McDonalds made $14B in profit last year (2024).

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The prices are insane for all fast food near me. Taco Bell and Subway are also like this. Six bucks for a single chalupa or whatever? Fifteen bucks for a foot long sub? Might as well go to a nicer restaurant. The speed isn’t enough to justify it.

But also the menus have changed. I noticed during COVID lockdowns many of them eliminated breakfast all day, and other things. It’s not just the prices. The experience is itself different. I’m not sure lowering prices will bring back customers.

High fast food prices got me to make cooking more of a regular habit and I'm not going back to this garbage.

Well, how else would you convince your customers that you are affordable?

I hadn't noticed. I haven't frequented a fast food place in 10 years or more. And I worked at Mickey D's when they were bragging about selling a million.