McDonald’ s founders Dick and Mac McDonald started with their little drive - in restaurant in San Bernardion, California in the late 1940s, But McDonald’ s today serves 38 million customers each day, 20 million of them in the USA. It has about 23,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries around the world. It’ s one of the world’ s great business organizations, with most restaurants world - wide run by a franchisee or affiliate partner of the company. It’ s one of the two most recognized and powerful brands in the world, the other being Coca - Cola, the only soft drink supplier to McDonald’ s to day. It’ s a growing company, adding more than 2,000 new restaurants to their system each year. This means a new McDonald’ s will open somewhere in the world every five hours of every day. It generates sales of more than $ 31 billion a year and earns net income of more than $1.5 billion annually. McDonald’ s opened its first restaurant in Beijing on April 23, 1992. It’s the joint venture partnership between McDonald’s and the General Corporation of Beijing Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce. It took five years to establish the network of local farmers, manufacturers, and other suppliers to support the restaurant.McDonald’ s serves (46) each day, 20 million of them in the USA. It has about 23,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries (47) . The only (48) to McDonald’ s is Coco - cola, another most recognized and powerful brand in the world. It is estimated that a new McDonald’ s will open somewhere in the world (49) of every day, so it is a growing company. Its general sales are more than $ 31 billion and net income is more than $1.5 billion per year. The first McDonald’s restaurant in China opened in Beijing (50) . 50（）