McDonald’s workers by chance warned clients of provide chain challenges (Image: @AlexMumOf2/ @JoelTaylorhack)
McDonald’s clients have been urged to not panic after some branches of the chain by chance warned of upcoming meals scarcity attributable to Brexit.
Indicators stating that lettuce and tomatoes is likely to be ‘lacking’ from some McDonald’s meals have been positioned within the home windows of eating places in Penge, south-east London, on Wednesday.
The notices blamed the potential shortages on ‘provide challenges following Brexit’ and urged any involved clients to contact a member of workers inside for additional info.
Many confused clients took photographs of the posters and shared them on social media, questioning why Brexit would affect McDonald’s and making jokes about objects on the menu.
The posters have been put up right this moment (Image: @AlexMumOf2)
One particular person tweeted: ‘Omg does that imply a BLT with out the LT? Brexit chaos’, whereas one other added: ‘Phew. The gherkin isn’t affected.. Thank goodness.’
McDonald’s have now confirmed that the notices have been distributed to eating places as a ‘contingency measure’ final week.
It warned lettuce and tomato may very well be lacking from the menu(Image: Twitter)
McDonald’s has since mentioned they don’t anticipate to be impacted by Brexit (Image: @JoelTaylorhack)
The corporate has since clarified with workers that indicators aren’t wanted, because the chain doesn’t anticipate any provide points attributable to Brexit.
In January 2019, McDonald’s joined different meals giants reminiscent of KFC, Lidl and Waitrose, in signing a letter to the federal government stating {that a} no deal Brexit would see them run out of contemporary meals.
The observe, organised by the British Retail Consortium, mentioned hundreds of thousands of shoppers may very well be hit by ‘vital disruption’ to produce chains of products. Boris Johnson introduced that the federal government had secured a Brexit deal on Christmas Eve.
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