Desserts
- A soft serve ice cream product is available in several forms, including sundaes,cones (either vanilla or chocolate), and as the primary ingredient in the McFlurry. As with many other formulations of soft serve, cellulose gum is utilized as an extender and thickener
- The McFlurry is a frozen yogurt dessert, commonly mistaken for soft-serve ice cream, that has pieces of candy or cookies mixed into it. The flavors are crushed Oreo, M&M's Minis, Mars, Incorporated candy bars like Snickers, Twix, Galaxy etc. Cadbury's candy bars like Twirl, Wispa, Creme Egg, Crunchie etc. Nestlé candy bars like Yorkie, Smarties, Drifter, Rolo, Butterfinger,Kellogs Hello Kitty Snacks etc. McDonald's also does limited time only flavors e.g. for Shrek 3 it released the Ogre-Load flavor. In Australia they had a special range for their 40 years in Australia cerebration the flavors were double choc fudge, bubblegum squash, strawberry crumble and caramel cookie. The mixing blade for the dessert is actually a specially designed spoon with a hollow handle that attaches to the mixer spindle. The blade is used once then given to the customer to use to eat the product. Originally test marketed in Hawaii in 1997] it is now available in most of its markets.
- McDonaldland Cookies: McDonaldland cookies are traditionally available and are similar to animal crackers, except the shapes of the cookies are of Ronald McDonald, Grimace, Birdie the Early Bird, the Hamburglar, and the Fry Guys. In fact, they are manufactured by Keebler and are just re-branded animal crackers (Elfin Crackers or Our Family Animal Crackers).
- Freshly baked cookies: Freshly baked cookies manufactured by Nestlé are available in some markets. Among some of the cookies offered are sugar, oatmeal raisin, or chocolate chip.
- Pies: McDonald's pies are actually turnovers and come in apple or, in some markets,cherry and other seasonal or limited-time-only flavors such as pumpkin pie, smores, and Holiday pie, and in Hawaii, taro, haupia and banana. In Canada, in the 1970s, blueberry was standard, as was the Great Fruit Pie. During some seasonal promotions, cherry and strawberry are an available pie flavor in Canada; also, newly featured is Blueberry Maple and Peach. CurrentlyMcDonald's is selling raspberry pies, for a limited time. In Thailand and Guam, taro pie is featured occasionally. Other regional flavors include coconut and tuna (all in Guam as limited-time), and corn in Japan. In Mexico and Guatemala, cheese pie is available all year round. In Cyprus, strawberry and custard pies are available all year round also, along with the apple one. In Brazil, banana pies are available.
- Brownie melts – Similar to the Cinnamon melt, only chocolate flavored with fudge and cream cheese icing on top. Available only in select markets.
- The Fruit and Yogurt Parfait – a mix of frozen strawberries and blueberries and vanilla yogurt, sold with a package of granola topping.
Through the years, McDonald's remained the world's top quick service restaurant. With more than 33,000 branches in more than 120 countries around the globe, McDonald's has served billions of customers since its first restaurant in 1955.
McDonald's history began even before the onset of the Second world war when brothers Dick and Mac McDonald started a drive-in restaurant business in Riverside California. Their menu was composed simply of 10-cent hamburgers and other drive-in products. After the war, the brothers opened a new type of restaurant in San Bernardino, California, where a little hamburger man called "Speedee" became the company's symbol Dick's and Mac's endeavors proved so successful that other operators sought out franchises from them.
In 1954 Ray Kroc exclusive sales distributor for Multimixer intrigued by the brother's "Speedee System" visited the latter in San Bernardino, Upon his return to Chicago, Kroc obtained the exclusive licensing rights to the brothers system and had become heir National Franchise Agent in April of the same year construction began on the first restaurant in what was called the Mcdonald's System Inc.
The famous Golden Arches arrived in the Philippines in 1981 when George T. Yang president of McGeorge Food Industries was awarded franchising privilege in the country by McDonald's international. The first store opened in the busy university area of Morayta while the second was established in the prime commercial area of Cubao beside New Frontier Theater. And now as they say, the rest is history.
With the desire of providing Filipino customers with high quality food and service that meet global standards, George T. Yang, opened the first McDonald's store along Morayta, Manila in 1981.
Since then, McDonald's has introduced so many innovations that captured the hearts of the Filipinos. It was McDonald's who first offered the Value Meals and the Happy Meal. It was McDonald's who first provided employment opportunities for students. And it was McDonald's who first played an active role in helping out in the community through McDonald's Charities.
These and so many other "firsts" are the reasons for McDonald's phenomenal growth!
Today, with Kenneth S. Yang at the helm, McDonald's is now a multi-billion-peso company with almost 274 stores nationwide! And still counting!
