Article: Consumers Like Burger King's Free Fries, McDonald's Reduced-Priced Burgers.(Originated from The Arizona Republic)

Jan. 5--For those whose New Year's resolutions included eating healthy and losing weight, "FryDay's" fast-food deals may have seemed like a cruel joke.

But others, no doubt, found Burger King's free french fries and McDonald's 29-cent hamburgers welcome respites from year-end financial pressures.

For most of the day Friday, people waited in drive-up lanes and lines inside stores to sample Burger King's new french fries, and to snag a bag of McDonald's familiar hamburgers at the bargain price. Limit of 10, please.

"Free FryDay" was part of a $70 million rollout of Burger King's new french fries at its 7,600 franchises around the ...

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