McDonald's

McDonald's is an American fast food restaurant company founded in 1940 by Richard and Maurice McDonald and expanded into an empire under the leadership of businessman Ray Kroc in 1955. It is based in Oak Brook, Illinois and is one of the largest fast food chains in the world, with an investment of billions in the real estate of their franchise land properties alone and roughly 68 million people visit a McDonald's every day. The company is also a major television commercial sponsor of children's programming, as McDonald's can gain a return profit by licensing specific shows to be made into their Happy Meal Toys to sell their meals to kids. In 2007, Toei singed a deal with McDonalds and TV Asahi to sponsor their Sunday morning kids shows, including Kamen Rider, for Happy Set Toys at their Japanese-based restaurants. In addition, Bandai has an exclusive partnership with McDonald's to distribute rare and exclusive Kamen Rider trading cards in Happy Sets for their video arcade cabinet machines such as Ganbarizing.