How many McDonald’s locations do you think you’ve been to across the U.S.? Ten, maybe twenty? One TikTok creator is aiming to hit all 13,589 of them.
Posting under the handle @donnyboys10, the creator kicked off the challenge in July 2024 and has since visited 275 locations across the country, including stops in Illinois, California, Oregon, and Arizona. Each McDonald’s gets its own rating out of 10, complete with a short review and a tour of the facilities. So far not every location has been up to par.
A McDonald’s on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles came in at just 3 out of 10. The TikToker wrote: “This very famous iconic location was absolute shambles.” The main complaints were the bathrooms, as well as the food being overpriced. “I almost didn’t even want to pay for it.”
An Encinitas, California, location scored a solid 9. “Everything was available. Everything was clean,” the TikTok review said, noting that even the bathrooms were “super luxurious.”
Throughout the challenge, @donnyboys10 has built an impressive following of more than 128,000, with several videos racking up millions of views. In the comments, many fans request to be tagged when their local McDonald’s gets reviewed.
“Im a day one, respect for you man,” one user commented. “Bro is slowly getting closer to my McDonald’s,” another wrote.
According to the Daily Dot, @donnyboys10 averages 60 to 90 McDonald’s visits per month. At that pace, it would take him about 15 years to visit every single McDonald’s in the U.S. (assuming no new locations open in that time).
When Fast Company connected with @donnyboys10 over email, he was more optimistic, estimating the challenge would take about nine years to complete. For now, he’s juggling his nationwide McDonald’s tour with a part-time job and pursuing a bachelor’s degree.
“At the start there was one other person involved and we did it together,” he told Fast Company. “As the challenge got harder and we needed to visit locations farther from where we were from, he stepped back and left the challenge to only me.”
But that hasn’t stopped him. “I wanted to start this not only so I could go to McDonald’s. I try to pick places that I genuinely want to travel to,” he said. “Besides going to every McDonald’s in the U.S., it has always been my dream to go to every city in the United States.” Fans can donate to help cover the costs—or buy him a Happy Meal—via a GoFundMe linked in his bio.
His favorite location so far? The famous blue McDonald’s in Sedona, Arizona, where the traditional golden arches are painted to match the skyline and preserve the area’s natural beauty.
The worst? “Between third and Pine in Seattle, or most McDonald’s in downtown Portland.”
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