McDonalds new burger will cost you at least $10.00

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McDonald's Big Arch Burger Prices Swing Wildly Across U.S., New Study Shows

A new study by NeoMam Studios has revealed the highly variable pricing of McDonald’s new Big Arch Burger across the United States.

The Big Arch Is McDonald's Biggest Burger

On Tuesday, March 3, McDonald’s launched the Big Arch burger in stores nationwide. The chain promises that it’s the “most McDonald’s McDonald’s burger yet,” bigger than any other sandwich on the menu. The sandwich is made with two quarter-pound beef patties, three slices of white cheddar, crispy onions, and a new tangy "Big Arch Sauce" sandwiched between two sesame buns.

NeoMam Studios analyzed the cost of the Big Arch burger across states, and the price varies widely. The most expensive city in which to purchase a Big Arch Burger is Lewiston, ME, where the sandwich will cost you $12.99. The most expensive state in which to purchase the Big Arch is Alaska, where the average price is $10.32. In general, Alaska proved to be an expensive state for McDonald’s lovers. The second most-expensive city in which to purchase a Big Arch is Juneau, AL, where the burger costs $11.49.

Washington ($10.19), Maine ($10.03), Hawaii ($10.00), and Arizona ($9.96) rounded out the top five most expensive states for a Big Arch. Pearl City, HI ($11.29); Spokane, WA ($11.29); and Tucson, AZ ($10.52), rounded out the top five most expensive cities.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/mcdonalds-big-arch-burger-prices-170000376.html

I don't eat much fast food these days given the price. If I don't feel like cooking, I can usually find something affordable at the deli section of my local grocery store.

[Renew Deal]

1. The question is whether it's worth it

Five Guys and Shake Shack are charging around that much. Burger King also just upgraded their Whopper, though it's below $10.

[The Madcap]

13. Five Guys is much tastier than anything Ronald McD can dish out.

And they will pretty much make it to order. Sounds like McD's needs to go coffin-hunting as a business in the next few years.

[Jacson6]

36. They are too expensive. $25+ for burger, fries and a coke. No thank you. n/t

[The Madcap]

42. I don't remember it being that much in the heartland.

More like about 17-18, tops.

[JBTaurus83]

2. You could just go to a local restaurant

Most have a burger lunch special for the same price that would taste better. In fact, the higher end Brazilian steakhouse Fogo De Chao has a delicious all day burger for $11, right by my office in Philly.

[piddyprints]

11. You can get

A burger or cheeseburger or chicken sandwich or hot dog with fries and a drink (including beer) for $10 at our local taproom during lunch. It’s a very big burger and it’s all delicious! 😋

[Walleye]

3. Me too, too, The grocery store on the local coffee caf. All in walking distance

[spooky3]

4. And a mere 1020 calories per sandwich, McD says. nt

[SergeStorms]

23. They know what their customers want.

Most McDonald's customers aren't concerned with the health aspects of their "dining experience,."

[ForgedCrank]

5. The price

of beef coupled with paying 15 bucks an hour for people to flip burgers is how we got here.
I don't eat that garbage anyway

[ret5hd]

8. ahhh...those damn workers, always tryin' to rip me off!

[GreenWave]

26. They are preventing the owner from buying a baseball team. What a crock!

[GenThePerservering]

14. SHAME on those workers for trying to

make a living wage! SO inconvenient.

[sarisataka]

17. How little should we pay

people who make our food?

[ForgedCrank]

20. How should

I know? Ask the people who don't buy fast food anymore.
Did I break another rule by telling the truth? Let me know and I'll stop it

[sarisataka]

34. Let's start by paying a wage

A full-time worker can live on?

[ForgedCrank]

35. Agreed. Now

what?
Beef prices are high as well, but I didn't blame cows for it.
People are jumping to conclusions and it's silly. Stop looking or hidden meaning, it's not there.

[Ilikepurple]

39. Are you just a truth teller or finding refuge in plausible deniability?

Price? 15 bucks an hour for people to flip burgers is how we got here.
It sounds like a lamentation about how we pay people too much for jobs you consider menial?

How much should we pay in wages? Ask the people who don't buy fast food anymore.
I don’t even know how this is an answer other than a snarky comment about how minimum wage laws have priced people out of affording fast food.

It is true that fast food prices have gone up because costs, especially beef and wages, have also risen. Easy enough to say unambiguously. If you insert snark, don’t be surprised when people don’t try to figure out the intention. If you actually don’t have a problem with burger flippers making $15 an hour, you’ve failed at communicating that.

[ForgedCrank]

43. High wages

for unskilled labor absolutely have contributed to the rising costs of those products. It is also eventually an inflation contributor, these things are circular and all affect each other. I never even mentioned "minimum wage" in my comment, you guys did. In fact, in many areas, 15 bucks an hour is FAR above minimum wage (like, double in most states). But something happened about 5-6 years ago (covid maybe? partially? I don't know) where these businesses couldn't get anyone to work anymore, so the wage started climbing along with inflation and the cost of materials, and then eventually, the end product.
Is this something you disagree with? If so, say so and present your argument. Who knows, I may learn something that I didn't know, that happens every day. I'm not here to sell something. Feel free to disagree with anything I say, just be prepared to explain yourself if you wish to engage. All I ask is that you stop trying to put words in my mouth or assign interpretation to what I say. It's not productive and it's dishonest in discussion. And I can also assign the label of "snark" to anything you say and then attack you for it if I want to make up some nefarious intent accusation. But notice that I don't, and that's because it's dishonest.
What I see is people who heard something they didn't want to hear and are attacking the person who said it because they are itchin for a take-down of some sort. I find that to be petty on top of it all.

[FHRRK1]

46. Go look at inflation by state

Simple google search, then look at the states with minimum wage above the federal level.

Hint, the data will not support your claim.

[ForgedCrank]

47. Did you

have some sort of argument?

[FHRRK1]

57. You argued that minimum wage increases are inflationary

I am saying not so fast, and provided a simple suggestion on how to do some basic research.

Also your labor costs are inflated for fast food.

I can keep going, but won’t.

[GenThePerservering]

63. You're flailing. nt

[Ilikepurple]

53. Yes! Actual engagement. This here is the opinion that was hidden in your comments.

Why complain about people trying to determine your intent when you hide it behind snark. You can assign the label “snark” all you want but it would be wrong if it doesn’t apply. I actually quoted two of your statements that can be defensibly labeled snark, not to mention blaming cows or whatever that was. I never said I disagreed with your opinion because you didn’t really lay it out and got defensive when people tried to interpret your aphorisms. I don’t know what nefarious intent you think I attributed other than saying if you are unclear in expressing your opinion, one will be inferred and then you have a chance to clarify.
Your first paragraph here is actual engagement. Yours is a reasonable opinion. If you made it more clear originally, you might have received the sort of engagement you desired. You believe rising unskilled labor costs not only cause inflation related to the products they are involve in making, but to inflation throughout the economy. Obviously, both are true, but to what extent is arguable. I don’t really like the term unskilled labor because often its use is determined by how much we historically have valued the jobs and not the actual skill involved. I live in a high minimum wage state have intimate knowledge of the effects of wage inflation on both the volume and bottom line in fast food operations. For the owner that would like to pay their employees more, it’s a double edged sword in that higher minimum wage allows an owner to compensate their employees better without losing market share, but it also prices them out of some habitual purchases and often results in lower price adjusted revenue. I really don’t know the answer as to how to provide a living wage without its inflationary impact, but I think the positive effect on the most economically vulnerable might be worth inflation adjusted lower earning power for the rest of us.

[ForgedCrank]

55. Becasue I'm not

interested in writing an entire novel including legal disclaimers with ever effin post I make just to calm the nerves of the irrational who are more interested in what I MIGHT mean rather than what I said. It's not a me problem.
One shouldn't have to write a technical manual with every granular detail on every facet of a subject just to make a simple point, and it's ridiculous to expect it. I could do the same thing to what you just wrote, but I'm not going to because, well, it's petty and dishonest in debate.

[Torchlight]

64. I often tell myself my assertions are Truth, as well.

Good luck!

[WarGamer]

19. By law it's $25/hr here now...

[Dave says]

30. Where is that? Maybe I should move there

Maybe get a job to supplement retirement income. How much for a 2,000 sq ft house on a cliff overlooking a lake (what I have now)?

[senseandsensibility]

25. California has had twenty dollar minimum wage for quite a while

(may be even higher now) and I did not see them on the list in the article above. Arizona seems to have higher prices for fast food than California and wages are much lower. Don't think you can blame this on the workers.

[ForgedCrank]

33. Where did

I "blame the workers" ?
It's simple math. Labor costs are roughly 30-35% of the operating costs. If one is higher, so is the other and that translates to higher cost of the end product. Should I have included a complete breakdown of every single operating cost for cooking a hamburger? Because I'm not doing that just so people don't jump to ridiculous conclusions and see nefarious things where they don't exist.
So unless there is some secret decoder ring that I am unaware of that tells you what I mean rather than what I said, the actual words matter.
So again, where did I "blame the workers"?

[RockRaven]

6. Protip -- it won't cost you ten dollars if you follow this one weird trick:

don't buy it.

[The Madcap]

15. The best response to high prices...

Personal Economic Deprivation of Orange (PEDO)...It's how we must fight back against the oligarchs.

[D_Master81]

7. The least self aware product yet

No one was asking McDonalds to make a more expensive burger. People go there for cheap not high quality

[ret5hd]

10. i sometimes believe that if they ...

put a sealed package of dog kibbles with a label like “Volks-Bites” or “Kids-Bits” …

and a little package of one of their variety of sauces taped to the package…

that it would really sell. But face it, that’s essentially what they do now.

[DFW]

9. I'm not supposed to do beef anything, so it's not a point of discussion with me

If I were left with a choice of McD or starving, I suppose I could order the Fish Filet or a salad (do they offer those?). I know some of them offer chicken somethings, but I don't know if it's real chicken meat or crushed, powdered, reconstituted pseudo-meat that screams the motto "better poultry through chemistry." I once saw one from afar after being bitten into, and it didn't look like anything the animal kingdom provided voluntarily.

[Diamond_Dog]

16. DFW, the last time I had a chicken Mcnugget

Probably 15 years ago. I wondered if it was really chicken, it was an odd color and mouth-feel. I threw them away, they were terrible. I see nothing has changed.

[DFW]

37. I took one look and said that ain't like any chicken meat I've ever seen

I just thought if I can't figure it out, then I wasn't meant to, and never tried it.

[ProfessorGAC]

31. They Still Have The Salad

We can get the chicken grilled, fried, or fried with spicy breading.
I got one last week when I took no food to school & uncharacteristically hungry in the middle of the day.
I got the salad with grilled chicken.
I don't recall seeing that mandarin orange & walnut salad though.
I always got a kick out of them menu note telling people there were nuts in a walnut salad.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

12. Or about 1600 calories for one sandwich.

Even more when fries and a Coke are added.

NO FUCKING THANK YOU!!!!

[Iggo]

41. That's a whole day for me.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

49. A whole day for most people as well.

I take in less than 1400 and I walk 3 miles a day, work out with machines and weights too.

[Iggo]

59. Hmm...1400, eh?

I remember a couple of years ago when I went down from 1800/day (2150 on Fri & Sat to 1600/day (1850 on Fri & Sat), and I thought I was gonna die.

Then I had a heart attack and almost died. I lost 50 pounds in 5 months and hadn’t felt that good since I was 20. (I’m 64 now.) But my weight (and flabbiness) is on the rise again and I dont like that at all. Scared me a bit.

I bet I could get away with 1400 now, (no adder for the weekend anymore. That was dumb.)

I think I’ll fire up the old fitness app and give it a shot.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

62. I went back to Weight Watchers in June of 2013

Just after I turned 61. My Mother died that January, 12 days before her 79th Birthday.

After 5 months of mourning her loss, I did not take care of myself as well as I should have. Feeling down and looking dumpy, I did a 360 in my fill length mirror in my undies before my shower. It was then I decided to get my butt back to Weight Watchers(WW) and relearn some things, reset my lifestyle goals, get CONTROL back into my life, re-earn my Lifetime member benefits, and get this extra 60 pounds off. At 5'5" tall, weighing 208 pounds was not in my best interest.

My journey to better mental and physical health began on June 3rd, 2013. I am still on that journey to this day weighing between 145 to 150. I have been wearing size 8 to 10 pants for 12 years now. I have been on numerous road trips, several International trips, and HAVE NOT regained the weight back. Every month I go to my Weight Watcher's meeting as a FREE Lifetime member still below my goal. WW is a lifestyle, not a diet. Due to some changes from within, I limit intake of breads and pastas(Gluten issues), white potatoes and rice, most dairy products(Lactose). I stick with Lean proteins, healthy fats, low Glycemic vegetables, plus fruits. Nothing is off the table, but I watch serving and portion sizes. I AM IN CONTROL and I DECIDE whether or not I eat a rich dessert, have a 2nd helping, or another glass of wine.

I walk 3 miles a day on average(sometimes more), 5 to 6 days a week for my overall health, work out with weights to stay strong muscle wise. My Internist said his job would be easier of he had more patients like me. I take some medications for my eyes and upper and lower GI issues.(Thus the limitations on certain foods). I will be 74 my next Birthday. This widow refuses to sit back and get frumpy. There is too much of life to be enjoyed. Places to go, people to see, things to do, etc.

As for calories, it is the QUALITY of those calories that makes all the difference. 2 slices of a deep dish pizza with everything on it and beer can be the calories one needs in one day as compared to 3 meals and a healthy snack. WW has taught me much over the last 13 years. My life has been all the better for it. For I am running a marathon, not a sprint. Losing weight is not difficult if one works at it and LEARNS things along the way. KEEPING the weight off, that's where the real work comes in.

Hope this helps.

[WarGamer]

18. For that price I can make a homemade Snake River Wagyu patty...

In a cast iron skillet, smashed style... that is 100x better

[Jacson6]

21. A Big Mac in Morro Bay, CA is $12, fries $7 and a coke $1.70

I remember 25 years ago when I could get a fast food lunch with everything for $5.

[SamuelTheThird]

22. Their CEO can't even pretend to consume their dogmeat

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

27. Lol..that video was hilarious. Taking that tiny bite

[flvegan]

24. Not sure that the "most McDonald's McDonald's burger yet," is the flex they think it is.

[Shermann]

28. Well, the CEO really seems to love it!

I'll try one on St. Patrick's Day IF I can get a Shamrock Shake with it. If the ice cream machine is broken, I swear I'll drive off!

[doc03]

29. I got a burger and a small drink at Arbys today for $11 and change. I guess it is

not out of line.

[milestogo]

32. I haven't eaten anything at a McDonalds for over 15 years.

I'm a vegetarian.

[OC375]

38. "Fast food is for rich people."

Gen X loves irony.

[Iggo]

40. Not me , it won't.

[Sympthsical]

44. They had me at white cheddar and crispy onions

I'm certainly prepared to give it a go. We're not generally a McD's people, but we get it for the nephews now and then.

$8.89 here in NorCal.

A bit pricey for fast food, but given the size of it, I expect it will be the only thing I eat that day.

[markodochartaigh]

52. I scarcely eat meat, and I've never bought a hamburger,

but the white cheddar and crispy onions do sound good.

[Sympthsical]

54. I will try white cheddar anything

An-y-thing.

I still miss the Arch Deluxe, tho. It was basically a quarter pounder with this black pepper sauce. Loved that thing.

[bullwinkle428]

45. Ridiculous. A double cheeseburger at Portillo's (Chicagoland-based chain)

is under $9, and orders of magnitude better than any burger you'll ever get from McDonald's!

[Morbius]

48. I'm not sure about that price; it has gone up recently near me.

But you're absolutely right about the quality. Portillo's burgers and fries are far better than McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and several other chains. Their Italian beef is quite good also, so I usually pass on the burger!

[jmowreader]

50. I'm trying to figure out how this is the "biggest sandwich on the menu"

They've sold Double Quarter Pounders for years. This is a fancier version of a Double Quarter Pounder - different cheese, toppings and bun, but it's still two quarter-pound patties stuffed into a bun.

[TheRickles]

51. Folks might consider heading over to Columbia SC, where it's only $7.46. Or not.

[Botany]

56. O'Rielly's Pub Clintonville, OH .. Columbus, OH

Jerk Burger or Spicy Burger about $10.00

Once in a great while I will have an egg mc’muffin breakfast but I can skip Mc’Donalds just
fine. A dandy local market has outstanding stuff to make your own better and cheaper.

[Red Mountain]

58. I tried one........always a sucker for the latest

it was a mashup of a double quarter pounder and a big mac.

Worst of both.

You'd do much better buying local.

[Jack Valentino]

60. Won't cost ME a dime--- I prefer Burger King now, but haven't had any of theirs either

since before the pandemic....

Now I make my own burgers, just the way I like them,
and they turn out pretty good at home!

[Ferrets are Cool]

61. It will not cost me anything.

I will never purchase another McDonalds product.

[Emile]

65. I rather go to Applebee's.