McDonald's reduces combo meal prices to address consumer affordability concerns, offering $5 breakfast and $8 Big Mac specials as part of value strategy.

McDonald’s is slashing its combo meal prices — despite weeks of tussling with restaurant operators who pleaded that rising costs have made it difficult to sustain deals already on the menu. Its US franchisees have agreed to keep the cost of eight popular combos 15% below the sum of the individual items’ prices,