CT Insider – The president of McDonald’s this week served what he called “a side of facts,” taking aim at claims of high prices at restaurants across the country, and saying that a nearly $17 Big Mac meal bought in Connecticut was an aberration.
McDonald’s President Joe Erlinger wrote this week in a post on the company’s website:
“I can tell you that it frustrates and worries me, and many of our franchisees, when I hear about an $18 Big Mac meal being sold – even if it was at one location in the U.S. out of more than 13,700.”
That “one location” was a rest stop on I-95 in Darien, where a viral TikTok post showed a user buying a Big Mac Meal for $16.89. On Feb. 23, the Big Mac combo meal was priced at $17.59 on the McDonald’s app.
According to Erlinger, the high price tag was an aberration, and he called the assertion that prices have doubled since 2019 “inaccurate,” stemming from “viral social posts and poorly sourced reports.”
“More worrying, though, is when people believe that this is the rule and not the exception, or when folks start to suggest that the prices of a Big Mac have risen 100 percent since 2019,” he wrote.
“The average price of a Big Mac in the U.S. was $4.39 in 2019,” he wrote …
