McDonald's saw US same-store sales fall in the second quarter even with its new value menu. Even middle-income consumers are pulling back now.

McDonald's has suffered its biggest drop in US sales since the height of Covid, a fall that it said was driven by wider concerns about the US economy. The world's largest burger chain's revenue at US stores open at least a year sank 3.

McDonald’s sales dropped in the beginning of this year, marking the second consecutive quarter of declines as customers pull back their spending amid economic uncertainty.

The Chinese accusations come after the White House revamped its COVID-19 information earlier this month to push out the assertion that COVID-19 leaked out of a lab in the Wuhan Institute of

China restated its case that Covid-19 may have originated in the United States in a white paper on its pandemic response released on Wednesday, after President Donald Trump’s administration blamed a lab leak in China.