Drew's Fun and Freakish Factoids!

DREW KEVLAR'S SLIGHTLY FRIVOLOUS FACTOIDS

There are 31,000 McDonalds world round

McDonalds is active in 119 countries on 6 continents

McDonalds serves 47 million customers everyday

Excerpt from McDonalds.com FAQ page: Our global rainforest policy is simple: we do not purchase beef from rainforests or recently deforested land. This rain forest policy is strictly enforced and closely monitored. Any McDonald's supplier that is found to deviate from the policy or cannot prove compliance will be immediately discontinued.

Another Excerpt from McDonalds.com FAQ page: Yes. McDonald's hamburgers are made with 100% beef - no additives or fillers- and seasoned only with salt and pepper. At McDonald's, we use only quality beef and other raw ingredients. McDonald's hamburgers are made from the same cuts of meat that you would buy at your local supermarket. (they really are digging their own grave)

A third excerpt from the McDonalds.com FAQ page this one on who they get their supplies from: At McDonald's, we essentially shop where you shop. Brand names that you'll find behind the counter at our restaurants include: Coca-Cola, Danone, Heinz, McCain, Minute Maid, Mother Parker's, Nestle, Quaker and Saputo.

In 2005, McDonald's purchased more than $700 million worth of food and paper goods from their Canadian suppliers - that's more than 90 per cent of their total purchases for that year.

A fourth Excerpt from the McDonald’s FAQ page: Serving our customers a great tasting, quality meal is our top priority. All menu items at McDonald's are prepared for our customers under a carefully monitored process using specialized equipment. For example, we conduct a series of tests and restaurant audits every day to ensure that our procedures are being followed and our high standards are being met. We train our crew members on food safety and food handling processes.Trainees work shoulder-to-shoulder with crew trainers while they learn the operational skills necessary for running each of the 25 positions in our restaurant - from front counter to the grill area.

Anotherr Excerpt: McDonald's meets or exceeds the strict standards set by all appropriate government and regulatory bodies. For example, our beef is purchased only from government inspected and approved facilities. At McDonald's, we impose our own high standards on ourselves and our suppliers. These self-imposed standards are often more rigorous than those imposed on us by government and regulatory bodies.

McDonald's has sold well over 100 billion hamburgers. This fact really isn't all that shocking when you think about all the locations around the world. In fact, there are over 30,000 locations. That's a lot of burgers being served up everyday.

The most popular international McDonald's location is located in Moscow. The location is found on Pushkin Square and serves an outstanding number of people each day. In fact, this one location serves an amazing 40,000 people each day

One out of Every Eight People Have Worked There This is an interesting fact that many people find hard to believe. But, it's true. And, believe or not, many of the people who have worked at McDonald's say that there are many benefits to working for this fast food giant.

McDonald's restaurants will buy 54,000,000 pounds of fresh apples this year. Two years ago, McDonald's purchased 0 pounds of apples. This is attributed to the shift to more healthy menu options.

Sarah Michelle Gellar was sued by McDonalds at the age of four. She appeared in a Burger King advert where she said, “Do I look 20 per cent smaller to you? I must have at McDonalds because their hamburgers are 20 per cent smaller than Burger King’s.” It was the first time a company used another company’s name in an advert so McDonald’s sued Burger King, the advertising agency, and Sarah herself.

To mega-Ronald you are all fries

Every four hours a new McDonalds opens somewhere.

The oldest building housing a McDonalds has a structure dating back to the thirteenth century and is located in Shrewsbury, England.

In Japan Ronald McDonald is known as Donald McDonald, or Uncle McDonald.

Just as cultural food tastes differ so does cultural McDonald's menus; enjoying a large variety such as salmon, beer, rice, pork burgers and even spaghetti.

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.

The smallest McDonald's restaurant measures only 492 square feet and is on the Ginza in Tokyo, Japan.

In Australia 52% of all women and 67% of all men over 25 are obese

While china has a relatively small amount of obese people their percentage has increased exponentially in 1991 12.9% of Chinese citizens were obese in 2004 the number had increased to 27.3%. However this is mostly due to the decrease of jobs involving heavy labor in china over recent years

Obesity in all of Europe has been measured many times but the results oppose each other 10-27% of all men and 10-38% of all women are obese

In India men of any class are usually obese in 5% of all classes, where as women of upper or middle class are at 7-12% where as in the slums it is .9% which is so low it is dangerous

As of 2008 Iran’s men are obese 14.5% of the times women are 39.5%

Japan has had the largest percentage increase in weight in 1962 3.2% of all citizens were overweight today that number has increased since to 30%

Mexico has an obesity rate of 24.2%

94.5% of nauru’s citizens are obese giving it the highest obesity rate ever

Obesity rates in American are at 30% for all groups except African American women who have a 50% obesity weight. Oddly enough the obesity rate is highest in the deep south which is the area with the most active average work day.