Q: 75 of these are sold every second. What?
A: McDonald’s Hamburgers
Crazy isn’t it? Not when you think about it. In 1948, Dick and Mac McDonald founded McDonald’s, using the 15 cent hamburger as the cornerstone of their nine-item menu. 65 years and billions of customers later McDonald’s still sells hamburgers, just not for 15 cents. To be exact, the company sells more than 75 hamburgers every second. This is roughly 4,500 burgers every minute, 270,000 every hour, 6.48 million every day, and 2.36 billion burgers every year.
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Here’s a scene from the 2016 motion picture, The Founder, where Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc orders his first McDonald’s burger and is inspired to franchise the company.
