McClatchy Newspapers
ATLANTA — McDonald’s is adding bone-in chicken wings to its menu in the Atlanta area, a move that could be big business for the poultry industry — including in Georgia, the nation’s No. 1 chicken producer.
The world’s largest burger chain — which often sells more chicken than its core product — is using Atlanta as a laboratory to test the wings because of its diverse population and a strong push from the Greater Atlanta McDonald’s Operators Association, the local franchisee group.
“We were very aggressive in pursuing that,” J.M. Owens, an Atlanta operator. . .