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McDonald's executive takes aim at $17 Big Mac meal bought in Connecticut: 'Frustrates and worries me'

By Jordan Nathaniel Fenster, CT Insider
May 30, 2024



The prices of McDonald's menu items at a Interstate 95 service station. On Wednesday May 30, 2024 the CEO of the company issued a statement saying high prices at the station were the 'exception.'

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The president of McDonald’s this week served what he called "a side of facts," taking aim at claims of high prices at restaurants across the country, and saying that a nearly $17 Big Mac meal bought in Connecticut was an aberration.

“I can tell you that it frustrates and worries me, and many of our franchisees, when I hear about an $18 Big Mac meal being sold – even if it was at one location in the U.S. out of more than 13,700,” McDonald’s President Joe Erlinger wrote this week in a post on the company’s website.

That “one location” was a rest stop on I-95 in Darien, where a viral TikTok post showed a user buying a Big Mac Meal for $16.89. On Feb. 23, the Big Mac combo meal was priced at $17.59 on the McDonald's app.

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