McDONALD’S

THERE was a national sigh of relief last week when McDonald’s announced they were to open 15 stores for takeaway only.

The delight was lessened when it emerged that all the reopening branches were in the south east and three were, for some reason, in dreadful Luton.

Here are some facts about the fast food giant in the UK...

THE first McDonald’s in the UK opened in Powis St, Woolwich, south east London, in October 1974. The first three McDonald’s in the UK are all former Burton’s menswear shops.

RUTLAND is the only county in Britain that does not have a McDonald’s. Yet. In January, councillors approved its first at Oakham.

THE Queen owns a drive- through McDonald’s. The Crown Estate is the landlord of the Bath Road Shopping Park in Slough, where there is a McDonald’s.

THE price of a Big Mac in 1974 was

43p – the equivalent of £ 3.91 in today’s money.

ON the 1974 menu there was a burger called a McMariner, an early British version of the Filet- o- Fish.

McDONALD’S estimates that about 400,000 cattle are slaughtered in the UK every year to provide the beef for all its products – that’s 46 animals every hour.

ITS bestselling item in the UK is medium fries.

ITS “mocha brown” uniforms were redesigned in 2012 and featured mustard yellow for the men and “gherkin green” for the women.

McDONALD’S UK head office is in Finchley. It was opened in 1983 by Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister and local MP. She described a Big Mac as “absolutely enormous” and doubted how anyone could hold it in one hand. She once said the same about William Whitelaw’s cock.

THE so- called McLibel trial – when McDonald’s took two activists to court over a pamphlet they had written about the company’s ethics and the food’s nutrition – is to this day the longest trial in English legal history, lasting well over a decade.

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