People Absolutely Furious Over McDonald's $16 Dollar 'Value Meal'

Remember the days when you could look for some change in the cushions of your sofa and scrounge up enough cash to go treat yourself to a lunch at a local fast food place? Well, those days are long gone, apparently. These days, thanks to Biden’s stifling inflation, going to a fast food restaurant is a full-blown expensive affair. Some people are now paying as much for a cruddy burger and fries as they would for a meal in a sit-down restaurant. As a matter of fact, a TikTok video went viral after someone filmed their $16 dollar “value” meal - and boy, are people ever furious. Can you blame them? 

From New York Post:

It was a not-so-happy meal.

An enraged McDonald’s customer says the fast food franchise is no longer affordable for ordinary Americans, calling the company’s contemporary prices “crazy.”
“So, I get there’s a labor shortage, I get there’s wage increases and a number of other things,” Idaho man Christopher Olive began in a viral TikTok clip, which has recently resurfaced.

“But $16? $16 for a burger, a large fry and a drink? It’s just crazy!” the flabbergasted content creator complained, panning to his itemized receipt from a McDonald’s restaurant in the city of Post Falls.

The video was original posted on social media last December, but has now gone viral again after McDonald’s recently reported an increase in revenue directly influenced by a “strategic” hike in menu prices.

In the comments section of of Olive’s, viewers voiced their frustration with the price of the fast food.

“It’s officially not convenient or affordable anymore,” one moaned.

“Companies know they can get these prices now so they’ll never go back,” a second commiserated, saying the glory days of cheap fast food were over.

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It’s quite the strategy, isn’t it? These fast food joints lure us in with their inexpensive, tasty, high-fat offerings, and once we're hooked, they hike up the prices. It’s a tactic that seems eerily reminiscent of a drug dealer's ploy to create lifelong customers. Makes you wonder, doesn’t it — how different is it, really?