A few facts about McDonalds in the UK

by Andrew Barrow, Posted Jun 19th 2006 @ 5:00PM

Quarter pounder with cheese Did you know that the first McDonald's restaurant in the UK opened in Woolwich on October 12, 1974?

This was the company's 3,000th restaurant in the world. The cities of Tokyo, Amsterdam, Munich and Sydney all had McDonald eateries before the UK, but the UK was ahead of the French who took until 1979 to succumb to the lure of "Le Big Mac." The 1,000th UK outlet was opened in 2000, inside the Millennium Dome but since then, with declining sales, many have closed such as this one I found on flickr.

On this day (June 19th) in 1997 McDonalds won a partial victory in the longest trial in English legal history. Two environmental campaigners had published a leaflet accusing the company of several unethical and environmentally destructive activities. The judge agreed with the fast food giant that some of the claims made in the leaflet were unjustified.

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