Reader comments: High food costs put eateries in a bind

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blank | 7:19 a.m. Oct. 17, 2008
If people would use the money they're spending on fast food and put it towards healthier food, they wouldn't feel so bad about spending a lot of money on cheap, unhealthy food that hurts their wallets and they wouldn't feel so overweight.

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Fast-food leader McDonald's Corp. is considering making some changes to its popular dollar menu - either by altering the items that are on the menu or bumping up their prices - saying the cost of selling meat at such low prices might be too high for the chain. (Seth Perlman, Associated Press)
Seth Perlman, Associated Press
Fast-food leader McDonald's Corp. is considering making some changes to its popular dollar menu - either by altering the items that are on the menu or bumping up their prices - saying the cost of selling meat at such low prices might be too high for the chain.