McDonald¡¯s Holdings Co. Japan will only offer french fries in small sizes from Friday after flooding at a Vancouver port and the coronavirus pandemic have cut off supply for one of its key offerings.

While the fast-food chain is trying to address the problem with alternative flights and is cooperating with suppliers and importers, it will only offer small-size french fries from Friday through Dec. 30. Elimination of the medium and large-size offerings was necessary ¡°to ensure that as many customers as possible will have continued access to our french fries.¡±

McDonald¡¯s hopes that supply issues that will affect its 2,900 outlets in Japan will be resolved by New Year¡¯s eve and said the move won¡¯t affect its hash brown offerings. Customers will get a ?50 (44 cents) discount on set items to reflect the smaller portion.

Set items at McDonald¡¯s come with a medium size portion of french fries and customers have the option of increasing or decreasing the size. At 74 grams and 225 calories a serving, the small size is about half the portion of the medium size offering.