Hamburger University
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Hamburger University is a 130,000 square foot (12,000 m²) training facility of McDonald's Corporation, located in Oak Brook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The 'university' was designed to instruct personnel employed by McDonald's in the various aspects of the business. The institution has 'graduated' over 70,000 managers and has 30 resident 'professors'.
Hamburger University was founded in 1961, at a McDonald's restaurant in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. Class sizes today are over 200 students per class on average.
[edit] Trivia
- Hamburger University is on an 80 acre (320,000 m²) campus.
- 22 full-time international resident professors teach students from more than 119 countries.
- The state-of-the-art facility includes 17 teaching rooms, a 300 seat auditorium and four special team rooms for interactive education.
- Hamburger University translators can provide simultaneous translation of more than 27 different languages.
- Restaurant employees receive about 32 hours of training in their first month with McDonald's.
- More than 5,800 students attend Hamburger University each year.
- Programs offered include the Bachelor's degree in Hamburgerology.
- The Hamburger University is not in any way connected to the University of Hamburg.
- Hamburger University was sent up in the 1986 comedy Hamburger... The Motion Picture.
