McDonald’s Japan suspended sales of medium and large-size orders of French fries in mid-December, with the promise that this was only a temporary measure, until the end of the year. Unfortunately, a few days ago McDonald’s announced that the fry rationing measures will continue until approximately the end of January as a result of the continuing potato shortage.
Over last weekend, customers at some McDonald’s Japan branches started seeing poster-size notices informing them that the same conditions that have led to the fry rationing, flooding damage at the port of Vancouver and the continuing worldwide coronavirus pandemic disrupting their supply line of potatoes imported from North America, are forcing the chain to take their hashed browns, or “hash potato,” as they’re called in Japanese, off the menu.
