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Yeah I wish a franchise owner would show up. There have been increases for food costs, increases in rents, increases in insurance, increases in transports costs, and increases in employee salary and benefits. When all that happens, owners increase prices to make the same amount of profit they were making.The answer to that question is yes. Not only has our population completely exploded over our lifetime (causing much demand, in all areas), but the culture is no longer about "can do", so we are finding out just how much our lazy azz society is willing to pay for fast crappy food. You need a franchise owner to tell you this? Look, if you want to hammer .gov, I am in complete agreement. Min wage laws are bunk, middle class is taxed to the nth degree, and most regulations seem to open the door for collusion and skullduggery, but if people quit lining up at the drive thru, prices will come down. Post # 509 is also a clue. My hat is off to those few businesses that work around the gov, not with it. We have a local diner called Stuffy's- they gave the finger to our communist governor during covid and racked up massive fines. I patronize them as much as possible.
IF people quit lining up, businesses will close. With the increase in min. wage pay in CA, you have already seen businesses close. Shouldn't they be open if as you say people are lining up because of a population explosion? We haven't even mentioned the illegal immigrant invasion.
Perhaps the easiest way to 'splain it is this - Check out McD's price prior to this admin. and check out McD prices now. So your answer is that in 3.5 years more customers at FF have driven up prices? It's much more logical to say inflation has driven prices up. Heck, 2 out of 3 Americans think we are in a recession (even though we aren't yet) A banker at Chase just stated the chance of stagflation is a lot higher than most realize. See when the govt. prints money and gives it away, that causes inflation. It's the 1970's revisited. History repeats itself.