McDonald's

McDonald's was a fast food restaurant. They served Big Macs. (PROSE: Face-Painter)

In the 1980s, Ace worked in a McDonald's restaurant on Tottenham Court Road as a waitress. (PROSE: Head Games, Illegal Alien, Matrix) At one point she kicked out Tegan Jovanka and Diva for not ordering anything. (PROSE: The Crystal Bucephalus)

In 1994, Ben Jackson and Polly Wright ordered two hamburgers, fries and a Coke from a McDonald's in Cumbria. Neither had heard of the restaurant, as it was after their native time of 1966. Ben thought the food tasted awful. (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People)

One McDonald's restaurant in Kent was petrol-bombed by a kids gang known as the Witchkids. Details of the incident were suppressed under the Official Secrets Act. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead) In 2005, McDonald's had an advertisement at Piccadilly Circus in London. (TV: Rose)

In 2009, Ianto Jones offered to take his niece, Mica Davies, to McDonald's since he missed her birthday. (TV: Children of Earth: Day One)

McDonald's Happy Meals were still made in the 2020s. (AUDIO: The Word Lord)

Ace and Hex hoped to find a McDonald's when the TARDIS landed in what was apparently London. (PROSE: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast)

An advertisement for McDonald's was still seen in London as late as 2254, when the Doctor liberated the city from Dalek occupation. (GAME: Dalek Attack)

Behind the scenes
The American fast food chain arrived in the United Kingdom in 1974, thirty-four years after its emergence in its home nation, and eight years after Ben and Polly's time.

In 2019, Vitas Varnas starred in an ad for McDonald's Australia advertising the All Day Menu.