The original McDonald's Speedee mascot wore a white chef hat.
Speedee was drawn as a chef-like figure with a hamburger-shaped head, and the white hat reinforced the character's connection with cooking and restaurant service. This visual language was common in mid-twentieth-century food branding, where a chef's clothing signaled freshness, preparation, and authority.
The mascot belonged to McDonald's early identity before the company became associated primarily with Ronald McDonald, the Golden Arches, and the McDonaldland characters. Its simple design focused on the restaurant's speed-of-service concept rather than on a large fictional cast.
Color details are sometimes mixed up with later McDonald's characters, whose costumes used much brighter combinations of red, yellow, and other colors. Speedee's white chef hat is a small but distinctive detail of the original branding system.