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Get ready for a deluge of McDelivery advertising campaigns this year.
We've been hearing for some time now that McDonald's delivery business is growing at lightning speed, correlating with the young industry as a whole.
McDonald's shared the sentiment again during its first quarter earnings call on Tuesday. The fast food chain now offers delivery at over 20,000 restaurants across 75 countries, more than half of the company's entire global footprint.
"It has been one of our most successful accelerators from the start," McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook said on the call.
Similar to last quarter, Easterbrook noted that delivery has become a $3 billion business for McDonald's company-owned and franchised restaurants globally, but didn't break out revenue figures specifically in the U.S. In that area of the business, the company is still
