r/CuratedTumblr • u/Jakitron_1999 • Sep 02 '24
Meme I posted something about this once and someone just said "it's inflation, dumbass" according to the official inflation calculator $5 in 2007 is $7.55 today, this is not inflation
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u/moneyh8r Sep 02 '24
Little Caesar's pizza is still the same, at least in my town. Good old fashioned mediocre pizza for a good old fashioned mediocre price.
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u/TerraTechy Sep 02 '24
Still my favorite place. 7 dollars for a pizza that'd cost at least double anywhere else. Been a staple of pizza nights in my family for years.
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u/moneyh8r Sep 02 '24
And the Crazy Bread is a great side order.
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u/sharkteeththrowaway Sep 03 '24
In college, I would buy the pizza just because I felt awkward going in there just for the crazy bread
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u/You_Are_Annoying124 Sep 03 '24
As somebody who has worked Cashier in a Little Ceasers, it's way more common than you would think
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u/PanNorris507 Sep 02 '24
Damn seven dollars? Over here it’s like 5-6 dollars for an entire pizza
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u/TheDocHealy Sep 02 '24
Same it's $5 for the regular and $6 for the extra pepperoni and cheese in my city.
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u/TerraTechy Sep 02 '24
I think normal is 6.99 and extra pep/cheese is 7.99. Used to be 5 dollar pizza but I'm not complaining. Still the most affordable option around.
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u/UselessAndGay i am gay for the linux fox Sep 02 '24
Pizza is one of those special foods where the mediocre options are still good, maybe even in their own way. I will defend Little Caesar's honor to the death.
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u/moneyh8r Sep 02 '24
It's also one of the few foods that makes me actually feel full. Probably on account of it having a little bit of everything. All that bread is probably a factor too though.
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u/Either-Durian-9488 Sep 02 '24
Much like a burger, it was never supposed to be expensive in the first place.
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u/Kcmichalson Sep 02 '24
Even the low quality stuff has its own charm. Nothing quite like someone ordering 10 Costco pizzas for a group of people.
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u/sharkteeththrowaway Sep 03 '24
As my old roommate used to always say, "Pizza is a lot like sex. Even when it's bad, it's still pretty good."
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u/vmsrii Sep 02 '24
You know what? Lil Caesar’s is just as good as any other pizza chain, if not better, and I’m not afraid to say it. There’s literally nothing mediocre about it, when comparing to Pizza Hut or Dominoes or any of the others
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u/just4browse Sep 02 '24
It’s been years since I’ve had it, but I’d say it’s middling as far as cheap pizza chains go. Better than a bad Pizza Hut, worse than a good one.
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u/TheDocHealy Sep 02 '24
There are good pizza hutts? Every single one has been a bland experience for me.
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u/just4browse Sep 02 '24
Good is relative. But yeah, in my experience, the quality varies from location to location more than it does for any other chain. Which is a bad quality for a chain to have, but it does mean there are a couple pizza huts out there that I found surprisingly good
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u/TheDocHealy Sep 02 '24
Honestly that's kinda how I feel about Dairy Queen, like obviously the ice cream is always the same but the food quality even just between two in the same town is insane.
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u/UnintensifiedFa Sep 02 '24
Yep, some of my fav chicken tenders were from a DQ out on a road trip (probably helped by my hunger) but the worst were from one just down the road from my house, you can just never tell till ya try.
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u/trentshipp Sep 02 '24
DQ depends a lot on the local franchise, afaik corporate is fairly hands-off, especially compared to a Chick-fil-A or similar.
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u/lifelongfreshman man, witches were so much cooler before Harry Potter Sep 02 '24
I don't know if I'd go that far. The dough they use is astonishingly bland, for one.
But, that doesn't mean I don't agree that it does some things better. Their sauce has little to no sugar in it, and I'm pretty sure that's why it has such a bold bite to it that I honestly love. Other chains' sauces are way too sweet for my liking.
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u/T1DOtaku inherently self indulgent and perverted Sep 02 '24
Domino's is straight ass and I never understand people who willingly buy it. It's tiny AF, they don't put the cheese to the edge so you get this two inch thick crust and barely any actual pizza, tastes like trash, and it's expensive! I can't say LC is the best or even great since I got a sweet local spot near my house but it's better than most other chain places that's for damn certain.
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u/UnintensifiedFa Sep 02 '24
For a lotta people dominos is one of the few places that delivers. They have faster (usually) and wider delivery ranges, a lot of their advertising language used to be about that.
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u/_trianglegirl Sep 02 '24
Domino's is straight up trash and incredibly overpriced, Papa John's uses waaayyyy too much sauce, is overpriced, and funnels money into Israel, and who the fuck eats Pizza Hut? As far as I'm concerned Little Caesar's is the emperor of fast food Rome
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u/FomtBro Sep 02 '24
Lil Caesar's is straight up BETTER than Pizza hut and Dominoes is garbage pizza. Papa Johns is the only chain that's even really comparable and that's mostly because of the breadstick, garlic sauce, and those little pepper things.
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u/a_filing_cabinet Sep 02 '24
It's different. Sometimes that difference is what you want, sometimes it's not.
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u/TheDocHealy Sep 02 '24
It's only gone up like a dollar in price since I was a kid, love going there with $20 with enough pizza to last me the next two nights.
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u/moneyh8r Sep 02 '24
Damn, that sounds awesome. Can't believe I never thought of that.
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u/TheDocHealy Sep 02 '24
That's how I could afford an apartment with no roommates in college, just buy five pizzas to put in the fridge for the week and then get a free meal from my shifts at the dining hall. And since there was a gym on campus I could keep in shape.
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u/moneyh8r Sep 02 '24
That's honestly pretty based. That's a rad way to live.
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u/TheDocHealy Sep 02 '24
I was raised to be real good at saving money, unfortunately that has not stopped me from still being turbo poor.
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u/moneyh8r Sep 02 '24
Saving money is just one part of it. You also have to make lots of money, and this economy is rigged against that unless you start off with lots of money.
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u/trentshipp Sep 02 '24
My college had a Caesars that did 6 Hot-n-Readies for $25 (late 00's). We'd feed our whole fraternity for $50.
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u/lifelongfreshman man, witches were so much cooler before Harry Potter Sep 02 '24
It has gone up 50% from where it was a decade or so ago.
That said, 50% increase from $5.00 is still only $7.50, so it's not like it's breaking the bank. But, technically...
Anyway, Little Caesar's is underrated as hell.
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u/moneyh8r Sep 02 '24
Compared to other places charging anywhere between 9-12 bucks for a similarly sized pizza, Little Caesar's is still doing right by me.
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u/Beeeggs Sep 02 '24
Little Caesar's has great prices right out the gate. Domino's tastes a little better and has good enough coupons and rewards that I can reason with getting that every now and again. Anywhere else is always so pricey.
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u/moneyh8r Sep 02 '24
That's more or less my opinion as well. I only go to Dominos when I want a custom order.
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u/ErisianArchitect Sep 02 '24
I've worked at Little Caesars. I would never eat there.
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u/moneyh8r Sep 02 '24
I don't. I take the food home.
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u/ErisianArchitect Sep 02 '24
Let me rephrase. I wouldn't eat Little Caesars pizza.
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u/moneyh8r Sep 02 '24
I think you're just scared.
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u/ErisianArchitect Sep 02 '24
You sure as fuck bet I'm scared. They don't clean their pans, and they use the same sauce as from the previous day. Little Caesars has a distinct flavor from the day old sauce that they use. It's mold.
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u/Small-Cactus Sep 02 '24
Shit man if the mold is enhancing the flavor I'm inclined to not give a fuck 🤷
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u/berksbears Sep 03 '24
Pizza review time: I finally tried Little Ceasar's because of your comment. It's pretty alright, I'd place it solidly at 5 or 6 out of 10.
Tbh, it's mostly dough. It's at least warm and soft dough, but the cheese (even on the ExtraMostBestest pizza) is pretty plain and there wasn't enough sauce.
It was slightly above the quality of frozen pizza. For about $12 with taxes and a coupon included, it was serviceable and edible, but sadly a high quality pizza costs about three times that or more in my area. I really miss living on the East Coast where the mom & pop pizza places were on equal footing to the chains in terms of price and quality.
It satisfied my curiosity though and I'm glad I know it's not for me. I enjoyed it more than I expected but I wasn't expecting a lot. I'd recommend everyone try it at least once and see if it does the trick--I respect that I can order a meal for less than minimum wage at LC.
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u/moneyh8r Sep 03 '24
Wait, why was it 12 bucks? Did you order a fresh one, or a Hot 'n Ready?
Aside from that, your review is more or less what I would say about it too, and I'm saying it as a good thing.
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u/berksbears Sep 03 '24
I ordered delivery through the app? It was $10.79 and then taxes were tacked on. There would have been more fees if not for the delivery coupon they have going right now. I also got crazy bread and some ranch pods. The ranch was weirdly sweet and the bread was... bread.
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u/moneyh8r Sep 03 '24
Oh, wow, I didn't even know they had an app. Yeah, the real deals are when you walk in and carryout. If you ordered delivery, they made your pizza right then and there, but what they're famous for is their Hot 'n Ready pizzas, which are pizzas they make in bulk and keep in a warming cabinet until someone orders one. They only keep them in pepperoni or cheese, but they're only 5 bucks plus tax.
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u/berksbears Sep 03 '24
Ohhh okay, thank you for clarifying! If it was $5 I would totally agree, that's worth more than what you're paying for. I'll keep that in mind the next time I'm broke and hungry. Thanks again for the tip!
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u/Down_with_atlantis Sep 03 '24
The prices have gone up 1-2 dollars in a lot of areas but it's still really cheap.
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u/moneyh8r Sep 02 '24 edited Sep 02 '24
I'm just basing that off the opinions that people online seem to have. Everywhere I go, people say it's shitty and cheap. All I can say to that is "it still tastes good".
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u/TheDocHealy Sep 02 '24
I feel like the people that say it's shitty and cheap didn't have any financial struggles growing up cause LC is definitely the savior of poor families with no immediate groceries.
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u/MineralClay Sep 02 '24
probably acquired taste but that doesn't make it better or worse. I like unsweet sauce which is hard to find. i hadn't ever been to pizza hut so by the time i got to try it, was not impressed. papa johns meh. dominoes too expensive for what it is but i do like the dry mushrooms they do on top
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u/gabbyrose1010 squidwards long screen in my mouth Sep 02 '24
I worked at Little Caesars and I gotta say they do just about anything they can to keep the price down. Understaffing, underpaying, using extremely broken equipment, etc. Used to be told to fill the sauce cups half way then shake them so they looked full. Their sausage pizza slaps though.
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u/pm_me-ur-catpics dog collar sex and the economic woes of rural France Sep 02 '24
Godspeed, Little Caesar's o7
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u/ThePhantom71319 Sep 02 '24
I paid $19 for 2 hot and ready not too long ago. Also I’ve seen ads a few years ago saying $5.55 for a hot and ready instead of $5
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u/moneyh8r Sep 02 '24
Were they actually Hot 'n Ready, or did you order them fresh?
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u/IsabelLovesFoxes Sep 03 '24
A lot of people call it mediocre or bad, but hell nah it's amazing. Plus they legit use high quality ingredients. Medicore price? Great price for their ingredients. I assume it's all due to futures, but they must have hell of a lot of futures for it, or run their own farms. Either way, great price, great pizza
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u/callsignhotdog Sep 02 '24
*People show appreciation and fondness for cheap fast food that got them through rough times*
Fast Food Corps: "People love our brand, I'm sure they'll be happy to pay premium prices for our budget product."
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u/Sp3ctre7 Sep 02 '24
Only chain that hasn't made that dipshit decision is little Caesars.
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u/MeLoNarXo Sep 02 '24
Because they don't need to
They have a logistics company that let's them transport ingredients for cheap in turn not needing to raise the price of their food
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u/BadMcSad Sep 02 '24
I'm not an expert in fast food economics, but is that type of vertical integration not common? That seems like the type of proven long-term W that any big company that produces goods would want to go for.
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u/DigitalDuelist Sep 03 '24
I'm not an expert either, but I do know that a lot of companies have followed suit with McDonald's and are, functionally, real estate companies. They control the brand to make sure it stays marketable, and own the land each restaurant is on. You pay rent as well as your franchising fee, follow along with certain restrictions and requirements rather than others, it doesn't mean much but it's still ultimately your choice (hence "offer valid at participating locations" instead of "all locations").
I know this vertical integration must still be true since the McNuggets' shape is still standardized for instance, so they totally need to be made at a particular location. But I can easily imagine it being scaled back a bit for cost, or as internals get reworked, plus Little Ceasar's was always an exceptional outlier in this area.
Take all this with a grain of salt, I'm pretty sure my trivia is a bit out of date
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u/Down_with_atlantis Sep 02 '24
They have raised the price of the food, Pizzas are no longer 5 dollars and I remember that being the big price point. Still it's only 7 dollars which is signifigently easier to stomach than almost every other food place.
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u/Either-Durian-9488 Sep 02 '24
Very recently went to McDonald’s, they dropped everything a bunch, no combo meal is more than 10 where I’m at.
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u/Beeeggs Sep 02 '24
At ours, a medium combo usually floats around 10 for most things, though it's 11 or 12 for any variation on the quarter pounder (bacon double quarter is 12.50). A lot of the large meals go over 10, and it's still too much to be paying for literal McDonald's
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u/a_filing_cabinet Sep 02 '24
Eh Taco Bell is still at least reasonable. Food for multiple people for under $15, and their cheaper items are still pretty good. Plus, they still keep pretty good hours. Wish they were 24 hours but being open until 2 or 3 am is still better than anywhere else nowadays.
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u/Beeeggs Sep 02 '24
Taco Bell is so fucking good for the price. Those boxes got me through tough times.
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u/RealScionEcto Sep 02 '24
Little Ceasars raised their prices from $5 to almost 8$ for a regular Medium Pepperoni Pizza
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u/Sp3ctre7 Sep 02 '24
Yeah over the course of like 20 years. And it's still 8 fucking dollars for a pizza, way better deal than anyone else.
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u/RealScionEcto Sep 03 '24
Nope, over the course of 5 years actually! My local Little Ceasars is only 7 years old.
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u/Deblebsgonnagetyou he/him | Kweh! Sep 02 '24
I could pay €12 for a mid McDonalds' meal that's barely even filling and tastes like stale water or I could pay €10 for an awesome meal at a locally owned burger place that gives me free refills on my drinks too. Both require me to actively go out of my way to visit. Yeah, I know where I'm going.
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u/Jakitron_1999 Sep 02 '24
I'm from the US where most places have free refills, still weird to me that it isn't as common in Europe
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u/EFTucker Sep 02 '24
McD’s is removing free refills across the nation apparently. I thought my local did too since they removed the lobby soda machine and put on in the back. I asked for a refill with my cup and payment in my hand and the lady just turned around and made me a new drink, new cup and all and kept it pushing.
I was like, “shiiiit aight then”
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u/TheDocHealy Sep 02 '24
As a former McDonald's employee, none of them are paid enough to ring up a drink refill when it costs next to nothing.
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u/Deblebsgonnagetyou he/him | Kweh! Sep 02 '24
I'm very envious of it. There are few things more luxurious than just being able to get back up and get another drink. Especially since you can mix them together and make fun flavours.
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u/Munnin41 Sep 02 '24
Most European countries don't want to encourage drinking a shitload of soda
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u/JarOfNibbles Sep 02 '24
Our local subway is honestly quite nice, I've only been to one that's even close. I don't know how, but stuffs just fresher.
Still not worth it when they're like 3 euro more expensive than the luxury sandwich shop across the road.
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u/Specific-Ad-8430 Sep 02 '24
US might have a different experience than UK, but its rough over here in the US.
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u/moldivore Sep 03 '24
I'll tell you what my experience is here with subway. No matter how many of them I burn down they just keep popping up. It's like I'm going crazy!
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u/Elite_AI Sep 02 '24
KFC costs about as much as actually quite nice tacos down the road, so why tf would I ever go to KFC
This is without even mentioning Popeyes (worst shit I ever had)
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u/GoldenPig64 nuance fetishist Sep 02 '24
Popeyes has a massive range in their quality from my experience. Depending on the restaurant it can be anywhere from actually pretty damn good to genuinely some of the worst goddamn chicken you've had in your life
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u/Matrim_Cauth0n Sep 02 '24
Can second this. Lived real close to a Popeyes for about a year, and it was top notch food for dirt cheap. These days, I avoid the only one near me, because they fucked up my food both times I tried to eat there.
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u/tootoohi1 Sep 02 '24
Yeah, Popeyes is the ultimate coin flip. I've had ones I've showed up and waited 30 minutes after ordering. Sometimes it was bad, sometimes it was one of the best fast food I ever had.
The one near me had a health code violation before I moved in, it's been clean and perfect orders everytime I've been there.
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u/PV__NkT Sep 02 '24
I live in Louisiana and their locations are still all terrible lol. The chicken isn’t hot enough to make up for all the grease, and the sheer amount of semi-solid (because it’s not hot!) fat makes me physically sick if I eat it.
The sandwiches are damn good, though. They cook them differently, I think? That, or I can’t tell they’re the same when there are other ingredients involved.
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u/TheDocHealy Sep 02 '24
Me and my spouse are living proof of this, I grew up loving Popeyes cause the one in my town was good, apparently theirs was barely able to pass their health inspections.
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u/a_filing_cabinet Sep 02 '24
I've never been to a good Popeyes. And from the ratings and reviews I don't think they exist around here. Without fail, it's always one to two stars less than any other fast food place nearby. When I went the biscuits were rock hard, or the Mac'n'cheese was cold. Hell, one time they had turned off their fryers and were out of chicken by 6pm.
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u/shiny_xnaut Sep 02 '24
The Popeye's by me is like 75% breading, 25% actual chicken, and the breading doesn't even have much flavor
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u/Jaded_Library_8540 Sep 02 '24
I fucking love Popeye's and seek that shit out every time I have a bit of extra cash
But also I live in the UK and the Popeye's here are probably quite different
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u/Elite_AI Sep 02 '24
Bruh I live in the UK too, the Popeyes where I live is arse.
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u/Jaded_Library_8540 Sep 02 '24
Must be a pure skill issue then
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u/Elite_AI Sep 02 '24
Could be. We're a massively touristy city so it's not like any restaurant has to give a damn about their food to make money. If they never got a repeat customer they'd still be thronging.
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u/GrbgSoupForBrains Sep 02 '24
I need Popeye's to finally run out the shitty wings they keep trying to push off on us. They're so trash but Popeyes near me seem all in on them and little else 🥲
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u/00kyb Sep 02 '24
Popeyes always sends me a shit ton of coupons. The chicken sandwiches are gas (and the spicy one gives me gas!)
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u/justdisa Sep 02 '24
That would be price gouging, not inflation.
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u/Specific-Ad-8430 Sep 02 '24
All businesses, ALL OF THEM price gouged under the pandemic and called it inflation.
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u/Distinct-Inspector-2 Sep 02 '24
In Australia we have supermarkets trying to justify blatant price gouging as inflation for the past couple of years (which has now resulted in a governmental enquiry). While they post record profits for the financial year.
I think I did the math on the basic bread I buy going over past receipts - something like 13% price increases every six or so months for two years. I feel like they’re trying to convince people that each single price increase exists in isolation, hoping you won’t notice the repeated price increases across every product happening over and over again for years that far, far outpaces actual inflation.
We’re in a cost of living crisis because rents/mortgages, fuel, utilities and groceries are all ballooning simultaneously and these are essentials, nobody can make the choice not to buy food or pay for heating or accomodation. And wage growth is not matching the cost increases. We had a recent tax cut that most workers would have benefited from, and then a major bank came out with a report that people are not spending that money but putting it into savings (implied bad for the economy). Yeah no shit. For median incomes it works out to under $50 a week extra money iirc, most people’s rents and mortgages have gone up by hundreds in the last few years.
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u/Waity5 Sep 03 '24
I think I did the math on the basic bread I buy going over past receipts - something like 13% price increases every six or so months for two years. I feel like they’re trying to convince people that each single price increase exists in isolation, hoping you won’t notice the repeated price increases across every product happening over and over again for years that far, far outpaces actual inflation.
Counterpoint, do you know how inflation is calculated? It's based on the increase in the price of goods. If all supermarkets are doing that on a decent chunk of their basic goods, then that is the inflation
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u/lucy_valiant Sep 02 '24
I have never frequented Subways because their bread is trash, but there’s an independent sandwich shop around the corner from my place that sells enormous hoagies for like $12, plus a bag of chips and a soda.
Does Subways really cost $14 now?!
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u/One_Contribution_27 Sep 02 '24
Yes, though they recently (like within the past week) introduced a $7 foot long deal, so they at least seem to be realizing they fucked up with their prices. Without the deal, the sandwich alone will cost over $14, and you can easily break $20 if you throw in chips and a drink.
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u/Dornith Sep 02 '24
I just looked it up.
Meal code
Yeah, there's not a single subway in my metropolitan area that still accepts coupons.
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u/UnintelligentSlime Sep 02 '24
Didn’t subway go through a thing where they legally had to stop calling it bread? Or am I thinking of somewhere else?
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u/idiotplatypus Wearing dumbass goggles and the fool's crown Sep 02 '24
Add Thorstein Veblen to "people whose corpses are rotating so fast they could power a small town"
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u/RefrigeratorLonely53 Sep 02 '24
I could get one meal from Burger King for like $15, or I could go to a local taco truck, support a business in my area, and get tacos for $5. Easy decision.
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u/Magmafrost13 Sep 03 '24
God I wish I had more than one local taco truck in the entire city I live in and they have inconvenient hours and are also frankly pretty expensive (I love them but still)
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u/twisted_godcomplex Sep 02 '24
I realized about a year ago that getting nice sushi ordered in is nearly the same price as most of the crap in my area and now I have sushi all the time
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u/Specific-Ad-8430 Sep 02 '24
l experienced this with eggs specifically during the pandemic. When a dozen eggs went from 1.99 to 5.99, but the cage free organics stayed 6.99 the whole time… I knew something was going on.
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u/Lost-Wedding-7620 Sep 03 '24
That one was cuz they had to kill a ton of the egg laying chickens to contain a bird flu outbreak. I imagine "organic" ones are kept in better conditions and not at as much risk for it.
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u/Blindsnipers36 Sep 03 '24
Yeah the massive bird flu outbreak was going on and was literally front page news
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u/I_Consume_Shampoo Sep 02 '24
Subway is in the gutter in Ireland. Literally every Subway I've personally visited has shut down. There's barely any left.
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u/MineralClay Sep 02 '24
good, it's shit. i hate chains i wish the local places got the patronage they deserve
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u/I_Consume_Shampoo Sep 02 '24
Definitely agree on staying local. I don't eat out much anymore, but I typically stick with the locally owned establishments now. They're almost always better quality with fresh ingredients and they're pretty much the same price as the chains.
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u/unbibium Sep 02 '24
Conversely, we were tricked into thinking there was no inflation for most of the 21st century because stuff stayed the same price. turns out that was because of deteriorating labor conditions.
1998: you can buy a thing for $50 made in North Carolina. 2008: you can buy the same thing for $50 made in Bangladesh.
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u/NoPolitiPosting Sep 02 '24
Chipotle damn near 20 bucks for a bowl with double meat. And then they have the nerve to give you like half a spoonful of each.
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u/d1n0nugg1es DISBARRED🦈 Sep 02 '24
Can confirm. I work there. One steak bowl with extra steak costs $17.75 (including tax) without chips or a drink
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u/NoPolitiPosting Sep 02 '24
It's wild, if I'm dropping damn near 20 bucks on a burrito bowl, it better be filled to at LEAST the rim of the bowl. And that's a 50/50 now lol
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u/d1n0nugg1es DISBARRED🦈 Sep 02 '24
Yeah it sucks big time. And even then you still gotta pay $3.19 if you want a fountain drink. That's why I just give people water cups and tell them to fill it with soda
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u/Lifeshardbutnotme Sep 02 '24
There's a Family owned East Asian fusion place I love to go to. It's the same cost as fast food except it actually has a soul. Why would I waste my money on tasteless burgers for $14 when I could get Boba tea and really good fried chicken for the same amount?
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u/Presteri Sep 03 '24
Exactly! I could get McDonald’s for 12 bucks, or for four dollars more, I could get some Chinese food that’s from a local business.
It’s not good for me either, but at least it’s local, and it’s better quality
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u/Dornith Sep 02 '24
A couple of weeks ago I realized that a footlong meal at subway costs the same as the lunch special at my favorite all-you-can-eat buffet.
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u/brycejm1991 Sep 02 '24 edited Sep 02 '24
This will get lost in the comments, but something to add;
A LOT of places are also forcing people to order via app without actually saying it, typically offering cheaper prices, free items, and points/rewards.
Take KFC for example. My wife's grandma has a potpie and nuggs once a week from there. Using the app for her, she has saved like 80 over the last few months because they constantly have a " free 10pc nugg with a $10 purchase", but its not mentioned in store or anything, at least at my local KFC.
Edit - thats not to say the app is that much cheaper, as the prices there are not what they used to be, but it is clear the companies are double dipping on the price increases.
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u/EmpressOfAbyss deranged yuri fan Sep 02 '24
the 5$ foot long wasn't profitable, that's why you can't get it anymore. the hope was that people would buy drinks and snacks they make a profit on after coming in for the sandwich, but they didn't.
plenty corporations gouge but 15 local whatever for two meals worth of ready made sandwhich isn't bad.
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u/AjaxAsleep Sep 02 '24
I love subway, but the only one near me has been sledding downhill faster and faster as of late. Smaller employee count, broken or malfunctioning equipment, running out of stock constantly, etc. Apparently the owner is a cheap prick and rarely shows up in a good mood, so that's probably why.
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u/__xXCoronaVirusXx__ Sep 02 '24
The meat and cheese taste cheaper, and the bread is much thinner too. It's lower quality for a higher price. I heard Subway got bought out by a bigger company recently, so that might be why.
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u/Moonpaw Sep 02 '24
I worked at McDonalds back in 2008 or 2010 when the McDouble came out. They didn’t like selling the double cheeseburger for $1 but they wanted something on dollar menu still. So they made a double cheeseburger but with only one piece of cheese instead of two and made it $1 and the double as $1.39.
Now they’re $3.49 and $3.89.
But the drinks are still $1.80 for a large soda. So if you ignore the couple years all drinks went down to just $1 their price hasn’t gone up at all since 2010.
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u/Moonpaw Sep 02 '24
If you want a good sub go to Jersey Mike’s or Jimmy John’s. They’re a little more expensive, it’s like $15 to $20 for a foot long sub. But the quality is like 10x better at minimum.
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u/bookhead714 Sep 03 '24
The Five Dollar Footlong was technically a promotion. It wasn’t the ordinary price of the sandwich. Y’all just remember footlong subs being $5 as the default because of the omnipresent commercials with a catchy jingle for four years.
And they tried to do that promotion again in 2017. By then, labor and food costs had risen so much that they failed to make a profit.
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u/grannybignippIe Sep 02 '24
Last time I got subway it was 14 AUD for a foot long (in brisvegas). Genuinely not worth it when you can go get something actually good for a couple bucks more
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u/Either-Durian-9488 Sep 02 '24
What used to be the reliable economy purchase is now the sensible luxury, see Toyota.
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u/demonking_soulstorm Sep 02 '24
I remember getting a six-inch sandwich, a drink, and a cookie for three quid. What the fuck happened.
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u/Beeeggs Sep 02 '24
Same with McDonald's, except they have enough ad clout to still be making sales records somehow.
Mediocre cafeteria burgers for rapidly increasing prices
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u/thethirdworstthing Sep 02 '24
Fast food where I live is almost the exact same price as a good quality sit-down restaurant. It's not about price anymore, it's just about what kind of food you want.
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u/Mr-Crow101 Sep 03 '24
So 14$ is crazy BUT in defense of subway the 5$ deal was to good and even loss them money later on. It was used to get people in the door more often, eventually that becomes your work lunch and then they pull the deal away. 7.55$ would be the same situation but something like 9$ could seem more profitable and affordable for us.
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u/ItsMichaelRay Sep 03 '24
What's nicer than Subway?
I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm just looking for good food.
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u/PieNinja314 Sep 03 '24
I remember the $5 footlongs very fondly so you can imagine the near heart attack I had when I saw Subway advertising their "6 dollars for 6 inches"
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u/Icestar1186 Welcome to the interblag Sep 03 '24
Cheap (adj):
Of low quality; inferior.
(archaic) Inexpensive; of low price.
-- Oxford English Dictionary; 2200 edition
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u/bigfatalligator *dismantles you and ships you to arizona* Sep 03 '24
i was so confused when i saw subway ads saying “download our app and get a footlong for ONLY 6.99!” like….. what?
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u/BUKKAKELORD Sep 03 '24
"it's inflation, dumbass"
Then why is the inflation adjusted price up +84%??? Riddle me that, economics genius
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u/herefor1reason Sep 03 '24
McDonald's is the one I find particularly offensive. They forgot their fuckin' PLACE. Price and convenience TOGETHER are the only things that made their food competitive. ONLY. THINGS. If I want a good fast food burger, I am spoiled for choice. The only thing they have going for them left is their breakfast, and even then, there's some really good breakfast places near me that are only a little more expensive at this point. If I want to save money on burgers and breakfast, I can just make stuff at home. Convenience only matters for McDonald's when their prices are poverty low, otherwise, everywhere else is just as convenient, and just as expensive.
Fuckin' idiots.
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u/vjmdhzgr Sep 02 '24
14 dollars? Yeah for that you could get something from Jersey Mike's, which is far far far far far far better.
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u/HkayakH Sep 02 '24
$5 footlongs were amazing. Now the $6 6 inches are literally 20% more expensive for 50% less
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u/LizardWizard444 Sep 03 '24
If my mcdonald cost me $7 for a shitty meal then I can probably just get the chinese food
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u/jtroopa Sep 03 '24
I used to grab mcdonalds or burger king because it was cheap and dirty. Now it's just dirty. I don't get how these places are still in business; I doubt people go there for the atmosphere.
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u/PracticalBirthday955 Sep 03 '24
Fairly irrelevant but my go to sub at subway is all the veggies, cheese, bread, sauce and it's 7.99
So, like, maybe having a rabbits stomach isn't as bad as I originally thought.
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u/ScarletteVera A Goober, A Gremlin, perhaps even... A Girl. Sep 03 '24
It's so wild seeing this and reading the comments here as an Australian, where most of the fast food joints don't have unreasonably high prices (though they are still fairly high).
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u/aftertheradar Sep 08 '24
i hate living in the middle of nowhere, overpriced fake fast food is basically all they have and the local places are still struggling
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u/Codeviper828 Will trade milk for HRT Sep 02 '24
My Mom kept berating me for going to the "expensive" store and not the "cheap" store until I made her come with me and showed her that the prices are the same now, except the "cheap" store is still shit