McDonalds has a multinational presence, along with taking regional pricing into account (meaning the prices of food items differ and adjusted based on GDP per capita), like a Big Mac is $6 before tax while the same is $2 in another country.
The menu is different by country (certain menu items are only available in that region, like how Japan has burgers with teriyaki sauce or rice buns) along with the menu being around ¥1500 for a tray while the same is $40 in the US.
I mean, have you tried McDonalds overseas? If so, is it cheaper when you consider regional pricing and what item do you wish was available at US McDonalds but only remains in that country? Is McDonalds in other countries better or worse?
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Yes. They used to be cheap and tolerable. Now they are expensive and shitty. Last time I went it was $16 for a 10 pc nugget meal. It’s Ridiculous.
Where TF do you live? In my app a 10 piece large combo is $8.89 and like $9.79 after tax. That’s if I don’t use a digital coupon. I live in Chicago.
Prices definitely vary from pace to place. I noticed cause the sausage egg mcmuffin meal combo is about 5 dollars at one near me and 7 at a different one also near me.
I live in a tourist trap unfortunately. They really crank the prices.
Long, long ago (2019) I could run to mickey d’s and grab two mcchickens and a large drink for $3 US. I think those same terrible choices cost $8 now.
Fast food got stupid expensive in 2020 and never went back, and its made my wife and I healthier because we stopped buying fast food.
Everything did. I don’t know about where you are, but here the cost of going for food in a pub or restaurant is so expensive that McDonalds is still the cheapest option.
Cheapest option is home cooking.
Totally agree. I was talking about eating out. But you’re bang on. We hardly go out to eat anymore. Pre-covid it was normal we’d go out one a week. Not it’s only time when we’re away from home and want to treat ourselves.
Thats what we do now.
This is not quite the case where I am. Restaurants/pubs prices went up by like a dollar or two per sitting, while fast food went up by like 50%, to the point where if you’ve got the time a restaurant is as cheap or cheaper than the fast food option.
I have seen that myself. It costs about the same for a sit-down place as fast food costs, but you get bigger portions and better food.
I havent seen that. Here in the PNW, even formerly cheap sit-down restaurants have doubled their prices in the last few years. Red Robin’s used to have burgers and bottomless fries for $9.99 and now those burgers are smaller “tavern style” and the fry portion is smaller and they want $18 for it.
It may be the cheapest but its not good enough for what it does cost.
Totally agree. And when we’re feeling lazy we get some frozen, shove in the oven, type food. I know it’s not great but really it’s no different to fast food but cheaper.
just got two chickens recently, $6 a pop. so what used to be $3 now costs around $18 with tax.
Yep, thats been my experience. Breakfast Sausage Burritos used to be like a buck. Now they are almost 5.
I used to go in when i had an extra 10-20 in my pocket and buy a sack of Sausage Burritos and all the picante sauce they’d give me, and eat them over the course of the week… For that same money I’d be lucky to get 3 now. Its absurd.
Yikes
Yes, McDonalds in America is overpriced crap.
It didnt always used to be, but the past 10 years has seen a hard downward spiral in McDonalds America.
Fast food in America, In General, has had a hard downward spiral in the past 10 years. Quality is down, prices have skyrocketed.
Things you used to get off a dollar menu, now cost 3-5 dollars.
You can always rely on McDonald’s to sell the cheapest product they can make, at the highest price people will pay for it.
Yes. Go to a non-chain place. Support small business
McD is crap everywhere.
Yes
I actually quit eating there over 15 years ago which is before I started traveling. Got tired of having hydro-dynamic gastrointestinal expulsion after eating.
That sounds like allergies rather than the quality of the food
Nope. I can eat a burger at other places without issue.
hydro-dynamic gastrointestinal expulsion after eating.
i.e. the shits
I live in the UK and, on a visit to the US in 2017, I decided to try McDonalds in its home country, so to speak. It was significantly worse than what I’d had at home, which is saying something.
Unfortunately yes, at least there are other fast food restaurants that offer better options
The McDonald’s in Indonesia is the first place I had black pepper sauce. It was a revelation to me and I love it to this day.
Vietnam and Indonesia McDonald’s have spicy fried chicken that is fantastic.
Off topic but for some reason in the Da Nang airport (Vietnam) there is a Burger King that has burgers that are fantastic. I don’t know why it’s so much better, and the first time I thought I must have just been hungry as hell but, I went back a year later and it was still good as hell.
I had a McDonalds in Jakarta a few years back. It’s a very different experience. They seem to price themselves in the way StarBucks does, which is opposite to what I’m used to. I prefer the local food still though.
I didn’t try it but I also saw Burger King there has a rendang burger. I liked the idea of it.
Yes. It use to be so cheap that you were OK with a slab of cardboard on 2 rocks. Prices gone up to where you would expect human quality food, but the cardboard got thinner.
If you can afford to eat enough to get full at mcds, it will probably make you sick too. American mcds is garbage.
My ex went to McDonald’s when we went traveling overseas (yes really), so I can say I’ve (unfortunately) had McDonald’s in Australia, Paris, Hong Kong, and Japan.
Australia was the worst. Paris and Hong Kong were ok, but the menu was weird. Japan was actually good. Though… maybe it was skill issue, but the menu was completely impossible. So I ended up just begging the cashier for a ham-bo-ga, please God just any hamboga I’m so hungry.
Is Australian McDonald’s overpriced for it being bad? I’ve tried it once and not worth the price (also, beetroot on burgers is quite bizarre).
I liked the veggie burger when it existed. But nowadays any burger you get will look like it was prepared with a blindfold and briefly sat on. Like imagine a dry patty on a flat greasy bun, decorated with a single pickle, and spattered with
cummayonnaise.Back when I was younger and willing to inflict fast food on my digestive system, I went to Carl’s Jr if I did want a burger. Similar price and actually a decent meal. Plus the chicken nuggets are star shaped and the kids loved that. I’m curious if there’s a similar experience in the states? All I know is if I visit North America I want to try an “In & Out Burger”, I’ve heard they’re good.
If it’s anything like the UK it’s certainly crap.
