Berita Hari Ini: Does the U.S. have more McDonald’s or libraries?


	March 29, 2026

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There are more public libraries in the U.S. than McDonald's locations.

You're never more than 135 miles from a McDonald's in the continental United States, and the vast majority of the time, you're much closer. For how ubiquitous the golden arches are, however, the fast-food giant's 14,300 U.S. locations are outnumbered by public libraries. And the numbers are even more impressive on a global scale.

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		Numbers Don't Lie

U.S. cities with a McDonald's

5,036

Items in the Library of Congress

173 million

Cost of a Big Mac when it debuted in 1967

45¢

U.S. libraries funded by Andrew Carnegie

1,700

McDonald's is one of the biggest real estate companies in the world.

As anyone who's seen The Founder knows, McDonald's didn't make all its money from selling Big Macs. "We are not technically in the food business," former CFO Harry J. Sonneborn has been quoted as saying. "We are in the real estate business. The only reason we sell 15-cent hamburgers is because they are the greatest producer of revenue, from which our tenants can pay us our rent." McDonald's now stands as one of the biggest real estate companies in the world, with more than $42 billion in land holdings. Each franchise is built on land McDonald's owns — land it then leases to franchisees. More than one-third of the chain's revenue comes from that rent.