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The sky is falling! McDonald's in many places removes freshly brewed coffee!

Published: 2026-08-25 Author:

Last Updated: 2026/08/25, ▲ Click to pay attention| Daily Boutique Coffee Culture Magazine Coffee Workshop On McDonald's drink menu, freshly brewed coffee, as a classic variety throughout breakfast, lunch and dinner, has always been highly well-known. During the breakfast period from 7:00 to 10:00 every day, freshly brewed coffee can be refilled for free and there are countless McMann letters

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On the McDonald's beverage menu, fresh brewed coffee, as a classic variety throughout the morning, lunch and dinner, has always been highly known. During the breakfast period of 7: 00 to 10: 00 every day, fresh-brewed coffee can be refilled for free, which is a well-known welfare for countless Memens.

For many frugal office workers, bringing breakfast and a cup of freshly brewed coffee at McDonald's on the way to the office is an essential daily routine, sometimes adding another cup, or adding sugar and a milk ball. then go to sign in with hot coffee, saving both money and effort.

But recently, a Maimen breakfast party called "the sky is falling" because the freshly brewed coffee that I drank every day was quietly gone, and the menu also showed that it was sold out. When I asked the clerk that it had been taken off the shelves, and I heard that after each store had consumed the raw materials, it would be removed one after another. In other words, if she orders breakfast at McDonald's later, she will have to pay for the freshly ground McCaf é McCoffee category.

Coincidentally, on the social platform, another IP address shows that netizens in Liaoning, Anhui and Beijing have also posted posts that McDonald's no longer sells freshly brewed coffee, and the beverage menu can only see the options of soybean milk and wheat coffee. When I asked several McDonald's nearby, I found out that except for a few restaurants that did not have McCoffee, they all gave the answer of "freshly brewed coffee is off the shelves".

It is reported that freshly brewed coffee is a long-term product of McDonald's, which is made by dripping coffee powder. Back in 1990, McDonald's launched freshly brewed coffee in the Chinese market. Since then, McDonald's has sold more than 90 million cups of coffee a day, equivalent to one in 10 McDonald's customers will place an order for coffee.

Later, as McCaf é gradually rose to the top, in addition to appearing in the breakfast set meal, this cup of freshly brewed coffee also became rarely mentioned. Once it appeared, it was almost always sharp comments such as "more bitter than fate", "suffering through traditional Chinese medicine", "like drinking an ashtray" and so on.

As a result, some passers-by said they could not understand that McDonald's freshly brewed coffee was not delicious. Besides, nowadays there are many choices of coffee on the market, and there are all kinds of packaged breakfasts. If there is no fresh brewed coffee, it is better to change to another one.

Indeed, at present, domestic coffee shops can be seen everywhere, with all kinds of brands ranging from chain to boutique, and the price of a single cup has been rolled up to single digits, even with different joint names or new names every week. but for loyal fans of McDonald's (especially those with breakfast cards), you can get a delicious breakfast with coffee for about 10 yuan without having to travel to two places. Satiety and refreshing is what everyone pursues every weekday morning.

In addition to the refreshing purpose, when it comes to McDonald's freshly brewed coffee, it is really difficult for most people to associate it with "good flavor". There are only a handful of people who praise that it is delicious, but there are many people who are willing to order it. The reason is very simple. Because it is not only cheap enough, but also can be refilled, people who are not used to black coffee can also add sugar packets and cream balls according to their own taste to make it easier to taste. For those who are used to this "scorched fragrance", McDonald's cup of freshly brewed coffee is more like a memory than tasty or refreshing.

As more and more people talk about the "disappearance" of freshly brewed coffee, McDonald's employees recently said that the main purpose of removing freshly brewed coffee from the store is to increase the sales of wheat coffee. Customers can go to the store and ask for coffee if they order soy milk. The worker also said that recently, because of this problem, the store has also received a lot of complaints.

As for whether these stores will be back on the shelves of freshly brewed coffee, the wheat employee said he was not sure.

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