okay... so after clicking on ads and links and all this stuff.. (yes, i was bored.. and still am) i stumbled upon some mcdonalds facts that i just thought were kinda interesting to know.

i actually found these at i-am-asian.com which is actually a mcdonalds site focused on the mcdonalds of asia... anywho..

Fascinating Facts About McDonald's

-The smallest McDonald's restaurant measures only 492 square feet and is on the Ginza in Tokyo, Japan.

-Ronald McDonald® speaks more than 25 different languages.

-The sun never sets on The Golden Arches®.

-McDonald's opens a new restaurant every four hours.

-The oldest structure to house a McDonald's restaurant is located in Shrewsbury, England. One of the restaurant's exterior walls dates back to the thirteenth century.

-McDonald's first restaurant in China opened in 1990.

-Every day, McDonald's serves more than 46 million people.

-McDonald's has sold well over 100 billion hamburgers.

-Ronald McDonald speaks more than 25 languages, including Cantonese, Portuguese, Hindi, Tagalog and Russian.

-McDonald's largest market outside the U.S. is Japan, with more than 3,000
McDonald's restaurants.

-Ronald McDonald is "Donald McDonald™" in Japan because it makes pronunciation easier for the Japanese. In Singapore he's known as "Uncle McDonald."

-Antarctica is the only continent that does not have a McDonald's restaurant - yet.

-The busiest international McDonald's restaurant is located on Pushkin Square in Moscow, which serves 40,000 people every day.

-The largest McDonald's restaurant internationally measures more than 28,000 square feet and is located in Beijing, in the People's Republic of China.

-Ten of the busiest McDonald's in the world are located in Hong Kong.
McDonald's is located in the world's tallest building, in the Kuala Lumpur Tower in Malaysia.

-McDonald's restaurants in India are our only restaurants in the world where you cannot buy beef. You can purchase an all-lamb version of the Big Mac called the "Maharaja Mac™."

-The shoe size of Ronald McDonald is 14 1/2 -- or, as Ronald likes to say, "extra long, by extra wide, by extra red."

-McDonald's international restaurants occasionally develop other items which appeal to local tastes, such as a grilled salmon sandwich with dill sauce in Norway, rice dishes in Japan, a Samurai pork burger in Thailand, frankfurters and beer in Germany, a McHuevo™ (a hamburger with a poached egg on top) in Uruguay, and McSpaghetti™ in the Philippines.


and yes i am a fan of mcdonalds.

edit// crap. i should have put this in foods. can anybody move it?

haha, that's very interesting and the site is hilarious ... how come in india, you cant buy beef ?

WOW! Thats a lot of facts.

-The shoe size of Ronald McDonald is 14 1/2 -- or, as Ronald likes to say, "extra long, by extra wide, by extra red."

LOL! thats a big foot.

thats very interesting...

wow that's pretty cool =D the sun never sets on the golden arches? i dont get that one

Because it's against most of their religions.

how is it against their religion ?

wow, a new restaurant opens every 4 hours?? that's crazy!

because msot of them like worship cows in some sort of way.

well i kind of thought about that.. if that fact is true that means there is 6 mcdonalds built a day, right? that's a whole big lot of mickey d's.. soon there will be an overload if that fact continues, which i doubt

Go ask your Indian friends, dummy.

moved to foods

the one about mcdonalds opens a new restraunt every four hours was a shocker to me.
i mean holy crap. wow.

Same here. Gosh, four hours.....that means 42 restaraunts open up every week Imagine in a month, year, etc.

Think of all the dead animals that are killed to supply McDonald's.
Hell, we're not even including Wendy's or Burger King.

I love the pickle's they put on the hamburgers.
I always pick them off and eat them first.

some guy found a mouse in his burger at a somewhat close local mcdonald's.

that made me chuckle.

Petronas Towers


they beleive the cow is their gods

interesting facts...kinda freaky in a way.
and yeah, i don't really eat mcd's...

"-McDonald's opens a new restaurant every four hours. "
(no wonder we're all getting fat)

"Every day, McDonald's serves more than 46 million people"
(again, no wonder we're all getting fat ;))

India has a lot of Hindu people. Hindu's consider the cow to be sacred. Therefore, it would be wrong to eat it.

^yes, thank you for that explanation
those are very interesting facts about mcdonalds=)

Interesting.. that's a lot of McDonalds Restaraunts if they open a new one every 4 hours.. it's like they're taking over the world :P

new mcdonalds every 4 hours...thats like 1.5 while i'm at school and 6 every 24 hours!! whoa!

wow.. very interesting
i LOVE mcdonalds, gosh i love it so much!
i am craving for some right now

No wonder there are such things as obesity!! ahhh!!! But McDonald is hard to resist lol

Cool those are are interesting wow a new one really opens up every 4 hours?

Man wish I owned Mickey D's lol

Wow. No wonder.

I just went to McDonalds today.

That cracked me up. I dont know why

LOL!! cool facts

no i think he'd call it "super sized"

I'm suprised that 10 of the busiest McDonald's in the world are located in Hong Kong, I thought it be sumwhere in America.

wow mcdonalds is rich! hahha i am gonig to open up my own fastfood place its going to go outer space too one day LMAO

.:TonY:.

interesting. and do you know that they put plastic in mcdonalds ice cream?

four hours?!?! holy crap... wow interesting facts... i dont really like them tho.

that one took me by surprise, too. but i can kinda believe it considering it seems they are just popping up everywhere!

the website's so funny, especially the dog wearing Mcdonald's shirts.

so mad abt open every 4 hrs.

hmm...interesting =)

Neaaaat!

I love Taiwan's McDonalds'. They have this corn soup stuff that tastes amazing. =X I can't resist it and HAVE to buy it every time I go to Taiwan.

i think this is the first mcdonalds thread that dosnt trash it....YAY!!!

I miss Mcspaghetti in the Pines, and I miss the crispy chicken there too.

I miss McDonalds (haven't been in one since 3 weeks ago).

Wow. Bloody hell, that's quite frequent.
Like Katie said, no wonder obesity is on the rise.
Haha, I love the yet part.

Oh oh, we did this in world studies! Well, kinda...

So near World War I [or some war, I forget] Britain had a saying that went like "The sun never sets on the British empire" meaning that there were so many countries in the British empire that the sun would always be up in an area of the world where there was a British-owned country.

So it's kinda the same with McDonalds, I guess. There are so many "golden arches" around the world that it's impossible for the sun to set on an area without one.

Wow, funny facts. Kinda weerddd

Hmm... interesting.



Who are their customers gonna be? Polar bears?

I know a girl who went to China and the McDonalds there had actual bones in the chicken nuggets.
4 every hour though.. that's crazy!

more reasons to not eat McDonald. . . god i feel even more sick

the eskimos! Owait no that's only in Northern Canada and Alaska...

wow every four hours?! thats amazing.

Here is some more about mcdonalds logo.

mcdonalds logo

HOLY CRAP! Thats.. ALOT of mcdonalds. Seriously. I am stunned. Every four hours!?
So, when I go to sleep, and wake up, two new mcdonalds will have been built

I want to visit the biggest and smallest McDonald's!

Even if a store were opened in Antarctica, there would be no one to buy food from it...