McDonald’s to ration fries in Japan for a month due to supply problems

McDonald’s Japanese subsidiary has announced that, starting next Sunday and for about a month, Only the small format of french fries will serve on their menus as a consequence of supply problems and delays affecting the port of Vancouver (Canada), the main transit point for the company’s imports from North America.

In this way, as she was forced to do between December 24 and 30 of last year, the fast food restaurant chain will only serve ‘S size’ (small) potato chips on their menus.

“We suspended temporarily sales of sizes M and L (medium and large) from January 9 from 2022 (Sunday) for about a month, and we will only sell size S “, the company reported, adding that it is taking several measures to ensure a stable supply in the future, such as the organization of new distribution channels.

McDonald’s Japan has explained that it imports potatoes from North America on a large scale through the port of Vancouver, but shipments suffered. delays due to flood damage and to impact of coronavirus on the global distribution network.

In addition to the continued delay in imports, unforeseen circumstances such as cargo hold in Vancouver, problems caused by the effects of snow and bad weather en route and the postponement until mid-January of the shipping service scheduled for early a month has caused a further delay in the arrival of supplies.

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