FDI McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd., which develops the McDonald’s fast food chain in Ukraine, invested UAH 1.8 billion in 2024 in the construction and modernization of its Ukrainian restaurants, the company’s press service reports.
According to the press release, last year McDonald’s opened eight new restaurants in Ukraine and reconstructed three of the existing ones. In line with its expansion strategy, the company built establishments in cities with a population of over a million and their satellites, in regional centers and on busy highways. New restaurants were opened in Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv and Vinnytsia, and the first McDonald’s opened in Chernivtsi, Boyarka and Kovel. 7 out of 8 restaurants opened during the year are located in separate buildings, and one is in a shopping center.
“McDonald’s continued to open restaurants in cooperation with gas stations to offer several services in one location. In 2024, one of these restaurants opened near the entrance to Odesa on the M-05 highway, and another opened at the entrance to Kyiv near the Boryspilska metro station. In total, there are five restaurants in Ukraine built in cooperation with four partner filling stations: OKKO, WOG, KLO and Grand Petrol. The construction of a restaurant in Mukachevo in cooperation with OKKO is also underway.
When constructing new and modernizing existing sites, the company uses modern thermal insulation materials and equipment, installs a recovery system and heat pumps to significantly save energy. 94% of the facilities are already equipped with generators and are completely energy independent.
Much attention is also paid to creating a barrier-free environment. For the convenience of people with disabilities, the elderly and visitors with children, the company implements inclusive solutions when modernizing and building new establishments. In particular, the restaurants provide navigation for visually impaired people with tactile tiles and Braille information signs, as well as special seats for people in wheelchairs. In addition, a passenger elevator and automatic doors were installed for customers in wheelchairs in one of the renovated restaurants on Vokzalna Square in Kyiv, and sliding doors were installed in a new restaurant in Vinnytsia.
According to McDonald’s estimates, the chain has the potential to open up to 500 restaurants in the Ukrainian market, so the company is increasing its development in current and new regions. In 2025, the company plans to open 9 new restaurants and continue to modernize the existing ones by updating the design in line with modern McDonald’s concepts, creating an accessible space for everyone, implementing inclusive and digital solutions. Given the security situation, the central and western regions of the country remain a priority for growth.
The first McDonald’s restaurant in Ukraine was opened on May 24, 1997 in Kyiv. Currently, 109 restaurants operate in 36 locations across the country, with another 15 restaurants remaining closed due to security concerns.
According to Opendatabot, McDonald’s revenue in Ukraine for the three quarters of 2024 amounted to UAH 12 billion 362 million 085 thousand, while profit amounted to UAH 1 billion 294 million 658 thousand.
According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, the participant of FDI in McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd. is MCD Europe Limited (100%, London, UK).
FDI McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd, which develops the McDonald’s fast food chain in Ukraine, opened its tenth restaurant in Odesa on Friday at 2a Simon Litman Street, the fourth project in cooperation with a gas station and the first in cooperation with OKKO filling station.
“With today’s opening in Odesa, the company (…) is gradually increasing the number of restaurants in large cities,” the company’s press service quoted Vitaliy Stefurak, McDonald’s Development Director in Ukraine, as saying.
The new McDonald’s is located in a residential area near the entrance to the city from the M-05 Kyiv-Odesa highway. The new McDonald’s in Odesa is the fourth restaurant of the chain to be located directly on the territory of a gas station and the first project implemented in cooperation with OKKO filling station. Earlier, McDonald’s opened two restaurants in cooperation with KLO and one restaurant in cooperation with WOG. Another restaurant is currently under construction in cooperation with OKKO in Mukachevo (Zakarpattia region).
This location became the 103rd operating restaurant of the chain in Ukraine out of 118. The first McDonald’s restaurant in Ukraine was opened on May 24, 1997 in Kyiv.
As reported, on September 20, 2022, McDonald’s began a phased opening of restaurants in Ukraine. By February 24 of the same year, the chain had 109 restaurants in 24 cities across the country. As of August 2024, 103 restaurants are operating, and the chain has 118 restaurants.
At the end of 2023, it increased its revenue by 3.9 times compared to the previous year, to UAH 12.9 billion, according to Opendatabot. According to the financial results for 2023, the company’s net profit amounted to UAH 1.29 billion, compared to a loss of UAH 2 billion in 2022. The number of employees in 2023 increased by 7% to 9,614. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, the participant of FDI in McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd. is MCD Europe Limited (100%, London, UK).
FDI McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd, which is developing the McDonald’s fast food chain in Ukraine, plans to develop partnership programs with gas station chains, Vitaliy Stefurak, McDonald’s Ukraine Development Director, said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
As reported, in the summer of 2023, McDonald’s opened its first restaurant near the highway, near Zhytomyr, on the M-06 Kyiv-Chop highway, and the restaurant is located next to a WOG gas station.
“This is an example of a partnership project, the essence of which is that at a certain point on the highway, all the necessary range of services needed by motorists and travelers is formed. The same goes for the opportunity to eat. This is not competition, but a complement to each other and a choice for visitors. This year, we plan to implement such projects in regional centers, cities with a population of over a million or their satellites. For the next few years, we continue to consider locations to open McDonald’s restaurants in conjunction with gas stations on key highways,” said Stefurak.
At the same time, he emphasized that none of the key players or gas station chains has an exclusive right to work with McDonald’s.
“We focus exclusively on the location and weigh how well it meets our requirements. Of course, first of all, we work with key players. This is WOG, which you mentioned, and we are already cooperating with KLO. And now we are building our restaurant next to the OKKO filling station in Odesa, but this restaurant will be located in the city, not on the highway,” said Stefurak.
Such projects are not experimental, but part of a well-developed strategy that determines where it would be appropriate to build a new McDonald’s.
“We are open to cooperation with various partners, because the location has always been and remains the key for us,” said the chain’s development director.
The first McDonald’s restaurant in Ukraine was opened on May 24, 1997 in Kyiv.
As reported, on September 20, 2022, McDonald’s began a phased opening of restaurants in Ukraine. By February 24 of the same year, the chain had 109 restaurants in 24 cities across the country. As of spring 2024, there are 101 restaurants in operation.
At the end of 2023, it increased its revenue by 3.9 times compared to the previous year, up to UAH 12.9 billion, according to Opendatabot.
According to the financial results for 2023, the company’s net profit amounted to UAH 1.29 billion, compared to a loss of UAH 2 billion in 2022.
The value of McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd’s assets amounted to UAH 5.54 billion, while the amount of liabilities increased 2.3 times to UAH 829.7 million.
The number of employees in 2023 increased by 7% to 9,614.
McDonald’s in Ukraine is a founding partner and the largest corporate partner of the Ronald McDonald House Foundation in Ukraine.
According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, the participant of FDI in McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd. is MCD Europe Limited (100%, London, UK).
FDI McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd, which is developing the McDonald’s fast food chain in Ukraine, plans to open six new restaurants in 2024, Yulia Badritdinova, CEO of McDonald’s Ukraine, Czech Republic and Slovakia, said at a press briefing on Tuesday.
“In 2023, we expanded our network to 101 restaurants, 10 of which are new restaurants. We have opened a new format – on the highway (near Zhytomyr and in Oleksandriya). These establishments are not just on the highway, they are tied to the city where we can hire staff and whose residents are also our customers. We plan to open at least six restaurants in 2024,” she said.
Badritdinova also said that one of the chain’s goals for this year is to achieve representation in each of the regions.
“There are two regions where we are not yet represented – Zaporizhzhia and Chernivtsi, and I hope we will open restaurants this year,” she said.
The first McDonald’s restaurant in Ukraine was opened on May 24, 1997 in Kyiv.
As reported, on September 20, 2022, McDonald’s began a phased opening of restaurants in Ukraine. By February 24 of the same year, the chain had 109 restaurants in 24 cities across the country. As of March 2024, there are 101 restaurants in operation.
At the end of 2023, it increased its revenue by 3.9 times compared to the previous year, to UAH 12.9 billion, according to Opendatabot.
According to the financial results for 2023, the company’s net profit amounted to UAH 1.29 billion, compared to a loss of UAH 2 billion in 2022.
The value of McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd’s assets amounted to UAH 5.54 billion, while the amount of liabilities increased 2.3 times to UAH 829.7 million.
The number of employees in 2023 increased by 7% to 9,614.
McDonald’s in Ukraine is a founding partner and the largest corporate partner of the Ronald McDonald House Foundation in Ukraine.
According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, the participant in FDI in McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd. is MCD Europe Limited (100%, London, UK).
On September 20, McDonald’s opened its first restaurant in Vyshgorod, Kyiv region, the company’s press service said.
This restaurant at 7-L Naberezhna Street is reportedly the seventh opening this year. The project was approved in the chain’s development plan before the full-scale invasion and the company continued construction as soon as it became possible.
The one-story McDonald’s has a hall with 131 seats and a terrace with 88 more. The restaurant, along with McDrive, will be open from 07:00 to 22:00, with delivery service from 09:00 to 21:00. The restaurant adheres to the company’s enhanced security rules, namely: establishments close during an air raid and reopen approximately one hour after the alarm is canceled.
To take care of the environment, the restaurant has installed a recuperation system that eliminates the need for gas supply and heating.
The chain is developed by McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd. The first restaurant was opened on May 24, 1997 in Kyiv.
As reported, on September 20, 2022, McDonald’s began a phased opening of restaurants in Ukraine. By February 24, 2022, McDonald’s in Ukraine had 109 restaurants in 24 cities of the country.
As of September 20, the company’s network in Ukraine has more than 90 restaurants.
According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, the participant in FDI in McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd. is MCD Europe Limited (100%, London, UK).
The McDonald’s fast food restaurant chain is introducing a phased plan to reopen some restaurants in Kyiv and western Ukraine over the next few months, the chain’s press service reported.
“After lengthy consultations and discussions with Ukrainian officials, suppliers and security professionals, and in response to the request of our employees to return to work, we have decided to introduce a phased plan to reopen some restaurants in Kyiv and western Ukraine, where other businesses have safely resumed work,” Paul Pomeroy, Senior Vice President of McDonald’s International Markets Business Unit, is quoted in the message.
Over the next few months, the company’s team with partners will be working to restore food supply chains, prepare restaurants to serve customers, return the team and employees to the working environment, and implement enhanced procedures and protocols to ensure the safety of workers and customers, he said.
Pomroy pointed out that the Ukrainian market team headed by Yulia Badritdinova is working on the restoration tasks.
In Ukraine, the first McDonald’s restaurant was opened in Kyiv on May 24, 1997. Over 25 years, the company has invested about $350 million, transferred UAH 10 billion in taxes to the state budget, and donated UAH 124 million to charity.
To date, the network has 109 restaurants in 24 cities across the country.
Earlier it was reported that the restaurants of the network in Ukraine were closed on February 24 for security reasons. The company maintains a team of more than 10 thousand people, while continuing to pay wages. In addition, more than 700 tons of products were donated for humanitarian needs. Together with the Ronald McDonald House Foundation, McDonald’s initiated and implemented humanitarian aid programs to support Ukrainians. Ukrainian families have already received more than 75 thousand food packages, 26 hospitals have received assistance with equipment and medicines.
The network is being developed by FDI “McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd.”
According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, MCD Europe Limited (100%, London, UK) is a FDI participant.
