I’m talking about an open, running McD’s. Not the one located in La Paz, Bolivia (which was 11,800 feet above sea level), because that one is closed.
I don’t know, but I’ll throw out the one in Frisco, CO, elevation 9100’.
I’m sure there must be one in Quito Ecuador but I’m not 100% positive. It is 9300 feet above sea level.
I know it doesn’t quite fit your bill, but the highest McDonald’s above the ground itself was once in the Kuala Lumpur Tower, which is 1403 feet high. It closed.
I was gonna suggest the one in Winter Park, but I think the city on sits at a shrimpy 9000’
La Paz, in Bolivia, at just about 12,000 feet, has a McDonald’s.
I haven’t found definitive evidence of one in Lhasa, Tibet yet.
Whoops. McDonald’s pulled out of La Paz a few years ago. Still, for a while it must’ve been the highest one.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20021202/ai_n12483609
This airline states that they cater for “any food from McDonalds to caviar” on their flights.
Zermatt, Switzerland has one, elevation 5,315 feet.
1 - the McDonald’s site does confirm current operations in Ecuador, implying Quito while not saying so in so many words. There are numerous other references about to a McDonald’s in Quito, though. 9300 feet.
2 - there does NOT appear to be a McDonald’s in Leadville, CO, which is the highest incorporated city in the US, and would have beaten Frisco (and Quito).
Maybe you should have read the OP. 
I was just through Leadville on Sunday last. No McDonalds. Some other nice restaurants, though. 
Before anyone asks, the lowest McDonald’s in the world is in the Petra Mall, in the resort area on the Israeli side of the Dead Sea. As that’s the lowest spot on the planet, I don’t think there’ll be much debate in this direction.
I knew I saw something chain there. Subway has a location in Leadville. 
C’mon, I’m a busy guy! I don’t have time to read more than the title, if I’m gonna answer the question!
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Oh, and Lhasa? It may just be a matter of time. No McDonald’s, apparently, but one can learn that it has a Dicos, a fried chicken franchise which is the Chinese answer to KFC.
BTW, why is diggleblop banned? It seemed to me as though his questions were becoming reasonable GQ grist, like this one.
This isn’t a record altitude, but we have many McDonald restaurants here in Bogotá at an altitude of 8360 ft.
I’m banned?
Apparently, you were reprieved before you even knew about it. See your fan club in the pit.
Unless we count underground ones. Some of the subway stations and underground shopping centers in Tokyo (pretty close to sea level) go down quite a way, and some of them have a McDonald’s in them.