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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 ...
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
Jim McDonald was the father of author Brian McDonald, who uncovered the histories of the Elephant and Forty Elephants gangs and brought to public attention largely forgotten gangsters such as Billy Kimber, Darby Sabini, Alf Solomon, Alf White, Johnny Phillips, Freddie Gilbert, George (Brummie) Sage, Dodger Mullins and Tommy Benneworth.
They were allied with the Elephant and Castle Mob led by the McDonald brothers. They raided quality stores in the West End of London and ranged all over the country. The gang was also known to masquerade as housemaids for wealthy families before ransacking their homes, often using false references.
The McDonald's boys case grew to become one of Singapore's most mysterious and bizarre missing person cases, [36] together with a few more cases like the 2007 Felicia Teo Wei Ling case (re-classified and confirmed as a murder case in 2020), [37] [38] the 1978 missing social escorts case, [39] [40] and the 1984 missing caretaker case. [41]
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 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 ...
The Macdonald brothers moved to the then Province of Canada where they settled in Montreal, a city that was then undergoing an economic boom.There, they made a living as brokers, earning commissions from the resale of a variety of products until 1858 when they opened McDonald Brothers and Co., a company that made tobacco products.