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Is McDonald’s the Biggest Restaurant Chain in the World?
By revenue and brand value, comfortably. By number of locations, no. Two different measures that answer two different questions, and the gap explains a lot.
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What Happened to Super Size at McDonald’s?
Discontinued in 2004, weeks after a documentary built a film around it. McDonald’s said the two were unrelated. The sizes did not stay where they were either.
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Does McDonald’s Have a Secret Menu?
Not an official one, and staff will not recognise internet nicknames. But the kitchen has all the components, so here is what you can actually ask for and what it costs.
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How Much Does a McDonald’s Franchise Cost?
Around $1.47m to $2.8m plus a $45,000 fee, with $500,000 in cash you already have. And the part nobody mentions: you almost certainly cannot open a new one.
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What Is the McRib Made Of, and Why Does It Keep Disappearing?
Restructured pork shoulder pressed into a rib shape, invented to solve a chicken shortage. It vanishes because pork prices move and because scarcity is the entire…
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What Is Actually in a Chicken McNugget?
White boneless chicken, four shapes with official names, and one ingredient that sounds alarming and is not. The pink paste photograph is a different product entirely.
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Is McDonald’s Really a Real Estate Company?
Substantially yes. McDonald’s owns the land and the building and leases it to the franchisee, who also pays royalties on sales. Here is how the money actually works.
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What Was the McDonald’s Monopoly Scandal?
For over a decade almost nobody won the big prizes fairly. One man was stealing every winning piece in airport bathroom stalls. More than 50 people were convicted.
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What Was the McDonald’s Hot Coffee Lawsuit Really About?
The car was parked. She was 79. The burns were third degree over 16 percent of her body. She asked for $20,000 and was offered $800. Almost everything people know…
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Why Don’t McDonald’s Burgers Rot?
It is not preservatives. It is water, or rather the lack of it. Homemade burgers of the same size behave identically, and the same McDonald’s burger moulds normally…
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Are McDonald’s Fries Vegetarian?
Not in the United States. There is beef flavouring in the oil, it does not appear on the packet, and McDonald’s paid $10 million over it in 2002. The full explanation.
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Who Actually Founded McDonald’s?
Ray Kroc did not found McDonald’s. Richard and Maurice McDonald did, and they invented the system every fast food restaurant still uses. Here is what happened to them.