The not-so-secret attack that has made McDonald’s a household sanction astir the satellite is consistency. In theory, a Big Mac should beryllium the aforesaid whether you’re successful New York oregon California, Brazil oregon Canada. But conscionable due to the fact that you’re getting the aforesaid ingredients oregon the aforesaid paper doesn’t mean you’re paying the aforesaid price.
Online lender CashNetUSA precocious broke down the outgo of the signature paper point successful antithetic superior cities astir the satellite and converted to United States currency.
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The mean terms of a Big Mac successful the U.S. is $5.17. If you get a craving successful Liechtenstein oregon Switzerland, however, you tin expect to wage $7.75. The burger is cheapest is Pakistan, wherever an bid volition acceptable you backmost conscionable $1.91.
The tract besides logged the outgo of a Happy Meal, wherever the Swiss tin wage astir treble for 1 compared to Americans:
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There's besides a breakdown of the 10 priciest paper items astir the globe, wherever France’s Triple Cheddar and Double Beef is not lone expensive, but offers a 1336 caloric payload:
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The Big Mac originated with McDonald’s franchisee Jim Delligatti successful Pittsburgh, who modeled it aft a beefy double-patty burger offered by rival concatenation Big Boy. McDonald’s launched it nationally successful 1968. The pursuing year, the Big Mac accounted for 19 percent of the company’s business. An estimated 900 cardinal are sold each year.