McDonald’s Hikes Prices in Japan on Higher Input Costs, Weaker Yen

McDonald’s Hikes Prices in Japan on Higher Input Costs, Weaker Yen
Customers are seen through the windows of a McDonald's store (top) in Tokyo, while others stand in line in front of cash registers, July 22, 2014. Yuya Shino/Reuters
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TOKYO—Japan’s McDonald’s fast food restaurants will raise prices on about 60 percent of its offerings to customers, fueled by rising input costs and exchange-rate fluctuations, the company said on Monday.

It marks the company’s second set of price increases this year as Japan grapples with inflationary pressures and a slide in the yen to a 24-year-low, making imported ingredients more expensive. The two rounds of hikes this year are the first since 2019.