Hats Off to McDonalds and Some Interesting Facts

Preetamrai posted this picture of a McDonald’s restaurant taken in Beijing, China.

David Hoffman states in his book Who Knew? the largest McDonalds is in Beijing, China. “It measures more than twenty-eight thousand square feet, seats seven hundred, and has two kitchens and twenty-nine registers.” That is a lot of cha ching!

He also went on to state that one hundred shares of McDonald’s stock selling for $2,250 when first offered in 1965 gained in value to more than $1.4 million thirty years later.

Think about this; McDonalds began as a small hamburger joint. It is not the hamburger that has made McDonald’s arches golden, but something much more intrinsic.

In an article written by Louie Jerome we learn about a huge undertaking made by McDonalds in job training

McDonalds invests more than $1 billion in training yearly and their Hamburger University which is trademarked has over 275,000 graduates worldwide who are eligible for college credits upon completion of their training according to McDonalds.com.

Ronald McDonald Care Mobile is a trademarked program with a fleet of state of the art vehicles delivering medical, dental and education services to underserved children in their own neighborhoods.

Louie also wrote another article: McDonalds Lights Up the Town. In her introduction she writes “McDonald’s is funding a project to turn waste materials and food scraps into heat and light for local areas.” If you read further in her article you will find that this is no small undertaking.

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Unusual facts about McDonalds found at createblog

• Their smallest restaurant is found on the Ginza in Tokyo and measures only 492 square feet
• Ronald McDonald speaks more than 25 different languages.
• The sun never sets on the golden arches.
• Every four hours a new McDonalds opens some where.
• The oldest building housing a McDonalds has a structure dating back to the thirteenth century and is located in Shrewsbury, England.
• They serve over 46 million people daily, having sold well over 100 billion hamburgers.
• Outside of the U.S. the largest McDonalds market is Japan, where there are more than 3,000 restaurants operating.
• In Japan Ronald McDonald is known as Donald McDonald, or Uncle McDonald.
• The only continent not having McDonalds (yet) is Antarctica.
• The busiest McDonalds serves 40,000 people daily and is located in Moscow.
• If you buy Big Mac in India it is called a Maharaja Mac and contains lamb, not beef.
• Ronald McDonald has a big “understanding” his shoes are a size 14 ½ or as he states “extra long by extra wide by extra red.”.
• Just as cultural food tastes differ so does cultural McDonald’s menus; enjoying a large variety such as salmon, beer, rice, pork burgers and even spaghetti.

If you have a small child in your life that enjoys learning on the computer send them to:

ronald.com/ If they log in here they will find games to assist them in learning.

If you would like to know more about the charitable programs supported by McDonalds, check out Ronald McDonald House. Over 3.6 million families a years or more than 10,000 families each day benefit from charities performed by McDonalds.