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McDonald's Plaza in Oak Brook, Illinois, home to company headquarters from 1971 to 2018 New Zealand's first McDonald's restaurant, in Porirua in September 1976. In 1970, the first restaurant outside of Northern America opened in San José, Costa Rica. [20] In 1971, [21] McDonald's opened its first European restaurant in Zaandam, Netherlands. [22]
New Zealand June 7, 1976 Porirua Central, Wellington [24] 170 (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2023) [12] 30,428 Founded in New Zealand by Wally and Hugh Morris [25] First South Island restaurants opened at Linwood and Merivale, both Christchurch, on November 3, 1987. [26] See McDonald's New Zealand. 21 Switzerland October 20, 1976 Geneva
The first Wimpy restaurant in the country began operations with the inauguration of Unicentro, the first mall-type shopping centre in Bogotá, in April 1976. [ 70 ] Competition from other chains was difficult, and the assets of Wimpy Colombiana Ltd were sold to competitor Presto (Frayco) in 2008, thus ending the presence of the chain in the ...
Country calling code: +64 International call prefix: 00 Trunk prefix: 0. New Zealand's telephone numbering plan divides the country into a large number of local calling areas. When dialling, if you wish to call a person in another local calling area, you must dial the trunk prefix followed by the area code.
England had the first overseas branch of KFC which opened in Preston, Lancashire in May 1965 and was the first American fast food restaurant chain in the country, pre-dating the arrival of McDonald's, Burger King and Pizza Hut by almost a decade. [103] Ray Allen, an experienced Lancashire caterer, was the first franchisee. [104]
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the) the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: UN member GB: GBR: 826: ISO 3166-2:GB.gb.uk [ah] United States Minor Outlying Islands (the) [13] [ai] United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges, [14] Navassa Island, and Wake Island [c] [d] United States: UM: UMI: 581: ISO ...
The McDonald's menu in Fiji is similar to that of McDonald's in Australia and New Zealand. Residents of all three countries also colloquially refer to the restaurant "Macca's". The Brekkie Burger and the McFeast, for example, are both on the McDonald's menu in Fiji, [157] as well as in Australia and New Zealand.
British explorer James Cook, who reached New Zealand in October 1769 on the first of his three voyages, was the first European to circumnavigate and map New Zealand. [2] From the late 18th century, the country was regularly visited by explorers and other sailors, missionaries, traders and adventurers. The period from Polynesian settlement to ...