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Here in the Kitchener-Waterloo region of Ontario/Canada, the local McDonalds ran with Beyond Meat burgers for about a month (maybe April-ish)? From what I could
by corry 6y ago
Here in the Kitchener-Waterloo region of Ontario/Canada, the local McDonalds ran with Beyond Meat burgers for about a month (maybe April-ish)? From what I could tell, it was very successful (often sold-out, and anecdotally the workers told me that it was the most popular new thing they'd seen in a long time). For my family, we went from not having eaten McD's for years to getting it occasionally.
However, they stopped it suddenly. So the fam now goes to A&W since they have Beyond.
Anecdotal evidence that doing meatless right in fast food can be a driver of growth, higher margins, and bring back a key demographic that otherwise wouldn't dream of setting foot in there.
- ttul 6y agoThe A&W Beyond burger is amazing.
- abawany 6y agoYes, I was thrilled to see that A&W had Beyond Burgers in Canada. It is the sole reason they got my business multiple times when I used to visit that country.
- ckosidows 6y agoIs it only in Canada? We have an A&W in town and I never would have thought to go there. But if they have plant burgers I might.
- abawany 6y agoIt appears not to be the case: https://awrestaurants.com/food/burgers/AW https://awrestaurants.com/food/burgers/AW (https://awrestaurants.com/menu https://awrestaurants.com/menu). I think I have been to a US location once/ever in the previous decade but in Canada, I would often seek out their locations when I wanted lunch (Beyond Burger wrapped in lettuce).
- TheRealNGenius 6y agoread the first sentence on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26W_Restaurants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26W_Restaurants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26W_(Canada) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26W_(Canada)
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- Zenbit_UX 6y agoIf you want to really be blown away by plant based meat replacements at fast food restaurants the dark horse is KFC. Whatever they put into their plant based crispy chicken burger is shockingly good, they also turned it into popcorn chicken which is also delicious. It's too bad their restaurants are in such poor condition and their staff always seem to hate their lives... If not for that I'd probably go more.