$18 Big Mac Is the ‘Exception,’ Not the Rule, Top Suit Says in Open Letter

The president of McDonald’s isn’t happy with recent reports that the company has been hiking its prices beyond the rate of inflation, insisting in a rare open letter to “our U.S. fans” that reports of its runaway fast food pricing have been greatly exaggerated.

That’s not to say that $18 Big Macs don’t exist, according to the Wednesday letter penned by Joe Erlinger. It’s just that they were only sold at “one location in the U.S. out of more than 13,700.”

Erlinger said it frustrated and worried him that this had been picked up and spun into “viral social posts and poorly sourced reports,” and that many people now seem to believe “that this is the rule and not the exception.”

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