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McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of fast food restaurants, serving
nearly 47 millioncustomers daily. McDonald's primarily sells hamburgers,
cheeseburgers, chicken products, French fries,breakfast items, soft drinks,
milkshakes, and desserts. Each McDonald's restaurant is operated by afranchisee,
an affiliate, or the corporation itself. The corporations' revenues come from the
rent,royalties and fees paid by the franchisees, as well as sales in companyoperated restaurants. McDonald'srevenues grew 27% over the three years ending in
2007 to $22.8 billion, and 9% growth in operatingincome to $3.9 billion.The
business began in 1940, with a restaurant opened by brothers Dick and
MacMcDonald in San Bernardino, California. Their introduction of the "Speedee
Service System" in 1948established the principles of the modern fast-food
restaurant. The original mascot of McDonald's was aman with a chef's hat on top of
a hamburger shaped head whose name was "Speedee." Speedee waseventually
replaced with Ronald McDonald in 1963.The first McDonald's restaurants opened in
theUnited States, Canada, Costa Rica, Japan, Netherlands, Germany, Australia and
Sweden in order of openings. McDonald's restaurants are found in 119 countries and
territories around the world and servenearly 47 million customers each day.
McDonald's operates over 31,000 restaurants worldwide,employing more than 1.5
million people. The company also operates other restaurant brands, such asPiles
Caf, and has a minority stake in Pret a Manger. The information system of the Mcd
is good andThere are several types of information systems used in McDonalds as:
Transaction Processing System(TPS), System Decision Support (DSS), Management
Information Systems (MIS), Made for You "system,POS system "Scale of Points
System, Hyperactive Bob system. These systems allows the restaurant toadjust to
the customers demands. The system orders a lot of the product when customers
buy much of the item, and doesnt order the product when none wants to buy it.
The system offer employees andemployers an efficient way of organizing the
restaurant. That means that by using the system they get available time, which
they can spend on other things they need to do. Information System add value for
those that are implementing it. In Infrastructure Human resources Technology
Ordering Operations Service and Marketing
analyze incoming data with the decision to provide wireless services in their
restaurant.
Management Information Systems (MIS)