{"id":37743,"date":"2023-10-25T19:31:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T23:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=37743"},"modified":"2023-10-25T19:31:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T23:31:21","slug":"mcdonalds-to-reopen-in-mulberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/10\/25\/mcdonalds-to-reopen-in-mulberry\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s to Reopen in Mulberry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McDonald\u2019s, the franchise mega chain par excellence, has had a footprint here in Western Central Florida for decades. We had to look it up: as of September, there were estimated to be 13,527 McDonald\u2019s locations in the U.S., and more than 40,000 worldwide as last year. Behind most of these locations are franchisees: local business owners, some of whom have been in the business for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"534\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/8b57ce61-f364-4b4d-a9b3-d4541a2c5b3a-The_Grimace_Meal_and_Shake.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37744\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One such franchisee is&nbsp;Robert Bateman, who owns six McDonald\u2019s franchises in the area. Bateman is currently preparing to reopen the location in&nbsp;Mulberry, at&nbsp;205 Canal Street. The Mulberry location is celebrating its 30th&nbsp;anniversary this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m a second-generation owner-operator,\u201d Bateman told What Now on Tuesday. \u201cMy father came down here fifty years ago. We opened in Mulberry in 1993.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the reopening, you\u2019ll once more be able to stop by for iconic McDonald\u2019s burgers, chicken, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald\u2019s, the franchise mega chain par excellence, has had a footprint here in Western Central Florida for decades. We had to look it up: as of September, there were estimated&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[6442],"class_list":["post-37743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-mcdonalds-to-reopen-in-mulberry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}