McDonald’s suffered the worst decline in sales in the United States since 2020, warning

McDonald’s reported on the worst quarterly turnover for the United States since the highlight of the pandemic in 2020, the latest restaurant chain, which is affected by the turbulent economic environment.

The burger giant reported sales with the same business in the United States by 3.6%, the largest three-month drop since the second quarter of 2020 when they dived 8.7%. The forecasts had a decline of only 1.7%.

“Consumers are now apart with uncertainty,” said Chris Kempczinski, chairman and CEO of McDonald’s, in an explanation when the chain quoted the lower guests.

In a follow-up call with investors, McDonald’s executives said that traffic between the guests with medium incomes with a persistent decline in the low income was almost twice as high as “almost double-digit”. As an example, they said that more people seem to skip breakfast exclusively in order to contain the expenses or have breakfast at home.

“People only visit less,” they said.

Meanwhile, traffic with high incomes remained stable, they said.

This reflects the economy that has been capitalized: While fewer consumers allow the transactions to focus on the bare essentials, wealthy consumers continue to emit freely.

McDonald’s is the latest restaurant chain that reports weak financial results because consumers withdraw the discretionary expenses. Chipotle, Domino, Pizza Hut, Shake Shack and Starbucks recorded a slowdown or falling sales in their quarter, and many quoted special weaknesses among consumers with lower incomes.

McDonald’s also reported income that missed forecasts for the third time in four quarters.

The more volatile economic environment, which was accelerated by President Donald Trump’s tariffs, will also be felt abroad.

When calling, company officials said that the McDonald’s brand was not affected by the worsening of the US perceptions by consumers overseas, but their internal surveys had taken up a remarkable increase in the anti -American mood in Northern Europe and Canada.

“We saw … an increase in people in various markets that state that they will reduce the purchase of American brands,” they said.

Nevertheless, the financial prospects of the year, including the plans for the opening of 2,200 locations, claimed, which, according to sales growth, should increase by more than 2%. It was said that an advertising company with the “Minecraft film” was a hit, and the refreshing value offers continued to position him compared to competitors.

Nevertheless, the officials said when calling that they stayed “carefully because of the consumer”.

McDonald’s shares ended the day by almost 2%.