World's Largest McDonald's Closing to Make Room for Even Bigger One

In blessed America, to supersize is to bless one with a lifetime of patriotic largeness. In that spirit, the world's largest McDonald's has officially closed its doors for a pretty on-brand reason: a bigger, more McDonalds-y version of itself. The franchises's iconic, fry-shaped structure in Orlando served its last batch of hot-and-fresh pride on Wednesday night before going gently into that good night around 11.

Oerther Foods tells the Orlando Sentinel that a "new, state-of-the-art replacement restaurant" is nearing completion right next door. This particular McDonald's has remained a blockbuster tourism destination since first opening way back in 1976, a year so egregiously ancient that Star Wars wasn't even a thing yet.