Visit many small towns — though — and right near the center, there is typically a McDonald's restaurant. Make your way into a city, and there are multiples, so many that it seems like there's a store on every block. McDonald's is the largest fast food chain in the entire world, with a , and it's constantly reinventing itself (as with the ), but have you ever wondered just how many locations it has in the U.
S. alone? Hold onto your burger wrapper because McDonald's ended 2023 with 13,457 stores in the U.S.
, including all 50 states, (plus all five populated U.S. territories).
While the state with the most McDonald's locations is California, which is currently home to 1,222 restaurants, it is not L.A. (nor New York City, or even Chicago, where McDonald's HQ is located) — it is Houston, Texas, which holds the record for most locations in a single city.
There are a whopping 126 McDonald's restaurants in the Houston area. Wait until you find out how many restaurants McDonald's has globally If you thought the U.S.
numbers were impressive, wait until you discover McDonald's' global footprint. The fast-food behemoth currently has over 41,000 restaurants around the world, in over 100 different countries. According to , McDonald's is quite popular in Asia, with China clocking in at over 6,000 of the fast-food joints, and Japan with about half that, at nearly 3,000.
In McDonald's' European market, France is the country with the most restaurants (over 1,500), followed by the U.K. wi.