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I'm trying a new idea out today on my blog. It's called my weekly rant. Each Wednesday I'll pick a topic that's really getting to me and just go on a rant about it.
Today's topic - Fast Food
Is it just me or does it seem like fast food prices keep increasing? My wife and I will easily spend on average $11-$12 eating at a fast food restaurant. This may not seem like much, but it seems that it wasn't too long ago that we would've just spent just $7-$8. Now I realize that fast food is still relatively affordable, and more people are turning to it during the recession. But it still doesn't change the fact that if I eat fast food once a week, over the course of a month I'll have spent close to $50. I imagine that number goes up to over $75 for a family of four.
Sonic and Hardees have to have the highest prices. While Hardees has reinvented itself with the angus burgers, they've also reinvented their prices. Sonic just recently added a $1 menu, which was long overdue. But have you seen it? It's a joke. It includes a small coke, a junior banana split, or I think an apple. Meanwhile you'll break the bank getting anything there big enough to fill up a normal person.
McDonalds is still keeping it real with their $1 menu. Yes, they had to change the double cheeseburger to a McDouble, but I don't even miss that extra slice of cheese. The problem is I can't get my wife to eat off the $1 menu. She always wants a Big Mac, and seeing how she's pregnant, she gets what she wants. Unfortunately, I read McDonalds may be raising prices because of the recent minimum wage increase.
Yes, I realize there's a simple fix to all this. Stop taking the wife with me when I eat out. And if prices keep going up, I may just have to do that. Which fast food restaurant do you think is way too high? And what fast food item do you just have to have no matter what the price?
Today's topic - Fast Food
Is it just me or does it seem like fast food prices keep increasing? My wife and I will easily spend on average $11-$12 eating at a fast food restaurant. This may not seem like much, but it seems that it wasn't too long ago that we would've just spent just $7-$8. Now I realize that fast food is still relatively affordable, and more people are turning to it during the recession. But it still doesn't change the fact that if I eat fast food once a week, over the course of a month I'll have spent close to $50. I imagine that number goes up to over $75 for a family of four.
Sonic and Hardees have to have the highest prices. While Hardees has reinvented itself with the angus burgers, they've also reinvented their prices. Sonic just recently added a $1 menu, which was long overdue. But have you seen it? It's a joke. It includes a small coke, a junior banana split, or I think an apple. Meanwhile you'll break the bank getting anything there big enough to fill up a normal person.
McDonalds is still keeping it real with their $1 menu. Yes, they had to change the double cheeseburger to a McDouble, but I don't even miss that extra slice of cheese. The problem is I can't get my wife to eat off the $1 menu. She always wants a Big Mac, and seeing how she's pregnant, she gets what she wants. Unfortunately, I read McDonalds may be raising prices because of the recent minimum wage increase.
Yes, I realize there's a simple fix to all this. Stop taking the wife with me when I eat out. And if prices keep going up, I may just have to do that. Which fast food restaurant do you think is way too high? And what fast food item do you just have to have no matter what the price?
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