McDonald's is a fast food chain founded in 1940. Since then, McDonald's has become one of the largest restaurant chains in the world, selling items across 36,900 locations.
McDonald's has introduced different items throughout its history, mostly hamburger and cheeseburger related items as well as chicken-related items, breakfast items and salads have also been added to the menu.
All beef patties are seasoned, consisting primarily of salt and minced pepper.
In mid-February 2012, McDonald's has introduced the Happy Meals/Mighty Kids Meals so that they now come with either a Hamburger, Cheeseburger, 4 piece Chicken McNuggets, McDouble or the 6-piece Chicken McNuggets with a smaller version of the small fry for the Happy Meal or a small fry for a Mighty Kids Meal. All kids meals now come with fries, apple slices and a toy. The apple slices have been reduced from 8 slices to only 4 and no longer come with caramel dipping sauce.
McDonald's introduced breakfast foods in 1972.
Beverages purveyed by McDonald's varies regionally.