Fast Food Prices Have Doubled In Ten Years... Labor Costs The Main Issue
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Growing up in the 60’s and eating at McDonalds. Hamburger 15 cents and fries 10 cents. And the only adult person there was the manager. Everyone else were part time high school and college kids.
Nowadays you can order takeout from virtually any restaurant by ordering online. Just as fast.
Perhaps we are in a transition period and the legacy restaurants are losing market share. I was thinking to the food trucks without or lowered rent myself
The point is the whole idea of fast food is fast and cheap. Of course it should be edible too, and that has also declined. A big Mac used to be bigger and higher quality than it is now. McD's fish sandwich was pretty darn good at one point and kept me going when I was ill and couldn't eat much. It's an insult that the quality has gotten so bad and the prices skyrocketed. I wouldn't care if they all went out of business now, they are doing no one any good at this point but I don't feel it was always that way.
People can be snotty about it but fast food was huge in the US for decades, long before obesity was an issue. So was barbeque and frozen dinners and ice cream and candy and sugary cereals, etc. Not exactly health food.
I just don't understand why a lot of fast food is so popular.
The reality is that the US has a lot of fairly good food and has the most fantastic BBQ scene and some great fresh unprocessed food.
I would rather sit down and enjoy proper American food than waste money on a lot of the often dubious food that you get at drive in's or other fast food outlets.
Around here you can eat at Cracker Barrel or some other restaurant for about the same price as fast food. The food is better and more filling. The fast food has a lot of fillers that are not real food. It's just empty calories and it fills you up quickly and then you are hungry again not long after. The regular restaurants fill you up and you stay stuffed for a while.
The average franchise owner (the one who pays the wages) does not have multi-million, let alone billion dollar salaries (does ANYONE have a billion dollar "salary?? ) yachts and multiple mansions.
Around here you can eat at Cracker Barrel or some other restaurant for about the same price as fast food. The food is better and more filling. The fast food has a lot of fillers that are not real food. It's just empty calories and it fills you up quickly and then you are hungry again not long after. The regular restaurants fill you up and you stay stuffed for a while.
That's my impression too.
Cracker Barrel isn't fancy but it's much better than McD.
Around here you can eat at Cracker Barrel or some other restaurant for about the same price as fast food. The food is better and more filling. The fast food has a lot of fillers that are not real food. It's just empty calories and it fills you up quickly and then you are hungry again not long after. The regular restaurants fill you up and you stay stuffed for a while.
I think you are leaving out the tipping culture. And at the moment the customer of the fast food industry doesn't feel the social pressure to supplement what the restaurants pays their employees.
I think you are leaving out the tipping culture. And at the moment the customer of the fast food industry doesn't feel the social pressure to supplement what the restaurants pays their employees.
I've always tipped at a sit-down restaurant like Cracker Barrel. There is a server delivering drinks, food, refills, etc.
I got takeout from Buffalo Wild Wings tonight. BOGO 50% traditional wings. I bought six wings, got the other six half off. That used to be BOGO free.
After VA meal tax, it was $18 for a dozen wings.
I saw an ad tonight for a BBQ/meat specialist place about an hour from where I work in western NC. $.50 smoked wings. Smoked prime rib. "Sear a steer" night for a cast iron seared NY strip or ribeye, sprouts, and garlic home fries for $25.
You can't tell me that BWW has a dollar all in per wing when somehow the local place can do it for fifty cents, for a far, far superior product.
I think you are leaving out the tipping culture. And at the moment the customer of the fast food industry doesn't feel the social pressure to supplement what the restaurants pays their employees.
Cracker Barrel has lunch specials. Drink water and bill with tip is less than fast food
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) yachts and multiple mansions.
