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Sales at the company's U.S. restaurants open at
least 13 months fell 4 percent last month, after growing 0.4
percent in each of the two prior months.
February same-restaurant sales were down 4.4 percent in
McDonald's Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa (APMEA)
business, which includes China.
That was an improvement from the 12.6 percent drop in January,
as declines related to the food scandals in China and Japan
eased.
Analysts on average had estimated a 0.3 percent fall in the
company's worldwide same-restaurant sales in February, according
to analysts polled by research firm Consensus Metrix. That
included expected declines of 0.7 percent in the United States
and 3.1 percent in APMEA.
(Reporting by Sruthi Ramakrishnan in Bangalore and Lisa
Baertlein in Los Angeles; Editing by Savio D'Souza)
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