Three Boeings to save the "French fries crisis" in Japan. Last week McDonald's had announced that in its fast food restaurants in the Asian country it would serve only small portions of French fries due to delays in supplies from North America and the global supply chain crisis due to the effects of the pandemic. All this had resulted in long queues outside the premises of the famous fast food to be able to grab the last portions of the much loved French fries.
Not only has the spread of the Omicron variant compromised the transport and supply system as in the rest of the world, but in this case the heavy rains that caused heavy flooding in the port of Vancouver, Canada, seem to have caused problems, blocking the supply chain.
To help the American shipping service Flexport which has chartered 3 Boeing 747s to be able to transport the necessary supplies of chips to the Japanese whose sales in maxi format should resume on December 31st. This was announced by the CEO of the company Ryan Petersen in a tweet.
This is not the first shortage of French fries in Japan. Already in December 2014 McDonald's had had to ration them due to another series of transport delays caused by union protests by about 20 North American port workers.
But the shortage of French fries isn't just affecting Japan. In New York, also the iconic burger restaurant JG Melon he found himself without enough to declare in an Instagram post that he had blocked the sales of his fries due to problems with the supply chain.
