McDonald’s Singapore has announced that it will be charging customers for additional packets of curry sauce and condiments requested, starting from January 2 next year. Call it a first-world problem, but it’s a widely known fact that Singaporeans’ love for curry sauce remains unmatched. And like many Maccas fans around the island, we too, are still processing the news.
To set the record straight, you’ll still get the usual sauces which come with the items you’ve ordered at no extra cost. For instance, four and six-piece nuggets entitle you to one tub of curry sauce; nine-piece nuggets get you two tubs; and 20-piece nuggets come with four tubs of curry sauce.
It’s just that additional sauces on top of the stipulated amounts will come with an extra charge – 50 cents for curry, BBQ, and honey mustard sauces; 70 cents for salad dressing; 50 cents for hotcakes syrup; and 50 cents for whipped butter.
To make things easier, refer to this Condiment Guide posted on McDonald’s customer care page on its website:
Frankly, a new sauce-rationing protocol from McDonald’s was not on our bingo card this year. Though if you really think about it, it isn’t all that bad. For the average nugget-lover, two tubs of curry sauce should be sufficient to get you through a nine-piece nugget meal. It’s only if you’re a serial dunker that you might want to consider using your sauces more sparingly from now on.
McDonald’s explains that its rationale for implementing extra charges on additional sauces is to “help manage food waste and rising food costs”, both of which are “ongoing challenges across the F&B industry”. And we’ve seen it all too often – or perhaps are even guilty of it ourselves – where extra sauce packets end up not being used and eventually discarded.
While this news might come as a shock to some, perhaps it’s also a due reminder for us to pay more attention to our eating habits, and to not bite off more than we can chew – yes, even when it comes to curry sauce.
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