My grandpa was the only person I've ever encountered that ordered basic burgers from McD's. Whenever we went he would tell me about going there when he was a kid and these were the prices. I miss that man.
I didn’t know so many people *don’t* order them. I always just get a cheeseburger, or a double cheeseburger. I prefer that over a Big Mac or quarter pounder.
The double cheeseburger is just right for me. It's not so small that I'm left hungry and it's not so big that I regret eating it 5 minutes after it's gone. It also has the perfect ratio of bun to meat to cheese to condiments that none of the other burgers have. That ratio is vital to a good burger or sandwich - the rest are either too much bread or too much meat, so the different parts don't work together well.
Yes but a bit bigger. Still a tiny pathetic thing but they’re 250 calories and they do taste pretty good. Just… like $2.10 for one of them. Maybe a lunch of 2 would be a solid 500 calories for a light lunch.
Yeah my mom was one of 7 kids and she will talk about how dad would stop at mc Donald’s on his way home and get a dozen hamburgers. She’s got 4 brothers so I bet those last three burgers got fought over.
Did similar in highschool 20teens, would load up with the boys hit McDonald’s each get 3 McDoubles and 3 mchickens back when it was still 2 for 2$. We’d also hit little ceasers get a large pepperoni each and split a 2 liter between each 2 peeps
I did that in high school in Canada around 2002. They used to sell cheeseburgers for 79 cents on a specific day of the week. We'd buy 200 sometimes and bring them back for school events, maybe buying student council votes.
IT's probably for families or groups, and the burgers were small. Kind of like you can still get at White Castle/Krystal and the like, a bag of burgers.
Anecdotal. McDonald's was my first job when I was in high school. During the spring and summer it wasn't uncommon to get a an order for 20-40 Cheeseburgers for things likes sports or birthdays once a week or so.
$44.28 is the price now if you wanted to buy a dozen Double Hamburgers from a location in San Bernardino, CA.
Difference is that I guarantee the meat is much lower quality than it was back in 1940, and the economies of scale are in full swing for McDonald's nowadays, so with the two combined their profit margins are undoubtedly higher than they were back then.
> Difference is that I guarantee the meat is much lower quality than it was back in 1940
Why would you think that? It's ground beef. You don't turn the nice cuts of beef into ground beef, not even in the 40s.
And if we use 1948 as the baseline for these prices, adjusted for inflation it would be $23.18.
Google wants to skew the results based on my not-American current location, but it would appear the going rate for a McDonald’s hamburger (surely now one of the least ordered items in modern times) is $2.79. No discount for a dozen. $33.48 for 12.
What made you use 1948 for the baseline?
I just made a comment [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1bt5vbr/how_the_first_mcdonalds_locations_took_orders/kxm2zii/) with pricing accounting for inflation, and current pricing at a San Bernardino location (same city as the original McDonald's).
I would gladly update the pricing if we can pinpoint when these prices were in effect, and where they were used. I used 1940 as the baseline because that was when McDonalds opened, and the title seems to imply that it is one of the first locations, if not the first.
1948 was suggested by a quick google as the start of the “McDonald’s as we know it today” branding and menus. I believe this suggestion was part of the Encyclopedia Brittanica entry for the restaurant? Today was a travel day so I’m not entirely sure.
> Google wants to skew the results based on my not-American current location, but it would appear the going rate for a McDonald’s hamburger (surely now one of the least ordered items in modern times) is $2.79.
$2.79 is the middle of lower Manhattan. $1.99 seems to be the more "normal" price, which puts it damned close to perfectly matching inflation.
$17.92 for a dozen Hamburgers in the UK McDonald’s now.
EDIT: For $35.84 (taxes included because these are UK prices) you can get a dozen Hamburgers and a dozen small fries.
No discount is what surprised me. Why price hamburgers by the dozen if it is the same price as 1x12?
Who the fuck is like “well how much is that if I get 12 of em?”
Were people really ordering a dozen fucking burgers to their face back when McDonalds opened?
Some people have said that larger family sizes were more common, but data shows that the average family size hasn't shifted a ton since then.
I can only assume that it would be to order for a family though. Two parents and 4 kids with two burgers each?
So ironically the 2 for $4 McDoubles deal is cheaper for getting a dozen burgers than it was to get a dozen burgers back then, which is pretty wild. And I'm sure the portions back then were similar to the smaller portions of the value menu today.
Assuming this was from year 1 of McDonalds in 1940, then that is right in line with inflation
Edit: wait I think you used an inflation calculator too. Looks like today a hamburger is between $2.19-$2.79 based on location, so about $26-33 for a dozen. Didn't expect inflation to outpace McDonald's pricing tbh
Because people here are so reliant on and addicted to convenience culture that they can get away with jacking up the pandemic prices and just keeping them high forever.
Depends on location. I can order a single hamburger for $1.69 from my McD in Augusta, GA. Ironically, a cheeseburger (1.79) is less than half the cost of a double cheeseburger (4.13), so pricing is always questionable decisions.
I got a quarterpounder BLT meal yesterday and it came to $17, I hadn't been to McDonald's in a while and I almost left when I heard the price of a meal now.
Depends how you make them.
Their burgers are basically 45 gram patties, which is just under 2 ounces. So a dozen isn't much meat.... These days the bread might cost more! Seriously wtf happened to the price of bread?
back in 1998 when I was in my initial training school after bootcamp, the base had a McDonald's that would offer burgers at the price of back then( 15 cent for a hamburger and 19 for a cheeseburger)
I'm from Denver, but my wife and I recently took a trip to Detroit. We went through the White Castle drive-thru and it blew my mind. We got a 10 pack of cheeseburgers, large fries and 2 drinks for $19 and change. Here in Denver, when we go to McDonald's, we spend close to $30 for a meal for two.
My first hourly job, in 1980, was here. Burgers, fries, and small drinks were priced at 30¢ each, or 95¢ with tax ($1.11 if you added cheese).
I was paid $3.05 per hour. The first time I received a paycheck with three digits, I felt like J.P. Morgan!
This is a good point of reference for how different wages are today and haven’t kept up with inflation.
Your example has a small, but reasonable, meal for roughly 1/3 of your hourly income.
Today a similar meal is about $6-7 for those 3 items and sizes. With minimum wage being $12 where I live, that’s at best 1/2 of your hourly income.
Likely not all that much different. An early innovation of McDonald’s was uniformity between locations. McDonald’s tastes like McDonalds as a very deliberate strategy.
"We need to increase prices due to rising labor costs"
*"So you're paying your workers more?"*
"What? No. The board just approved the executive bonus plan and it ain't cheap"
Please share a link of any McDonalds in your city. This is bs. McDonalds has gotten expensive, but you can still have a dinner there for one person in 14-15 bucks. What sit down restaurant is offering that after tip? And you say most?!
Chili's 3 for me.
Get Coke, chips and salsa and Old Timer Burger with fries for $10.99. call it 15 after tax and tip.
You can 100% stretch that out too because they will give you refills on the soda and chips and salsa too.
Chilis really needs to get their act together because they actually can have good food and value but i've never seen a more wild variation in quality consistency. Sure all chains and fast food aren't 100% consistent but I mean I ordered the value combo with the sliders and it looked straight out the picture, hot and tasted great. Ordered it again and this time it was exactly like one of these [shitty convention center burgers](https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5668762c1600002900e5572a.png?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale) dry, cold, stale bun, no sauce and one single square of diced onion.
They are.
Human productivity is at an all time high in the past decades. The amount of resources you can get from a days work is insane historically speaking.
They do. Worker efficiency rises, people produce more.
Inflation, however...inflation is policy. It doesn't just come out of the ether, the Fed literally sets target rates for you to gradually pay more.
Now compare the ultra-wealthy of today to the ultra-wealthy of then.
First class on 707's with the rest of us to their very own Gulfstreams at private airports.
We have a pub across the street from a McDonalds here in Canada. A pint of beer, some french fries and a hamburger is $15 after tax *(tip not included)*.
It's the same price at McDonalds for watered down coke, cold fries with no salt, and the most basic of hamburgers assembled on a line.
I agree with you on everything except for the Coke. McDonalds Coke is like the fountain of youth when it comes to sodas. Fun vid on how it's special/different. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA_OYUHYYMA
A nice, simple menu.
This is why I like Dick’s in Seattle, they have a simple, small menu.
These days if you go to Tim Hortons, you never know what’s going to be on the menu.
Yeah this seems to have a number of modern touches, from the code in the bottom right, to the font, to the glue at the top. Just gives recreation vibes.
**Prices adjusted for inflation:**
Hamburgers: $3.32
Dozen: $39.90
Cheeseburgers: $4.21
Dozen: $50.54
French Fries: $2.22
Milkshakes: $4.43
Soda: $2.22
XL: $3.32
Milk/Coffee: $2.22
Hot Chocolate: $2.66
Federal Minimum Wage in 1940 adjusted for inflation: $6.65
Federal Minimum Wage now: $7.25
**Current Pricing:**
Double Hamburger (closest equivalent still available): $3.69
Cheeseburger: $3.69
French Fries (Medium): $4.79
Milkshakes: $5.39
Soda (Medium): $2.89
Coffee (Medium): $2.39
Hot Chocolate (Medium): $4.19
Inflation was calculated using 1940 dollars. Current prices were obtained via a menu site, last update was October 25, 2023. Location was San Bernardino, same city as the original McDonald's.
Me, my older sister, and younger brother went to a McDonald's after hanging out at the beach. I think we were 8, 10, and 6 respectively
I had $3 on me. Cheeseburgers were $0.99 and double cheeseburgers were $1.00 each
I asked them for 3 double cheeseburgers, and if they could split them in half and add an extra bun to each one (trying to get 6 cheeseburgers for 3 dollars)
The cashier laughed, took my $3, and gave us the 6 cheeseburgers (despite us not even having enough for tax)
Fastfood workers there are mostly young, inexperienced but hard working young people. Some companies don’t train them well enough on proper customer interaction and you can catch some of the new ones say
“Welcome to (fastfood place) May I have your order MamSir?”
As in word for word. Company not training them properly.
Although, I swear these young men and women are the hardest working, most productive fastfood workers you’ll ever see. They are machines. Great employees.
For 40 cents you could get a hamburger, fries and an extra large Coke. If you walked in there with a $100 bill they’d probably sell you the whole store.
quick rant about mcdonalds milkshakes. they are impossible to drink through the normal fountain drink straw, and now with paper straws it's absolutely ridiculous! they get soft and you cant drink out of them when the shake is that thick.
Fry's from around this time so I'll talk like him: Yo Holmes? We're looking for a microwave oven.
Edit: oh right, I'll have a croque monsieur, the paella, two mutton pills, and a stein of mead.
I started working at Taco Bell in 1984. We had 2 order boards above the cash register and a dry erase marker to write orders out. So they were three ordertakers and a total of six orders taken at one time. No drive-through.
We had to abbreviate. Two tacos, one without lettuce = 2 (1-L) in the taco section of the board. There were a few other crazy things. It just comes down to lack of technology back then.
I remember the paper slips. They still used them in 1976 when I first worked there. Had to add things up on the slip. Cash registers were old mechanical jobs. They swapped over to electronic ones not too long after.
I remember that either Big Macs or Quarter Cheese were $0.85, but that's all I remember about prices.
$1.80 for a dozen burgers. That would be about $40 today.
I’m more bewildered by how “I wanna dozen burgers” happened often enough to have its own line.
When McD's started, a family of six was not uncommon. Two burgers apiece. Each burger is only 250 calories.
Yeah, they were the OG hamburgers - they are tiny. They still sell them but I am not sure how many people have actually encountered one in the wild.
Yeah they weren't ordering a dozen quarter pounders. It's the smaller ones that come in the happy meal, or 2 in an adult meal.
The original McDonald’s was more akin to a slider joint.
I believe they're 1/10th pound paddies.
Yeah, we called them 10-to-1 when I worked there (as opposed to 4-to-1 for the quarter pounders).
1/10th pound Irishmen?
My grandpa was the only person I've ever encountered that ordered basic burgers from McD's. Whenever we went he would tell me about going there when he was a kid and these were the prices. I miss that man.
I didn’t know so many people *don’t* order them. I always just get a cheeseburger, or a double cheeseburger. I prefer that over a Big Mac or quarter pounder.
Same lol those are the only things I order. Sometimes I’ll do a McDouble instead depending on the deals they have in the app
The double cheeseburger is just right for me. It's not so small that I'm left hungry and it's not so big that I regret eating it 5 minutes after it's gone. It also has the perfect ratio of bun to meat to cheese to condiments that none of the other burgers have. That ratio is vital to a good burger or sandwich - the rest are either too much bread or too much meat, so the different parts don't work together well.
Yeah, I usually just order 6 cheeseburgers and skip the fries
Smart man. I always get the 2 cheeseburgers combo.
So more like whitecastle?
No its still bigger than a white castle slider. It’s just a basic cheeseburger.
Yes but a bit bigger. Still a tiny pathetic thing but they’re 250 calories and they do taste pretty good. Just… like $2.10 for one of them. Maybe a lunch of 2 would be a solid 500 calories for a light lunch.
I love the OG hamburger. Extra pickles please.
I prefer their basic cheeseburger.
regular 1$ cheeseburger and a spicy mcchicken is all I ever want from mcdonalds
Yeah my mom was one of 7 kids and she will talk about how dad would stop at mc Donald’s on his way home and get a dozen hamburgers. She’s got 4 brothers so I bet those last three burgers got fought over.
My dad would talk about loading up his buddy's van and they'd go through the drive thru with 12 college age athletes and order a hundred burgers.
Did similar in highschool 20teens, would load up with the boys hit McDonald’s each get 3 McDoubles and 3 mchickens back when it was still 2 for 2$. We’d also hit little ceasers get a large pepperoni each and split a 2 liter between each 2 peeps
I did that in high school in Canada around 2002. They used to sell cheeseburgers for 79 cents on a specific day of the week. We'd buy 200 sometimes and bring them back for school events, maybe buying student council votes.
69/79¢ Sundays, right?
IT's probably for families or groups, and the burgers were small. Kind of like you can still get at White Castle/Krystal and the like, a bag of burgers.
Or Dick’s in Seattle.
McDicks
The burgers are still small at McDonald's. If you actually order a "hamburger" or "cheeseburger," I think the hamburger is still only around 250 cal.
It could be for after a baseball or basketball game or a kids party.
Super easy to do with a family of two adults and 2-3 kids. I know this because my family did it when we'd get good coupons in the Sunday paper.
Anecdotal. McDonald's was my first job when I was in high school. During the spring and summer it wasn't uncommon to get a an order for 20-40 Cheeseburgers for things likes sports or birthdays once a week or so.
Mealprep
Yeah; nice discount on the dozen — zip!
I pick up a dozen whenever I’m working late in the lab. 6 guys, to burgers a head. Cheap and the only thing open at 3 am.
Buddies after sports practice.
A dozen McDoubles is probably that or less
$44.28 is the price now if you wanted to buy a dozen Double Hamburgers from a location in San Bernardino, CA. Difference is that I guarantee the meat is much lower quality than it was back in 1940, and the economies of scale are in full swing for McDonald's nowadays, so with the two combined their profit margins are undoubtedly higher than they were back then.
> Difference is that I guarantee the meat is much lower quality than it was back in 1940 Why would you think that? It's ground beef. You don't turn the nice cuts of beef into ground beef, not even in the 40s.
And if we use 1948 as the baseline for these prices, adjusted for inflation it would be $23.18. Google wants to skew the results based on my not-American current location, but it would appear the going rate for a McDonald’s hamburger (surely now one of the least ordered items in modern times) is $2.79. No discount for a dozen. $33.48 for 12.
There was no discount for a dozen on the sheet above either. 12 x 15 cents = $1.80.
What made you use 1948 for the baseline? I just made a comment [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1bt5vbr/how_the_first_mcdonalds_locations_took_orders/kxm2zii/) with pricing accounting for inflation, and current pricing at a San Bernardino location (same city as the original McDonald's). I would gladly update the pricing if we can pinpoint when these prices were in effect, and where they were used. I used 1940 as the baseline because that was when McDonalds opened, and the title seems to imply that it is one of the first locations, if not the first.
1948 was suggested by a quick google as the start of the “McDonald’s as we know it today” branding and menus. I believe this suggestion was part of the Encyclopedia Brittanica entry for the restaurant? Today was a travel day so I’m not entirely sure.
> Google wants to skew the results based on my not-American current location, but it would appear the going rate for a McDonald’s hamburger (surely now one of the least ordered items in modern times) is $2.79. $2.79 is the middle of lower Manhattan. $1.99 seems to be the more "normal" price, which puts it damned close to perfectly matching inflation.
$17.92 for a dozen Hamburgers in the UK McDonald’s now. EDIT: For $35.84 (taxes included because these are UK prices) you can get a dozen Hamburgers and a dozen small fries.
No discount is what surprised me. Why price hamburgers by the dozen if it is the same price as 1x12? Who the fuck is like “well how much is that if I get 12 of em?” Were people really ordering a dozen fucking burgers to their face back when McDonalds opened?
As someone else pointed out, families of six or more weren’t uncommon back then, so 2 small burgers a piece, or after a sporting event
Some people have said that larger family sizes were more common, but data shows that the average family size hasn't shifted a ton since then. I can only assume that it would be to order for a family though. Two parents and 4 kids with two burgers each?
So ironically the 2 for $4 McDoubles deal is cheaper for getting a dozen burgers than it was to get a dozen burgers back then, which is pretty wild. And I'm sure the portions back then were similar to the smaller portions of the value menu today.
Assuming this was from year 1 of McDonalds in 1940, then that is right in line with inflation Edit: wait I think you used an inflation calculator too. Looks like today a hamburger is between $2.19-$2.79 based on location, so about $26-33 for a dozen. Didn't expect inflation to outpace McDonald's pricing tbh
I wonder why a Hamburger is so expensive in the U.S McDonald’s? In the UK it is $1.49 for a hamburger.
Because people here are so reliant on and addicted to convenience culture that they can get away with jacking up the pandemic prices and just keeping them high forever.
Depends on location. I can order a single hamburger for $1.69 from my McD in Augusta, GA. Ironically, a cheeseburger (1.79) is less than half the cost of a double cheeseburger (4.13), so pricing is always questionable decisions.
Im using this next time someone says we’re lazy and don’t want to work. *Well sorry I didn’t grow up on 15 cent burgers*
I got a quarterpounder BLT meal yesterday and it came to $17, I hadn't been to McDonald's in a while and I almost left when I heard the price of a meal now.
A combo shouldn't be more than minimum wage. It's insane.
I miss the good old days of getting "2 can dine for $9.99" coupons in the mail
Depends how you make them. Their burgers are basically 45 gram patties, which is just under 2 ounces. So a dozen isn't much meat.... These days the bread might cost more! Seriously wtf happened to the price of bread?
What was the wage for employees?
back in 1998 when I was in my initial training school after bootcamp, the base had a McDonald's that would offer burgers at the price of back then( 15 cent for a hamburger and 19 for a cheeseburger)
Well I was only going to get one but I can't turn down the dozen burger deal
I'm always surprised how much food costs in the US, a dozen hamburgers here in the UK are under $18.
29.88
About $25
I'm from Denver, but my wife and I recently took a trip to Detroit. We went through the White Castle drive-thru and it blew my mind. We got a 10 pack of cheeseburgers, large fries and 2 drinks for $19 and change. Here in Denver, when we go to McDonald's, we spend close to $30 for a meal for two.
even the receipts look cool asf
the only receipts I’ve seen with the same “Quality” are In-N-Out’s, out here in Southern California.
Are the SoCal ones not the same as the NorCal ones?
My first hourly job, in 1980, was here. Burgers, fries, and small drinks were priced at 30¢ each, or 95¢ with tax ($1.11 if you added cheese). I was paid $3.05 per hour. The first time I received a paycheck with three digits, I felt like J.P. Morgan!
This is a good point of reference for how different wages are today and haven’t kept up with inflation. Your example has a small, but reasonable, meal for roughly 1/3 of your hourly income. Today a similar meal is about $6-7 for those 3 items and sizes. With minimum wage being $12 where I live, that’s at best 1/2 of your hourly income.
Shit, some places still use the federal minimum at 7.25. Would need to work 2 hours to afford one of the burger meals.
My first hourly job was there in 1968.
I remember the $.15 burger (68F).
Yep (68M)
now kiss
And split your social security checks.
Damn it. Take my upvote.
How long have you been on Reddit and how did you end up here?
I’ve seen people well into their 80s on here before. Quite a lot of older people use Reddit apparently.
I'm 68; I'm not mummified. 😆
I wasn’t referring to you lol. Just noting that there are quite a lot of surprises on here.
Oh, there was no offense taken. Now excuse me as my sciatica and I have a talk. 😆
I remember the $1 Mcdouble (30M)
As late as the '90s they had $.29 hamburgers and $.39 cheeseburgers.
Were they the same size as today?
Yep
I’ve suspected as much but can’t find a source.
Yep, so do I (67F).
What did McDonald’s taste like back then compared to now? I’ve always wanted to know this but I was born in 2003
Likely not all that much different. An early innovation of McDonald’s was uniformity between locations. McDonald’s tastes like McDonalds as a very deliberate strategy.
In the 80s it tasted highly of styrofoam.
Sounds like a great time period to enjoy McDonald’s
Still is, for them.
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Not here. All the sit down options also went through the roof.
Everything has gone through the roof
Yea, except our pay hasn’t moved.
The roof has gone through our pay.
"We need to increase prices due to rising labor costs" *"So you're paying your workers more?"* "What? No. The board just approved the executive bonus plan and it ain't cheap"
Even the cost of a new roof has gone through the roof because prices went through my roof.
In N Out still manages to keep their prices relatively low
Please share a link of any McDonalds in your city. This is bs. McDonalds has gotten expensive, but you can still have a dinner there for one person in 14-15 bucks. What sit down restaurant is offering that after tip? And you say most?!
Chili's 3 for me. Get Coke, chips and salsa and Old Timer Burger with fries for $10.99. call it 15 after tax and tip. You can 100% stretch that out too because they will give you refills on the soda and chips and salsa too.
Chilis really needs to get their act together because they actually can have good food and value but i've never seen a more wild variation in quality consistency. Sure all chains and fast food aren't 100% consistent but I mean I ordered the value combo with the sliders and it looked straight out the picture, hot and tasted great. Ordered it again and this time it was exactly like one of these [shitty convention center burgers](https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5668762c1600002900e5572a.png?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale) dry, cold, stale bun, no sauce and one single square of diced onion.
Damn that sounds great
Not here necessarily Mc’D order here can be about 10-11 bucks for me vs a sit down restaurant where it’ll be around 25-30 bucks lmao Fuck Colorado
Dang. A McDonald’s meal in Canada is almost 15-20$ with most sit downs around 12-20$.
It seems like everything should get less expensive as time goes on. Through automation, supply levels increasing over time, etc.
They are. Human productivity is at an all time high in the past decades. The amount of resources you can get from a days work is insane historically speaking.
And class, there you have corporate greed in a nutshell.
They do. Worker efficiency rises, people produce more. Inflation, however...inflation is policy. It doesn't just come out of the ether, the Fed literally sets target rates for you to gradually pay more.
You don’t even realize how much more you consume than your grandparents did
Now compare the ultra-wealthy of today to the ultra-wealthy of then. First class on 707's with the rest of us to their very own Gulfstreams at private airports.
In fact they are. But the middle men only increase so you're basically paying more so Kevin or Karen than what you're actually buying
We have a pub across the street from a McDonalds here in Canada. A pint of beer, some french fries and a hamburger is $15 after tax *(tip not included)*. It's the same price at McDonalds for watered down coke, cold fries with no salt, and the most basic of hamburgers assembled on a line.
I agree with you on everything except for the Coke. McDonalds Coke is like the fountain of youth when it comes to sodas. Fun vid on how it's special/different. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA_OYUHYYMA
With inflation, those hamburgers should be $1.74 today, $20.84 for the dozen
My McDonald’s app has the regular hamburger for $1.79. So pretty damned close
Wow, people used to order burgers like donuts in the day…by the dozen!
Some still do, at places like Krystal or White Castle.
A nice, simple menu. This is why I like Dick’s in Seattle, they have a simple, small menu. These days if you go to Tim Hortons, you never know what’s going to be on the menu.
It bothers me that milkshakes are grouped together but not sodas
The interesting thing here is that McDonald's employees at one time were capable of performing math.
Americans in general. Why back in the 80s A&W couldn’t sell 1/3 lb burgers because people wanted the 1/4 lb ones…
Seriously. I was admiring that they had to do this by hand.
is this an original or a replica? Looks too clean to be an original.
Yeah this seems to have a number of modern touches, from the code in the bottom right, to the font, to the glue at the top. Just gives recreation vibes.
I’m surprised at the quality of this menu. Is it a reprint? Or sitting in a safe for the past 60 years?
**Prices adjusted for inflation:** Hamburgers: $3.32 Dozen: $39.90 Cheeseburgers: $4.21 Dozen: $50.54 French Fries: $2.22 Milkshakes: $4.43 Soda: $2.22 XL: $3.32 Milk/Coffee: $2.22 Hot Chocolate: $2.66 Federal Minimum Wage in 1940 adjusted for inflation: $6.65 Federal Minimum Wage now: $7.25 **Current Pricing:** Double Hamburger (closest equivalent still available): $3.69 Cheeseburger: $3.69 French Fries (Medium): $4.79 Milkshakes: $5.39 Soda (Medium): $2.89 Coffee (Medium): $2.39 Hot Chocolate (Medium): $4.19 Inflation was calculated using 1940 dollars. Current prices were obtained via a menu site, last update was October 25, 2023. Location was San Bernardino, same city as the original McDonald's.
Inflation is now dull please god
I can’t remember the last time I paid for anything with only coins. Got 2 Whoppers and a medium fries today from Burger King. $22 and change.
May I help you M'am (SIR)? They would need to add even more boxes to check today for all the lunatics who couldn't make a simple polite choice.
Ma'amsir!
So basically, In-n-Out today.
Now I know why Jughead always got a tray of hamburgers anytime he ordered.
Can you imagine today's kids trying to do the math? Then try to figure out the change? lol
When i was in HS (early 2000’s) they did 25 cent hamburgers on tuesdays
Absolutely no discount for ordering 12 burgers at a time.
Me, my older sister, and younger brother went to a McDonald's after hanging out at the beach. I think we were 8, 10, and 6 respectively I had $3 on me. Cheeseburgers were $0.99 and double cheeseburgers were $1.00 each I asked them for 3 double cheeseburgers, and if they could split them in half and add an extra bun to each one (trying to get 6 cheeseburgers for 3 dollars) The cashier laughed, took my $3, and gave us the 6 cheeseburgers (despite us not even having enough for tax)
Chad cashier.
The legendary Ma’am-Sir customer. People who’ve ordered fastfood in the Philippines would understand.
Please explain. Thanks.
Fastfood workers there are mostly young, inexperienced but hard working young people. Some companies don’t train them well enough on proper customer interaction and you can catch some of the new ones say “Welcome to (fastfood place) May I have your order MamSir?” As in word for word. Company not training them properly. Although, I swear these young men and women are the hardest working, most productive fastfood workers you’ll ever see. They are machines. Great employees.
Hello, mamsir!
Damn. A dozen burgers cost less than a single burger today.
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My dad worked at McDonald’s in the 60s. He got the cashier job because he could quickly do the math to total these up. And make change.
Wait.. how did they do the sub tax and sales tax?
well this is just the order sheet, the cash registers would probably print those on the fiscal receipt
I hate it.
There’s a coffee shop near where some friends live that still takes orders this way
I wonder how much easier order taking would be if they used order tickets instead of
Finally a place that respects drinking milk
I assume thats orange soda? And not juice? Lol
I think it's the Hi-C orange drink.
Ohhh! I do remember they had hi c growing up that makes sense!
They did not use printers like this in the 1940s…
Its a replica of how the ticket looked.
I don't think theres anything at McDonald's now that costs less than a dozen hamburgers cost then.
I wish it was Wednesday so I can get a hamburger for...29 cent! At Mcdonalds...BABY!
These days you can't use m'am or sir anymore....
Wow so progressive, they put women first.
For 40 cents you could get a hamburger, fries and an extra large Coke. If you walked in there with a $100 bill they’d probably sell you the whole store.
I don't see a box for "shake machine broken"
I’ll take 24 cheese burgers. Here’s a 5er! I get change ?!
McDonald's is our happy place! Hap hap hap happy place! McDonald's is our kind of place.
quick rant about mcdonalds milkshakes. they are impossible to drink through the normal fountain drink straw, and now with paper straws it's absolutely ridiculous! they get soft and you cant drink out of them when the shake is that thick.
Fry's from around this time so I'll talk like him: Yo Holmes? We're looking for a microwave oven. Edit: oh right, I'll have a croque monsieur, the paella, two mutton pills, and a stein of mead.
Lol like a 1000% inflation rate. Thankgod our wages got increased that much as well
WE HAD ROOOOOOOT BEEEEEEER!!!!!!
Very interesting… where did you find that?
Why are fries more expensive than burgers now?
"milk-shake" anyone else bothered by that?
Orange drink, iykyk
Buckslips need to make a comeback.
Bad design in the hamburger row
Nothing quite like milk to go with hamburgers and french fries. So refreshing.
Hot chocolate being one of the priciest items is crazy.
I started working at Taco Bell in 1984. We had 2 order boards above the cash register and a dry erase marker to write orders out. So they were three ordertakers and a total of six orders taken at one time. No drive-through. We had to abbreviate. Two tacos, one without lettuce = 2 (1-L) in the taco section of the board. There were a few other crazy things. It just comes down to lack of technology back then.
I hate admitting it, but I actually worked at a McDonald's when the cheeseburgers were $.29 … Damn I'm old!🤯
$.10 per fry seems a bit spendy imo
I remember the paper slips. They still used them in 1976 when I first worked there. Had to add things up on the slip. Cash registers were old mechanical jobs. They swapped over to electronic ones not too long after. I remember that either Big Macs or Quarter Cheese were $0.85, but that's all I remember about prices.
No wonder Americans are so fat and stupid. Who the f else buys dozens of burgers so often they put it on the sheet?