McDonald’s: The Behind Success Story
Richard and Maurice McDonald founded the first McDonald's in San Bernardino, California, at 1398 North E Street and West 14th Street in 1940; it was not the McDonald's you are likely to be familiar with today. Ray Kroc upgraded and adjusted the siblings' business. In 1940, Richard and Maurice McDonald opened a café in San Bernardino, California, the forerunner to today's McDonald's Corporation. A restaurant in Phoenix, Arizona, where the Golden Arches logo was first used, changed its name to a burger stand before becoming an enterprise. Businessman Ray Kroc joined the group in 1955 as an experienced operator and continued to purchase the chain from the McDonald’s siblings. Did you, like millions of others, order your favorite burger at McDonald's ? Did you know that McDonald's serves more than 100 million burgers every day? Do you know how McDonald's grew to be such a global brand? McDonald's may be the most well-kn...