McDonald’s is adding six items back on to its menu next week – and 1,000 restaurants will serve breakfast
MCDONALD’S is adding six items to its reduced menu next week, including milkshakes and mayo chicken sandwiches.
The fast food chain is also bringing back the bacon mayo chicken, hot chocolate, bacon double cheeseburger and Happy Meal organic milk bottles.
McDonald's confirmed these items will reappear on its menu from 11am on Wednesday, July 8.
It plans on adding more choices "over the summer" but stopped short of revealing which items will be coming back, and when.
Fan favourites that are still off the menu include the chicken legend, plus its entire range of wraps and salads.
You can read a full list of what items are still missing in the box below.
McDonald's reduced menu - what is being added?
MCDONALD'S is adding six items to its reduced menu.
Here's what's being added from July 8:
- Milkshakes
- Mayo chicken
- Bacon mayo chicken,
- Hot chocolate
- Bacon double cheeseburger
- Happy Meal organic milk bottles
What was already on the reduced menu?
- Cheeseburger
- Hamburger
- Double Cheeseburger
- Big Mac
- Quarter Pounder with Cheese
- McChicken Sandwich
- Filet-O-Fish
- Chicken McNuggets
- Chicken Selects
- Vegetable Deluxe
- Veggie Dippers
Sides & Desserts:
- Fries
- Mozzarella Dippers
- Core McFlurry (Oreo, Maltesers, Smarties)
- Fruit Bag
Drinks:
- Coke
- Diet Coke
- Coke Zero
- Fanta
- Sprite
- Oasis
- Black Coffee
- White Coffee
- Latte
- Cappuccino
- Espresso
- Flat White
- Tea
- Orange Juice
- Fruit Shoot
- Water
- Happy Meal Water
Happy Meal Variants:
- Happy Meal - Hamburger
- Happy Meal - Cheeseburger
- Happy Meal - Four Nuggets
- Happy Meal - Veggie Dippers
The update to its menu comes as McDonald's confirmed it's also expanding its breakfast selection to 1,000 restaurants, also on Wednesday, July 8.
The breakfast menu includes fan favourites such as McMuffins and hash browns, but there will be no porridge, bagels or breakfast wraps.
McDonald's has already brought back breakfast to 42 branches as part of an initial trial.
McDonald's reduced menu - what is still missing?
MCDONALD'S might be expanding its reduced menu, but there are still fan favourites that are temporarily unavailable.
This includes:
- Chicken Legend with Cool Mayo
- Chicken Legend with BBQ Sauce
- Chicken Legend with Hot & Spicy Mayo
- Grilled Chicken Salad
- Grilled Chicken and Bacon Salad
- Crispy Chicken Salad
- Crispy Chicken and Bacon Salad
- Side Salad
- The Spicy Veggie One
- The Fajita Chicken One
- The Garlic Mayo Chicken One
- The Sweet Chilli Chicken One
- The BBQ Chicken and Bacon One
McDonald's says its restaurants will also start to stay open for longer, with some returning to 24-hour opening times.
Initially, newly reopened McDonald's were open from 11am to 10pm but it started extending these opening times when it reintroduced breakfast.
Crucially, restaurants remain closed for dine-in orders, with McDonald's confirming today that they WON'T reopen on July 4.
This is despite Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirming that pubs and restaurants can reopen for customers to sit inside from that date.
McDonald's has also officially cancelled its Monopoly game, with the popular promotion not returning until 2021.
McDonald's temporarily shut all 1,350 restaurants on March 23.
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