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NEW YORK, Jan 4 (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp is hoping 2021 is the year it cracks the crispy chicken sandwich by rolling out three different versions in the United States, as it takes on chains such as Restaurant Brands International's Popeyes for a share of the growing market.

The world's biggest burger chain confirmed to Reuters it plans to launch its crispy chicken sandwich in "classic", "deluxe" and "spicy" versions on Feb. 24. All will contain a new crispy white meat chicken fillet served with crinkle-cut pickles on a toasted, buttered potato roll.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: ↑Mon Jan 04, 2021 11:58 pm McDonald's to take on the crispy chicken market

Herb Washington, a former Oakland Athletics player who built the country’s largest Black-owned McDonald’s franchise operation, filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing the fast-food giant of systemic racial discrimination for its pattern of steering Black owners into restaurants in impoverished neighborhoods that yielded less profit, targeting them with unequal assessments that made it harder to renew their contracts, then pressuring them to sell to White owners.

Washington, 69, owned 27 McDonald’s restaurants in New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania during his four decades as a franchisee but alleged that the company began a campaign to drive him out in 2017 in retaliation for speaking out against the “predatory, racially biased steering practices” against Black franchisees. Today he owns 14 McDonald’s restaurants.

“While McDonald’s has joined the chorus of brands releasing hollow solidarity statements in support of Black Lives Matter and has launched a marketing campaign to profit from that movement, it has done nothing to change its own internal policies that perpetuate systemic racism by disadvantaging and squeezing out its Black franchise owners,” said the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Ohio.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: ↑Tue Jan 05, 2021 2:45 pm Covid casualty. McDonald's iconic Times Square location (never ate there) is closed for good.

Its Big Mac is recognized all around the globe.

kcmets wrote: ↑Tue Jan 05, 2021 7:45 am They lost me at buttered potato roll.

Wendy's used to have a pretty good chicken sandwich, but I haven't had one
in probably a decade or so.

Lefty Specialist wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 6:05 pm I'd eaten there in The Before Times. You ordered on the first floor and ate on the second. Bit of a party atmosphere to it, loud music and lots of tourists wondering where the hookers went.

kcmets wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 7:39 pm Just had two Deluxe Quarter Pounders with Cheese and some fries. Never had the deluxe;
add lettuce, tomatoes and something resembling mayonnaise. Not bad.

If I don't post tomorrow, send help.