What’s actually infuriating are those bar charts.

They did bring back the 5 dollar meal though, at least in my region. Which immediately makes them a viable option.

But the five dollar meal is weird in comparison to everything else they offer.

For example, a small fries by itself is $2.50 half the cost of the whole 5 dollar meal.

To me this indicates that they’re just arbitrarily increasing prices for the sake of them being more expensive.

The problem of course with raising prices at McDonald’s is that people eat there because they’re supposed to be cheap and fast. Not because of their “gourmet” food.

Where are these prices from? A quarter pounder meal is under $10 where I am.

The graph itself’s utter lack of proportion is more infuriating than the content.

Everyone knows that McDonald’s don’t degrade over time. You can put one in its original bag in the closet for a number of years without problems.

Shame on you for not buying in bulk when the price was more amenable. Get down to your local McDonald’s now and buy yourself at least 57 Big Macs which I’ve calculated to be the optimal amount until global warming renders this planet a cinder. And get me a chocolate milkshake while you’re at it, please.

If this was just McDonalds, shouldn’t there be a Burger King that didn’t raise prices to try to gain back market share?

And if this was all fast food joints, is there a common reason besides greed that it happened? If it was just greed, you would think one of their competitors could WALMART (lower prices until competition dies) them.

Just remember that the location which let the cheeto use it as a platform never got any blowback from corporate. So, just stop going to McDonald’s altogether; plenty of other food places for when you don’t want to cook.

Not Worth it their food is not very good anyways its average.

I gave up on McDonalds. I can get better food elsewhere for half the price. Their trash was ok for pushing a turd, but not for what they charge today.

The two inflation calculators that I found said that a dollar in 2014 should be worth $1.33 in 2025. That’s significantly lower than the lowest price increase in this infographic.

And McDonald’s countered with a statement Pricing Myths vs Facts where they compared 2019-2024 prices where the original study the infographic is based on compared 2014-2024 prices. A little FUD seasoning if your will to make it all look less bad.

That’s the same company that countered their wages being too low to live on by producing an example budget to show how you can survive with only a McDonald’s job. The first line in the budget is income from the first and second job. They costs are even more laughable today.

To compare, inflation from 2014 to 2025 has been about 33%

Fast food didn’t just stop being cheap, it also stopped being fast. Might not be the case for everywhere, but when they got the self-checkout screens they started making every order in order, and nothing more. Now if I order a single item, I still have to wait if there are many orders before mine. I miss the time when I could look behind the cashier and see what they had pre-made to get something immediately.

Im not sure how infuriating this is at least for me. I always knew I ate to much fast food but it was just to cheap and convenient and hard to kick. Now I pretty much don’t buy it. In the last few years I have only had it a few times and it was under the most stressful of situations (wife in the hospital and running around and late at night and just needed something to fill the stomach). Fast food becoming to expensive to not think about budget wise is one of the few good things to come out of the recent inflation. Especially since I don’t use smartphones or apps there of.

The graph is fucked btw. Read the values its different than the bars. Also a gaph like this should set the starting point for everything on the same level and only show the change not how much it changed by. You could put a car on this graph and shiw how its price increased by 100$ which would blow out all the other data even though its price only changed by 1% for example.