WHO doesn’t love a McDonald’s breakfast to get them going for the day?
Whether your favourite menu choice is a classic sausage and egg McMuffin, sweet treat pancakes or the new muffin with jam, Brits have plenty of time to order a McDonald’s breakfast in the morning.
However, all McDonald’s restaurants around the UK are currently closed to diners and for takeaways under the government’s current coronavirus lockdown measures.
So if you want to get your Maccie’s morning fix, you’ll need to head to the drive-thru or opt for delivery.
What time does McDonald’s stop serving breakfast?
McDonald’s serves breakfast up until 11am in ALL it’s restaurants.
It used to switch to the lunchtime menu at 10:30am, but bosses added an extra 30 minutes to the breakfast offering in 2019.
Restaurants that are normally open 24 hours a day start serving breakfast from 6am.
However, current lockdown rules means restaurants must stop serving food at 11pm, so you won’t find a Maccies open throughout the night, unless it is at a motorway service station.
Every other restaurant kicks off the day with the breakfast menu at their normal opening times.
You can find out where your nearest branch is and what time it opens using the store locator tool.
What’s on the McDonald’s breakfast menu?
McDonald’s continues to offer a reduced menu since it reopening following the first lockdown back in March 2020.
At the time, it shut all 1,350 of its restaurants temporarily and when they reopened, they did not offer breakfast at first – but don’t worry, they do now.
But the popular breakfast bagels are still not back and some of the wraps Maccies previously offered are still missing from the menu.
There is a new addition to the breakfast menu though – the breakfast muffin with jam.
You can check out the full McDonald’s breakfast menu here.
How do I get McDonald’s breakfast?
All McDonald’s branches are currently closed for dine-ins and takeaway, so you’ll need to either head to the drive-thru or opt for delivery.
Some branches may also be running reduced opening hours so it’s worth checking before heading out.
Since the start of the pandemic, McDonald’s has introduced home delivery at hundreds more of its restaurants so you can get brekkie delivered directly to your door.
Orders can be made through Just Eat and Uber Eats but remember, you’ll have to pay a fee for delivery.
How much this costs depends on how far from the restaurant you live.
There is also an option to click and collect through the McDonald’s app, where you place your order and pay online and can pick it up via drive-thru.
Why doesn’t McDonald’s serve breakfast after 11am?
McDonald’s starts its normal menu from 11am each day.
They continue serving burgers, chicken nuggets and the rest of the normal menu right through until closing time, which will vary depending on your restaurant’s opening times.
Food on the normal menu and the breakfast menu can’t be cooked at the same time.
Breakfast food is cooked slightly differently and at different temperatures to burgers and fries and there’s not enough space to do both menus at once in the kitchens.
McDonald’s says on its website: “The 11am cut off enables us to accommodate our breakfast lovers, whilst allowing the customers who enjoy our main menu to get their food before 11:30am.”
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