{"id":22441,"date":"2026-06-02T20:10:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22441"},"modified":"2026-06-02T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:10:49","slug":"why-fast-food-got-so-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22441","title":{"rendered":"Why Fast Food Got So Expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McDonald&#8217;s is a real estate&nbsp;and big data tech company. It is selling convenience, not cheap food or good food. Its goal is to manipulate&nbsp;the customer to come in and buy profitable items.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Fast Food Got So Expensive\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hIOW2HKgzPk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald&#8217;s is a real estate and big data tech company. It is selling convenience, not cheap food or good food. Its goal is to manipulate the customer to come in and buy profitable items. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hIOW2HKgzPk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[798,348,217,165,1716,725,1316,1407,1839,1005],"class_list":["post-22441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-business","tag-data","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-fast-food","tag-food","tag-inflation","tag-prices","tag-profit","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22442,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22441\/revisions\/22442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}