NOT lovin’ it! McDonald’s quietly hikes its prices amid cost-of-living crisis – with 20 nuggets UP nearly £2 to £5.79 and a Big Mac up almost £1 to £4.59
- EXCLUSIVE: McDonald’s has hiked its UK prices without telling its customers
- A Big Mac is £4.59, up from £3.69, and 20 McNuggets are £5.79, up from £4.99
McDonald’s has quietly hiked the price of a Big Mac by nearly £1 – and has also made chicken nuggets, burgers, fries, and milkshakes more expensive.
Last year the fast food giant claimed it could no longer protect customers from the soaring costs caused by rising inflation hitting the cost of produce, energy, fuel and wages.
Yet in April McDonald’s revealed sales in the first quarter were boosted by four per cent to $5.9billion (£4.57billion), compared to this time last year.
Now the fast food food store has bumped up prices across its menu in the UK without announcing it to customers.
This time last year the company said it was increasing the price of a cheeseburger for the first time in 14 years from 99p to £1.19.
McDonald’s has hiked the price of a Big Mac by almost a pound without telling customers – and has also made chicken nuggets, burgers, fries, and milkshakes more expensive
Even vegan dishes have been hit by the hike, with the Vegetable Deluxe increasing from £3.59 to £4.19 and the McPlant jumping from £3.69 to £4.29 (File image)
Although a cheeseburger still costed £1.19 in June, this month the price has jumped to £1.29, while a Big Mac is £4.59, up from £3.69, and fan favourite 20 Chicken McNuggets is at £5.79, up from £4.99.
McDonald’s puts up price of its products
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Cheeseburger – 10p price increase
20 McNugget sharebox – up 80p
Hamburger – 10p price increase
Medium fries – 10p price increase
Double Cheeseburger – 20p price increase
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Most Hot Drinks
Triple Cheeseburger
Milkshakes have been raised by 50p from £1.29 to £1.79, an increase of almost 40 per cent.
Even vegan dishes have been hit by the hike, with the Vegetable Deluxe increasing from £3.59 to £4.19 and the McPlant jumping from £3.69 to £4.29.
It comes as it was revealed that the Consumer Prices Index rate was running at 7.9 per cent in June, tumbling from 8.7 per cent the previous month and significantly below expectations.
Crucially the core measure of prices – excluding more volatile elements such as fuel – also dipped.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt hailed CPI being at its lowest level for 15 months in the official figures but also warned the battle to quell prices had not yet been won.
‘We aren’t complacent and know that high prices are still a huge worry for families and businesses,’ he said.
‘The best and only way we can ease this pressure and get our economy growing again is by sticking to the plan to halve inflation this year.’
Rishi Sunak said he was ‘sticking to the plan’ of trying to halve inflation to around 5 per cent by the end of the year.
The fast food giant has been hit with allegations of sexual misconduct this week after young female staff at McDonald’s claimed they were groped, given nicknames like ‘McBike’, and were rated on their appearance at work on scoreboards.
McDonald’s has revealed higher prices and rising orders has boosted sales in the first quarter by four per cent to $5.9billion compared to this time last year
Alistair Macrow, McDonald’s boss in the UK, issued an apology after the BBC found that more than 100 current and former staff at the fast food chain alleged they had been harassed
Alistair Macrow, McDonald’s boss in the UK, issued an apology after the BBC found that more than 100 current and former staff at the fast food chain alleged they had been harassed.
MailOnline was also contacted by dozens of current and former workers from the fast-food giant, some as young as 16, who claimed to have been put through horrendous ordeals at the hands of branch managers.
Some claimed how managers would have a ‘scoreboard’ where they would rate female workers, and they would tally up the number of sexual conquests they had with staff members.
Others claimed that the phrase ‘boobs sell burgers’ would be flung around to justify only hiring ‘pretty young girls’ while men were kept working in the back.
Another added that girls were labelled ‘the McBike’ if they appeared to have dated or had sexual relationships with members of staff.
McDonald’s did not respond to a request for comment about the latest price hikes when approached by MailOnline.
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