date:Feb 01, 2013
rcent this year for its U.S. business, far less than the National Restaurant Association's expectation for 2013 wholesale food price inflation in the low 4 percent range.
But analysts are skeptical that McDonald's can control rising prices as well as it thinks, meaning there could be even more pressure on the McDouble's bottom line.
It's possible that they hit it, but I would say the odds are low that they hit it, Hedgeye Risk Management analyst Howard Penney said of McDonald's and its commodi