Bizarre Facts about McDonald’s, Interesting to Know

Bizarre Facts about McDonald’s, Interesting to Know

• McDonald’s first started selling hot dogs, not hamburgers.
• In 1974, Ray Kroc started a real estate business, with the golden arch. After getting a prime location he started to sell hot dogs and rest is history.
• World had been hit by recession and downfall many times, but McDonald’s never loses its sale and revenue generation.
• McDonald’s Monopoly promo from 1995 to 2000 gave away many prizes. In actual all top prizes were won by McDonald’s employees fraudulently.
• McDonald’s serves daily 62 million customers which is more than the population of Great Britain and accounts to world’s 1% population.
• The burger giant holds record of highest per second sales, more than 75 hamburgers every second all over the world.
• Total revenue of McDonald’s is $27 billion, which makes McDonald’s 90th largest economy on the planet. Revenue from franchise stores makes $8.7 billion, larger than the total wealth of Mongolia
• McDonald’s per day revenue accounts about US$75 million from all over the world.
• McDonald’s gives employment to 761,000 people worldwide more than the total population of Luxembourg. The company hires 1 million workers in US alone every year. 1 in every 8 American workers is an employee of McDonald’s. Famous Sharon Stone, Shania Twain, Jay Leno, Rachel McAdams and Pink worked for McDonald’s in the start.
• McDonald’s menu differs in every country like in Portugal menu items consist of Caldo Verde soup, in India the restaurant serves Chicken Maharaja Mac and the potato-patty McAloo Tikki Burger, Brazil menu has tasty Quiche de Queljo, Red Bean Pie for dessert in Hong Kong, Parmigiano Reggiano burger in Italy and stone oven-baked Ciabatta roll burger in France.
• The testy Egg McMuffin was modeled on eggs Benedict. Herb Peterson invented and included Egg McMuffin in McDonald’s menu to serve as breakfast.
• After every 14.5 hours a new McDonald’s restaurant is opened around the world but then also McDonald’s is not holding the world’s largest restaurant chain record. The record is with Subway.
• From year 2011 to 2013, McDonald’s had opened one restaurant every day in China. Currently McDonald’s delivers in 18 countries over the world.
• McDonald’s is the favorite toy store for kids. Its world’s largest distributor of toys with 20% of all sales over the world. 1.5 billion Toys are distributed annually by McDonald’s around the world and the hit one is Ty Beanie Baby.
• 88% of people around the world can easily identify and recognized McDonald’s golden arches as compared to 54% for the cross. Paris is only the place on this planet with white arches in place of McDonald’s golden arches.
• Queen of England owns a retail park in Slough which is very near to Buckingham Palace and also has a drive-thru McDonald’s. The Royals often drop in for Burgers at the restaurant.
• Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has its own McDonald’s the first and only one in Cuba. Inmates are lured Big Macs and fries.
• A 71 year old lady Stella Liebach spilled her McDonald’s coffee on her lap and sued McDonald’s. Her medical bill totaled a staggering $10 000 and McDonald’s offered her $800. She dragged McDonald’s to US court, later McDonald’s paid her $2.7 million.
• The first drive-thru opened in US for Marines. When McDonald’s implemented it in China, confused Chinese customers would park their cars and love to eat in the restaurant.