McDonald's - As Usual, I'm Hatin' It

[rain_gryphon]

McDonald's pricing plans leak out.

McDonald’s three new sandwiches – all with a larger fillet and new potato bun – will start at $3.49 and top out at roughly $4.69, depending on the region, according to a U.S. franchisee who spoke on the condition of anonymity and a Credit Suisse analyst. [...]

For example, the franchisee told Reuters that Deloitte recommended a price of $3.69 for the spicy and crispy versions and $4.29 for the deluxe. But the person, who declined to be named, said they will mark up the menu price because of higher minimum wages in the area, and that they plan to charge $3.99 and $4.69 instead.

So, the way I read this, if you're being charged more than $3.49 for the Spicy and/or Crispy* sammiches, or more than $4.09 for the Deluxe, you're being ripped off.


*An adjective which I passionately hate. The word is "crisp", not "crispy". I will make an exception for the Vietnam War Era alliterative phrase 'crispy critters', to describe enemy soldiers burned to a crisp in a napalm strike.

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Comments

[frith]

Crispy is in the dictionary (Webster's New World Dictionary, 1980) but I see your point, crisp and crispy are both adjectives and the definition for crispy states "same as crisp", although I don't see adjectives 'crisper' or 'crispest', just crispier and crispiest. (Crisper, noun, is the fridge vegetable compartment.) So there's no escaping crispy. ^_^ Goodwill in the age of 'smart phones', an excellent source of dictionaries!

[rain_gryphon]

1980's just about when it started popping up in advertising, IIRC. I will admit that 'crispy', at least, is not used to deliberately mislead, unlike its contemporaneous neologism 'chocolatey'.

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

"I'm hatin' it" LOL good title!
McDonalds is essentially dead to me, after they bulldozed every one of them, spending heavily to get a new (useless) "look" ... and now they want us to pay for it for them, while they charge triple the prices that their food items are worth, in ANY market... more in others as you so noted.