<P> The first McDonald's Express locations opened in 1991 . These are smaller - scale prototypes, usually constructed in prefabricated buildings or urban storefronts, that do not feature certain menu items such as milkshakes and Quarter Pounders . </P> <P> In 1992 Michael R. Quinlan became president of McDonald's Corporation, and Fred L. Turner became chairman . Quinlan, who took over as CEO in 1987, had started at McDonald's in the mail room in 1963, and gradually worked his way up . In his first year as CEO, the company opened 600 new restaurants . </P> <P> By 1991, 37 percent of system - wide sales came from restaurants outside the United States . McDonald's opened its first foreign restaurant in British Columbia, Canada, in 1967 . By the early 1990s the company had established itself in 58 foreign countries, and operated more than 3,600 restaurants outside the United States, through wholly owned subsidiaries, joint ventures, and franchise agreements . Its strongest foreign markets were Japan, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Australia, and France . </P> <P> In the mid-1980s, McDonald's, like other traditional employers of teenagers, was faced with a shortage of labor in the United States . The company met this challenge by being the first to entice retirees back into the workforce . Focusing on off - site training, it opened its Hamburger University in 1961 to train franchisees and corporate decision - makers . By 1990, more than 40,000 people had received "Bachelor of Hamburgerology" degrees from the 80 - acre (320,000 m) Oak Brook, Illinois, facility . The corporation opened a Hamburger University in Tokyo in 1971, in Munich in 1975, and in London in 1982 . </P>

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