{"id":15391,"date":"2025-02-26T22:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T22:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/bucking-trend-mcdonalds-vows-no-egg-surcharges-as-it-preps-1-egg-mcmuffin-day\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T22:00:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T22:00:25","slug":"bucking-trend-mcdonalds-vows-no-egg-surcharges-as-it-preps-1-egg-mcmuffin-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/bucking-trend-mcdonalds-vows-no-egg-surcharges-as-it-preps-1-egg-mcmuffin-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucking trend, McDonald\u2019s vows no egg surcharges as it preps $1 Egg McMuffin Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-graf\">McDonald\u2019s is leaning into its reputation as a breakfast value offering, vowing to reject a surcharge on meals with eggs while announcing a special one-day discount on Egg McMuffins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">The fast-food giant said in a release that to mark the 50th anniversary of its breakfast-menu cornerstone, customers on Sunday would be able to purchase an Egg McMuffin sandwich, as well as a Sausage McMuffin With Egg sandwich, through the McDonald\u2019s app for just $1.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">\u201cAt McDonald\u2019s, breakfast isn\u2019t just a meal; it\u2019s a cherished tradition and cornerstone of our brand,\u201d McDonald\u2019s USA President Joe Erlinger said Tuesday. \u201cEvery morning when we open our doors, we are a breakfast restaurant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">Coinciding with the release, a McDonald\u2019s executive emphasized in a LinkedIn post that the chain had no intention to charge customers extra for meals featuring eggs amid a nationwide shortage that has sent prices soaring and prompted at least two other national chains to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">\u2018Unlike others making news recently, you definitely WON\u2019T see McDonald\u2019s USA\u00a0issuing surcharges on eggs, which are 100% cage-free and sourced in the U.S.,\u2019 wrote Michael Gonda, McDonald\u2019s chief impact officer for North America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">The announcements come as McDonald\u2019s tries to leave a recent slump behind: Earlier this month, it reported its worst quarterly sales drop since the pandemic \u2014 but forecast improving results for 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark body-graf\">Year to date, its shares are up some 6%, outperforming broader market indexes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on NBC NEWS<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald\u2019s is leaning into its reputation as a breakfast value offering, vowing to reject a surcharge on meals with eggs while announcing a special one-day discount on Egg McMuffins. The fast-food giant said in a release that to mark the 50th anniversary of its breakfast-menu cornerstone, customers on Sunday would be able to purchase an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}