NYSE: MCDMcdonalds Corp Statistics & Facts
Key Mcdonalds facts
- Founded
- 1940
- Headquarters
- Chicago, Illinois
- Founders
- Richard McDonald, Maurice McDonald, Ray Kroc
- IPO Date
- 1965-04-21
Mcdonalds Restaurant Stats
Mcdonalds Restaurants (Global)
How many McDonald's are there in the world?
There are over 41,000 McDonald's locations around the world. [1]
Date: Feb 22, 2024
Mcdonalds Restaurants by Country
How many McDonald's are in the USA?
With 13,436 locations, the US has the most McDonald's restaurants in the world. [2]
Date: Feb 24, 2023
Mcdonalds Restaurants by Type
How many McDonald's restaurants are licensed/franchised and how many are operated by the company itself?
95% of McDonald's locations are franchised. [3]
Date: Feb 24, 2023
Mcdonalds Restaurants Opened
How often does McDonald's open a new restaurant?
1,576 McDonald's restaurants opened in 2022. [3]
Date: Feb 24, 2023
Mcdonalds Restaurants Closed
How many McDonald's close each year?
McDonald's shut down 1,332 locations in 2022, up from 661 in 2021. The increase followed the company's sale of its business in Russia. [3]
Date: Feb 24, 2023
Mcdonalds Revenue & Expense Statistics
Mcdonalds Revenue by Restaurant Type
How much do McDonald's franchises make a year?
$15.437 billion of McDonald's $25.494 billion in 2023 revenue came from franchised locations. [1]
Date: Feb 22, 2024
Mcdonalds Total Expenses
How much does McDonald's spend every year on operations?
McDonald's' costs and expenses in 2023 amounted to $13.847 billion, up from $13.812 billion in 2022. [1]
Date: Feb 22, 2024
Mcdonalds Expenses by Type
McDonald's statistics breaking down the company's annual costs and expenses by type.
Source:McDonald's
Food & paper
$3.04B
Payroll & employee benefits
$2.89B
Company-operated restaurant occupancy & other
$2.30B
Franchised restaurant occupancy expenses
$2.47B
McDonald's spent $3.039 billion on food and paper in 2023, up from $2.737 billion in 2022. [1]
Date: Feb 22, 2024
Mcdonalds Advertising Costs
How much does McDonald's spend on advertising?
McDonald's spent $347.2 million on advertising in 2023, up from $334.5 million in 2022. [1]
Date: Feb 22, 2024
Mcdonalds Employee Statistics
Mcdonalds Employees
How many employees does McDonald's have?
150,000 people worked at McDonald's' company-owned restaurants, offices and corporate wing at the end of both 2022 and 2023. [1]
Date: Feb 22, 2024
Over 2 million people work at restaurants franchised under McDonald's worldwide. [11]
Date: Feb 23, 2021
A McDonald's crew member earns an average of $10.62 per hour. [12]
Last Accessed: Mar 23, 2021
A fast food attendant at McDonald's earns an average of $10.13 per hour. [12]
Last Accessed: Mar 23, 2021
A cook at McDonald's earns an average of $9.55 per hour. [12]
Last Accessed: Mar 23, 2021
A team trainer at McDonald's earns an average of $9.33 per hour. [12]
Last Accessed: Mar 23, 2021
A McDonald's cashier earns an average of $10.93 per hour. [12]
Last Accessed: Mar 23, 2021
A shift manager at McDonald's earns an average of $11.93 per hour. [12]
Last Accessed: Mar 23, 2021
A general manager at McDonald's earns an average of $15.10 per hour. [12]
Last Accessed: Mar 23, 2021
An assistant manager at McDonald's earns an average of $12.41 per hour. [12]
Last Accessed: Mar 23, 2021
1 in every 8 workers in the U.S. has been employed by McDonald's at one point. [13]
Date: Apr 20, 2012
The workforce at McDonald's is estimated to have a 150% turnover rate. [13]
Date: Apr 20, 2012
Mcdonalds Miscellaneous Statistics
McDonald's serves 25 million customers each day. [14]
Date: Jun 18, 2020
McDonald's had sold over 99 billion burgers by 1994 when they stopped announcing the numbers. [15]
Date: Sep 25, 2020
McDonald's sells 75 burgers every second or 2.36 billion burgers a year. [16]
Date: Nov 19, 2013
McDonald's is the largest purchaser of beef, pork and potatoes in the U.S. [17]
Last Accessed: Nov 18, 2020
McDonald's restaurants in the U.S. use over 1 million pounds of beef every year, amounting to 5.5 million head of cattle. [18]
Date: Apr 30, 2012
McDonald's buys 3.4 billion pounds of potatoes every year. [19]
Date: Jan 17, 2018
McDonald's serves more than 9 million pounds of fries every day. [19]
Date: Jan 17, 2018
McDonald's is the second largest purchaser of chicken in the U.S. [17]
Last Accessed: Nov 18, 2020
McDonald's uses more than 2 billion eggs in the U.S. alone. This amounts to nearly 5% of all eggs produced in the country. [20]
Date: Sep 9, 2015
McDonald's announced it intends to switch to using cage-free eggs by 2025. [21]
Date: Sep 9, 2015
McDonald's serves more than 500 million cups of coffee every year. [19]
Date: Jan 17, 2018
McDonald's had a revenue of $27 billion in 2011, making it the 90th largest economy in the world at the time. [22]
Date: Apr 20, 2012
McDonald's is the largest distributor of toys in the world. [16]
Date: Nov 19, 2013
Ray Kroc acquired the rights to the McDonald's company from Dick and Mac McDonald in 1961 for $2.7 million (about $23.6 million today). [23]
Last Accessed: Nov 18, 2020
2,400 quality checks are carried out per day during beef patty production at Cargill, McDonald's supplier of beef. [24]
Date: Oct 11, 2016
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