Companies similar to or like McDonald's

American multinational chain of hamburger fast food restaurants. Founded in 1953 as Insta-Burger King, a Jacksonville, Florida–based restaurant chain. Wikipedia

Icelandic fast food restaurant chain. It replaced McDonald's after McDonald's left Iceland in October 30, 2009 due to the 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis and high import tariff on imported ingredients which requires their prices of their products to increase, which the franchise holder, Lyst Hr., refused to raise prices in order to stay competitive with local restaurants who used ingredients sourced locally, hence the franchise owner decided to close down all McDonald’s operation and replaced with their own franchise, Metro. Wikipedia

American fast-food restaurant chain founded February 21, 1951, by Robert O. Peterson in San Diego, California, where it is headquartered. The chain has over 2,200 locations, primarily serving the West Coast of the United States. Wikipedia

Specific type of restaurant that serves fast food cuisine and has minimal table service. Typically part of a "meat-sweet diet", offered from a limited menu, cooked in bulk in advance and kept hot, finished and packaged to order, and usually available for take away, though seating may be provided. Wikipedia

American fast food restaurant chain headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, that specializes in fried chicken. World's second-largest restaurant chain after McDonald's, with 22,621 locations globally in 150 countries. Wikipedia

Richard James and Maurice James McDonald were American brothers and entrepreneurs who founded the McDonald's restaurant in San Bernardino, California, and inventors of the "Speedee Service System," now commonly known as "fast food". The McDonald brothers were born in Manchester, New Hampshire, to Patrick J. McDonald and Margarete McDonald, Irish immigrants who came to the United States as children. Wikipedia