![]() Keep the bacon, grilled onion and white Cheddar from the Clubhouse Angus and add lettuce, tomato and a shiny bun and you have…the Bacon Clubhouse.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: Now that the Angus patties are gone from McDonald’s, a quarter-pound patty is the largest on hand. ![]() Remove the steak and mustard sauces and you get the Clubhouse Angus that McDonald’s tested in 2012 in San Diego. It dates to 2011, when McDonald’s tested an English Pub Burger, using its third-pound Angus patty and topping it with Dijon mustard sauce, grilled onions, hickory-smoked bacon, white Cheddar and American cheeses and steak sauce. Of course, the Bacon Clubhouse really is just another Quarter Pounder variation, made a little different by the first-time use of the Big Mac’s iconic special sauce on another sandwich.īut the burger’s grilled-onion-and-bacon lineage is interesting. The sandwich is priced at $4.39 to $4.69 and officially joins the menu March 10. ![]() The sandwich was initially tipped on the GrubGrade site. Served on our artisan roll.” The chicken version can be ordered with crispy or grilled chicken. McDonald’s describes the Bacon Clubhouse as “Thick-cut Applewood smoked bacon, caramelized grilled onions, white Cheddar, crisp leaf lettuce and fresh tomato, all lovingly layered on a quarter pound of 100% pure beef, then topped with Big Mac special sauce. McDonald’s next week will introduce premium-price Bacon Clubhouse beef and chicken burgers in an attempt to regain its pricing equilibrium after a long spell of Dollar Menu & More budget-price promotion. ![]() We hope you’ll enjoy starting the journey with us soon. (They listened intently and took notes.) He put everything ahead of his own well-being, Sara says, with “a generosity of time that we don’t know in North America.”Our reporters’ work will take you to the Arctic, the Caribbean, Europe, and South Asia. They saw the power in his seemingly modest steps: helping random young people on the street, explaining green hydrogen to a group of kids in a poor neighborhood. Deon showed Sara and Melanie the one-room home he shares with his mother. He’s going somewhere big, but it’s not linear, in his outlook.”Trust grew. It’s a metaphor for his work: It’s the long game. Sara’s first interview with Deon sprawled, leaving her with doubts.“Then, the next day,” she says, “I listened to my recording and realized he was teaching me a lesson – that you can’t get all the answers at once or get everything right away. They often don’t tell their stories the way an American reporter may anticipate – which can demand extraordinary patience to allow a story to emerge.That’s what happened in Namibia. Sara and photographer Melanie Stetson Freeman had interviewed him only weeks earlier in Namibia, and we were all excited about the recognition of someone who tenaciously, without immediate reward, chips away at barriers to progress.Sara, Melanie, writer Stephanie Hanes, photographer Alfredo Sosa, and senior editor Clara Germani are preparing a global series – launching in November – about the generation born into the climate crisis and now driving transformation, innovation, and progress.In this season of climate conferences, it’s powerful to hear about the work of young people effecting change in extraordinarily diverse ways. “Look at Deon on the stage (far right of screen)!”In an emoji-and-exclamation-point-laden exchange among Monitor colleagues last week, correspondent Sara Miller Llana shared the image of young Namibian delegate Deon Shekuza on center stage at the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya.
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