McDonald's | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-08

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
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00:02:08 1 History
00:06:09 2 Corporate overview
00:06:19 2.1 Facts and figures
00:09:13 2.2 Finance
00:09:56 2.3 Business model
00:12:34 2.4 Headquarters
00:13:38 2.5 Board of directors
00:15:09 2.6 Global operations
00:19:27 3 Products
00:22:01 3.1 International menu variations
00:23:24 4 Restaurants
00:23:34 4.1 Types of restaurants
00:24:30 4.1.1 McDrive
00:25:07 4.1.2 McCafé
00:26:10 4.1.3 "Create Your Taste" restaurants
00:27:59 4.1.4 Other
00:29:09 4.1.5 Special diet
00:29:34 4.1.6 Playgrounds
00:30:10 4.1.7 McDonald's Next
00:30:42 4.2 2006 redesign
00:32:10 4.3 Smoking ban
00:32:32 5 Treatment of employees
00:32:43 5.1 Automation
00:34:11 5.2 Wages
00:37:14 5.2.1 Strikes
00:38:45 5.3 Working conditions
00:39:39 6 Animal welfare standards
00:41:10 7 Marketing and advertising
00:42:04 7.1 Space exploration
00:42:29 7.2 Children's advertising
00:42:39 7.3 Sports awards and honors
00:43:05 8 Charity
00:43:15 8.1 McHappy Day
00:44:16 8.2 McDonald's Monopoly donation
00:45:21 8.3 McRefugee
00:45:57 9 Criticism
00:50:13 9.1 Company responses to criticism
00:53:10 9.2 Environmental record
00:57:24 9.3 Legal cases
00:57:54 9.3.1 Malaysia
00:58:21 9.3.2 Australia
00:58:46 9.3.3 United Kingdom
00:59:30 9.3.4 United States
01:00:12 9.4 Use of genetically modified food
01:00:47 10 See also



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McDonald's is an American fast food company, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They rechristened their business as a hamburger stand, and later turned the company into a franchise, with the Golden Arches logo being introduced in 1953 at a location in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1955, Ray Kroc, a businessman, joined the company as a franchise agent and proceeded to purchase the chain from the McDonald brothers. McDonald's had its original headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois, but moved its global headquarters to Chicago in early 2018.McDonald's is the world's largest restaurant chain by revenue, serving over 69 million customers daily in over 100 countries across approximately 36,900 outlets as of 2016. Although McDonald's is best known for its hamburgers, cheeseburgers and  french fries, they also feature chicken products, breakfast items, soft drinks, milkshakes, wraps, and desserts. In response to changing consumer tastes and a negative backlash because of the unhealthiness of their food, the company has added to its menu salads, fish, smoothies, and fruit.  The McDonald's Corporation revenues come from the rent, royalties, and fees paid by the franchisees, as well as sales in company-operated restaurants. According to a BBC report published in 2012, McDonald's is the world's second-largest private employer (behind Walmart) with 1.9 million employees, 1.5 million of whom work for franchises.