Pay for extra nuggets sauce: McDonald’s

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 ops@sg.mcd.com.

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.


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