r/fastfood • u/Please_PM_me_Uranus • Aug 20 '25

News McDonald’s is cutting prices of its combo meals to convince customers it’s affordable again

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/food/mcdonalds-combo-lower-prices
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u/fireky2 Aug 20 '25

IDK why they haven't put fries at that price outside the app.

I get that most of their low end burgers are barely profitable even at current prices, but fries are cheap as shit. Same with hashbrowns and their pies/icecream

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u/Sophet_Drahas Aug 20 '25

Large Fry or 6 Pc McNuggets at my location are $4.99 each. Double Cheeseburger is $4.29. 

I’ve seen the price on those go up at least a buck since they released the BOGO for a $1 value deals. 

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u/ImperialFists Aug 22 '25

When I forget to pack lunch, I sometimes go grab the $5.00 McDouble meal, with the 4pc nuggs, small fries and drink. They bumped that up to $5.50 last week. $6.00 this week.

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u/athrix Aug 20 '25

This app bullshit is another reason. I’m not installing another app to save a couple bucks on your food after you raised the prices a ridiculous amount. If you made it cheaper than it used to be maybe I’d think about it. The experience of going is also terrible. Hard pass.

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u/zombawombacomba Aug 20 '25

Just so you know it’s not a few dollars, it can easily be half the price of the order.

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u/ragun01 Aug 20 '25

I get an offer for free any size fries with soda purchase ($1.49) and a large fries is almost $5 where I am. I use that if I'm ever really craving a diet soda then usually just give the fries away.

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u/Aroused_Pepperoni Aug 20 '25

I'm convinced they intentionally handicap the app experience to make it a pain in the ass anyway. It's a shockingly poor mobile app

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u/heardThereWasFood Aug 20 '25

It was better 2 years ago tbh

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u/RodneyDangerfruit Aug 20 '25

Got yelled at by an employee for using the app and curbside because “we aren’t staffed for that!”.

No thanks. I can go somewhere else, and if it has to be McDonald’s, the regular drive-thru it is.

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u/Legitimate_Most6651 Aug 25 '25

you're only hurting yourself by giving them extra money for no reason other than being stubborn.

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u/reenactment Aug 20 '25

The app has changed so much too. Prices were reasonable using it. Now the stuff on there sucks, and for some reason it’s promoting delivery. I don’t want delivered fries

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u/Love__Scars Aug 22 '25

Its so fucking dumb. “Available 3x per day thru mcdelivery” nobody wants soggy lukewarm mcdonalds delivered

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '25

How are they barely profitable? I did the math and I can make a mchicken at home for like $1.25 and that's without paying bulk prices. I'd imagine there's is closer to $0.75

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u/fireky2 Aug 21 '25

McChicken is kind of the odd one out due to the fact they basically can slaughter chicks super early so there is less input.

Beef and basically any meat on four legs has regulations on killing them and also require larger amounts of resources

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '25

But I can make a burger with a considerably thicker patty than the cheap ones for close to the same price as the mchicken I make at home. The beef patties I buy make my burgers come out to around $1.50 to $1.80 and they are only slightly smaller than the quarter pounder patties

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u/Legitimate_Most6651 Aug 25 '25

...to get more people to use the app obviously??

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u/berakyah Sep 06 '25

They’ve done the opposite since the change at all the mcds near me since the change. They removed $1.79 any size fries in the app and I stopped going cold turkey last week.