McDonald's Is Experiencing a Shortage of Fries

In addition to global supply chain issues and the pandemic, flooding at a Vancouver port has affected McDonald's fry potato exports.

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Flooding will hinder shipments, affecting Japan's fry supply, according to Bloomberg. Only tiny fries are available at the 2,900 McDonald's

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outlets in the biggest international market. The chain aims to have supplies restored by the new year to supply medium and big sizes

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McDonald's Holdings Company Japan is using planes to carry fries to address the shortfall,

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according to The New York Post. The firm is also discounting big or medium French fry dinners by 44 cents.

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McDonald's Japan uses only North American potatoes for its fries. This is not the first potato shortfall to impact global fry supply. According to

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NPR, poor growing weather reduced North American potato harvests by about 6% in 2019. Certain farmers lost a third of their potato crops that year.

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This year's harvest was good, and Japan's French fry scarcity will disappear once shipping resumes. Reuters is mitigating the

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inconvenience caused by the Vancouver flooding and landslides, so a one-week shortage should be accurate.

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