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A Boring Dystopia
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The hashbrowns McDonald's sells are sourced from Simplot Foods. If I remember correctly, you can buy around a hundred of them for $20 or $30 or so. Insane markup, especially at the scale they must buy them at, but not surprising. How else would the C suite survive?
You're also paying for rent, staffing, equipment, oil, taxes, salt, and probably a lot of things I'm not thinking of.
Still they're only costing them maybe a buck, tops.
…not even. A burger doesn’t even cost a buck to make. Their margins are off the chain.
Soda and fries are even crazier. It’s why the $1/any size drink works - going larger doesn’t impact their bottom line materially at all since the COGS are so low.
It’s $1.29 now at McDs. Cumbies did the same.