Place Facts About Business

In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".

The MGM Grand Hotel of Las Vegas washes 15,000 pillowcases per day!

Dell Computers was started by a 19 year old with only $1,000.

WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes!

In Australia, Burger King is called Hungry Jack's.

Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.

There are coffee houses in Russia where food and drink are free, but you pay for time.

In 21 U.S. states, WALMART is the single largest employer.

U-Haul is the world's largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages.

Samsung is also a full time weapons manufacturer.

Dunkin' Donuts rigged nearly 500 city buses across Seoul with hidden scent atomizers. Every time the Dunkin' jingle played on the radio, the bus filled with the smell of fresh coffee. Commuters would step off — right next to a Dunkin' location. Store visits near bus stops jumped 16%. Coffee sales shot up 29%.

There's a company in China that allows you to hire someone to stand in line for you for $3-$5 an hour.

A full-time cashier at Costco makes about $60,000 annually. The average wage at Costco is over $29 per hour, and the company provides benefits to the vast majority of its employees.

The upside-down ketchup bottle earned its inventor 13 million dollars.

The co-founder and CEO of SnapChat, 23-year-old Evan Spiegel, turned down an offer of $3 billion from Facebook and then a $4 billion bid from Google.

Nintendo has banked so much money, they could run a deficit of over $250 million every year and still survive until 2052.

Sales of the Guy Fawkes mask - used by protesters all over the world as a symbol of their fight against government corruption and corporate power - all go to Time Warner.

Japan has over 21,000 businesses that are more than 100 years old, more than any other country. Among them is Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, a hot spring hotel founded in 705 AD that holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest hotel in the world.