Impossible Foods has abandoned its pursuit of McDonald’s for the time being. | Photo: Impossible Foods
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Impossible Foods just wants some time to focus on itself right now, okay?
Impossible Foods, the maker of plant-based beef patties (and now pork), is no longer trying to woo McDonald’s into serving its meatless burgers, Reuters reports. The issue apparently comes down to supply: the alternative meat startup can’t produce enough patties to partner with the world’s top fast-food chain.
“[I]t would be stupid for us to be vying for them right now,” Impossible Foods CEO Pat Brown said in an interview with Reuters. “Having more big customers right now doesn’t do us any good until we scale up production.” According to Brown, instead of trying to land the colossal McDonald’s deal, the company is currently working to more than double production.
Courting fast-food chains has been a critical part of Impossible Foods’ and rival Beyond Meat’s strategy to bring their plant-based wares to mass market. Impossible Foods partnered with Burger King last year to launch a soy-based Whopper nationwide, to continued success. Beyond Meat, meanwhile, has already teamed up with McDonald’s to test a pea-protein burger in Canada; McDonald’s announced on Wednesday that the trial would be expanding to 52 restaurants, signalling that if McDonald’s were to go all-in on plant-based, it might go with Beyond Meat.
Beyond Meat, on its part, is eager for the deal. “We would have to work with them on timing but, yes, we would be able to meet their demand globally,” the company’s chief growth officer Chuck Muth told Reuters.
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