McDonalds payment change confuses customers who may be paying more for a meal: Not sure how this is legal
McDonald’s fans are feeling salty.The fast-food chain will allegedly start rounding up the prices of certain meals, according to customers online who claim they caught a whiff of the plan.Per The Sun, a Reddit user shared a memo that was put outside their franchise location notifying customers that due to the US Treasury halting production of pennies, the chain will now be rounding change to the nearest five cents.The US Mint has placed its final order of penny blanks and will cease production of the coin when those run out by early next year, forcing companies to adapt to the change.Menu prices will stay the same, but customers’ change will be rounded depending on the cost of the meal.If the amount of change owed ends in one or two cents, it will be rounded down to zero cents.If it ends in three or four cents, it will round up to five cents.
Six or seven cents will be rounded down to five cents.Change ending in eight or nine cents will be rounded up to 10 cents.However, if the amount ends in five cents or zero cents, exact change will be given.It should be noted that this only affects orders paid for in cash.
The Post reached out to McDonald’s for confirmation.Some McDonald’s lovers responded to the news in annoyance.“So they take from some and give others or do they change their menu to always round down? Not sure how this is legal because a penny owed is still a penny owed…” one pointed out.“Is there really a need for this? There’s still tons of pennies in circulation,” another said.“Nope, give me my exact change!” someone demanded.“Why don’t they just change the prices.This is confusing,” one said.“They should just adjust their prices instead of stealing a couple cents at a time from one custom and returning extra to the next,” a user wrote.“Class action lawsuit against the round downs.
Literally stealing,” another claimed.Meanwhile, non-American customers are pointing out that this has been going on at their local McDon...