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October 1885 The Begining
The story if fast fiid begins in October 1885, near the small town of Seymour, Wisconsin. A friendly and outgoing fifteen-year old boy name Charlie Nagreen was driving his family's ox cart down a dirt road amid wide open fields. Charlie was going to Outagamie County's first annual fair, where he wanted to earn some extra money selling meatballs. What heppened next was unlikely the begining if a number one sandwich in the United States, that would change the world. -
Killer Burgers
Despite Charlie's best efforts, burgers didn't become America's national dish overnight. For a long tme after that 1885 Outagamie County Fair, hamburger meat had a bad reputation. Many people assumed that ground beef was dirty. -
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7 MOST Important Facts (Chew on This)
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Favorite Food of New Yorkers
In 1925 when New Yorkers were asked to name their favorite meal, hamburger ranked nineteenth. Of the 180,000 people who voted for their favorties, just 2,912 voted for hamburger. It beat out gefilte fish (1,361 votes). But the burger lost big to corned beef and cabbage (23,061 votes) and roast loin of pork (5,411 votes). By a wide margin, most New Yorkers even preferred eating cow tongue and spinach (8,400 votes). -
First McDonald Resturants
Eager to cash in on the new craze, Richard and Mac McDonald opened their own drive-in restaurant in 1937. Located in Pasadena, California, it has three carhops and sold mostly hot dogs. A few years later Richard and Mac moved the restaurant to a larger buliding in San Bernardino and opened the McDonald Brothers Burfers Bar Drive-In. The new restaurant was right next to a high school, employed twenty carhops, and soon made the McDonald brothers rich. -
Change in McDonlad
Richard and Mac fired all their carhops in 1948. They closed the McDonlad Brothers Burger Bar Drive-In, instlaled larger grills, and reopened three mothns later, with new system for preparing food. The system was designed to prepare food faster, lowe the prices, and increase sales. The brothers changed the menu completly. They changed their plates and glasses into paper cups and paper plates. They wanted their food to be eaten with hands, easy and convinient. -
Kroc welcome to the game
Kroc was selling milk-shake mixers in 1954 whe he visited McDonalds resturant he was amazed of the self service they had, Kroc did not have really good success with his work and this changed his life forever. He soon became partners with the McDonald brothers and made them so much richer. -
McDOnald system
As Kroc started franchising with McDonald brothers permission the any bussinesmen could open McDOnald resturant with a pay for the name. They had to have exactly the same resturant as everywhere else, the food had to taste exactly the same, he teached them how to run that resturant and how the system worked. -
1960-1973
Between 1960 and 1973 the numberr of McDonalds resturants increased from 200 to almost 3000. -
Brothers lose McDOnalds
In 1961, Kroc borrowed moeny to buy Richard and Mac'sshare of the company. The brothers each recieved about 1 million $. That sounds like a lot of money. But as the company grew, so did the value of what they gave up. If both brothers did not give a share to Kroc by the 1990s they would income 180 million $ a year.