Station) |  Startup Costs  $1,835,823 - $7,615,065 in 2010 5.  McDonald's Corporation  ( NYSE :  MCD ) is the world's largest chain of  hamburger   fast food restaurants , serving around 64 million customers daily in 119 countries. [3] [4]  Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue