The McNugget is a small piece of finely minced chicken meat held together with phosphate salts. The pieces are coated with batter, lightly fried to set the batter, individually quick frozen, packaged, and sent to stores. At the McDonalds stores, the McNuggets are deep-fried and sold. In November 2003, McDonald's switched to using all white meat for McNuggets instead of the traditional combination of white and dark meat. This was heavily promoted as an effort to improve the item's flavor. McDonald's state that they use mechanically rec ...

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McDonald's brand is in 122 countries around the world. Thirty thousand locations serve 51 million customers each day. More than 70 percent of McDonald's restaurants around the world are owned and operated by independent local businesspeople. In addition, the company operates other restaurant brands, such as Aroma Café, Boston Market, Chipotle Mexican Grill, and has a minority stake in Pret a Manger. Until December 2003 it also owned Donatos Pizza. It also has a subsidiary, Redbox, which in 2003 started as 18-foot wide automated convenience stores, b ...

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McDonald's faces varying problems. Some of these are unique to franchising. As one of the world's largest and best recognized franchise systems, it must endeavour to successfully deal with matters of internal cohesion between the interests of its franchisees and that of the franchisor. At the same time, its global reach and broadly standard product line and level of service have led to McDonald's becoming the target of anti-globalization protests, and as the highest-profile fast food company, it is often blamed for obesity and excessive packaging waste. Its moves to protect its reputation and trademarks ...

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The name of the meal differs internationally. In Japan, it was called Okosama Lunch from 1987 to 1988, then Okosama Set from 1988 to 1995 (Okosama is a polite word for "child"). It has been Happy Set ever since. Toys differ. In Japan, unique toys were offered from 1987 to 1996. ...

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The original character and design of American advertising icon Ronald McDonald, including facial design and costume (featuring "french-fry bag pockets" and "food-tray hat"), were created by George Voorhees, a professional clown, for a hired performance at a local Los Angeles, California area McDonald's restaurant. The performer was subsequently legally enjoined from performing as, or exhibiting the likeness of, the character in any form. The first live television appearance of Ronald McDonald was by local TV personality Ray Ray ...

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Some observers have suggested that many of McDonald's innovations have become commonplace and are no longer seen as such, and that the company should be given credit for increasing the standard of service in markets it enters. A group of anthropologists in a study entitled Golden Arches East (Stanford University Press, 1998, edited by James L. Watson) looked at the impact McDonald's had had on East Asia, and Hong Kong in particular. Among the findings were that McDonald's had solved the problem of losing face for many customers (who m ...

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The first McDonald's was not a restaurant at all, but a walk-up hamburger stand. The company's early franchises were built to a standard pattern that did not offer seating; this was in part to prevent loitering. However, the potential of sit-down restaurants was clear from the beginning, and the company switched to a new standard design for sit-down restaurants in 1967, upon which current standalone restaurants are still based. The company introduced the Drive-Thru in 1975, following the lead of competitor Wendy's, rapidly adding it to existi ...

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Current members of the board of directors of McDonald's are: Hall Adams, Edward Brennan, Robert Eckert, Enrique Hernandez, Richard Lenny, Walter Massey, Andrew McKenna, Cary McMillan, Michael J. Roberts, John W. Rogers, James A. Skinner, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Roger W. Stone ...

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McDonald's faces varying problems. Some of these are unique to franchising. As one of the world's largest and best recognized franchise systems, it must endeavour to successfully deal with matters of internal cohesion between the interests of its franchisees and that of the franchisor. As the world's largest restaurant chain, McDonald's also finds itself a target for external criticism. Even though its foreign franchise locations are usually locally owned and use locally-produced foods, the company is seen as a symbol of American domination of economic resources. Urban legends about the company and its food are plentiful and it ...

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The McCafe is a bistro-like restaurant concept by McDonald's Corporation in an effort to gain a share of the ever popular and expanding gourmet coffee market. With comfortable leather chairs and couches, natural wood accents, and bistro style tables, the ambience is that of a typical modern coffee shop. Dine-in patrons forego the plastic trays and paper wrappers for the more elegant china plates and stainless steel silverware. The menu boasts the standard bistro fare, including paninis, coffee and espresso drinks, and baked goods and pastries, and all menu items are available for take-out. House coffee blends are sold both n ...

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McDonald's brand is in 122 countries around the world. Thirty thousand locations serve 51 million customers each day. More than 70 percent of McDonald's restaurants around the world are owned and operated by independent local businesspeople. In addition, the company operates other restaurant brands, such as Aroma Café, Boston Market, Chipotle Mexican Grill, and has a minority stake in Pret a Manger. Until December 2003 it also owned Donatos Pizza. It also has a subsidiary, Redbox, which in 2003 started as 18-foot wide automated convenience stores, b ...

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McDonald's - Food offered at most U.S. McDonald's outlets. Hamburger A.K.A Junior Burger: One piece of regular meat, mustard, ketchup, onions, and a pickle slice on a regular bun. Cheeseburger: One piece of regular meat, mustard, ketchup, onions, and a pickle slice on a regular bun with a slice of American cheese. Double Cheeseburger: Two pieces of regular meat with mustard, ketchup, onions, two pickle slices, and two slices of American cheese, which separate the two pieces of meat, all on ...

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McDonald's has become emblematic of globalization, sometimes referred as The Mcdonaldization of society. The Economist magazine uses the "Big Mac index" (the price of a Big Mac) as an informal measure of purchasing power parity among world currencies. Thomas Friedman suggested that no countries with McDonald's had gone to war with each other. His theory ("Golden Arches" theory) seemed to have been disproved when NATO bombed Serbia in 1999, although it was pointed out in The Economist that NATO itself has no McDonald's. McDonald's remai ...

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McDonald's has been the target of criticism for allegations of exploitation of entry-level workers, use of sweatshop labor to produce "happy meal" toys, ecological damage caused by agricultural production and industrial processing of its products, selling unhealthy food, production of packaging waste, exploitative advertising (especially targeted at children, minorities, and low-income people), and contributing to suffering and exploitation of livestock. McDonald's' historic tendency towards promoting high-calorie foods such as French fries has earn ...

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McDonald's - U.S. state variations. Crabcake: exclusive to the Delaware region of the U.S.. Lobster Roll: exclusive to the New England region of the U.S.. Tillamook ice cream: a Northwest exclusive. Touchdown Burger: a Wisconsin exclusive. Johnsonville Brats: a Wisconsin exclusive. Green Chili: a New Mexico exclusive. Texas Homestyle Burger: a Texas exclusive. Hawaiian franchisers offer SPAM or Portuguese sausage with eggs and white rice on their breakfast ...

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The term Happy Meal is also a name given to an ethernet adapter used in Sun Microsystems machines. The interface name is shown as hme when one views the interfaces via the ifconfig command. See also Big Mac ...

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McDonald's Chairman Fred Turner approached one of his suppliers in 1979 and requested “I want a chicken finger-food the size of your thumb. Can you do it?” The McNugget was quickly invented thereafter. They were introduced in 1983, after the chain's first attempt at a chicken product, the McChicken sandwich, was withdrawn after disappointing sales. (It was later reintroduced after the success of Chicken McNuggets.) In certain McDonald franchises, the McChicken sandwich was adapted to appeal to the local population's tastes. For ex ...

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