• bluestribute@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Why are fast food places charging premium prices for slowed down food with cheaper ingredients? If I’m gonna spend over $10 or over 10 minutes at a place you bet your ass it isn’t gonna be a fast food joint. It’s gonna be a place with real ingredients and an atmosphere that isn’t overflowing toilets.

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      4 months ago

      Or at the very least it’s going to be an upscale fast food place. Church’s Chicken, not KFC

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        While I like Church’s Chicken better than KFC I definitely wouldn’t call them more upscale. In fact I’ve never seen a Church’s that wasn’t in the hood.

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          Yeah, I read that and thought “If this person thinks Church’s is ‘upscale fast food’, where do they normally go, soup kitchens?”

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            McDicks, so even lower than soup kitchens :P

            But I have been informed that my local Church’s is unusually nice, they aren’t all like that

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      4 months ago

      Is that a nationwide thing? It feels weird over here, but yeah, it seems like a lot of the midrange/sit down restaurant small chains just never changed their prices.

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        The smaller restaurants kept their prices tracking actual inflation to maintain their customer base. Lately they have been enjoying increased business because of the nationals screwups.

        The local Greek place $65.

        The best taco truck in town is $55.

        For $75 I can get my local family owned Thai place with leftovers for the next day.

        DQ, McD, Subway, KFC, all run between $60-75.

        For $70 I can even get my family chipotle and enjoy the guaranteed food poisoning a few hours later.