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Not even fast food giant McDonald's New Zealand is immune to the rising cost of food, especially for key burger ingredient beef.
Around 90 percent of the fast food chain's menu in its 170 restaurants across Aotearoa was sourced from local farms, and it spent $235 million on local produce in 2024, up from $218m in 2023 and $214m in 2022.
It exported more than $287m of local ingredients like beef, cheese and buns to its restaurants in export markets.
Aotearoa was now one of the chain's top six countries supplying beef for its restaurants globally.
Last year, the American-owned subsidiary used 6000 tonnes of locally-sourced beef for sale domestically, and it exported nearly 30,000 tonnes of
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