This is the exact reason I don’t fuck with fast food anymore. Fuck a $13 fast food meal, I expect to pay one digit of dollars for a large combo, with tax, or I expect to be personally edged by the franchise owner while I eat my meal.
I just looked at prices from my local chippy, and everything has doubled in price in the last 8 years.
I’ll tell you what hasn’t doubled in the last 8 years. My salary.
I suspect a good chunk of this is due to increases in electricity costs. While it went up to a cap for residential users in the UK, businesses had no such limit and around the time Russia invaded Ukraine it went to stupid levels. The only places that haven’t increased costs by a huge margin were those charging a king’s ransom anyway (mostly pizza places), and a couple of tiny Chinese restaurants that mostly use gas for cooking rather than electric.
This is the exact reason I don’t fuck with fast food anymore. Fuck a $13 fast food meal, I expect to pay one digit of dollars for a large combo, with tax, or I expect to be personally edged by the franchise owner while I eat my meal.
I just looked at prices from my local chippy, and everything has doubled in price in the last 8 years.
I’ll tell you what hasn’t doubled in the last 8 years. My salary.
I suspect a good chunk of this is due to increases in electricity costs. While it went up to a cap for residential users in the UK, businesses had no such limit and around the time Russia invaded Ukraine it went to stupid levels. The only places that haven’t increased costs by a huge margin were those charging a king’s ransom anyway (mostly pizza places), and a couple of tiny Chinese restaurants that mostly use gas for cooking rather than electric.
Funny look up fast food menus from the 70s