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As others have pointed out though... they really aren't that cheap. That's my complaint. I don't mind subpar food once in a great while. But I went there for l
by jqm 11y ago
As others have pointed out though... they really aren't that cheap.
That's my complaint. I don't mind subpar food once in a great while. But I went there for lunch a few weeks ago and it was over $8 and I felt nasty and was hungry a couple of hours later. I could have gone to the grocery store deli and gotten a hot lunch combo for $6. Or a tasty burrito from the local Mexican place for $3.50 and an iced tea from the convenience store for $1.
In short, it's not just that their food isn't that great (it's not)... it's that it's too expensive to be that bad.
- Dylan16807 11y agoThe dollar menu is cheap... everything else is just low-quality food at unimpressive prices.
- checker 11y agoDon't you mean the "Dollar Menu and More" (tm) menu? RIP original Dollar Menu. The McD app has coupons that can get you some decent quantities for food for pretty cheap, or at least it did when it first came out. I haven't used it in a while so they might have cut back on some of the deals they were offering.
- mgkimsal 11y agohonest question: what on earth are people ordering at mcdonald's that comes to >$8? For one person?
- jqm 11y agoA burger (double) and a medium shake. No fries.
- greedo 11y agoWhere are you located? A double hamburger and shake shouldn't cost more than $5 in the US. Unless you meant a Big Mac, or a Double Quarter Pounder.
- jqm 11y agoA double hamburger with the little wafer thin burgers isn't lunch. That's more like a bite sized snack. It was a double quarter pounder and was over $5 alone. The medium shake was another 2.50+ and with tax it was well over $8.00. The point is... it was too much money for the quality of the food. There are better alternatives.
- mgkimsal 11y agoFor $8, I tend to agree. A cheeseburger, water and small fries is < $3, and that keeps me going for several hours from lunch to dinner. I don't go often, but go specifically for pricing. If I'm planning to spend > $6 on a meal, I go elsewhere.
- joezydeco 11y agoWhen McDonald's first launched nationwide, the typical meal was a single cheeseburger, a small packet of fries, and a small coke. And I don't even think that small cup is around anymore, even for the kids' size.
- greedo 11y agoYup, the OPs meal was almost 1500 calories. When I was an idiot, I used to eat a lot at McDonalds. I had such a high metabolism that I could just burn off the calories without even trying, then when I got older, that didn't work any longer. It's pretty easy to blow past 3000 calories if you eat more than 2x at McD's.