This year, the world-famous fast food chain McDonald’s will celebrate its 75th anniversary.
Today, this American corporation has restaurants around the world, a huge cash turnover and fame. Despite the fact that fast food is considered harmful to health and leads to obesity, McDonald’s is always full of visitors who want to eat branded hamburgs, fries and other dishes. 1. McDonald’s first menu item was originally go-dogs, not hamburgers.
2. One in eight Americans has ever been employed by McDonald’s.
3. McDonald’s Caesar salad is higher in calories than a hamburger.
4. McDonald’s feeds 68 million people every day. That’s more than the entire population of Britain.
5. McDonald’s has a daily profit of $75 million.
6. The McDonald’s logo is more common than the cross.
7. Big Mac has long been used as an economic index to compare the purchasing power of the population in different countries.
8. McDonald’s is the largest distributor of toys.
9. One of the McDonald’s restaurants is owned by the Queen of Great Britain – it is located near Buckingham Palace.
10. In 2005, a man named Ronald McDonald robbed Wendy’s fast food restaurant.
11. McDonald’s is not the largest restaurant chain. The leadership is owned by Subway.
12. To make money on a Big Mac in India, the average Indian needs to work about six hours.
13. In the 1970s, you could order pizza at McDonald’s.
14. In Japan, Ronald McDonald is known as Donald McDonald due to the lack of a distinct "r" sound in Japanese.
15. It takes a typical McDonald’s employee 7 months to earn the same amount as the CEO of McDonald’s per hour.
16. McDonald’s corporate website advises employees to avoid fast food.
17. More than 80,000 people received a Bachelor of Hamburgerology degree from McDonald’s University of Hamburger.
18. To burn all the calories derived from eating Big Mac, French fries and big Coke, you need to walk for at least seven hours in a row.
19. McDonald’s opens a new restaurant every 14.5 hours.
21. McDonald’s corporate policy prohibits service in the McDrive window of those who ride a horse.
22. Sedona, Arizona is home to the only McDonald’s restaurant with a turquoise logo.