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AP. By the late 1960s, McDonald's had ditched the two-arch design, with the golden arches appearing instead on signs. This is the era in which Ray Kroc had taken over the business and was swiftly ...
2016: McDonald's withdraws the Step-It activity tracker, which is worn on the wrist, and was given away with Happy Meals to children in the US and Canada. There were fears that the devices caused skin irritation. [95] 2018: McDonald's announces that it would remove plastic drinking straws from its UK and Ireland restaurants. [96]
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 ...
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America is a book by Marcia Chatelain. [1] [2] Chatelain was awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for History [3] and the 2022 James Beard Award for Writing [4] for this book. She was the first black woman to win the latter award. [4]
He became president of McDonald's International in 1987 and its CEO in 1991. He lost the top job to Jack Greenberg in 1999. [2] McDonald's announced his retirement plans in April 2001, but on December 1 Greenberg resigned and Cantalupo agreed to stay on for another year to help with the management transition. [4]
McDonald's has now become commonplace as a go-to for late night food (especially with the launch of an all-day breakfast menu last year). But in the 80s, the company needed a way to bring people ...
This business model led to the explosive growth of McDonald's; the real estate deals were handled through a specially formed corporation named "McDonald's Franchise Realty Corp." [6] [7] The "Sonneborn model" persists to this day within the corporation, and might have been the most important financial decision in the company's history. McDonald ...
NEW YORK (AP) - Ronald McDonald evidently hasn't lost his magic. Taco Bell is using real-life people named Ronald McDonald in a marketing campaign to promote its new breakfast menu, a nod to the ...