List of countries with McDonald's restaurants
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Traded as | NYSE: MCD Dow Jones Industrial Average Component S&P 500 Component |
Industry | Restaurants |
Founded | May 15, 1940San Bernardino, California April 15, 1955 (as McDonald's Corporation) in Des Plaines, Illinois |
(as McDonald's) in
Founders | McDonald's: Richard and Maurice McDonald McDonald's Corporation: Ray Kroc |
Headquarters | Oak Brook, Illinois, U.S. |
Number of locations
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36,525 worldwide (6,444 company-owned and 30,081 franchised)[1] |
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Worldwide |
Key people
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Andrew J. McKenna (Chairman) Steve Easterbrook (President and CEO) |
Products | Hamburgers, chicken, french fries, soft drinks, coffee, milkshakes, salads, desserts |
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Number of employees
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420,000 (2015)[2] |
Slogan | I'm Lovin' It |
Website | www www |
This is a listing of countries with McDonald's restaurants. McDonald's is the largest chain of fast food restaurants in the world.[3] It has more than 35,000 outlets worldwide.[4] The majority of McDonald's outlets outside of the United States are franchises.
The biggest temporary McDonald's in the world was opened during 2012 Summer Olympics in London, which had Lua error in Module:Convert at line 272: attempt to index local 'cat' (a nil value)..[5][5][6][7][8][9] [10] The biggest still standing is probably that at Will Rogers Turnpike.[10]
The list of countries follows the company's own calculation, and contains several non-sovereign territories.
Contents
Countries and territories with a McDonald's outlet
# | Country/Territory | Date | First outlet location | Number of currently operating outlets | Source and date of source | Notes | CEO | |
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1 | United States | May 16, 1940 | San Bernardino, California | 14,267 | (source: McDonald's 2013) | See McDonald's USA | Don Thompson | |
2 | Canada | June 3, 1967 | Richmond, British Columbia | 1,427 | (source: McDonald's 2013) | See McDonald's Canada | John Betts | |
3 | Puerto Rico | December 6, 1967 | San Juan | 108 | (source: McDonald's 2013) | First McDonald's in Latin America and in the Caribbean. Left in 1974 after labor dispute, but returned with non-union labor in 1980. See McDonald's Puerto Rico | ||
4 | U.S. Virgin Islands | September 5, 1970 | St. Croix | 6 | (source: McDonald's 2013) | |||
5 | Costa Rica | December 8, 1970 | San Jose, 4th street, between 1st and Central Avenue. | 54 | (source: McDonald's 2013) | Third country (not U.S. possession) and first outlet outside Northern America where McDonald's opened. See McDonald's Costa Rica | ||
6 | Australia | May 30, 1971 | Yagoona, New South Wales[11] | 920 | (source: McDonald's 2013) | First outlet in Oceania and first outlet outside the Americas. See McDonald's Australia. | ||
7 | Guam | June 10, 1971 | Dededo | 8 | (source: McDonald's 2013) | |||
8 | Japan | July 21, 1971 | Tokyo | 2,975 | (source: McDonald's 2015) | First outlet in Asia, see McDonald's Japan; McDonald's Holdings Company Japan, Inc.[12] | ||
9 | Netherlands | August 21, 1971 | Zaandam | 236 | (source: McDonald's 2013) | First outlet in Europe. Plans to open 15 more in next 3 years. See McDonald's Netherlands | ||
10 | Panama | September 1, 1971 | Panama City | 57 | (source: McDonald's 2013) | See McDonald's Panama | ||
11 | Germany | November 22, 1971 | Munich | 1,477 | (source: McDonald's June 2015) | First outlet in West Germany. Outlets in the New states of Germany opened in 1991. See McDonald's Germany | ||
12 | France | June 30, 1972 | Créteil | 1,300+ | (source: McDonald's June 2015) | First outlet in Creteil in 1972 even though McDonald's officially recognizes the first outlet in Strasbourg in 1979. See McDonald's France. | ||
13 | El Salvador | July 20, 1972 | San Salvador | 13 | (source: McDonald's 2013) | Left in 1980 during the Salvadorian Civil War, but returned after the war in 1992. | ||
14 | Sweden | October 27, 1973 | Kungsgatan 4, Stockholm | 230 | (source: December 2014) | First outlet in Scandinavia. See McDonald's Sweden | ||
15 | Guatemala | June 6, 1974 | Guatemala City | 76 | (source: McDonald's 2013) | See McDonald's Guatemala | ||
16 | Curacao | August 16, 1974 | Willemstad | 5 | (source: McDonald's 2013) | |||
17 | United Kingdom | England: 13 November 1974 [13] Wales: 3 December 1984 Scotland: 23 November 1987 Northern Ireland: 12 October 1991 |
Woolwich, London | 1,240 | (source: McDonald's 2015) | Includes Isle of Man and Jersey (1 each) England: 1,038 Scotland: 95 Wales: 62 Northern Ireland: 26 See McDonald's UK |
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18 | Hong Kong Hong Kong |
January 8, 1975 | Paterson Street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island.[14] | 237 | R(source: McDonald's 2013) | Then a British Crown colony/Dependent Territory. See Hong Kong | ||
19 | Bahamas | August 4, 1975 | Nassau | 3 | (source: Dec. 2012) | First outlet in an independent country of the Caribbean. | ||
20 | New Zealand | June 7, 1976 | Porirua Central, Wellington[15] | 162 | (source: McDonald's 2013) | Founded in New Zealand by Wally and Hugh Morris[16] First South Island restaurants opened at Linwood and Merivale, both Christchurch, on 3 November 1987.[17] See McDonald's New Zealand. |
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21 | Switzerland | October 20, 1976 | Geneva | 157 | (source: McDonald's 2013) | see McDonald's Switzerland | ||
22 | Ireland | May 9, 1977 | Grafton Street, Dublin | 84 | (source: McDonald's 2013) | First drive-thru in Europe opened in Nutgrove, Dublin and first McCafé in Europe Grafton Street, Dublin, see McDonald's Ireland | ||
23 | Austria | July 21, 1977 | Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna | 189 | (source: McDonald's 2013) | see McDonald's Austria | ||
24 | Belgium | March 21, 1978 | Brussels | 67 | (source: McDonald's 2013) | see McDonald's Belgium u | ||
25 | Brazil | February 13, 1979 | Rio de Janeiro | 812 | (source: McDonald's 2013) | First outlet in South America. See McDonald's Brazil | ||
26 | Singapore | October 20, 1980 | Liat Towers, Orchard Road | 125 | (source: Dec. 2012) | First outlet in Southeast Asia. See McDonald's Singapore | ||
27 | Spain | March 10, 1981 | Gran Vía, Madrid | 481 | (source: March. 2015) | First outlet in the Iberian Peninsula, see McDonald's Spain | ||
28 | Denmark | April 15, 1981 | Vesterbrogade 2D, Copenhagen | 88 | (source: Dec. 2012) | See McDonald's Denmark | ||
29 | Philippines | September 27, 1981 | Morayta, Sampaloc, Manila | 400+ | (source: Jan. 2014) | See McDonald's Philippines | ||
30 | Malaysia | April 29, 1982 | Jalan Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur[18] | 314 | (source: June 2013) | First outlet in a Muslim-majority country. See McDonald's Malaysia | ||
31 | Norway | November 18, 1983 | Nedre Slottsgate, Oslo | 74 | (source: Dec. 2012) | see McDonald's Norway | ||
32 | Taiwan | January 28, 1984 | Taipei City, Taiwan | 413 | (source: 2015) | Left in 1992 during investigations of restaurant bombings in Taiwan, but returned that same year after investigations concluded. See McDonald's Taiwan | ||
33 | Andorra | June 29, 1984 | Andorra la Vella | 4 | (source: 2014)[19] | |||
34 | Finland | December 14, 1984 | Tampere | 83 | (source: Dec. 2012) | see McDonald's Finland | ||
35 | Thailand | February 23, 1985 | Bangkok | 202 | (source: 2014) | see McDonald's Thailand | ||
36 | Aruba | April 4, 1985 | Oranjestad | 3 | (source: Dec. 2012) | |||
37 | Luxembourg | July 17, 1985 | Luxembourg City | 9 | (source: 2013) | see McDonald's Luxembourg | ||
38 | Venezuela | August 31, 1985 | Caracas | 140 | (source: 2013 website) | see McDonald's Venezuela | ||
39 | Italy | October 15, 1985 | Piazza Walter, Bolzano | 512 | (source: March. 2015) website | see McDonald's Italy | ||
40 | Mexico | October 29, 1985 | Mexico City | 402 | (source: Dec. 2012) | see McDonald's Mexico | ||
41 | Cuba | April 24, 1986 | Guantanamo Bay | 1 | (source: Dec. 2012) | Guantanamo Bay - Open only to base personnel. | ||
42 | Turkey | October 24, 1986 | Istanbul | 230+ | (source: April 2014)[20] | see McDonald's Turkey. First outlet in the Greater Middle East. | ||
43 | Argentina | November 24, 1986 | Belgrano, Buenos Aires | 209 | (source: Dec. 2012) | see McDonald's Argentina. | ||
44 | Macau Macau, China |
April 11, 1987 | Rua do Campo, Cathedral Parish, Macau Peninsula | 27 | (source: Dec. 2012) | Then Portuguese territory; McDonald's would only open a restaurant in Portugal itself 4 years later. see List of restaurants. | ||
45 | Yugoslavia |
March 24, 1988 | Slavija Square, Belgrade | 23 | (source: November 2015)[21] | First outlet in a communist country and first outlet in the Balkans. See McDonald's Serbia | ||
46 | South Korea | March 29, 1988 | Gangnam District, Seoul | 415 | (source: January 2016) | See McDonald's South Korea | ||
47 | Hungary | April 13, 1988 | Budapest[22] | 100 | (source: May 2014)[23] | Second communist country, first Warsaw Pact member, thus first outlet behind the Iron Curtain. See McDonald's Hungary | ||
48 | Soviet Union Russia |
January 31, 1990 | Pushkin Square, Moscow | 510 | (source:July 2015)[24] | See McDonald's Russia | ||
49 | China | October 8, 1990 | Shenzhen | 2,000+ | (source: May 2014)[25] | See McDonald's China. | ||
50 | Chile | November 19, 1990 | Santiago de Chile | 77 | (source: Dec. 2012) | See McDonald's Chile | ||
51 | Indonesia | February 23, 1991 | Sarinah, Jakarta | 160 | (source: 2014) | See McDonald's Indonesia | Sukowati Sosrodjojo | |
52 | Portugal | May 23, 1991 | CascaiShopping, Cascais | 151 | (source: Sep. 2015) | See McDonald's Portugal | ||
53 | Greece | November 12, 1991 | Athens Syntagma Sq. | 22 | (source: August 2015) | |||
54 | Uruguay | November 18, 1991 | Montevideo | 21 | (source: 2014) | |||
55 | Martinique | December 16, 1991 | Fort-de-France | |||||
56 | Czechoslovakia Czech Republic |
March 20, 1992 | Vodičkova street, Prague | 94 | (source: Feb. 2015 ) | See McDonald's Czech Republic | ||
57 | Guadeloupe | April 8, 1992 | ||||||
58 | Poland | June 18, 1992 | Marszałkowska Street, Warsaw | 359 | (source: July 2015) | See McDonald's Poland | ||
59 | Monaco | November 20, 1992 | Monte Carlo | 4 | ||||
60 | Brunei | December 12, 1992 | Bandar Seri Begawan | 1 | (source: 2004) | |||
61 | Morocco | December 18, 1992 | Casablanca | 34 | (source: July 2014[26]) | First outlet in Africa - McDonald's is now present in all continents except Antarctica. | ||
62 | Northern Marianas | March 18, 1993 | Saipan | 2 | (source:August 2011) | First outlet opened on the island of Saipan - Along with the a second outlet in 1997 | ||
63 | Israel | October 14, 1993 | Ayalon Mall, Ramat Gan | 180 | (source: Aug 2014) | First outlet in the Middle East. See McDonald's Israel | ||
64 | Slovenia | December 2, 1993 | In Čopova Street, Ljubljana | 16 | (source: 2014) | See McDonald's Slovenia | ||
65 | Saudi Arabia | December 8, 1993 | Riyadh | 221 | (source: 2015) | See McDonald's Saudi Arabia | ||
66 | Kuwait | June 15, 1994 | 67 | (source: 2011) | ||||
67 | New Caledonia | July 26, 1994 | Nouméa | 2 | (source: 2012) | |||
68 | Oman | July 30, 1994 | 15 | (source: 2014) | ||||
69 | Egypt | October 20, 1994 | Cairo | 72 | (source: 2012) | |||
70 | Bulgaria | December 10, 1994 | Sofia | 42 | (source: 2011) | See McDonald's Bulgaria | ||
71 | Bahrain | December 15, 1994 | Muharraq City | 17 | (source: 2014) | Bahrain | ||
72 | Latvia | December 15, 1994 | Riga | 12 | (source: June 2012)[27] | First outlet in the Baltics. | ||
73 | United Arab Emirates | December 21, 1994 | Abu Dhabi | 110 | (source: 2013) | See McDonald's UAE | ||
74 | Estonia | April 29, 1995 | Tallinn | 10 | (source: June 2015)[28] See | See McDonald's Estonia | ||
75 | Romania | June 16, 1995 | Bucharest | 68 | (source: 2010) | See McDonald's Romania | ||
76 | Malta | July 7, 1995 | 8 | (source: 2012, 9 in Malta, 1 in Gozo) | ||||
77 | Colombia | July 14, 1995 | Centro Andino, Bogota | 81 | (source: July 2013) | See McDonald's Colombia | ||
78 | Slovakia | October 14, 1995 | Banská Bystrica | 30 | (source: 2015) | See McDonald's Slovakia | ||
79 | South Africa | November 11, 1995 | 200+ | (source: 2014) | See McDonald's South Africa | |||
80 | Qatar | December 13, 1995 | 25 | (source: 2014) | Qatar | |||
81 | Honduras | December 14, 1995 | Tegucigalpa | 8 | ||||
82 | Sint Maarten | December 15, 1995 | Philipsburg | 3 | (source: December 2013) | |||
83 | Croatia | February 2, 1996 | Zagreb | 25 | (source: 2015)[29] | See McDonald's Croatia | Pavel Pavliček | Globalna Hrana d.o.o. (DL) |
84 | Samoa | March 2, 1996 | Apia | 1 | D.Williams | |||
85 | Fiji Islands | May 1, 1996 | Suva | 3 | (source: 2001) | As of April 2012, Fiji is the only country in the world to still use the 2003 "i'm lovin' it" packaging, even though the other countries are using the 2008 packaging for meals and items. | ||
86 | Liechtenstein | May 3, 1996 | Vaduz | 3 | (source: 2014) | |||
87 | Lithuania | May 31, 1996 | Vilnius | 11 | (source: 2015)[30] | See McDonald's Lithuania | ||
88 | Cyprus | June 12, 1996 | 18 | (source: 2011) | See McDonald's Cyprus | |||
89 | India | October 13, 1996[31] | Delhi | 250+ | (source: 2013)[32] | First outlet in South Asia. See McDonald's India | ||
90 | Peru | October 18, 1996 | Lima | 40 | (source: 2014) | See McDonald's Peru | ||
91 | Jordan | November 7, 1996 | Amman | 24 | (source: 2015) | |||
92 | Paraguay | November 21, 1996 | Asuncion | 11 | (source: 2011) | |||
93 | Dominican Republic | November 30, 1996 | Santo Domingo | 31 | 2 Country With Most locations Of McDonald's In The Caribbean After Puerto Rico. | |||
94 | French Polynesia | December 10, 1996 | Tahiti | 6 | ||||
95 | Belarus | December 10, 1996 | Minsk | 8 | (source: November 2014) | The company claimed this as McDonald's "100th country" although this calculation included many non-sovereign territories even though McDonald's shut down in Iceland in 2009 it is the 99th country as of November 1, 2009.See McDonald's Belarus. | ||
96 | Ukraine | May 24, 1997 | Kiev | 76 | (source: September 2015) | All three restaurants in the peninsula of Crimea were closed in 2014. See McDonald's Ukraine | ||
97 | Jersey | August 1, 1997 | Saint Helier | 1 | ||||
98 | Ecuador | October 9, 1997 | 6 de Diciembre Avenue, Quito | 27 | (source: 2014) | |||
99 | Reunion | December 14, 1997 | Saint-Denis | |||||
100 | Isle of Man | December 15, 1997 | Douglas | 1 | ||||
101 | Suriname | December 18, 1997 | Paramaribo | 2 | (source: 2010) | |||
102 | Moldova | April 30, 1998 | Chisinau | 6 | (source: June 2014) | |||
103 | Nicaragua | July 11, 1998 | Managua | 6 | (source: June 2010) | McDonald's outlets ceased operation during the Nicaraguan civil war and re-established a presence in 1998 after an absence of two decades. | ||
104 | Lebanon | September 18, 1998 | Beirut | 33 | (source: 2013) | |||
105 | Pakistan | September 19, 1998[33] | Karachi | 33 | (source: 2014) | McDonald's Pakistan | ||
106 | Sri Lanka | October 16, 1998 | Colombo | 7 | March 4, 2013 | |||
107 | Georgia | February 5, 1999 | Rustaveli Avenue, Tbilisi | 9 | (source: 2015) | First outlet in the Caucasus. See McDonald's Georgia | ||
108 | San Marino | July 6, 1999 | Borgo Maggiore | 1 | (source: 2010) | |||
109 | Gibraltar | August 13, 1999 | 1 | |||||
110 | Azerbaijan | November 6, 1999 | Baku | 11 | (source: 2014)[34] | |||
111 | French Guiana | February 22, 2000 | Cayenne | |||||
112 | American Samoa | September 29, 2000 | 2 | (source: 2008) | ||||
113 | Mauritius | July 4, 2001 | Port Louis | 3 | ||||
114 | Mayotte | May 1, 2003 | Mamoudzou | |||||
115 | Iraq | August 10, 2006 | Baghdad | 1 | (source: 2006) | One location in Baghdad for the U.S. Army, but there is also a knockoff called MaDonal. | ||
116 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | July 21, 2011[35] | Sarajevo | 5 | (source: 2012) | After some 10 years of trying to enter the Bosnian market with no success, McDonald's opened its first restaurant in BiH on 20 July 2011 | ||
117 | Trinidad and Tobago | August 2011 | the Falls at West Mall, Westmoorings | 6 | Re-opened at The Falls At West Mall in 2011 and has expanded to 5 other locations. McDonald's previously had stores in Trinidad (May 6, 1997 - October 25, 2003) but closed due to low sales. [3] | |||
118 | Vietnam | February 8, 2014 | Ho Chi Minh City | 3 | (source: 2014) | See McDonald's Vietnam | ||
119 | Tunisia | 2015 | 1 | |||||
120 | Namibia | 2015 | 2 | |||||
121 | Kazakhstan | 2015 | 5 |
Former locations
- (August 1971 – March 1979) Iran [4] - Closed due to the 1979 Iranian Revolution. McDonald's attempted to reopen in Iran in the 1990s, but plans fell through due to a hostile campaign led by newspapers and a fundamentalist attack.
- (November 10, 1985 – March 9, 1995) Bermuda [5] - Closed due to the passage of a government law that bans franchised restaurants in the country.
- (August 25, 1989 – December 13, 1990) Barbados [6] - Closed due to extremely slow sales.
- (October 24, 1997 – November 30, 2002) Bolivia [7] - Closed due to slow sales and cost.
- (April 15, 1995 – October 14, 2005) Jamaica [8] - Closed due to governmental problems and declining sales.
- (June 1, 2004 – 2007) Montenegro - A seasonal McDonalds restaurant was opened in Budva, but it was closed due to the lack of location.
- (September 3, 1993 – October 31, 2009) Iceland [9] - Closed down by Icelandic affiliate citing prohibitive costs of importing foreign food products as required by McDonald's and the collapse of the Icelandic krona. Its three former outlets were re-branded as its own chain of Metro restaurants, which offer similar service and menus with domestically produced ingredients.
- (September 6, 1997 – May 15, 2013) Macedonia - Closed due to dispute in contract and contractual obligations between the franchise owner Sveto Janevski.
Expansions by region
See also
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