London, July 21 (ANI): The fast-food chain McDonald's has announced it will open its biggest ever branch close to the London 2012 Olympics site, Stratford.
The 3,000 square-meter restaurant will stretch over two floors and is equivalent to half the length of an American football field.
It will have 1,500 seats and will be one of four stores opening including one in the athletes' village in Stratford, east London, the Daily Mail reports.
The restaurant will employ 470 staff to serve around 50,000 Big Macs, 100,000 portions of fries and 30,000 milkshakes during the Games.
It has been claimed that one in five meals purchased during the Olympics will be a McDonald's.
The fast-food chain will serve the Happy Meal, aimed at children, for the first time at its Olympics' venues.
Next year's London Olympics will be the ninth consecutive games where McDonald's has acted as the event's official restaurant and the only branded food retailer feeding the athletes.
Meanwhile, Olympic chiefs have moved quickly to reject claims that the new McDonald's will deter from aims to promote a healthy and active lifestyle, which London chiefs have been pushing since winning the Olympic bid.
"McDonald's has been a committed Olympic sponsor and has a wide range of programs to encourage people to keep fit," said a member of the Olympics team. (ANI)
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