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All-You-Can-Eat McDonald's French Fries Will Test the Triumph of the Human Spirit
One McDonald's in America is planning to serve endless fries as part of a grand opening promotion.
Brace yourselves, potato heads. McDonald's will soon test an all-you-can-eat French fry promotion for the grand opening of a newly rebuilt location.
Unfortunately, that location is in St. Joseph, Missouri — about 500 miles from Chicago.
The St. Joseph location is also slated to have Create Your Taste kiosks, like those at the Downers Grove West McDonald's, which allow customers to customize their orders on a large digital screen. The new restaurant will also have an interactive play area.
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McDonald's, headquartered in Oak Brook, has not yet responded to Patch's inquiry if an endless fry experiment will ever premiere closer to home. In the meantime, we're left wondering if the local franchise owners in St. Joseph know what they're getting into.
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Based on that experience, we can only fathom the crippling potato shortage that will befall Missouri when its "McDonald's of the future" opens in July.
For reference, a competitive eater named Bob Shoudt ate 7.9 pounds of Curley's French Fries in 10 minutes Curley's Fries Eating Championship on May 31, 2010, according to Major League Eating.
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