💬 Quoted… ​​“This quarter, if I’m being honest, the theme was Grimace.”

On yesterday’s Q2 earnings call, McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski was singing the purple mascot’s praises while discussing results that topped Wall Street estimates on both earnings and revenue. Same-store sales grew 11.7% in the quarter vs. estimates of 9.2%, a gap the company largely attributed to the success of Grimace’s birthday month promotion.

• And while there’s still no news on whether Grimace will be coming back, another character from McDonald’s past definitely is. The fast-food giant revealed yesterday that it plans to open a spinoff restaurant chain called CosMc’s, after a robotic alien that appeared in a few of the company’s commercials in the late 1980s.

💒💰 Stat of the Day: $1,326 = The average per-person cost to attend a bachelor/bachelorette party in the US, per data from online review platform Trustpilot.

🤔 Did You Know?... The exact meaning of the letter p in the “pH” scale is unknown, since its creator never explained their reasoning. (The H stands for hydrogen.)

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