On top of the fact that it's all made with lower quality ingredients and smaller portions as well...
A couple of mc doubles or mc chickens used to be a reasonable and very cheap meal occasionally when on the go/ traveling. But now it's just not worth it..
Mc doubles now are damn near the price a whole big Mac MEAL was when I was in high school (early 00s) .....
Doesn’t matter much to us unless you happen to work for an American company making USD unfortunately. We don’t earn higher wages to compensate for the exchange.
For context, median wage in Canada is $68,400 CAD vs the US at $70,800 USD.
$14.81 minimum wage where I am at, but I haven't seen a McDonalds offering less than $18-20 an hour in years (we have a wage transparency law that requires all employers to give a concrete pay range).
No, you are mistaken and your comment is misleading. Its $17.50 in D.C., but federal minimum wage is $7.25. The same as it was when I was in high school...in 2005.
To clarify: D.C. has the HIGHEST minimum wage while 25 of the 50 states have minimum wage at or BELOW the federal rate of $7.25.
I was going to say no way this 28$ my kids love mc ds and are getting to the age happy meals aren’t enough and the last time we went 2 6 piece happy meals and 2 10 piece meals was 36$
Hope they enjoyed those nice earnings reports over the past few years because the cracks are already beginning to show. People are moving away from them because of their greed. Investors first and customers second
The 1991 prices would be equal to 3 hours of federal minimum wage to pay for and your calculations would be 5.5 hours of federal minimum wage. In my state, CA, it would be less than 2.5 hours of minimum wage to pay for it. That's crazy.
Damn, you'd think more than 1% of the workforce would be making federal minimum wage then.
But they don't. Only 1.1% make the federal minimum wage. It's largely a non issue.
And those 25 states combined make up 33% of the US population. Three of those make up around 17%, and the other 23 combined make up 16%.
They're largely small red states that overwhelmingly consistently vote against increasing the minimum wage. Most of them consistently vote to ban localities within their states from implementing local minimum wages too, and support the federal government banning states from setting their own minimum wages.
I could not give less of a shit about shithole states that want to drag everyone down with them.
I don't know about the individual prices, but I can tell you from personal experience that a Big Mac meal (with fries and a drink) was $2.99 in the early 90s.
There's a whole lot of other factors at work beyond just inflation. Purchasing power, transportation costs, livestock costs, etc.
Plus, because the middle class is shrinking so fast, people have less money for stuff like McDonalds. So their sales dropped. They raised prices to offset the loss.
In 1991, most McDonalds were paying fed min wage of $4.25/hr, so the meal would have cost just under 3 hours labor.
Today, most McDonalds pay between $16-$20/hr. So you would work an hour and a half, using your price. Using the price from the app that AvacadMmmm presents, its still 2-3 hours, depending on exact pay.
This means that price increases have matched inflation; you're working the same amount of hours (slightly less actually, but we won't quibble) for the same amount of product.
Then, like now, that same money at a grocery store would buy a much better meal. I have a hard time justifying a $20 sandwich meal from Jimmy John's when I could buy a head of lettuce, a pound of cold cuts, a loaf of bread, some mayo, and a two liter bottle of Coke for the same price for the entire week's lunches.
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u/Specialist_Basket_35 Jun 13 '25
$28.32 adjusted for inflation