McDonald's USA announces recipe, ingredient improvements to burgers

The Yahoo Finance Live team discusses planned changes to McDonald's burgers in the U.S.

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- All right. On the other side of things, if you're not getting in shape and you want burgers, well, we've got your story. If you were loving McDonald's already, it may be in for a big-time quality upgrade, the company announcing today some small but tasty improvements to the Big Mac, McDouble, and all their burger items. The updates include softer buns, cheese melted to perfection, onions added on the grill not after the fact, and more of everyone's favorite Big Mac sauce in every bite.

Not much of an investor story. The stock not much movement on this action. But some good news. Up just a bit. It was hovering around the neutral point all day long. But for customers of McDonald's, certainly some good news. And the marketing story here? The Hamburglar is back! He's back in the marketing profile, which excites me very much.

- I think this is important. Because look, people are tightening their belts. They are watching what they spend on, as I mentioned earlier. And even in this price point, even when you're talking about McDonald's. Because we know that the prices have been going up across the board, across all restaurant tiers. And so if you are going to spend the money on a burger, you want it to be-- I mean, you want that cheese to be warm. You want the onions to be grilled.

- Yeah, I-- Just as a burger connoisseur, I do notice a lot of times at McDonald's the cheese isn't melted. And that is worthless. You can't put the cheese on after the fact. And the onions the same thing. I think they're the problem here. And again, breaking down the burger. I lose a lot of sleep over this. The onions on the McDonald's burger always kind of were crunchy. And instead you want the flavor to seep into the burger. You don't want to crunch on those onions after the fact. So good news, I think, for fans of McDonald's. I don't know about the more sauce, though, on the Big Mac. That takes away from the flavor of the burger. But maybe they tried to mask it a little bit.

- They should hire you.

- I'm not sure.

- Dave as a connoisseur.

- Yes I got a lot of thoughts on this. I could write a novel.

- He needs to be talking to you.