The only person that will not feel the pinch of the rising cost of hamburgers is the Hamburglar

I stopped going years ago when they became inedible. I would get sick less than 30 minutes after eating. The prices are irrelevant when the food is disgusting.

I had Wendy’s yesterday for the first time in a couple years, something is off with their food, nothing tasted like I remembered and I almost immediately felt like garbage

The prices of fast food were rising way before wages

I was in a McDonalds Saturday for breakfast and to let my granddaughter play at their play yard which she loves to do. This one has the kiosk machines that they want you to order from. I don't like them but that's part of big corporate world's plan to slowly phase out labor cost and push one towards a cashless society. Its not a necessary evil but it is an evil that we can't seem to stop. Anyway... a middle aged man was ahead of me and stood at the counter waiting for an employee to wait on him and they pretty much ignored the heck out of him until he asked for help. The employee asked if he had ordered and he said no that's why I flagged you down. She told him that he must order from the kiosk. The man threw his hands up and said, "oh my God.....I'm out of here." I think that allot of Americans, especially middle age and older won't put up with these kiosk or the high prices. So it isn't surprising to me that business is in decline. It should be when you charge more, give less and force people to interact with a machine and discourage the use of cash.

I used to work at Mcdonalds in the 90s and most value meals cost 2.99 plus tax and a hamburger was 59 cents. The cost of food is insane now and most people can no longer afford it. Most are choosing to eat at home, its cheaper and better quality.

I've noticed at the Mall of America that there's some businesses that never have customers in them but they stay in business. One day I realized that they are so overpriced that they make a profit with only a few sales. I think McDonalds is going that route. They don't want long lines of people anymore. They want people who only want to spend a few dollars to go elsewhere.

Something that I have noticed is the age of employees working in fast food is much older than it used to be. Used to be16-24 year old workers. Now they are 30-45 year old workers. Such jobs are near zero skill level. They are not career type jobs. Those were perfect jobs for students while they took classes. I have asked some that work in such places, why do you work here. All but one said because the business they worked at closed during COVID and never reopened. As for the cost of eating there, they have priced their way out of my budget. And I have started cooking every meal that I eat at home.

I order curbside at sit down restaurants because curbside is cheaper than fast food and tastes better

Once McDonalds figures out they can sell a Big Mac for $8, they know they can keep it there. They’ve proven people are gullible enough to buy it at that price. It’ll take more will power to make hem change.

I haven't been to a McDonald's in 5 yrs, especially since FJB in office🤮

Before you blame the lower wage employees, keep in mind that the CEO of McD's makes 17.5 million a year. And that's just one person in a room full of executives. And all they do is once a year decide to release the McRib for a couple weeks.

I am the GM of a fast food resturant. I won't name it but it is a big one. We were told to raise our prices 3 times since the new year. NONE of that money has gone to the upkeep of the store and NONE of that money has gone to getting more staff so that we can better serve our customers. On a Saturday night I am expected to run qith just myself and two people. Each person is doing the job of 5 people. I take orders answere phones prepair food, ect and then when there is a hiccup and something is wrong we get blamed like it's intention

The prices were already high. They want you to feel sorry for them that they have to pay living wages for the first time ever. Don’t feel sorry!!!!! They raised prices on their cardboard food years ago!!!

I eat at home. And because I have been a trad housewife for most of my adult life I am a very good cook and know how to stretch dollars. Omg, someone help the young people who can’t put a healthy tasty meal together with less. It is do-able, but with the absence of home economics and all the systems we had coaching us as kids on basic survival (scouting, school programs, and clubs). We need a revival of basic survival skills in our educational system. Gardening, canning and cooking.

I'm kind of shocked McDonald's isn't teetering toward bankruptcy. Considering the fact that their burgers are so much worse then the other fast food chains; I don't know how they are staying open.

Remember how Carl's jr used to have the $6 burger trolling fancy restaurant burgers for having a $6 price tag now a bacon cheeseburger is like 9.50

Groceries are high, but still cheaper eating at home. My HB taste a lot better & cheaper!!

I don't feel sorry for them they have raked in billions and have paid their employees nothing people have stopped paying for junk when they can get a good meal or simply go to the grocery store and cook

The less junk food Americans eat the better their health will be and the lower their health costs will be. Make your own healthy burgers people. It will be cheaper and better for you in the long run. You don't have to use your car to drive to a burger joint, etc. And it will take less time to make your own.

I havent eaten fast food since 2019. If I do its pizza from a local shop not a chain. It's become ridiculous. They dont clean properly, its greasy, hardly tastes good, makes your stomach hurt, makes you tired, and its expensive?! T.f?

12 years ago I paid $10 for a 12 pack of tacos from Taco Bell. Now it's $22.99. For that price I can go to Chipotle or somewhere like that and get better quality for CHEAPER. Ironic. lol

I noticed recently at my neighborhood McDonald’s that the lines have in the drive thru have greatly decreased. They used to be backed up into the street at noon….

The problem is people aren't having babies...hear me out. Jobs where teens would perform the menial labor for pocket money now are staffed by people trying to pay their bills. In my area you can clearly see this on the weekends at McD's. There used to be about fifteen 15 year old's slamming out orders with a couple of older people sprinkled. Now it's middle aged people who are struggling. This is being played out in many industries.

I won't be shedding any tears for these greed machines.

We quit going to McDonalds at least 5 years ago when the prices went up higher than fast food is worth. In fact, we don't eat out at all anymore. I can cook 4 times the food for the same price. Glad I spent a couple decades as a chef.

First of all, McDonalds is not a fast food joint they are a real estate corporation. Ray Kroc always said we're not a restaurant we are a real estate company

I can’t remember the last time I ate that crap. Every time I’ve had it in the passed few years, it’s been an overpriced bag of regret.

Toxic food = toxic body = toxic mind.

They made their money, they're just getting greedy

$15 an hour and McDonald’s use automated kiosks to replace workers. Texas has a fully automated restaurant. The problem lies with exorbitant CEO pay and investors dividend checks.

I didn't have time to prep for lunch today so I said, "Ill just go grab a burger". Went to Sizzler and spent 15 bucks on a burger and salad bar. That same $15 at Donalds and I could have gotten the same thing, just worse.

I'm a long distance truck driver that stopped Goshen Indiana add a burger place called Culver's and got an amazing high quality me for half of what I would have spent at McDonald's. Look up their menu!

I make 11,200 a year eleven thousand and change let that sink in for everybody here!!!! USA 🇺🇸 new jersey 😢 💔

The food is too darn expensive...its ridiculous!

Went to chilis on Saturday, cost the same as McDonalds… The only reason Chilis was more expensive is because of the tip, and I’m just fine with that! Fast food is done if they don’t straighten themselves out.

People you haven't seen nothing yet... People loosing their houses because of rents going up property taxes going up gas going up house insurance going up should I keep going. Get ready it's here and will not get easier.

It made me go back to my roots and how I was raised. Home cooked Louisiana creole meals from scratch. I've already lost weight without trying. Taste better and cheaper.

I make a good living. That said, I am frugal. I can afford to eat out, I just choose not to be the fool. Bought an air fryer, a slow cooker. Now I cook at home. Better quality food, way cheaper price, better regulated.

I'm so confused. McDumpsters CEO "we have to raise prices. We're going broke paying higher wages. We have no choice or go out of business." Quarterly report comes out. Surprise! Record profits, again! Stock holders jumping for joy. Let these crappy fast food compost heaps go by way of the dodo.

Without pay rate structure regulations, never in ever will business owners allow their bottom line or their own pockets to suffer. The minimum wage hike legislation cost will always be passed on to workers and customers.

CEO's make simple things sound complicated. That's all they do.

I spent $60 for 2 breakfast at IHop last week. 1 omelette, 1! eggs Benedict, 1 coffee, 1 iced tea.

I am glad I have hated McDonalds since I was a child. But Wendys is out of control. Their prices have more than doubled and that was before wage increases and all that.

Not only has the prices risen but the items are smaller, for example THE WHOOPER (they can't even use the old larger box anymore) and the amount of french fries is so much less and at a higher price - the large fries are now a medium in quantity. SHRINKFLATION is raging all around, everywhere. Not just McDonald's and Burger King.

I have not eaten that that place since 2011 when the burgers started making us sick. I'm talking violently, painfully ill. We are over 60 years old, our 20 year old son won't touch it. In fact anything with soy does not touch his lips. He doesn't look like the kids his age that eat that crap.

Lots of Burger King, Pizza Hut, KFC, and even some McDonald's are closing. This is a good thing since fast food is bad for our health. Start cooking meals at home. It is healthier and cheaper to buy a pound of ground round hamburger, loaf of bread, bag of potatoes, and a non-seed oil. Also, great commentary at the end of video: If Americans was interest rates and even prices to come down, we must STOP spending money on things that are not a necessity or are overpriced to the point of ridiculousness!

I'm in Ontario and the prices are even higher on average than the States. The owners of the largest grocery chains took in billions while many people can no longer afford to buy the food they need. McDonalds here is planning to introduce prime costs where you pay even more if you go during peak hours for lunch or supper. Starbucks here also has a TIP function on the payment machine in the drive through so that you cannot pay until you choose a tip option.

I quit going a long time ago when they told me to pull off to the side and made me wait 40 mins. I wrote a bad review took picture of receipt posted it with review got a call 2 days later and got the manager fired

I saw a chart recently about this showing that while all fast food prices increased prices above the rate of inflation, McDonald's was easily the highest increase.

To your "Once prices go up are they ever going to go back down?" comment, unfortunately we're at a point to where that may be a necessary measure. Profits will eventually evaporate if they don't take the time to notice this, and places will start to shutter, and I'm not just talking in the restaurant industry either. I genuinely think that the current situation we're in is going to force us down a new road revolving around "economic sustainability" when it comes to food and other necessities, cause as it stands, the current methods are unsustainable.

People need to get paid what they deserve to be paid. It’s time for wages to rise to the what they are supposed to be based on inflation just like the cost of the products being sold to consumers. How do these greedy MF’s think the people are going to keep consuming their products. Either raise our wages or lower your prices back down to what the current wages can afford to pay and that includes all products, services and housing. Everything is out of control because of greed.

OG i am a chef and I RATHER EAT AT HOME AND COOK HOT YUMMIE MEALS going out to eat is pointless your going to help put money in those CEOS pocket naw SMALL ma and pa market shops they need it more

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's for 25 years and counting.

God forbid the ceo take a pay cut

I stopped going to McD's years ago. I have a small local burger place and get a cheeseburger and fries for $6. It's tastier than McD's. I only go there about once a week. I eat all the rest of my meals at home.

$6 20 piece is the only thing keeping me going. I was was a manager when the mcdouble replaced the $1 double cheeseburger. It's gotten insane!

fast food is over for me I'm in my 70's and My income has not went up at all. As I'm on a very limited income. I just have to do with out and eat cream of wheat for 3 meals a day. thank god my home is paid for or I would be living under a bridge. I don't own a car as I could not afford gas let alone the insurance or payments. if stuff goes up more I will have to turn off my utility's.

There are probably many reasons for higher costs, one i can think of is the loss of livestock like the fire in Texas that killed 18,000 head of cattle and nationwide.

That’s how come I cook my own food. No point going out if the cost is going be more than’ going shopping and, cleaning your own dishes. Called stop being lazy.

Yeah remember "In the future we won't own anything and like it" RIGHT 👍

I was craving mcd fries a couple of days ago. 1 large fry and 1 medium coke cost $6.68.

The food is toxic. I stopped going there when they charged 15.00 for the Grimace meal. I think those meals were testing grounds for charging more.

My wife and I are in our late seventies and we just pick up orders from fast food twice a month and never order drinks anymore can not afford it anymore 😢Thanks My Friend By the way Angelina Jordan is singing in London today 👍🙏👣💯😎

McDonald's had the Dollar Menu less than 10 years ago.

It's all about your profit margins. If you can't hit that margin, you either raise prices or layoff employees. I've seen it all over here in Vegas. It's just going to get worse.

It's got to the point, that I would rather order food from a normal restaurant and go pick it up. You can go anywhere for better food and you probably get more, for the same price.

Fries taste like damp cardboard when they're not steaming hot

McDonald’s has forgotten who they are in this conversation.

The recession hit last year, the current administration changed the metrics of what defines a recession. Which is why you're seeing everything closing now. You can't lie your way into a good economy.

I don’t shop at any restaurants including fast food I barely want to buy groceries it’s hard out here

They could be giving it away and I still wouldn't eat there.

Why we still working with money and debt? Wish we could find a better way. You shouldn't need a piece of paper with a dead guy on it to be valued as a person or an employee. People hoarding it makes it worse for everyone. Soo much unnecessary stress. Credit needs to go away or be reduced. What ever happened to if you can't afford it, you don't need it?

Who's gonna pay $25 for a stale cold burger and fries that's half the size it once was?

used to buy mcdoubles for 1.39. Now they're somewhere over 3.50 in Canada. Why would your tiny budget burger be that expensive.

Remember back when we were told...if we paid fast food workers $15 an hour. It would only add 10 cents to the cost of a BigMac, and we were all horrible people for not doing this.

In the U.K. where I’m from, our minimum wage is £11.44 which is $14.53 USA. I can’t afford takeaways because everything is so expensive.

A year ago I got a job delivering to costco. On the way to work there is a truck stop with a wendy's inside so i stopped. I hadn't eaten there in like 4 years so i was eager to tear into a dave's triple meal. when the clerk rang up the food she said something i didn't expect. 'That will be $19, she said.' $19 I said almost yelling. I was so loud that several people stopped in their tracks and started staring in my direction. If i ate there everyday that would be about $100 a week to just eat lunch. I said to hell with that and went to Walmart, got some lunch meat and bread and ate ham sandwiches the 6 months i worked there. I can only imagine how much it costs now. Fast food used to be a treat or cheap on the run food. Now it's break the bank expensive. Thank you joe biden...🤬😡

Ther prices don't affect me at all. I don't go there.

You laid this out very well ... great video

paying more will only make the problem worse because costs will only climb with it. the Government quite literally has to _burn_ the money they've printed, because Fiat is based on a fixed value. for instance although our currency is not based on gold this will make it easier to explain. Say we have 100 million gold bullion bars. when you print a single 1$ bill, that 1$ will actually be worth all 100 million gold bullion bars. Now if you print two 1$ bills, each will be worth half of the 100 million bullion bars. you print four 1$ bills, it's now worth 1/4th the bullion bars. if you print 8 it will not be worth 1/8th bullion bars and this will constantly go on, and on, and on. The only way to fix the problem, is to increase the value of our nation OR burn the money we have printed. there's no real other option, because the value of the $ will *always* be based on the economic value of our nation.

Thank you Sir

I remember Big Mac combo was 7.01 when I started my first job, I go cross the parking lot to McDonald’s from king scooper for lunch once to twice a month. That was little over 10 years ago

A month ago it was people who made under 40K, had stopped eating there.

The minimum wage issue is such a double edge sword. I see both sides of it. I think a big problem in retail is that they won't give you full time. I have had to work as many as 3 jobs to get 40 working hours a week.

One item I just saw this week is the price of a steak and egg muffin McD's breakfast sandwich went from 5.58 on the app to $8.29 if you pay cash through the drive through. Yeah, my breakfast days look over. Also stopped Taco B, etc after a couple consecutive price hikes on cheap items I bought(two in less that two months of >20%).

McDonald's is not for the lower class anymore. 8 dollars for a tiny burger is luxury food

They have doubled if not triple their price in the last 10 years for the same old azz menu. Of course, low income family's are probably just cooking at home to save money.

Should we complain to Mayor McCheese? Ask Officer Big Mac to arrest the culprit? Maybe pay the Hamburglar a couple of bucks to grab a few combo meals? We're gonna have to get creative if we want to eat. I can't even find any coupons!

Don't go to Wendys. The pricing has skyrocketed and the quality is worse than McDonalds.

Just paid $16 for a large double whopper meal at Burger King a couple of days ago never going back.

I live right around the corner from a McDonald's. And I have little urge to go there. Maybe because it's so convenient and when I go there, at most I usually buy the fries. I can't remember the last time I bought a big Mac.

They are pricing out the lower and middle class income brackets. I telling ya bro, they gonna sell us bugs to eat. You've seen Snowpiercer the movie. I mean they could start feeding us Soylent Green.

Be weary of any NEW DEALS it'll probably mean = more filler, less protein, more processed foods, and above all if you eat a 1$ burger that they just released in the future, you have zero clues what's in it. Chalk wheat whey calcium lead and anthrax, but McDonald's calculated its perfect for your dietary needs. 😅😂

My first job, like a lot of people, was at McDonald's. In '81 and '82 and the big deal then was that you could still get a meal for under a dollar. Hamburger, small fries and a small drink. That was the regular menu price, not a special and it was cheap even then. The hourly wage was $2.90 an hour. How does that compare to 1/3 the current hourly wage?

I remember when a double cheeseburger was a dollar. Damn starting to sound like my elders

I have not purchased anything from McDonald's except $1 coffee in over a decade and don't frequent any fast food restaurants unless they have discounted/reduced prices.

Last year I could pay the same for two people as a nice restaurant for two. I stop going to McDonald's last year

Alot of people don't know, food service is not their number 1 money maker. They are a real estate company.

They were raising prices before the minimum wage hike.