Last year, sales at US stores open at least 13 months jumped 13.8%, the largest annual increase since McDonald’s started reporting comparable sales in 1993, the company said Thursday.
McDonald’s, along with other restaurants, has been hiking prices as inflation grows.
McDonald’s said that its results “benefited from fewer restaurant closures and reduced Covid-related government restrictions compared with the prior year.”
But internationally, sales still suffered due to the pandemic.
In China, sales at stores open at least 13 months fell in the third-quarter because of a resurgence of the virus, the company said. In Australia, sales were flat for the quarter because of Covid-related government restrictions. Sales grew in international markets with fewer pandemic-related restaurant closures, like France, the UK,, Italy and Germany.
