{"id":251234,"date":"2017-04-28T06:06:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T20:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=251234"},"modified":"2017-04-28T06:06:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T20:06:27","slug":"mcdonalds-saipan-adds-10-new-sandwiches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mcdonalds-saipan-adds-10-new-sandwiches\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s Saipan adds up to 10 new sandwiches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-251234 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mcdonalds-saipan-adds-10-new-sandwiches\/mcdonalds-pix-1\/'>McDonald's-pix-1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-251239'>\n\t\t\t\tMcDonald\u2019s Saipan Middle Road Branch manager Joe Ayuyu Jr. poses with the new uniform associated with the new menu items McDonald\u2019s Saipan is offering. (Kimberly A. Bautista)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mcdonalds-saipan-adds-10-new-sandwiches\/mcdonalds-pix-2-2\/'>McDonald's-pix-2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-251240'>\n\t\t\t\tMcDonald\u2019s Saipan Middle Road manager Joe Ayuyu Jr. prepares to take a bite out of his creation, a sandwich that had an artisan bun with maple seasoned bacon, dijon mustard, grilled onions, white cheddar, and lettuce. (Erwin Encinares)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>When combined, the words \u201cfast\u201d and \u201cfood\u201d are more often associated to the largest restaurant chain in the world\u2014McDonald\u2019s. McDonald\u2019s Saipan, however, is stepping up its game with new additions that are highly customizable for maximum customer satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p>With McDonald\u2019s Saipan\u2019s all new Signature Crafted recipes, one may fully customize a sandwich based on a set of choices with one of two special sauces, a choice of fried or grilled chicken or a quarter pound pure-beef patty, either artisan or sesame seed buns, and the choice to make the order a meal complete with medium fries and a medium drink.<\/p>\n<p>The customer chooses between one of two special sauces. All in all, there are about 10 special sauces; two of which McDonald\u2019s Middle Road branch general manager Joe Ayuyu Jr. may include a sriracha-based sauce and the highly favored mushroom swiss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has a lot of customization,\u201d said Ayuyu.<\/p>\n<p>Ayuyu mentioned that the two sauces would be rotated every few months. The first two sauces to be featured in the McDonald\u2019s core menu is the applewood-smoked bacon in sweet barbecue sauce with grilled and crispy onions and white cheddar.<\/p>\n<p>The other sauce is bacon covered with maple seasoning, Dijon mustard, grilled onions, white cheddar, and lettuce.<\/p>\n<p>Both sauces gave a good and satisfying mixture of sweet and savory, along with a pleasing combination of textures, more magnified by the pure-beef patty variant. A soft and juicy beef patty harmoniously working the taste buds with the sweet and crispy bacon and special sweet barbecue sauce. <\/p>\n<p>After picking the sauces, customers get to choose the protein of the sandwich. The protein, or the meat, comes in three variants, namely the quarter pound beef, buttermilk crispy chicken, or the artisan grilled chicken. Following the protein selection, customers are asked to choose between an artisan bun and a sesame seed bun before being presented the option to make the order a meal with medium fries and a medium drink.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ayuyu, McDonald\u2019s sees a trend in people that are more into choices, a decision that seemed to have benefit the restaurant, as since it\u2019s first day of adding the Signature Craft recipes to the menu, there has been a good reception of the product.<\/p>\n<p>Ayuyu did mention though that there were at least two limiting factors to the whole concept: the expiration dates of foreign produce if not sold and the lengthy service time due to the thinking process associated with the selection of ingredients.<\/p>\n<p>To combat these issues, McDonald\u2019s would be rotating sauces as well as providing customers interested in ordering a custom sandwich a small sheet with checkboxes indicating which ingredients a customers would like to order.<\/p>\n<p>The Signature Crafted sandwiches have been available since last week and are offered at both the Middle Road and Beach Road branches of McDonald\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When combined, the words \u201cfast\u201d and \u201cfood\u201d are more often associated to the largest restaurant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":251239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[160,4218,1306,16580],"class_list":["post-251234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-beach-road","tag-joe-ayuyu-jr","tag-middle-road","tag-signature-crafted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}