What the hell happened to McDonald’s ?

[Painrelief]

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 .

Milkshakes and ice creams are first to be abandoned when there are staff shortages as they are the most time consuming, not in terms of cleaning as such but also the making.

I understand individual cafes and one off hairdressers but not a big chain like McDonald’s.

No but you can pack a picnic beforehand

@Thisismetooaswell - we do picnic 90% times. But the other 10 it’s not convenient due to work schedule/ return trip form hotel with no facilities/ overtime stop with no fridge so picnic fine day one but not day 2 etc..

We often stop at bakery or similar. But if a mac Donald’s is on route with fast car charger, clean toilets and a play area for Ds at stop then it’s handy and a change. It’s fine for a few times a year travel.

McDonald’s paid more than minimum wage when my daughter worked there. Uniform was free apart from shoes. It was an excellent job for a 16 year old and her experience there is always commented on during interviews.

I've packed the bags, packed the car, got the kids ready, got everything sorted, arranged for someone to water the plants and feed the cats, arranged to have a shop delivered to the grandparents for while we're staying, got everyone breakfasted and into the car at a decent time for leaving...

I will not accept the label of "failed parent" because my kids are happily shoving a few fish fingers and fries into their mouths rather than turning their little noses up at the limp chicken sandwiches and bruised fruit which are all I've managed to chuck into a lunch box before we've left 😂.

We'd still have to stop for food and we'd reach our destination with a lot of mouldy food to chunk away and a lot of washing out of lunchboxes for the grandparents to do. Probably deposited on the car floor and rubbed into the seats as well.

Do people really think a cheeseburger should be 99p? Do you not seriously look at a 99p piece of meat (plus bread etc) and ask what’s in it that it can be sold that cheaply?

I find it hilarious when strangers think they can tell other people what to do 😂 I don’t need to, nor will I , justify myself here. Can just imagine the gasp on your face (and perhaps others’) when you read my comment and it genuinely amuses me how worked you are about this.

Quite. And the thing is... it's easy with the first child but with subsequent DC you can't really take them out with their older siblings and pull out a cous cous salad while OS are enjoying fries and ice cream.

Toddlers aren't dense. They know when they're being had and they know that the older ones know which stuff is the "good stuff" 😂.

Oh yeah, he definitely knows 😂 the way he peers at and into the bags when they get delivered is funny. He loves a little McDonald’s treat.

An absolute savior when you’re feeling weak and mowed down from early pregnancy 😅

No one wants warm, soggy chicken sandwiches on a road trip.

Hamburger £1.29
Cheeseburger £1. 49

Nugget meal with a milkshake was £7.19 today.

Ours is a cheap branch, some are more expensive. Check the reddit threads.

It's sold at a loss because not many folk go in and just order a cheeseburger, most will get a drink too, where the profit margin is huge.

Morgan Spurlock was an alcoholic fraud.

It is working. They've just cleaned it and can't be arsed to have to clean it again so they just tell people it's out of order.

I don’t think the quality has declined, it is what it is. However, I agree about the prices - they’re completely nuts.

And lots of veggie and vegan options in Wetherspoons plus comfortable chairs , real knives and forks, and nice clean toilets. I'm always a bit puzzled by adults who like Macdonalds, i will eat a "filet" of fish if there is literally nowhere better and I'm starving, maybe twice in a decade, but even then i can't eat inside, their "restaurants" are so horrible and uncomfortable.