It was confirmed that the free onion topping, which was provided for free at Costco food courts in the United States, disappeared after the Corona 19 pandemic, but recently resumed service at some stores.
On the 15th (local time), US Fox Business quoted a video from a TikTok account and an internet community reddit, and reported that Costco stores in some parts of the US, such as California, Texas, Arizona, and Washington DC, are offering onion toppings.
Prior to this, a person presumed to be a Costco employee posted a picture of a memo reading “Costco Food Court Update: Chopped Onion Returns” on Reddit, an American community site, and received more than 11,600 enthusiastic responses and more than 700 comments.
Costco, which operates as a membership system, is popular because hot dogs sold in the food court can be added with finely chopped onion topping for less than $2 (about 2,660 won) for free.
In 2020, Costco closed its food court in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Even when the spread of COVID-19 slowed down and Costco gradually resumed its food court operations, free onion toppings were nowhere to be found.
Costco has not issued a statement about the long-term cessation of free onion topping, but a Costco spokesperson recently confirmed that “the onion topping service will resume soon.”
When the supply of onion was stopped in the United States, some Americans reacted with jealousy by sharing photos of onion toppings being served at Costco stores in Mexico and Japan.
It’s notable that Costco’s free onion toppings returned after the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Department of Health and Human Services ended the COVID-19 federal public health emergency on the 11th.
In March, Simon Holland, a shopping mall manager at Rival Dad Store in the US with 170,000 Twitter followers, joked, “The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over until Costco returns hot dogs with chopped onion toppings.” there is.
Source: Donga
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