McDonald's started modestly with two bothers from Manchester, New Hampshire
heading out to California to start a small barbecue restaurant in 1940.
Never could they have imagined that their humble business would turn into
a staple of pop culture for generations globally.
Here's Interesting Facts On McD's. Enjoy! :)
McDonald's calls people who eat a lot of their food 'heavy users'.
Seems appropriate if you think about it. In 2015, The number of customers
served daily by McDonald's was 69 million.
The average wait time at a McDonald's is 90 seconds. In 2017, the average wait
time at a McDonald's drive-thru was at 208.16 seconds.
In 1989, McDonald's used to sell Pizza. They decided against it
because the cooking time averaged 11 minutes and McDonald's wanted
to keep its reputation for fast service.
In 2015, The farthest away you could be from a McDonald's in the U.S was 107 miles.
It's in the state of South Dakota where you may be 107 miles away from a location
called McGriddle. As of 2017, There are 14,155 McDonald's in the US.
McDonalds and NASA once planned a joint advertised space mission to the asteroid 449
Hamburga. It ended up being cancelled last minute.
Back in 1968 McDonald's airlifted hamburgers to homesick U.S. Olympic
Athletes in France. Now in 2017, there are some 36,899 McDonalds in the world.
There are only about seven items on the McDonald's menu that contain no sugar.
McDonald's opens a new restaurant every four hours. There are 36,899
McDonalds in the world.
In 2015, the $8.7 billion in revenue from franchise stores alone, made
McDonald's richer than the entire country of Mongolia.
According to company estimates, one in every eight American workers
has been employed by McDonald's at some point in their life.
For over 30 years, there has been a fake McDonald's used only for commercials
and movies. It contains every uniform and furniture scheme for any market
in the world.
Each year, McDonald's buys over 3.4 billion pounds of potatoes and
claims to be the biggest consumer of that particular vegetable.
In Japan, Ronald McDonald is known as 'Donald McDonald' to make pronunciation
easier for the Japanese.
McDonald's has sold well over 100 billion hamburgers.
McDonald's employs over 1.5 million people globally.
McDonald's Caesar salad is actually more fattening than its hamburger.
The smallest McDonald's restaurant is only 492 square feet. It is in Tokyo, Japan.
The largest one is located in Beijing, China and is 28,000 square feet.
The most northerly located McDonald's restaurant is on the Arctic Circle in
Rovaniemi, Finland
In 2016, 100 countries around the world had a McDonald's restaurant.
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