{"id":39994,"date":"2021-12-22T12:29:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T03:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/22\/mcdonalds-rations-fries-in-japan-due-to-potato-shortage"},"modified":"2021-12-22T12:29:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T03:29:44","slug":"mcdonalds-rations-fries-in-japan-due-to-potato-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39994","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s rations fries in Japan due to potato shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19 and floods in Canada force fast-food company to sell only small-sized fries<\/p>\n<p>A new kind of chip shortage has hit Japanese supply chains, with McDonald\u2019s forced to ration fries as Covid-19 and floods in Canada squeeze potato imports.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald\u2019s Japan said it would only sell small-sized french fries for a week from Friday to avoid shortages. \u201cDue to large-scale flooding near the Port of Vancouver \u2026 and the global supply chain crunch caused by the coronavirus pandemic, there are delays in the supply of potatoes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/22\/mcdonalds-rations-fries-in-japan-due-to-potato-shortage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19 and floods in Canada force fast-food company to sell only small-sized friesA new kind of chip shortage has hit Japanese supply chains, with McDonald\u2019s forced to ration fries as Covid-19 and floods in Canada squeeze potato imports.McDonald\u2019s Ja&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,383,88,1074,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-food-drink-industry","category-japan","category-mcdonalds","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39995,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39994\/revisions\/39995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}