1. Global Realization

2. Fast food chains have expanded to many different countries overseas. • The McDonalds Corporation uses the phrase “Global Realization” to describe it’s hopes for foreign conquest. • About 20 years ago, there were only three thousand McDonalds outside the United States. • Around 2001, McDonalds had around seventeen thousand locations in more than one-hundred and twenty foreign countries. • It is estimated that it opens nearly five new restaurants a day.

3. With the spread of these American franchises, the economy has prospered some. • Although all the fast food foreign locations are good for economic reasons, obesity has become a bigger problem in places like China and Japan. • Restaurants such as McDonalds have tried to introduce healthy dishes, but they were not successful.

4. McDonalds has been criticized about their labor, food safety, and advertising practices in the U.S. for years. • Around 1991, a London McDonalds was taken to court for spying on workers. • One of the workers, Dave Morris, had been sent baby clothes for his son through the mail as a gift from the company. • It was actually a way of finding out his home address.