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My local restaurant’s hamburgers >>> that local hot-dog stand’s hamburgers >>> McDonalds
I’m still going to eat burger king, it still has Belgians being employed there and our minimum wage is quite high. The food is good so I support it.
It’s American owned, but the business I eat at pays Belgian taxes, Belgian wages, invested in Belgian real estate, …
I support that.
It’s not the same as importing USA goods and services produced within their country.
I highly advice you people to reconsider your purchases when it’s based on buying imported goods Vs foreign owned locally produced goods/services.
It’s not the same thing. We WANT foreigners to pour their capital into our areas. That’s good for us. Just trust me on this one.
Any profit is sent back to the US. Whereas if I get my food in my local burger joint, all the money stays in my country. They are also nice burgers. I understand what you are saying but right now, and maybe the next few years, we do have to remind the US, you aren’t an empire on your own. This for their brands AND their Tech services industry.
It might not pay any Belgian taxes, claiming it makes no profit (because of fees paid to the US).
Hmmmmm, we don’t really aim at having them pay corporate taxes. They invest their capital, which increases the labour’s value here. The higher wages cause for more labour taxes or consumption taxes. Hence our tax revenue increases.
If they do transfer pricing, they would have to be insane to send it to USA. They’d rather send it to tax havens.
The EU does their effort to counter transfer pricing.
Even if it fails, their capital investment causes our country to gain profit.
After McDonald’s dumbass trump stunt during the election, the only reason that I’ll ever go there again is to take a dump in their bathroom on a road trip.
Keep up the good work, boycott all fascist american brands.
Anti-American does good to your health!
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mcdonalds is currently a BDS target for their complicity in the “israeli” settler genocide on the Palestinian people
Expensive and slow. I don’t mind waiting for the food to be cooked if it reduces waste, but the “restaurant” experience is now awful in the UK. Most of the offers on the app are for delivery only. Then have to wait alongside a queue of uber drivers with giant boxes.
I feel Mcdonalds have given up on the restaurant sit down experience. I believe they may end up with a subscription based home delivery service, where they don’t need to worry about front of house staff and can just send out like warm boxes while raising the monthly price. We seen what happened when Disney gave up everything and tried to go all in with Disney Plus.
Mcdonalds was never about quality, but a fun cheap fast place to grab a bite. It’s a shame because I do have some fun memories, yet another example of late stage capitalism.
Yep, any time I’ve been inside a Maccy’s since covid has been a long wait while countless delivery drivers walk past and pick up online orders. I’ve tried delivery and it’s been shit every time, lukewarm food with soggy fries. I don’t think their food is suited to delivery, IMO it’s only popular because of momentum.
Nothing says “I’m a greedy whiny bitch” like complaining about a 3.6% dip in profits.
I expect it’s actually a political piece attempting to further the rhetoric that America is up in flames. And likely so they should.
But also, McDonald’s prices are outrageous now. I can feed my family at a sit in restaurant for a similar price.
Fast food and major chains have gotten absurd. I used a gift card at Red Robin. It was $19 before tip for a dry burger and bland fries. Two bucks more could’ve gotten me a gourmet meal at a five-star place just down the street. The value just isn’t there anymore. Eating local almost always tastes better, feels better, and costs the same or less. Why settle for mediocrity when better is right around the corner?
I can go to Chilis and get a REAL cheeseburger, fries, and a drink, for $10.99. If I’m in their free club, I get a free chips & salsa on every visit, too. If I leave a $2 tip (18%), it’s only $12.99, which is about same as a standard burger/fries/drink combo at McDonald’s.
Also, McDonald’s burgers are among the worst in the business, with nearly every other burger place beating them easily. We now have Culvers entering our market, and their burgers and fries blow away everyone else. They have really wide menu, and are actually cheaper than everyone else.
McD is also losing out go the quickly rising chicken tender trend, where their nuggests also compare poorly.
Their best thing is breakfast, where they are still the leader, but they are getting expensive there, too.
They’ve opend up a couple of new outlets near me, and they are obviously getting ready to go robotic. The dining areas are empty, with no drink stations, condiments, or even dispensers for straws or napkins. There is a wall that blocks the view of the kitchen area, so you can’t see who, or how many people are back there. It could be completely automated right now, and you’d never know it.
Yep and get waaaayyyyy better quality food
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And all these shit companies directly supported Trump because they loved his “lower taxes hur dur” etc approach… now suffer!
I know it’s cool to just hate on capitalists for everything on Lemmy but like yeah it’s completely normal to complain about a decrease in profits. That’s like if you complained about a 3.6% decrease in take home pay, which ai suspect anyone would.
Don’t compare the income of the rich and the poor. We use our take home pay to buy groceries. They use their take home profits to buy our country out from under us, to buy our land and our companies, to buy our politicians, to buy our time. We are not the same.
yes, 3.6% less profits for most of us means “should I pay the electricity bill and starve for a couple of days?”. For Ronald McDonald it probably means “here’s another round of layoffs to streamline operational efficiency or whatever”
McDonald’s is a real estate business, that just happens to specialize in generic burgers as a brand. It isn’t a surprise that the company doesn’t care about a quality dining experience, when repairing icecream machines was a money maker for them.
Well earned hate.
They really had to go above and beyond. From their insane price hikes to their genocide apologia. They earned what is happening to them. They pursued this outcome.
That’s a good thing. Love to see the impacts.
Will still continue avoiding them.
It’s funny how McDonald’s was the crown jewel of Western capitalism/imperialism. I remember media saying that having McDonald’s in your country means you are modernized and pro “democracy” and that your country is an ally of the west.
Now McDonald’s is a sign of corporate greed and western dominance over your country. I guess that’s what you get for letting a real estate company make and sell burgers.
Hopefully, this death dealing business model goes the way of the dodo.
Not just Western dominance. American dominance. We need to rid ourselves of these corporations, even in Western Europe.
