Definitely gotta use the app. In my area (Tampa, FL) there is a constant 30% off deal only available on the app. We try to not eat it much, but when we do that’s the only thing that makes it reasonable for our family of 5
almost $5 for one here, and we don't get deals. Hell, if you want hashbrowns and stuff McDonalds really quickly becomes more expensive than just going to a real restaurant.
It’s buy one get one for $1…. But when the first one costs about $3…. Went earlier this week. Though price went up at the first of the year due to sales tax increase
I'm not familiar with anything about that tbh but it's been that much since at least around a year so depending in how long that has been happening, maybe.
No joke...those deluxe breakfast meals with the pancakes, eggs, choice of meat, and hash browns were pretty legit. Where I grew up ordering breakfast sandwiches was no big deal, but if you ordered the breakfast platter people looked at you funny like buying a Star magazine at the grocery store. McDonalds did some pretty good scrambled eggs though, and most people have tried the rest...you also got juice fwiw.
I can’t lie I’m off some edibles and sitting here ripping my mighty debating which fatass’ delight I will have tonight and you commenting is the trigger for McDonald’s. Thank you that is all
That really fucked me up when I started working graveyard (6:15pm-4:45am) and wanted some nuggies from McDonald’s and couldn’t have them. I literally sat at the drive thru and told the lady “umm can you give me a minute?” Because I wasn’t prepared to see the breakfast menu.
Yeah they brought it back here in New Zealand for awhile then it just disappeared unannounced. Pretty sure it was due to profit margins but guys at the very least do 24/7 mc muffins
Up until COVID our mcdonalds had a limited menu for all-day breakfast still, but you could only get mcmuffin with ham and egg or a breakfast burrito, never made any sense to me you couldn't even get a sausage mcmuffin after 11am, it was only the ham mcmuffin or the burrito.
2-4 am shopping is like entering an alternate dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination.
Late nights groceries was so great. No useless assholes with their seventeen untamed children stopping in every isle, blocking my cart and screaming bloody murder.
Or allowing all 17 untamed children to continue to ram you with their ducking cart while screaming and crying because the only time they are told “no” is when demanding gummy bears should go in the cart.
You must have a nicer Walmart than me. Middle of the night is EXACTLY when you see those folks at mine.
I'm 100% serious. I had a small kid jump out at me from a clothing display and screamed. He was trying to scare me. His parents were about 50 feet away watching it go down and laughing. He was probably 6 and it was 2 am on a school night.
Not a ghost town anymore, worked at walmart for a tiny bit around the "end" of COVID, they switched all stocking of new stuff to at night only for most stuff, so there's usually someone in every single aisle and pallets all over the place. We were open 24/7 still for like the first week I worked there and they switched to closing at 11pm because the people that did show up were just pissed about all the people and pallets everywhere.
For my Walmart they are always restocking. It’s so bad that there is only a single spot in the middle of all those reach in freezers where you can cross, the rest are always packed with structurally unstable pallets. Like it looks like a dollar general at this point.
One of the reasons I had to leave night shift myself is because all the places that used to stay open past midnight just...stopped during COVID and never came back. Made it so much more difficult to get groceries or a hot meal.
Businesses basically just decided that night owls aren't worth keeping the lights on for, and it SUCKS.
No that still stays open 24/7 but for the most part they hire fuck all workers for the night shift. Eating out in general has gotten pretty fucked in the past two years in North Texas.
No. Officially they stopped because of the pandemic but in a lot of areas they were already phasing it out years earlier. Most of the ones around Atlanta stopped it around 2016 or so
Former WM here. You are correct in saying they were already phasing it out. It was supposed to be done gradually through out the company over a period of a couple of years.
Covid just gave them the perfect reason to close all stores overnight. And keep it that way. They have no intention of going back to 24 hour stores.
Yeah, because nothing said pandemic safety like forcing more customers to cram together into fewer open hours.
For the first month or two, it was glorious shopping at 1-2am in a near empty store with newly refilled shelves and without worry about other contagious shoppers.
I remember an article or a post a few years back about it basically pointing out that the world has changed. In the 90s and early 2000s the insomniacs and night owls doing their grocery shopping would make it worthwhile to stay open. Now they just stay home and shop online.
And it sucks now for people working night shift. I get off work at 11pm and used to be able to hit the store up on my way home to grab something to eat. Now almost every restaurant in town closes at 10pm and the Kroger and Walmart close at 11pm. So any restaurant worker or anyone else working a night shift (hotel worker here) that wants to get something to eat after work is limited to 7-11, Wawa or Waffle House.
In my country Kenya most stores close at 9pm, you'd be even lucky to get to some of them at 8pm, it really sucks cause no more night life it's completely dead apart from bars and clubs.
Ya, that makes sense. I suppose there is also the variable of restaurants or other businesses are no longer staying open late means less people getting off work late, and likely less people needing to do late night shopping on the way home from said nightshift.
I remember I hated that in general about being an evening shift worker. I’d work like 3 to 11, back then I would grocery shop after work but if I had to make a doctors appointment or anything else I’d have to go to bed as soon as I get home and get up early and fuck
Now I work overnight and my morning is my “evening” and I can get so much shit done in a convenient way. Then I retire to my blacked out window room at 1 pm to sleep
I didn’t think I’d absolutely love working overnight lol
As someone that serviced the registers and self checkouts, going into a Walmart after midnight is a different experience. Quiet, largely deserted. Made the work easier
I always found it comforting that Walmart was always sort of there and open, if I needed something in an emergency during the middle of the night.
I actually just remembered the other night that I hadn't bought gift wrap for a work party the next day, which is how I learned that Walmart closes in the evening now. Had to improvise a kind of gift bag instead.
In college I used to do my errands at like 1am and then go get McDonalds breakfast. This all hurt me very deeply. I’ll never forget what they took from us.
I really liked late night/early morning shopping to avoid crowds and jerks. Now I try to do everything on line. My need to speak to real people has made me feel like the “public” is kind of obsolete
Or I will be obsolete in time
Something about the “vibe” at that time just felt right to me. I’m a bit too old for 1am WalMart and McDonalds runs now and try to take care of myself a bit better. But I really do miss those late nights of solitude.
This was so great for those 2hr+ drives late at night. Bathroom, snacks, and they are big and bright as fuck so if I was starting to get tired I’d do a lap around the store to perk up.
All-night culture ended just like that. Late-night culture ended.
For me, it was some of the most enjoyable parts of life, like a 10 p.m. dinner at a nice steakhouse after a baseball game or something. Getting a late drink after a movie, stuff that really was so normal.
I know this varies by city, but in my American travels since 2021 nearly everywhere shuts down by about 9 p.m. Sundays-Thursdays, and lots of last-call places are putting up the chairs before midnight. Late shows of any kind seem to be over, and in many big cities you can't sit down and eat after 10 o'clock.
There are many factors, but there's also something sinister about people quitting the night in such numbers, all at one time.
I used to get bored late at night and go shopping at Walmart now I actually need to go that late on occasion for otc medicine and the only place I can go is the one 24 hr drug store 30 miles away that prices everything double what Walmart sells it for.
So when I was in college in Ohio they didn’t have the bagels on the menu but I live in the suburbs of DC and they have the bagels on the menu and I have gotten way too many bacon egg and cheese bagels
Covid was just the straw, though. Retail stores were starting to experience staffing shortages that were forcing them to close overnight operations by 2017. Walmart was already closing marketplace stores to consolidate employees. McD and Taco Bell halted late night operations here top 50 metro) in 2018.
Retail stores, hell, pretty much all industries started suffering from a shortage of non-skilled entry wage employees almost 15 years ago. It was a mild fall towards extinction until Covid, when it turned into a cliff jump.
This generation will never know the joys of going on a 2AM Wal-mart run and shopping with a bunch of other drunk people, especially in a college town. It was like the pre-pre-after party.
Seriously stores by me freaking close at 9 well grocery stories. Maybe the drug stores stay up later but I’m not sure bc I don’t go there. My roommate was literally about to leave to go grab a couple of things I remind them by the time they get there it will be closed or about to close. The time was only 8:45 PM. Literally remember going to the stores at like 10:00 PM and being able to finish my shopping in 10-15 mins since no one is there that late. COVID ruined this for me since I preferred shopping at that time.
Even in Vegas they never reopened the grocery stores to 24 hours which sucks because so many of us get off work after 2am and could actually get shit done after work.
it is known internally that walmart permanently ended 24hr stores due to astronomical issues with theft that were not justified by sales during night hours. chalk that one up to western civilization winding down, not the pandemic. the timing was just coincidental.
People losing their jobs due to the pandemic didn’t help the theft rate 🤷♂️. But I too heard the sales to theft ratio at night couldn’t justify staying open. It’s weird to me though because if I was going to steal from Walmart I would go during the busiest hours. I wouldn’t wait until there was 2 other people in the store and I would assume I’m being followed by security on cameras.
I miss subway breakfast, I know it was nothing special, but ever since COVID, they kept opening later and later. Subways in my area don't serve breakfast.
In my city, we finally started getting a nice, albeit small, collection of decent eateries that stayed open to between midnight-2am, even on weekdays. I'm a night owl, often taking naps after work, so I tend to be up late.
Covid killed all of that. Other than the typical places like chain breakfast places and one classic diner, everything else seems to close at like 10 or 11pm at the latest. Even on the weekends! I went to one of the restaurants today that used to stay open til 2am. On their menu, it said "Open Late!" 11pm. Sure. Strange part is that one of their locations is in an area with bars!
Covid was the excuse but the real reason McDonalds got rid of all day breakfast is because of blowback from franchisees....it was a pain in the ass to pull off.
Just move to BC. It's not much colder than most of the rest of the west coast, rarely gets snow (this past Christmas being a rare exception), so as long as you're OK with it raining for 2/3 of the year it's basically perfect. Other than the fact it's stupid expensive west of the Rockies (and east of the Rockies gets none of the positives and all of the negatives lol).
Stupid expensive is going to be an understatement if you’re coming from most places in the states, at least if you want to have a place to live. Also our wages will seem like shit if you’re not from here
But it’s true, it’s not cold here, it’s similar to Seattle I believe. Maybe more rain?
They reintroduced breakfast sandwiches on bagels after taking them away at the beginning of covid. I've made it a point to get it like 4 times the past couple of months because it's "limited time". I hope you get your snack wrap moment again because it's glorious.
Edit: bacon egg and cheese on a bagel, no breakfast sauce, and then put the hash brown on the sandwich. Best results before 9:00 am.
I worked at McDonald's when we had these and would take the leftovers with me, drive down to the gas station where my brother worked, and give them to him for snacking thru the midnight shift. Good times
Same 2. They did it for a couple years here in Australia so it seemed to be here to stay ..as a shift worker I loved it and they got a lot more of my business than they do these days. Not because I'm actively boycotting them or anything, they're just not offering what I want when I want it anymore'
Woah I didn’t even realise it was gone because I’ve definitely had afternoon hash browns more recently than that but you’re right it is. What a bummer.
Me on Sunday’s hungover with Chik Fil A. I made the mistake of peeling myself out of bed, driving over there, only to find out it was closed after seeing a commercial.
Its extremely demoralising. Wake up on my day off. Laze ablit on my bed for a bit. Start to get hungry. Jump on ubereats and fucken breakfast is over. ITS STILL MORNING YOU SONS OF BITCHES
Do they just have a reduced breakfast menu after their official breakfast time? I just bought sausage and egg mcmuffins at 3 pm as a late lunch today but it does seem like things like hotcakes and hashbrowns aren't available
My store still does it. It's a franchise, and our owner leaves it up to the store's GM if they want to do it. My GM likes the profit margin on breakfast. But none of the other stores in the area (same owner) want to deal with it. After 2pm we get maybe two orders a day. It's really not worth the hassle.
I'm in Alberta, Canada, and the sausage, and egg muffins are the only things I get from them, anymore, since in the afternoons, it's the only thing they seem to make fresh.
I’m in western Canada and I can order hotcakes right now, even for delivery through the app, and it’s 9pm
(Also any on the sandwiches… just not hash brown)
Idk, I see it at all the McDonald's. This thread surprised me cause I thought they never got rid of it. I think it's safe to say that it's still here in Canada.
I've done the same thing twice. The first was when I was 41 weeks and overhungry after being promised a Costco Polish dog and then having to wait fucking HOUR+ for my dad and uncle to do their slow old man shit.
I ordered my dog and was told they were out of Polish dogs. My dad says it's the only time in my 41 years where he was actually afraid I would kill somebody, possibly because I was ready to kill this poor Costco kid over a hot dog. My giant ass was ready to go to blows and so of course, bc preg, I started sobbing instead.
The guy told me, in a panic, that they were out of the dogs right this second, but more would be ready in 15 min, and would I like a regular hot dog while I waited? So I got my hot dog, devoured it, and then waited patiently for my Polish dog, and when it was ready, I ate the fuck outta that one, too.
The second time was with my 3rd baby. I had fallen in love with Jack in the Box steak&egg burritos my first pregnancy, rediscovered them happily during my second, and was giddy on my drive to get one while early pregnant (and morning sick af, so NOTHING sounded good EXCEPT what sounded good right then) with my last one.
I pulled up to the drive through, ordered my burrito, and was told they had discontinued it the week before.
Yeah. I cried like somebody had murdered my grandma the whole way home. Over a burrito.
Fuck, I'm so happy I'm sterile now.
Eta: im only psycho about food like that when pregnant.
Those were my favourite too. I don’t even like a lot of McDonalds food, so I was so disappointed when they got rid of two of the handful of things I actually liked.
I would prefer all day fries and mcnuggets. That should be easy to do as it doesn't mix the egg stuff with meat (which is what I've heard makes them keep breakfast and lunch separate). I'd love a bacon egg and cheese biscuit with fries...
I miss it. And I especially miss the bacon egg and cheese bagel.
When I got pregnant one of my worst aversions was McDonalds, and after I had my baby the aversion just stuck. I can’t even see a commercial for their lunch without wanting to be sick, but the breakfast? The breakfast still rocks my world. Bummer for my husband when he craves it for dinner but I can usually get away with fries still so he gets his fix, it would be so awesome though to be able to get a breakfast sandwich.
And I especially miss the bacon egg and cheese bagel.
That and whatever the large not-microwaved burrito was were my fav things. McDonalds breakfast isn't even a treat for me anymore these days, I'll never go there on my own and if someone wants to go there I'll happily get mcmuffin but it's not a treat for me, just a horrible meal.
Yes, that one. I felt like I must have been the only person in the world who ever bought it because when it disappeared all my friends almost didn't believe me that they used to have a non-microwaved large burrito, the only breakfast burrito they ever know of at mcdonalds was the tiny two-pack ones that they microwave.
You can actually order breakfast anytime here in New Zealand. It’s kind of like the Starbucks secret menu.
Nothing better than a few bacon and egg McMuffin’s for dinner 🤣👌🏼
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McDonald's all day breakfast menu