It can be really distressing and disheartening when your favorite fast food item isn’t available, especially if you have to wait weeks to have your cheat meal. Sadly, in 2022 some fast food restaurants in America dropped a few customer favorites due to, among other things, poor demand, supply chain problems, and growing inflation.
Here is a list of fast foods we lost in 2022
1. Wendy’s Vanilla Frosty
The vanilla frosty is now being replaced with a peppermint frosty at Wendy’s. They offered their clients a strawberry-flavored frosty over the summer.
2. McDonald’s McRib
The McRib’s October return, according to a statement from McDonald’s, “maybe your final chance to sample it.” In 1981, the business added the customer favorite to menus in and around Kansas City; four years later, it removed it. But in recent years, it has developed a cult following among McDonald’s devotees. Prior to 2020, it was only offered at certain regional restaurants in the US.
3. Choco Taco
Choco Taco was removed in July of this year after being available on Klondike’s menus for more than 40 years. The business acknowledged in a statement that it had to make “extremely challenging decisions to assure the availability of the whole portfolio countrywide” due to “an unusual rise in demand throughout the portfolio.”
4. Burger King’s Ch’King
The Ch’King, a sandwich made with fried chicken at Burger King, was only available for about a year. The hand-breaded crispy chicken sandwich was introduced in May 2021 but was discontinued from major food chains only 15 months later. It appears that the time it took the workers to put it together was the cause, which is a major issue in a field where efficiency is essential.
5. Chili’s original chicken tenders
Chili’s had been serving the distinctive, tempura-battered chicken tenders since the 1980s. And the business made the decision to replace it in the fall of this year with Crispy Chicken Crispers, which resemble the original but deliver a crunchier & juicier taste. The company responded in a statement when questioned about the cause, saying that the “menu modification is part of their simplicity and growth goals to decrease complexity” for the staff.