In this post, I predicted that one unintended consequence of shrinking the fry size in a Happy Meal and including fruit — for the sake of health — would be higher sales at McDonald’s as folks would choose to order extra fries to make up for the reduced size.
McDonald’s just reported a 7.4% surge in sale in November.
Of course, its press release makes no mention of the Happy Meal change as a driver of the sales. They claimed that the increase was caused by higher breakfast demand, the Peppermint Mocha and a McNugget promotion.
Could be.
All I know is that having contributed to press releases in the past, I know that reasons given for performance changes can be arbitrary and sometimes they can be hard even for the company analysts to decipher.
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