McDonald's sell more than 1/3 of all the French
fries sold in restaurants in the U.S. each year. |
McDonald's restaurants will buy 54,000,000 pounds of fresh
apples this year. Two years ago, McDonald's purchased 0 pounds
of apples. This is attributed to the shift to more healthy
menu options. |
Nearly one in eight workers in the US has at some time been
employed by McDonald's. |
In India the "Big Mac" is changed into the "Maharaja
Mac", a mutton burger in deference to religious injunctions
against the consumption of beef and pork. |
Sälen in Sweden opened the first SKI-THROUGH McDonald's
in the world. |
More than 50,000 students from all over the world have graduated
with "Bachelor of Hamburgerology" degrees from McDonald's "Hamburger
University. |
McDonald's three kosher restaurants in Israel are the only
McDonald's in the world where you cannot buy a cheeseburger. |
Sarah Michelle Gellar was sued by McDonalds at the age of four.
She appeared in a Burger King advert where she said, “Do
I look 20 per cent smaller to you? I must have at McDonalds
because their hamburgers are 20 per cent smaller than Burger
King’s.” It was the first time a company used another
company’s name in an advert so McDonald’s sued
Burger King, the advertising agency, and Sarah herself. |
Since its founding in 1955, McDonald's has sold well over 100
billion hamburgers. |
The northernmost McDonald's restaurant is located on the Arctic
Circle in Rovaniemi, Finland, while the southernmost franchise
is located in Invercargill, New Zealand. Also, the world's
easternmost McDonald's is located in New Zealand, in the city
of Gisborne; the westernmost restaurant is in Western Samoa,
as they are the closest to either side of the International
date line.
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