{"id":70564,"date":"2025-01-28T20:49:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T20:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/mcdonalds-admits-price-surges-are-causing-customers-to-stay-at-home-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T20:49:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T20:49:58","slug":"mcdonalds-admits-price-surges-are-causing-customers-to-stay-at-home-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/mcdonalds-admits-price-surges-are-causing-customers-to-stay-at-home-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s admits price surges are causing customers to stay at home &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald\u2019s admits price surges are causing customers to stay at home NewsWeekMcDonald\u2019s CFO has admitted that the fast food chain expects to see a dip in customers as food prices continue to rise. Recently, fast food lovers have been outraged at McDonald\u2019s as their prices reach an all-time high. McDonald\u2019s prices went up by 10% in 2023 alone, and while they still rise, the company intends to focus on value menu items and in-app deals to keep customers happy. McDonald\u2019s finds ways to retain customers with exclusive deals Ian Borden, McDonald\u2019s CFO spoke at a conference recently and admitted that a lot of their low income customers were opting to stay at home instead of eating out at fast food restaurants. Although McDonald\u2019s has put its prices up, they have not changed their portion sizes in years, and customers are mad that they are paying much more for the same food items. One person took to X to say, \u201cMcDonalds high prices are the reason I stopped eating there.\u201d after someone shared a photo of a McChicken sandwich that cost nearly five dollars: \u201cI think consumers in 2024 are going to be much more focused on affordability,\u201d Borden said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s certainly what we\u2019re going to focus on and emphasize.\u201d McDonald\u2019s says they will, for example, promote its value deals more heavily, such as bundles in the US that come in at under $4. If you don\u2019t yet have the McDonald\u2019s app, it\u2019s probably a good idea to get on there as soon as possible so that you can still enjoy fast food without your bank account taking a hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald\u2019s admits price surges are causing customers to stay at home NewsWeekMcDonald\u2019s CFO has admitted that the fast food chain expects to see a dip in customers as food prices continue to rise. Recently, fast food lovers have been outraged at McDonald\u2019s as their prices reach an all-time high. McDonald\u2019s prices went up by 10% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}