Things are more difficult in the fast food market these days, especially the burger chains. Beef prices and dwindling walk in trade has been a challenge for this sub-sector. Wendy's used the poison pill defense to stave off the attempt. https://www.oann.com/business/wendy...girds-itself-for-a-hostile-takeover-campaign/
Wendy's fends off Buyout attempt
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Blackmesa96
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Looks like the Chick-Fil-A cows are taking things up to another level.
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Grayfox
Professional
Fast food is about convenience. Stop in a grab something quick.
Now days a lot of folks aren't finding it convenient to grab a burger when you can go to a nice sit down restaurant for the same money. Or go home and throw something in the microwave for half that. Fast food is pricing themselves out of business.
Now days a lot of folks aren't finding it convenient to grab a burger when you can go to a nice sit down restaurant for the same money. Or go home and throw something in the microwave for half that. Fast food is pricing themselves out of business.
Old_Me
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when my kids were tiny, if i recall, burgers were about 30¢ or less...then the fries which we'd by 1 Large sized, then the Small sodas.
jezz...maybe we spent like under $5.00 to feed or 5 kids...???
yeah, its all about a quick in/out drive up service...
who cares the burgers are smooshed flat and the soda is maybe all of 4 ounces in a tall cup, cuz the nitwits fill the cup to the top with friggin' ice..????
not to mention too, the HIGH calories, fats, salts, sugars in "fast food".......
yup, the killing of America.....
not just the "border crossing" illegals doing the killings
powerboatr
Hellcat
let me go down the road of " i am an assshhhole"
prior to covid there was no beef quantity issue
during covid the ranchers that are part of the "team" that use a select few processors, sold off the beef critters to maximize PROFITS from home bound folks buying up everything.
then covid ended and they had almost zero beef critters to mate and make baby beef critters
sooooo no quantity of beef ,
the independent beef producers are in high cotton
they grow, mate, slaughter etc at their OWN processing facilities and now are ranking it in as they have beef, and its able to be produced under the "team" prices. these independent ranchers didnt sell off breeding beefs to sell beef as it was
these same "TEAM" producers are upset as beef from not on U S Soil is allowed to fill the gap they created.
same with the HOG products industry, they jacked up prices during covid, citing no "quantity"
in reality there was a huge OVER quantity of hog products and when covid fell apart the hog products dropped in price fairly quick, yes still high, but not covid high
greed is a powerful thing and we saw it go into overdrive during covid in almost every item we purchase, even when quantity was not scarce.
prior to covid there was no beef quantity issue
during covid the ranchers that are part of the "team" that use a select few processors, sold off the beef critters to maximize PROFITS from home bound folks buying up everything.
then covid ended and they had almost zero beef critters to mate and make baby beef critters
sooooo no quantity of beef ,
the independent beef producers are in high cotton
they grow, mate, slaughter etc at their OWN processing facilities and now are ranking it in as they have beef, and its able to be produced under the "team" prices. these independent ranchers didnt sell off breeding beefs to sell beef as it was
these same "TEAM" producers are upset as beef from not on U S Soil is allowed to fill the gap they created.
same with the HOG products industry, they jacked up prices during covid, citing no "quantity"
in reality there was a huge OVER quantity of hog products and when covid fell apart the hog products dropped in price fairly quick, yes still high, but not covid high
greed is a powerful thing and we saw it go into overdrive during covid in almost every item we purchase, even when quantity was not scarce.
Retired Bum
Professional
Control. Control the food and you control the people.
Follow the money trail. Bill Gates, George Sorros, and a handful of folks made a boatload of money with the whole fiasco.
Jsimon78
Professional
There was quantity. Trust me. There’s a difference between a desk jockey and a warehouse worker moving the stuff on a daily basis.
Old_Me
Emissary
true....my mother's dad, who migrated here from Italy, had worked as a day laborer in the late 1890's, and he dug ditches for the new water and sewer system. yes, they had back then powered equipment, but they still needed men in those unsafe ditches.
his lunch as my mother told me..??
was a large Italian loaf of bread, stuffed with spaghetti...yup, all those carbs.......beer was the thirst quencher at lunchtime for ALL the workers. she said there was a horse drawn wagon, with large beer kegs, every day.
grand dad, was as bulked up (not fat from the pics i saw), from all those carbs, working in the ditches.
now me, as a former mechanic and trucker....
i would eat large meals at home, small lunches at work or small meals on the road.....
i'd see dispatchers at trucking companies, office workers at the warehouses, and the garages........that would break thier chairs, due to the "inactivity" of an office worker, and all that fat.