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There are turquoise McDonald's arches in Sedona, Arizona!

Did you know that there are turquoise McDonald's arches in Sedona, Arizona? The reason that the arches are blue instead of yellow is because the town did not want to ruin the surrounding desert landscape with a ostentatious yellow logo.

The turquoise McArches blend in perfectly with the adobe restaurant; tourists from all over the world come to Sedona to take photos next this fascinating logo.

Sedona became an incorporated city in 1988, and a McDonald's franchise owner wanted to open up a McDonald's there a few years later.  He met with the Community Development Department and together they decided for the McArches to be turquoise. McDonald's had opened for business in May of 1993 and the rest is history!

Interesting McDonalds restaurant facts
Beautiful turquoise McDonalds Arches in Sedona, Arizona!
                             
Some more interesting McDonald's restaurant facts:
  • The first food item on the McDonald's menu was not the hamburger, but the hot dog!
  • You can find McDonald's throughout most world countries; the countries that have banned McDonalds: Kazakhstan, Macedonia, and Montenegro.
  • The average McDonald's drive thru transaction is 3 minutes in length.
  • McDonald's golden arches are the most recognized symbol in the entire world.
  • The only McDonald's ski-thru location in the world is located in the Lindvallen resort area in Sweden.
  • The worst selling item that McDonald's has ever sold: The Hula Burger, which had consisted of a pineapple ring and a piece of cheese placed within a hamburger bun.  This special burger was created during the period of Lent, but did not last a long time.
  • An irate customer had sued McDonald's in 2014 for $1.5 million dollars for only receiving a single napkin with his order.  The grounds for his lawsuit: Extreme mental anguish!
  • Dan Gorske of Wisconsin had set the Guinness Book of Records for the most number of Big Macs consumed: 22,477!  
  • The largest distributor of toys in the world is McDonald's.  1.5 billion toys are handed out with Happy Meals each year.
  • The largest McDonald's PlayPlace is located in Orlando, Florida, and has 100 arcade games and a 500 gallon aquarium.
  • 1 in 8 U.S. workers has worked at a McDonald's restaurant sometime in their careers.
  • McDonald's, which is found on the social site, Twitter, has more than 2.8 million followers!
  • Hamburger University officially opened in 1961 in Oak Brook, Illinois to train its executive employees.  There are more than 275,000 graduates today.
  • Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, had once worked for McDonald's.
  • A woman in Nebraska had auctioned off her Chicken McNugget on eBay in 2012 for $8,100! This nugget was in the profile of George Washington.  
  • McDonald's opens up a new restaurant in the world every 14.5 hours.
  • The best selling McDonald's item are the golden brown French Fries.
  • A McDonald's CEO makes in an hour what an average McDonald's employee makes in 7 hours.
  • Speedee was McDonald's original mascot; a hamburger face with a chef's hat on top.
  • McDonald's restaurants make $75 million dollars a day!
  • In Japan, Ronald McDonald is known as Donald McDonald.




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