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.