CANBERRA: Good luck getting a late-morning McMuffin in Australia.
McDonald’s has lower breakfast service timings by 1-1/2 hours, the corporate mentioned, after a scarcity of eggs brought on by chicken flu outbreaks which have led to the slaughter of about 1.5 million chickens.
“Like many retailers, we’re fastidiously managing provide of eggs on account of present business challenges,” McDonald’s mentioned on Fb, including that from Tuesday it will cease serving breakfast at 10.30am as an alternative of the same old time of noon.
“We’re working arduous with our Aussie farmers and suppliers to return this again to regular as quickly as doable,” the quick meals firm mentioned.
Australia is battling outbreaks of several strains of highly pathogenic avian influenza which have struck 11 poultry amenities, most of them egg farms, in its southeast since Might.
Not one of the strains are the H5N1 variant of bird flu that has unfold via chicken and mammal populations worldwide, infecting billions of animals and a small variety of people.