{"id":20441,"date":"2010-09-13T09:01:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T13:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20441"},"modified":"2010-09-13T09:01:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T13:01:07","slug":"sf-homeless-battle-mcds-over-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20441","title":{"rendered":"SF homeless battle McD’s over pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Homeless people and their advocates have taken to fighting over one MacDonald’s restaurant decision to raise the cost of their “dollar menu” items<\/a> fifty cents;<\/p>\n

The decision, made by the owner of the franchise, does not particularly affect any of the other McDonalds in the area. However, the restaurant is located across the street from Golden Gate Park and an almost steady stream of homeless people who often order the cheapest items available on the menu now say the approximately half dollar difference in prices sometimes means the difference between eating and not eating.<\/p>\n

It is no wonder that some believe the price hike was aimed at the homeless population.<\/p>\n

“That means that the Dollar Menu is a hoax, a fraud, a phony,” says Blake Edwards. “If you come here and say ‘I want something off the Dollar Value Menu,’ they say, ‘Well, we no longer have it, but this is what it is.’ Yet, you can’t get it for a dollar. It’s basically a lie.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I quit going to MacDonald’s in DC because they were all infested with filthy, smelly street dwellers who would panhandle from me while I was eating. The stench was overwhelming and unnecessary. There are empty beds at the shelters every night in DC. Charities deliver food twice everyday to the hobos on their park benches (and then the bums throw their Styrofoam plates on the ground instead of walking the six feet to a trash can).<\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure the situation in San Francisco is probably the same. In the eleven years that I lived in DC, I saw the same hobos at the same corners every single day. Being homeless is a career. Raising prices 50 cents doesn’t mean that there will be dead bums lining the sidewalks of San Francisco.It just means that they’ll have to get their food somewhere else like the rest of us who can’t afford to eat out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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