McDonald’s Plans to Enter Metaverse with Virtual Restaurant

Quick-food behemoth McDonald’s is seemingly drawing up plans to grow to be a part of the metaverse, in keeping with the corporate’s latest trademark functions.

McDonald’s is headed to the metaverse.

The corporate has filed 10 (TEN!) trademark functions indicating it plans to supply “a digital restaurant that includes precise and digital items” and “working a digital restaurant that includes residence supply.”#Mcdonalds #Metaverse pic.twitter.com/J9pK7EK9nl

— Josh Gerben (@JoshGerben) February 9, 2022

The world’s largest restaurant chain has filed ten functions to supply digital items and beverage merchandise within the type of downloadable media recordsdata that may include non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

The Chicago-headquartered firm is getting ready to function a digital restaurant that includes precise and digital items.

McDonald’s additionally plans to arrange varied leisure occasions, together with live shows, within the metaverse, in keeping with one of many trademark filings.        

As reported by U.At this time, Elon Musk, the world’s richest individual, lately nudged the fast-food behemoth to just accept meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin, promising to eat a McDonald’s Comfortable Meal on tv. The fast-food chain laughed the supply off, by asking Tesla so as to add help for faux cryptocurrency Grimacecoin in return.   

McDonald’s additionally began trolling the cryptocurrency group within the wake of the crypto crash that occurred in January.   

Final month, retail titan Walmart additionally filed a number of metaverse-related trademark functions, intending to supply a choice of digital items. 

Nike and Adidas, main sportswear corporations, have additionally jumped on one of many hottest traits in tech. Clothes and accessories retailer Hole has additionally launched its personal NFT assortment.  

In the meantime, leisure behemoth Disney is hiring an NFT professional.  

After Fb rebranded itself into Meta in early November, Morgan Stanely analysts predicted that the metaverse market might attain $8 trillion but additionally warned about excessive hurdles to adoption.