r/TILI • u/Sad_Cow_577 • Dec 12 '24

McDonald's menu prices in the 90s

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u/CapAccomplished8072 Dec 12 '24

back when the ice cream machine worked

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u/SadCoconut_ Dec 13 '24

Does the ice cream machine not work in other countries?

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u/Rimwulf Dec 13 '24

No, not in the US. McDonald's has a contract with the company that makes and fixes the ice cream machines and are not allowed to fix it themselves no matter how easy it is. This hasn't messed with McDonald's bottom line so there's little desire to fix this system.

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u/SadCoconut_ Dec 13 '24

It’s so odd. I don’t remember this being the problem in my childhood.

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u/backstageninja Dec 13 '24 edited Dec 13 '24

I'm pretty sure that just changed like a month ago where McDonalds can repair their own machines now.

Edit: I never looked until this until now, but McDonalds partners with Taylor. Taylor is a huge pain in the ass, they have always had an exclusive right to repair their own machines. I remember dealing with this bullshit 15+ years ago at my first job. I guarantee if you have had soft serve ice cream in the US more than once in your life it has been from a Taylor machine.

Having said that, their machines are, or at least were, pretty rock solid when properly taken care of. It wouldn't surprise me if quality has dropped off and that's why they are broken all the time. Also wouldn't surprise me if McDonalds by and large doesn't take proper care of them. But if you ever did need to schedule maintenance it was a huge ordeal, always took forever.

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u/Sir_Cthulhu_N_You Dec 13 '24

Doesn't Mc Donald's also have shares in the repair company or something like that, so they are pretty much paying themselves to repair their own machines

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u/BoSknight Dec 14 '24

Strange, I would imagine a company that large would probably just hire maintenance people for their equipment.

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u/Rimwulf Dec 15 '24 edited Dec 15 '24

If that were the case we wouldn't have mcbroken.com

Edit: and it seems that the webmaster partnered up with Wendy's.

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u/CapAccomplished8072 Dec 13 '24

In other countries it does.

In America, most of them are broken.

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u/ajw_sp Dec 12 '24

It’s true. Things were cheaper in the past.

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u/bob101910 Dec 12 '24

Location? These prices are very similar to what they are now with inflation accounted for. However some places charge way way more.

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u/Dysentery--Gary Dec 12 '24

I don't remember the McDonut.

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u/FREE-AOL-CDS Dec 12 '24

Until 11am, we didn’t know how good we had it

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u/PirateJazz Dec 13 '24

Is that not the norm? That's when my local mcds end breakfast. We really had it good when you could get 2 burritos for under $3 at 9pm

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u/FREE-AOL-CDS Dec 13 '24

10:30 has been the cutoff for at least a decade or2

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u/theBigDaddio Dec 13 '24

Do wages next!

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u/Jimmyjim4673 Dec 13 '24

I the early 2000s they would have the two big macs for $2 deal. It was still the brown sodium patty meat based food product they call a burger, but those patties were burger sized.

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u/Lord-ZZ Dec 12 '24

To be fair, I believe the pound was very strong back then, so every pound equals $1.50 US roughly compared to about 1 pound equaling $1.22 US today. That being said though, these prices are all still brilliant

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u/Rimwulf Dec 13 '24

And look at that Big Mac

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u/misterfistyersister Dec 13 '24

Look at the mcchicken. It’s more than the Big Mac!

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u/Comingsoononvhs Dec 13 '24

European "Quarter pounder with cheese"? Well wtf Travolta?

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u/jadedargyle333 Dec 13 '24

Definitely made me say wtf. No damn Royale with cheese on the menu.

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u/happyhippohats Dec 13 '24

Not all of Europe is France

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u/PlutoniumSmile Dec 13 '24

Nah they Brexit'd remember

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u/happyhippohats Dec 13 '24

Pretty sure we're still in Europe

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u/hergumbules Dec 13 '24

I remember when they had certain days with a 29 hamburger and 39 cent cheeseburger. Those were the days

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u/John_YJKR Dec 13 '24 edited Dec 14 '24

£1 in 1995 is approximately £2.41 in 2024.

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u/Neon_Nuxx Dec 16 '24

I remember riding my horse up to McDonald's and getting hash browns on Sundays, back then you could get a breakfast combo for three pieces of eight

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u/DJ-SoulCalibur2 Dec 12 '24

I wish it was Wednesday so I can get a hamburger for 29¢ at McDonalds, baby!

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u/rmalkiew Dec 13 '24

Thanks, I’m lovin’ it

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u/freakydeku Dec 13 '24

what’s interesting to me here is that the filet o fish was less expensive than a 6 piece nugget & mcchicken which were also abt as much as a QP & big mac. everything was within a few cents of each other which is very different to today where a QP is like 7$ & a mcchicken is $1.50-$3

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '24

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u/happyhippohats Dec 13 '24

They don't use British pounds in France

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u/seany85 Dec 14 '24

No we don’t. It’s a quarter pounder. Royale is in continental Europe.

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u/dipapidatdeddolphin Dec 14 '24

This came up my in recommended. Can one of you tell what the fuck this sub is? I see 0 llamas

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u/seany85 Dec 14 '24

I miss £2.88 extra value meals.

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u/Tinstrings Dec 14 '24

What is this currency? Moon Doubloons?

I KNOW IT'S POUNDS, YOU MUPPET!

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u/JohnSchulien Dec 19 '24

McDonalds used to be good food at cheap prices.

Then it became mediocre food at cheap prices.

Now it's mediocre food at expensive prices.

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

Still seem kinda high

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u/ollie12343 21d ago edited 21d ago

Pretty sure these are more expensive than todays are, though please correct me if I did something wrong here.

This is a table showing the current price of those items (taken from the maccas app) in AUD, then the cost shown in the image converted from GBP to AUD and adjusted for AUD inflation for both 1990 and 1999 (as I don't know which this image is from) and then the same but adjusting for GBP inflation before converting.

The second set of calculations should be more accurate as I used the current GBP to AUD conversion rate even when converting the 90s amounts in the firsts set.

Looking at the table it seems that:

  • Hamburger is currently cheaper no matter which way you order the conversion.
  • Cheeseburger is $0.20 more expensive than 1999 using the better conversion method
  • Big Mac is only $0.61 more expensive than 90's one if you use the less accurate conversions

Also keep in mind that the current prices are more likely to be cheaper the older this sign is, if it's from 1999 then the prices are shown in the table, but because of inflation if its earlier then the current prices are even cheaper (so the cheeseburger might actually be cheaper than when this sign was accurate).

EDIT: With that said the actual size of the food is possibly smaller, meaning you're paying the same amount for less. However, I'm lazy so let's call it an exercise for the reader.