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The first McDonald’s drive-through was created in 1975 in Sierra Vista, Arizona, near Fort Huachuca, a military installation, to serve military members who were not permitted to get out of their cars off-post while wearing fatigues.
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Since 2007, all of McDonald’s delivery trucks in the UK have been fueled by used cooking oil from their restaurants.
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We’re used to the prototypical McDonald’s restaurant over the years. Golden arches, red and yellow color scheme, maybe a play area for the kiddos outside.
They’re all pretty uniform for the most part… or are they?
Well, we’re here to give you a reality check, friends! Because here are some photos of McDonald’s from all over the world that are totally unique.
Take a look and enjoy!
It really does look like a retirement home.
Trying to explain the Freeport McDonald’s to a friend. It looks like a funeral home outside and a retirement home inside pic.twitter.com/cOeJfNnk4b
— sloppy wizard (@katrinkanova) May 9, 2020
Glad this one wasn’t demolished.
The McDonald’s in New Hyde Park, NY, called Denton House. Built in 1795 as a farmhouse, remodeled in ~1860 into a mansion. McDonald’s wanted to demolish it in ‘85 but residents fought for 3 years to secure historic designation pic.twitter.com/WHxalXzIjN
— Chelsea the Park Hopper (@parkhopperco) May 9, 2020
Have a presidential Big Mac.
There’s a McDonald’s in Hangzhou, China they put in the former residence of a Taiwanese president and I ate there because I’m a weak American who needed fries pic.twitter.com/RRg2hMnQOl
— Goindown2Shambletown (@Gentlemenhugs) May 9, 2020
That’s really awesome!
Art Deco McDonald’s. Location Melbourne Australia pic.twitter.com/u6ZjbNZqvF
— Ⓥ Soy Boy (@_LeftistVegan) May 9, 2020
Deep in the heart of Ohio.
Independence, Ohio has entered the chat. I like to call it The Bank pic.twitter.com/oE3iyJQeuD
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(@freeallison_) May 9, 2020
Hmmmm, very strange…
May I present the South Park McDonald’s in Charlotte, church on the outside with a self-playing baby grand piano on the inside pic.twitter.com/9RimwuCB9V
— morgan thee socialist (@morganaeliza) May 9, 2020
Look closely and the pic is from 1993.
Flying Saucer in Cambridgeshire, UK pic.twitter.com/eybLmCYyx2
— K_Vo_ (@K_Vo_) May 9, 2020
First-class seating!
Taupo, NZ. There’s seating for eating inside the plane! pic.twitter.com/Ii4b6MoLtX
— melissa
(@pretty_pebbles4) May 9, 2020
In the City of Lights.
McDonald’s near Saint-Lazare train station in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. pic.twitter.com/9xGEPW6JOK
— Lunacie ?????? ???????? Isadora
(@LunacieIsadora) May 9, 2020
Douth thou have a Quarter Pounder?
We had a McDonald’s in Shrewsbury that looked normal from the outside but was actually built into the side of a 13th century medieval building. It had a whole suit of knight’s armour too but I can’t find a photo
pic.twitter.com/ucfncYOi3T
— emma (@emlbakr) May 9, 2020
Take it all in…
My friends were showing me around Porto, Portugal and told me “the McDonalds is the most beautiful you’ll ever see”
I was not disappointed pic.twitter.com/6gUfP6M5G8
— Bloomzy | Emma
(@bloomzy_) May 9, 2020
And I love the color!
Dreamy salmon pink McDonald’s in Belém, Portugal.
(Wish I had better pics of it, it was really pretty) pic.twitter.com/RapVMqMD26— ͏???? (@collard_greens) May 10, 2020
I guess not all McDonald’s restaurants are created equal, huh?
Have you ever been to an unusual McDonald’s location?
If you have, please tell us about it in the comments and share a photo if you have one.
Thanks!
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There is a McDonald’s in LA that serves no food. It is strictly for filming when the set needs to be McDonald’s.
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4 out of 5 millennials have never eaten a Big Mac before, showing how McDonald’s is struggling to compete with new, fast-casual burger joints.
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In 1984, Burger King ran an ad campaign with a character called “Mister Rodney” touting its superior cooking over McDonald’s. The campaign was stopped after Mister Rogers himself called Burger King’s vice president, who had the commercial taken off the air.
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In the 1980s there was a persistent rumour in the UK that McDonald’s was funding the Irish Republican Army. This was ultimately traced back to a U.S. talkshow where the company was praised for its generosity in funding Individual Retirement Accounts.
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McDonald’s, Chick-fil-A and Subway make over 6 figures from a single calorie. McDonald’s makes the most at $231,000 earned per calorie sold. In second and third place are Chick-fil-A and Subway.
Back when us olde rfolks were growing up in the 1980s and ’90s, going to McDonald’s was definitely not a twice or more a week sort of event that happened because mom (cough, cough) didn’t plan very well. Not by a long shot.
It was a special occasion that was fun and nutritious!
Well, maybe not nutritious. But definitely fun – at McDonald’s there was stuff to do and clowns to see and gifts to get.
Scroll with me down memory lane and see for yourself.
So many great toys that you couldn’t play with until you ate everything and drank all your soda because they didn’t have milk haha.
They smiled and wore nice smocks and they actually liked kids.
Photo Credit: Flickr
Sometimes our moms would take us there just to let us play when the weather was bad and we couldn’t stand to be indoors anymore. And someone would always leave their shoes in the cubby, lol.
Big Mac jail was fun. We would fight to see who would go in.
Photo Credit: Wikimedia
Times were tough back then. Not everyone had a new N64 with those super awesome graphics.
But McDonald’s had them for us to play with.
Yes, they were hard to sit on. Yes, they were super cool. Yes, you raced your sister to get your choice of seat.
Photo Credit: Yelp
An autumn essential presented to you by your favorite neighborhood McDonald’s.
It was good. Deal.
McDonald’s Pizza in the early 90’s. It was shockingly good from pics
I don’t know what to tell you children of 2000 and later. You missed the golden years of the golden arches. The food is still decent and you might get a smile from a cashier wearing a logo-ed golf shirt, but it’s not the dreamland of yesteryear.
We just didn’t know what we had.
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This is pretty cool!
Coffee beans and headlights don’t seem like a natural pairing, but McDonald’s and Ford are working to change that.
The two historic American companies have come together in a joint effort to drive sustainability initiatives in quite a unique way. This year, Ford began utilizing coffee chaff—the coffee bean skin that comes off during the roasting process—as a key component of its plastic headlamp housing. Naturally, the iconic car manufacturer turned to McDonald’s to steer them in the direction of the fast-food giant’s coffee bean suppliers.
As data showing the harmful effects of plastic pollution and carbon emissions makes its way into the public consciousness, there has been a trickle-down effect into the business world as well. Environmentally-conscious consumers continue to push for products that are comprised of sustainable materials.
Hence: coffee bean waste into plastic alternatives.
I’M LOVIN IT: Ford and McDonald’s partnering to convert coffee bean skin into car parts.
“Like McDonald’s, Ford is committed to minimizing waste. We’re always looking for innovative ways to further that goal.” – Ian Olson, senior director of global sustainability for McDonald’s pic.twitter.com/xR4DSalNII
— Mark Cavitt (@MarkCavitt) December 4, 2019
Debbie Miewelski, Ford’s senior technical leader of materials sustainability, explained that the coffee-containing version of the company’s headlamps is more sustainable than its traditional plastic and talc-based models due to its lighter weight. Additionally, talc is not a renewable component, whereas coffee chaff is widely available and has typically been discarded.
The coffee chaff innovation is just the latest in a long line of sustainability projects by Ford. Ford vehicles have featured soy-based foam in their cushions since 2011, and waste from wheat, coconut, tomato and other plants has been utilized in other Ford car components.
“If you came to our lab, it looks somewhere between a landfill and a farm,” Miewelski said.
When Ford decided coffee was its next fix, its team reached out to McDonald’s due to its scale and similar sustainability goals.
Ford and McDonald's are teaming up to make car parts out of recycled coffee beans pic.twitter.com/JX6MlDwDW9
— QuickTake by Bloomberg (@QuickTake) December 7, 2019
The gigantic fast-food restaurant chain achieved its goal of sourcing all of its U.S. coffee sustainability a year ahead of schedule in 2019. Their partnership with Ford will hopefully lead to more opportunities for crafting environmentally-friendly, sustainable products.
As Ian Olson, senior director of global sustainability at McDonald’s, said, “This is just scratching the surface of trying to understand what’s possible.”
Cheers to that!
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