{"id":35849,"date":"2025-10-20T08:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/mcdonalds-ceo-says-he-eats-at-the-chain-3-or-4-times-a-week\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T08:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:12:15","slug":"mcdonalds-ceo-says-he-eats-at-the-chain-3-or-4-times-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/mcdonalds-ceo-says-he-eats-at-the-chain-3-or-4-times-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s CEO says he eats at the chain &#8216;3 or 4 times a week&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68f57f255dbc4fd10dab2016?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Chris Kempczinski, here in 2017 at the McDonald&amp;apos;s corporate restaurant at what was then the company&amp;apos;s Oak Brook, Illinois, headquarters.\"\/><figcaption>Chris Kempczinski says he eats at McDonald&#039;s three to four times a week.<\/p>\n<p>Nuccio DiNuzzo\/Chicago Tribune\/Tribune News Service via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>McDonald&#039;s CEO Chris Kempczinski just told us how often he eats at the chain.<\/li>\n<li>He goes in for meals &quot;three or four times&quot; every week, he said.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Sometimes it might be a breakfast, sometimes it might be a lunch,&quot; he said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chris Kempczinski, CEO of McDonald&#039;s, just told us how many times he eats at the chain \u2014 and, in his words, it&#039;s &quot;a lot.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>In an Instagram reel posted this week, Kempczinski answered a question he said he was &quot;frequently asked&quot; on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;How often do I eat at McDonald&#039;s?&quot; Kempczinski said. &quot;I would tell you it&#039;s a lot.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Probably three or four times a week. Sometimes it might be a breakfast, sometimes it might be a lunch,&quot; Kempczinski said. &quot;But, hey, one of the perks of the job, you get to eat at McDonald&#039;s a lot.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, Kempczinski finds ways to stay trim. In October 2021, he made a LinkedIn post titled &quot;My Marathon Motivation: Supporting Others in Times of Need,&quot; in which he talked about how he&#039;s been running marathons since he was 22.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for McDonald&#039;s did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>Kempczinski became the CEO of McDonald&#039;s in November 2019. He replaced the company&#039;s former CEO, Steve Easterbrook, following an executive shake-up.<\/p>\n<p>Since taking over, Kempczinski has led McDonald&#039;s through the COVID-19 pandemic and years of inflation, and is now grappling with a more cost-conscious customer base.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald&#039;s has pushed out promotions targeting lower-income customers. That includes the $5 meal deal, a 2024 rollout that paid off in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald&#039;s did see a financial boost in this year&#039;s second quarter. Revenue was up 5%, to $6.84 billion. Global comparable sales also rose 3.8%, the company said, reporting a 2.5% increase in US same-store sales as well.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Kempczinski acknowledged in the company&#039;s Q2 earnings that the chain was facing challenges with foot traffic, &quot;as visits across the industry by low-income consumers once again declined by double digits versus the prior year period.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Kempczinski says he eats at McDonald&#039;s three to four times a week. Nuccio DiNuzzo\/Chicago Tribune\/Tribune News Service via Getty Images McDonald&#039;s CEO Chris Kempczinski just told us how often he eats at the chain. He goes in for meals &quot;three or four times&quot; every week, he said. &quot;Sometimes it might be a breakfast, sometimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}