Which McDonald’s mascot is portrayed as a striped-shirt character who steals hamburgers?

The Hamburglar is the McDonald’s mascot portrayed as a striped-shirt character who steals hamburgers.

The character was part of the McDonaldland advertising universe and became one of its most recognizable figures. Early versions had a more elaborate, older appearance, while later redesigns presented the Hamburglar as a smaller, childlike character wearing a black-and-white striped outfit and red accessories.

His central advertising role was simple: he tried to take hamburgers, especially Big Macs, while Ronald McDonald and the other characters reacted to his schemes. The recurring idea gave McDonald’s commercials a comic conflict that children could recognize quickly.

The Hamburglar is sometimes confused with Mayor McCheese because both appeared in McDonaldland commercials. Their roles were different: Mayor McCheese was a civic leader with a cheeseburger head, while the Hamburglar was the mischievous hamburger thief.