In Japan, McDonalds is cheap as fuck and the restaurants are genuinely a pleasant place to spend time whether you're in the city of suburbs.
Meanwhile, Americans pay 1.5x or more the price to order from a menu that has only become smaller and smaller over time. It doesn't even change when McDicks cuts a fat check to some celebrity so they can lure people into their borderline ghetto establishments with the promise of the "Jake Paul meal", which is just a Big Mac, medium fries, and medium cup of water (no ice) for $14. Optionally, you can pay 1.4x the price if you opt-in to McDonalds harvesting your data.