Does Everyone Eat Mcdonald's Every day In America?

Laelia Yang June 16, 2022 | 04:12

It's no surprise that Americans love to visit McDonald's, with 18,332 locations across the United States alone. Do Americans eat McDonald's every day? Let's find out the answer!

America is a fast food nation. McDonald’s started modestly with two brothers from Manchester, New Hampshire heading out to California to start a small barbecue restaurant. Never could they have imagined that their humble business would turn into a staple of pop culture for generations globally with close to 37,000 locations across the globe.

Of course, as most people know from the recent docudrama “Founder,” the real jump start in McDonald’s growth in reach and footprint came in the mid-to-late 1950s when a traveling salesman, Ray Kroc, convinced the McDonald brothers to replicate their fast food concept and system by selling franchises across the country. This was the true beginning of the Mcdonald's as know it, but also the beginning of the end of the McDonald brothers’ involvement in their beloved restaurant.

McDonald’s serves a variety of menu options made with quality ingredients to more than 25 million customers every day. Ninety-five percent of McDonald’s 14,000 U.S. restaurants are independently owned and operated by businessmen and women.

So do Americans eat McDonald's every day? Let's explore!

Why fast food is so popular?

It's easy, it's filling, and it's convenient and inexpensive. Compared to other foods it's something that working people and ordinary people can go out and enjoy. Mcdonald's is the most popular fast-food chain. The all-American meal is a hamburger, fries, and a coke or a shake. McDonald's revolutionized fast food. They introduced a way to eat food without knives, forks, or plates. Most fast foods can be eaten while steering the wheel of a car and the restaurants are usually drive-through. The design of a fast-food restaurant is very well thought out. The seats in fast food restaurants are comfortable but not too comfortable and the colors are bright primary colors, which are designed to make you sit but eventually get up and leave. They don't want you to linger to long.

Fast food meals have come a long way from hamburgers. The new "wrap" concept is also considered fast food and is the newest concept in the fast-food business. The chicken nugget changed the way Americans ate chicken. The overwhelming majority of chicken sold is as chunks and processed meat as opposed to whole birds. In fast food, chicken has twice as much fat as hamburgers because they are fried. But continue to gain popularity with the public.

Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people don't seem to care about the fat aspect. Only a few fast food companies such as Kentucky Fried Chicken has changed its name (to KFC,) in order to be more responsible in the way the company is presented to the public.

How many McDonald's are there in the US?

There are 18,332 McDonald’s in North America as of February 2021. Within its home country, the USA, it operates 13,683 units spread across 4,649 cities.

As states and communities continue to re-open their economies, McDonald’s restaurants are expecting to hire approximately 260,000 restaurant employees in the U.S. this summer. This comes as McDonald’s restaurants begin to welcome customers back into dining rooms with extra precautions in place. McDonald’s has implemented nearly 50 new safety procedures to protect crew and customers. These include wellness and temperature checks, social distancing floor stickers, protective barriers at order points, masks and gloves for employees with the addition of new procedures, and training for the opening of dining rooms.California, Texas, Florida, Ohio, and New York are McDonald's biggest markets by number of restaurants.

How many McDonald’s are there in each state in the US?

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The country with the highest number of McDonald’s not just in North America, but worldwide, as expected, is the United States. As of 2019, McDonald’s is the leading quick-service restaurant chain in the United States in terms of systemwide sales, accounting for approximately $40.41 billion.

Visitors to McDonald's restaurants in Ohio and Florida are well on the way to reaching pre-pandemic levels, Placer.ai data shows, but footfall in California and New York is still substantially down.

And the data shows that the number of morning visits are growing now after falling in 2020, while the number of lunchtime visits actually boomed during the pandemic, but are dropping again now.

McDonald's said that although the number of total visitors are down, its US comparable sales in the first quarter topped pre-pandemic levels.

McDonald's average customers per day in the US

McDonald’s feeds 25 million people per day, which is about 7.5% of the US population. That equates to more than 75 hamburgers every minute globally. According to company estimates, one in every eight American workers has been employed by McDonald’s. For the next three years, McDonald’s is going to open one restaurant every day in China.

Americans on average consume nearly 30 pounds of French fries a year. Fried spuds don’t make a meal on their own: They also eat about three hamburgers a week, averaging 156 burgers per person a year (that’s more than 48 billion meaty hockey pucks). And many Americans get their fast-food fix–about 1 billion pounds of beef and 3.4 billion potatoes–at, you guessed it, McDonald’s.

Nearly nine in every 10 Americans order from McDonald's at least once a year, Joe Erlinger, the president of McDonald's USA said.

The chain owns 14,000 restaurants across the US – about one restaurant per 24,000 people.

Discussing the loyalty app that McDonald's plans to launch nationally later this year, Erlinger said a pilot in New England and Phoenix was well received by both restaurant operators and customers.

Does Everyone Eat Mcdonald's Every day In America?

45 million people each day visit a McDonald’s restaurant in the United States. That amounts to 15 million Americans eating at McDonald’s per hour, or 400 per second.

Americans make an average of 4 trips to McDonald’s every month, which amounts to 1 billion customer visits each year.

The company receives 2-3 applications for every job it posts.

Almost half of its employees have worked there for at least 10 years and one-third have been with McDonald’s for more than 20 years.

They also receive more than 3,000 résumés a day from people hoping to land jobs there! There are approximately 35,000 restaurants in 119 countries around the world; that is up from 30,000 restaurants as of 2009. Over 75% of their customers live within three miles of a McDonald’s.

In Hong Kong, they get 9 million orders daily… during breakfast hours. Do you know how your drive-thru line is always twice as long as you think it will be? It could be because about 25% of their sales come through the drive-thru windows!

What makes the typical McDonald's customer?

According to Business Insider, the typical McDonald's patron is a married Caucasian woman between the ages of 41 and 56, based on data from the analytics site Numerator. This particular type of customer lives in a suburban area around the Southeastern U.S., in a household with a general income of $80,000. She has some level of the college experience, perhaps with an undergraduate degree.

This typical customer, Business Insider continues, spends an average of $8.35 per visit and seems to be a fan of the breakfast food items such as sausage sandwiches and hash browns, or the lunchtime items such as french fries and crispy chicken sandwiches. As McDonald's breakfast items make up the half of the menu, despite all-day breakfast being suspended in March 2020 to simplify operational kitchen procedures (via TimeOut), this customer purchases a considerable amount of food, up to three items per visit. Within a year, the customer will take 144 stops to various fast-food restaurants, with one-third (or about 44 out of 144) of those visits being McDonald's-related. Business Insider concludes that this particular customer surely must be a frequent visitor to their local Mcdonald's, and her average spending on each of those trips is $11.99.

How Many Jobs Does McDonald’s Have in America

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Most people don’t realize just how much of an impact McDonald’s has on the economy and workforce.

With more than 14,000 restaurants in over 100 countries, nearly 3 million employees worldwide, and $27 billion in revenues, it’s no wonder why.
In fact, McDonald’s provides about 2% of all private-sector jobs in America—or 1 out of every 50 jobs.
To be clear, that amounts to well over 1 million U.S. workers who depend on McDonald’s for their livelihood…and that number is growing by thousands each year!

Disturbing Facts About McDonald’s

1. McDonald's' daily customer traffic (62 million) is more than the population of Great Britain.

2. McDonald's sells more than 75 hamburgers every second.

3. McDonald's feeds 68 million people per day, that's about 1 percent of the world's population.

4. McDonald's' $27 billion in revenue makes it the 90th-largest economy in the world.

5. The $8.7 billion in revenue from franchise stores alone, makes McDonald's richer than Mongolia.

6. McDonald's hires around 1 million workers in the US every year. This estimate from Fast Food Nation assumes a 700,000 domestic workforce with 150% turnover rate.

7. McDonald's has 761,000 employees worldwide, that's more than the population of Luxembourg.

8. According to company estimates, one in every eight American workers has been employed by McDonald's.

9. Sharon Stone worked at McDonald's before she was famous. So did Shania Twain, Jay Leno, Rachel McAdams and Pink.

10. McDonald's is the world's largest distributor of toys, with one included in 20 percent of all sales.

11. For the next three years, McDonald's is going to open one restaurant every day in China.

12. The only place in the lower 48 that is more than 100 miles from a McDonald's is a barren plain in South Dakota.

13. Americans alone consume one billion pounds of beef at McDonald's in a year – five and a half million head of cattle.

Where is the first McDonald’s located?

The first McDonald’s restaurant was established in 1948 in San Bernardino, California by brothers Maurice (Mac) and Richard McDonald. They bought appliances for their small burger place from salesman Ray Kroc, who got curious as to why the brothers needed the eighth malt and shake mixers.

When Kroc visited the brothers in 1954, he discovered a simple, efficient format that allowed the brothers to produce huge quantities of food at low prices. Kroc saw great potential in their restaurant concept so he offered to start a franchise program for the McDonald brothers. On April 15, 1955, he opened the first McDonald’s franchise in Des Plaines, Illinois, and eventually launched the McDonald’s corporation the same year, then bought out the McDonald’s brothers in 1961.