Pay for extra nuggets sauce: McDonald’s
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Be prepared to pay more for additional helpings of sauces for your McDonald’s McNuggets.
The fast food chain announced that as part of a month-long trial, it will charge 30 cents for every packet of nugget sauce customers ask for, on top of what they are already given.
Kevin Lim, McDonald’s Singapore communications manager, told Yahoo! Singapore that the trial, which started on Monday (25 June) in 30 McDonald’s restaurants including Bishan Junction 8, Bedok North and Bugis Junction, is aimed at preventing food wastage.
“We aim to find a fair solution for reducing wastage and believe the free allotment of sauce should meet the needs of the majority of our customers,” he added.
The chain has more than 115 restaurants island-wide.
In the trial, customers who buy a six-piece nuggets can get up to two packets of sauce free. For orders of nine-piece and 20-piece nuggets, the customers will get up to three or four packets. Thereafter, a charge of 30 cents will apply for every additional serving of the sauce.
Those who purchase other food items such as a meal, sandwich or fries will be given one unit of nugget sauce free on request, McDonald’s said. It added that the 30 cent charge will not apply to the other sauces the restaurants provide.
Customers with feedback on the trial are also welcomed to write to [email protected].
McDonald’s latest move has met with mixed reactions.
Republic Polytechnic student Justin Lam, said he is okay with paying extra for the sauces because "they are essential to eating nuggets".
Still, the 20-year-old, who eats at McDonald’s twice a week, suggested, "I don't think charging for sauces is a good way of managing wastage because it can deter people from going to McDonald’s. Using a sauce dispenser would be better.”
Another customer, 24-year-old student Zianna Zainal said, “It’s a good move to prevent wastage, I wouldn’t mind paying 30 cents for extra sauce. I’ve been travelling and it’s normal for McDonald’s outlets overseas to charge for sauces.”
“It makes McDonald’s more expensive but if it helps prevent wastage, it’s a good move,” she added.
But there are also some who are critical of the move to charge for extra sauces.
Housewife Nelly Ng, 31, who buys nuggets once a week for her husband and two daughters from the McDonald’s outlet in Bishan, described the 30 cents charge as “unjustified”.
“If I am already paying for the nuggets, then I should be given any amount of sauce I want. And what they are saying about wastage don’t apply to my family because we finish all the sauce everytime,” she said. -
You mean there are people who eat more than 4 packs of the sauce every visit?
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sianz.
i dont eat nuggets but i will ask for curry sauce and bbq sauce for my fries.
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In the future, Pay extra for straw and tissue -
BYO
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Originally posted by cassie:
BYO
No outside food and drinks allowed.
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Originally posted by charlize:
No outside food and drinks allowed.
surprisingly u never post "Times are bad". well done... something new for a change...
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Originally posted by Just_do_it_lah:
surprisingly u need post "Times are bad". well done... something new for a change...
Yeah.
Times are bad.
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KNS. I every meal confirm at least 2 curry sauce de. 1 for fries and 1 for burger.
like that everytime i eat mac need pay like 50cents more just for the sauce -.-"
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I always ask for bbq sauce when I order my meals with fries. They always hand me 2 packs, but I hand them 1 back, coz I only need one.
They should educate their farking staff about food wastage first before they try to educate their clients.
They can always integrate the dispenser solution for their nugget sauces like they do for chilli and ketchup, if their problem is food wastage.
But we know its not, they don't dare raise their prices for their value meals, so the next best thing they do is put a price tag on their most sought after commodity, coz its the next best way to make a quick buck.
Mcdonalds can go fark themselves. Coz the next thing they do is start charging per spurt of their chilli sauce dispenser.
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“If I am already paying for the nuggets, then I should be given any amount of sauce I want. And what they are saying about wastage don’t apply to my family because we finish all the sauce everytime,” she said.
Typical mind set of the Singaporean customer.
Just because of a few inconsiderates, all have to pay. Not only McDonalds, but also t hawker stalls, espcially with cut red chillis. They will take as much as possible, and all will claim they finish all.
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She thinks her nuggets is 10k a piece.
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nah i only go for chilli and curry sauce
usually they give mi 2 curry sauce... -
Can customers request a rebate of 60¢ if they wish to forgo their entitlement of two sauces, as they are pegged @ 30¢ each? Even steven for both parties!
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Hi everyone, many of you have written us with questions on the current Nugget Sauce trial and we appreciate all your feedback. This trial is currently ongoing in some of our restaurants in the north of Singapore, and our aim is not to sell sauce, but to find a way to reduce wastage. For example, if you order a 6pc Chicken McNuggets you can still get 2 units of sauce free, but if you want 3 or more units there’s a small charge. The majority of our customers don’t use that much sauce, and shouldn’t have to pay more.
(extracted from McD facebook pg)
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I'm extremely health conscious but i hope that the focus would not move to standard sauces like tomato/chilli. Otherwise, I'd bring my own sauces to Mcdonald.
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Originally posted by dangerboi:
I'm extremely health conscious but i hope that the focus would not move to standard sauces like tomato/chilli. Otherwise, I'd bring my own sauces to Mcdonald.
if you are health conscious, you would never step into McCrapper's
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depends on whether the trial is successful or not lor..
if successful then maybe they will extend it to their sauces, straws, napkins, etc..
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They are exploring the various extra sauce of income.
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u all can have mine
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I ish nose rike jiak MacD...
The curry sauce nose rike rast time le...
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the mcbites going at 1.50? i had a few recently at $2 each.
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Originally posted by the Bear:
Why is it pink?
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a bit OT but the BK i was at today ran outta mayo.