McDonald'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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65 Facts About McDonald's Corporation
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McDonald's Corporation 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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McDonald's Corporation has been the recipient of criticism for the unhealthiness of their food.
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The McDonald's Corporation revenues come from the rent, royalties, and fees paid by the franchisees, as well as sales in company-operated restaurants.
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McDonald's Corporation 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 McDonald's Corporation was a chef hat on top of a hamburger who was referred to as "Speedee".
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McDonald's Corporation appeared in advertising to target their audience of children.
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McDonald's Corporation predominantly sells hamburgers, various types of chicken, chicken sandwiches, French fries, soft drinks, breakfast items, and desserts.
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In most markets, McDonald's Corporation offers salads and vegetarian items, wraps and other localized fare.
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Since Steve Easterbrook became CEO of the company, McDonald's Corporation has streamlined the menu which in the United States contained nearly 200 items.
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McDonald's Corporation has looked to introduce healthier options, and removed high-fructose corn syrup from hamburger buns.
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McDonald's Corporation 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 September 2018, McDonald's USA announced that they no longer use artificial preservatives, flavors and colors entirely from seven classic burgers sold in the U S, including the hamburger, cheeseburger, double cheeseburger, McDouble, Quarter Pounder with Cheese, double Quarter Pounder with Cheese and the Big Mac.
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In November 2020, McDonald's Corporation 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, McDonald's Corporation sells meat pies, after local affiliate McDonald's Corporation New Zealand partially relaunched the Georgie Pie fast food chain it bought out in 1996.
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In 1994, McDonald's Corporation attempted Hearth Express, a prototype specializing in homestyle takeout meals.
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From 2015 to 2016, McDonald's Corporation 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, McDonald's Corporation 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, McDonald's Corporation 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, McDonald's Corporation purchased an AI-based start-up Apprente for replacing human servers with voice-based technology in its US drive-throughs.
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McDonald's Corporation 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 McDonald's Corporation stores agreed to a strike over zero-hours contracts for staff.
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In 2015, McDonald's Corporation pledged to stop using eggs from battery cage facilities by 2025.
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McDonald's Corporation continues to source pork from facilities that use gestation crates, and in 2012 pledged to phase them out.
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McDonald's Corporation 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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McDonald's Corporation is ranked 131st on the Fortune 500 of the largest United States corporations by revenue.
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McDonald's Corporation closed down 184 restaurants in the United States in 2015, which was 59 more than what they planned to open.
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McDonald's Corporation shares traded at over $145 per share, and its market capitalization was valued at over US$134.
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McDonald's Corporation earns a significant portion of its revenue from rental payments from franchisees.
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Fast Food Nation states that McDonald's is the largest private operator of playgrounds in the U S, as well as the single largest purchaser of beef, pork, potatoes, and apples.
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The selection of meats McDonald's Corporation uses varies to some extent based on the culture of the host country.
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McDonald's Corporation moved into the Oak Brook facility from an office within the Chicago Loop in 1971.
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McDonald's Corporation was replaced as CEO by Chris Kempczinski, who had been president of McDonald's USA.
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McDonald's Corporation 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 McDonald's Corporation had gone to war with another; however, the "Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention" is incorrect.
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McDonald's Corporation 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, McDonald's Corporation was the first restaurant to consistently offer clean restrooms, driving customers to demand the same of other restaurants and institutions.
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McDonald's Corporation has opened a McDonald's Corporation restaurant and McCafe on the underground premises of the French fine arts museum, The Louvre.
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Furthermore, 32 years after McDonald's Corporation 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 McDonald's Corporation name, logo, or menu.
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McDonald's Corporation said it would continue to pay its Russian employees until the sale is finalized.
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In September 2020, McDonald's Corporation 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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McDonald's Corporation entered the NASCAR Cup Series in 1977, sponsoring Richard Childress for one race.
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The following season McDonald's Corporation would move over to the No 94 Bill Elliott Racing Ford, driven by team-owner Bill Elliott.
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McDonald's Corporation 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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McDonald's Corporation 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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McDonald's Corporation 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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McDonald's Corporation is the title sponsor of the McDonald's Corporation 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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McDonald's Corporation 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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McDonald's Corporation 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 McDonald's Corporation 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 McDonald's Corporation 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, McDonald's Corporation announced that it was eliminating the super size option, and was creating the adult Happy Meal.
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McDonald's Corporation introduced a new slogan to its recruitment posters: "Not bad for a McJob".
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Since McDonald's Corporation began receiving criticism for its environmental practices in the 1970s, it has significantly reduced its use of materials.
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In 1990, McDonald's Corporation worked with the Environmental Defense Fund to stop using "clam shell"-shaped styrofoam food containers to store its food products.
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McDonald's Corporation has been involved in a number of lawsuits and other legal cases, most of which involved trademark disputes.
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McDonald's Corporation has threatened many food businesses with legal action unless it drops the Mc or Mac from trading names.
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McDonald's Corporation group has had proceedings taken against it from the French Tax Authorities, with possible charges of criminal tax fraud.
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McDonald's Corporation lost in an appeal to Malaysia's highest court, the Federal Court.
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