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Like others have mentioned, I don't see this being successful. Unlike Burger King and Wendy's, McDonald's uses beef tallow in their fries, making vegetarians avoid them.

If the only appeal here is a subpar burger that you can't even get fries with, people are just gonna go elsewhere.

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McDonalds hasn’t used beef tallow in their fries for 20+ years.

[edit] this seems disputed. The ingredients list includes “natural beef flavor” which it says is wheat and milk derivatives.

To clarify: old school McD fries were fried in beef tallow at the restaurant. Now it’s vegetable oil at the restaurant, but are par-fried at the processing plant in vegetable oil with some “natural beef flavoring”

Yeah, the tallow and subsequently good fries of McDonalds ship sailed literal decades ago now.

On a lighter note, if you've yet to hear this news, I think you can officially say you're old now.

As your edit conveys, they still do use Beef Tallow.

The parent is at least tempering their statements with uncertainty. How is it that you are certain that they use beef tallow? Seems like a rather strong claim given that McDonalds doesn't appear to list their ingredients.

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