page_title: Metro (restaurant chain)
section_title: Products
hierarchical_section_title: Metro (restaurant chain) / Products
caption_attribution_description: English: It's a year since McDonald's disappeared from Iceland, when the franchise was given up once the owner realised it would be cheaper to buy food locally. The three restaurants were renamed "Metro", but for a few months you could still buy a "Metro Happy Meal" with a "Metro Happy Meal toy" and a "Metro Flurry" ice cream in McDonald's boxes until the stock ran out. To celebrate the anniversary we went to buy a Randís, the ice cream you see here. We wanted to see one as earlier this year someone found they weren't quite as appetising as the marketing made out. Disappointingly, ours looked good and tasted good. No Iggy Pop lookalikes for us.
context_page_description: Metro is an Icelandic fast food restaurant chain. It replaced McDonald's after McDonald's left Iceland in October 30, 2009 due to 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis and high import tariff on imported ingredients which requires their prices of their products to increase, which the franchise holder, Lyst Hr., refused to raise prices in order to stay competitive with local restaurants who used ingredients sourced locally, hence the franchise owner decided to close down all McDonald’s operation and replaced with their own franchise, Metro. In contrast with McDonald's, Metro uses the cheaper locally supplied ingredients which can allow the product to sell for lower price.
  Some original McDonald's menu items are on the Metro menu along with domestic products, with menu items previously used on McDonald's now translated to Icelandic language.
context_section_description: Metro predominantly sells hamburgers, French fries, grilled chicken, chicken nuggets, mozzarella sticks, salads, wraps, soft drinks, milkshake, desserts and fruits.
  Metro's flagship product, Heimsborgari, is a hamburger that is equivalent to the McDonald's Big Mac.
  Since 2011, the menu has been revamped to meet the needs of healthy-conscious customers, as well as the regular customers. The revamped menu includes a new salad range such as Caesar salad and haystack, and the introduction of naan as a choice for wraps. In addition, Metro will now informs the customers regarding the calories of each foods offered to the customers.
  Despite the company's commitment to use the locally supplied ingredients and materials such as vegetables and meats, some ingredients such as breads, cheese and naan are imported from overseas instead.
caption: Randís, an ice cream offered from Metro
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