McChicken now $2.99 and meals top $15 — fast food inflation shows how broken official numbers really are

🚨 The Dollar Menu is officially extinct.

In 2014, a McChicken cost $1. Today? $2.99 — up 199%.

A Quarter Pounder Meal? $5.39 to $11.99 — a 122% jump.

Wages haven’t doubled. Productivity hasn’t doubled. But prices? In some cases, they’ve tripled.

This is why financial… pic.twitter.com/RhLeJiqdIa

— Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® (@kurtsaltrichter) June 23, 2025