{"id":16225,"date":"2026-08-06T00:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T00:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=16225"},"modified":"2026-08-06T00:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T00:59:15","slug":"mcdonalds-profit-beats-estimates-but-us-sales-growth-stalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=16225","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s Profit Beats Estimates But US Sales Growth Stalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Article Notes. --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Content --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Wall Street loves McDonald\u2019s. But its CEO isn\u2019t celebrating with a Happy Meal. The chain earned $2.36 billion in the second quarter, beating Wall Street\u2019s adjusted earnings estimate, but same-store sales in the U.S. grew only 0.8%, a steep drop from last year\u2019s 2.5% increase, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mcdonalds-profit-economy-9b9ef2da69dc72451928176f17051126\">AP<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Chris Kempczinski said the company\u2019s strategy wasn\u2019t the issue. \u201cWe simply didn\u2019t execute at the level we needed to in the second quarter,\u201d he told investors on the earnings call. He pointed to inconsistent restaurant operations, underperforming marketing and a pullback in digital offers that left customers buying less or skipping purchases altogether.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald\u2019s plans to relaunch national digital deals next week and send more personalized offers to loyal customers. The company also named Skye Anderson as the new president of McDonald\u2019s USA, putting her in charge of turning the sales trend around.<\/p>\n<p><ent-results id=\"results\" class=\"ent-component\" is-article-embed=\"true\" should-update-url=\"false\" lead-source-type=\"article\" lead-source-id=\"444539\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/buying-a-franchise\/mcdonalds-profit-beat-expectations-but-its-ceo-is-still-unhappy-with-how-sales-grew-we-simply-didnt-execute\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street loves McDonald\u2019s. But its CEO isn\u2019t celebrating with a Happy Meal. The chain earned $2.36 billion in the second quarter, beating Wall Street\u2019s adjusted earnings estimate, but same-store sales in the U.S. grew only 0.8%, a steep drop from last year\u2019s 2.5% increase, AP reports. CEO Chris Kempczinski said the company\u2019s strategy wasn\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-green-brands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}