McDonald's CEO's Big Arch taste test sparked a war of fast-food copycats [Yahoo! Finance]
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CEOs from rival fast food chains started posting their own taste tests to poke fun at Kempczinski. Despite its CEO being labeled cringey, McDonald's remains the center of the conversation. When McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski posted a taste test of the chain's new Big Arch burger, the internet had notes. Viewers mocked his buttoned-up delivery, his modest mouthful, and zeroed in on one word in particular: his description of the double-patty indulgence as a "product." Memes painted him as overly corporate and detached, more boardroom than drive-thru, and questioned whether he actually enjoyed the burger he was promoting. The clip didn't just spark ridicule. It set off a chain reaction across the fast-food industry. In the days since the clip went viral, rival CEOs from fast-food giants like Burger King to smaller chains like Ohio-based Gold Star Chili have posted their own taste-test videos, leaning hard into casual, messy, seemingly "authentic" reactions. What began as vir
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