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    The World's Biggest McDonald's

    By | Shine Food – Tue, Jun 26, 2012 2:27 PM EDT

    by Paul Schrodt

    The Olympic McDonald's The Olympic McDonald's

    Next month's Olympic Games     can already lay claim to one record: the largest McDonald's on earth, a title that was previously held by Moscow.

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    The 3,000-square-foot restaurant is one of just four McDonald's at the Olympic park. And all that wood, made mostly from recycled timber, looks pretty nice, if not quite mansion-like.

    This specific outpost will be staffed by 200 employees at any given time and serve up to 1,200 customers an hour. The company is touting the location as its "first sustainable" one, which is a little confusing, as it will be bulldozed after its 29 days in operation. Still, though: a lot of Big Macs.

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