> “It’s not the cheapest fastest place to eat anymore.” <
Who is cheaper? What I want from a fastfood restaurant is fast cheap food. I’m pleased that McDonald’s still offers items for a dollar each. Let people who want and can afford high-quality food go somewhere else. In the last couple of months I used the drive-through several times to order two McChickens and a Grilled Onion Chedder Burger for $3.21, including tax. (At the same site where they offered those tiny 15-cent burgers about half a century ago.) I took my meal home and consumed it with a beverage of my choice, and was full and satisfied.
You folks who don’t like McDonald’s, tell me where I can get three items (with meat in them) for about three dollars — and fast. Sure, there’s better food elsewhere, but some of us who are retired on very little money, and who are relatively easy to please when it comes to food, want cheap food that we can get without waiting. I don’t like seeing people rooting for a source of such food to go out of business.
[I don’t eat out much myself — and wouldn’t recommend that meal often for health’s sake — but it’s good to know that McDonald’s is still selling items for a dollar each.]
I’m not rooting for McDonald’s to go under. They just aren’t so cheap relative to their competitors anymore. When times were good they got expensive and now that the economy has been beaten down, McDonald’s prices are the same. Ok so they have some dollar value items. Great. There’s still cheaper places to eat. McDonald’s just isn’t at the price point they used to be. so some families have to cut back on that expenditure.
I remember quite well the first McDonald’s I ever saw. It was in Ft. Walton Beach around 1962. They had no place to eat inside and only a few concrete tables outside.
The burgers were not tiny. They weren’t large either. They were 15 cents.
The one thing which surprised me was “they were good” I repeat: They were good. The fries were better than good.
The real difference is they tasted good. They no longer do.
Wendy's, Burger King and Jack in the Box seem to be the closest in price, although MCD has more revenues than the rest of them combined, and then some.