McDonald’s will reach a milestone today when it opens its 150th restaurant in New Zealand, the first of 10 new restaurants to be opened in 2010.

Richmond, Nelson, will get the 150th restaurant as part of McDonald’s three-year $100 million capital investment programme into the New Zealand market, announced in 2009.

It will take the total to 32 restaurants in the South Island with 118 in the North Island.

McDonald’s has etched its name into the Guinness World Records ™ this morning with a breakfast fry-up like no other.

The company cooked a massive meal of scrambled eggs that weighed in at 1.24 metric tonnes, breaking the previous world record of one metric tonne by more than 200kg.

In order to break the world record McDonald’s had to use more than 20,000 eggs and 100 litres of cream, cooked on a specially made dish that measured more than five metres across.

A 500-tonne sales boost to New Zealand’s Angus beef industry has been announced by an unlikely source this afternoon.

Fast food giant McDonald’s, which has 145 stores in New Zealand, today launched two new premium burgers to its menu – both based on high quality AngusPure beef patties.

The burgers, a likely push to gain back market share from the likes of Burger Fuel and Burger Wisconsin, will be available on the menu tomorrow.