@@MisterMooster Agreed, the food at fast food places just plain sucks now, it has really gone down hill in the last several years. Part of the problem is , the employees just don't care anymore, no pride or interest in doing the job correctly anymore. In the past workers took pride in their jobs , it's disappointing every time now , in one way or another. Very sad .
There is no way this video hasn’t been sponsored by Mc Donalds. Who in their right mind would say “If you haven’t tried McDonald’s, this is a good year to start”
You obviously haven't seen their video "Gross Things you should know before eating at McDonalds again." For every video they have drooling over a particular chain, they have one saying it's the worst. That's how RU-vid works.
@@Spyromancy598 I have actually wondered this before as well! It is the only reasonable explanation how they can have multiple videos liking and hating the same exact chains, products, etc. simultaneously.
My biggest issue is I am NEVER going to pay $16 for a Big Mac fast food meal. McDonald's can do all these stupid challenges and changes but they have no hand on my wallet anymore. I feel like they don't care about us who have been supporting them for 50 plus years.
Please-the 70's McDonald's was super delicious. Really enjoyed those cheeseburgers back then. It was real food not the crap they serve now. Plus my parents are in their 70s/80s and they've been eating McD's since it began since they lived near the first one.@@davidhusband5022
It is the policy of McDonalds to keep deals and coupons to a minimum. When they do have a deal going, they try to keep it quiet, so as few customers know about it as possible. Sometimes even McDonalds own employees won't know there's a deal going on.@@kevinvillanueva137
Anyone who has ever ordered or orders a big mac has already failed and cheated themselves out of a better deal for a double quarter pounder. Big Mac uses the tiny patties. You are better off making burgers at home, with cheddar instead of fake American cheese. Their fries are no longer restaurant quality. I suggest beer battered fries from Walmart cooked in an air fryer at 380 for 9 minutes. Each fry comes out perfect. They used to have really good fries with the old beef tallow recipe, but now you get a lot that are too soft, or too hard. With the old recipe every fry was perfect.
As others are saying it’s overpriced now. The only reason to go there now is convenience. It used to be good when you’re broke to hit up the dollar menu
If it means to choose between McDonald's or going home to open a can of beans, McDonald's loses out. That is how much I avoid going there. I refuse to pay outrageous prices for second-rate products . Why they are still in business is beyond me. They can try to rebrand all they want, it still changes nothing about the food itself.
bing, I agree. I haven't eaten at McD's since I worked there (2015). The quality has declined while the prices have increased and the portion sizes have also shrunken. Check out the other YT vids on this. The filet o' fish sandwich has become a filet o' fish slider, LOL! I will work on recreating their sandwiches at home (also YT vids on this) and saving money by doing so!!!
Biggest problem with Mcdonalds along with every other fast food chain is it costs more than double what it did 3 years ago and the quality has dropped. Regardless of what changes they make, it is still a fast food meal that now costs $15+ for one. At this point,I dont care if EVERY chain restaurant closes tomorrrow. If the prices and poor quality stay high, that could actually happen. The federal minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour with the possibility of it changing to $10.50 an hour, still not enough to buy 1 fast food meal.
Their employees will be making more finally, their shareholders have been cashing in for the past several years now, that's why it's gotten so expensive AND the sizes of their burgers has shrunk.@@chrissyellem7397
@@mateobaysa2055 Not if your are a We The People person to make sure that is not the case. Must join the fight for what is right for ALL americans, right or left.. Invading borders is not right for any legal US taxpayer. Those pushing this have $$$$$$ reasons to do so, even if its your favorite rock icon or actor.
The burgers and chicken sandwiches always have too much and/or too little of many of the items/condiments. Too little or too much mayo and hella lettuce. For the burgers: hella ketchup and maybe one pickle. The buns can be a problem too. Price:Quality ratio aside, it's all a bit annoying. The staff mostly just don't care, haphazardly throwing everything together, and I'm not sure I'd blame them. It's all just super meh and I never expect anything of quality from them.
There’s a problem when it costs more to eat McDonald’s than it does at In N Out. It’s crazy. Not only them. BK, Five Guys. Family of 4 at a fast food place shouldn’t cost $50.
If McDonald's is trying to become a high quality fast food restaurant with the quality and quantity of the food matching the price, sure go for it. It's good to be ambitious. I'll miss the cheap fast food that had a good enough taste. Guess I'll have to find a different place to get my cheap easy food
I don't look forward to anything on my local mcdonald's menu. They haven't had the steak, egg and cheese bagel sandwhiches for almost a decade now. That's all I ever looked forward to
Been eating at McDonald's for 30 years. Worked for mcdonalds for 5 years. I can tell you right now nothing in that kitchen is juicy enough to make your bun "wet" or "soggy". If your bun is wet or soggy you must have made the wrong person mad because your sandwich been dipped in the toilet bowl. There has never been a "wet/soogy" bun at mcdonalds. It's actually impossible. You have lost the plot
I stopped by a local McD a few weeks ago in Wakefield,MA...my wife loves the coffee. I ordered her coffee and a single cheeseburger...I almost dragged my jaw on the floor when they charged her $1 for her coffee and me $2.77 for a cheeseburger that I remeber costing .89 cents when I was a kid.
I get two sausage, egg, cheese McMuffins and a breakfast burrito for $7.05. It is outstanding value that I get every time by filling out the online questionnaire accessed on each receipt. Takes three minutes. Thanks McDonald’s!
Visited a nice restaurant this past weekend and ordered their double smash burger with fries. $16.00 It was ~so~ very good & fresh and priced just a smidge above a McDonald's equivalent. Haven't been to a fast food joint in nearly 2 years and I likely won't start going again anytime soon.
They already use the new Brioche buns where I am and I honestly don't like them so we don't go there no more for our monthly treat, the buns just felt too dry and hard not to mention it plays havok with my lactose intolorence, not nice at all.
Soggy buns could also be from them constantly experimenting with the buns. At different times they’ve tried to save time and man-power by removing the bun toasters, using “specially developed” buns that weren’t supposed to get soggy, but that effected the taste, so they’d bring the toasters back. And maybe the bland meat might be them cutting back on seasoning the meat. They used to have a special blend with an exact ratio of salt and pepper but might have cut that step out for health reasons (but still really salt the fries) and remove the chance the grill person might over season the meat.
I don’t even go to McDonald’s anymore. For what it costs to eat fast food these days, you’re better off going to an all you can eat buffet for the same price.
Two funny things about the drive through. Every McDonalds I've ever been to refused to serve anyone on foot (or roller skates I imagine) at the drive through, and that's pretty much nationwide. Drove a big vehicle that wouldn't fit in their lanes, if dining room was closed was turned away every time from the drive through. Regarding drive throughs in general, they're pretty uniquely an American thing. With all of the world going "green" and shaming anyone producing CO2 gasses (plant equivalent of our O2) drive throughs are the worst. Getting out of the car to walk into the restaurant might burn a few calories and "save the planet" at the same time. Then maybe we wouldn't be paying extra to give so many obese people free space on airplanes and subsidizing their medical costs too.
Some of these complaints are really based off location and staff. The one I go to doesn't have the same quality control issues, Cheese is always melted, Buns aren't squished or dry, Big macs have a good amount of sauce, beef is properly salted before hitting the grill. People also have to remember that many locations are franchises that are privately owned by an individual. Not all of them are corporate owned.
People really have the audacity to complain about McDonald's? It's literally the bottom of the barrel fast food joint. It's the Wal-Mart of industrially-manufactured fast food.
When will they bring some of their European products to the USA? Their Euro products are much more innovative. For example, they have the Chicken Big Mac. It's a Big Mac made with McChicken patties. We would like it too!!
i got a coupon for a free meal a while back. I took one bite and threw it away. It just didn't taste like food. Like I was eating a piece of furniture. It blows my mind anyone would eat food there. Especially with better food out there. Its the same way at burger king. I think the employees just don't care. Like they literally could not care less about what they are doing.
Lets not forget the human remains in the meat or the fries kill everything they come into contact with prior to being cut I think if you aren't happy with your bun that's the least of your worries
I think that if fast food restaurants don’t wise up and lower their prices, hoards of people will stop utilizing them. The prices are ridiculous. If I can go to a local restaurant and get a better meal for less money, that’s what I’m going to do! And don’t tell me it’s because they’re now paying their employees more. They’re making record profits. Yet they seem to think it’s better to keep that money for themselves instead of investing it into their business.
McDonalds is failing due to Liberal Policies. There is no coming back from this, at least in the U.S. The last time I went to any McDonalds was approximately 1-1/2 yrs ago.
For me it's not the price as much as the concern over which place has been short-handed for weeks and standards are out the window. Unless you are a regular or know the people who work there, you just don't know. That's the downside to low unemployment and it's not limited to just fast-food.
McDonald’s has too much sodium in their hamburgers, which you can immediately taste and leaves an aftertaste. Additionally, they’re extremely overpriced. I grew up when McDonald’s was delicious and the food wasn’t expensive. A BigMac was .45 cents, hamburger, 15 cents, cheeseburgers 20 cents, French fries, 20 cents, milk shakes 25 cents. The food was always hot, the service was fast and the employees were always polite, friendly and never had an attitude, when taking your order.
It’s just not good. These changes will do nothing to help with that. The coffee is awful, food awful, service awful. Most of the locations are extra dirty as well. Even though Starbucks isn’t always everything, it’s 90% better than McDonald’s will ever be.
Mcdonald's near me charges 6 dollars for a trio...I'm sorry when I saw that I just stopped going. That's robbery. 16 dollars for a big mac trio NO THANKS!
Big Mac is way better without onions and lettuce, it always comes with more than enough sauce this way. Sometimes its too much sauce, which is perfect for dippin fries.
forget the soggy buns, their fries have gotten way more greasy in the last couple years! I know they are "fried" but they used to be not as bad. They used to be one of my favorite fries
I'll believe it when I taste it. McDonald's food is dry, Dry, DRY! The buns are hard and fall apart. They skimp on the sauce, and the cheese is cold and not melted. The fries are flavorless. Other burger chains can make juicy burgers with very melty cheese. Why can't McDonalds? The last time I remember McDonalds being good was back in the 80s. It was soon after that when the food, religious, and environmental police compelled them to reformulate their food. Since then, the food has gone downhill. Then it became all about drive-through speed. Then it was about breakfast. Then it was about chicken. Micky-Ds should get back to basics are remember what their core food is: burgers.
McDonald's food was better when they used foam instead of cardboard. It stayed hot and was moist, now it's dry and tastes like the cardboard they serve it in.
A few things fast food places in general need to improve on (this goes for McD's, Arbys, Hardees and similar chains). #1 The meat should be real and taste good (raise the prices by $1-3/item if you have to, otherwise I won't be back. #2 Lots of fried chicken is all bread and no actual meat. I've gotten Chicken McGriddles that have a nice fat piece of good tasting chicken, and then I've gotten no chicken with just a pile of fried breading, and I don't like the dice roll on which I might get. #3 If the meat tastes bad or gamey, or is cartilage and un-edible stuff instead of meat, I probably won't be back to your chain for a long time. All this amounts to one really simple fix which isn't in this video--- add a patty or chicken/meat/food order checker who's job it is is to make sure each order actually gets the food that was ordered. Stop selling roll of the dice orders regarding the quality of the food.
Price for a large soda in Wisconsin 6 months ago was $1.00 $1.05 with tax. Now it’s $1.79 $1.84 with tax a 79% increase. Ba$turds. Hardly go there anymore .
Too pricey, get rid of those stupid apps. Also bring back breakfast all day. Where are the salads and yogurt/fruit parfaits? have not had them here since covid. The AI think is a no for me, I have never even used one of those stupid ordering kiosks, and I never will. you want my money, you can't even supply a real person to take my order!
I'll believe it when I see it. Also why is it so hard to just put a button (extra sauce) on the register? I like Mac Sauce but surely they will need an option for 'light sauce' for those customers who don't want the new standard of extra sauce.
They'd need to bring back fried apple pies, better meat and the original french fry recipe and lastly lower their prices for me to go back there. To lower their prices, they'll have to automate everything since some idiots think that 35 year olds raising a family of 7 with no more skills than putting a basket into oil when a bell chimes should be able to pay all their bills working part time at a fast food restaurant. When I was in school I worked crap jobs like fast food because I had no skills - but within a month at most I got a promotion even though these were summer or winter break jobs. Can you imagine being 35 and not being able to work your way up - you'd really have to be a horrible employee incapable of doing simple things like showing up on time, tucking in your shirt and lifting the fries out of the oil when the machine chimes.
The McDonald's app had a daily BOGO breakfast sandwich deal that I used every time I got breakfast there. They got rid of the deal, so now I go to Burger King instead.
The McDonald's experience is horrible nightmarish. First thing when you go in the employees tell you, I can't help you, there's no cashier. McDonald's never again.
When you cook in mass production with extremely low quality food you're going to get a extremely low quality product. The only thing that has gone up at McDonald's is the price of the product the product itself has gotten worse!💯
So they're going to add sugar and fat to the bun recipe to create something that's more like a CUPCAKE. That totally completely absolutely SUCKS. I bought QPs because the bun WASN'T as sickly sweet as fricking HAWAIIAN sugar-soaked "bread." If they start using cupcakes for hamburger buns, I'm DONE.
The real sit down chain restaurants now instead of crappy food costing $8-9 a meal and comes with a non alcoholic drink, it now costs $15-20 for crappy food with portion size cut and the drink costs $3+ on top. Then the wait person expects a tip, regardless of service, and some places have the nerve to charge a gratuity. Eating out even fast food used to be a pleasant experience, no longer.
@@XeonProductions The restaurant industry and shareholders both will be in unemployment lines soon if they refuse to get their food quality up and prices in line with their target audience, those making $60K a year or less, and that does not mean lowering quality or online pricing gimmicks.
Not just overpriced but shrinking drastically, the regular patties are now paper thin and half the size of the bun, we don't need more sauce on the big mac we need them to put the burger back, as it may as well be a salad sandwich at this point.
@@fredbiden868 McDonalds shareholders have been doing extremely well for the past five years now. They demand a certain level of dividends, and now the employees will be getting more money, too, so expect even more shrinkflation with an increase in prices to go along with it.
The biggest changes coming this year is smaller burgers for more money 🤑 a McDouble will cost 4$ a mcchicken 3.50 a 10 piece nugget will cost 8.49 wow smaller everything and they’ll charge more wow amazing 🤩
Yup. My recent $11+ Fish sandwich plus "Big" mac fiasco featured a tiny little fish patty and two tiny little burgers... could not have been more than an ounce or so each. The buns were 50% bigger than the contents. It was basically $11 for a couple of rolls.
Do you think they are people who didn't eat from McDonald's in the 2000s when McDonald's had double cheeseburgers for only $1 each before tax, and now regret not eating from there back then when they had the chance when it was more affordable?
McD's missed the biggest thing to upgrade.....The portion size of their burgers has increasingly got smaller over the years but the prices have increased.
My biggest problem with McDonalds is that it now costs 17 dollars for a meal. I don't care how much they improve the quality, because that just translates into even higher prices. Also, much of their quality issues are due to the employees letting the food sit under heat lamps for hours instead of throwing it out. I can cook fresh food at home for much cheaper than a McExpensive Meal.
I haven't eaten at a McDonald's for at least 4 years, because of the high prices! But, I just went to Wendy's today & noticed that their new Pretzel Baconator meal now costs $13.29! Not far behind McD!
I paid back the neighbor for picking me up at the Dentist by buying a Fast Food Meal for him and his wife and three small children. And just like that Three 20 Dollar Bills disappeared.
You didnt mention that due to inflation, the cost of a BigMac, large fries and a drink has gone up to a whopping $16.00. For a few more bucks, you can go to a nice up-scale restaurant and get a quality burger. In light of that, they damn well better do some improvements.
@@blackvulcan100When I was young, they prepared the burgers in batches, placing the meat directly from the grill onto the burgers (and the cheese), then letting them soak in the heated waiting area. They never were cold, the cheese was well melted, and the flavours combined into "burger" instead of "separate components next to each other". I want that back.
always order the bun STEAMED NOT TOASTED. The toasting just ruins the bun. If the person is confused, tell them to do it "like you do the fish filet buns" - the kitchen will know. Thank me later.
Shrinkflation has hit McDonald's hard in Canada. The burgers shrank, and prices are stupid high now. $15 for a meal is insane. I used to get double cheeseburgers, they're like sliders now, so tiny.
Definitely, even worse is a 10 nugget meal is 14 or 15$ & if you ubereats/skipthedishes the cost goes up to 16.50 or some bullshit. Usually the nuggets aren't fresh either lol
Just a few years ago a McDouble was 2.10. Ever since the price increase I've stopped going. Food is gross and the price has been increased. Don't understand why people even bother eating here.
It doesn't really matter now what they change to try and stay relevant to me. I've got at least 3 local places where I can get a totally fresh burger, locally sourced, not engineered, made to order with care with handcut fries from normal potatoes for same or less than a Big Mac meal. And these folks live, work and spend their money in my area as well instead of going to a corporate pocket.
Same here. As a matter of fact my favorite bar won the award for best burger in the county and yet they charge less than McDonald's. Plus the burger can come with more than just fries. Our taco bell and Popeyes both couldn't compete with the locals and they've both closed permanently. The funny part is the taco bell turned into a hotdog restaurant and it's more popular than the taco bell ever was 😂
That is exactly what me and my husband do now, keep our money in our community, no longer in the hands of corporations. I urge everyone to do the same. Every community has a locally owned diner that has a burger meal on the menu and more, better food and keep your $$$$$$$ where you live.
@@michaeldunham3385 Likely but they will be out of jobs if this so called overpricing trend continues, and that is a major cause of our coming recession.
@@Lillith1203 I'd say the recession if it happens is down to global increase in energy costs and that's down to in my opinion a brutal authoritarian dictator called Vladimir Putin rather than the likes of McDonald's who like every other business has seen their costs increase.
For $17 I can go to the local bar and get a 1/3lb burger cooked to order, hot fries and a cold 16oz beer AND have enough left over for the tip. Guess who loser is in that scenario. Hint, it's not the local bar. LOL...
I have that same problem with our Montague, PE location, but I ask for fresh fries every time now & they generally have been better. Same issue with Wendys potato products, too.
Well, when fast food franchises are forced to pay $20/hr for what amounts to unskilled, unmotivated labor, what do you expect? My local bar offers a 1/3lb burger, cooked to order, fries and an ice cold 16oz beer for $10. Less than most any combo meal on the McD's menu. Guess who's getting my business?? Hint, it's NOT the Golden Arches. Lol...
They have fallen into that deadly retail trap...selling less for more money and then wondering why revenue hasn't increased. So, increase the price again!
But are they going to address the constantly undercooked French fries, usually served cold? Or the hamburger patties that aren’t even peppered when taken off the grill? Or the fact that it takes 15 minutes to get your order when there’s only one car ahead of you, and only one behind you? 😂
The only thing McDonald's could do to even get my attention would be lower prices and better employee treatment so they don't all seem to hate life when I go there for a $7 happy meal
When BK went to no customize items on coupons even my aunt stopped going there. In the morning if the coupon said coffee you couldn't get a fountain drink instead which she hated because she hated coffee. Then she couldn't order a whopper with any changes and if it said fries that's what you got but she preferred the rings with bbq sauce. She stopped going out all together because she couldn't afford to without the coupons
McDonalds has always been very stingy with deals and coupons. They also try to keep customers from knowing what deals they have going. Even the employees don't know about the deals they might be running. They do this so people won't only visit for the "deals".
The problem isn’t the bun is the damn price that keeps going up. I remember when you can go to McDonald’s and get out an entire meal if not for under $10. Now I’m spending $40 on three people.
@dixienormus1619 Exactly! The Big Mac is no longer big! That's why I started going to Burger King... that, and Burger King burgers seem to have more flavor than McDonalds burgers IMO.
Not worried about them. We call Chili's to go and get a Real Hamburger with fries for 10.99. McDonald's has become so expensive it's cheaper to go to regular restaurants to get a better meal. Even Taco Bell has become to expensive. I can get a meal to go at a local Mexican restaurant get better food free chips and salsa for around 21$ for 2 people. Jasons Deli has some good deals also. All you can eat Salad bar or you can get a half sandwich with salad. Even Golden Corral is cheaper than eating McDonald's
My favorite local bar has a better burger for less and they won best burger in the county. Our taco bell closed after a local taqueria decided to stay open late to cater to the alcoholic crowd taking away the last demographic they had. Popeyes tried twice to make it but got shut down twice because a local place has a strong following and they sell much better chicken plus they have a deli that serves awesome sandwiches with boar's head products
No amount of changes will save McDonalds ! From soggy buns, to TASTELESS cardboard " meat " pucks to cold fries. I visited recently and the 2 big macs were cold and just thrown in the box. With fries and a drink were over $ 19.00 . That's it for me, I will never eat at McDonalds again !! You can never get "fresh" off the grill "HOT" burgers as they keep cooked burgers in a holding pan and use them as needed. When will big corporations ever learn, you can't cut corners on quality or you will lose your customers in droves.
They shrunk half of their food items. Including the chicken nuggets! They are tiny now...hopefully those are on their 'must improve' list for 2024. Paying a larger price for less food is less than exciting. Looking forward to the changes...hopefully.
Classic marketing strategy: shrink the size, increase the price, then entice customers back, saying the menu is bigger when, in reality, it's just the original size.
If they infuse onions into the beef patties they will destroy at least half of their consumers from returning. This is a stupid move. Thank God there are other fast food choices.
Even though it’s been a couple decades, from when I used to work there, the reason the cheese was so much “meltier”, was that in the 90’s and early 2000’s, they used “Q-ing Ovens” to warm the burgers after they were assembled and wrapped. Basically, they microwaved them. I don’t remember when they were phased out but attempting to make “fresher” burgers made to order meant the buns were now room temperature and the meat was just warm enough for food safety. And sometimes the little extra time they used sit in those heating bins helped but could also dry out the burger while the melted into the burger patty, partially looking like it disappeared.
McDonald’s is constantly experimenting. The soggy buns could be from them trying to pull the quarter pound patties from the grill without any “rest” time, like how cooks recommend for steaks and roasts. Even with the clamshell grills, the patties continue to cook for a minute after being pulled from the grill and still a bit pink and juicy. When we tested the first patties after breakfast, giving it the rest time, they would be no longer pink, the juice clear and the center had reached 165°.
