Diversity at McDonald's

A Culture of Inclusion and Diversity

With more than 31,000 restaurants in 118 countries, McDonald’s brings a commitment to inclusion and diversity to every community we serve.

Around the world, inclusion and diversity at McDonald’s means providing equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and contribute. We accomplish this in a number of ways, such as the integration of diversity initiatives into our daily business practices, a strong diversity education curriculum, employee business networks and external partnerships with minority organizations.

Today, more than 60 percent of our home office and U.S. company workforce are of a racial or ethnic minority, or are women. Inclusion and Diversity also plays an important role as we identify the McDonald’s leaders of tomorrow.  Our management team provides regular updates to the Board of Directors on our progress in this area and we are constantly evaluating our performance to make sure we have strong representation across all dimensions of diversity, including gender, ethnicity and nationality.

In addition, we’re proud of the fact that we have the largest number of minority and women franchise owners in the quick-service industry. Our National Black McDonald’s Owner/Operator Association is one of the most successful African American business organizations in the nation, and our Hispanic franchisees fund the largest U.S. scholarship program for Hispanic high school students entering college.  

Our suppliers are equally diverse.  On average, we spend $4 billion per year on food, paper packaging, restaurant operating supplies, uniforms and toys from U.S. minority and women-owned businesses.  

So whether it’s our franchisees, suppliers, or employees, our commitment to inclusion and diversity has helped make us the company we are today.  Most importantly, this commitment allows us to ensure that our restaurants and our business reflect you -- our customers.