McDonald’s CEO warns of hit from boycotts | BBC News

Let’s stay in the Middle East because the boss of McDonald’s has said that the fast food giant is seeing a meaningful hit to its business because customers in the region and elsewhere have been boycotting the chain for its perceived support of Israel with more here’s the BBC’s Michelle flurry in New York some

Major Western brands have found themselves hit by Grassroots often unplanned boycotts because of their stance on the Israel Palestine conflict and this includes McDonald’s the burger chain became a Target after voting phot and videos on social media showed franchise stores in Israel giving away thousands of free meals to the members

Of the Israeli military and this led to calls for boycotts of the brand by those angered by Israel’s military response in Gaza while owners in Muslim majority countries such as Kuwait Malaysia and Pakistan will they put out statements distancing themselves in a message on LinkedIn McDonald’s CEO Chris Kinski

Wrote that the burger chain is experiencing a meaningful business impact due due to the war and Associated misinformation all of this in the Middle East and Beyond because of the war in Gaza he added this is disheartening and ill-founded pointing out that many of the restaurants are operated by local

Owners M what he didn’t do is elaborate on the scale of the impact but McDonald’s has around 2,000 restaurants in the region and McDonald’s isn’t the only Global brand to face controversy over its response others include Starbucks and unil lver showing how tough it is for companies to navigate

Such a politically charged conflict

McDonald’s said it was seeing a “meaningful” hit to business, as customers in the Middle East and elsewhere boycott the firm for its perceived support of Israel.

Chief executive Chris Kempczinski acknowledged the impact in a LinkedIn post, blaming the backlash on “misinformation”.

In the weeks following the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 last year, McDonald’s Israel said it had given away thousands of free meals to members of the Israeli military.

The moves sparked grassroots calls for boycotts of the brand by those angered by Israel’s military response in Gaza.

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46 comments

  17. McDonalds is supporting Israel, and people are boycotting it? Time to go buy me more BigMacs.

    I find the line “angered by Israels military response in Gaza” funny. Like they just want a country to lay down and take the hits and do nothing. Bunch of pakichodes

  18. I won't buy the shit because of the prices. Mcdonalds have forgotten their place. They were good FOR THE PRICE. My fuckin dollar cheese burger is almost 2 dollars now. Dog. Shit.

  21. Here's the thing if you're in business and you want to stay in business just shut your mouth you don't have to f**** have any type of standing on anything either way just shut your f**** mouth you're responsible for your shareholders

  22. If I owned all of the McDonald franchises in the middle east or simply in Muslim majority countries, I would not waste corporate time or image on satisfying the many views of those countries. Muslims are only slightly different than any other religious groups, you can put a hundred believers of any religion in a room and interview them and you will get a hundred different opinions. With Muslims however, you have to interview them separately in 100 different rooms to get 100 different opinions. They lose all sense of individual thought when you put them in the same room.

  23. Keep boycotting. The sad thing is our governments would respond quicker to corporations calling for a ceasefire than there own citizens today.

  29. No business is entitled to our patronage. They can cry all they want. It’s our decision if we want to buy their shitty food and the reasons are our own.

  31. its called a boycott for a reason! these CEO are garbage human beings, workers are chump change to them while they sit do nothing and get paid millions.

  38. Governments in "first worlds" should consider heavy tax on all junk foods, same way they did on tobaccos and redirect the fund to subsise healthier food options to prevent epidemics of various cancers, diabetes, hypertension and heart diseases, and save billions of dollars treating them.

  43. So it took him 80+ days of the war on Gaza to announce that MacDonald-local-owners are supporting Israel by themselves……Nop, we'll keep boycotting.

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