Quarter Pounder Real Beef. The quarter-pounder increase comes amid higher beef prices nationwide. The new beef patties will be available in Quarter Pounders at most of its restaurants in the United States by sometime next year.
News of McDonald's move to fresh beef comes just two days after Chipotle announced it had removed the last remaining artificial ingredients from its menu with the.
The latest quarter-pounder moves provide more tangible evidence of just how McDonald's plans to turn around its struggling business.
On Monday, the fast-food giant announced that in the year since it swapped frozen for fresh beef in its Quarter Pounder, sales of the iconic burger. Will it be the springboard from which the burger chain will rise above, well, the constant mockery of Wendy's? "McDonald's new fresh-beef Quarter Pounder is hotter and juicier. McDonald's Quarter Pounder burgers will now be made with fresh beef, not frozen.