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Although their menu had expanded over the years, the restaurant chain was still a hamburger joint at its core, and the US government had just told people to eat fewer hamburgers. The company, now expanded to 6, stores across four continents, desperately sought a way to stay relevant in the rapidly shifting eating environment. The restaurant chain had tried and failed to add chicken items to their menu many times before, but in the late s they now had the services of Chef Rene Arend, who had once cooked dinner for the Queen of England.
Charged with saving the company, his first attempt at a chicken dish was a deep fried potpie. This failed in testing. Next came fried chicken, which, although delicious, could not compete in the already heavily saturated fried chicken market, which included the growing fast food powerhouse Kentucky Fried Chicken KFC.
Apparently giving up already on the difficult bird, Ray Kroc then asked Arend to shift his focus to making a bite-sized onion ring, an onion nugget. The very same day Arend cut up chicken into tiny chunks, battered it, and threw it in the deep-fryer.
This he called the Chicken McNugget, and it was love at first bite. The sauces they left up to Arend. Just five months after this casual hallway conversation with Arend, a prototype nugget hit stores in Tennessee for a blind test, and the product broke all previous sales records. Knowing full well how much Americans were now embracing chicken, from the moment every franchisee heard about the success of the nuggets in testing, they wanted them.
The instant they debuted in Chicken McNuggets were a global phenomenon. Contact us at letters time. By Emelyn Rude. Related Stories. America Needs to Get Back to Facts. Already a print subscriber? By CNN Newsource. Published November 10, AM. Related Articles. Leave a Reply Cancel reply You must be logged in to post a comment.
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