Ever wanted to find out how the famous Big Mac is made?

Here is your chance - we go behind the scene of the Carroll’s Cross plant in Co. Waterford, where Dawn Meats was founded, is a dedicated McDonald’s facility for the UK and Ireland.

All of the beef supplied to the site is from farms that are part of the Bord Bord Sustainable Beef and Lamb Quality Assurance Scheme (SBLAS) allowing for full traceability.

The Dawn Meats Carroll’s Cross facility processes 5.3t of beef every hour. This equates to 47,000 quarter pounder patties per hour being produced for McDonald’s restaurants in Ireland, the UK and Europe.

Of this total, 7,000 quarter pounders per hour are produced specifically for the Irish market.