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The Golden Arches are the symbol of McDonald's, the global fast food restaurant chain. Originally, real arches were part of the restaurant design. They were incorporated into the chain's logo in 1962, which resembled a stylized restaurant, and in the current Golden Arches logo, introduced 1968, resembling an "M" for "McDonald's".
While the first fast-food restaurant in the United States was a White Castle in 1921, [2] fast-food restaurants had been operating elsewhere much earlier, such as the Japanese fast food company Yoshinoya, started in Tokyo in 1899. [3]
This is a list of notable current and former fast food restaurant chains, as distinct from fast casual restaurants (see List of casual dining restaurant chains), coffeehouses (see List of coffeehouse chains), ice cream parlors (see List of ice cream parlor chains), and pizzerias (see List of pizza chains).
Yum! was created in 1997 as Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc. from PepsiCo's fast food division as the parent corporation of the KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurant companies. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The decision was announced in January and the spin off was effected on October 6. [ 15 ]
An Arby's restaurant with a vintage sign in Midland, Michigan (2006). Arby's was founded in Boardman Township, Ohio, on July 23, 1964, by brothers Forrest (1922–2008) [15] and Leroy Raffel (1927–2023), [16] owners of a restaurant equipment business who thought there was a market opportunity for a fast food franchise based on a dish other than hamburgers.
A former Red Barn location in Mississauga, Ontario, now a Mr. Sub restaurant. This is a list of defunct fast-food chains.A restaurant chain is a set of related restaurants with the same name in many different locations that are either under shared corporate ownership (e.g., McDonald's in the U.S.) or franchising agreements.
This is the list of the largest fast-food restaurant chains by their number of locations in the world. Country of origin Name Number of locations Revenue 1
Rex David Thomas was born July 2, 1932, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. [2] [5] His biological father's name was Sam and his biological mother's name was Molly. [6]Thomas was adopted between six weeks and six months later by Rex and Auleva Thomas, [6] [7] and as an adult became a well-known advocate for adoption, founding the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.