What the hell happened to McDonald’s ?

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Last night on the way home we popped into a Maccies drive thru . I haven’t been for months due to the Monday app deals being rubbish anyway the food was disgusting . The worst I’ve ever had from a McDonald’s , The filet o fish had blatantly been recooked as the fish had fries attached to the chewy as a boot batter and the cheese burger was from dinner time I think judging by how stale it was . My mate said hers the night before from her local one had been warmed up aswell …

But seriously the prices ?!! How can they justify it ! £2.19 for a mayo chicken or a cheese burger now (used to be 99p!) and the arch meal starts from £10.99 !!!
even the slush I had from a different maccies earlier in the day was just liquid and £3.19 !

McDonalds used to be a cheap and quick treat . How have the prices gone up so much and so quickly !!!

Do you still go to McDonald’s ? Has the standards dropped or something because I’ve never experienced such awful food .

Prices are standard I think? We don’t go too often as we are a very low income family so it’s not feasible.

I went for the first time in over a year a few weeks ago. Could not eat the fries, the salt content was unreal. Not sure whether I’m not used to them now/whether they have increased the salt content on purpose/whether I got a bad batch.

I worked at a McDonald’s in my youth. They have timers on all prepared food to be thrown away once the timer went. Food was not to be reheated. Someone could get ill from that and I’d report it to the store manager and if they shrug, depending on where you live if there is food standards etc… report it there.

This.

Anyone expecting to eat meat for 99p obviously doesn’t have concerns about welfare standards.

Do you work for Burger King, OP? 😁

Macdonald's is absolute crap food. Why is it considered a treat lol

This is news to me, actually it’s so bad. Putting prices up in a more affluent area blatantly ripping people off cause they can?!? It’s not like they’ll be paying their staff more. Greed to the extreme

Unfortunately it is also the same in Wetherspoons. In Oxford a deli deal is £7.73, in Bicester it is £6.00 ! (Just checked pricing!)

"freshly" 😂

Very location dependent as I think they are franchised (could be wrong). The one nearest to us is great, everything fresh and lovely. One slightly further is always abysmal.

Starbucks is the same. Big price differences in the price of a latte between the 4 branches in my small city.

It isn’t if you read the ingredients.

DS works at McDonalds so I didn't realise how much it had gone up. He gets employee discount, £2.50 for a meal or thereabouts.

I think it depends on the store, where DS works they only cook Fillet O Fish to order, they never cook any on the off chance. But clearly other branches do it differently. I'd never order one but definitely not now knowing some places would let them sit 🤦🏻‍♀️

Do your research friend.
Or watch Morgan Spurlocks documentary
You wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.

I've just checked on the app at the three Mcdonalds closest to me. The happy meals cost £3.79, £3.89 and £3.99 so they obviously have the ability to charge different prices.

I live in London and these are the prices for pickup on the app. Some cheap deals! I assume delivery is higher. A meal deal or coffee would be a similar price. Some people here are very out of touch.

Food and stock prices have increased, the minimum wage has increased,
The money has to come from the customer.
McDonald's is still a reasonable price in comparison to other fast food places.

My local McDonald's has a good reputation, clean and efficient.

A Happy Meal costs roughly the same as a cappuccino from Starbucks so no, I don't think it's bad value. I find their food bland but my kids will eat it and tbh the ingredients really aren't that bad. It's definitely our motorway service station meal of choice for the kids over Burger King (tastes much saltier and more expensive), noodles (which they won't eat) and overpriced limp sandwiches (which will be nibbled and rejected). We go for the fish fingers or chicken nuggets for the kids and then they have the milk or water to drink.

Yeah I don’t get the hype with Burger King. It’s no better for you and it’s much more expensive.

Alternatively stop ordering rubbish food and takeaways, particulalrly for,your baby/toddler, that's insane

I cannot believe anyone would feed a baby with a takeaway from McD.
But then I can't believe anyone eats this crap anyway.
Ultra processed white bread, fatty meat, etc etc.

You're going to say this is typical MN comment but I'd use £42 to buy 3 organic chickens and get proper meals from them.

Oh god, fancy feeding kid's food to children, consider me pearls fucking clutched

There is a gold medal for first place in this morning's race on a high horse.

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Yup, we have the same, so go rarely now. The deliveries get the priority and fresher food etc.

That’s life! Everyone does it, ie shops, cafes, pubs, even hairdressers- when costs are very different between locations, I.e.rents etc, and customer demographics are very different, you can’t have fixed prices across the entire country.

There's a place and a time for food like this. I can't cook 3 organic chickens in a car on the motorway during a 6 hour drive to the grandparents.