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TagsBY ANGELA DAIDONE
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
London this summer will be home to the Olympics and McDonald's wants to make sure the three million visitors will have plenty to eat.
The fast-food giant is building a temporary pop-up store in Stratford, east London, to accommodate all the tourists expected for the Games. The new temporary facility will be built in time for the opening ceremony on July 27 and will be taken down after the end of the Paralympics in September, reports said.
The super-sized Mickey D's will be about 30,000 sq. feet, will seat 1,500 people, will stretch over two floors and is about half the size of a football stadium. That's a lot of Big Macs, fries and soft drinks.
The Daily Mail reported that the more than 12,000 people who applied for a job were put through an X Factor-style audition.
The move also has drawn some controversy from a British doctors' group which says that McDonald's prominent sponsorship for the Games is sending a wrong message in a country that has an increasing obesity problem.
About one-quarter of Britons are obese and experts estimate that could jump to half by 2030.
Obesity and related health ailments cost the U.K. health system about 4 billion pounds ($6.5 billion) every year, according to the Christian Science Monitor.
McDonald's first became an official sponsor at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal and paid for the Olympic swimming stadium in Los Angeles in 1984.
