McDonald's is going all in on this country with 50 new stores

In the 85 years that handed since Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first McDonald's (MCD) restaurant out of San Bernardino, Calif., in 1940, what started out as a small force-by strategy of cease developed into a world empire and the arena's most iconic burger restaurant.

As of 2024, the chain had over 41,000 locations in more than 119 countries. Uncommon countries with out a McDonald's consist of Iceland, Bermuda, Bolivia, Iran, Cambodia, and, after the chain pulled in a foreign country over its invasion of Ukraine, Russia.

Whereas the United States and Canada are the countries with the greatest numbers of McDonald's with a respective 13,548 and 1,489 locations, the non-North American nation to approach closest is Australia. As of May 2025, the country had 1,053 locations.

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McDonald's to search out 'restaurant gaps' all the contrivance by strategy of Australia, delivery dozens of latest retail outlets

In an interview with native news outlets, McDonald's Australia CEO Joe Chiczewski acknowledged the chain plans to delivery between 30 and 50 new locations all the contrivance by strategy of the country by the halt of 2026.

"We’re going to delivery more consuming places over the subsequent Twelve months,” Chiczewski told News.com.au, adding that the map is to search out "restaurant gaps" in diversified ingredients of the country. "That is a key priority for our suppose strategy. No longer upright the subsequent Twelve months, but over the subsequent few years."

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Chiczewski added that the chain is setting its sights on Perth within the western part of the country and framed it as "persevering with to make investments within the Aussie neighborhood."

At the initiate of July, McDonald's Australia presented that this may occasionally lock within the costs of clear meal deals and objects on its Loose Alternate Menu at a respective $7 ($4.55 USD) and $4 ($2.60 USD), as many possibilities expressed concerns with the rising rate of living.

In announcing the upcoming openings, Chiczewski moreover acknowledged the upper request is fueled by possibilities deciding on to forgo outmoded consuming places which strategy of expense.

"My dedication to Australian possibilities is evident: 24 hours a day, seven days per week, Twelve months a yr, you are going to have the option to count on us for excellent imprint at Macca's," he acknowledged additional.

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Over in Hong Kong, McDonald's recently renovated the enduring feature at the country's busiest Admiralty Region practice interchange assert to maintain an supreme time 50 years of operating within the Chinese language administrative assert.

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The renovation moreover served as the originate of the brand new "Mood Engine" belief that may finally be expanded to more locations all the contrivance by strategy of Hong Kong — a 72-foot show that factors diversified lights and well-identified McDonald's characters love Ronald McDonald and the McBurglar to welcome company and shift the tone as the time passes from day to night time.

"As possibilities rise from the assert below, they're welcomed by a reflective double-canopy entrance — a contemporary homage to McDonald's normal roofline and a nod to Ray Kroc's classic maintain," the chain acknowledged in announcing the brand new belief. "Now framed by ravishing feature walls in McDonald's signature yellow, aimed at creating an unmissable beacon — upright love the earliest consuming places once had been."

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