McDonald's

I notice that the McDonald's sign advertises "Over 99 Billion Served" as I ride the bus passed it every work day. It has said this for many years. The number rose steadily for years, then, just stopped when the maximum number of digits was reached.

I don't think too much about this kind of thing most of the time, but then I found my self considering the implications of a statement such as "Over 99 Billion Served."

The current world population is 6,408,742,793, or there abouts. How can McDonald's have served more people, many times more people in fact, than there are on the planet?

I got to thinking that 99+ Billion must refer to the number of HAMBURGERS served. Even with this clarification, it is really hard to imagine. This means that each and every man woman and child on EARTH, in countries that I have never even contemplated, speaking languages that I wouldn't recognize, that I have never known existed, each one is responsible for more than 15 hamburgers!