McDonald's plans to upgrade its core burger items, including the Big Mac and McDouble, by making minor changes such as softer buns, gooier cheese, and more sauce. Chef Chad Shafer, Senior Director of Culinary Innovation, states that small tweaks to their process add up to a big difference in flavor. These changes are designed to boost sales and improve customer satisfaction.
Vocabulary:
• Upgrading - improving or modernizing something
• Core - the most important or central part of something
• Boost - increase or improve
• Gooey - soft and sticky
• Patties - a flattened cake of minced or finely chopped food, especially meat
• Sear - brown the surface of (meat or fish) quickly with intense heat
• Flavorful - having a strong taste or aroma
• Mustard - a condiment made from the seeds of a plant of the cabbage family, typically mixed with vinegar, oil, and spices and used as a dressing or spread
Source: CNN News