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The dollar menu was a thorn in the side of McDonald's operators, both unpopular and unprofitable. Regardless, McDonald’s pushed the dollar menu hard in 2018, largely due to competition from Taco Bell.McDonald's Doubles Down on Unpopular Value Menu"We don't view our $1, $2, $3 menu as a one-month or two-month deal," McDonald's CFO Kevin Ozan said Wednesday at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch consumer tech conference. "It's not a promotion, it's not a deal, it's a long-term value menu platform.[…]Taco Bell was explicit then in its attack on McDonald's. "What sets Taco Bell's $1 menu even further apart from national competitors is that $1 = $1," the company said in the December announcement.It was clear that the dollar menu sucked from a profitability standpoint, but it was needed to keep traffic coming in the door.Taco Bell blinked in December 2018. Taco Bell is killing its dollar menu as we know it. Within a week, McDonald’s made two key changes to their value menu.The company also announced plans to enhance the $1 $2 $3 Dollar Menu in a way that gives operators more flexibility to tailor the menu to meet the “tastes and preferences of local customers,” the company said.Functionally, this killed the dollar menu, since operators hated it.These price wars crop up every few years. Stay tuned for the next one. In the meantime, you will spend more cash at the Golden Arches.

The Fed prison system runs the same national menu at all its facilities. What you see below is an example (week 1). Typically, at every Federal prison you can count on eating fried chicken Thurs night dinners or Burgers on Wed lunches. It’s all officially done with specific nutritional and calories requirements in mind. (YUK.. just looking at that menu is giving me flashbacks!.. none of it, good!)He will also have have access to purchase food items from the commissary (see bottom photo).COMMISSARY LIST. The list below will be somewhat different, depending on the facility.

LobsterIn the early days of America, fishing trawlers would often accidentally catch not only delicious and succulent fish, but also these disgusting bottom-feeding bugs that crawled along the ocean floor.Yuck!For more than a century, Americans viewed lobster as an utterly revolting pest. It was only ever eaten by slaves, prisoners, and indentured servants (some of whom were contractually required to eat lobster several times a week[1]). What wasn’t fed to the poor and desperate was usually chopped up and used as fertilizer.[2]It is hard to know how exactly the shift happened, but sometime in the mid-Nineteenth Century, some adventurous and non-impoverished residents of Boston and New York decided to try the disgusting bottom-feeders and found them quite excellent when slathered with butter. Even into the Twentieth Century, lobster was primarily a cheap canned food, but its status was rapidly rising. Now it is frequently the most expensive thing on the menu.Crazy how tastes can change.Footnotes[1] How lobster went up in the world[2] Maine Secretary of State Kids: Lobster