McDonalds Trivia

Read some interesting trivia about McDonalds restaurants.

Montpelier, Vermont is the only US state capitol without a McDonalds restaurant.

The first "Ski Through" McDonalds in the world is in Sälen, Sweden.

Over 1/3 of all French Fries sold in the US are served at McDonald's.

McDonalds sued a four year old girl named Sarah Michelle Gellar. She appeared in a commercial saying, "Do I look 20% smaller to you? I must have at McDonald's because their hamburgers are 20% per cent smaller than Burger King's." It was the first time a company used the name of another company in a commercial, so McDonald's sued Burger King, the advertising company and Sarah. The suit was eventually settled out of court.

McDonalds is the world's largest toy distributer.

Since McDonalds had changed its menu to offer more healthy options, they went from buying 0 apples to buying 54,000,000 pounds in two years.

Most people in India do not eat beef or pork, so the Big Mac was changed to the Maharaja Mac and is made from mutton.

McDonalds has three kosher restaurants in Israel. They are the only ones in the world where you cannot buy a cheeseburger.

McDonald's Hamburger University has issued over 50,000 "Bachelor of Hamburgerology" degrees.

The most northern McDonalds is located in Rovaniemi, Finland on the Arctic Circle. The southernmost is in Invercargill, New Zealand. The westernmost is in Western Samoa and the easternmost is in Gisborne, New Zealand since they are closest to each other across the International date line.