There is McDonald’s on all continents except Antarctica. Fast food giant McDonald’s serves 120 countries with about 37,855 restaurants worldwide – but you wouldn’t find a single McDonald’s joint in Antarctica. Not only does it have a McDonald ’s-shaped void, but Antarctica is the only demilitarised continent worldwide. Instead, the entire continent is relegated for educational and scientific purposes.
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Artist Salvador Dali would get out of paying at restaurants by drawing on the checks. The renowned artist responsible for Chupa Chupp’s logo was not a fan of paying for his meals. Often, he would draw on the checks, making them priceless works of art. He may be stingy and obsessed with money, but you gotta give the guy credit for his genius.
The first soup ever recorded comes from a hippo. This event dates back to 6000 BC. Soups were also believed to be the foundation of the earliest restaurants in history.
Cooking shows are almost always scripted. For most cooking contests, contestants would get the ingredients they have to use weeks earlier. For restaurant improvement shows, the restaurants they feature usually go bankrupt a month after their episode is aired.
It would take over 20 years to eat at every NYC restaurant. To eat at all restaurants in NYC, it would take 22.7 years of going to one restaurant a day.
The “wasabi” you get with your sushi isn’t wasabi. In the U.S., 99 per cent of sushi restaurants serve horse radish with green food colouring instead of real wasabi.
McDonald’s in the United Kingdom runs half their delivery fleet on used cooking oil. Nearly all McDonald’s restaurants in the UK recycle their used cooking oil, which is processed into biodiesel. The delivery trucks have been adjusted to make them able to use both biodiesel and conventional mineral diesel.
Michelin stars are highly coveted by elite and upscale restaurants the world over—but they’re given out by the Michelin tyre company, the same one whose mascot is the marshmallow-like Michelin Man. If you want to get fancy, pronounce it in the original French, “mich-LEH.”
There is a McDonald’s in every continent except Antarctica. Overall, there are more than 36,000 McDonald’s restaurants spread out across the globe. While this number is incredibly high, it makes perfect sense considering that this favourite fast-food ranks as the second-largest fast-food restaurant chain in the world! The first McDonald’s to open outside of the USA commenced operations on June 3, 1967, in Richmond, Canada.
Restaurants can sing “Happy Birthday” now because the copyrights’ claims are invalid. Judge George H. King ruled that a copyright filed in 1935 granted only the rights to specific piano arrangements of the music, not the song itself.
There are more Indian restaurants in London than there are in both Delhi and Mumbai combined.
Indian Invasion: One of the fun facts about England is related to Indian restaurants. The number of Indian restaurants in London is thought to be higher than in Indian cities like New Delhi or Mumbai, however, they are a random phenomenon.
Last year, Chinese scientists created AlphaDog – a robot dog that, beyond serving as a pet, could also help with delivery, bussing in restaurants, and aiding the visually impaired. A fun fact about technology here is that the AlphaDog will use 5G and operate autonomously.