The McDonald's Premium line is a group of products introduced by McDonald's in the spring of 2003. It includes the company's larger chicken burger, its salad line, and its coffee products. The burger are targeted at various demographic markets, the grilled chicken burger and salads are targeted at both the female and health-conscious demographic markets. [1] [2] The entire line is intended to bring in a larger, more affluent, adult audience seeking better quality products. [3]
McDonald's line of larger chicken burger (The Classic, Club and Ranch BLT) [4] were introduced in July 2005 as part of McDonald's menu revamp.
The classic includes Lettuce, Tomato, and Mayo. The Club also has Lettuce Tomato and Mayo, but also comes with Swiss cheese and bacon. The ranch BLT comes with a creamy ranch sauce, Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato.
All three can be chosen with either buttermilk crispy or grilled chicken and all are served on a honey wheat roll.
A Spicy Chicken burger, with chipotle spices in the breading, was part of the premium line for a limited time in 2006. It was made the same way as a Classic, but with ranch instead of mayo. The spicy Chicken was brought back temporarily in late 2008, but it was not part of the premium line. In 2011, the honey wheat roll for the burger was replaced with a whole grain bakery style bun to make the burger "more neutral" in flavor. The entire Premium Chicken burger line was replaced in 2015 by the Crispy Chicken Deluxe (in August renamed the Buttermilk Crispy Chicken burger) and the Grilled Chicken Deluxe, two burger that were part of the ill-fated Deluxe burger line in 1996 and have been slightly reformulated, meaning that they are now served on artisan rolls.
The Premium product line in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom includes McDonald's salad products. First introduced in March 2003, the salads all are a mixture of iceberg lettuce and a lettuce assortment (romaine, etc.), with cherry tomatoes and different toppings to differentiate them; Each salad is sold plain or topped with either a grilled or crispy chicken patty which has been chopped and added to the salad just prior to selling. The line includes varieties of Newman's Own salad dressing that are tailored for each type of salad. The line includes:
Additional dressing flavors offered include a low fat Italian dressing and low fat balsamic vinaigrette. [5]
The advertising for its chicken strips product has been modified so that the word Premium appears in its description in its print, online and broadcast media. The word is capitalized, which indicates its association with the line.
McDonald's stopped selling chicken selects in 2013, but they were brought back for a limited time promotion in March 2015 to combat McDonald's low sales.
In the United States McDonald's has upgraded its coffee line. In the Northeastern States coffee is sold under the Newman's Own brand. In 2007 McDonald's expanded the Premium coffee line to include flavored iced coffee. In 2008–2009 it was expanded once more to lattes, cappuccinos and mochas in the North American market.
The Premium coffee line is designed to compete in the high end coffee segment created by Peet's Coffee, specifically the international chains Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts and is advertised under the McCafé brand. [6]
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...McDonald's has persuaded millions of mostly female customers to buy its healthier, higher-priced salads.
New products, like McDonald's premium salads topped with hot chicken and Newman's Own salad dressing, will play a big role in efforts to attract consumers who have special concerns about health issues in their diet.
'We wanted to create something that reflects consumers' changing tastes, met their lifestyle needs, and was premium quality,' said Executive Chef Dan Coudreaut
