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Type
  
Corporate university

Affiliations
  
McDonald's

Campus size
  
32 ha

Phone
  
+1 630-623-7845

Colors
  
White, Red

Established
  
1961 (1961)

Website
  
Official website

Founded
  
1961

Founders
  
Fred L. Turner, Ray Kroc

Location
  
Oak Brook, Illinois, United States

Address
  
2715 Jorie Blvd, Oak Brook, IL 60523, USA

Motto
  
Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow

Similar
  
The Hyatt Lodge at McDonal, McDonal, Midwestern University, Dominican University, University of Illinois

Inside hamburger university


Hamburger University is a 130,000-square-foot (12,000 m2) training facility of McDonald's, located in Oak Brook, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. This corporate university was designed to instruct personnel employed by McDonald's in the various aspects of restaurant management. More than 80,000 restaurant managers, mid-managers and owner/operators have graduated from this facility.

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Campus

Today, Hamburger University is situated on an 80 acres (32 ha) campus with 19 full-time resident instructors. The facility comprises 13 teaching rooms, a 300-seat auditorium, 12 interactive education team rooms, and 3 kitchen labs. Hamburger University interpreters can provide simultaneous interpretation, and the faculty has the ability to teach in 28 different languages. Restaurant employees receive approximately 32 hours of training in their first month with McDonald's and more than 5,000 students attend Hamburger University each year.

Founder Ray Kroc oversaw lessons at its beginning. Although Kroc died in 1984, he appears in videotaped lectures that are still used at Hamburger University.

Hamburger University was satirized in the 1986 comedy, Hamburger... The Motion Picture. It was also spoofed by McDonald's itself in a commercial with Ronald McDonald where a bunch of animatronic hamburgers are shown graduating from school.

References

Hamburger University Wikipedia