Fast Food Facts

A McDonald's Super Size meal (Big Mac, Super Size fries, and Super Size Coke) contained around 1,600 calories—requiring roughly 6-7 hours of walking to burn off.

McDonald's salads contain up to 60% more fat than their burgers!

The average American eats at McDonalds more than 1,800 times in their life.

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

Over 5.75 million Whopper sandwiches are sold at Burger King every day—that's 2.1 billion a year!

The first Ronald McDonald was Willard Scott in 1963.

In 2007, a customer kindly gave a $10,000 tip to a Pizza Hut waitress after hearing she had financial troubles which had forced her to drop out of college.

Every day, 1% of the world's population is served at McDonald's.

The first McDonald’s drive-thru was opened near a military base in Arizona “to serve soldiers who weren’t permitted to get out of their cars while wearing fatigues.”

McDonald's serves 75 hamburgers every second, according to the company’s Operations and Training Manual.

Instead of McDonald's tearing down a ~230-year-old Georgian mansion, citizens of a small NY town forced them to renovate it instead, resulting in a uniquely historic franchise location.