The Time When McDonald’s Tried to Get Into the Pizza Business

Daniel Ganninger
Knowledge Stew
Published in
4 min readAug 8, 2023

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McDonald’s is widely regarded as one of the world’s most successful fast food chains, but while the company has had many products that have been hits, such as the Quarter Pounder, Big Mac, Chicken McNuggets, and Egg McMuffin, it also had some duds. One of the company’s biggest product blunders came in the late 1980s when it tried to get in on the lucrative pizza market by making what…

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Daniel Ganninger
Knowledge Stew

The writer, editor, and chief lackey of Knowledge Stew and the Knowledge Stew line of trivia books. Connect at knowledgestew.com and danielganninger.com