There's plenty affordable fast food out there, just not at McDonalds. McDonalds and other publicly traded fast food companies have jacked up prices to pay their shareholders while simultaneously decreasing quality and service across the board. Meanwhile, I've got a regional burger chain near me where I can get a double cheeseburger with fries for $5 that's way more substantial than anything McDonalds offers.

This isn't "a boring dystopia," this is just people dumping McDonalds, which is a good thing.

Yeah traditional fast food is expensive now, much more bang for your buck going to local chinese, mexican, and indian restaurants where I am. Even a subway sandwich has inched above the prices of local sandwich places (and it’s by far the lowest quality).

I don't agree with the conclusion. Mcdonalds has gotten more expensive than many high end burgers, and mcdonalds is not a high end burger.

A lot of false conclusions here.

• Groceries stores are now cheaper than fastfood / restaurants? That was always the case! $50 of food at the grocery store will always go farther than $50 at a restaurant.
• It isn't just the higher costs turning people away from McDonald's. It is how shit the food has always been but now at even smaller sizes.
• You can find better deals at actual restaurants not just rival fast food chains.

It was shit when I ate it for $1 a decade ago while I worked 3 jobs. It's still shit, but now it costs 2-3x more. I since figured out how to cook stuff that doesn't taste like shit for the same price or less

Im no longer going to mcdonalds because the wait times are insane. The inside staff are low staffed. If you order inside it will most likely take 20 minutes to get your food. If you're in drive through, they just tell you to pull into one of the numbered spots, and then eventually you might get your food.

They took the "fast" out of fast food and made it ridiculously expensive. So no, I'm not going to spend $10 on a meal thats going to take half an hour to make when I can just go to a sit down restaurant and get a much better burger for $12

I wonder what the impact of weight loss drugs will be once they hit the mainstream. Those things are just normal (but very effective) appetite suppressants. Combine 20+ years of bad PR with a real way for people to curb their very real psychological addictions to fast food and I can actually see a future where we look back on today's fast food like we do to whatever the fuck the 1970s thought about jell-o

It fell by 1℅ between April and June. Bruh, technically true, but this is really clickbaity to me.

People are boycotting b/c McD's supports genocide.

yeah, you better eat healthy food.