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Chicken nuggets used to be prom kings. Now, they&rsquo;re sitting alone at lunch. While Americans ate 2.3 billion servings of nuggets in restaurants last year, the item has begun declining in popularity and disappearing from menus, according to a recent story by <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/18/chicken-nugget-demand-is-flatlining--heres-what-happened.html?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=why-arent-chicken-nuggets-popular-anymore-2709453" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">CNBC</a>. But why? 
 
CNBC reports that while conducting an informal poll in Times Square, &ldquo;no one knew exactly what is in a chicken nugget.&rdquo; Perhaps the childhood favorite hasn&rsquo;t recovered from the <a href="https://newfoodeconomy.org/bpi-pink-slime-ground-beef-usda-reclassifed/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=why-arent-chicken-nuggets-popular-anymore-2709453" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">since-debunked &ldquo;pink slime&rdquo; debacle of 2012</a>. Maybe the food item has been backed into a corner of stagnation, unable to update what it means for chicken to be a nugget. After all, competition like chicken strips and chicken fingers have a more sophisticated reputation in addition to a higher profit margin. 
 
&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t really see how they&rsquo;re going to make a comeback in the future because it&rsquo;s not a product that most restaurants, especially in fast food, drive their innovation around,&rdquo; said Dean Small, CEO of Synergy Restaurant Consultants in the article. &ldquo;Chicken nuggets are an incremental purchase, it&rsquo;s like an add-on.&rdquo; 
 
Read the full article on CNBC <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/18/chicken-nugget-demand-is-flatlining--heres-what-happened.html?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=why-arent-chicken-nuggets-popular-anymore-2709453" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">here</a>.

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