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McDonald's sales fall globally for first time in more than three years (www.channelnewsasia.com)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They can’t grow anymore, so they had to ramp up the prices to continue to please shareholders.

Next will be a certain decline in quality, like more air in bread (“fluffier bread”) and nuggets and more water in the meat (“juicier”) and shakes, maybe they’ll even remove the free refill stuff.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

There's already a noticeable drop in quality. I bought a big Mac meal recently for the first time in a while, the fries were like toothpicks, and the large fries seemed much smaller than I recall.

The burger had the tiniest dollop of sauce and the patties were so thin they barely held their shape.

I know it's all purely anecdotal, but for years I was hooked on their hash browns until they changed the recipe... And now I can't stand them but at least I'm losing weight so that's good haha

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

shakes

Lol, McDonald's doesn't have shakes. Sure, it's on the menu, but you need ice cream for shakes, and the ice cream machine is broken

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Boy! Just imagine some super fluffy ice-cream! (You make it fluffier by - you guessed it - pockets of air)

Look at old labels of your favourite ice cream tray. The amount of liquid is the same, but it sure as heck is lighter.