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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.
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 ...
Ray Kroc's first (McDonald's ninth) restaurant, which opened April 1955 in Des Plaines, Illinois. After World War II, Kroc found employment as a milkshake mixer salesman for the foodservice equipment manufacturer Prince Castle. [15]
1940: McDonald's. When McDonald's was founded depends on who you ask. The company itself claims 1955, when Ray Kroc established McDonald's System, Inc., and turned it into today's fast-food giant ...
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.
When the topic of conversation turns to McDonald's you are sure to get a wide range of opinions. Yet no matter how you feel about the golden arches, these five things may take you by surprise. 1.
The site of the first franchised McDonald's restaurant in Phoenix, Arizona, opened in 1953 or 1954, [9] is now a Yoshi’s. [10] [11] An early McDonald's stood at 9100 SE Powell Boulevard in Portland, Oregon, on Southeast 91st Avenue and Powell Boulevard. It was not attached to the adjacent McDonald's but was available for party rentals.