From what I heard, at least at some time McDonalds profited more from trading real estate than from selling burgers. As in, buy a shop, wait for the district ar

From what I heard, at least at some time McDonalds profited more from trading real estate than from selling burgers. As in, buy a shop, wait for the district around to develop, sell the shop. So I would expect them to continue buying shops on the outskirts where cities are expanding. For myself, I can't really imagine this whole operation with Mac selling now for some reason instead of a hundred years later—after all, presumably they still want to have burger joints in all those places. But maybe I don't understand too much about real estate.