Hamburger University
Hamburger University is a training facility at the McDonald's Corporation global headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. It instructs high-potential restaurant managers, mid-managers and owner-operators in restaurant management.[1]
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Motto | Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow |
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Type | Corporate university |
Established | 1961 |
Location | , , United States 41°50′18″N 87°56′51″W |
Campus | Urban |
Colors | Red, white |
Affiliations | McDonald's |
More than 5,000 students attend Hamburger University each year and over 275,000 people have graduated with a degree in Hamburgerology.[2]
History
Hamburger University training started in 1961 with a class of 14 people in the basement of one of its restaurants.[3]
In 2018, both the McDonald's headquarters and Hamburger University moved to West Loop, Chicago, in a new complex built on the site of the former headquarters of Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios.[4][5][6][7]
The previous location was purchased in June 2019 by John Paul DeJoria, co-founder of John Paul Mitchell Systems.[8]
Locations
Hamburger University currently has eight campuses worldwide in addition to the main campus in Chicago, Illinois: Tokyo, London, Sydney, Munich, São Paulo, Shanghai, and Moscow.[9]
In popular culture
Hamburger University was satirized in the 1986 comedy Hamburger... The Motion Picture.[10] It was also spoofed by McDonald's itself in a commercial with Ronald McDonald in which several animatronic hamburgers were shown graduating.
References
- "Hamburger University". McDonald's. 2011. Retrieved July 23, 2011.
- Walters, Natalie (October 24, 2015). "McDonald's Hamburger University can be harder to get into than Harvard and is even cooler than you'd imagine". Business Insider. Insider, Inc. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
- Luna, Nancy (October 28, 2020). "McDonald's to revitalize Hamburger University under new Chief Learning and Development Officer Bethany Tate Cornell". Nation's Restaurant News. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
- "McDonald's moving headquarters to downtown Chicago by 2018". USA TODAY. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
- Byrne, Samantha Bomkamp, John. "McDonald's to move HQ to Chicago as soon as 2018, source says". ChicagoTribune.com. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
- Ori, Greg Trotter, Ryan. "McDonald's begins selling off Oak Brook property before headquarters move". ChicagoTribune.com. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
- Whitten, Whitten; Chung, Peter Q.W. (June 9, 2018). "McDonald's opens new $250 million headquarters. Here's what it looks like inside". CNBC. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
- Lam, Katherine (June 6, 2019). "Billionaire John Paul DeJoria buys McDonald's campus in Illinois". FOXBusiness. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
- Walters, Natalie. "What it's like to graduate from McDonald's Hamburger University". Business Insider. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
- Hamburger - The Motion Picture at the British Film Institute