Well I can go to McDonald's and get an incredibly shitty burger and sugar-laden fries and a coke for 17 dollars or I can go literally next door to Chili's and get a sit-down meal for 14 bucks including tip
Why the fuck would I go to McDonald's
Washed up psycho Ronald McDonald has a problem... The "Fish Delite" is no longer "hot"
maybe they can try not supporting the IOF next time
They bought the rights to the entire Isntreali chain recently tho 
Why anyone would choose to dine out at McDonald's in the first place is beyond my ability to comprehend
it used to be the price, primarily, but I think there's best of the old school burger places (e.g., not In 'n' Out)... When I want a borger I go to a local joint though. I think they're even cheaper than McDonald's now.
I can go to a breakfast place down the road and get the most delectable hand made chicken sandwich with cheese, lettuce, and tomato for exactly $5. Only downside is they close at like 3pm
I love McDonald's
Look sometimes you just want to order a 40 piece nuggets and be in and out in 5 minutes. It also helps that I work 3rd shift, and it's like the quickest place (and one of the few places still open) for me to get something to eat on break if I end up sleeping all day before my shift.
quarter : pounded 
I was eating there in a bad way, like 4-5 times a week for breakfast, and then one day, two egg mcmuffins were like 11 bucks, and I said fuck that. I switched to about 400 calories total greek yogurt, about 20 oz. Cheaper and healthier.
I haven't been back since, and combined with other healthier choices, I'm down from 208 to 193 lbs over the last 3 months, with a goal to eventually reach 180 and maintain it.
For example, instead of getting 2 triple cheeseburgers, I made a 6 oz grilled chicken breast sandwich with pickles and light mayo, came out with more protein, less fat, and less overall calories.
Thanks McDonalds!
We love to see it
I used to be a Taco Bell and Little Caesars schlub, and getting a rice cooker and pressure cooker to prepare homemade beans and rice and learning how to make pizza dough and make it in a home oven occasionally has cut down my "damn I'm eating garbage" ratio a lot
Best of luck 
Oh yeah! Take-out pizza was a weekly regular thing for me too! 30 bucks for the pizza meant it was costing 15 bucks for a single meal, half a large pizza, not only was it thousands of calories, but I got to thinking what else I could buy and cook for $15 bucks, and it always ate me up inside, that's enough for a luxury meal if buying the ingredients and cooking it myself, something like a 6-8 oz steak or salmon and 4 oz shrimp dinner with 2 healthy sides like asparagus and basmati rice. Not to mention how much less something like tofu, beans, lentils, or even chicken or pork would cost!
Big blocks of cheese from Costco and bulk tomato sauce and diced tomatoes are a huge saver in bulk versus shredded cheese packs at supermarkets. Costco have variety packs of pretty high quality pastas sometimes too that are great deals. Other than that, I normally rotate discount pasta varieties from Kroger, but if you have the time and means to build up a collection of seasonings and spices and learn some cooking skills, you can save a lot versus the equivalent eating out, and can watch calories easier when you measure stuff yourself. I was shocked how much added salt and fat are in a lot of chain restaurant meals. I really like adding dried TVP to sauces sometimes for extra texture and protein, that kinda works for Italian and Mexican style cooking the way tofu does for a lot of Asian recipes. Bulk dried beans, barley and garbanzos are relatively cheap at places like WinCo and store well and you can get a lot of mileage out of, and if you have a Korean grocery chain nearby, they often have the best prices on bulk rice and a great selection of seasonings and frozen seafood.
For your health! 
For the quarter, which ended on June 30, McDonald's reported revenue of $6.49 billion, up 2.01% year over year, compared to estimates of $6.63 billion
Not good enough homies, fuck these labor leeches. Mfrs make billions a quarter, bitch when told workers deserve a raise and still increase the price of their nasty ass shit food
What spoiled entitled brats.
McDonalds Mcdouble: 1/5lb of meat glue, a single pickle, more ketchup and mustard than any reasonable human wants on anything, and the worlds thinnest slice of american cheese for like $3. Lettuce costs extra and they ration it like its some $100 an ounce delicacy.
I can toast 2 pieces of wonderbread, fry up a 1/4lb of either beef or the vegan stuff, add whatever else I want, and it'll be about the same price and taste better.
The other day I fried up a boca burger and violife cheese topped with tomatoes, lettuce, pickles and homemade Big Mac sauce. It probably cost me $3 in ingredients plus 10 minutes. 10/10 it was so yummy
mcdonalds has gotten so stupidly expensive recently, I have no idea why anyone would still go there. yeah no shit people are gonna stop buying your food, you're charging $15+ for the most mediocre burger and fries ever. at that point I might as well just go somewhere good.
And for the most part, it's not even the local businesses setting these prices. Mcdonald's is fucking over its own franchisees in pursuit of a tiny increase in profit
In addition to suddenly being stupidly expensive, every trip to McDonald’s takes like half an hour now. Every location is insanely understaffed and the few people who do work there are like twelve. Between that and the price you might as well go to a chipotle or something and get something a bit more substantial.
We've been doing this for years compared to everyone else. Dining has always been a luxury that maybe we might indulge in a couple of times a year.
I wish I was that good at planning/cooking food
Its a learned skill, its not that fun learning it but its gets easier when you find your system
I have an advantage because my father cooked commercially for many years. The disadvantage is that it's carb-heavy Italian food and he doesn't really get portion sizes when he's cooking off the top of his head.
I worked for a guy back in 2021/22 who used to take us through the drive-thru of fast food places a lot for either breakfast or lunch. I always ate before work so I never needed anything, but he'd sit there in the drive thru and complain about the price and how employees wanting $2 more per hour was obviously the cause of the rising prices and how none of it was worth the cost anymore and blah blah blah. Then the next day we'd go right back to the same drive thru and he'd give the same shpiel again. I never understood why he couldn't just buy some bread and deli meat or something and make himself some sandwiches instead of constantly bitching. He was a Gen Xer btw
The West has fallen 
If McDonald's kicks it, people will be radicalized. Bailing it out will have massive bipartisan support because nobody will want to be branded a McDonald's-killer.
I know it won't happen, but the idea of Newer Deal Keynesianism kicking off because the burger clown goes bankrupt is so perfect lmfao
🎵BA BA BA BA BA… I’M HATING IT🎵
I only go there to get the free item promos and hopefully cost them money 
Burgerland is falling.
Dining out .
Fuck me.
The borgor clown should have jokerfied like the rest of us. Now it's too late.
China's consumer sentiment really is cooling? First the Louis V news and this. This isn't a china is doomed reaction, just interesting to see the cooldown playout.
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