With restaurants dotted around Norwich, McDonald's is one of the city's favourite places to grab a burger and a milkshake (if the ice cream machine is working).

McDonald's is the world's biggest fast food chain, and with more than 1,270 sets of Golden Arches across the country, it is celebrating its 50th anniversary in the UK this year. 

There are currently nine McDonald's in Norwich, with a tenth on the cards at Riverside Retail Park.

Here we take a look back through photographs of McDonald's in the noughties - a time when a Happy Meal was just £1.99 and the Westlegate restaurant was still open.

Naomi Canton at McDonald's in Boundary Road in 2007 (Image: Newsquest)Workers at the Norwich Airport McDonald's (l-r) Pearl March, Richard Brighten and Pearl Frost, 2006 (Image: Newsquest)The McDonald's in Hay Hill, 2002 (Image: Newsquest) Kenny Russell, manager of seven McDonald's around Norfolk in 2009 (Image: Newsquest) McDonald's drive-thru on Boundary Road in Norwich in 2007 (Image: Newsquest) McDonald's in Westlegate, Norwich, 2004 (Image: Newsquest)

The McDonald's in Boundary Road in 2007 (Image: Newsquest)Pearl Frost keeping the Norwich Airport restaurant clean in 2006 (Image: Newsquest) Franchise owner Kevin Foley outside the Norwich Airport McDonald's in 2006 (Image: Newsquest) The McDonald's at the Hall Road roundabout 2002 (Image: Newsquest)