18 facts about McDonalds

By: -Sachin Chaudhary

McDonald’s was founded by Raymond Albert Kroc

not by Richard and Maurice McDonald.

Fact #1

McDonald’s first menu items were

Hot dogs

not hamburgers

Fact #2

In the 70s McDonald’s used to sell

McDonald’s Pizza

Fact #3

McDonald’s sells more than

75 hamburgersper second

Fact #4

McDonald's is theworld's largest distributor of toys, with one included in

20% of all sales

Fact #5

McDonald’s serve

1% of the world’s population everyday.

Fact #6

Fact #7

3500+ McDonalds restaurantsin operation throughout the world

employing over more than 1.7 million people

Fact #8

1 in 8 Americans has been employed by McDonald’s close to

1 million every year

Fact #9

in 2008 McDonald’s saved $278850000 by removing one of the

two slices of cheese from the McDouble/Double cheeseburger

Fact #10

Fact #11

McDonald’s

CAESAR salad is more fattening than their HAMBURGER

Mc-Fries

Fact #12

one of the mostcomplicated menu item inMcDonald’s

It contains

17 different ingredients

McDonald's' iconic

GOLDEN ARCHES are recognized by

more people than the cross

Fact #13

A survey by Sponsorship Research

International found that 88 percent could identify the GOLDEN ARCHESand only 54 percent could name the

Christian cross, according to FAST FOOD NATION

For the next three years,

McDonald'sis going to open

one restaurant

every day in China

Fact #14

in 2011, McDonald’s spent $963 million on

ADVERTISMENTS

Fact #15

The Queen of England

owns a McDonald's

Fact #16

near Buckingham Palace as part of her vast real estate

portfolio

Fact #17

Americans alone consume one billion pounds of

beef at McDonald's in a year

Fact #18

Another thing

McDonald's does

right?

Localization