# McDonald's
> American fast food restaurant chain.

Basic company reference. Business areas, products and practical answers have not been added.

- Canonical entity: https://directory.readyscan.ai/entities/mcdonald-s-q38076
- Website listed in the source snapshot: https://www.mcdonalds.com
- Category: [Restaurants](https://directory.readyscan.ai/directory/restaurants)
- Machine record: https://directory.readyscan.ai/discovery/entities/mcdonald-s-q38076.json
- Material fingerprint: fnv1a64:fe366470a3a65d5d
- Entity revision: fnv1a64:38e98b505077677d
- Published: 2026-10-18
- Modified: 2026-10-18

## Company details
- [Founded](https://directory.readyscan.ai/entities/mcdonald-s-q38076#company-fact-wikidata-p571-9b11c351dc5d4665): 1940-05-15 Sources: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q38076.json?revision=2558165344

## Historical figures
Newest available observations first. These figures describe their stated dates, not the company today.
- [Employees](https://directory.readyscan.ai/entities/mcdonald-s-q38076#company-fact-wikidata-p1128-a54a925172335e4f): 200,000 employees (as of 2020-12-31) Sources: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q38076.json?revision=2558165344

## More in Restaurants
- [Arby's](https://directory.readyscan.ai/entities/arby-s-q630866) — American fast food restaurant chain.
- [Burger Street](https://directory.readyscan.ai/entities/burger-street-q4998556) — American fast food restaurant chain.
- [Carl's Jr.](https://directory.readyscan.ai/entities/carl-s-jr-q1043486) — American fast food restaurant chain.
- [Hardee's](https://directory.readyscan.ai/entities/hardee-s-q1585088) — American-based fast-food restaurant chain.

## Company sources
- [McDonald's — Wikidata Q38076](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q38076.json?revision=2558165344) — Wikidata

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- [CC0 1.0 Universal](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) — Wikidata

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