McDonald's executive takes aim at $17 Big Mac meal bought in Connecticut: 'Frustrates and worries me'

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McDonald's executive takes aim at $17 Big Mac meal bought in Connecticut: 'Frustrates and worries me'

By Jordan Nathaniel Fenster, CT Insider
May 30, 2024



The prices of McDonald's menu items at a Interstate 95 service station. On Wednesday May 30, 2024 the CEO of the company issued a statement saying high prices at the station were the 'exception.'

Joseph Tucci / Hearst CT Media

The president of McDonald’s this week served what he called "a side of facts," taking aim at claims of high prices at restaurants across the country, and saying that a nearly $17 Big Mac meal bought in Connecticut was an aberration.

“I can tell you that it frustrates and worries me, and many of our franchisees, when I hear about an $18 Big Mac meal being sold – even if it was at one location in the U.S. out of more than 13,700,” McDonald’s President Joe Erlinger wrote this week in a post on the company’s website.

That “one location” was a rest stop on I-95 in Darien, where a viral TikTok post showed a user buying a Big Mac Meal for $16.89. On Feb. 23, the Big Mac combo meal was priced at $17.59 on the McDonald's app.

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[ArkansasDemocrat1]

1. How to say "You can't afford to eat here" without telling you you can't.

For that, I'm buying bread and making sandwiches.

McD has gotten too big for their britches, and their food has become nasty

[marble falls]

9. I bake bread every week since the pandemic. I reccommend King Artur's "School of Baking" book. It ties up only a ...

... couple of hours, most of which can be spent doing other things.

Been boycotting McDonald's since 86, when a company shop wouldn't put tarter sauce on an egg McMuffin ( i know, weird but I liked it), because "we don't mix product". I couldn't get it as a condiment, couldn't buy it as a side. Pissed me off, I asked them if I can get it my way at BK, why would I come McD's." They didn't care. I called McD's corporate in LA, (I was in Mesa, AZ) and got a VP in charge of one of one thing or another. She was very sympathetic and agreed with me, she didn't understand what that was about. She got back to me in an hour or two, and had read the McDonald 'bible'. They serve breakfast until 11:00 and serve sandwiches after 11:00. The "recipes" are cast in iron and other than leaving out ingredients, there would be no additions. That the franchised shops could offer me tarter sauce before 11:00, but not the company stores.

Schmucks.

[Fullduplexxx]

2. And quit pestering me for my pennies for the rmh youre a multibillion dollar corporation

[bucolic_frolic]

3. I have them up about 2012, not that I went there often

I got shorted at a drive thru twice, but even inside the quality was variable. Salty overcooked, over salted fries, beef bathed in something other than beef juice, thinner cheese? All businesses are doing it, but you can only reduce the cost of a product until there's nothing remaining.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Geez, I remember maybe 20 years ago, there was a

summer burger war.

Big Macs and Whoppers for only one dollar.

Franchises were bleeding money.

[magicarpet]

5. $17 bucks,.... must be a complete meal ?

A complete Big Mac meal, what does that come with Black Caviar from the Black Sea off the coast of Russia and lobster nuggets from off the coast of New England - all for $17.00 ?

[marble falls]

6. Before I put the grain of salt away, what was his total compensation got the year. McDonalds is pretty ...

... hard on their franchisees. And makes them buy only from McDonalds commissary.

[Iwasthere]

7. You couldn't give me one for free

Actually, YOU COULDN'T PAY ME to eat one. Might as well call it a McCancer or Cmac. Along with all the other fast food just. We are far away from 50% of the population dying very young. We are frogs in a pot.

[Mr.WeRP]

8. I am ok with this. McDonalds is responsible for a lot of beef consumption

In this country and around the world. I suspect if you totaled up the amount of CO2 and methane that is attributable to McD’s over the years, it would be one of the largest contributors.

We are consuming humanity into extinction.

[AZ8theist]

10. I eat at McDonalds MAYBE once a year.....

And last time I ordered 2 fish sandwiches.

THE BILL WAS $12 DOLLARS!!!!!

Twelve bucks for 2 tiny fish sandwiches?????

NEVER.
AGAIN.