The biggest McDonald's restaurant in the
world will open for six weeks during the London 2012 Olympic games.
More than 50,000 Big Mac burgers and 180,000 portions of fries will be
served from the outlet in Stratford, east London. The huge temporary
branch will have seating for 1,500 customers and will employ more than
2,000 staff.
Dining: An artist impression of how the huge 1,500 seat McDonald's in east London will look
While the world's top athletes
compete at the Olympics and Paralymics from July 27 to September 9 three
million people are expected to visit the McDonald's branch. The 3,000 square-metre restaurant built from recyclable materials will
stretch over two floors and is equivalent to half the length of an
American football field. The 12,000 people who applied to work at
the huge branch and three others planned for the Olympic site have been
put through X Factor style auditions across the country.
Interior: The huge McDonald's branch will have a bright and colourful design featuring nutritional advice
They were judged on politeness and how well they flipped burgers, served ice cream and cooked the French fries. McDonald's
began its involvement with the Olympics in 1968 when the company
airlifted hamburgers to U.S. athletes competing in Grenoble, France. The
firm first became an official sponsor at the 1976 Olympic Games in
Montreal and in 1984 McDonald's footed the bill for the Olympic swimming
stadium in Los Angeles. The
London Olympics will be the ninth games where McDonald's has acted as
the event's official restaurant and the only branded food retailer
feeding the athletes. Usain
Bolt, the world's fastest man who won gold at the 100 metres in Beijing
in 2008, claimed that chicken McNuggets were key to his success.