• rustyfish@lemmy.world
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    Yeah, prices went up and the quality went down. The best thing to do is stop buying there. As multiple people already pointed out, you can get a lot more and better food for 25 bucks.

    The fast food chains forgot that they aren’t actual restaurants. The customers have to remind them. Aaaaaaaand that’s the problem.

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      I bought a single Big Mac in rural nowhere the day before yesterday. I expected to pay about 4.50. Nope. Almost 7 dollars. 6.80 for single, cold, dry, wilted ass lettuce, dry ass cheese, sloppily made burger. I waited outside for nearly half an hour for it. Girl came to my window and said, “what did you order?” I told her and she still handed me a bag with a 4 piece nugget and a small fry. I had to go in and tell them they got it wrong, show my receipt which was stuck on the bag, then wait another 15 minutes for that cold, yucky sandwich.

      The person who ordered the nuggets either left without looking or decided to say “fuck it”, because they didn’t come back in with me.

      I would have done that, but I paid 7 bucks for the the shit.

      That is it for me.

      I don’t get mad when people make mistakes, and I wasn’t mad when all that happened. The only thing that made me mad was the price.

      McDonald’s can kiss my ass. A few more dollars and a short wait and I could have got a banging ass meal just down the road at the noodle joint.

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    People in comments saying to cook for yourself. I do cook for myself but geez grocery prices aren’t making it easy.

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      Three cans of hoppin johns beans, one can of chilli beans, 1 oz can of tomato sauce, 1/2 lb ground beef several onions sliced, garlic. About $20-25 for this and if makes 5-6 meals.

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    Thing is, I make more than ever, but yet due to increased (mostly) energy costs, I can afford nothing.

    Few years ago I was able to eat a few times a week out, but nowadays I eat at most a few times a month. Base price for döner was 6-7 euros, now they are starting off 12 euros. However my salary has not doubled. Lately, I usually just pick up take away food for the kids, not for us parents.

    I was able to upgrade my phone once a year or two, now I’ve been using the same phone (even with screen cracked) for 3,5 years.

    Best thing last, I’m a co-founder for a fabrication company. We aren’t turning profit because everything is expensive. Our costs have doubled, and salary costs gone up 75%. It would be easier to just run the business down nowadays than struggle.

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    That’s McDonald’s and Burger King here in Costa Rica.

    Hence the only burgers I eat from there are the chicken ones

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      And the higher end ones are just GOOD.

      Its a similar price to fast food, I can just keep a few in the freezer and I can add some little extras to make them more to my taste or chuck some leftover stuff on them to use it up.

      Little bit of garlic powder, some cracked pepper and some chilli flakes…

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      Sometimes I grab a pizza from the refrigerator isle at my local Lidl. They’re definitely not fresh or gourmet quality, but for 2.90€ and 15 minutes in the oven, you really can’t complain

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    A lot of people are saying to learn to cook, but things aren’t that simple. Many people know how to cook perfectly well but order out anyway, either because they’re busy or because they have mental health conditions that make cooking incredibly stressful.

    We need to change our economic system so that CEO bonuses aren’t inflating the prices of people’s food. This would make it easier for people to eat out more often if they feel they need to. It shouldn’t break the bank to get simple meals at a restaurant.

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    “fast” food? ha! try standing in line while a bunch of dickhead doordashers get to cut you in line. try walking into an empty establishment only to wait 20 minutes for a sandwich because of all the idiots that want to pay twice the price for a fucking meal.

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      I’ll say I live in a big city and have never once used Doordash/Uber Eats/any other exploitative meal delivery app for that reason. But even then you’re not safe.

      I once placed an online order for takeout, ordered on the actual site for the restaurant (not any of those branded online order services hosted by the meal delivery companies), picked the option that said I’d walk over and pick it up, and then was told when I got there that Doordash already came by and grabbed it.

      I then get a call on my phone from a Doordash driver asking where I live, because it wasn’t included with the order for some reason (gosh I can’t imagine why that would be). After spending 5 minutes explaining that I would not give them my address because I was at the restaurant and never ordered delivery, they show up 10 minutes later and hand me a cold bag of takeout.

      Amazing service.

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          I’m a fairly nonconfrontational person so I just took my cold food without argument and heated it up again at home. The restaurant at least comped part of the bill by way of apology.

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              Can’t say I’ve ever left reviews online, either. Not looking to shame or name drop a struggling restaurant, just to commiserate about the flawed and exploitative system of gig labor.

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                i assumed it was a bigger chain-type restaurant. the owner would probably actually appreciate a kind call to let them know what happened.

                edit - like, a call where you say something like ‘sorry, i’m not calling to complain, but something weird happened the other day that might bother some of your other customers if it happened to them’

                sounds like they’re just trying to figure out how to slot all the uber-important orders into their workflow.

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        Sounds fun. Maybe I’m missing something but I wouldn’t expect a local restaurant to have rolled their own takeout backend. Are you actually seeing places that do? The branding might be subtle, but I’d be really surprised if they weren’t using a canned service.

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          They’re mostly contracted services, but I meant more that it wasn’t the services managed directly by the big food delivery companies like Grubhub/Uber Eats/Doordash etc.

          If I don’t order through Doordash, I would expect no involvement from a Doordash driver whatsoever.

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    It’s called I’m at work, I’m in some godforsaken suburb on the other side of the hills, and I have 30 minutes.

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    A Costco hot dog+soda is still $1.50, and good.

    Steak and Shake is still pretty cheap too, and darn good.

    Cheap fast food is still out there… if you know where to look. But it’s definitely not McDonalds, Chick-Fil-A or any of the giga chains.

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    Or order delivery, and buy the same thing from 3 different places because all of them sell the same cheap frozen / deep fried crap that turns cold amd soggy by the time it gets to you

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    The downtown experience: $45 burger with a side of truffle fries. It’s mediocre at best.