Posted on 06/27/2024 2:14:11 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
McDonald’s declared that its experiment with plant-based burgers was a disaster.
Joe Erlinger, who heads US operations for the Chicago-based fast food giant, told a business conference that the company discontinued the pilot program after customers in San Francisco and Dallas-Fort Worth panned the McPlant.
The McPlant “was not successful in either market,” Erlinger told the Wall Street Journal’s Global Fast Food Forum in Chicago on Wednesday.
“I don’t think the US consumer is coming to McDonald’s or looking for McPlant or other plant-based proteins from McDonald’s now.”
The executive added that McDonald’s won’t be reintroducing salads to its menu either, since the demand for leafy greens isn’t there.
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OMG ! what do I do with my lawn clippings now
Changing the Soylent name doesn’t make it taste any better.
Nothing prophetic sounding about that!
These days they expect you to eat their great idea crap but it joins the long list Most Outrageous Food Products
has anybody ever made money off something the public never wanted???
I wonder, seriously here, if it was more than whatever its beef equivalent was.
So if it were more than a quarter pounder a McPlant combo meal would have been $20-25 in San Fransicko.
They’ve even priced me out of my last meal, breakfast, when I’m driving long distance. I can’t justify a sandwich hash brown and beverage costing more than a dozen eggs, pound of bacon and a 5 pound bag of potatoes.
In the Paris McDonalds, escargot is being sold as McSlugs.
BK is offering the impossible whopper. Tried it. It wasn’t bad. not a real Whopper, but edible. good for Fridays in Lent.
Years back, Subway offered a veggie max sub, with these odd rectangular veggie patties. I would get a footlong, double “meat” and dress it out like an Italian sub. It was good and usually got me through 2 meals.
It’s really hard to make McDonald’s any worse than it already is... But danged if they didn’t succeed in doing exactly that with their grass-burger.
McPlant burger = Fake food
Electric Vehicles = Fake Transportation
Green Lies rejected by everyday ordinary citizens
Doooood... Bacon not facilitating the edibility of something is serious s***. Bacon would make asphalt grindings edible...
Recall the shots of grocery store cold sections when everything was cleaned out at the beginning of the CoVid scam. The vegetarian sections were practically untouched.
Say what one will about McDonald’s but at least their management did a TEST RUN before rolling out that crap throughout the country.
If they had the same management as Hertz (of EV fame), McDonald’s would have JETTISONED every meat item from their menu and only sold that burgers with Beyond Meat, throughout the country, and then be yelling at their customers for being idiots when they chose other joints.
“I’m not absolutely sure that their Meat hamburgers are actually made of meat anymore either.”
So are you claiming that the ingredients they advertise as being their beef patties (beef, salt, and pepper) might be LIES? If so, do some research as you could have a HUGE LAWSUIT against them.
“Reminds me of my public high school cafeteria days. Whatever it was it was not cow.”
May be better to take your chances on Barth’s Burgers
https://www.barthsburgery.com/
Perhaps if they were to offer a free EV with each plant ‘burger’
When I don’t want meat I REALLY don’t want pretend meat.
McD’s just deosn’t get it - the vast majority of people don’t go there to “eat healthy”.
When did business schools stop teaching the first rule, Know Your Customer? McDonalds customers want fully cooked tasteless meat, American cheese, a couple pickles, and a squirt each of ketchup and mustard, on a sugar loaded soft white bun. Don't want fiber, just the same taste and texture no matter where on the planet they see the sign. And they want it cheap.
If they wanted thick slabs of mystery meat with grease dripping down their chin and into their lap they'd stop at Wendy's.
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