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For eons, he was very young child dreaming of finally standing a four feet proud high, theOfficial height requirement To play in a multicolored bullet pit at Ronald McDonald Park. But this little triumph in children may already be extinct.

For obvious reasons, McDonald's playplaces have been closed shutters for months. But in a new, extensive and in-depthmaintenance withTIME magazine, CEO Chris Kempczinski McDonald says that the integral part of this future anniversary restaurant once popular is in dark search.

"I do not know if we have ball pits in our future," Kempczinski said, when asked directly by the investigator if the chain of restaurants will "build ever pit ball again. "There are probably some good public health reasons does not belong to us a lot of ball pits."

It is probably a smart movement and for health reasons that go beyond containing the propagation of CVIV-19. According to researchpublished last year inTHE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL, Ball pits are a petri dish of germs. The researchers found that they contained more than 31 types of different bacteria. In a too dirty bullet pit, scientists have discovered only one ball contained 712.000 microorganisms.

"Collectively, these insects can cause sepsis, urinary tract infections, endocarditis (heart mucosa infection), meningitis, bloodstream infections, skin infections and pneumonia in children,"reported Online mail.

Take retire from the ball pit was only one of the many revelations that Kempczinski, which has gone up with the upper work of the last November restaurant chain, offered toTime.

He also revealed:

• McDonald has just released a 24 percent drop in quarterly revenues, which Kempczinski called "worst" in the history of society. He noted that part of the reason for this strong land gel was an obvious restaurant-stops the fact that McDonald donated $ 30 to $ 40 million from meals to front-line workers.
• McDonald's delivery is much larger than you imagined, responsible for nearly $ 4 billion in revenue. "We have a very solid and fast-growing delivery company," said Kempczinski. "In recent years, it has been a major growth driver for us. »
• Diners are Lovin 'old MCD school offers and are less inclined to experiment with new items right now. "The surprising thing is that the pandemic, consumers are graving on our main menu," he said. "You see in grocery shopping where the behavior of these brands that, in some cases, people have seen that a few years ago I used to eat soup, and now all of a sudden , people eate the soup again. You see a similar desire for confidence favorites ... Big Mac, Pounder, fries. They are less ready to try new things. They are less likely to go there and try a new fantasy hamburger at McDonald ".

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