McDonald Facts

McDonald’s has sold well over one hundred billion hamburgers. 

McDonald’s serves up over  million chickens in Great Britain alone every year. Of this total, sixty percent of the chicken is important frozen from Brazil, Nine percent comes from Thailand, and thirty percent from Holland. Just one percent of the McDonald’s chicken in Great Britain comes from Great Britain.

In the United States alone, people eat over one billion pounds of beef at McDonald’s in a year, which is five and a half million head of cattle.

McDonald’s serves about 9 million pounds of fries globally—per day.

McDonalds Corporation sells over 1 billion cups of coffee each year around the world. It sells 500 million cups a day in the U.S. alone.

McDonald’s opens a new restaurant every four hours

McDonald’s is the nation’s largest purchaser of beef, pork, and potatoes. It is the 2nd biggest purchaser of chicken.

McDonald’s Corporation is the largest owner of retail property in the world. The company earns most of its profits not from selling food, but by collecting rent.

The smallest McDonald’s restaurant is only 492 sq. ft. It is in Tokyo, Japan.

The largest McDonald’s restaurant is over 28,000 sq. ft. and is located in Beijing.

The top 10 busiest McDonald’s restaurants are all in Hong Kong.

The original McDonald’s menu did not offer French fries.

There are about 35,429 McDonald’s worldwide.

The original McDonald’s had a hickory pit and served barbecued beef, ham, and pork along with chili, tamales, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

More than 80, 000 students from around the globe have graduated with “Bachelor of Hamburgerology” degrees from McDonald’s “Hamburger University.

A McWrap, which McDonald’s touts as a healthy menu choice, has 1,280 milligrams of sodium, more than half of what an adult should consume in an entire day.

McDonald’s offered the first nationally available fast food breakfast sandwich when it introduced the Egg McMuffin in 1972. By 1987, a fourth of all breakfasts eaten outside of the home in the United States were from McDonald’s.