10 mind-blowing facts about McDonald's

New Delhi: There is no doubt that McDonald's is a huge fast food chain of restaurants that is growing in numbers with each passing day. McDonald's, which began as a hamburger stand in California in 1937, now serves 29 million U.S. customers per day — 69 million worldwide.Here in this list we have compiled some facts that are pretty interesting: 1. With more than 34,000 locations, McDonald's is bigger than Burger King (12,700), Arby's (3,400), Wendy's (6,650), and Taco Bell (6,400) combined.2. In 2012, McDonald's opened 1,400 new locations-about the size of Chipotle's entire chain.3. McDonald's sells around 13 billion servings of fries each year, which amounts to 97 servings for every person born in a year.4. McDonald's employs 1.8 million people worldwide, more than the population of Philadelphia (1.5 million).5. McDonald's spent $788 million on advertising in 2012, meaning it accounts for about 2% of the $488 billion global advertising market.6. McDonald's daily customer traffic (63 million) is more than the population of Great Britain.7. McDonald's sells more than 75 hamburgers every second.8. McDonald's hires around 1 million workers in the US every year.9. According to company estimates, one in every year eight American workers has been employed by McDonald's.10. McDonald's is the largest private-sector employer in Great Britain.