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Richard "Dick" McDonald (February 16, 1909 – July 14, 1998) and Maurice "Mac" McDonald (November 26, 1902 – December 11, 1971), collectively known as the McDonald Brothers, were American entrepreneurs who founded the fast food company McDonald's. The brothers opened the original McDonald's restaurant in 1940 in San Bernardino, California ...
The American fast-food restaurant chain McDonald's was founded in 1940 by the McDonald brothers, Richard and Maurice, and has since grown to the world's largest restaurant chain by revenue. [1] The McDonald brothers began the business in San Bernardino, California where the brothers set out to sell their barbecue. However, burgers were more ...
Raymond Albert Kroc (October 5, 1902 – January 14, 1984) was an American businessman. He obtained the fast food company McDonald's in 1961 from the McDonald brothers and was its CEO from 1967 to 1973.
The oldest operating McDonald's restaurant is the third one built, opened in 1953. It is located at 10207 Lakewood Blvd. at Florence Ave. in Downey, California (at . Siblings Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first McDonald's at 1398 North E Street at West 14th Street in San Bernardino, California, on May 15, 1940.
In 2018, McDonald’s announced a $6 billion plan to modernize its U.S. restaurants (which today number nearly 14,000), with planned updates to furniture, décor, exteriors and kiosks. The menu ...
McDonald's realized that the Des Plaines restaurant had historical significance, so it built a replica. With gold arches placed over a glass and metal, red-and-white tiled exterior, the building largely followed the McDonald brothers' original blueprints, which they had introduced when they began franchising in 1953.
Richard and Maurice McDonald who developed McDonald's fast food system and sold golden arches to Ray Kroc; McDonald Brothers (architects), in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A. McDonald Brothers (gangsters) (died 1940), English mobsters; McDonald Brothers and Co., former name of Macdonald Tobacco, a firm in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
In 1952, brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald decided they needed a new building to house their hamburger restaurant in San Bernardino, California.They wanted this building to have an entirely new design which would achieve two goals: even greater efficiency, and an eye-catching appearance.