My Burger King experience

IrisSenior said:
I can get a medium pepperoni pizza for S12.00 on special and you would need to add tax and delivery(if using). For the 4 adults here it would be about $100 including tax and delivery but we get 2 meals out of it.
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:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:..sorry for laughing..but £100 for 2 meals...?...you could get a weeks' groceries for that for 4 people...
 

hollydolly said:
The most expensive every day take out here is Pizza.. it's a diabolical disgrace the prices they chareg. There's dozens of different named Pizza parlours but lets just take one as an example... Dominos...

The average price for ONE Pizza is £25..00... that's $32 US approx... or $49 Australian Dollars... or $44.50 Canadian
https://www.dominos.co.uk/store/28749/ware/menu
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I rarely order take out, but when I do (maybe once per month), it's usually pizza. With discounts/coupons I can usually get two 12-inch pizzas (one with lots of stuff and the other with two toppings) for about $20 U.S. It's pretty good too, for a chain restaurant setup -- and I'm talking about Marco's in my area.

Pizza is a cheap food, easy to prepare and bake. It's criminal what they're charging you guys.
 
I just priced out a large Detroit-style "Aloha Chicken" (roast chicken, bacon, pineapple, BBQ sauce, mozzarella). $17.45 w/tax, Those used to be about $12 a few years ago.
 
One of the reasons fast food costs so much now is the cost of labor. In Denver, for example, the average hourly wage for fast food workers is $23. There's a worker shortage, which is part of why their wages are so high. Simple supply and demand economics.
 
Furryanimal said:
No idea what my local chippy charges these days but it’s £11.61 with an alcoholic drink for Cod and Chips in Wetherspoons around here -significantly cheaper between two and five.
I think that is quite reasonable and is my weekly treat….
My chippy does a cook a Cod fresh when asked..not sure all chippies do that.
Never had any complaints when I did frequent it.
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Be nice and they treat you nice!
 
Nathan said:
I don't frequent fast food places, however once every blue moon I succumb to some subliminal implant(from a TV commercial) and the thought of a fast food visit comes to fruition. So I swing by Burger King on the way home from the gym and pick up lunch for myself and DW.

Order:
1 Whopper w/cheese + small fries(hers)
1 Whopper, no cheese(mine)
Total: $22.70
Let me repeat that: Twenty-Two Dollars(USD) and Seventy Cents. :oops: :oops: :oops:

Seriously, this visit was THE LAST TIME I will be visiting a fast food place!
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We got dinner from Carl's Jr. this evening... two meals for about $18. Maybe California's prices are higher than Colorado.
 
This may be off-topic but I ate at a McDo many, many, many years ago in Holland. It was so long ago that it was before people insisted on calling it the Netherlands. Anyway, in the "convenience facilities" someone had written on the wall, "Please flush twice as the McDonald’s kitchen in New York is a long distance from here."
 
HermitHogan said:
One of the reasons fast food costs so much now is the cost of labor. In Denver, for example, the average hourly wage for fast food workers is $23. There's a worker shortage, which is part of why their wages are so high. Simple supply and demand economics.
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well it's not how it works here... taking Domino's again as an average price for take out pizza here...astronomical price for a single Pizza of an average £25 ...however the minimum wage for 18-20 years olds, which is the average age of Pizza parlour workers ..is just £8.60 here... so it's not the cost of paying salaries that's pushing the prices up.....
 
hollydolly said:
...... farthings were withdrawn in 1960..
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Really? Lord in heaven, time flies! But here is another fact. I can speak German and whenever I am in Germany (not so often lately) I still quote their prices in DM. They look at me oddly but I can't help it. It just comes out of mouth that way. :confused:
 
Food take-aways seem to be the fastest growing businesses in the UK. They are much more expensive that cooking your own, yet many of their customers are on benefits. That, coupled with too many sugary drinks and unhealthy snacks is why there is such a problem with obesity.
 
There seems to be a change in the Fast-food meat since the start of Covid. It seems glued together, very chewy and not fun to eat.
Most all the Beef meat in the Cooler or Restaurant awful. Chew, spit out globs of unswallowable meat. We don't eat out anymore because of the menu, no price on it and uneatable beef.
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30% of the meat comes from Canada's 1,000,000 dairy herd?
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The pork tastes and chews gay also.
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I haven't had a great tasting Chicken leg in 10 years.
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Meat has become a gag along to the song for some time now.
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Only uncooked shrimp seems great now.
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Tilapia tastes like Crappy overcooked.
 
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hollydolly said:
well it's not how it works here... taking Domino's again as an average price for take out pizza here...astronomical price for a single Pizza of an average £25 ...however the minimum wage for 18-20 years olds, which is the average age of Pizza parlour workers ..is just £8.60 here... so it's not the cost of paying salaries that's pushing the prices up.....
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Pizza "parlour?" I haven't heard that term in a while! :)

Growing up in NY, we used to call pizzas "pizza pie." I moved to Texas when I was 20. A few weeks after I moved there, I went to a pizza place and tried to order a "pizza pie." The Asian guy working the counter kept telling us, "we no serve pie." We never did get through to him what we wanted a wound up leaving without any food.
 
Inept said:
Holland. It was so long ago that it was before people insisted on calling it the Netherlands
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Those are two different things. It's like conflating NYC with America, when New York is even more of an outlier than very representative of the nation.
 
Nathan said:
I don't frequent fast food places, however once every blue moon I succumb to some subliminal implant(from a TV commercial) and the thought of a fast food visit comes to fruition. So I swing by Burger King on the way home from the gym and pick up lunch for myself and DW.

Order:
1 Whopper w/cheese + small fries(hers)
1 Whopper, no cheese(mine)
Total: $22.70
Let me repeat that: Twenty-Two Dollars(USD) and Seventy Cents. :oops: :oops: :oops:

Seriously, this visit was THE LAST TIME I will be visiting a fast food place!
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It's been a few months that I was out running errands and decided to get a couple corndogs from Wienerschnitzel on my way home.

ELEVEN BUCKS...for two lousy corndogs. Nothing else. I used the drive-thru, and I could have said no thanks and driven thru, but to be honest, I felt sorry for the company and bought the stupid things. No more fast food, though.

I don't know how they're gonna survive. My neighbor thinks that was the plan when minimum wage for fast food workers went up, but I'm positive legislators weren't thinking ahead like that...or at all.
 
Murrmurr said:
That one came after the memo that said "Raise your wages!"
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I didn't make the connection before but you're right. I was thrown off because some reported that the new outrageous minimum wage law had no effect on prices. But they were saying this after prices were already adjusted.

Bottom line is that it's no longer fun to go out and grab a bite.
 
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