Crunchwrap used $4-5, it’s almost $9 now… For what?
They’re testing how hard they can squeeze their customer base and still profit. Prices will continue to increase as long as people pay.
Everything is artificially inflated by 1.7x to 2.4x ever since covid. The inflation you are seeing is not real inflation but rather manufactured by those in high-up positions at most fortune-500 companies.
Fast food has been hit hard by the enshitification. More expensive and doesn’t even taste good anymore because they use even shittier ingredients than they used to. The only reason people still bother is typically lack of time to cook.
You can make most fast food items at home if you have the time. It will be cheaper and taste better.
You can get better food for cheaper at a local restaurant nowadays. Maybe not a fancy place but your local taco joint or diner.
A burger worth half a damn (in both taste and portion) in Burger King will cost me nearly as much as a smash burger with jalapeño aioli and loaded fries from a local burger joint. Pizza Hut/Domino’s is the same, there’s a proper italian dining place less than 50m from my place, prices are comparable but the taste just isn’t there for Pizza Hut or Domino’s.
I’m a very stingy person but that price difference is not worth the difference in quality.
I wish that was the case where I live.
Wait until you learn in certain parts of the world they’re eating authentic tacos for only 70 cent
Man I remember when a taco was 49 cents. Jesus I feel like a fucking dino now, it’s happened.
Yeah the prices are getting out of control. It can be cheaper to eat at a fast casual restaurant.
I ate there a month ago after years of not going.
You’re correct, however, I think they use the insane price on individual items to make their combo boxes, or whatever they’re called, seem like a better deal.
Yeah, it’s like 1 good item + 2 bullshit items and a drink for $9 in the deluxe box.
And to encourage you to use their app as well. Remember when 7/11 got the app a soda went from .89 to 1.29. “If you get the app you save money!”
No you’re charging me for not having the app. That’s what just happened.
It’s also part of why things have gotten slower. Again to use 7/11… now every person in line in front of you has to spend 30 more seconds fumbling with their phone or key fob barcode to buy their one damn soda.
I’m bitter about it lol
I went to a Taco Bell recently and was wowed by how high the price was. Last time I went was during 2020.
Don’t go back. They don’t deserve the prices they are charging.
Is there anything that hasn’t gone up in price recently?
Some things have gone up much faster than others. And Taco Bell, McDonald’s have both gone up in price much faster than home cooking has. Which is exactly where more and more of my food is coming from now.
Vast majority of fast food now: ‘fast’, ‘cheap’, ‘good’, pick zero.
I used to ask people, like, when was the last time you bought anything for a penny?
And now, it’s like, when was the last time you bought anything for a dollar?
Hot dog & soda at Costco, but that’s because they’re intentionally keeping it at the same price.
When the price of fast food goes up too fast, it’s an indicator of impending financial collapse.
lmao just eat real mexican/texmex food
Taco Bell has always been a particular case of “how the fuck are they still in business??” …on top of way over priced, subpar quality, and subpar taste, they sell a product in a saturated market, and nearly all of their competitors are better.
Even if we’re talking shitty fast food, there are dozens of Taco Bell like chains, and almost all of them are better than or at least equal to Taco Bell.
And outside of shitty fast food, actual Mexican food is all over the place. To include more authentic taquarias that usually sell tacos and burritos for like half of what Taco Bell does and their product is fucking delicious. We have one of those near were I live - right across the street from a Taco Bell… and every day Taco Bell has a line around the fucking building, while the cheaper, better, and ready-to-take-your-order place is right fucking there! Drives me insane.
4 burgers and fries at AnW is close to over $100 now. Just not worth it anymore
AnW?
Inflation in the West is correlated to de-dollarization happening worldwide
Yep, price is up, quality is down, fast food seems more of an expensive novelty now than whatever it was supposed to be. Stopped going unless I was on a road trip or with friends. Frozen food with an air fryer (got the fryer secondhand for the cost of a McD meal) satisfies the craving, but for much less money.
