McDonald's

Please help improve this article by contributing useful information or discussing ideas on its talk page.

McDonald's Corporation Type Fast food chain, real estate company Status Active Led by Enrique Hernandez Jr. (chairman) Chris Kempczinski (president and CEO) Founder(s) Richard McDonald Maurice McDonald Ray Kroc Founded May 15, 1940 Head- quarters Chicago, Illinois, United States Website https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us.html

McDonald's is an American-based global chain of fast food restaurants headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Founded as a restaurant by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald in San Bernardino, California in 1940, the company became a hamburger stand and later a franchise before being bought out by businessman Ray Kroc in 1955. McDonald's is the largest fast food restaurant chain in the world, serving an estimated 65 million customers daily across more than 100 countries. It is also a real estate company through its ownership of much of the restaurant buildings and underlying land which it leases to its individual franchisees.

McDonald's has a large presence in Japan through its local arm McDonald's Company (Japan), Ltd. (日本マクドナルド株式会社,   Nihon Makudonarudo Kabushikigaisha, lit. "Japan McDonald Company, Ltd."). McDonald's operates approximately 2,900 stores in Japan as of 2018, the most of any country behind only the United States and China. It is colloquially known as Mac (マック,   Makku) or McDo (マクド,   Makudo) among Japanese consumers, and maintains its headquarters in the Shinjuku Island Tower in Tokyo. McDonald's Japan has collaborated with both the Ultra Series and Godzilla franchises through menu and merchandising items.

Collaborations

Godzilla vs. McDonald's

In December of 2023, McDonalds began lottery distribution of Be@rbrick figures of Godzilla and the McDonaldland characters Birdie the Early Bird, Grimace, and the Hamburglar. Additionally, on January 5, 2024, McDonald's will begin offering three Godzilla Burgers called the Delicious Spicy Thick-Cut Beef and Rough-Chopped Potato; Smokey Pepper Chicken; and Cheese Double Teriyaki. The commercials for the campaign are based heavily on the Heisei series, featuring a replica MogeGoji suit, appearances by the Cosmos, and a McDonald's mecha housed in a G-Force-styled hangar.

Gallery

Concept art

• 

  McDonald's mecha concept art by Shinji Nishikawa

Promotional

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

Official Japanese site

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

Commercials

Be@rbrick Commercial Smokey Pepper Chicken spot Godzilla vs. McDonald's burgers

References

This is a list of references for McDonald's. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: ^[1]

Comments

Showing 22 comments. When commenting, please remain respectful of other users, stay on topic, and avoid role-playing and excessive punctuation. Comments which violate these guidelines may be removed by administrators.

<comments voting="Plus" />