Useless Corner


McUseless Facts
May 24, 2008, 8:32 am
Filed under: Facts

  1. McDonald’s opens a new restaurant every four hours.
  2. Antarctica is the only continent that does not have a McDonald’s restaurant – yet.
  3. Ronald McDonald is “Donald McDonald™” in Japan because it makes pronunciation easier for the Japanese. In Singapore he’s known as “Uncle McDonald.”
  4. McDonald’s international restaurants occasionally develop other items which appeal to local tastes, such as McSpaghetti™ in the Philippines.
  5. Sälen in Sweden opened the first SKI-THROUGH McDonald’s in the world.
  6. More than 50,000 students from all over the world have graduated with “Bachelor of Hamburgerology” degrees from McDonald’s “Hamburger University.
  7. 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.
  8. 40% of McDonald’s profits comes from the sale of Happy Meals.
  9. Every day, McDonald’s serves more than 46 million people.
  10. The busiest international McDonald’s restaurant is located on Pushkin Square in Moscow, which serves 40,000 people every day.

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