McDonald's Is Testing a Family-Sized Value Meal


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McDonald's is testing a family-sized meal package.

The Blitz Box contains two Quarter Pounders with cheese, two medium french fries, and 20 Chicken McNuggets, reports Burger Business. The meal, which comes boxed up like a Happy Meal, is priced at $14.99.

McDonald's is testing the Blitz Box in Kansas City, Missouri, according to Burger Business.

Burger Business editor Scott Hume writes that while boxed multi-person meals have been popular at KFC for years, burger chains have been slower to try them out.

"Cold chicken is fine, but cold burgers are not," he writes. "But now the tight marketplace has convinced McDonald's to try it."

McDonald's is also testing a more expensive value menu because food price inflation has made items on the Dollar Menu less profitable, reports Leslie Patton at Bloomberg News.

A drought put pressure on the beef supply, making McDonald's $1 burger especially problematic.

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Two quarter pounders and 20 chicken nuggets (and chips).  This is aimed at 4 people right?

I would assume so. The average US family is 2 adults + 2 kids.

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McDonalds should start testing out a McDonalds all you can eat buffet! 

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I would assume so. The average US family is 2 adults + 2 kids.

 

So the parents get a quarterpounder with chips each, and the kids get 10 nuggets and chips each?

 

Why not 6 nuggets each??? (Sorry, in the UK, not sure elsewhere - 6 nuggets is the "standard" size).

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So the parents get a quarterpounder with chips each, and the kids get 10 nuggets and chips each?

 

Why not 6 nuggets each??? (Sorry, in the UK, not sure elsewhere - 6 nuggets is the "standard" size).

Its better that way.

 

With children portions of chicken nuggets, they also serve fries.

 

None of it is good for you, but 10 chicken nuggets is healthier than 6 nuggets and a serving of fries.

 

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Not by much though.

6 piece mcnugget w/ small fries = 510 cal

10 piece mcnugget = 470.

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Ding-dong! May I interject for a second? As a Burger Shack employee for the past three years, if there's one thing I've learned, it's that if you're craving White Castle, the burgers here just don't cut it. In fact, just thinking about those tender little White Castle burgers with those little, itty-bitty grilled onions that just explode in your mouth like flavor crystals every time you bite into one... just makes me want to burn this mother######er down. Come on, Pookie, let's burn this mother######er down! Come on, Pookie! Let's burn it, Pookie! Let's burn this mother######er down! Let's burn it down! Let's burn it! So you guys maybe should just suck it up and go to White Castle.

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Interesting, in Australia we had this introduced about two years ago and it has recently come back again. I always loved this idea of the meal deal because for the AU$20 chicken family meal you get 2 McChicken Burgers, 2 x Chicken & Cheese burgers, 10 Chicken Mcbites, 2 x medium drinks\fries and 2 x small fries/fries. It's really good value for us as a regular McChicken meal is like AU$8.95
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These meal deals are a winner for me and my friends, so I imagine these will do quite well over there as well.

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 and they are part of junk food unless somehow McDonalds became healthy all of sudden..

 

You're not very good at this are you?

Are you telling me, that a family who takes their children to Maccas on a Friday, who are otherwise fit, are going to suffer a heart attack because of the McDonalds food they consume?  Just because Maccas isn't "good", doesn't mean no one should ever eat it.  Their food is fine in moderation.

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In fact, just thinking about those tender little White Castle burgers with those little, itty-bitty grilled onions that just explode in your mouth like flavor crystals every time you bite into one....So you guys maybe should just suck it up and go to White Castle.

White Castle's slider onions explode in more than my mouth. Please pass then Imodium AD :whistle:

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The dinner box in Australia consist of 2 big macs and 2 cheesburgers, 4 small fries, 4 small drinks and 6 nuggets- all for AUD$20. Its designed for 4 people, but I have only ever seen people eating it on their own or with a friend for a challenge lol.

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