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About McDonald's

What can we tell you about McDonald’s that you don’t already know? If you’ve only been here a few months perhaps we’ll surprise you. But if you’ve been here two years, five years, ten years even, there's nothing you don’t know about this place. Or is there? Let’s have a look. See whether any of these are new to you.

Our history

• In 1954, Mac and Dick McDonald made Ray Kroc a franchisee in California.
• In 1961, Ray Kroc bought all rights to the McDonald’s concept from the McDonald brothers for $2.7 million.
• Training has always been at the heart of McDonald’s. Our Hamburger University first opened in the basement of a restaurant in Chicago in 1961. The first graduates got a Bachelor of Hamburgerology degree with a minor in French Fries.
• We opened our first UK restaurant in Woolwich in 1974. This was our 3,000th restaurant world wide.
• We opened our first drive-thru in 1975 in Arizona.
• In 1984, we became the first UK quick service restaurant group to introduce nutritional information for its customers.

Operations and the menu

• We serve around 2 million people every day.
• To grow the potatoes from which we make French Fries and Hash Browns took 4,500 hectares of land in 2005.
• We only use forequarter and flank cuts of beef for our burgers.
• We used over 90 million free range eggs for our Breakfast menu items in 2005, and another 4 million for our sauce and coating ingredients.
• In 2005, we used 6,485 tonnes of shredded and cut Iceberg lettuce.
• We’ve sold over 12 million salads since they were introduced to the menu in 2004.
• With sales of Fruit Bags topping the 10 million mark since 2003, we’re the biggest retailer of pre-prepared fruit.
• We use 45 million cherry tomatoes in our salads every year.
• We were the first quick service restaurant company to introduce litter patrols.
• We’re one of the biggest sponsors of council-provided litter bins.
• Our restaurants have light sensors and computerised energy management systems, which turn the equipment off when it’s not needed.
• Our Operations and Quality manual weighs over 4kg.

In the community

• We’ve created over 10,000 new community football coaches in association with the four football associations, benefiting over 3.6 million children. In all, we’ve invested more than £50 million in football since 1995.
• Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) provides 10 Houses and 26 Family Rooms across the UK for parents who have children in a hospital or hospice.
• In 2005, customers, employees, franchisees and suppliers raised over £3 million for RMHC.

Careers and people

• We employ over 67,000 people. And for 25,000 of them, it’s their first job.
• Nearly 60% of our people are aged between 16 and 21.
• We train more than 17,000 people every year at a cost of £10 million.
• On average, our managers have been with us for over 10 years.
• Over half of our executive team started out in our restaurants.
• 80% of managers started out as Crew members.
• Almost 40% of our managers are women.
• 7% of senior managers and 13.6% of restaurant managers are from ethnic minorities.
• 50% of franchisees were previously Company employees.
• We create more entrepreneurs than any other company in the UK through our franchises.
• 87% of our people feel their experience and training would be useful to other employers.
• We were the first large company to achieve top scores for people management in Investors in People’s new world-class Profile award.
• We distribute 180,000 employee discount cards every year.
• Every year there are more than 1,000 visits to Alton Towers through our discount scheme.
• Through the employee discount scheme, there were more than £27,000-worth of Dell products bought in the first two months of last year.

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