McDonald’s Ohio stores to get $251M in updates

Most of Ohio’s hundreds of McDonald’s restaurants are going to get some updates.

The nation’s biggest burger company and its franchisees plan to spend $251 million from now through 2019 to modernize or build 380 stores. The investment in Ohio is part of the Chicago-based company’s announcement of a national push to remodel and update most of its more than 14,000 stores across the U.S. McDonald’s and its franchise partners are budgeting $6 billion for the project.

To understand the scale of McDonald’s footprint, the 380 stores that it plans to refresh in Ohio is about as many stores as Columbusbased White Castle operates McDonald’s plans to update hundreds of stores in Ohio include new dining-room furniture and updated and brighter menu boards. in the entire U.S.

The upgrades at McDonald’s stores will include new dining-room furniture, more-modern exteriors, updated and The company also plans to make changes to its front counter to better enable table service, giving customers the ability to relax while waiting for their food.

McDonald’s is not alone in updating its stores.

Wendy’s has been working for years to remodel its company and franchised stores.

Wendy’s recently introduced a new scaled-down concept — one such unit opened in Grandview Heights last month — that is less expensive to build yet offers a bank of ordering kiosks, full kitchen capacity, a covered outdoor patio and a modern exterior aesthetic that could fit into urban settings as well as suburban ones.