20 Facts You Probably Didn't Know About McDonald`s (20 pics)
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McDonald's is arguably the most famous restaurant on the planet. These things are everywhere and you see them all the time but how much do you really know about McDonald's? Today you're going to learn 20 facts about the fast food chain, for better or for worse.
McDonalds and NASA planned a joint advertised space mission to the asteroid 449 Hamburga; however, it ended up being cancelled.
It could be a huge piece of unhealthy fast food advertising so maybe what happened was for the best.
The average wait time at McDonalds is 90 seconds.
Still it may vary depending on a location and time of day.
McDonalds use to sell Pizza in 1989.
The reason why the excluded Pizza from their menu is its cooking time which is average 11 minutes, McDonalds wanted to keep its reputation for fast service.
McDonalds turns away a higher percentage of applicants than Harvard.
Harvard accepts about 7% of applicants while McDonalds accepts only 6,2%.
The farthest away you can be from a McDonalds in the U.S is 107 miles.
Such point is located in the state of South Dakota where you may be 107 miles away from the location called McGriddle.
There are 3x the number of Chinese restaurants in the US compared to McDonalds.
America loves Chinese kitchen, do you?
There is a fake McDonalds used only for commercials and movies. It contains every uniform and furniture scheme for any market in the world.
For long 30 years it’s been located in California.
McDonald’s has sold well over 100 billion hamburgers.
How many of them are yours?
The $8.7 billion in revenue from franchise stores alone, makes McDonald’s richer than Mongolia.
Do you agree it’s kinda disturbing?
McDonald’s has 761,000 employees worldwide, that’s more than the population of Luxembourg.
The number of those who wish to work for McDonalds is dozens of times higher!
McDonald’s opens a new restaurant every four hours.
I wish my business be growing this fast!
According to company estimates, one in every eight American workers has been employed by McDonald’s.
People never stop get hungry and never stop wishing eat fast… By the way do you remember how many Hollywood stars and popular artists used to work there?
Back in 1968 McDonald airlifted hamburgers to homesick U.S. Olympic Athletes in France.
Each of use has his/her own associations with home…
The smallest McDonald’s restaurant is only 492 square feet. It is in Tokyo, Japan.
The largest one is situated in Beijing, China (28,000 square feet).
Each year, McDonald’s buys 3.4 billion pounds of potatoes.
The company is claimed to be the biggest consumer of the vegetable!
Only seven items on the McDonald’s menu contain no sugar.
For example, it’s a small container of fries… which is actually not so healthy, too.
McDonald’s Caesar salad is more fattening than its hamburger.
What? You have always chosen Caesar salad thinking it’s the less harm? Sorry, it’s not.
The most northerly McDonald’s restaurant is on the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi, Finland.
Those burgers are rumored to taste really bad though.
McDonald’s calls people who eat a lot of their food “heavy users”.
Probably they mean it literally.
In Japan, Ronald McDonald is known as “Donald McDonald” to make pronunciation easier for the Japanese.
Donald, Ronald… Who cares about that when it’s tasty and nourishing?
