Breaking News: How McDonald’s ended up in a ‘fake cheese’ mess
The normalcy at the restaurant belied the crisis-fuelled tension palpable in the offices of Westlife Foodworld, less than a kilometre away. Westlife, through its subsidiary Hardcastle Restaurants Pvt. Ltd, operates more than 350 McDonald’s restaurants in 11 Indian states across west and south India. The company is incidentally also the upstairs neighbour of Mint’s Mumbai bureau.
A brief look at social media reveals the source of tension.
“If cheeseburgers, cheese nuggets, or cheesecakes are your go-to orders from #McDonalds, then there is news for you: the cheese is fake!" one prominent media house wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on 24 February.
“#Maharashtra FDA cracks down on #McDonalds, catches...