Kevin Roberts remembers when he could get a bacon cheeseburger, fries and a drink from Five Guys for $10. But that was years ago. When the Virginia high school teacher recently visited the fast-food chain, the food alone without a beverage cost double that amount.
Roberts, 38, now only gets fast food “as a rare treat,” he told CBS MoneyWatch. “Nothing has made me cook at home more than fast-food prices.”
Roberts is hardly alone. Many consumers are expressing frustration at the surge in fast-food prices, which are starting to scare off budget-conscious customers.
A January poll by consulting firm Revenue Management Solutions found that about 25% of people who make under $50,000 were cutting back on fast food, pointing to cost as a concern.
Boycotting McDonalds and KFC over their support for the genocide in Gaza is a good idea anyways. Unless you want to feel like eating the meat of little children.
Boycotting is fine but trying to say you’re eating the children is psychotic
Choosing to eat terrible McDonalds burgers over not aiding a genocide is psychotic.
Unrelated but a colleague of mine actually thinks that McD burgers are made out of human children’s meat lol
Sounds like a good way to keep population under control…
Fried chicken nuclear missiles