Number of new McDonald's restaurants in France 2012-2017
McDonald’s is considered as the most well-known fast-food chain worldwide. Starting out as a barbeque restaurant set up by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald in California in 1940, the foodservice company soon evolved into a humble production-line style burger stand. Since then, McDonald’s has grown into a global giant with increasing numbers of stores year-on-year –in 2016, McDonald’s had 36,899 restaurants worldwide.