The 13 Biggest Fast Food Menu Flops of All Time
Menu items that arrived with enormous advertising and left quietly. Some were bad ideas; some were fine ideas that broke the kitchen.
1Arch DeluxeMcDonald's 1996 burger for grown-up tastes, backed by an enormous ad campaign and gone by 2000.
2McDonald's PizzaFull-size pizzas baked in McDonald's kitchens in the 1990s, killed by the wait time.
3SatisfriesBurger King's lower-calorie crinkle fries, pulled from most restaurants within a year.
4McLean DeluxeMcDonald's 91% fat-free burger, bulked out with seaweed extract and unloved by customers.
5Burger King's Halloween WhopperA black-bunned Whopper that became famous for what it did to customers afterwards.
6Wendy's SuperbarAn all-you-can-eat buffet inside a burger chain, retired in the late 1990s.
7Domino's Oreo Dessert PizzaA pizza crust topped with crushed Oreos and icing, briefly sold nationwide.
8KFC Double DownA sandwich with fried chicken fillets instead of bread — a viral stunt more than a menu item.
9Colonel's Hot WingsOne of KFC's several failed attempts to win the wing market.
10Pizza Hut PriazzoA stuffed deep-dish pizza so slow to make it broke the kitchen, despite heavy marketing.
11Taco Bell Bell BeeferA sloppy-joe-style beef sandwich on a bun, quietly dropped from the menu.
12Burger King Enormous Omelet SandwichA breakfast sandwich with a calorie count that became a national news story.
13Jack in the Box FringsHalf fries, half onion rings in one carton — a novelty that never stuck.
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An inverted ranking where McDonald's holds three of the thirteen entries, starting with the 1996 Arch Deluxe and its burger for grown-up tastes: https://youpick.best/articles/mcdonalds-ranked-many-ways
Three of these thirteen flops were somebody's pizza, including the full-size pies McDonald's baked in the 1990s behind an eleven-minute wait: https://youpick.best/articles/pizza-ranked-many-ways
