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TOKYO — A promotion at Japanese McDonald's may be more trouble than it is worth.
Participating McDonald's throughout Japan are currently running a special on French fries that apparently is too good to pass up: French fries for what comes out to be 24 cents.
The deal has inspired kids to throw "potato parties" at the restaurants. Groups of students go to a restaurant and order "insane amounts of fries," according to the Japan Daily Press, and have to consume all of them before they leave.
The parties are not going over well in many of the restaurants, as the parties take up valuable table space and cause crowding as bystanders observe the groups.
"An employee said that during 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., the restaurant's busiest period, the kids ordering so many fries limited what the other guests could order thus causing poor business," the press quoted one employee as saying.
The deal on fries was ongoing through October and ends Nov. 2, so the restaurants could see a quick decline of the fad.
