McDonald\u2019s President responds to claims of \u201c$8 Big Macs\u201d McDonald’sMcDonald\u2019s USA President Joe Erlinger has responded with a lengthy open letter, after a survey claimed that Big Mac prices had risen to almost $8. The survey was conducted by TheStreet, and measured some of the most popular items sold by the fast food chain, comparing them to prices from 2019. It claimed that McDonald\u2019s prices had climbed by 141%. According to the survey, the recorded price rises are: Medium French Fries rose from $1.79 to $4.19. – Big Macs rose by 87.7% to $7.49 from $3.99. – McChickens rose 201.6% to $3.89 from $1.29. – 10 McNuggets rose 68.8% from $4.49 to $7.58. – Cheeseburgers rose 215% from $1 to $3. – The McDonald\u2019s President responded: \u201cI can tell you that it frustrates and worries me, and many of our franchisees, when I hear about an $18 Big Mac meal being sold \u2013 even if it was at one location in the U.S. out of more than 13,700. \u201cMore worrying, though, is when people believe that this is the rule and not the exception, or when folks start to suggest that the prices of a Big Mac have risen 100% since 2019. \u201cThe average price of a Big Mac in the U.S. was $4.39 in 2019,\u201d Erlinger declared. \u201cDespite a global pandemic and historic rises in supply chain costs, wages and other inflationary pressures in the years that followed, the average cost is now $5.29. That\u2019s an increase of 21% (not 100%).\u201d A McDonald\u2019s franchisee also disputed the claim on X\/Twitter. \u201cThis bogus chart is getting passed around. This data set doesn\u2019t even list the same store or even the same source with pre versus post. The entire data set is rogue & has a severe data quality problem. You have data that is incomplete, inaccurate, inconsistent, outdated & simply of poor quality, making it completely unreliable for any type of analysis.\u201d Speaking of the individual McDonald\u2019s stores, they continued: \u201cAs the report itself notes, pricing is set by individual franchisees and varies by restaurant. This is not an accurate representation of historical or current pricing at McDonald\u2019s restaurants, and the 2024 average prices listed are significantly inflated.\u201d The graph including the price increases quickly went viral on Reddit, as well as other social media platforms. The conductors of the survey did note that: \u201c[It is] difficult to accurately source historical data to compare to the present\u201d since, \u201cMcDonald\u2019s franchisees are given a high level of autonomy in setting menu prices for individual locations,\u201d so the results might not be entirely accurate. In other McDonald\u2019s news, they are making some major changes to its burgers this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
McDonald\u2019s President responds to claims of \u201c$8 Big Macs\u201d McDonald’sMcDonald\u2019s USA President Joe Erlinger has responded with a lengthy open letter, after a survey claimed that Big Mac prices had risen to almost $8. The survey was conducted by TheStreet, and measured some of the most popular items sold by the fast food chain, comparing […]<\/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-70653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70653","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=70653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}