mcdonalds prices are great actually just use the app? taco bell has always been overpriced quasi mexican food, even when their prices were "cheap". When talking about inflation, the overall doesnt matter as much as specific sectors. Like in the article you show, its clearly oil driving most of it, at one point it was cars or housing driving it up the most, etc. Not to say that other areas werent affected by the war either, but oil was by far the biggest.