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Published: 06:18 BST, 1 July 2025 | Updated: 06:22 BST, 1 July 2025
An Aussie woman has revealed her ‘sneakiest’ McDonald’s hack for snapping up a cheeseburger at a discounted price.
Queensland podcast host Dani Said, 36, has shared a series of hacks for scoring cheaper deals at the popular fast food restaurant to TikTok.
In her latest trick, Ms Said filmed herself in a McDonald’s drive-thru asking the price of a cheeseburger which was $4.80.
‘And, how much is a hamburger on its own?’ the podcaster asked.
‘$2,’ the cashier responded.
Ms Said then ordered a hamburger and added a slice of cheese, which is what a cheeseburger is.
Her total ended up being $3.15 – $2 for the hamburger and $1.15 for the cheese.
Her video was flooded with comments from Aussies impressed with her ‘hustle’.
Queensland podcast host Dani Said, 36, has shared a series of hacks for scoring cheaper deals at the popular fast food restaurant to TikTok
The customer said it was cheaper to order a hamburger and add a slice of cheese than to buy a cheeseburger itself
But many said the fast food chain was still too pricey.
‘$4.80 for a burger the size of a baby’s fist?’ one wrote.
‘$4.80 for 1 cheeseburger is wild! I remember when a small Big Mac meal was $4.95!’ another said.
‘$1.15 for a slice of cheese? Tell ’em they’re dreaming,’ a third added.
Others said they had tried the hack but to no avail.
‘I’ve tried to do this and they told me they have to put a cheeseburger through, so stopped trying this hack,’ one wrote.
‘Sneaky, because you can’t add cheese onto a hamburger on the MyMaccas app,’ another advised.
Current and former McDonald’s staff said they had been warned about savvy Aussies trying to use the trick in the past.
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‘We were told we weren’t allowed to do this, and we’d tell customers we would give them a slice of cheese separate from the burger, usually ended up being melted into the box,’ one said.
‘I would actually get in trouble from my manager for doing this for customers,’ another said.
But one worker said the hack would only work for a limited time.
‘Hi, so I work at Maccas and the reason it’s way cheaper is because the hamburger is on a temporary deal,’ she wrote.
‘So it seems weird but it won’t be like this forever.
‘The hamburger will go up soon.’
The video received more than 680,000 views after Ms Said posted other ‘Maccas hacks’ to her TikTok account.
In another video she clarified with a cashier that a small cheeseburger meal and a Happy Meal at the franchise were more or less ‘exactly the same thing’ plus a toy.
She wrote the prices were $3 apart from $8.95 for a small cheeseburger meal to $5.95 for a Happy Meal.
‘Do you get people asking that all the time?’ she asked the cashier in the clip.
‘No,’ the girl responded.
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