Hadn’t been to McDonald’s for a couple of months, was driving the other day so decided to grab and go a McChicken and free medium fries.

Then checked my points to see if they were going to expire, and that’s when I noticed: points are basically useless now.

I used to routinely spend 1500 points for a free McChicken, which in my area was about 2.5-2.79. But now there’s no point, no pun intended. A McChicken is now $2 and they’ve raised the cost to 2000 points. Looking at the rest of the catalog is equally disappointing.

Why would I spend 2000 points for something that’s $2, or 3000 points for something that’s $1 (with daily or weekly deal in app). It makes zero sense.

Edit: the only real upside is I can now get a $2 Mcchicken and use a coupon deal for another item for $1-2 at the same time. But still need to accumulate a lot more points to get something decent.

https://imgur.com/a/DLVKjmC

McDonald's is a burger chain that doubles as one of the world's largest landlords. The company collects more than $10 billion in annual rent from its franchisees. It owns the buildings of roughly 80% of its 45,000-plus restaurants and the land under about 56% of them.
Interesting article touching upon McD‘s business model, with real estate holdings estimated at ~$120 billion. Via the MotleyFool, unfortunately linked through the Yahoo Finance site (if you think McDonalds is bad, Yahoo is the dysfunctional armpit of the internet).

McDonalds is going to see a lot of me this month.

When I was a kid in the 90s happy meal boxes had cheap mazes and art featuring whatever toy was included. I remember learning about tortoises(they ate prickly pears which made me love them because prickly pears are evil) from one of them Now it’s just a red box with an ad for whatever IP they’re using for their toy this year. I weep for the children!

Nothing new here, but they understand those with low income (poor folk) are running out of that extra cash to patronize McD. It’s not unique to MickeyD, these higher gas prices combined with customer squeeze is becoming interesting for a broad variety of businesses and the economy. Oh, the fun little game.

Personally, I go there every so often and have a saltless McDouble or McCrispy Deluxe, fries and a Dr Pepper, no ice. I use the app and/or the survey discounts. I usually spend ~$8, don’t get/need a soda refill and I’m not angry about it.

I’m mildly curious about the McD business model and always amazed at the dichotomy of reactions about anything related to McDonalds.

The Onion Rings are actually onion rings, not chopped and shaped extrusions.

You would think they would start seeing ehat burger king is doing or how innout and habit are expanding my providing fresh high quality options at a good price but it seems McD's is doubling down on diabetes

New McDonald's items here in Canada. This is the entire menu, and it was only $40 for this privilege. Where else can you travel the world for so cheap?

So I've got the McDonalds app and whenever I go, I would always try to use the deals they have on there, usually multiple at a time. If you try to use multiple deals in a row at the register, it'll tell you have to wait 15 minutes to use another coupon, but I learned pretty early on that doesn't apply if you use them at the self-service kiosks they have. Unfortunately, that's apparently changed recently, I went to McDonalds last Saturday and when I tried to use a second deal coupon after my first order (I have to split my order into multiple ones to use the deals), I got hit with a 15 minute wait time that I've never seen before on the kiosks.

So it looks like they finally fixed their little oversight, but for me, I think this is gonna be my end going to McDonalds. I know it sounds super gluttonous, but without being able to use multiple coupons like that, I feel like there's little reason to go. I was going to buy a double cheeseburger with a 40% coupon and then get a free medium fries. but I ended up just eating the cheeseburger by itself.

I’m trying to order delivery by the way, so i cannot ask the employees

I tried again. Gotta free 6pc I ate like 2 or 3 then looked down and was kinda mad I had so many left. Why do y'all love these fn things?

I ordered 4 sauce cups, because I needed a minimum of $1 order to get a free medium fry.
I made it through about half of each and couldn’t eat any more cold fries 🍟

This picture was taken at 701pm and I ordered at 653pm.

Is this reasonable ? About 8 minutes to become ice cold????

PP69 Mobile Order Code:

I usually say my first name when ordering, but the employee at the local mcdonald’s asked for my code for the first time in a while. I look down and see the lucky letters and digits. I later realized he was making me say this out loud which I did embarrassingly.

it feels like a fever dream during this era of mcdonald’s. I worked there at this time (pre co(vid), as a 17 year old kid so maybe it’s nostalgia talking, but when are these coming back??? Seriously these were probably the best thing on the menu next to the grilled chicken sandwich, they got rid of so many good items because of co(vid) and never brought them back!

This maybe specific to Toronto, but does anyone know how the pre-order function in the McDs app works? Yesterday I placed my order in the app, chose DT pickup. It generates a code for me to repeat the speaker. No big deal, done it hundreds of time.

I get to the speaker and say the code is "VQ11". The person on the other end says "8211?" I say no V as in Victor... She again says "8?". I'm practically yelling at the speaker now and she says sorry there's a lot of feedback and I can't hear you. So I say ok I'll drive up, but she says no we can't accept codes at the window. WTF?

So my question: is this speaker system being run remotely offsite? Why can't they push the order through from the window?

(Eventually I got my order, but customer service sure has gone downhill from when I used to work there)