People don't have the money to purchase fast food.
Around here, the Quizno's closed and the McDonald's parking lot is never over crowded. But at lunch, the line goes out the door at Chipolte, Panera, and a small chain sub shop DiBella's. What do the three have in common? Serious initiatives to provide what I call "pure food" and other healthy choices. Lunch costs about $8, but with an amount of food so large it can serve two, they're cheaper than Subway or McDonald's.
Bring back salt and beef tallow and McDonald’s will be roaring.
Kind of hard to envision in a country that has almost 10 million Millionaires.
Maybe their food sucks.
Went through a Wendy’s this last week while in the city late at night. Hadn’t been to one in several months. Used to get their Junior Bacon Cheeseburger for $.99 with lettuce, tomato, onions and light mayo at least once a week. It now begins at $1.29 and the one I stopped at charges extra for the cheese, lettuce, tomato and onions. By the time I added these things it was up to $2.19. Not a whole lot of money but to more than double in price is mind blowing. Told them no thanks and drove home and scrambled some eggs!