{"id":8658,"date":"2025-08-07T09:26:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=8658"},"modified":"2025-08-07T09:26:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:26:30","slug":"mcdonalds-taps-nostalgia-vein-with-latest-mcdonaldland-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=8658","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s Taps Nostalgia Vein With Latest \u2018McDonaldland Meals\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Fast food chains have been seeing fewer customers lately. There\u2019s likely more than one reason for the current sales slump, but inflation and economic jitters from low\u2014and middle-income consumers seem to be mostly to\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/food\/2025\/05\/02\/mcdonalds-sales-drop-inflation-tariffs\/83408544007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blame<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lower same-store sales drive chains like McDonald\u2019s to get creative to prime the slumping sales pump. So it\u2019s little surprise that the Clown Prince of Hamburgers is experimenting with \u201cgrown-up\u201d Happy Meals to entice consumers again by tapping into McDonaldland nostalgia.<\/p>\n<p>The adult Happy Meal concept, which McDonald\u2019s last tried out in March as part of a tie-in\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mcdonalds.com\/ca\/en-ca\/newsroom\/article\/The-World-is-Yours-to-Build--McDonald-s-Unlocks-A-Minecraft-Movie-Meal-.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">promotion<\/a>\u00a0with the\u00a0<em>Minecraft<\/em>film, features full-size meal combos, special packaging, and collectables designed to appeal to adults rather than children.<\/p>\n<p><button id=\"expand-paywall-button\" class=\"expand-paywall-button\">Subscribe to Read More<\/button><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/mcdonalds-taps-nostalgia-vein-with-latest-mcdonaldland-meals\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast food chains have been seeing fewer customers lately. There\u2019s likely more than one reason for the current sales slump, but inflation and economic jitters from low\u2014and middle-income consumers seem to be mostly to\u00a0blame. Lower same-store sales drive chains like McDonald\u2019s to get creative to prime the slumping sales pump. So it\u2019s little surprise that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}