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Food goes up, so do prices at some McDonald’s
KNOXVILLE (WATE) — Recently, a number of Knoxville area McDonald’s restaurants started advertising a price increase.
Although [an area] manager didn’t care to explain the price increase, the sign blamed it on the higher commodity and transportation costs.
“With everything going on now-a-days, you expect everything to go up so it’s not a big surprise,” says one customer, Morgan Sheley. “But it still doesn’t seem necessary.”
The appeal of fast food is that it’s cheap and easy to get. A number of surprised customers said the Golden Arches is the last place they expected to see an increase.
“Probably start bringing lunch from the house, coming to work with a lunch instead of grabbing a quick burger. Usually, it’s cheaper to grab a burger than bring your lunch but now, it’s going to change, I guess,” Grant Caughorn says.
