admin There are 33,000 McDonald’s restaurants in the world. The McDonalds web site quotes “McDonald’s is the leading global foodservice retailer with more than 33,000 local restaurants serving nearly 68 million people in 119 countries each day.”.
Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948 they reorganized their business as a hamburger stand using production line principles. Businessman Ray Kroc joined the company as a franchise agent in 1955. He subsequently purchased the chain from the McDonald brothers and oversaw its worldwide growth.
McDonald’s restaurants by country
- United States: 12,804 McDonald’s restaurants
- Japan: 3,598 McDonald’s restaurants
- Canada: 1,154 McDonald’s restaurants
- United Kingdom: 1,115 McDonald’s restaurants
- Germany: 1,091 McDonald’s restaurants
- France: 857 McDonald’s restaurants
- Australia: 701 McDonald’s restaurants
- Taiwan: 338 McDonald’s restaurants
- China: 326 McDonald’s restaurants
- Italy: 290 McDonald’s restaurants
- Spain: 276 McDonald’s restaurants
- Korea, South: 243 McDonald’s restaurants
- Philippines: 235 McDonald’s restaurants
- Sweden: 227 McDonald’s restaurants
- Mexico: 205 McDonald’s restaurants
- Netherlands: 205 McDonald’s restaurants
- Poland: 181 McDonald’s restaurants
- Hong Kong: 177 McDonald’s restaurants
- New Zealand: 149 McDonald’s restaurants
- Austria: 148 McDonald’s restaurants
