Comment by crazygringo

Which is 1,615 applicants per US franchise.

Seems totally reasonable to me.

2 shifts of 12 employees is 24 employees per day. Assume they all work there for 6 months on average, then if the system's been up for 10 years, that's 480 employees per franchise over a decade. Which means for every employee they hired, 2 were either rejected or chose not to work there.

Working at McD's is something a lot of people do for a few months when they're young.