McDonald's generated a total revenue of ***** billion U.S. dollars in 2024. In that year, when looking at McDonald’s revenue by region, the country that generated the highest portion of revenue was the United States - accounting for ***** billion U.S. dollars. However, internationally operated markets including, but not exclusive to, Australia, France, Canada, and the UK, contributed the largest sum to the McDonald's total revenue in 2024.
How did McDonald’s start?
McDonald’s was originally founded in 1940 in San Bernardino, California, United States by Richard, and Maurice McDonald. It was eventually turned into a franchise operation and was bought from the McDonald’s brothers in 1955 by businessman Ray Kroc. In 2024, there were over ** thousand conventionally franchised McDonald's restaurants worldwide, which constituted the majority of its ****** establishments across the globe. The burger behemoth earned most of its revenue from McDonald’s franchised restaurants and received ***** billion U.S. dollars through this mode of operation in 2024.
Is McDonald’s the largest quick service chain?
McDonald’s had the highest brand value of any quick service restaurant company by a large margin in 2024. Not only that, but it also ranked in the top 100 biggest companies in the world in 2024. The biggest player in the market that year was ********** with a total market capitalization amounting to over *** trillion U.S. dollars.
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. (February 25, 2025). Revenue of McDonald's from 2005 to 2024 (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 18, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/208917/revenue-of-the-mcdonalds-corporation-since-2005/
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