McDonalds doesn't publish prices online, but for me in downtown Seattle - with a famously high minimum wage ($20) everyone said was going to destroy the economy

McDonalds doesn't publish prices online, but for me in downtown Seattle - with a famously high minimum wage ($20) everyone said was going to destroy the economy - a smallest-size Starbucks Americano at my local one is $3.85 according to their website. I think what you're experiencing might be "business owners charge what the market will bear" and you, as part of the market, are bearing price increases.