It was reported by AAP that a band member had initiated legal action against McDonald's as the hamburger chain had copied trademarked elements of the band's look.

McDonald's was assumed to fry their fries for a total time of about 15 to 20 minutes, and with fries fried at least twice.

By 2007 the " Bjäre julmust " was only sold at McDonald's restaurants and it had completely disappeared from Coca-Colas range of products by Christmas 2008, only to return for Christmas 2011.

She was quoted in a 60 Minutes segment as saying she made $ 40, 000 on her McDonald's commercial alone.

But C. Arnholt Smith changed his mind, and instead sold the Padres to McDonald's co-founder Ray Kroc, who was not interested in moving the team and kept the team in San Diego.

* February 1 – Ray Kroc opens a McDonald's fast food restaurant ( the company's 9th since it was founded in 1940 ), but Kroc later takes over the company and oversees its worldwide expansion.

There was also the McDonald's Our Town Story project in which each Local Education Authority in the UK was invited to perform a show of their devising which characterised their area and its people.

McDonald's Corporation v Steel & Morris EWHC QB 366, known as " the McLibel case " was an English lawsuit filed by McDonald's Corporation against environmental activists Helen Steel and David Morris ( often referred to as " The McLibel Two ") over a pamphlet critical of the company.

McDonald's announced that it did not plan to collect the £ 40, 000 award that it was awarded by the courts.

McDonald's itself was not involved in, or a party to, this action, as applications to the ECHR are independent cases filed against the relevant state.

In June 1995, McDonald's offered to settle the case ( which " was coming up to its anniversary in court ") by donating a large sum of money to a charity chosen by the two.

McDonald's considered this a legal victory, though it was tempered by the judge's endorsement of some of the allegations in the pamphlet.

The milk bar as a social venue was gradually replaced by fast food franchises, such as McDonald's, and shopping malls.

At the end of 2010, Subway was the largest fast food chain on Earth, with 33, 749 restaurants worldwide, 1, 012 more than McDonald's.

A clean atmosphere was only part of Kroc's grander plan which separated McDonald's from the rest of the competition and attributes to their great success.

At roughly the same time as Kroc was conceiving what eventually became McDonald's Corporation, two Miami, Florida businessmen, James McLamore and David Edgerton, opened a franchise of the predecessor to what is now the international fast food restaurant chain Burger King.

They went through a failed expansion attempt in the mid-1990s and became economically unviable, resulting in the chain being sold to McDonald's in 1996 ; the last Georgie Pie restaurant was closed in 1998.

In 2003, McDonald's was sued in a New York court by a family who claimed that the restaurant chain was responsible for their teenage daughter's obesity and attendant health problems.

The Birmingham Americans weren't paid for their last five games, the Florida Blazers weren't paid for the last three months of the season ( and reportedly survived on McDonald's meal vouchers ), and the Sharks weren't paid for what turned out to be their last six games ; the most dire situation, however, was that of the Detroit Wheels.

The event which brought Bové and the Confédération to the foreground was the dismantling of a McDonald's franchise that was under construction in Millau ( Aveyron ) in 1999.

Greenpeace has accused several corporations, such as Unilever, Nike ,, KFC, KitKat and McDonald's of having links to the deforestation of the tropical rainforests, resulting in policy changes in several of the companies under criticism.

In 1996, the British adult comic magazine Viz accused McDonald's of plagiarizing the name and format of its longstanding Top Tips feature, in which readers offer sarcastic tips.

This publication made a number of allegations against McDonald's.

In the United Kingdom, many home based fast food operations were closed in the 1970s and 1980s after McDonald's became the number one outlet in the market.

It includes a number of gas stations including ( Exxon, Shell, Chevron, and Arco ), a McDonald's, a Carl's Jr., a drive through Starbuck's, Willow Ranch BBQ restaurant, an Indian restaurant, Subway, a Mexican-Salvadoran restaurant, TravelCenters of America, and Castro Tire & Truckwash.

A number of McDonald's Happy Meal toys based on the film were produced.

* McDonald's – Largest competitor in fast food hamburger restaurants in terms of number of locations.

Stella Liebeck's attorney argued that coffee should never be served hotter than, and that a number of other establishments served coffee at a substantially lower temperature than McDonald's.

McDonald's quality control manager, Christopher Appleton, testified that this number of injuries was insufficient to cause the company to evaluate its practices.

One of McDonald's final TV appearances was at the 1989 Logie Awards ( 17 March 1989 ) when she took part in a production number called " Golden Girls " which celebrated female Gold Logie winners of years past.

Klasky-Csupo also produced a number of projects in commercial advertising, including a series of direct-to-video features ( The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald ) for the McDonald's fast food chain.

The Mile Hi Church of Religious Science in Lakewood, Colorado was turned into a futuristic McDonald's, featuring a sign counting the number sold: The digit 1 followed by more than twenty zeroes.

Domestically, a number of McDonald's insertions relating to the Socialist Workers Party were collected into a book, Trotskyism and Terror: The Strategy of Revolution, published in 1977.

He notes that he has eaten as many McDonald's meals as most nutritionists say the ordinary person should eat in 8 years ( he ate 90 meals, which is close to the number of meals consumed once a month in an 8-year period ).

Pegram became successful as an owner of a number of McDonald's restaurant franchises in the state of Washington, a business that his father, Jim, had been involved with.

Lotteria became the number one fast food restaurant, boasting a 45 percent market share in 2001 ( compared to 20. 1 percent for McDonald's ).

A small art gallery beside the town's McDonald's restaurant called Twenty-Twenty ( owned by the town's ophthalmologist and her art photographer husband ) sells works by a number of Bulacan painters.

The American Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act, also known as the Cheeseburger Bill, sought to protect producers and retailers of foods — such as McDonald's Corporation — from an increasing number of suits and class action suits by obese consumers.

The chain expanded throughout the United States, and at its peak, in 1973 with 1, 050 locations, was second only to McDonald's in the number of locations nationwide.

Burger Chef was enormously popular and spread across both the West Coast and the East Coast, eventually becoming second only to McDonald's in terms of number of locations.

The village is home to a number of businesses, including: McDonald's ; Littlebrook Nursery ; Thistle Hotel, Heathrow ; and Abbey Business Centres.

There are a number of restaurants in the complex including McDonald's and Domino's.

Crazy Bones secured a number of high-profile partners, including McDonald's, which included the product as Happy Meal toys nationwide.

Swansea City have expressed a desire to have the capacity of the stadium increased and have held talks with Swansea Council during the 2011 / 2012 season for the future expansion of the Liberty stadium which would be completed in a number of phases beginning with expansion or redevelopment of the east stand. Plans for a new McDonald's fast food restaurant to be opened near the stadium threw expansion plans into doubt.

Parr also found parts on a number of television shows including Martin ( TV series ), Jenny Jones ( presenter ), and Turnstyle, and appeared in television commercials for Kodak, Thrifty's, and McDonald's.

A McDonald's, Chinese and Mexican restaurants are found within Glenunga on Glen Osmond Road, along with a number of small businesses and motels.