McDonald's got its start in China in the early '90s. Today, the chain has more than 4,500 restaurants in mainland China and Hong Kong with considerable room for growth. But it has faced headwinds along the way including lockdowns due to Covid-19 and competition from rivals like
McDonald's China changed its business name, and consumers aren't lovin' it. Chinese media reported on Wednesday evening that McDonald's Chinese business changed its company's name from Maidanglao, a loose transliteration of the English name, to Jingongmen, or Golden Arches, on Oct.
Establishments in Beijing
The first McDonald's opened in mainland China in 1990, in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. More prominently, the largest McDonald's in the world opened on April 23, 1992, in Beijing. It has 700 seats, 29 cash registers, and served over 40,000 on its opening day.
KFC/McDonald's - Similar Prices to America
The cost of a hamburger is around 12 yuan, 7 yuan for fries, and a drink costs 7–10 yuan. Usually you can get a meal combo for 40 yuan (6.5 USD) including hamburger, fries, drink, and fried chicken.
McDonald's opened not long after that, in 1990. Today, KFC and McDonald's are the top-grossing American fast-food chains in China, with KFC consistently leading ahead of McDonald's. “Fried chicken is a bit closer to the Chinese palate than hamburgers, so KFC has had a greater opportunity to expand,” Dong says.
The well-known fast-food chain McDonald's is one of those Western brands that has managed to enter the Chinese market successfully. In fact, McDonald's is currently one of the most popular fast-food chains in this country.
KFC opened its first restaurant in Beijing in 1987. As of the end of March 2023, we have grown to over 9,000 KFC restaurants in over 1,800 cities across China.
Introduction. While McDonald's is a global icon, the fast-food giant does not have a presence in many countries worldwide. There are 123 countries where McDonald's has not set up a restaurant yet, including Afghanistan, Bhutan, Iran, Iraq, Libya, and North Korea, among many others.
At the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, McDonald's had over 800 restaurants across Russia with a total of 62,000 employees, "hundreds" of suppliers, and millions of daily customers.
Until 2000, tourism virtually didn't exist. After the financial crash of 2008, the one McDonald's restaurant in Reykjavik left town. It was not very established in the first place as the local burger chain, Hambórgarabúllan, was so popular that people basically boycotted the foreign chain.
Today there are over 970 McDonald's restaurants across Australia and we employ more than 100,000 people across our restaurants and management offices.
KFC (肯德基; pinyin: Kěndéjī) is a fast-food restaurant chain founded by Colonel Harland Sanders in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1952. KFC specializes in selling fried chicken and is known to have diversified the fast-food market by challenging the dominance of the chicken burger.
Here in Australia, however, McDonald's most prevalent nickname is “Macca's”.
Pizza Hut opened its first store in China in 1990, and several pizza restaurant chains exist in China today.
For example, a Big Mac costs ¥24.40 in China and $5.81 in the United States.
The campaign started in the 70s to tempt tourists and expats with chicken on Christmas Day when they couldn't find turkey to eat, and was the the brainchild of Takeshi Okawara, the manager of the first KFC in the country, according to the BBC.
McDonald's and KFC are by far the two most popular fast-food brands in China, boasting over 4,905 and 8,675 restaurants, respectively, as of 2022 Q3.
KFC's U.S. parent company Yum! Brands Inc (YUM. N) last week finalised its exit from Russia, transferring master franchise rights to Smart Service, a local franchisee led by Konstantin Kotov and Andrey Oskolkov.
While our growth could be considered phenomenal, we maintain our humility and look forward to the next decade serving our valued Chinese customers and sharing the coffee culture. Starbucks currently operate more than 6,000+ stores in over 230 cities in the Chinese mainland, employing more than 60,000 partners.
China is its biggest market with more than 5,600 outlets while 12 million people eat at KFC restaurants every day around the world. As of 2021, KFC has approximately 25,000 locations in over 145 countries and territories globally.
#1 - USA. The USA clinches the top spot for not only the most amount of McDonald's eateries in total but also the most per 100,000. The US has 13,257 Macca's restaurants and 39.2 per 100,000 people.
McDonald's in Japan will often have menu staples, such as the Big Macs or Filet-O-Fish burgers, to make you feel at home. Japanese McDonald's showcases some new burgers and chicken dishes you'll want to try, when you're ready to venture into different culinary styles.
McDonald's restaurants in Australia and France have a reputation for being better than those in America. Of all the McDonald's he's tried, Williams says Thailand does it best.