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In 1970, Americans spent on this meal $ 6 billion a year in 2001 - more than 110 billion. This is more than a college education, computers, cars. More than books, movies, magazines, newspapers, videos and music - together.

The average American eats three hamburgers and four servings of potatoes each week.

One in eight US workers used to work in "McDonald's».

"McDonald's" consumption of pork, beef and potatoes, most in the United States, chicken - a little less than fast food "Kentucky Chicken frayed».



Especially for "McDonalds" bred breed chickens with huge breasts, "Mr. MD." White breast meat is a popular dish on the menu, "Chicken McNuggets." It changed the entire industry production of chicken meat. Chicken began to sell not entirely as 20 years ago, and cut into pieces.

Golden arches "of McDonald's," according to psychologist Louis Cheskin - Freudian symbol. It is "a huge pair of breasts" Mother McDonalds ...

Two-thirds of all workers are no fast food chains 20. They work for a very small fee, performing simple operations.

Staff turnover in fast food - up to 400%. A typical worker leaves the cafe in 4 months. Among the employees a lot of teenagers from poor families and immigrants, particularly from Latin America, who know in English only the name of dishes on the menu.

Small wages and lack of labor protection is replaced by the creation of "team spirit" among the young workers. For a long time managers "McDonalds" taught how to properly praise subordinates and create the illusion of their indispensability. It's cheaper than raise wages.

Injuries in the staff in the young two-fold higher than in adults. Each year, crippled in their cafes 200,000 people.

Young Manpower likes to joke. Videos of fast food in Los Angeles showed that teenagers sneeze into the food, lick your fingers, pick your nose, extinguish cigarettes on products, drop them on the floor. In May 2000, three teenagers from the "Burger King" in New York City have been arrested for being about 8 months spat and urinated in the food. In mixers live cockroaches, and mice to climb at night left to defrost hamburger ... It is known that many employees do not eat fast food in your own cafe until we prepare their own portion.

The taste of the potato "McDonalds" everybody likes. Previously, he depended solely on the fat in which it roasted. For decades it was a mixture of 7% cottonseed oil and 93% beef fat. In 1990, people are up in arms against cholesterol, fast food and switched to 100% vegetable oil. But the taste is something needed to leave the same! Today, if you ask in the "McDonald's" information about the composition of food, at the end of a long list of modest look "natural flavoring". It is a universal explanation for why all the fast food is so delicious ...

Recipes potatoes and hamburgers can not be found in cookbooks and in the works of "Food Technology" and "Food Engineering". What we eat there over the last 40 years has changed more than in the previous 40 000. And the taste and smell of hamburgers and K is on a huge chemical plant in New Jersey.



About 90% of all the products that we buy, have been pretreated. Conservation and frost killed the natural taste of food. For the past 50 years, neither we nor fastfood could not live without chemical plants.

Work at the factory has become the most dangerous in America only the official figure is 40,000 injuries a year. US meat processing plants process up to 400 carcasses per hour, while in Europe, no more than 100. Because of low wages among immigrants work here.

Cows fed the farmers, as they should, grass. Cows, intended for large fastfudovskoy grinder, three months before the killing of huge herds are driven to a special area where they are fed grain and anabolics.

One cow can eat more than 3,000 pounds of beans and 400 pounds of weight gain. Meat thus becomes very greasy, just right for stuffing.

The increase in grain prices has worsened the already dire situation. Until 1997 - the first ring of the mad cow disease - 75% of US cattle were eating the remains of sheep, cows and even dogs and cats from animal shelters. In one 1994 US cows ate 3 million pounds of chicken manure. After 1997, the diet supplements were from pigs, horses and chickens, along with sawdust from the chicken coops.

Obesity - the second cause of death after smoking in the United States. Every year die from it 28 thousand people. The 2-fold increased rate of obesity among the British, who are more like fast food for all Europeans.

The second most visited McDonald's restaurants in the CIS is a restaurant at the Simferopol railway station. On December 1st 2010 the restaurant is closed for renovation, to open in early June 2011. The reconstructed by the French architect, Simferopol McDonald's will be the second largest in Eastern Europe.

Restaurant McDonald's, located in Moscow's Pushkin Square, was in 2008 the most visited among the 30 thousand. Institutions Network - he served 2, 8 million visitors.

The increase in grain prices has worsened the already dire situation. Until 1997 - the first ring of the mad cow disease - 75% of US cattle were eating the remains of sheep, cows and even dogs and cats from animal shelters. In one 1994 US cows ate 3 million pounds of chicken manure. After 1997, the diet supplements were from pigs, horses and chickens, along with sawdust from the chicken coops.

Obesity - the second cause of death after smoking in the United States. Every year die from it 28 thousand people. The 2-fold increased rate of obesity among the British, who are more like fast food for all Europeans.

The second most visited McDonald's restaurants in the CIS is a restaurant at the Simferopol railway station. On December 1st 2010 the restaurant is closed for renovation, to open in early June 2011. The reconstructed by the French architect, Simferopol McDonald's will be the second largest in Eastern Europe.

Restaurant McDonald's, located in Moscow's Pushkin Square, was in 2008 the most visited among the 30 thousand. Institutions Network - he served 2, 8 million visitors.



The queue for the very first McDonald's in the Soviet Union (Russia) in Moscow in 1990.

The largest number of visitors in the history of "McDonald's" has been served in 1990 - the first day of this restaurant on the "Pushkin" in Moscow. More than 10 000 visitors!

As of the end of 1998, during its existence, the company "McDonalds", founded in 1948, sold 100 billion hamburgers.



Julia Roberts before becoming a movie star, she worked as a cashier at McDonalds. And still proud of the fact that over 1 minute client can sell potatoes, hamburger and cola.

Restaurant McDonald's, which opened in Togliatti July 29, 2010 - was the 250th in Russia ...

At McDonald's every day fed 1% of the world's population.

In addition to flavor products to "McDonald's", the company "International Flavors End Fragransez" produces the smell of 6 of the top 10 spirits of the world, including "BEAUTIFUL" from "Estee Lauder" and "Tresor" from "Lankoma." And the smells of soap, dishwashing detergents, shampoo and so on. All this is the result of a single process.

For the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, McDonald's launched a marketing campaign. For every American athletes won the bronze medal visitors relied complimentary glass of cola, for the silver - a portion of fries, for the gold - Big Mac. However, this action almost brought the company to the financial karastrofe in connection with the decision of the Soviet government did not send a delegation to the Olympics, because of what the Americans won more medals than planned.

In 2006, McDonalds has changed the shape of cups for ice cream McFlurry pressure protection activists urchins. The fact that hedgehogs, licking the remnants of discarded ice cream cups, sometimes thrust his head inside, but could not stick back and died of starvation. The hole in the lid of the cup has been reduced to hedgehogs could no longer be caught in a trap.

The Ministry of Health in Japan - in terror. Ever since the Japanese fell in European and American fast food in the country jumped sharply the number of obese people. The Minister of Health of Japan even proposed to hold a nationwide advertising campaign that would return to the native Japanese rice and seafood.

Back in 1958 there was the first McDonald's instructions, which in detail describes any action the employee of the restaurant: the time and temperature of frying burgers to how to communicate with the visitor. Then in the "bible McDonald's» was 75 pages. Now - 750. And it is registered every step of not only the staff, but you and me.

Restaurants "McDonald's" are often the target of terrorist attacks. Below is a list of such acts of terrorism:

April 19, 2000 in Dinan, France, 1 dead.

24 February 2001 bombing in Paris.

September 2001 explosion in Istanbul, 1 dead, 1 wounded.

December 16, 2001 2 explosion in Xi'an, 1 dead, 28 injured.

October 19, 2002 Moscow, 1 dead, 8 injured.

December 5, 2002, Indonesia, 3 dead, 2 injured.

December 5, 2002 Mumbai, 17 injured.

September 23, 2002 Jounieh, Lebanon.

October 11, 2002 in Finland. Seven people were killed.

March 22, 2003 Athens.

15 June 2003 Xi'an.

October 24, 2004 Istanbul, injuring 6.

February 18, 2007 St. Petersburg, injuring seven people.

And buns and French fries in McDonald sugar added for better taste and appearance. Therefore buns look so toasty and potato flavor does not depend on the season.

Up to 70-ies of the last century, worked at McDonald's only men, but feminists have made the work on an equal footing, and operates a network of fast food are required to take and women too. This requirement greatly saddened management - all their efforts on building standards and the conveyor could go to the dogs, the guys will certainly be distracted by girls and even start an affair at work and relationships. I had to look for a Solomonic solution: do not hire beautiful women, and all the other men put the form not only hides the figure, but it pretty freak. Even with ornaments and cosmetics ban.

"McDonald's" is in schools, on ships, in hospitals.
McDonald's sells 75 hamburgers every second.

The McDonald's there is a rule that if a visitor has not announced the size of servings of potatoes, drinks, ice cream or nuggets in the order, then it defaults to the biggest. This saves time - the order must be received within 60 seconds, and so McDonald's makes more money.

McDonald's is the largest distributor of toys in the world for toys account for 20% of sales.

McDonalds owns 90% of new jobs a year. Each year, the company employs a million people, but the largest employer - the lowest salary. Worse Only immigrants in the fields.

Montpelier (Vermont) - the smallest state capital in the United States. Its population is only about nine thousand inhabitants. In addition, Montpellier - the only US state capital, where there is no McDonald's.

McDonalds restaurant building often at the crossroads of major roads on the way from the center in a residential area, close to major universities, in places where large numbers of people. This is explained by the fact that 70% of visitors making a visit McDonalds accepted spontaneously, and in places the probability of such a decision - the maximum.

The food in the "McDonald's" is much more high-calorie homemade food. Standard Lunch, consisting of a hamburger, french fries, a milkshake or sweet drinks provide more than half of the daily caloric needs.

Almost all of the products come into the kitchen, "McDonald's" is already frozen, canned or dried. This treatment almost completely kills the taste and useful properties of the product.

Acrylamide is a very harmful carcinogen, a substance that is also in cigarettes. It is formed during frying french fries. If one pack of cigarettes in it about 20 mg, in one portion of potatoes up to 50 mg. This is a direct path to cancer!

Speaking of flavors. Odour strawberries in ice-cream - is at least 350 chemicals.

With a flavor enhancer (monosodium glutamate) manufacturers not only improve the taste of food, but also contribute to obesity, and this addiction. The fact that people are so accustomed to the "artificial" good food that no longer accept food prepared without flavor enhancers. Overweight in this case - a matter of time.

The conveyor in the "McDonald's" never stops. If the end infant formula, the general manager of the change gives the command to buy normal milk in the shop, and poured into ice cream and cocktails. Ended salad - left is always a delay.

Most sandwiches hold on bin (large tray heated, where they take workers) laid longer term technology.

Have you ever wondered why, even in winter in any fast food in drinks put ice cubes ?! At the same time in the hot drinks (tea, coffee) there is set a high enough price, and they are not included in the set menu. But the icy Coke is cheap. It turns out, drinking sandwiches, hamburgers, hot dogs ice drinks, the man will never be able to eat, and thus will buy and eat more. Much more!

Thanks to the "McDonald's" soda consumption among children has increased in 4 times. If in the 50s the typical order of Coke was equal to 230 grams, is now "child" portion - 340 grams, and adult - 900. Due to the active abuse of children with sugar diabetes today is much "rejuvenated».

19 of 20 American students know the McDonald's clown. Yellow letter M in the form of arches finds more Americans than the Christian cross.

At McDonalds, there are the famous "tips" - is when the cashier offers to buy something extra - a drink, ice cream, cakes, pies. This is all the dishes, the lifetime is on the "bin", a special heated front coming to an end.

In these restaurants, the staff never uses the particle "no" when communicating at the box office, so the most common formulation, which is used there - a "try it?" "Will you?" Or "Will you take?».

When Macs appeared free Wi-Fi, young people came, ate a couple of hamburgers and hung in front of a laptop for five hours. The problem was solved simple - shut down all of the available outlets in the room. Villages battery - bye.

Colibacteria 0157H7 identified for the first time in 1982. It mutates from normal gut bacteria and release a toxin that attacks its inner shell. 5% of the patients die in terrible agony, while antibiotics are powerless. Colibacteria unusually resistant - acid, bleach, salt, frost, live in any water, are stored on shelves for weeks, to infect the body they need only five. You can pick koliinfektsiyu, swim in the lake or play on the victim carpet.

One of the two main principles of McDonald's - it KKCHD. For hiding abbreviation of the word "culture, quality, purity, availability." Actually, based on this and the attractiveness of McDonald's for the public, even if it is subconscious. Visitors are always smiling, never rude and say even though the standard, but still nice words. Many people, for example, specifically trying to give the cashier the amount necessary to hear the answer, "Thank you, that without putting." This unpretentious wording already adopted other fast food chains, and even stores that do not have nothing to eat.

People like usual, and they firmly know that today, tomorrow and in five years the taste of a Big Mac is the same in any restaurant network, it has not changed since the emergence of the sandwich in 1967. Therefore, enter the "Poppy" to feel the familiar taste. But people love and new - occasionally appear in McDonald's new proposals on the menu. At the same time there are no surprises and that during the meal the staff rush around with rags and brooms, too, it is a subconscious trust - "there all the time washing, there is pure, so surprises in the form of poisoning and unexpected findings should not be."