What is the point of fast food anymore

[prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

And all you have to do is give the corporation complete access to your personal cell phone!

[prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Yeah the rise in pizza prices has been disappointing in my area. Unless you're getting just a plain pie, you're gonna spend at least $20 for like a medium pizza.

There are so many goddamn places around here too, that there has to be like a pizza cartel or something, setting the price lol...

[timmy_dean_sausage@lemmy.world]

Right!? They have no idea what culture is, or what they're missing out on.

[prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Capitalism at work. Race to the bottom.

[prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Just eat real chicken at that point...

[prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Applebees is just as bad as fast food imo. Trash food.

[pugjesus@lemmy.world]

Worse. Applebees fries taste like stale bread.

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

Double Whopper with medium fries and drink is now $14 and change where I live.

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

I lost 20lbs during lockdown because I stopped eating pre-prepared meals and ate more snacks between meals.

I was just lamenting the size of my belly (it's back) this morning. The horror…

[idkwhatusernametoputherelolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I didn't learn of chick fil a's existence until like a few years ago

[ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml]

I had that happen at a Taco Bell once.

I really wanted Taco Bell, so I waited 40 minutes in line while the person in front of me was arguing with the employees at the window. I'm not sure if it was someone arguing over expired coupons for 40 minutes, or if it was some annoying shithead trying to do a viral stunt or what the problem was, but I really wanted Taco Bell and I was going to get it.

[tm12@lemmy.ca]

America has too many drive thru’s. Cars waiting all the time because understaffed fast food places are squeezing labour. I’ve started just walking inside to no line up, but even then, drive thru gets priority.

[llama@lemmy.zip]

I'll have a double corporate slop with extra gruel please

[schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org]

their small frosty’s aren’t quite at fuck off levels of pricing yet.

My local Wendy's did a promo where you bought a keychain tag for $3 and can get a Jr Frosty with any purchase until the end of 2025. That certainly helps the Frosty thing, at least.

Politics aside, Chik-Fil-A is consistently one of the better quality fast food places I've been to.

[schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org]

Which is wild when you realize the original idea behind McDonalds was to apply engineering and mass production ideas to food to maximize speed and consistency, and now a lot of the time they fail at both.

[jackbydev@programming.dev]

Everything the body needs

[lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works]

I've officially stopped going to McDonalds. Their prices make zero sense, and their food quality has dropped to incredible lows.

Only desperate, dumb, or wealthy folks eat at this place in 2025.

[jyek@sh.itjust.works]

One regular fries is $8 at my local five guys. Just fries. $11 if I want a regular drink with that. That's more than I want to pay for a burger combo and it doesn't even have a burger with it.

[umbrella@lemmy.ml]

yes but still cheaper

[shardikprime@lemmy.world]

The point is the same it ever was. You sacrifice money for time and convenience. What's so hard to understand about that? Some will be more of less expensive than others and no one forced you to choose either option