I think the point being I wouldn’t consider $16 for two meals as an absurd price. (Higher than I typically pay, because I try to use coupons and deals.) And that’s really what OP ordered (unspecified meal type/size + double cheeseburger + small fry), just minus a second drink. I guess it comes down to the question of how much should a fast food meal cost?
Like back in the 70s when you could pay your Harvard tuition with an average part time entry level job.
I'm sure they will. But people will complain about that too and say how greedy the owner is. When in reality the owner is just trying to continue having a business. My point is just that people need to realize that McDonalds corporate and who is actually paying employee wages is NOT the same. You (general you, not you specifically) have to consider the difference between the greed of the corporation who yes, absolutely could lower royalties (which is completely different than franchise fees btw) but we all know they will not, are not the same. The local guy Joe who has probably 2 mil in up front costs just to open the place isn't being greedy, and would probably love to pay more, but often can't. And when they hire more P/'t employees so they don't have to pay benefits, or raise prices to off set those costs of benefits or higher wages, the general public drags them thru the mud for being greedy and only thinking of themselves, because they only think of the Big Mcd Corporation, not the actual person who isn't making nearly the money people think he is.
Big corporations who pay what people are willing to work for and sell their product to people willing to pay the price for said product are also not greedy. That is Capitalism.
Just to speak about McDonald's (interesting tangent for this thread) because of the franchises 1 location may charge X amount and another Y amount. I'm not going into the whole greedy conversation but there are times where it's not a simple "don't like the price then don't buy it" thing. That's not even getting into taxing situations where you have different cities with different tax rates and the possibility of a special tax district that adds on. You may know for the future but it's not always preventable paying a higher amount and from a franchisee owner perspective charging a higher amount than the McDonald's down the way doesn't necessarily mean the item is priced accordingly. Especially if you aren't using the app and can't see the pricing before you get there. It also doesn't mean that the employees are paid more at the location where the food costs more.
Actually I would flip that. It would be better for the health of our nation if it was less expensive to feed our families with healthy food. A lot of people eat fast food because it's cheap(er) than other options. We do complain about the costs of fast food creeping up there but a lot of foods and meal options that are marketed as healthy(ier) are cost prohibitive to a good amount of people, it causes people like it or not to seek out less expensive options which are often not healthy. So I would say instead of making unhealthy food more expensive make healthy(ier) food less expensive. You're still going to have people eat fast food but there would at least be more options available to people.
I think this is an agree to disagree viewpoint for me. People, IMO, will continue to seek out options that are cheaper even if that cheaper has become more expensive. If you want people to at least look at the healthier options they have to come down in price, the attitude towards it won't change, IMO, if all that occurs is unhealthy food just becomes more expensive.
I don't think that's a good comparison. Five pounds of beef would be 20(!) quarter pound burgers. Even at the higher price, that's $1/burger, still a fraction of a what a quarter pounder would be.
Did you miss my "And yes when you buy meat at the store you can customize how much meat goes into it but a lot of people are just going to look at "It's 20$ to get this meat and just the meat, too pricey"."
