- Des Plaines, Illinois is home to Ray Kroc’s first McDonald’s restaurant (1955). He signed a franchise agreement with Dick and Mac McDonald, who had opened their restaurant in 1948 in San Bernardino, California
- Before setting up the McDonald’s fast-food restaurant chain, Ray Kroc was a high school dropout, ambulance driver, jazz pianist, Florida real-estate salesman, radio station manager, and paper cup salesman.
- The busiest McDoanlds is in Karlsplatz, Munich, Germany
- Busiest in the U.S. is at 220 W. 42nd St., New York (Times Square)
- The U.S. has the most McDonald’s with 12,804 restaurants. Germany is in fifth place with 1,091 restaurants.
- More than 1/3 of all French fries sold in the United States are by McDonald’s.
- Nearly one in eight workers in the US has at some time been employed by McDonald’s.
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Since its founding in 1955, McDonald’s has sold well over 100 billion hamburgers. - In India the “Big Mac” is changed into the “Maharaja Mac”, a mutton burger in deference to religious injunctions against the consumption of beef and pork.
- The Big Mac was introduced in 1968. The price was 49 cents.
- McDonald’s is the world’s largest purchaser of beef. (2001)
- Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonald’s. (2003)
Aren’t you glad Kroc named the Big Mac after one McDonald brother instead of the other?