{"id":670822,"date":"2026-01-03T08:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/670822\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T08:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:57:23","slug":"northern-irelands-biggest-mcdonalds-operators-see-pre-tax-profits-plunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/670822\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland\u2019s biggest McDonald\u2019s operators see pre-tax profits plunge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pre-tax profits drop in 2024 at NI's main McDonald's companies\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/McDonaldsNI-Graphic-ONLINE.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Pre-tax profits drop in 2024 at NI&#8217;s main McDonald&#8217;s companies<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Pre-tax profits have plunged at the top McDonald\u2019s operators in Northern Ireland, with one blaming rising overheads for 2024\u2019s poorer figures, Belfast Telegraph can reveal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But 2024 also brought the biggest surge in competition for McDonald\u2019s in years, with the arrival to NI of fried chicken purveyors Popeyes, Mary Brown\u2019s Chicken and Slim Chickens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pre-tax profits drop in 2024 at NI&#8217;s main McDonald&#8217;s companies Pre-tax profits have plunged at the top McDonald\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[778,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-670822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-margaret-canning","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115830341592906321","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}