Value menu
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Oct 8, 2026
Justin DerryHOST
Mm.
Billy BrennanHOST
It's like $74 now for a fucking Value Meal.
Justin DerryHOST
Yeah.
Justin DerryHOST
[laughs]
Billy BrennanHOST
It's ridiculous.
JimHOST
Yeah, no shit.
Billy BrennanHOST
Remember, remember when the, the Value Meal, like, was first dropped and it was like you get the McD- Mickey D's, it was the $2.22?
JimHOST
Yeah.
DeMarcusGUEST
Well, I know this is gonna ring a bell.
DeMarcusGUEST
You remember the Dollar Menu?
Arnold LewisHOST
Of course I remember Dollar Menu.
Arnold LewisHOST
I'm thinking back to Dollar Menu.
DeMarcusGUEST
Exactly.
Arnold LewisHOST
McDonald's, McChicken, Dollar Menus.
DeMarcusGUEST
But act- things were actually a dollar.
Arnold LewisHOST
They were a dollar.
Angel DimayugaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He was born in 1949 in Batangas, Philippines, and immigrated to the United States in the 1970s.
Angel DimayugaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He later invented the extra value meal.
Angel DimayugaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, what he actually invented was the fast food set meal.
Angel DimayugaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's my dad.
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Angel DimayugaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Then a regional manager visited and reprimanded him for changing the look of the store.
Angel DimayugaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Then the manager saw the sales and let my dad keep it.
Angel DimayugaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The company took the idea, knocked a little off the price, and named it the Extra Value Meal.
Angel DimayugaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
According to the New York Times, in the national program's first year, sales went up 6%.