{"id":40319,"date":"2025-05-01T14:01:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/mcdonalds-posts-surprise-decline-in-global-sales-in-first-quarter\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T14:01:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:01:50","slug":"mcdonalds-posts-surprise-decline-in-global-sales-in-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/mcdonalds-posts-surprise-decline-in-global-sales-in-first-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s posts surprise decline in global sales in first quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firm was navigating \u2018toughest of market conditions\u2019 when Trump\u2019s tariffs worsened wallet pressures on consumers<\/p>\n<p>McDonald\u2019s posted a surprise decline in first-quarter global sales on Thursday, as demand from cash-strapped diners in its key markets faltered on uncertainty sparked by chaotic tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>The company was navigating the \u201ctoughest of market conditions\u201d, the company\u2019s CEO Chris Kempczinski said, as global comparable sales fell 1%, while analysts on average had estimated a 0.95% rise.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/may\/01\/mcdonalds-decline-global-sales-first-quarter\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firm was navigating \u2018toughest of market conditions\u2019 when Trump\u2019s tariffs worsened wallet pressures on consumers McDonald\u2019s posted a surprise decline in first-quarter global sales on Thursday, as demand from cash-strapped diners in its key markets faltered on uncertainty sparked by chaotic tariffs. The company was navigating the \u201ctoughest of market conditions\u201d, the company\u2019s CEO Chris &#8230; <a title=\"McDonald\u2019s posts surprise decline in global sales in first quarter\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/mcdonalds-posts-surprise-decline-in-global-sales-in-first-quarter\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about McDonald\u2019s posts surprise decline in global sales in first quarter\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}