
KFC is slightly better, it helps that you can't really mess up chicken.
Really I only like the breakfast menu but they refuse to let me buy it at anytime of day.
It's like 4 seconds to cook the fucking sandwhich let me get a mcmuffin.
That said, man sometimes I just fucking crave that shit.
Even more reason to support Mickey Ds!
I like the typo there. It is appropriate.
e: It was intentional. I just pointed out a joke. WHOOPS.
And they don't have free refills neither in Europe nor Turkey
Anyways why didn't they do what all the cool kids are doing and just make the portion sizes smaller?
Well, the largest issue is the Double Cheeseburger, and it's kinda hard to do on that one. The buns are used in other sandwiches, as are the patties and cheese slices.
Up here we only get the Double Hamburger for $1, and a single Cheeseburger costs $1 as well.
The fuck you can't. KFC chicken is horrible up here.
Exactly. You can just see how robotic and horrible they are, when I have the exact same reaction in another country.
Seriously, I may have positive memories that cloud my mind from younger age, but I don't think they were always this terrible. Whenever I go to McDonalds these days, I always take the food with me (and seriously, I only go there because of the cheapness and speed...so many places serve better food).
That's pretty much my relationship with Taco Bell (although I'm far from getting into endurance running at this point, I've still got another 40 or so pounds to lose before I start going cross-country).
Even though I know the end result will be me and the toilet getting to be good friends, I just have to have a grilled stuffed burrito every now and then.
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Wendy's on the other hand, so good.
Of course it does. That's why the new monstrosities are being called "Double Hamburgers with Cheese." Implying only one slice.
Oh hell yeah, I love me a Junior Bacon Cheeseburger.
Also, Wendy's is totally superior to McD's in every way. This is not a debatable subject.
That's just fucking semantics. When you're replacing the "$1 double cheeseburger" with a "$1 double hamburger with cheese" it doesn't matter that the name is changing, the double cheeseburger is no longer a double cheeseburger. They're causing a major imbalance in the cheese-to-meat ratio for fuck's sake.
Why are you standing up for them, mcdermott? This world is crap. If they go through with this, I'm moving to Canada or Russia.
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Yea, they are pretty much worse.
They have lower standards, worse service, every time I go there they manage to fuck it up. It's not as bad as most of you are making it out to be :V.
COME BUY FOOD I NEED MORE HOURS.
I will assume the latter since it amuses me more.
The only thing I will say in McD's defense: The breakfast issue is because they have to change the settings on the grills, which have to be optimized for whatever they're cooking.
With that said, McDonalds is horrible. Did you know that obesity rates in traditionally thin places like france and asian are now skyrocketing thanks to the exporting of fast food? Thanks, McDonalds.
This price increase is obviously a result of California banning trans-fats. This unnecessary ban is placing terrible strain on the free market and causing one of America's oldest and most prominent businesses to lose millions of dollars and soon bankrupt. Way to go, you socialist assholes.
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you are a stupid, stupid person.
wendys is delicious. mcdonalds is not.
wendys makes your food when you order it. mcdonalds premakes everything, and yet still manages to not be faster.l
wendys has fresh never frozen beef. mcdonalds doesnt.
wendys has the spicy chicken sandwich. game over.
What the fuck are you ordering O.o
Yup, thin and sexy is going to be 200+ pounds in about 30 years thanks to fast food places.
Seriously though, they are pretty bad, but it's either eat there or deep fried everything here, stupid south.
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Oh, I completely agree that this is just one step towards the toilet-paper lines of old Soviet Russia. The Double Hamburger With Cheese is almost definitely just one more sign of the impending collapse of our society.
That's about the same here, maybe $2 less for the meal, and what's your minimum wage? Because ours just went from $5.50 to $6.55.
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Have you ever seen a truck outside of Wendy's, delivering fresh meat? Never frozen? So that means that your never frozen beef is sitting in a refrigerator for the majority of the day.
I don't know what kind of quality control you guys have in the states, but I throw out shit when the cabinet tells me too.
And we have that too :V
Then again, the meat, buns, and toppings they use are also terrible.
There is a big difference between freezing something and refrigerating it.