Menu trimmed
McDonald’s announces that it will remove eight items from its menu. The number of extra value meals available will also be reduced, from 16 to 11. The company says the number of Quarter Pounders will be cut back from four to one, and only one premium chicken sandwich and wrap each will be sold, instead of the current three. The new menu is already available in six cities, which according to McDonald’s USA president Michael Andres has already resulted is faster service times:
Drive-through wait times have already come down in those test markets