McMc Donald's Corporation is an American-based multinational fast food chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States.
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63 Facts About Mc Donald's
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McMc Donald's is best known for its hamburgers, cheeseburgers and french fries, although their menus include other items like chicken, fish, fruit, and salads.
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Mc Donald's has been the recipient of criticism for the unhealthiness of their food.
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McMc Donald's has been subject to criticism over the health effects of its products, its treatment of employees, and other business practices.
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The original mascot of McMc Donald's was a chef hat on top of a hamburger who was referred to as "Speedee".
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Mc Donald's appeared in advertising to target their audience of children.
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McMc Donald's predominantly sells hamburgers, various types of chicken, chicken sandwiches, French fries, soft drinks, breakfast items, and desserts.
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In most markets, McMc Donald's offers salads and vegetarian items, wraps and other localized fare.
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Since Steve Easterbrook became CEO of the company, McMc Donald's has streamlined the menu which in the United States contained nearly 200 items.
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Mc Donald's has looked to introduce healthier options, and removed high-fructose corn syrup from hamburger buns.
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Mc Donald's has removed artificial preservatives from Chicken McNuggets, replacing chicken skin, safflower oil and citric acid found in Chicken McNuggets with pea starch, rice starch and powdered lemon juice.
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In November 2020, McMc Donald's announced McPlant, a plant-based burger, along with plans to develop additional meat alternative menu items that extend to chicken substitutes and breakfast sandwiches.
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In New Zealand, McMc Donald's sells meat pies, after local affiliate McMc Donald's New Zealand partially relaunched the Georgie Pie fast food chain it bought out in 1996.
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In 1994, McMc Donald's attempted Hearth Express, a prototype specializing in homestyle takeout meals.
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From 2015 to 2016, McMc Donald's tried a new gourmet burger service and restaurant concept based on other gourmet restaurants such as Shake Shack and Grill'd.
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In 2006, McMc Donald's introduced its "Forever Young" brand by redesigning all of its restaurants, the first major redesign since the 1970s.
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Since the late 1990s, McMc Donald's has attempted to replace employees with electronic kiosks which would perform actions such as taking orders and accepting money.
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In September 2019, McMc Donald's purchased an AI-based start-up Apprente for replacing human servers with voice-based technology in its US drive-throughs.
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McMc Donald's workers have on occasions decided to strike over pay, with most of the employees on strike seeking to be paid $15.
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In September 2017, two British McMc Donald's stores agreed to a strike over zero-hours contracts for staff.
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In 2015, McMc Donald's pledged to stop using eggs from battery cage facilities by 2025.
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McMc Donald's continues to source pork from facilities that use gestation crates, and in 2012 pledged to phase them out.
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Mc Donald's owned a majority stake in Chipotle Mexican Grill until October 2006, when McDonald's fully divested from Chipotle through a stock exchange.
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Mc Donald's is ranked 131st on the Fortune 500 of the largest United States corporations by revenue.
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McMc Donald's closed down 184 restaurants in the United States in 2015, which was 59 more than what they planned to open.
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McMc Donald's shares traded at over $145 per share, and its market capitalization was valued at over US$134.
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Mc Donald's earns a significant portion of its revenue from rental payments from franchisees.
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In other countries, McMc Donald's restaurants are operated by joint ventures of McMc Donald's Corporation and other, local entities or governments.
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The selection of meats McMc Donald's uses varies to some extent based on the culture of the host country.
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McMc Donald's moved into the Oak Brook facility from an office within the Chicago Loop in 1971.
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Mc Donald's was replaced as CEO by Chris Kempczinski, who had been president of McDonald's USA.
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McMc Donald's has become emblematic of globalization, sometimes referred to as the "McDonaldization" of society.
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Thomas Friedman said that no country with a McMc Donald's had gone to war with another; however, the "Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention" is incorrect.
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Mc Donald's has operated in Russia since 1990 and at August 2014 had 438 stores across the country.
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When it opened in Hong Kong in 1975, McMc Donald's was the first restaurant to consistently offer clean restrooms, driving customers to demand the same of other restaurants and institutions.
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McMc Donald's has opened a McMc Donald's restaurant and McCafe on the underground premises of the French fine arts museum, The Louvre.
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Furthermore, 32 years after McMc Donald's entered the Soviet market, the American giant wants its current business to be "de-Arched", the company plans to retain its trademarks in Russia, meaning the locations would no longer be allowed to use the McMc Donald's name, logo, or menu.
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McMc Donald's said it would continue to pay its Russian employees until the sale is finalized.
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In September 2020, McMc Donald's partnered with rapper Travis Scott to release the "Travis Scott Meal", a Quarter Pounder with cheese, bacon, lettuce, pickles, ketchup and mustard; medium fries with barbecue sauce; and a Sprite, nationwide.
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McMc Donald's entered the NASCAR Cup Series in 1977, sponsoring Richard Childress for one race.
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The following season McMc Donald's would move over to the No 94 Bill Elliott Racing Ford, driven by team-owner Bill Elliott.
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McMc Donald's stayed with Elliott until the 2001 season when they moved again, this time to the No 96 PPI Motorsports Ford, driven by rookie Andy Houston.
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McMc Donald's moved to CGR's No 42 of Kyle Larson, whom the company sponsored until his suspension in 2020, and had a one-race partnership with Richard Petty Motorsports' No 43 Chevrolet driven by Bubba Wallace in 2019 and 2020.
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McMc Donald's continued working with the No 42 under new driver Ross Chastain in 2021 and joined Wallace's new team 23XI Racing as a "founding partner".
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McMc Donald's is the title sponsor of the McMc Donald's All-American Game, all-star basketball games played each year for top ranked amateur American and Canadian boys' and girls' high school basketball graduates.
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McMc Donald's officials came to the hospital, accompanied by a representative from the accounting firm Arthur Andersen, who examined the card under a jeweler's eyepiece, handled it with plastic gloves, and verified it as a winner.
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McMc Donald's has been criticised for numerous aspects of its business, including the health effects of its products, its treatment of employees, and other business practices.
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In 2002, vegetarian groups, largely Hindu and Buddhist, successfully sued McMc Donald's for misrepresenting its French fries as vegetarian, when they contained beef broth.
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Morgan Spurlock's 2004 documentary film Super Size Me claimed that McMc Donald's food was contributing to the increase of obesity in society and that the company was failing to provide nutritional information about its food for its customers.
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Six weeks after the film premiered, McMc Donald's announced that it was eliminating the super size option, and was creating the adult Happy Meal.
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Mc Donald's introduced a new slogan to its recruitment posters: "Not bad for a McJob".
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Since McMc Donald's began receiving criticism for its environmental practices in the 1970s, it has significantly reduced its use of materials.
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In 1990, McMc Donald's worked with the Environmental Defense Fund to stop using "clam shell"-shaped styrofoam food containers to store its food products.
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McMc Donald's has been involved in a number of lawsuits and other legal cases, most of which involved trademark disputes.
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Mc Donald's has threatened many food businesses with legal action unless it drops the Mc or Mac from trading names.
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McMc Donald's group has had proceedings taken against it from the French Tax Authorities, with possible charges of criminal tax fraud.
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McMc Donald's lost in an appeal to Malaysia's highest court, the Federal Court.
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