Can you order lunch during breakfast mcdonalds

Sorry, Big Mac fans. You need to wait until 10:30 a.m. to place your order—at least, for now.

When McDonald’s introduced all-day breakfast in 2015, Egg McMuffin-lovers around the world rejoiced. Customers who preferred the rest of the menu, however, wondered if they would ever be able to eat their favorite meals at any time they pleased.

Currently, you can only buy McDonald’s burgers, nuggets, fries, and other non-breakfast sandwiches after 10:30 a.m. A company spokeswoman told the Wall Street Journal that “the demand isn’t strong enough to warrant running the burger grill in the morning,” despite thousands of customers tweeting for early-morning burgers. However, the real reason you can’t buy a Big Mac at 9 a.m. is a bit more nuanced.

According to Richard Widman, a former McDonald’s employee who worked with the company for 25 years, customers have been requesting burgers in the morning since 1972, when the Egg McMuffin was created. But as the breakfast menu expanded, access to kitchen equipment did not. Thus, the breakfast items and the “regular” menu items had to be cooked on the same equipment, but they couldn’t all be cooked at the same temperature. “There was no way to cook a hamburger at temperatures used for eggs,” Widman wrote, since cooking eggs at a high temperature makes them tough and cooking burger patties at a low temperature prevents them from searing. Here are 17 more things McDonald’s employees won’t tell you.

McDonald’s did not respond when Reader’s Digest reached out for comment on Widman’s explanation, but the company previously has cited practicalities with the equipment as a reason. In response to a consumer who asked about morning burgers in 2012, McDonald’s Canada wrote: “The reason we don’t offer burgers in the morning is the same reason that we can’t serve breakfast menu items all day long. There simply isn’t enough space on our grill surfaces to be cooking eggs, bacon, and our burger patties all at once.”

Of course, McDonald’s did solve that problem for the breakfast menu, but serving a full menu all day can also bring up other issues. Customers would likely deal with longer lines and wait-times (which they’ve already begun to experience since the all-day breakfast debut) and that could deter them from going to McDonald’s altogether. “We are always going to want to introduce initiatives that are attractive to customers, which are reflecting where customers want us to go and their changing tastes,” McDonald’s Chief Executive Steve Easterbrook has said, “but at the same time, how can we maintain that discipline of making sure we take as much out as we ever put into a restaurant?” Get a look at these 11 McDonald’s menu items that totally failed.

But all hope isn’t lost. In April 2018, McDonald’s launched an “All Day Favourites” menu in select regions of Australia and later rolled it out to the rest of the country. That means Australian customers can order a Big Mac, a Quarter Pounder, a cheeseburger, Chicken McNuggets, and fries whenever they want. If McDonald’s can successfully follow-through with this initiative without losing out on customer experience, Americans could be eating burgers and fries for breakfast in the not-so-distant future. Next, find out what the McDonald’s menu looked like the year you were born.

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There was much rejoicing earlier this year when McDonald's decided to grace us with all-day breakfast, which just about everyone agrees is a very good thing. As long as a McDonald's is open, you can walk in and get your Egg McMuffin or hash brown fix. But what if it's 8 a.m. and you're ready for a Big Mac? What time does McDonald's start serving lunch?

The vast majority of McDonald's locations are franchise-owned, meaning that the individual owners are able to set their own schedules based on what best suits their business. For this reason some locations are open 24 hours, and others open at 5 a.m. It's important to remember that there's a difference between the Breakfast Menu and the All-Day Breakfast Menu; the latter is more limited than the former, and during the hours that the full breakfast menu is being served (which is usually from 5 or 6 a.m. to about 10:30 a.m., the regular lunch menu isn't yet available. Though it's up to each franchise owner, most McDonald's begin serving lunch at about 10:30 a.m. 

McDonald's introduced breakfast in 1975 with the Egg McMuffin, and much has been made of their move to all-day breakfast offerings. Look no one's saying the McDonald's breakfast menu, set against its fast-food competition, is nothing short of exceptional. But sometimes you just want a burger. A juicy burger. It's telling that the Big Mac is still the best thing to order at Mickey D's.

Across the board, McDonald's gets lunch rolling at 10:30 a.m. Monday through Friday and 11 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays. This also means that you can order Happy Meals starting at those times too. It's OK, we won't judge.

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Can I get McDonalds lunch food for breakfast?

Can you order McDonald's breakfast and lunch at the same time? There is a magical time around 10:30 a.m. where you can get the McDonald's breakfast menu and the lunch menu at the same time. You won't be able to get both menus online, but if you ask in person, you should be able to order both at the same time.

Can I get burgers at McDonalds during breakfast?

There simply isn't enough space on our grill surfaces to be cooking eggs, bacon, and our burger patties all at once.” Of course, McDonald's did solve that problem for the breakfast menu, but serving a full menu all day can also bring up other issues.

Can you order regular food at McDonalds in the morning?

It's telling that the Big Mac is still the best thing to order at Mickey D's. Across the board, McDonald's gets lunch rolling at 10:30 a.m. Monday through Friday and 11 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays. This also means that you can order Happy Meals starting at those times too. It's OK, we won't judge.

Can I get fries from McDonalds during breakfast?

Unfortunately, if you're in the mood to have some fries with your McDonald's breakfast meal, you cannot. McDonald's do not start serving fries until after 11am when the normal menu starts along with burgers, nuggets and wraps.