Sunday, March 25, 2007

Fastfoods & Restaurant`s Fun Facts

Beijing boasts the world's largest Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant.

Colonel Sanders original white suit was auctioned off for $80,000 in February 2002.

Colonel Sanders traveled over 250,000 miles a year visiting various parts of his Kentucky Fried Chicken Empire.

Domino's Pizza was originally called DomiNick's Pizza, but the name was changed in 1965.

Every year, Burger King restaurants prepare over 950,000 pounds of bacon for their breakfast customers.

In 1969, the first Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers restaurant opened in downtown Columbus, Ohio.

In 1990, the world's largest McDonald's opened in Moscow, which could seat 900 people.

In 1991, during an attempted political coup on Russian President Boris Yelstin, food supplies had dwindled down at the parliament buildings so they ordered Pizza Hut to deliver pizzas.

In Japan, McDonald's is pronounced "Makudonarudo."

McDonald restaurants serve food and drink to an amazing 43 million customers on a daily basis.

Pizza Hut is the world's largest pizza restaurant serving close to 1.7 million pizzas a day.

Taco Bell serves over 35 million consumers each week in the USA.

The Canadian Mr. Sub restaurant's baked over 16,000 000 buns in the year 2001.

The capital of Vermont, Montpelier is the only state capital in the United States that does not have a McDonalds.

The first McDonald's hamburger stand was established in San Bernardino, California.

The first McDonald's restaurant that Ray Kroc open in 1955, located in Des Plaines, Illinois, is now a museum containing McDonald's memorabilia and artifacts.

The three dots in Domino's pizza stand for the first three stores. They wanted to add a dot for each new store, but obviously that would be impossible since there are now over seven thousand stores.

There are about 61,300 pizza restaurants in the United States of America.

There are more Subway restaurants in Canada than there are McDonald restaurants.

When Burger King introduced the Whopper Sandwich in 1957, it cost only thirty-seven cents.

Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonald's.

In Australia, the popular McOz Burger combines 100 percent Australian beef, cheese, tomato, beetroot, lettuce, and cooked onions on a toasted bun.

This burger was created by Australian McDonald’s restaurant owners, and became a permanent menu item after a successful promotional period in 1998.

There are 2,000,000 different combinations of sandwiches that can be created from a SUBWAY menu.

A man named Ed Peterson is the inventor of the Egg McMuffin.

The average American eats at McDonalds 1,811 times in their life.

Burger King® uses approximately 1/2 million pounds of bacon every month in its restaurants.

The McDonald's in New Delhi, India makes their burgers with mutton as many Hindus do not eat beef.

The average McDonald's Big Mac bun has 198 sesame seeds on it.

In 1905, the first pizzeria in the U.S. opened in New York City.

In 1961, the world's first revolving restaurant was built in Seattle.

The most diners per capita in the world are located in the U.S. state New Jersey.

There is a restaurant in Stockholm that only offers all-garlic products. They even have a garlic cheesecake.

In Japan, tipping at restaurants is not a norm. However, some restaurants might add a 5 - 10 % service charge to the bill.