Crunchwrap used $4-5, it’s almost $9 now… For what?
They’re absurdly overpriced. They keep raising prices because people keep paying them.
I haven’t been to a fast food restaurant in years because they’re not worth the money. It used to be bad food for a cheap price, now it’s just bad food.
Inflation in the West is correlated to de-dollarization happening worldwide
Wait until you learn in certain parts of the world they’re eating authentic tacos for only 70 cent
lmao just eat real mexican/texmex food
Fast food has been hit hard by the enshitification. More expensive and doesn’t even taste good anymore because they use even shittier ingredients than they used to. The only reason people still bother is typically lack of time to cook.
You can make most fast food items at home if you have the time. It will be cheaper and taste better.
You can get better food for cheaper at a local restaurant nowadays. Maybe not a fancy place but your local taco joint or diner.
I wish that was the case where I live.
A burger worth half a damn (in both taste and portion) in Burger King will cost me nearly as much as a smash burger with jalapeño aioli and loaded fries from a local burger joint. Pizza Hut/Domino’s is the same, there’s a proper italian dining place less than 50m from my place, prices are comparable but the taste just isn’t there for Pizza Hut or Domino’s.
I’m a very stingy person but that price difference is not worth the difference in quality.
Man I remember when a taco was 49 cents. Jesus I feel like a fucking dino now, it’s happened.
Everything is artificially inflated by 1.7x to 2.4x ever since covid. The inflation you are seeing is not real inflation but rather manufactured by those in high-up positions at most fortune-500 companies.
Yeah the prices are getting out of control. It can be cheaper to eat at a fast casual restaurant.
Taco Bell in particular has always been a particular case of “how the fuck are they still in business??” …on top of way over priced, subpar quality, and subpar taste, they sell a product in a saturated market, and nearly all of their competitors are better.
Even if we’re talking shitty fast food, there are dozens of Taco Bell like chains, and almost all of them are better than or at least equal to Taco Bell.
And outside of shitty fast food, actual Mexican food is all over the place. To include more authentic taquarias that usually sell tacos and burritos for like half of what Taco Bell does and their product is fucking delicious. We have one of those near were I live - right across the street from a Taco Bell… and every day Taco Bell has a line around the fucking building, while the cheaper, better, and ready-to-take-your-order place is right fucking there! Drives me insane.
Fast food has priced itself mostly out of my household. Probably better for our health, but we spend far more time cooking now.
Used to get it probably twice a week for convenience. Now it’s down to about once or twice a month, during the handful of occasional evenings where we have absolutely zero extra time to cook.
Yep, price is up, quality is down, fast food seems more of an expensive novelty now than whatever it was supposed to be. Stopped going unless I was on a road trip or with friends. Frozen food with an air fryer (got the fryer secondhand for the cost of a McD meal) satisfies the craving, but for much less money.
The 5-layer burrito is delicious and it’s only $5. It’s a bargain, even with the extra meat option.
Not just you, corpo fastfood like mcdonalds, kfc and whatever have been more expensive (and worse quality) than local non-chain street/fastfood for years.
This year a mcdonalds opened in my small-ish town, and I can’t fathom why anybody would buy there. There’s a better restaurant for every single item on the menu, with better quality for cheaper/same price. The only thing it has going for it is the drive thru.
Edit: This is in Poland
Fast food is ridiculous now. Everything around here is almost twice what it cost 5-6 years ago. Might as well go to an actually good restaurant for that.
Yup, also while prices may have gone up across the board the spread of prices seems to have reduced. At this point eating out is a bad value but I feel like spending $30 on a good meal gives me better value than a nearly $20 fast food meal.
Yup. And I can usually get an additional 1-3 leftover meals from that $30 good meal from a local restaurant.
And it’s not even that fast
It’s also not food
When the price of fast food goes up too fast, it’s an indicator of impending financial collapse.
Not disputing this (plenty of financial doom indicators right now), but I am curious if it’s been backtested? Is there a chart for fast food prices I can cross compare?
