By Praveen Paramasivam and Hilary Russ (Reuters) -McDonald’s Corp missed revenue and profit expectations on Thursday, as higher costs and tepid sales in its over 4,500 restaurants in Australia and China due to pandemic-led curbs ate into gains from growth in the United States in the fourth quarter. Operating costs rose 14% to $3.61 billion as supply chain bottlenecks led the world’s largest burger chain to spend more for ingredients such as chicken and beef, as well as packaging material. U.S. food and paper costs rose 4% in 2021 – a level the company expects to roughly double in 2022, it said…