That value-added tax pays for our health care. I don’t whine about it.
That’s interesting. I’m not in McDonald’s often enough to notice, but I’ll pay attention more often in other places.
The only pricing difference I’m aware of offhand is between the food court at the Eaton Centre versus the food court at 10 Dundas East (one pedestrian scramble away and five levels up). The same meal that costs around $9 at the Teriyaki Experience in 10 Dundas East costs $12 at the Teriyaki Experience in the Eaton Centre. In the Eaton Centre’s defense, you also get a spring roll included that you don’t get at 10 Dundas East, and they just remodeled the whole Eaton Centre food court and took it considerably upscale.
The other thing is that the tourist location ones will have fewer items on their “Dollar Menu”, or it will actually be a “$1.29 Menu”. The two most expensive McDonald’s in Chicago are the one on Navy Pier and the one right by the Sears Tower.
I think it was mainly to allow substitutes, eg., if someone wanted to have a salad instead of fries. Also, the prices of the drinks were different, so if you wanted an ice tea instead of a coke, that would be something like $0.10 more.
Being the father of 2 (two) Happy Meal lovers, I eat a lot of Angus meals. I pay $6.65 plus tax (which varies from town to town.) I never pay attention to what the burger alone costs.
I read in another one of these threads that the REAL bargain hunter gets two sandwiches, a double cheese and a chicken sandwich, off the dollar menu, ditches the bread from one and eats like a king with a glass of water. I’ve done this traveling and it’s great, if you have them leave the mayo off the chicken.
In Chicago, the dollar menu isn’t nearly as cool anymore. The double cheeseburger is 1.49.
The double cheeseburger also hasn’t been on the dollar menu in a long time. For a while they had a McDouble (they took away a slice of cheese), but even that is 1.29 now.
I think I have the prices right, something like that anyway.
It’s possible they have raised the prices, but for a while there I had to specify the double cheeseburger had to be from the dollar menu or the dollar cheeseburger became $1.36 and the clerk didn’t blink an eye until I pointed that I was only going to pay $1.06 for a dollar meal that should cost a dollar.
Plus tax.
Why ditch the bread? Does that give you more food than two sammiches?
Which is less of a meal than 2 sammiches, if you discard part of one. I don’t see why the discarding operation enhances the quantity, although you might like the taste better. C’est la vie.
As I said, it depends on which Chicago McDonald’s. Most of the ones downtown are going to be $1.29 or $1.49, and the one across from Wrigley Field is in the same range. But if you come up to Albany Park, the one on Foster at Kedzie or the one on Kedzie at Wilson have $1.00 McDoubles.
Prices are going to depend on rent and the market.
That’s not how it’s done anymore. The drink is rung up seperately (so you can specificy drink), but they do use a Big Mac Meal SM/MD/LRG button. Which is cheaper than ording everythign separately. It was presumably rung up separately in this order so they could subtract the cost of the drink and fry.
When I make a McGangbang (which I typically do if I’m eating at McDonalds), the entire chickenburger including the bun goes between the two beef patties. The whole point of this thing is to be as filling as possible while costing under 3 bucks, right?
Really? All my Canadian friends and family insist that it is paid for by some ridiculouosly low payroll tax (less than $1000 a year even for the highest earning folks) at least in Ontario. Are they bullshitting me. Trashing the US healtcare financing system is a popular parlor game in Canada. This was about three years ago, things might have changed since then.
This is a real question. Please don’t turn this into a health care debate.
