McDonald’s Monopoly has been cancelled for the first time in 15 years

McDonald’s has confirmed that its popular monopoly promotion will be cancelled this year. 

Just when you thought 2020 couldn’t get any worse, the yearly McDonald’s Monopoly game is cancelled. 

It comes after McDonald’s actually confirmed that the Monopoly would be returning back on March 25th, however, shortly after the coronavirus lockdown came into effect and its restaurants closed across the country. 

A statement from McDonald’s UK & Ireland CEO Paul Pomroy said: “We took the decision to close our restaurants shortly before this year’s Monopoly promotion was due to launch. We know many of you enjoy this promotion, which has run since 2005 in the UK.”

He continued: “To enable safe working and social distancing inside our restaurants and to minimise the pressure on our employees, we have decided to cancel this year’s Monopoly VIP campaign.

“It creates a great deal of excitement inside our restaurants and relies heavily upon menu items we cannot safely reintroduce yet.

“Rest assured, we are already planning for Monopoly 2021 and hope to be able to bring this popular promotion back next Spring.”

Can it be 2021 already?!