So, What Business Are You Really In? | DataDrivenInvestor

Cynthia Wylie
7 min readMay 12, 2022

What is McDonald’s business? Some might say, the fast food business, or more broadly, the restaurant business. But what many people don’t realize is that McDonald’s is really in the real estate business.

Their real estate holdings include land and prime building locations around the world where their Franchisees build restaurants and pay them rent, month-in and…

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Cynthia Wylie

Founder of Bloomers Island. Published children’s book author at PRH. Writes about big kid’s stuff like economics & business, too. TheProjectConsultant.com.