If you’re like most Americans, you spent your childhood begging mom to take you to McDonald’s for a Happy Meal filled with a hamburger or chicken nuggets, fries, and most importantly, a toy.
That could all change in San Francisco.
A proposed city ordinance could require McDonald’s to either remove toys in Happy Meal boxes or decrease calories and make them healthier by adding fruit and vegetable portions.
As you might guess, McDonald’s is prepared to fight this tooth and nail.
During the proceedings, a small battalion of McDonald’s execs and lawyers showed up to argue that the ordinance would make the Happy Meals less happy as well as undermine customers’ free choice of food in the restaurant.
McDonald’s vice president for nutrition and menu strategy, Karen Wells explained that the new rules would be “difficult…to execute at our restaurants.”
Opposing supervisor Sophie Maxwell responded, “Just because it’s different does not make it necessarily difficult. I mean, McDonald’s is an amazing institution. It’s been around for many years … because it’s able to change and to adapt to new circumstances and new things that people are eating so I think I have a lot more confidence in McDonald’s, I guess, than you do.”
Ha! Check and mate.
What do U think about the proposed change to Happy Meals?
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