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Under the heading Martin-Brower it mentions 500 million cases and it has been requested that clarification be made. I am a McDonald's manager and order product from Martin-Brower twice a week. I can't say the exact number but I can give a rough estimate company wide for McDonald's restaurants in the USA. There are 14,000 McDonald's in the U.S. give or take. My location is probably about average size and we do probably close to an average amount of business. I order roughly 300 cases of product a week. A case is the basic sales unit of everything Martin-Brower sells us. Whether it's a 15 LB case of fresh beef or a five gallon box of Diet Coke syrup or a case of napkins. Some cases can be as small as a cell phone. They sell us everything from food to buns to paper towels and toilet paper dispensers. We even by our flags from them. Basically everything we need in the way of food, paper goods and operational supplies on a weekly basis. They do not, however sell us most equipment. I believe there are somewhere north of 500 total skews we could order from them. So back to the case count. Assuming our location is typical, that would come to 300 cases x 52 weeks x 14,000 locations, that would come to roughly 218 million cases per year in the U.S. So I am going to assume that the 500 cases in the article refer to world wide distribution of all it's products in one year. Though their 500 million cases might be a slight exaggeration. I think it's probably closer to 400 million or 425 million at best. Unfortunately the above is original research and therefore can't be in the body of the article but I think it is worth a discussion here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:9000:FF00:8E:2151:8FFF:10A4:5D53 (talk) 09:04, 6 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
