How Inflation and Supply Chain Issues Are Reshaping Fast Food Value Menus | WSJ 

The real tragedy about inflation is that consumer prices don't return to what they were in the past when inflation subsides. Inflation just slows down. For example, consider what fast foods cost in 1970. Even when inflation subsides, we'll never return to those prices--even if we go into a depression.

Inflation might single handedly lower obesity in america

When prices are high, I do NOT spend money on fast food. I cook at home instead. It's cheaper, healthier and tastes better too. Sometimes a meal even last (for 2 people) 2 days.

Prices are going up at these restaurants, and you know they are never going back down

Rather than paying more for a fast food burger meal, I choose to pay more for a real restaurant meal. $15 for a whopper combo is whack!

Not only are fast food value prices higher, you pay more with your health.

Shrinkflation has hit fast food sandwiches. Now a bun is the size of a cookie.

Eat fast food about once or twice a week I have noticed McDonald's and Burger King down sized their patties, not worth the money anymore. Rather buy a pack of frozen patties for the cost of 2 or 3 whopper meals.

Burgers will have a hole in the middle of the patty. This will lead to a hole all the way through the bun, patty and vegetables. Donut burger.

Literally blame everything on earth except corporate greed.

We stopped eating fast food since they're just as costly as a sit down restaurant now. Especially fast casual who are all expecting tips even though there are zero servers or dining room workers.

I live in vegas, 2 combos from Carls Jr is almost 30.00, more than 1/2 the cost of eating at a sit down restaurant. Its just not a financial viable option. If you make $15/hr, it takes you almost 2 hours of work to pay for 1 meal. Imagine if you ate their 4x a month. Since the beginning of the year, I'll only eat fast food if their offering some kind of deals through their apps. Sonic is a great example of food app deals.

I've just started going to where my dollar takes me further and only going to the main fast foods when they have a super low meal price or combo. Nice video. Keep up the good work.

Me and my brother spent a good portion of our 20s eating at taco bell almost every single day. Reason being was they had burritos for 1 dollar. We would each get two and that would be dinner. They got rid of em close to a year ago and I haven't been to taco bell since. Don't see a point. If their prices are now the same as a Mexican place then why not just go to the Mexican place.

There was a time when Burger King tried to match McDonald’s $1 McDoubles… those were the days

The fast food industry is probably doing well because America is 1 of the world top agricultural producers. Most big chains have their own farms and trucking services, worldwide.

In order to save the economy, everyone must go out and buy a $1500 folding phone and sign up for 10 streaming services. Get a $6 coffee every morning in your new ev, throw away all your perfectly good hd tv’s and buy bigger 8k tv’s… that’s really what these companies are betting

I stopped going to fast food. Even before Corona I found prices too high for what you are getting. More than once, the basket of fries at MD were never properly filled. And when I brought that to the manager's attention, he would say "that is how much we fill those". Bye...Home cooking tastes so much better. I bring my food to work. Cheaper and healthier...

Chick fil a is not doing any of this and still out selling their competitors

The best value menu is buying in bulk and cooking your own food. You can feed a family of 5 healthy food for a $1000/month. Now, eat those 'value menu items' and it costs at least $5 a meal. That is at least $15/day per person. For a family of 5 that is $75/day = $2250/month of junk food and you are not even feeling full.

They have strong profits, so this isn't about increased costs. It's about increasing profits as costs go up. It's just greed.

I have another solution, how about these CEOs take a pay cut? Their salary goes up every year but that doesn’t contribute to inflation? Lol

In Canada my family of 4 at McDonalds is over $40. Total rip off for garbage food. We now only eat off value menus when we got for half the cost

There was a time when we " made it here", we had jobs for everyone and the products were of high quality, then the 1% wanted everything. Now Inflation drives prices up and if Inflation is high and jobs disappear by the millions we are in a recession and maybe headed for a Depression…So be careful with your money. It may take decades to get back on pay again. Luck to all.. I've seen folks make huge 7figure profit in a crashing market and pull it off much easily in a bull market Unequivocally the crash/recession is getting somebody somewhere

No lie, seeing the old McDonald's Menu Sheets gave me a massive wave of Nostalgia. Man, I miss those Menu Sheets over the TV Menu Screens.

It hurts to eat out these days. AND I love eating out.

In addition, people tend to move away from junk food, as concerns and awareness about health increases.

People just stop eating out!! Cook for yourselves stop being lazy. I’m from the Netherlands which is waaay more expensive than the US and still manage to cook for myself. The truth sometimes hurt it’s a matter of discipline and being assertive!! 🙃

ANSWER: Buy simple things at the grocers and cook at home. Just the money you save on gasoline sitting in the drive-thru makes it worth it, never mind the rip-off prices at chains

I rarely ever eat out anymore. Too expensive.

These companies have CEO’s w/ massive bonuses, it’s disgusting they’re putting the price on the customer

They say the FAH index only went up 6.5% but it seems more like 20% - 25% according to what everyone sees on the shelf at the grocery store, especially for meat and basic pantry stuff like canned goods.

Yeah, but you have to wonder what corners are being cut to offer these alleged 'value menus' for such low prices... 🤔

It's odd to say I remember McChicken was $1 in 2019 and now it's 1.90 2022

subway $5 footlong was the best

I only buy kids meals, everything else isn’t worth it. My teen hates me 😈

Fast food prices feel broken in a way... many combos at these places now end up close to $15 dollars while theres probably many local restaurants with meals around the same price. if not cheaper

Paying hamburger flippers $15/hour is rediculous....if you have an "IQ of 50 job" , you should make miminal $'s. I try not to each fast food anymore...paying $10 for a big Mac meal or 2 piece KFC is assinine!!!

One could hope shrinkflation could be a great diet plan. But guess not.

"Consumer stress"? Just say recession babe, everyone knows it, but no one wants to sound the alarm bell.

The funniest part of this video is when you kept calling McDonalds product offerings "food".

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I frequently buy a burger and something to drink and skip the fries, saves money and calories. Sometimes I skip the drink, as well.

Looks like shrinkflation will put me on that slight caloric restriction diet I've been meaning to go on automatically.

You can still get a Taco Bell box for $5, they just don’t advertise it as a cravings deal anymore. It’s just a small tag near the value menu that says “Classic Box.”

McDonalds will still get our business on weekends when we want a quick breakfast fix. Hashbrowns? Yes Please. 🙋🏻‍♂️

The people at the top should be paying like CEOs. Not the people at the bottom like all of us.

I use apps on my phone to order at fast food places, they give me coupons and rewards like a free burger or free burrito. Mcdonalds is offering 10%discount on my order.

Cook your own meals I made Buffalo cauliflower wraps for dinner last night using my air fryer and enjoyed every bite. Cheap food which taste like crap=Crappy mood

I stopped going to McDonald when I saw it was almost $10 for breakfast.

Same. In Indonesia, fast food becoming expensive. Due to my financial problem, I can't afford any fast food items anymore.

Chilli and fries and frosties..nothing else from Wendy's is worth the money..McDonald's prices are redonkulus for a precooked burger sitting under a lamp..but white castles and their perfect size and freshly cooked burgers are awesome..and they're all I can afford..

Inflation ? No. GREEDFLATION

As a binge eater… This sucks for me. I used to get 4 McDoubles, 4 mchickens, large fries, and 20 pc nuggets for under 20$…. Now the price for that is doubled !!! 🤬

coincidentally american waistlines expanded at the same as value menus

Gotta love how the food uses cheaper products and fillers, doesn’t taste worth a spit, costs way too much, and is prepared often with poor service. Makes you wonder if THEY are up to somethin. Makes you wonder if we’ll still see fast food in the next 15-20 years…

I only buy dollar menu, because I don't go to fast food "restaurants" to enjoy a good meal. I only go to get something small, fast, and cheap tp carry me until my next real plate.

Just have to live off of Costco hotdogs/pizza for the rest of my life.

When I went to visit my dad in Massachusetts I got our favorite large whopper meal and it was over 30$ . I was shocked.

Chicken Republic fastfood in Nigeria sells rice and egg combo now for 90 cents.

In Australia I don't see the impact of inflation in fast foods. More in mom and pop restaurants and essentials in grocery stores.

I bet they offered trump a lifetime supply of soda on demand for the McDonalds ad

I’ll save u 6:20 of your life. They’re not value menus anymore. Hahahaha

Go deluxe grill cheese , or french toast , or fried rice would be great for economic value meal and real good softdrink and yogurt coffee and ice cream are best

Reduce meat inventory and reduce cup size inventory so keep only one size of cups and reduce the meat menu

"Shareholders" screwing things up yet again.

to keep housing market going their supply chain can offer home buyers gift cards for year to bk ,kfc,,ect.keep demand up and money in consumers pocket for rising mortage rates.

McDonald's needs to bring back the super size option.

Domino’s raised prices a ton near me, we used to get it a lot, not anymore.

once these prices inflate or food portions shrink, they will never go back to what it was before even after this crisis is over...

WHY DOES HER TOP KEEP CHANGING FROM ORANGE TO RED STRIPES!

Easy on that salt!

we need to raise wages too

They forgot Grandy's man. $3.99 for chicken fried steak, a roll, mashed potatoes and green beans....... Mmmmmmmmmm!!!!

this video made me hungry :D

I called Mountain Mike's Pizza restaurant near my house, I asked for the carry out special, she told me that it was 19.99 for a large one topping pizza and 3 bread sticks, so I went in and tried to order, it was 23.99. The manager OH we do not honor that price. I walked out.

Surprisingly Domino's and McDonalds have not changed a thing in my country. I can still get pizza for the same price I did in 2019.

I'm an adult with a salaried job and I still prefer the value menu like I'm a broke college kid.

those fountain drinks only cost pennies to make anyways... the cup costs more than the drink >.>

I can no longer go to Wendy's and ask for the fo fo fo

Its time, energy, and convenience.

Can't wait for American citizens to just turn away from this terrible food experience. Something has to give. 🇺🇸🦖☄️

But Joe said there was zero inflation,,,

Great video explainer

With the obesity epidemic, portion sizes SHOULD be smaller!

what a bunch of weirdos in the comments. fast food will never go away (especially in the US). it is part of the american culture... just a bunch of haters. fast food sucks maaaaaan. lol, weirdos

Nobody question that the death food gets cheaper while everything else sky rockets.

They better bring back the dollar menu. I'm poor.

It is?

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They needa bring back the dollar menu.

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theyre NOT a value anymore....

It is my opinion that the fast food model is no longer viable. Trying to feed profits to the stock market, corporate, and CEOs, is killing profitability. That is why you can get a good burger and unlimited fries at red robin for 14 bucks, and a whopper "value" meal is nearly the same. I've been going to mom and pop restaurants and getting a better deal. This is the end of all businesses in capitalism. Profit, Profit, Profit, until it is no longer sustainable. Then sell sell sell,,, and brands go away.

As fat as everyone is, portion sizes need to be cut BIG TIME. Pun intended.

The only way I could do it was vacuum menu food

the only value menu is the kids meal

bruh its crazy how cheap menus are in america.. I live in Switzerland we pay at least double the price…

idk how a combo went from under 2 bucks to almost 15 in like 25 years... seems a bit much.

No problem every year inflation growth 5percent ,we should accept hike