McDonalds is kind of expensive.....

[goofyintoronto]

A big mac combo around here cost a bit over $8! Can you believe it?

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[gm]

Big mac meal is $5.40 where we live.
20pc nuggets are 4.99
$1 menu also has the spicy chicken sandwich

 

[Callie]

I usually order a McDouble, Side Salad, and a Large Ice Tea! They have the best unsweet ice tea. My family goes there sometimes just to drink tea.

Wendys I usually get a Chicken Cesar Wrap $1.29 and a baked Potato for a $1

Arbys we always use a coupon!

Taco Bell is a Deal 3 $2 and an extra taco.

 

[jessica52877]

McD's for DS9 and I always comes out to $13. That can be 2 happy meals with an extra burger or just other meals, doesn't matter how we order, I can't come out less. Our $1 menu has really gone downhill in the past year or two, in fact I am not even positive we have a $1 menu anymore as the last two we were at the prices are $1.+. We at most eat it once a month but I tend to enjoy it when we do.

5 guys comes out closer to $17 for the two of us with one soda. I really enjoy there too though. The price is the main reason we don't eat out often. If DH is with us add another $7-8 easily. Of course it isn't the healthiest either. I can cook at home for way less!

 

[Phil'sFrontier]

Mmmmmm.....McDonalds

 

[cornflake]

small drink = $1
medium drink = $1
large drink = $1

why is it like that? makes me want to get a large every time and gain more weight...

It's like that for the reason bolded.

Soda costs close to literally nothing for chain restaurants like that.

So they offer any size for a dollar and want people to perceive it as a value and go there specifically because they can get the giant thing for 'just' a dollar. From the ads (I don't go in McDonald's, or pretty much any other fast food, so the ads are all I can go by pricewise) I believe they have the same scheme for coffee.

So if soda someplace else costs more for the large, they hope consumers will think 'well, can get a large for only $1 at McDonald's, when it costs $whatever much for that same soda at Burger King or what have you - let's go to McDonald's, it's more value for money.'

Even if someone only stops to get a coffee, perceiving it as a better value, the company is banking on that if a customer walks in for just a coffee or a soda, they're likely to order something in addition.

It's like a loss leader (an item on a really good sale, at like a supermarket or wherever, that may actually cost the company money when people buy it, but the store is betting that people who come in to buy it will pick up other, profit-producing items as well. Especially people who don't normally shop there but go just for the sale item. So they'll take the $2 loss on the item that's drawing people, to get the $20 in profit on the other stuff each person is likely to buy.), except they're likely making a profit on the soda and coffee regardless, since those are very cheap to produce.

 

[Albort]

It's like that for the reason bolded.

Soda costs close to literally nothing for chain restaurants like that.

So they offer any size for a dollar and want people to perceive it as a value and go there specifically because they can get the giant thing for 'just' a dollar. From the ads (I don't go in McDonald's, or pretty much any other fast food, so the ads are all I can go by pricewise) I believe they have the same scheme for coffee.

So if soda someplace else costs more for the large, they hope consumers will think 'well, can get a large for only $1 at McDonald's, when it costs $whatever much for that same soda at Burger King or what have you - let's go to McDonald's, it's more value for money.'

Even if someone only stops to get a coffee, perceiving it as a better value, the company is banking on that if a customer walks in for just a coffee or a soda, they're likely to order something in addition.

It's like a loss leader (an item on a really good sale, at like a supermarket or wherever, that may actually cost the company money when people buy it, but the store is betting that people who come in to buy it will pick up other, profit-producing items as well. Especially people who don't normally shop there but go just for the sale item. So they'll take the $2 loss on the item that's drawing people, to get the $20 in profit on the other stuff each person is likely to buy.), except they're likely making a profit on the soda and coffee regardless, since those are very cheap to produce.

ahh, okay... ill just stick with my double gulp...

 

[nchulka]

I haven't looked at the regular menu in so many years I wouldn't even know whats on it! We only do value menu! We don't eat out much but when we do it's 2 bucks a person, a burger, and fruit n yogurt parfait and water. I personally hate fries. The McDonalds around us have happy meals for 1.99 on Wed. nights so we will stop by there for those on our way to church a few times a year. It stays in my under 2 bucks a person price range

 

[miss.potatohead]

wow, if that's expensive don't come to Australia for McDonalds! A SMALL quater pounder meal is around $5-$7. +50cents for medium, $1 for large. Different stores have different prices though.

We do have the value menu where there are cheeseburgers, mcchickens, small fries etc for $2 each but usually these offers are available between certain times (well, at the McDonalds in my local shopping mall anyway).

What gets me is that they can charge $9 for a caesar salad alone! No wonder the globe is becoming more obese when the healthy foods cost much more than the junk.

 

[dabute]

More pink slime?

Thank you for reminding me of this. I was starting to crave McDonald's and I no longer eat fast food. My craving is now crushed.

 

[MIGrandma]

small drink = $1
medium drink = $1
large drink = $1

why is it like that? makes me want to get a large every time and gain more weight...

The only time I get a large drink at McD's is if I'm ordering iced tea. If I want a Diet Coke it's a small. Iced tea I will drink even when the ice is melted. I don't do that with Diet Coke, once the ice starts to melt it loses some of it's fizz. So if I ordered a large, I wouldn't drink it all, so I just go with small and it's perfect.

An Arby's roast beef sandwich could cost $100 and I would gladly pay it...I love those suckers

I wouldn't pay THAT much for one, but they ARE good! I usually get a medium size (more MEAT!!) and I LOVE the Arby sauce and horsey sauce!!

 

[Erin1700]

I usually order a McDouble, Side Salad, and a Large Ice Tea! They have the best unsweet ice tea. My family goes there sometimes just to drink tea.

Wendys I usually get a Chicken Cesar Wrap $1.29 and a baked Potato for a $1

Arbys we always use a coupon!

Taco Bell is a Deal 3 $2 and an extra taco.

We like the unsweet tea there too! I often run through the drive thru to get my $1.00 large unsweet tea!

 

[goofyintoronto]

We like the unsweet tea there too! I often run through the drive thru to get my $1.00 large unsweet tea!

here in my neck of the woods sweetened tea is unheard of. its always sweetened. funny, when we go to Disney my son tells me to remind him NOT to order the ice tea, in case he forgets. lol.

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[mrodgers]

That about 7 dollars a person. Where else could you get a burger and fries and a drink for that

Just about any regular restaurant around here including both chain and local owned. Anyone from western PA knows the Springfield Group restaurants and it costs us roughly the same to have a meal of burgers as it does to go to a fast food place.

If any of you travel through the western PA area, I advise you to stop for lunch at any of the Springfield Group places, they are excellent. Rachels, The Iron Bridge, The Log Cabin Inn, and the Springfield Grill, all awesome places to eat.

 

[SLCborn]

Thank you for reminding me of this. I was starting to crave McDonald's and I no longer eat fast food. My craving is now crushed.

LMAO I thought the same thing and my son works at McD's! I'm so glad I HATE hamburger....either made at home or out!!!

My son can get a discount on food and it's still expensive!!! I'm mostly glad that they don't give him a free meal or much of a discount because he works a lot and I really don't want him eating that much fast food. We dont eat fast food more than a couple times a year and that's just due to laziness or when I'm going to be late.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Drinks are also a dollar al a carte, but more expensive in a meal.

It's generally cheaper to get two sandwiches, share a large fry, and two drinks than two combos. Plus you get more monopoly pieces by getting two med drinks.

Wendy's and Arby's are also really expensive for fast food.

Here's how cheap we are - we buy one small soda & share

 

[Gumbo4x4]

That about 7 dollars a person. Where else could you get a burger and fries and a drink for that

My wife & I can just about do that at Red Robin. The burgers are twice as big, so we get one & split it. They always double up the fries when we do it that way, so we each have plenty to eat. The drinks are more expensive, but the fries are included in the price of the burger. So, after tax we're right there. We go over with the tip though.

 

[Andtototoo]

My wife & I can just about do that at Red Robin. The burgers are twice as big, so we get one & split it. They always double up the fries when we do it that way, so we each have plenty to eat. The drinks are more expensive, but the fries are included in the price of the burger. So, after tax we're right there. We go over with the tip though.

And see, around here, Red Robin could be giving the burgers away for free and I still wouldn't eat them. I have never once gotten a Red Robin burger that wasn't RAW in the middle even when I've specified well done.

 

[tvguy]

My wife & I can just about do that at Red Robin. The burgers are twice as big, so we get one & split it. They always double up the fries when we do it that way, so we each have plenty to eat. The drinks are more expensive, but the fries are included in the price of the burger. So, after tax we're right there. We go over with the tip though.

Haven't been to Red Robin in years. I guess a $10 burger is a better deal if you split it......but.....and not to hijack the thread, am I the only one to notice how many restaurants are now posting that there is a charge for plate splitting....usually around $5 ? Guess it was cutting into their business, and the cost of running the place is the same, even if customers are splitting an order.

 

[tvguy]

Thank you for reminding me of this. I was starting to crave McDonald's and I no longer eat fast food. My craving is now crushed.

. Funny, McDonalds get blasted for stuff, when their standards are probably higher than the fanciest restaurants.